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NYPost: Candace Owens Leaves a Trail of Enemies, and Lawsuits, Everywhere She Goes

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
— Jesús 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)
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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)
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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)

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

Comments

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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)

======

To foster corruption?

I'm pretty sure that's in its charter, and McMahon should be impeached for failing to uphold the standards of her office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

32 The problem with Somalia is that it is full of Somalians. The same is now true for Minnesota.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (6Bc88)

33 O Tempore, O Mores ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (3ZUWJ)

34 Please put someone in jail. Anyone at this point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

35 ghost student
-------

Too soon.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (Wo1GJ)

36 This is just their culture.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes of Minnesota!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (kfTpm)

37 Okay, well maybe some massive fraud took place when it comes to government money going to illegals and fictional people, but nothing like that has EVER happened in an election!

Posted by: Leupold at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (eIzlH)

38 High trust societies have a lot of government based on people obeying the law. Import millions of people who come from third world countries where there is little or no law, and you become a low trust society. Get used to putting up walls to protect your possessions and family.

Somalis and Afghans are cultures that have no regard for laws.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

39 So a ghost student is just a regular student with the serial number filed off, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (06Hmj)

40 I dunno. I suppose at some point people will figure out Democrats don’t care.

They don’t care about billions in fraud
They don’t care about the law
They don’t care about corrupt courts
They don’t care about murder
They don’t care about rigged elections

They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

41 He lives in the shadows, on the porifera of society.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (zjgNU)

42 12 Walz Is We Todd Did

(Well, that's what I *heard* . . .)

Sofa King

Posted by: Oh noes at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (HcoTw)

43 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

https://is.gd/20ml1M

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

44 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

45 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Aayan Hirsi Ali

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (8CIFn)

46 He lives in the shadows, on the porifera of society.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

Deep pun, bro.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (06Hmj)

47 "The Dept of Education has a purpose after all?

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (GHIyr)

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To foster corruption?

I'm pretty sure that's in its charter, and McMahon should be impeached for failing to uphold the standards of her office."

The uncopyablr/unpastable text in greybox above sez it's DoE that's finding and investigating the fraud, which surprised me.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (GHIyr)

48 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

2nd mandated criteria eliminates them all, Fen.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (kfTpm)

49 Governor Jazz Hands gots some explaining to do.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (rj6Yv)

50 "The US was great when we imported everyone in the 19th century!"

"Everyone from...?"

"What do you mean?"

"We didn't import hundreds of thousands of Indians or Pakistanis or Haitians. Whom did we import?"

"Everyone who asked?"

"And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

51
That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (zjgNU)

Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

52 It's not fair to blame the whole group for crimes that only 99% of them are committing.

Racists.

Islamophobes.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (vbXSk)

53 25 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Almost all the non-muslim Somali's were killed by the Muslim Somali's long ago.
And I wish that was some kind of joke, but its not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK8)

54 And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't count.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (WFtAr)

55 47 The uncopyablr/unpastable text in greybox above sez it's DoE that's finding and investigating the fraud, which surprised me.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (GHIyr)

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I understand, which was the explanation for the McMahon portion of my comment saying that she's going against standard practice.

This is an ironic inversion of accepted reality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

56 Watz has to be skkmming off funds or his Marxism is wanting to send money around the world

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)

57 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

***
Fen, I got nuthin'.

And, I suspect, so does everyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (wzUl9)
_____

There are a few Somali Christians but that's so rare as to be almost nonexistent. Somalis are basically feral cannibals with no respect for life or personal freedom. Any lone Somali Christian is sure to be persecuted and probably killed. It's submit to Islam or else. Somalis are the scummiest of all scumbags on earth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

58 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

59 High trust societies have a lot of government based on people obeying the law. Import millions of people who come from third world countries where there is little or no law, and you become a low trust society. Get used to putting up walls to protect your possessions and family.

Somalis and Afghans are cultures that have no regard for laws.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

In defense of the Somalis and Afghans, that's true of almost every culture outside of Western civilization and a few of the eastern cultures.

(Which have a different understanding of "following the laws", but at least do so on the surface level.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (zjgNU)

60 I mean, what isn't a scam at this point?

I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

61 That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

They were the first creatures on Earth, you know...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

62 There is no such thing as voluntary compliance with the law in the third world. Anything not nailed down is open to theft, including government money, and also pets, if the imports are Haitian.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (0U5gm)

63 But I thought I had read that Ali converted to Christianity but the internet insists she's an atheist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (WFtAr)

64 58 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

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Yeah. It's my understanding that 99% of all immigration pre-1960 was from about 6 countries. All European.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

65 I may have ghosted a few classes in college, but I didn't get rich off of it. The sleeping in or extra beer with my buddies was nice though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (n5tGW)

66 And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't count.

That's a bit arbitrary.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

67 Aayan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (8CIFn)

And she had to get out, or else she'd have ended up looking like Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (uWKK8)

68 They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)
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Winning power and crushing dissent.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)

69 I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

70 44 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

Heck I'm practically in the no anyone of any kind period phase, myself. Shut it all the hell down. Tourism visas only. Overstays get hunted down by dogs and drones.

You want to work? F Off. You want to go to college? F Off. Go be wretched refuse somewhere else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (06Hmj)

71 Non-muslim Somalis:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Iman

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (FMtrg)

72 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK

Very sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (WFtAr)

73 They were the first creatures on Earth, you know...

Pffffffft.

Posted by: Stromatolites at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)

74 71 Non-muslim Somalis:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Iman

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (FMtrg)

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"Only the hotties" > current immigration system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

75 We've been spoonfed since forever on this idea that okay, some fraud on gov't does exist, but it's a rounding error.

It's turning out to be real money.

I feel the same about elections, the tiny amount we're being told might be happening is probably way bigger than people realize.

If you can steal a few billion in fraud in just one state, you're telling me you can't get a few million extra votes nationwide?

Posted by: Leupold at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (eIzlH)

76 I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender"

No shit? What a load of crap.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (vFG9F)

77 Democrats.

Funding terrorism since 1862.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

78 I had American students ghosting my class this past semester. To be fair, some of them did do the work, though one fellow used ChatGPT for all his assignments.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (ESVrU)

79 I didn't think there could be a more portentous fuckstick than Newsom, but Walz is playing for the big leagues.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (nljXp)

80 A proper retard, or a Somali?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (fBbkm)

81 40 I dunno. I suppose at some point people will figure out Democrats don’t care.

They don’t care about billions in fraud
They don’t care about the law
They don’t care about corrupt courts
They don’t care about murder
They don’t care about rigged elections

They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

Marcus T Johnson is right!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

82 Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

Only because I already knew about her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (8Cor4)

83 Geez, if this were Clue, we have Professor Plum with the candle stick in the library…and STILL no arrests!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

84 Trump's the only one in the capitol city not "on the take." He's also the only person who has an interest in cleaning all that shit up.

Thus, the politicos there are 100% against anything to do with reducing government spending on anything, anywhere. It cuts into their bottom line.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (NwnyJ)

85 Think of all the ghost cancer that will be cured!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Wo1GJ)

86 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

Who, incidentally, it took a significant break in immigration (almost zero allowed) for them to integrate into our society.

We need a similar break today or we're never returning to our high-trust society. (Also to kick out the grifter cultures that will refuse to assimilate. {COUGH} {ISLAM} {COUGH})

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (zjgNU)

87 I didn't think there could be a more portentous f***stick than Newsom, but Walz is playing for the big leagues.

*cough*pretentious*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

88 83 Geez, if this were Clue, we have Professor Plum with the candle stick in the library…and STILL no arrests!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

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Well, to be fair, this is coming to light because the fed USA in Minnesota is bringing a bunch of cases to trial and getting convictions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

89 "This is an ironic inversion of accepted reality."

A bureaucracy that doubles its funding by creating and funding fallible programs, and then also investigating their inevitable failures. It's like Jonas Salk running around infecting people with polio in order to boost vaccine sales.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GHIyr)

90 80 A proper retard, or a Somali?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (fBbkm)

A normal retard!

Get it!

It's a statistics joke!

Haaaaa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (06Hmj)

91 90 A normal retard!

Get it!

It's a statistics joke!

Haaaaa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (06Hmj)

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That's just mean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

92 They only care about ~~winning~~ taking power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

Fixed it for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (2WIwB)

93 Ali converted to Christianity in 2023, and her reason was that she saw that a soulless atheism could never stand up to militant Islam.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (uWKK8)

94 *cough*pretentious*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

That gelled up shitstack of frippery couldn't portend anything significant with both hands and a flashlight.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (06Hmj)

95 So the money doesn't go straight to the schools huh? The student just has cash deposited in his account and he decides how to spend it?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (2ap+5)

96 Billions of dollars in fraud in just ONE STATE.

Imagine how much more is going on in every other blue shithole in this country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

97 The Provisional Federal Constitution of Somalia establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any religion other than Islam

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (n5tGW)

98 I am certain that well over half a trillion per year in government spending is fraudulent.

What do they care? It is play money, and they can just print more. It goes with my comment from yesterday:

The scams go on until the country collapses. Why do these elites think it is a great idea to be a multimillionaire in a collapsed country? You are rich and have to live in a compound with 24 hour armed guards. That is no different than a prison, but they either don't care, or they think it is swell.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (0U5gm)

99 We can be assured the news media will be all over this. And of course Jake Tapper will now be especially alert if it happens under some Republican administration.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (s0JqF)

100 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)
______

Well, there are some hot Haitian girls, so under the new Immigration Rules laid down by Judge Blade, we have to let them in. And only them. Everyone else can fuck off.

Hot Haitian girl? Visa approved!

Norwegian millionaire neurosurgeon? Fuck off, troll!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

101 Well, Walz does strike me as exceedingly dumb, even for a government official.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (SRRAx)

102 You know, there is a side effect to this as well. Those statistical surveys that show a certain percentage of Somali immigrants participating in education so as to portray a semblance of assimilation are likely extremely exaggerated based on what is coming to light.

Their lack of assimilation into an American way of life is obfuscated by false statistics. Last I read, over 80% of Somalis in Minnesota are receiving some sort of Federal Assistance, and news stories like this suggest that it's actually higher.

BTW, how come we never hear about the massive amount of Somalis in San Diego? Because I think we're about to. Closing down the fraud in Minnesota is going to cause an Exodus to the next place to invade and abuse.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (dIske)

103 The *point* of leftwing politics is to get money from the government.

And it turns out immigration, legal and illegal both are GREAT ways to launder money.

Now the question is did Walz allow this fraud to get campaign donations, or is a relative on one of the NGOs that was stealing all the money?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

104 That's just mean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj)

105 Billions of dollars in fraud in just ONE STATE.

Imagine how much more is going on in every other blue shithole in this country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

The corruption will eventually kill us all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

106 104 That's just mean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj)

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And mean in statistics talk is...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

107 It would almost be tragicomedy of Walz , Frey and the rest of the white Dems in Minnesota were slaughtered by the Somalis.
I can hear Walz "I let you steal everything, no kill I" . Somali " we'll kill you last, but first some ru -ru"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (D+mpw)

108 At what point is being a retard in a position of power a criminal offense?
I don't get to say whoops if I fail to dot I's and cross T's on Medicaid and Medicare forms. It is considered fraud.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (XBQSC)

109 105 The corruption will eventually kill us all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

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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)

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

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)
---
Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

239 matter diddly squat"

FWIW, the Diddly Squat pepper chutney is pretty good...

now back to your regularly scheduled comments.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (XuXeR)

240 following reports that guitarist Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it

Keith's only 81 - hop to it, man!

"Prop me up!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (xTIDn)

241 238 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)
---
Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

======

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)
---
Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

======

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)
----
Sick it up. We lost Toledo.

....

Errr... wait.

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (+wnq0)

268 Dad 'dies of grief' after daughter, 12, 'raped and beheaded by illegal immigrant'

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:25 PM (P5BPp)

....

I wouldn't die of grief. I might die of execution for the large number of murders I would commit after this.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (zjgNU)

269 260 Interesting stuff on the Brown shooter over at Insty if true.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

This guy came up earlier

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

270 Interesting stuff on the Brown shooter over at Insty if true.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

271 They keep treating us as naïve idiots to be fleeced and/or murdered. And when they are inbred and conniving, it only gets worse.

But that is the left's and/or globalist's plan to destroy the West and our liberties."

True - and doing so returns us to the human norms... yikes.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

272 I first observed Somali fraud first hand around 30 years ago. They would run up huge international phone charges, then when phone service was cut off they would simply apply in the name of a different Mohamed. And guess what? When we caught them they cried "racism." What a surprise!

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (sFNX2)

273 Grok says... not Jewish:

Israel National News:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

I'd assume they know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (xTIDn)

274
https://www.israelnationalnews.com

has this, but I dunno:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (RuTUS)

275 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

garrett hardest hit

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

276 "I'm still laughing about the people driving by Waltz's house screaming retard.
I mean that's something you just can't script..
Posted by: Inogame"

They are the only ones that will be going to jail, after the state mobilizes all its resources to hunt them down.

Posted by: Ripley at December 16, 2025 04:35 PM (GUOwU)

277 255 MIT bio

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/nuno-gomes-loureiro
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (RuTUS)

=====

The included presentation gives the impression that he was a really nice guy.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (2ap+5)

278 > Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Leftists all capitalize Black now, so why not Brown?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (Yp6az)

279 Looks like a Vance/Rubio ticket to me. I'm fine with that. Or with DeSantis. Just not that CA idiot who I'm sure will win their side.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (n5tGW)

280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

281 There may or may not be some "ghost students" in the crawl spaces of Timpon's previous residences.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 04:37 PM (Y1sOo)

282 Lol.

How is it even "damaging" to say that Trump is settling scores?

Fuck yeah, he's settling scores. Why do you think I voted for him? We haven't had a single score settled since the invention of the fucking microwave.

"Politicized". Oh, politics is politicized? Alllll of a sudden? Why, that's simply atrocious. How on earth could we ever have gotten to this point of yadda yadda blerch.

Fuck that. Hammer and tongs. Get the fuck after it Susie. And tell Pam to pull her thumb out, while you're at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (06Hmj)

283 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes

Nice rack.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (abIsI)

284 True - and doing so returns us to the human norms... yikes.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

Too many idiots think that the morals shaped by a Christian culture is the norm for humanity.

And that's because people have been mal-educated for at least 3 generations.

LIKELY this is because the US lost the Cold War. (The Soviets ALSO lost, but we didn't win.) Communist poison killed our culture, it just took longer for us to be finished off than the Soviets.

Now, it IS possible that we can excise that poison, but I don't know that we have the will to do so.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (zjgNU)

285 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Trump should've said this earlier.

Can you imagine how many 'I'm with Retard' yard signs they could've sold?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

286 280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Please let this go onto the Comments of the Week list.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

287 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

=====

Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DRSnL)

288
Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DRSnL)

Garret

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

289 The accusations that Walz molested a particular student that cropped up during the campaign are interesting.

Trump and co refused to engage and then the FNM started ignoring the story.

I assume it was a specific attempt to draw Trump in and then spring that it was all a hoax.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

290 Spherical Guatemalans > Retarded Somalis > Tim Walz

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

291 286 280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Please let this go onto the Comments of the Week list.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

Seconded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (06Hmj)

292 Bongino may resign in a couple of weeks. Good. I want to hear how much the DOJ and the FBI are F'd Up.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (abIsI)

293 I saw Spherical Guatemalans open for The Circle at Lucas Oil Live in 2023.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

294
Is all this going to make Walz get that stunned tearful look on his face like somebody shoved a pineapple up his butt?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (QOikT)

295 GUYS!!!

"President Donald Trump expanded his administration’s travel ban to several more countries on Tuesday, including barring Palestinians from entering the United States.

The Presidential Proclamation said the new restrictions are being put in place to protect the U.S. “from national security and public safety threats.”

Here is what the proclamation said about blocking Palestinians:

Several U.S.-designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have murdered American citizens.

Also, the recent war in these areas likely resulted in compromised vetting and screening abilities. In light of these factors, and considering the weak or nonexistent control exercised over these areas by the PA, individuals attempting to travel on PA-issued or endorsed travel documents cannot currently be properly vetted and approved for entry into the United States.

Beyond Palestinians, the Trump Administration is also banning people from five other countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

296 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel
----

I was born in Georgia, and lived there until I was 8. I loved all of the Confederate lore, and Stone Mountain Park was amazing. And rural Georgia is absolutely beautiful. But after seeing what has become of Atlanta and who runs it and how they run it...I believe Sherman may have gone too leniently on Atlanta.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (TN0g+)

297 Israel National News:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

I'd assume they know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM

I added that into Grok:

No public evidence from Loureiro's biography, MIT profile, interviews, or social media supports these claims. His background points to origins in Portugal, with education and early career there and in the UK.

The homicide investigation remains active, with no suspects, motive disclosed, or arrests as of December 16, 2025. Authorities have not linked it to antisemitism or any targeted motive.

In summary, the article from Israel National News is real and reports the shooting correctly, but the descriptors "Jewish" and "pro-Israel" are not corroborated by reliable or neutral sources and seem to stem from unverified rumors circulating in certain online communities.

Full Grok answer: https://bit.ly/3MNv9Yu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (P5BPp)

298 Is all this going to make Walz get that stunned tearful look on his face like somebody shoved a pineapple up his butt?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (QOikT)

You guys are just right up my alley today!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

299 this is new!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

300 What do you have to do around here to get a cool hash like this:

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (RuTUS)

301 Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM

First man who puts Crocs on his balls spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (sp/Nm)

302 265 As if the Somalis aren't stupid enough and dragged down by Islam, they marry their own cousins. How have they not become extinct? - Smell the Glove

Because apparently they're still smarter than Tim Walz.

Btw, instead of driving their cars past Tim Walz's house, I think protesters ought to form a conga line, snaking their way around his domain, singing a song in the appropriate rhythm.

Retard, liar, crook kick
Retard, liar, crook, kick

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (2L+MU)

303 are you feeling it ?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

304 I could solve the UK "small boats" (rubber rafts) problem for a couple hundred K, a cabin cruiser, and a 50 cal cruising around the channel.

This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (F1I3P)

305 For a hundred years are so the World will know and remember that shit hole means somollii and somalliis mean more shit.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (EyfuW)

306 In summary, the article from Israel National News is real and reports the shooting correctly, but the descriptors "Jewish" and "pro-Israel" are not corroborated by reliable or neutral sources and seem to stem from unverified rumors circulating in certain online communities.

Full Grok answer: https://bit.ly/3MNv9Yu
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (P5BPp)

And they read oddly in the article, as if they'd been hastily prepended.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (RuTUS)

307 Something is up. They are cancelling events left and right and now the travel ban on Palis, Syrians and the rest of the jihadis.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

308
This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (F1I3P)

And feeds the various marine life. It's really the circle of life and you'd be doing your part to save the ecosystem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

309 British Navy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

310 266 So two of the members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" that the FBI rolled up had met multiple times with the leader of Gavin Newsom's PR team.

I have no idea what that means, but it's suggestive.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (ciXcx)

Oh, fuck me. I think I see it now....

MILF = Mom i'd like to F....
TILF = Tranny i'd like to (hhnnnurrrrgh fuck i just vomited, eww, gross)

They really are that stunted, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (06Hmj)

311 303 are you feeling it ?
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

wut

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

312 What a retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

313 British Navy?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

Like the French navy, just less lube.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

314 "New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time"

ha ... but it is not a "phobia" if they really are trying to kill you.

"A phobia is an ongoing intense fear or anxiety of a certain object, animal, activity, or setting that poses little to no actual danger."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (vbXSk)

315 I've never been to Minnesota. Maybe I should go up there and holler at Waltz that hes a retard, and check it out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

316 What a retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

*pouts*

*kicks rock*

*goes to room*

Posted by: Corky at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

317
This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

What cruelty!

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Miller at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (oftw2)

318 As if the Somalis aren't stupid enough and dragged down by Islam, they marry their own cousins. How have they not become extinct?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I give you Ilian Omar, their best and brightest who married her gay ass brother. They are as inbred as British royalty.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (/HRQ5)

319 British Navy?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (zjgNU)

320 That Beatles song. The British Army had just won the war. What War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (fBbkm)

321 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

322 Seems to be open season on Jews and Conservatives

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)

323 Here’s an idea: no federal money for MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (rQwsY)

324 Beyond Palestinians, the Trump Administration is also banning people from five other countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

Part of any coherent immigration procedure is checking papers and records from the home nation.

If the home nation doesn't even really exist, and is just a poorly defined geographical region governed by narcoterrorists or plain old regular-ass terrorists.... i mean... you know....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (06Hmj)

325 Here’s an idea: no federal money for MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (rQwsY)

Or boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

326 wut
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

lol, the travel ban

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (g47mK)

327 307 Something is up. They are cancelling events left and right and now the travel ban on Palis, Syrians and the rest of the jihadis.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

"They?"

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

328 What's a 'palestinian?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

329 OT- I just wanted to share a lovely thing that just happened. I normally teach a Bible study twice a month at the senior living center. Tonight's the night. We had about five inches of snow on Sunday but it's all cleared out now. The activities director just called me to see if I was still coming. She said that the ladies in our little group didn't want me to go out if it wasn't safe. Aren't they dears?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Yl2Ob)

330 I suppose Secretary McMahon could mitigate taxpayer losses by requiring the schools to return the share of the ghost student funds they kept before passing along the excess to the sommeliers.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (2ap+5)

331 Being retarded should not preclude one from being a State Governor.

Posted by: Short Bus Billy at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (oftw2)

332 266 So two of the members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" that the FBI rolled up had met multiple times with the leader of Gavin Newsom's PR team.

the news here is that governor awesome already has an active puerto rico team.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (v3pYe)

333 Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes. And also yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

334 That Beatles song. The British Army had just won the war. What War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (fBbkm)

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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)

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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)
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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)

Emails: FBI Agents Repeatedly Warned Biden's DOJ That There Was No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid

Weird how we never heard warnings about the need for the DOJ to be independent of the president when Biden's thugs were raiding his rival's home.

Just the News:

The FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, warning agents did not believe the Biden Justice Department had enough evidence to establish "probable cause" that the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents, according to bombshell memos turned over Tuesday to Congress.
"WFO [FBI's Washington Field Office] has conducted approximately [Redacted] interviews related to this matter. Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared. "From the interviews, WFO has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA [National Archives] in January) at Mar-a-Lago."
"WFO has been drafting a Search Warrant affidavit related to these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated. DOJ CES [Counterintelligence and Export Control Section] opines, however, that the SWs [search warrants] meet the probable cause standard," that memo read.

The independent straight-shooters of the FBI found no probable cause, but Biden's political leadership of the DOJ found there was.

I'm sure Jake Tapper will get right on this.

Over a month later, FBI agents raised more concerns, including about the legality of searching Trump's personal residence at the Mar-a-Lago residence, the memos show.
"DOJ has inquired as to an Ops Plan for a SW of MAL [Mar-a-Lago]. and that we already had an Ops Plan in place that will [sic] can be quickly updated between FBI/MM [Miami Field Office] and FBI/WF [Washington Field Office]," a redacted FBI agent in the nation's capital wrote in a July 12, 2022 email. "However, WF-[Redacted] does not believe we have PC for the 45 Office or the bedroom due to recency and issues of boxes versus classified information. Therefore, as Mv
Just the News obtained a copy of the memos after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel declassified them and turned them over to Congress.
"Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres[ident] Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Based on the records, Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice."
The emails were turned over to the Senate and House Judiciary committees, ahead of a planned deposition Wednesday from ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith, who inherited the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just months after the August 2022 raid of Trump's home that rocked the political world ahead of the 2024 election.
It has long been rumored that some FBI agents disagreed with the decision to raid Trump's home to look for classified documents at the request of the National Archives.
But the declassified emails chronicle the specific concerns that DOJ under President Joe Biden had not met the standard for a search warrant, but proceeded anyway, officials said.
Jay Bratt, at the time the chief of the DOJ's CES and a future member of future special counsel Jack Smith's team, was key in pushing for the Mar-a-Lago raid. An FBI official sent an email on June 2, 2022 stating that "we learned from Jay Bratt that he did not intend to 'negotiate' with [Trump lawyer Evan] Corcoran, or have any further discussions with him."
Brett Reynolds, a trial attorney at CES, appeared to send a draft of a search warrant on July 8, 2022. Michael Thacker, an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, appeared to send another draft version of a search warrant on July 13, 2022.
"We haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft. Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this? It is time consuming for the team, and not productive if there are no new facts supporting PC?" an FBI official wrote in a July 13, 2022 email.
"As everyone is tracking, WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago," an FBI official wrote in another email dated July 20, 2022.

Put them in prison. G-pop.

It’s true - we just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump’s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ “didn’t give a damn” and did it anyway. https://t.co/qIlShYTd5V
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:25 PM

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1 Nothing will happen

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

2 Wow. First AND a black pill!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

3 FBI Agents Repeatedly Warned Biden's DOJ That There Was No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid

No Shit, Sherlock?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (VES6X)

4

Nothing ever happens.

Look at sasquatch-goon Comey. Guilty as sin, free as a bird.

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (g6TN6)

5 Of course, if something DID happen, this lawbreaking would stop.

But if we arrested people for committing crimes, then we'd be worse than HITLER, so Republicans can never hold Democrats accountable for blatant criminal politicization.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)

6
Who cares!

Trump should go to prison.

Posted by: Ghost of Meathead Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (Il0Nj)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!

Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again! at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (OnLUs)

9 Of note, not only the criminals in the DOJ should be in jail for this, the judges who signed off ought also to be criminally accountable. They knew this was a sham, as well.

But none will be.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

10 So the FBI is pointing fingers at DOJ? That’s like ass cancer pointing fingers at ball cancer.

Posted by: Steeldoc at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (1CxbB)

11 So they didn't find any ham or eggs?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

12 Well, at least they all kept their pensions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

13 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!
Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again! at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (OnLUs)

Good point. Our "honorable men in the FBI" are only honorable if it doesn't cost them.

Funny that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (zjgNU)

14 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

15 You can't place incriminating evidence on site if you're not on site, so, PROBABLY CAUSE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

16 So what did they put as probable cause for the search warrant, and what hand-picked judge signed off on it despite there being significant holes? Do judges examine search warrant applications at all?

Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (a/dOO)

17 Andy McCarthy to explain this away in 3,2,....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (D+mpw)

18 Sounds like a Sperg. The idea that we are still under the rule of law.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (fBbkm)

19 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!
Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again!

Egg-saladed employee?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

20 Having a hard time giving a damn. Absolutely nothing will happen. Which just emboldens them. Which means they do more of this shit. So I guess something WILL happen... we'll get shat on even more.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (t+VLa)

21 Not in before the guy that says nothing will happen, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway.

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

23 Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared.
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Which is why they were so desperate for Walt Nutla (sp?) to flip, a "if you'll admit you knew they were classified, we'll dismiss all charges" deal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (HXT0k)

24 >>>Put them in prison. G-pop.

Prison. But no extrajudicial punishment, such as putting them in the general population would encourage.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (RuTUS)

25 So they didn't find any ham or eggs?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

26

This goes to the Cynical Publius post highlighted today at Insta. Reps play these faggy-ass Queensbury rules (or get held to them by a hostile, partisan judiciary).

WTF is "Maryland Man" walking the streets of our country after a valid, thrice-blessed deportation order?

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (g6TN6)

27 Why did the FBI agents stage the "classified documents " implying that Trump just sloppily placed them for all to see?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (NpAcC)

28 10 So the FBI is pointing fingers at DOJ? That’s like ass cancer pointing fingers at ball cancer.
Posted by: Steeldoc at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (1CxbB)

The Left assures it taint.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (pIfcn)

29 I'm sure Jack Smith knew none of this.

LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (HXT0k)

30 22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

Judge Boasberg says nothing, he just smiles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (uWKK8)

31 Yesterday Grassley was out there complaining about dirty tactics. Sorry, but they're all cucks. Grassley is like a guy whose wife is sleeping all around town and he goes out and complains about how badly he's being treated but never does anything about it. Zero balls

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (t+VLa)

32 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (a/dOO)

Not if youre Boasberg.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

33 maybe dr jill said it was okay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

34
But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

35 if the Dems take the White House in 2028 they'll reboot these antics.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (rJ48h)

36 Susie Wiles is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Posted by: Trump Cabinet Member at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (YwIpu)

37 Defund the FBI. Where were the “good” FBI agents? Why did they not resign in protest to clearly politicized orders?

Even the “good” agents are nothing but pension craving cowards.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (+k6t6)

38 But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

In the Obama household, the panty drawer belongs to Barack.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

39 "Respondeat superior." The admins are cuplable, accountable, liable for tge actions of their inferiors. They ordered it they cab carry the weight civil and criminal. No tap backs. No erasies.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (YlWIZ)

40 It appears our justice department and federal law enforcement are corrupt to the bone.

Secession anyone?

Posted by: Buford T Justice at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (YyIMQ)

41 Even the “good” agents are nothing but pension craving cowards.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (+k6t6)
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Heddy Johnson is right!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (t+VLa)

42 Proposal. Even before being almost, you know, murdered, the raid on his home and the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)

43 Put them in prison. G-pop.

k-pop > g-pop

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (v3pYe)

44 People have lost their jobs over undies. Oh, I slay myself!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (YlWIZ)

45 Search the homes of every agent who breached Mar A Lago. Find Melania's underwear, and then jail anyone who has it. But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (6Bc88)

46 Korean wing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (fBbkm)

47 this doesn't prove that trump isn't guilty of some charge that schift and sawlwell haven't thought of yet, does it

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (CWTWj)

48 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (0U5gm)

49 Most would like the homo stuff in prison. Looking at you, Jack Smith.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (gm9Sb)

50 But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Naw. They'd enjoy that too much.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

51 Heddy Johnson is right!
Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (t+VLa)

"It's Hedley."

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (6Bc88)

52 the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)
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"If it saves just one life...."

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (t+VLa)

53 But Trump tweeted some mean things about a dead POS!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

54
That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

55 14 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case. Trump was wise to get his ass outta NY.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)

56 It's Hedley."

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (6Bc8

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I hope you said that in Harvey Korman's voice!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (t+VLa)

57 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.
--
IIRC, the warrant was signed by a magistrate judge.

B/c they timed the filing of the request when they knew the district judge would not be available.

And, recall, the grand jury on this was in DC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (HXT0k)

58 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (FtUtq)

59 Big Mike doesn't have a panty drawer , he has a jock strap drawer. From what I've heard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (D+mpw)

60 In before the nothing will happen crowd -- and nothing will happen.

"DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW."

The U.S. Constitution has effectively been morte for a very long time ....

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (EhvIe)

61 But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

Alternate History FBI Raid on the Obama:

"I'll check this chest of drawers over here."
"This is Michelle's room. You find anything/"
"uh....I don't know it looks like somebody packed some old-fashioned silk parachutes...you know the big, giant ones from WWII and....oh...
Ooooohhhhhhhh!"
...

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (iJfKG)

62 The Constitution is a piece of paper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (fBbkm)

63
*ahem*

BOXER briefs.

Posted by: Big Mike at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (FtUtq)

64 I solemnly swear to draw breath, shop for power ties, drink at all the right cocktail parties, have lunch until my retirement date, collect consulting fees trade on forbidden tips until my dying day. So help me Hef.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (YlWIZ)

65
Wild guess:

President Trump's address tonight will be about an unsafe America because of Democrats & their dumb policies.

Posted by: Ghost of Meathead Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (Il0Nj)

66 Search the homes of every agent who breached Mar A Lago. Find Melania's underwear, and then jail anyone who has it. But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (6Bc8

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Better yet - Make Kash Patel director of the FBI and Dan Bongino and Andrew Bailey deputy directors of the FBI.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (rj6Yv)

67 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

With dick holes in them.

Posted by: Silky Johnson, Playa H8ter at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (YyIMQ)

68 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (fBbkm)

That shit is, like, OLD bruh.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

69 Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case.
Posted by: whig

C'mon, we know that Boasberg is the supreme leader of the world. His authority extends to the Oort Cloud, at least.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

70 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Sure looked commando on the Ellen clip.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (rJjpq)

71 I never got briefs sorted out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (fBbkm)

72 Who needs probable cause when they have an election to steal?

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (E8S6f)

73 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

74 70 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Sure looked commando on the Ellen clip.
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (rJjpq)

THAT was a bizarre video on several levels. I do know that it cannot be unseen.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (pDt9x)

75 Good luck TJM

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Wo1GJ)

76 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And the Dems treat it like Schlieffen treated that "mere scrap of paper," the Belgian neutrality treaty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

77 Did it have wtitten instructions?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (fBbkm)

78
Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

79 76 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And the Dems treat it like Schlieffen treated that "mere scrap of paper," the Belgian neutrality treaty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

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Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

80 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

81 Damn.....not my day.

F*cking stress.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

82 75 Good luck TJM

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Wo1GJ)

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Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

83 The whole crowd, standing at attention in the Oval Office before Himself. "You know why I called you here, and you know why. Jack, stand straight and quit the crying. Tomorrow a plane will be leaving Andrews, and none of you will be demoted but will be on that plane. Pack cold weather gear and you might want to brush up on Inuit. The station has been shut down since the end of the cold war, but we still find a reason to have it manned.. Jack, quit bawling."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (gm9Sb)

84 @73 TJM , good luck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (D+mpw)

85 78 Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

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Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

86 ...About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

You've got a sourdough channel now?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (iJfKG)

87 the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)

I'd be demanding those agents be assigned to the absolute worst location to work there is.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (N39Ws)

88 73 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

In the end, it’s only a loaf of bread.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (pDt9x)

89

Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

He's got a YT channel. Close enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

90 Schliefen Plan was in all thr history books. Google it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (fBbkm)

91 Big Mike doesn't have a panty drawer , he has a jock strap drawer. From what I've heard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (D+mpw)

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From what I've seen (not in person -- only that famous "schwing!" dancing video online) his sock drawer could serve a dual purpose.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (EhvIe)

92 80 Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

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Well, the interview was a performance.

"Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

93 "DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW."

like literally every gun control law on the books, fed, state, or local

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Cjt/F)

94 86 You've got a sourdough channel now?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (iJfKG)

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Well...YT does allow for posts. And my one post is a picture of my first sourdough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

95 Like and subscribe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

President Trump, tonight, from the Oval Office:

"I'd like to urge you all of you great Americans to like and subscribe to TheJamesMadison's big, beautiful YouTube channel. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

96 53 But Trump tweeted some mean things about a dead POS!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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It is always fear of what others might do or say driving such comments. And it means social norms making it taboo to talk badly about dead people.

Social virtue signalling basically. People often feel better about themselves because they can express that they are better than that thus elevating themselves morally over the crowd.

Drives a lot of human behavior and society where being obnoxious but true in a statement is viewed as worse than blathering polite lies by omission or being silent for fear that the 'crowd' does not like it.

So taboos on public speaking like race, religion, science, sex, etc are often viewed as beyond the pale. Instead, like Henry Higgins teaches Eliza, you talk about your health and the weather.

The drunken defense lawyer scene in the Caine Mutiny played by José Ferrer is a classic example where the man spoke his piece of truth despite the crowd not liking what they heard.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (WDjG6)

97 And no one will pay for it

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

98
Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

It's the thought that counts?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

99 They were never going to have a reason because as I've been saying since the raid Trump had every right to take the documents under the Presidential Records Act.

Now do something about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (viF8m)

100 95
"I'd like to urge you all of you great Americans to like and subscribe to TheJamesMadison's big, beautiful YouTube channel. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

========

300,000,000 views.

2 subscribers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

101 Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Interestingly, I say the same thing when someone pulls out right in front of my vehicle.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

102 Do understand it did not stop the raid, they still sniffed Melania's pantys and they did not "bravely" go at once to the media and leak.

The FIB sucks.

https://x.com/sven10077/status/2000933347128750549

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, Ford 37 Pickup Trucks, Retired Space Shuttles, Unicorns, Otherkyn, and the Disarmed....FIB Portland has an update on the attacker at The University of Portland State University Kitchen Five facility.

This briefing is being held on land that once belonged to the Intergalactic Kingdom of Epsilon Five who were displaced by the terrible but necessary actions of the wizard Yakub.

A persynhunt is ongoing after law enforcement released a previously detained person of interest, determining that evidence pointed in a "different direction" and there was no basis to continue holding him despite his yelling "Aloha Saladbar."

New images and video of a new person of interest, described as a simian approximately 5-foot-8-inches with a stocky build, captured on surveillance footage near campus shortly before the shooting.

This office will not confirm what words were uttered as the attack was levied on the home economics class study session in kitchen five

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (MUJd1)

103 Remember how they brought their own "classified" folders to the raid?*

And then splayed them on the hallway floor, as if to depict that was how they were found?

And then--bizarrely--included that photo in their filings?
A thing which is almost never done in federal filing and had zero weight to the filing?

And then, they "failed" to note the box, location and order for which they allegedly "found" the classified docs?
That is, no chain of custody, but a "trust us, we totally found these classified docs in that box."

* and this is key, b/c the charges were "knowingly mishandling classified documents." Which would have been near impossible ... but hey!! here are these bright red and blue folders now!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (HXT0k)

104 Ditto TJM. Good luck with the interview if you really want the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

105 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

that's great!!

*keep looking...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (g47mK)

106 81 Damn.....not my day.

F*cking stress.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm there with you. Desperately trying to hang onto my job while asking myself why I haven't called the truck driving school for my CDL so I can get out of IT.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

107 Better question? What Judge signed off on the Warrant.

It is supposed to be a Judge who decides if a Warrant has sufficient cause, and is legal... and yet, we see time and again that Warrants were issued to spy on Congressmen, or to search the Home of an Ex President... at the behest of a Librarian?

Many of the problems we now have with our government, stem from the Judiciary not doing their intended Job. They are no longer protectors of the Public... and constantly overstep their own authority giving orders that should not be given, while also not protecting the Rights of citizens.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

108 98
Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

It's the thought that counts?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Sock fail joke. Humorous in intent.

Hope you pull through the end of this tough as balls year, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

109 Finished a second interview with a company.
Fingers crossed.

We're sorry. That job will remain unfilled, at least until our immigration policies get restored...

Posted by: Gov. Mike DeWine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (TkqyZ)

110 In the end, it’s only a loaf of bread.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (pDt9x)

*Lyrics in Kansas' trash can

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

111 The Russian Navy is having a bad week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (fBbkm)

112 101 Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Interestingly, I say the same thing when someone pulls out right in front of my vehicle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

No “Bless Your Heart” the Deep South curse??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (pDt9x)

113 This office will not confirm what words were uttered as the attack was levied on the home economics class study session in kitchen five, but will note there would be no hesitance to do so if the words were something vile like "MAGA Forever!"

Remain unaware, but agitated and continue to look for the simian of interest.

//FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (MUJd1)

114 Well, the interview was a performance.

"Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

115 When the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" gang was rolled up by the FBI, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was whether or not the Feds found incriminating documents related to foreign involvement.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

116 104 Ditto TJM. Good luck with the interview if you really want the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

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It went decently. The first interview with another manager went great. Great rapport. This one with two women went fine, though no one had told me they expected video to be on. Probably not enough to torpedo everything.

I am camera shy, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

117
Hope you pull through the end of this tough as balls year, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

118 irrespective of how many times they bring you back , keep looking!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (g47mK)

119 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

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The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

120 Good luck, TMJ.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (77rzZ)

121 I heard a rumor once that "no one is above the law."

Even people who abuse their office and attempt to toss their rivals in prison with no probable cause.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (C3IAS)

122 114 You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

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No one cares about the reports themselves.

It's the covers that people care about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

123 "48 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (0U5gm) "

affirm. THIS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (Cjt/F)

124 No “Bless Your Heart” the Deep South curse??

Posted by: tubal

In a split second braking scenario, that takes too long.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (0U5gm)

125 Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Bill Clinton treated his interns.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

126 122 114 You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

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No one cares about the reports themselves.

It's the covers that people care about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

And the fonts used, apparently.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (pDt9x)

127 What do we want: the swarm of government law breakers to be arrested and justice prevail after the years of corruption and treason.

What will we accept: all of the law breakers to be fired and leftists to stay out of government for a generation.

What will we get: GOPe to help reinstall the deep state to arrest our insolent keesters for daring to vote against them.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (+/y+R)

128 [
I'm there with you. Desperately trying to hang onto my job while asking myself why I haven't called the truck driving school for my CDL so I can get out of IT.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

Yeah....I'm getting where I want to do something different as well....Just really can't and hope I can keep this going after we move as I'll be a long way away from the DC and my company MIGHT be pissed about it.

Need the insurance, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

129 Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

You read my mind. It's a scary place sorry

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Wo1GJ)

130 107 Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

The warrants are a rubber stamp Romeo worse bias than even the brave Raccoons of the FIB.

Beryl Howell is exceptional in her judicial bias only in so openly reveling in it.

The hit rate for the FISA Court on fishing expeditions is 99.75% +...

Is there THAT much perfidy extant, that much indifference to Constitutional restraint, or is the FIB et al simply that good at personal restraint in overreach and analytics and forensic persuasiveness?

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (MUJd1)

131 125 Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Bill Clinton treated his interns.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

Like a humidor?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (N39Ws)

132 It's the covers that people care about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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When I required actual papers to be submitted for grading back in the day, I often noted really inferior reports in a very snazzy cover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (WDjG6)

133 129 Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

You read my mind. It's a scary place sorry

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Wo1GJ)

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Sourdough done well is one of life's pleasures.

This dough looks good. We'll see.

If so, I have two separate starters that I've successfully made from scratch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

134 "Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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TJM, Alpha Lemming.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (t+VLa)

135 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (wBaIH)

136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

137 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Meet Michelea Ponce. Ponce works for the
@Enloe
nonprofit health care system (most likely as a nurse) in California.

She is an “anti-racism” activist who decided to post a video of herself chastising and calling a Target employee “fucking stupid,” accusing her of supporting a “racist” simply because the staffer was wearing Charlie Kirk’s “Freedom” shirt.

Ponce could have politely addressed the issue with a store manager, but instead she chose to demonize the employee and shame her on the internet.

Please HELP me return the FAVOR and blast her all over the place, because someone who works in healthcare, whose role is to support the well-being of people, is doing the opposite.

https://tinyurl.com/2wmftt63

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

138 Put them in prison.
-

Waiting.

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 16, 2025 02:51 PM (pe/Zy)

139 I know what we need to fix this....

Posted by: Strongly Worded Letters! at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (53oGX)

140 *I am camera shy, though.*

Sez da guy wid a Utoob channel.

Posted by: Doubt it at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (FtUtq)

141 136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

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They're only about a month old. I kept them active in the oven with the light on for weeks, aging them. Now, they're in the refrigerator for storage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

142 The Fed court system much like Ohio's. In the 80s we had a Judge pulled over by the staties for a DUI. Judges in Ohio have to be tried by a three member panel of peers. Charged Judge was found innocent because he just washed his car and was dodging mud puddles.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (gm9Sb)

143 Is something happening in The Islammic Republic of Minnesota?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (fBbkm)

144 If so, I have two separate starters that I've successfully made from scratch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025

Cool! They mature up to 90 days and then plateau. And it makes a big difference, using a 30 day starter vs a 90 (for example).

And you can use commercial yeast in your recipe to boost it. They sometimes call it "helper yeast" so not a lot of it, and also obviously never put it near your actual starter. But if you like straight sourdough then forget the commercial yeast. It's just to improve the rise and the timing.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (Wo1GJ)

145 Can we get some more about how Trump's judge let him off on the classified docs case?

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (53oGX)

146 Now do something about it.

We are! We are ineffectively whining about it!

Do you really believe that a failed State is capable of having a functioning justice system?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (NzX/y)

147 144 And you can use commercial yeast in your recipe to boost it. They sometimes call it "helper yeast" so not a lot of it, and also obviously never put it near your actual starter. But if you like straight sourdough then forget the commercial yeast. It's just to improve the rise and the timing.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (Wo1GJ)

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The rise on my first was impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/post/
Ugkxn1pBzumFEP1VZrz_jqL-gg6IO8vknx0v

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

148 The idea that there is or should be a independent DOJ making determinations of investigating a former President is really silly. The current President should face the political consequences from such an action. And Biden did.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (sX1BW)

149 141 136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

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They're only about a month old. I kept them active in the oven with the light on for weeks, aging them. Now, they're in the refrigerator for storage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

150 The craziest thing is how all this got started - the white house archivist (who hates trump) saw a news program where they were loading a few banker boxes as Trump was leaving the white house.

Literally a 2-bit flunky started the whole fiasco.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (C3IAS)

151 TJM, Alpha Lemming.
Posted by: 496

Alpha lemming: "Hey, look, everybody! Here's a big, beautiful cliff! Let's throw ourselves over it!"

Non-Alpha lemmings: "You first, Dipshit."

*Alpha lemming goes over cliff*

Non-Alpha lemmings: "Welp, guess we gotta get ourselves a new Alpha lemming."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

152 Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case. Trump was wise to get his ass outta NY.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)

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It looks like anyone with a brain is also getting his ass out of New York. Mamdani will be left with just the left and rule there for a thousand years.

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (E8S6f)

153 My former organization would have had these louts tortured, shot, and sent to the Russian Front!

Posted by: Major Hochstetter at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (oftw2)

154 Whether he broke the law or not, Trump is a dictator!

Also, I AM IN AGONY IN THIS FIRE.

Posted by: Rob Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (jc0TO)

155 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.
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Yup. 100%.

Don't forget:
40+ agents.
Carrying fully-automatic weapons and their side-arms.
Authorized to fire-at-will.
Sent to raid the personal residence of the former President.
Without warning his Secret Service detail.

They wanted a gunfight, dead agents at the least, they could pin on Trump for "stealing classified documents."
Bonus if they killed Trump.

Like Butler, I'll bet the whole first wave team was all green and inexperienced agents.
And I'll further bet they were sent in plain-clothes.

But the left is not at war against America ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (HXT0k)

156 If no probable cause, then the warrant was fraud on the court.
AND the raid was a robbery.

Im so tired of these ham and eggers getting off scotfree.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (fPASK)

157 Is there THAT much perfidy extant, that much indifference to Constitutional restraint, or is the FIB et al simply that good at personal restraint in overreach and analytics and forensic persuasiveness?
Posted by: sven
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Sven, I can tell you song and verse about how privacy has been obliterated by Big Tech and gubmint. Simply put, they spy on us, every day, every way, and much of it comes from teh very products we buy, the cars and cellphones we buy, and from online merchants willing to make a shady buck by selling your data in bulk to law enforcement cheap

Assume you live in a glass house, every appliance is tapped, and all your comms are intercepted, categorized and starred if gubmint views you the problem. All your subscriptions, likes, views on social media belong to Big Tech and thence to Big Gov, etc.

Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

158 Didn't get to today's video yet

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

159 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.

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There are real problems plaguing this country, and Trump to his credit is actually trying to address some. But gosh darn it, that tweet was over the line. Pence would have never done that.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (sX1BW)

160 If you buy a starter home does it come with starter dough?

Posted by: Inquiring minds at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (FtUtq)

161 TJM do two more months with daily feeds on the counter, then refrigerate. By all means keep some in the fridge now as a "backup". Ideally you want to get it to 90 day strength then you are done.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (Wo1GJ)

162 149 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

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What I learned is that anything other than mold is fixable.

Not rising? Add more flour. Still not rising? Warm it slightly more (oven with the light on). Hooch? Drain it, then feed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

163 To be complete fair and clear, while there was no probable evidence of Russian collusion there was in fact a high probability of thing panties in Melania's underwear draw.

So obviously we needed to go in.

Posted by: The FBI at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

164 Libby Emmons @libbyemmons

Caroline Wren reports that students said the Brown University shooter shouter "Allahu Akbar" when firing into the lecture hall and that Reddit had to shut down the Brown board because pro-Gaza students were celebrating Ella Cook's murder.

X video: https://bit.ly/3L62WM2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (P5BPp)

165
The independent straight-shooters of the FBI

I do not understand these words in that sequence...

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (Piohu)

166 It looks like anyone with a brain is also getting his ass out of New York. Mamdani will be left with just the left and rule there for a thousand years.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM

The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

167 The evidence piles up, but the guilty are still free.

IIRC, Bolton's the only one still under an indictment. And his crime was mostly low level possession of classified documents.

Is this a DoJ problem? Or a judicial problem? Or both?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (NwnyJ)

168 The 49ers didb't have refrigeration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (fBbkm)

169
If there are emails , then there are names. If there are names , there can be firings or prosecutions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (n7rxJ)

170 162

What I learned is that anything other than mold is fixable.

Not rising? Add more flour. Still not rising? Warm it slightly more (oven with the light on). Hooch? Drain it, then feed it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

Appreciate the advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (pDt9x)

171 164 Libby Emmons @libbyemmons

Caroline Wren reports that students said the Brown University shooter shouter "Allahu Akbar" when firing into the lecture hall and that Reddit had to shut down the Brown board because pro-Gaza students were celebrating Ella Cook's murder.
____

NOW, finally everything makes sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

172 Remember arresting a random judge for committing a clear crime is the mark of a banana republic, but raiding the home of the leader of the political opposition because, uh, you might find something, is a-ok.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW

ah...if they have an R next to their name

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

173 Assume you live in a glass house, every appliance is tapped, and all your comms are intercepted, categorized and starred if gubmint views you the problem. All your subscriptions, likes, views on social media belong to Big Tech and thence to Big Gov, etc.

Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)
==

Concur.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)

174 30 22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

Judge Boasberg says nothing, he just smiles.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (uWKK

I recall the Mar-a-lago raid was signed off by a magistrate judge, wasnt' it?

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (53oGX)

175 I AM DRUGS!

Posted by: MUMR at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (IKBFw)

176 The raid was to frame President Trump for a crime they didn't even think of yet

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)

177 The Paolo's rise is also, as you say, impressive.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

178 Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

"There's no 'watchlist' in Dubai - If you're a threat, you're out!"

@Imamofpeace to @Erin_Molan: are watchlists meant to watch them carry out a terror attack?!

What is the deal with our 'tolerance'?
Isn't it our greatest 'weakness'?!

X video: https://bit.ly/3N1KDrU

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (P5BPp)

179 145 Can we get some more about how Trump's judge let him off on the classified docs case?
Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (53oGX
****
Jack Smith was not a real boy.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fPASK)

180 The 49ers didb't have refrigeration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (fBbkm)

I would bet that Brock Purdy would've healed faster if they only had some ice available.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

Students celebrating are reprehensible .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (oT1li)

182 Were underdrawers named on the warrant?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fBbkm)

183 Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

Former Maryland Republican Rep Roscoe Bartlett supposedly lives off the grid on some mountain, probably somewhere in the US Radio Quiet Zone.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

184 >>Literally a 2-bit flunky started the whole fiasco.

At least that's the story we're being told.

It's odd that nobody ever talks about what documents Trump took, legally I might add, that caused the Biden WH and the DOJ to freak out and do an illegal raid.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (viF8m)

185 For certain breads, my Dad, the baker, kept a starter in a jar with a blue tint to it in the refrigerated box (not real cold). Should have paid more attention but he didn't want me to be a baker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (gm9Sb)

186 ****
Jack Smith was not a real boy.
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fPASK)

But he WAS excitable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

187 Nobody will pay the first price. And it will happen again and again. Why not? Nobody is stopping them. This should be the story of the century, but nobody in the media cares about its implications. Neither does the Democrap party.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (qBdHI)

188 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)

189 135 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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And yet, that is the way that most people that get fascinated by shiny things operate when consuming media.

And everyone dumping on Trump for that somehow failed to mention the deaths of others as if Meathead was more important than the girl and guy at Brown or other unfortunate deaths.

It was only to tsk tsk at Trump as being inconsiderate at calling a spade a spade because he spoke ill of the dead or that other people might take offense.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)

190 Trump criticizes Rob Renier = THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE HAVE YOU NO DECENCY

The whole left celebrates the murder of Kirk and Cook = They reserved it really when you think about it

Posted by: The FNM at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

192 FIB Portland joins our Oz colleagues in their obtuse refusal to suss out things like motive when the motive is inconvenient. Take for example the brutal attack we suffered in the Sandwich Island Liberation Front's assault on the home economics study session in Kitchen Five at The University of Portland State University. Despite the presence of grass skirts, bumper stickers saying "Free the Sandwich Islands!", multiple floral necklaces, and a 450 Page Listing of Alleged Transgressions by their Colonial Oppressors with DNA match, we cannot state definitively at this time that the attack accompanied as it was by flaming baton twirling and the shouting of "Aloha Saladbar!" shows concrete signs of motive....

//FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (MUJd1)

193 Just remember: a supposed "judge" signed off on this utterly bogus search warrant that the FBI itself didn't think was legit. There was less probable cause for this search than there was to search Joe Biden's shitstained underwear. Yet still a "judge" signed off on it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

194 190 Trump criticizes Rob Renier = THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE HAVE YOU NO DECENCY

The whole left celebrates the murder of Kirk and Cook = They reserved it really when you think about it

Posted by: The FNM at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

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"Killing people is wrong, but Charlie Kirk had it comin'."
-The entire respectable left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

195 Flooding on left coast.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (fBbkm)

196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

197 Students celebrating are reprehensible .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Agreed, I was just pointing out that Brown U.'s apparent cover up of just about everything about this makes sense. It's not right, but it makes sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)

198 Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.

We gave up privacy in the name of security and yet we have lefties, Islamists, and yutes murdering people with impunity on a regular basis.

Its like that quote...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

199 Recall how the riad played out - the FBI kept going back, again and again, looking for sensitive documents, they thought Trump had, but didn't. Someone kept feeding them information that Trump had sensitive documents and they just weren't looking HARD enough. hence the raid.

Someone kept feeding the FBI misinformation on the documents. Likely the white house archivist.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (C3IAS)

200 188 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)

Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

201 Was his son a furry?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (fBbkm)

202 200 Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

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I've never heard the pineapple juice bit, but ... seems to have more experience than I do. I'm a newbie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

203 196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO

More essential than Tea Cozeys.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

204 196 TJM's opinion on antimaccasars coming right up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (gm9Sb)

205 157 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

Whig, I assure you I am quite aware.

I have had to sit across from CI Agents going chapter and verse over an associate's social media history, and pissed off an agent with a simple "whimsical" statement on J6....

"You know, Stalin had a bank"

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (MUJd1)

206
I think tonight's address will just be Trump reciting his usual litany of accomplishments.

If it is, People will tune out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Il0Nj)

207 >>Recall how the riad played out - the FBI kept going back, again and again, looking for sensitive documents, they thought Trump had, but didn't. Someone kept feeding them information that Trump had sensitive documents and they just weren't looking HARD enough. hence the raid.

Or had and they weren't stored at Mar A Lago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)

208 Do not forget Kirk was killed by one of them. The two things aren't comparable sorry. If Reiner was killed by a MAGA it wouldn't be funny at all. It would be terrible and I certainly would never joke about it or laugh or cheer myself up with it first thing in the morning.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Wo1GJ)

209 Was his son a furry?

Are you suggesting every leftist killer has their own squirrel boy at home?

Because...I mean maybe things have gotten stupid enough it is true now

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

210 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)

I agree with you. A cover up sounds quite plausible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (oT1li)

211 So they just WANTED it to be true....

Because "Trump bad"

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (SRRAx)

212 "Killing people is wrong, but Charlie Kirk had it comin'."
-The entire respectable left

Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Dv3i1)

213 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.

Rubio has also said the full video will not be released.

Somehow, and I can't fully shape it, by bringing State in, it pretty much kills any further demands.

Also, I think this probably kills the "we're cutting 1/4 of the travel budget" gimmick as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (HXT0k)

214 You read about shit like this and I care even less than I did yesterday about what Trump said about Rob Reiner

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

215 Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM

Unleashes tries to directly address affordability .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (oT1li)

216 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)
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Are you making bread or engineering new life? I've seen how this movie plays out. It ain't pretty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (ESVrU)

217 Former Maryland Republican Rep Roscoe Bartlett supposedly lives off the grid on some mountain, probably somewhere in the US Radio Quiet Zone.
Posted by: Bulg

Eh, why bother. In a sense, governments can and do persecute an individual and that is whether it is local, state, or federal. They, like journalists, will build a whole story about why they are justly going after person X--often this is true, but a certain percentage of the time, like for Trump, it is because the gubmint apparatchiks made him into an Enemy of the State.

To survive such, like Sakharov, you best become so well known domestically and even internationally that you become someone too 'big' to quietly have put away without threatening system stability.

The nastier way is to be such an evil person like Killary that everyone is more or less afraid to start something as the Clinton retaliation machine is very real and very vicious.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (WDjG6)

218 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Biden intentionally replaced his normal SS crew for that event giving him the D team.

I suspect that they knew they had a known wolf in the area and his minder was spinning him up.

But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (sKqQm)

219 216 Are you making bread or engineering new life? I've seen how this movie plays out. It ain't pretty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (ESVrU)

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He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

220 I've never heard the pineapple juice bit, but ... seems to have more experience than I do. I'm a newbie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

It fixes the pH from the beginning. If you skip it the little beasties have to make their own pH and it goes through some tough phases where other things take over in the meantime.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (Wo1GJ)

221 119 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

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The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

Now ask why he hasn't been impeached yet, or why there hasn't even been movement on it.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (53oGX)

222 >>> 196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

Doilies, mini-doilies, are *required* for jello shots.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)

223 According to John Solomon and Kash Patel, the 2 people Trump appointed at the end of his first term to work on full declassification of the Russia documents he had in his possession, those documents were not returned. Trump declassified them and kept them.

They weren't worried about Trump giving nuclear codes to Russia, they were worried about having their own criminality exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (viF8m)

224 221 The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

Now ask why he hasn't been impeached yet, or why there hasn't even been movement on it.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (53oGX)

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He's defending himself in a writ of mandamus issue before the Appeals court soon. He's actually in a good bit of trouble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

225 He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm gonna triple-mask, just it case it gets loose!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ESVrU)

226 Another year, another Seth Rogan animated cringe-fest, this time a "modern incarnation" of Animal Farm.

https://tinyurl.com/mtwwwvby

Will it be on par with or even worse than "Santa Inc."?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (9Ovst)

227 Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

I don't talk about stuff when I don't know what I'm talking about. Can't help it. Feel free to hit me up if you have questions.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (Wo1GJ)

228 They won't do it, but I think Brown should can any student who is celebrating Ella Cook's murder and the ones on Student Visas should be deported .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (oT1li)

229

Brooke Singman
@BrookeSingman
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, but moved forward amid pressure from the Biden DOJ, with an official saying he didn’t "give a damn about the optics" of the search.

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Sure they cared about the optics. It was all about the optics.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (pW3IX)

230 You guys above who seemed to recall a magistrate signing off on the search warrant. You were correct. I vaguely remembered that too, and looked it up. It was this guy.

Bruce Reinhart. He was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida at the time.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

231
1. Democrat malfeasance uncovered.
2. Republicans denounce Democrat malfeasance.
3. Nothing happens.
4. GOTO line 1.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (tfuRw)

232 He's defending himself in a writ of mandamus issue before the Appeals court soon. He's actually in a good bit of trouble.

Odds of a sternly worded letter in his permanent file: 1.5:1

Odds of any actual punishment 1000:1

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

233 Doilies, mini-doilies, are *required* for jello shots.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)
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Once you're hooked, it's on to antimacassars.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

234 Cambodia is going after F16s and Grippens with rat patrol guns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (fBbkm)

235 1. Democrat malfeasance uncovered.
2. Republicans denounce Democrat malfeasance.
3. Nothing happens.
4. GOTO line 1.

Every now and then there is a 2.5 where some Republican officeholder demands to know why no one ELSE is doing anything about it.

Always gives me a dark chuckle.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

236 Antimacassars are sought at CERN,yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (pDt9x)

237 No heads rolling yet.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (vFG9F)

238 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

239 >>> 218 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Biden intentionally replaced his normal SS crew for that event giving him the D team.

I suspect that they knew they had a known wolf in the area and his minder was spinning him up.

But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (sKqQm)

If 'someone' drops a hint that XiNN should be there, they can do that without suggesting *why* XiNN should be there.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (ULPxl)

240 Once you're hooked, it's on to antimacassars.
Posted by: mrp

No decorative window valences?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

241 230 You guys above who seemed to recall a magistrate signing off on the search warrant. You were correct. I vaguely remembered that too, and looked it up. It was this guy.

Bruce Reinhart. He was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida at the time.
Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

Magistrate Judge - an appointed person to take supposed "menial" tasks away from "real" judges.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (N39Ws)

242 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09

You really applied? What did the application consist of?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (oT1li)

243 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

244 The cycle is also what's going on with the Somalian fraud scandal. Looks like we've already hit step 3 and moved on.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (tfuRw)

245 Denver omeletteers

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

246 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Agreed. That would be awesome.

And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

247 >>@JordanSchachtel
·
33m
>>Brown University is mass deleting a series of celebratory articles on its website relating to Mustapha Kharbouch, a foreign born Palestinian student in its Middle East studies dept.

>>Mustapha participated in the Hamas encampments at Brown & wrote in article declaring the need for a rebellion against the U.S. and Israel.

>>Someone has also deleted his X account.

>>Mustapha is clearly a bad ideological actor, but there are no reports thus far that he has been implicated in the incident at Brown. Though the consequential timing is certainly worth keeping an eye on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (viF8m)

248 THAT was a bizarre video on several levels. I do know that it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (pDt9x)

Someone called it "the Zapruder film for chicks with dicks" once, which is hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (ciXcx)

249 243 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

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The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

250 I never got curtains that don't block the window.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (fBbkm)

251 Tubal like TJM alluded to, make sure it's at least 70 degrees wherever it is. A little higher is even better.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Wo1GJ)

252 But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1

I thought about that, this is a weakness in the theory, but not enough to convince me to abandon it. There is after all, the revolving door between the deep state and news media. A producer can give plenty of innocuous reasons to the crew as to why any event should be covered.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Dv3i1)

253 251 Tubal like TJM alluded to, make sure it's at least 70 degrees wherever it is. A little higher is even better.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Wo1GJ)

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My oven with the light on keeps it around 75-80.

On the counter, I wasn't getting over 65. It's winter, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

254 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.

They don't actually care about any of this stuff though, its just a way to continue the narrative.

So let's suppose Trump and co release evidence that the boat was full of fent and coke, and the people on the boat were wanted drug traffickers.

The left will give a little of "muh due process!" and then move on to something else without a care in the world that they claimed these people were peaceful fisherman.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

255 Magistrate Judge - an appointed person to take supposed "menial" tasks away from "real" judges.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (N39Ws)
__________________

Not only that. The guy had an ethics complaint filed against him for no recusing himself due to his donations to the DNC. The 11th CA squashed the complaint without really looking into it. Then Reinhart started making the ole "I'm getting death threats from MAGA" complaint....and someone found an age old donation he made to a Republican a long time before.

IOW, he was a TDS Magistrate who knew the game.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (dIske)

256 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

CNN also had a high-speed camera at Butler, PA and they weren't previously covering Trump rallies live. They need to get shaken and see what falls out.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (ciXcx)

257 " an official saying he didn’t "give a damn about the optics" of the search."

Who is this official? This is all bullshit if nothing happens.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (vFG9F)

258 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09

You really applied? What did the application consist of?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (oT1li)
______

I was joking about being a SDNY judgment. I applied to be an immigration judge in NYC. The odds that anything will come of it is very low, but I had nothing to lose by applying. A federal judge in SDNY is an appointed position that must be confirmed by the Senate. You don't apply for positions like that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

259 >>> 252 But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1

I thought about that, this is a weakness in the theory, but not enough to convince me to abandon it. There is after all, the revolving door between the deep state and news media. A producer can give plenty of innocuous reasons to the crew as to why any event should be covered.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Dv3i1)

*ding ding ding*

"he might announce his veep pick" was bouncing around for a while

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (ULPxl)

260 The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM

ISWYDT

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (jc0TO)

261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

262 What about us?

Posted by: Wrap around dust ruffle bed skirts at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (FtUtq)

263 258 I was joking about being a SDNY judgment. I applied to be an immigration judge in NYC. The odds that anything will come of it is very low, but I had nothing to lose by applying. A federal judge in SDNY is an appointed position that must be confirmed by the Senate. You don't apply for positions like that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, you do.

It's just not a paper application.

It requires more...activity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

264 Another year, another Seth Rogan animated cringe-fest, this time a "modern incarnation" of Animal Farm.

https://tinyurl.com/mtwwwvby

Will it be on par with or even worse than "Santa Inc."?
Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (9Ovst)

Seth Rogen is asshoe.

F*ck that guy. Does he have any kids that have been through drug rehab multiple times, per chance?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

265 225 He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm gonna triple-mask, just it case it gets loose!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ESVrU)

Worst that could happen is a case of jock itch. Slap some miconazole on it.

Posted by: And hot iron at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

266 >>Mustapha is clearly a bad ideological actor, but there are no reports thus far that he has been implicated in the incident at Brown. Though the consequential timing is certainly worth keeping an eye on.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (viF8m)
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Is he Arafat fat?

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

267 228 They won't do it, but I think Brown should can any student who is celebrating Ella Cook's murder and the ones on Student Visas should be deported .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Half of Brown would be deported. Another good reason to scrub stuff. Maybe they are feigning incompetence to buy time. Or maybe both can be true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Dv3i1)

268 Who is this official? This is all bullshit if nothing happens.

I'll note this is a vicious circle.

Lefties know there will be no punishment for this stuff so...why not do it?

Throw this guy in jail though and the next lefty bureaucrat is suddenly going to care a LOT more about the "optics"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

269 The left will give a little of "muh due process!" and then move on to something else without a care in the world that they claimed these people were peaceful fisherman.

They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ciXcx)

270 My oven with the light on keeps it around 75-80.

On the counter, I wasn't getting over 65. It's winter, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

Great idea as long as you don't accidentally bake it.....

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Wo1GJ)

271 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Agreed. That would be awesome.

And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
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[insert side-eye monkey meme]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

272 261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

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"No, you go."
-low rung guy #1

*shoots him*
-mid-manager of cartel

"Maybe I'll sneak through..."
-low rung guy #2

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

273 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

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

Unleash the Cajun Navy. Let them commandeer any boat they seize for their own use. You need 4 motors to get to deep water in the Gulf of America.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (sX1BW)

274 Given what passes for acceptable on the left, I count America lucky some Fibbie didn't execute the President during the raid, "while attempting to escape"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (LMqi6)

275 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

276 270 Great idea as long as you don't accidentally bake it.....

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Wo1GJ)

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We have two. I put it in the one we barely use.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

277 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (Wo1GJ)

278 And as another point with these drug traffickers, they are more concerned about their "rights" then their fellow citizens that didn't want to take the clot shot.

So perhaps I should note, bombing narco-terrorists is just something civilized countries do. If you don't like it you can always move to Somalia...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

279 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Dv3i1

Despicable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (oT1li)

280 Whig, I assure you I am quite aware.

I have had to sit across from CI Agents going chapter and verse over an associate's social media history, and pissed off an agent with a simple "whimsical" statement on J6....

"You know, Stalin had a bank"
Posted by: sven
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Security threats from abroad and law enforcement needs gutted 4th Amendment privacy during the late seventies and it has only gotten worse from there.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)

281 And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.

So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

282 278 And as another point with these drug traffickers, they are more concerned about their "rights" then their fellow citizens that didn't want to take the clot shot.

So perhaps I should note, bombing narco-terrorists is just something civilized countries do. If you don't like it you can always move to Somalia...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

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They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

283 277 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York
Posted by: ...
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Heck a Congress critter. It would help matters though in that case to marry his sister.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

285 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

The new qdp. Pretty soon he'll be talking about the new Popeyes chicke. Sandwich for three weeks straight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (zZu0s)

286 284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

The Cap’n Ned type, Petie.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

287 Like the other "top" US schools, Brown gets $$$$ from Mideast students. They don't want to upset the fig cart.

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It Down at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (qUkBO)

288 273 The Cajun Navy captures a dope boat and crew. "Now, we gonna get down to business you see for our Prezzydent. De Tibodeaux cousins were brought in from Bumfuck parish wants to has a little wee chat wit you and maybe hab der filthy ways wit you if you don' talk."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (gm9Sb)

289 261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

Have they tried sprinkling children's toys in the wreckage and sending the pictures to our Media? Works for the Arabs in Gaza.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pIfcn)

290 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

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The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
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My dad was a criminal defense lawyer back in the dark days of the "crack wars."

A crack deal had four possible outcomes: (1) you get shot in the head; (2) you get snitched on and arrested and later shot in the head; (3) the crack gets stolen at the buy and you later get shot in the head; or (4) you get rich.

Each outcome was about 25% probability. So it was about 25% you'd get rich, and 75% get shot in the head. These were some crazy motherfuckers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

291 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one. The other is my Cassandra Complex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

292 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

293 IHOP had just run out of ham and eggs so the boys had to go to Mar-a-Lago down the street.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (nljXp)

294 No more talk about bread from me, ever. Or bamboo. In the interests of gravitas.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (pDt9x)

295 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York
Posted by: ...
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Heck a Congress critter. It would help matters though in that case to marry his sister.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

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In addition to marrying his brother and pet goat.

Old & Busted: Throuples
New Hotness: Quadouples.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (x4BzA)

296 Have they tried sprinkling children's toys in the wreckage and sending the pictures to our Media? Works for the Arabs in Gaza.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pIfcn)

Green Helmet Guy, report to Studio 2, Green Helmet Guy report to Studio 2.

Posted by: A Pallywood mainstay at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (TbWk/)

297 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

Key word: "heard"

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (Wo1GJ)

298 I know ace will cover this, and I look forward to it !

"Court of Appeals orders briefing on the basis for Boasberg's authority to conduct an investigation into the Trump Administration."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (g47mK)

299 284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

Leave my people alone!
Pass the Rum!

Posted by: Congressman Dan Crenshaw at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (53oGX)

300 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one.
Posted by: ...

What's your favorite album by them?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

301 🤡🤡

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (g47mK)

302 291 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one. The other is my Cassandra Complex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

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... confirmed to be Paul Hollywood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

303 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

Had the camera been invented or are you going off the cave drawings?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

304 I think someone who is a foreign advocating for the overthrow of the US needs to be expelled and sent back to whatever country he came from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (oT1li)

305 238 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

Lacking in judicial temperament will be the charge.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (WDjG6)

306 Well, it's something...

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

307 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

308 304-meant "foreign" student.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (oT1li)

309 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young"

They still speak Latin?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XuXeR)

310 I think someone who is a foreign advocating for the overthrow of the US needs to be expelled and sent back to whatever country he came from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (oT1li)

You convince them to start voting Republican and the Dems will was no time getting them removed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

311 What's your favorite album by them?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

Wish the Lactobacilli Were Here?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (Wo1GJ)

312 I’m late enough to the party that I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but the Biden DOJ brass (including FBI leadership) sent the raid into Mar-a-Lago weapons free. They knew there would be at least a token Secret Service presence, and they were apparently hoping for a confrontation.

Posted by: Advo at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (jO4mz)

313 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young"

They still speak Latin?
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XuXeR)

Sumerian.

Posted by: They had astronauts you know at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (TbWk/)

314 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)
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There are pics online of her in her younger days. Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

315 I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

You can never be too careful with HIV/AIDS

Just kidding Bob!!!!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (Wo1GJ)

316 They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Next fallback position is mostly peaceful drug traffickers doing essential jobs that Americans won't do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (WDjG6)

317 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

Asking him to resign when he SHOULD be going to prison.

We're still not getting anywhere.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

318 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.

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And yet, Minnesota voters will probably send this nefarious dunce back to the governor's mansion.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (qBdHI)

319 Those panties are worth thousands.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (EyfuW)

320 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

***

PS
And I would have too. It's very easy to slip a RFID tag with mic into the lining of coats, jackets, dresses, etc.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (2WIwB)

321 some midget in kids clothes waving"

1 8 7 7 kars for kids, right?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (XuXeR)

322 >>You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

I'd tune in for the Senate hearing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (viF8m)

323 Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

That's what Biden said about the ones where she is 8

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (Wo1GJ)

324 Key word: "heard"
Posted by: ...

Just did an image search.

Remember the chick from Bulgaria in Casablanca whose husband was trying to win money at roulette for an exit visa? There's a picture on the interwebs of young RBG where she kinda looks like that chick. Not gorgeous, but not bad-looking, either.

The other pictures of young RBG are kinda meh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

325 316 They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Next fallback position is mostly peaceful drug traffickers doing essential jobs that Americans won't do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (WDjG6)

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If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

326 "Court of Appeals orders briefing on the basis for Boasberg's authority to conduct an investigation into the Trump Administration."
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Boasberg sees that all powerful judge on the Supreme Court in Brazil (Moraes?) and says hold my caipirinha. I hear he is going to the best tailor in DC to fashion him a fabulous cape.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (Dv3i1)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

328 307 Dumpster Diving Florida Man scores big on E Bay.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (gm9Sb)

329 Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

Walz is not going to resign. He's going to be a champion for those beleaguered Somalis /s and unless the part of MN which isn't Crazy leftist or Muslim and/or a Somali speaks up nothing will happen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (oT1li)

330 I saw Cassandra Complex open for Disbelief at Pure Fucking Metal Festevil in July.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (x4BzA)

331 327 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

332 Those panties are worth thousands."

Turning Japanese?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (XuXeR)

333 In addition to marrying his brother and pet goat.

Old & Busted: Throuples
New Hotness: Quadouples.
Posted by: ShainS
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NR article in the future, "The Conservative Case for Quadouples and including Animals in a Marriage."

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (WDjG6)

334 saw Cassandra Complex open for Disbelief at Pure Fucking Metal Festevil in July.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (x4BzA)

Wouldn't this have worked better if you had said blah and blah at the Cassandra Complex?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Wo1GJ)

335 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

336 ======

She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

I'm trying to inspire you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

337 DOJ staff in jail wen?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (xcxpd)

338 We were JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS!!!

Posted by: Police Officers and FBI agents at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (rQwsY)

339 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (oT1li)

340 Did someone say something about smuggling sourdough?

Posted by: Lena Dunnam at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wo1GJ)

341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

342
TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Why do I think this would be a factor in case outcomes should Trump appoint you to a federal bench.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

343 >>@StopAntisemites
·
35m
>>We are hearing an MIT nuclear scientist professor - Nuno Loureiro age 47 - has been murdered in his home in Brookline, MA.

>>Loureiro has been reported to be Jewish with strong pro-Israel views.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (viF8m)

344 335 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
_____

Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)

345 She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
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Check out my sourdoughs!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (Dv3i1)

346 341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Heh heh. Bogart, sex symbol.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (pDt9x)

347 I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That was my reaction, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

348 I'm trying to inspire you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (oT1li)

349 If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Image of the sweating spaceman with two buttons before him.

By the way, instead of spending all that time on sourdough, have you considered home distilling as a hobby. You'll be able to network like a mofo by inviting your interviewers to sample your alcoholic wares, er credentials for the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

350
I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (oT1li)

I think she as an Erika Eleniak look to her with bigger melons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

351 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (2WIwB)

352 You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

I'd tune in for the Senate hearing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (viF8m)
______

They would be entertaining ....

What would trip me up wouldn't be anything on AoS. It would be shit from back in the day when I was heavy into the NYC party/club scene.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

353 Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

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Unlike The Mooche needs bigger shoulder pads.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (x4BzA)

354 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Heh heh. Bogart, sex symbol.
Posted by: tubal

But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

355 341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Waiting for you to mention he was a Yankee.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (WDjG6)

356 Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
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A significant pair of ... shoulders.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (rj6Yv)

357
Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)

I help where I can and hire the handicapped, so I'm equal opportunity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

358 >>What would trip me up wouldn't be anything on AoS. It would be shit from back in the day when I was heavy into the NYC party/club scene.

I don't know anything about such things. It would be entertaining for me to learn.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (viF8m)

359 349 By the way, instead of spending all that time on sourdough, have you considered home distilling as a hobby. You'll be able to network like a mofo by inviting your interviewers to sample your alcoholic wares, er credentials for the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

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We're watching Doc Martin, and the fat former plumber and failed restauranteur, Bert Large, decided to try his hand at home distilling.

After a few weeks, he has whiskey.

Dolley: "How can you make whiskey in four weeks?"

"Well, you can make moonshine and then add caramel for color."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

360 If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

361 351 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Diogenes, I have always found your opinions superior to riff raff that lurks here.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Wg6v7)

362 They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

363 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
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The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. That's why you gotta nip it! Nip it in the bud!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (Dv3i1)

364 But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.
Posted by: Bulg
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Yep. His little seen Love God movie was a stab at a sex symbol makeover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

365 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.

It insists upon itself.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

366 360 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

367 riff raff that lurks here."

Transylvania?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (XuXeR)

368 TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Why do I think this would be a factor in case outcomes should Trump appoint you to a federal bench.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

369 But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.
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Yep. He was a baller. Met him and his two hawt chicks at Pinehurst. Total Player.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

370 362 It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

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The rules of the sea.

Harsh mistress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

371 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

So many great little character actors and bits in that movie. Cuddles Sakall, the crazy Russian bartender, the pickpocket.

And, of course, the superb Claude Rains. "Make it ten. I'm only a poor, corrupt official."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

372 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM

Let's call it ... a quarantine.

Posted by: JFK at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

373
See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

I don't read the comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

374 Dolley: "How can you make whiskey in four weeks?"

"Well, you can make moonshine and then add caramel for color."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Mr. Roberts star William Powell as doctor shows the way to a callow and young Jack Lemmon.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (WDjG6)

375 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Diogenes, I have always found your opinions superior to riff raff that lurks here.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Wg6v7)

Get a room guys. You can be gay, just don't blow each other in the comments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

376
I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)
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I think the October, 1962 version referred to that type of operation as a "quarantine".

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (rj6Yv)

377 a stab at a sex symbol makeover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

Too soon

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Wo1GJ)

378 Is it really a blockade if you let through everyone who isn't a pirate or smuggler?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (06Hmj)

379 They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)
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Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

380 280 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)

It was funny one of the agents understood AT ONCE what I had just said the other confused asked "what?" and....they were off I gave a ten minute briefing abouyt Operation TRUST by Ivan which was a honeytrap.

Yes the 4th amendment needs protected especially from agencies "hand washing" sovereignty by doing each others' preferred domestic spying for one another like us and the UK.

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)

381
Too soon
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Wo1GJ)

To be fair, I believe new evidence revealed he was sliced.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

382 365 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.

It insists upon itself.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

Sounds like someone who's never finished The Godfather.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (xcxpd)

383 I don't read the comments."

Comments? There are comments? Why am I the last to know?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (XuXeR)

384 249
The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

Overhead -- as in drones, missiles, other explosive ordinance.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (N39Ws)

385 Fu*king gas jumped 14 cents since I last.filled up. $3.83 at costco.
Piss off Olympia.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

386 Get a room guys. You can be gay, just don't blow each other in the comments.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You're throwing the gay flag around quite a bit, today, Aet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

387 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

388 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

389 If Venezuela were to sink a couple of Carnival Cruise ships I would be okay with it. How many chicken tenders can the Caribbean swallow?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (Wg6v7)

390 Gas hit maybe $2,50 here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (fBbkm)

391 Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

I forgot, what were Demonic Party members saying when Europe was seizing "Oligarchs' Yachts" for the crime of having a Russian passport?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (PVBkQ)

392 387 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

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I can love both It's a Wonderful Life and Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

393 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (06Hmj)

394 Sounds like someone who's never finished The Godfather."

Or Prometheus...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (XuXeR)

395 See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

I don't read the comments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Me either

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

396 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
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Babe - Pig In The City for the money.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

397 Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

I forgot, what were Demonic Party members saying when Europe was seizing "Oligarchs' Yachts" for the crime of having a Russian passport?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (PVBkQ)
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Good point

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

398
I can love both It's a Wonderful Life and Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

But not really.

Side note:

Do not search that movie title with image safe search off..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

399 393 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (06Hmj)

Posted by: Barney at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (N39Ws)

400 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?""

Pirates #1 - 4.... "who's our, kimosabe ?"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (XuXeR)

401 It was funny one of the agents understood AT ONCE what I had just said the other confused asked "what?" and....they were off I gave a ten minute briefing abouyt Operation TRUST by Ivan which was a honeytrap.

Yes the 4th amendment needs protected especially from agencies "hand washing" sovereignty by doing each others' preferred domestic spying for one another like us and the UK.
Posted by: sven
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Yep. My father's military buddy was high muckety muck in US Military Intel and even then, the fed agencies liked to play footsies with false flag and allies doing the spying. Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6)

402 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

Pirate #7: "Before this is over, we will all go under."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

403 You know who else didn't have probable cause?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (SwyyQ)

404 Is it really a blockade if you let through everyone who isn't a pirate or smuggler?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (06Hmj)

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Cockblockade?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (x4BzA)

405 Now this is entertainment:

@Bubblebathgirl 15h
This is a real video of a Mexico City Congress session on Monday.

Legislators can be seen shoving each other and pulling hair at the podium.
x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2000795845466448155

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (mlg/3)

406 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)
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Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

407 What are the chances that the provincial government of Alberta puts the entire province up for sale on Ebay?

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (rj6Yv)

408 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

If there is something flying "over", we're going under.

Posted by: Barney at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (N39Ws)

409 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Bryan Piccolo

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

410 405 Now this is entertainment:

@Bubblebathgirl 15h
This is a real video of a Mexico City Congress session on Monday.

Legislators can be seen shoving each other and pulling hair at the podium.
x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2000795845466448155

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (mlg/3)

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Things seem to be going well with the cartels' official front organizations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

411 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?""

Pirates #1 - 4.... "who's our, kimosabe ?"
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (XuXeR)

Pirate #5: "Akshullly, you can't really establish an over-under book on an event with a binary outcome---"

Pirates 1-4 and 6, in unison: "Shut Up, Pirate #5."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (06Hmj)

412 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)
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Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

413 Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.
Posted by: whig

Sore-y about that.

Posted by: Canada at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

414 412 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

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Does the original Evil Dead count?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

415 Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.
Posted by: whig

As long as they their poutine on their side of the border...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

416 Pirates 1-4 and 6, in unison: "Shut Up, Pirate #5."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (06Hmj)

His name is Wesley.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (N39Ws)

417 Must be real painful wanting to kill everybody but having to wait till you get the go order.
There are drugs that will help you with your constant trigger finger jerks.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (EyfuW)

418 Does the original Evil Dead count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Probably, although more a branch.

Galaxy of Terror as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (zZu0s)

419 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)
***

Ooww! Damnit!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (2WIwB)

420 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

=====

Does the original Evil Dead count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
______

Did you rewind and rewatch the tree attack scene?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

421 My wife just informed me she failed in her duty to win the lottery last night.

Damn, I already spent the money. Oh well....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (SMLb2)

422 >>Sore-y about that.

*aboot

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Y1sOo)

423 Trump disrupting the cartel supply chains is going after the money that funds the DNC.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Wo1GJ)

424
*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)
***

*fistbump*

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

426 Those agents who went through Melania's underwear drawer are still flogging their bishops with memories of handling her dainties.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (ugtaH)

427 I am NOt going to search for this but what is hentai tentacle porn -something involving octopi?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (guLpK)

428 Soooo... what's the over/under that ace fell asleep?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (zjgNU)

429 420 Did you rewind and rewatch the tree attack scene?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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Of course...not...

Er...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

430 425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
---------------
Number of yards achieved over or under a player's current average.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (Wg6v7)

431 Oh, that's all that had to happen. I needed to complain and ace would post.

Nood

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (zjgNU)

432 425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

Typically it's for something like total points scored by both teams, or whatever. The bookie picks a threshold, like maybe 24.5, and you bet if it's going to be over that, or under that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (06Hmj)

433 I am NOt going to search for this but what is hentai tentacle porn -something involving octopi?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

***
Uh . . . not involving any octopi from our planet, anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (wzUl9)

434 Number of yards achieved over or under a player's current average.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

435 I just watch Tentacle Porn to hear the Japanese women moan.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (Wg6v7)

436 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)
_____

It's a bet that a certain outcome will be "over" or "under" a given figure. So if the over-under on a football score is 50, you win if you bet the "over" and the score ends up being 55. You lose if you bet the "under."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

437 Noodus in re: the We Todd Did MN governor

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (wzUl9)

438
"As everyone is tracking, WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago," an FBI official wrote in another email dated July 20, 2022.

So I take it that the phrase "disobey an illegal order" only applies to the military, hmmm?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (y9nCu)

439 Neither google news nor bing news has any mention of this. The only possible explanation is that you're pushing fake news.

(How's my winebox auntie impression?)

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (E66lT)

440 @425 under /over is if you think the combined score of two football teams will exceed say 40 points , you bet the over. If you think they won't combine to reach 40 you bet the under. Figure is set by the oddsmakers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (D+mpw)

441 Tentacles can be phallic, Fen.

Ill leave it at that. Usually it's not octopus, although I think the first 'tentacle' Japanese porn was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

442 >> Fu*king gas jumped 14 cents since I last.filled up. $3.83 at costco.
Piss off Olympia.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

$3.75 at the Fort Lewis AAFES.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (Pu/zx)

443 Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But not really.

Side note:

Do not search that movie title with image safe search off..........
Posted by: Sponge
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Original title was "Freddy gets his Prostate Checked".

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)

444 Ill leave it at that. Usually it's not octopus, although I think the first 'tentacle' Japanese porn was.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
====
Had no idea that was what the Beatles Octupus's Garden was about.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

445 $3.75 at the Fort Lewis AAFES.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (Pu/zx)

That's actually pretty good. AAFES usually is within a nickle of most gas stations.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (2WIwB)

446 Lisa Monaco ordered it, but Republicans are afraid of Lisa Monaco. So, Republicans will move to protect Lisa Monaco the same way they protected Hillary Clinton once it was obvious she was taking bribes.

Posted by: wferrin at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (yRbrH)

447 431 Oh, that's all that had to happen. I needed to complain and ace would post.

Nood
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (zjgNU)

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (RuTUS)

Trump Files Lawsuit Against BBC for Defamatory J6 Edit

Another $10 billion lawsuit.

The odds of winning in court, with a left-wing anti-American judge and left-wing anti-American, are zero, unfortunately.

Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country... but hate America more, and turn into jingoistic nationalists if the Great Satan America is in a conflict with their countries.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said early Tuesday it plans to fight back against President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit.
The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a 2024 "Panorama" documentary about Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.
Trump sued the BBC on Monday for both defamation and for a violation of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, was filed in a personal capacity and names BBC and BBC Studios Productions as defendants. While ABC and CBS have both settled with Trump in recent memory, the BBC plans to fight the case.
"As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings," a BBC spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Trump's legal team, made up of attorneys Alejandro Brito, Edward Paltzik and Daniel Epstein, believes the British outlet serves a liberal political agenda.
"The formerly respected and now disgraced BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. The BBC has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda. President Trump's powerhouse lawsuit is holding the BBC accountable for its defamation and reckless election interference just as he has held other fake news mainstream media responsible for their wrongdoing," a spokesperson for Trump's legal team told Fox News Digital.
The BBC previously issued an apology for the erroneous edit and said it had pulled the program from its platforms, but a spokesperson for the broadcaster added, "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim."

...
Trump's legal team suggested the defendants "timed the publication of the Panorama Documentary to be close in time to the 2024 Presidential Election" and the value of the president's "personal brand alone is reasonably estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars."

I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.

We'll just have to take solace in the fact that the BBC is losing billions because more and more Britons are refusing to pay the mandatory "license fee" to watch the shithole state media.

BBC loses 1.1 billion pounds as more viewers cancel or evade TV licence fee
The publishing of the report comes after a number of scandals at the BBC in recent months
...
PAC chair Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown described the BBC as "an organisation under severe pressure".
Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
It said licence fee evasion and households not purchasing a licence together represented more than 1.1 billion pounds in potential lost income in 2024/25.
...
It also highlighted how the BBC is behind target in developing new intellectual property (IP), "which in turn will limit sustainable long-term revenue streams".

Well you had Doctor Who, but you decided to torch that IP.

The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk, with just 51% of younger people feeling the BBC reflects them, while their overall use of BBC services -- including TV, radio or online -- is significantly lower than other age groups.

One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.

Posted by: Ace at 01:21 PM

Comments

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1 One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.
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I tell my Zoomer students all the time that they are smart to not care about movies. I don't specifically say WHY (I have quotes up on my walls from old movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Zulu and The Third Man), but maybe a few of them get what I mean.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

2 trump trump trump

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (CWTWj)

3 Hey, let's cancel our most popular show!

/BBC

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (XuXeR)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Sue like the wind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (dK+Kv)

6 Lawfare at its finest. You don't have to win. You just need the suit to exist. The process isn't even the punishment, the publicity is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (06Hmj)

7 BBC?

I'm listening......

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.

That's what all of our media did.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (NZkDE)

9 Trump is not the only person the BBC lies about.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (06Hmj)

10 The BBC is dying, after a decade of incredibly stupid moves. And it probably would anyway, being a network TV channel in an era where only 10% of the population even watches network TV.

They are getting really aggressive about trying to get people to pay their fee for having a TV set, but the law actually says people only have to pay if they watch the BBC which most people don't. Ask anyone under the age of 30 how long its been since they even watched television, let alone a network TV channel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (dfIr7)

11 BBC ?!!!

...Oh, sorry.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (w9Wax)

12
"There is no answer to this action in libel, and the damages must be enormous" - F. E. Smith

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (tgvbd)

13 The BBC is going to need more Vans loaded with electronics and SWAT...

And hopefully the electronics are made by Lucas Electric and the SWAT is equipped with NERF guns.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (2GVsD)

14 Hey, let's cancel our most popular show!

/BBC
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Yes, but there is no amount of money the left won't lose and/or spend towards *advertising* for the cause. The mainstream media isn't concerned with "profit" because they aren't for-profit enterprises--they're simply the marketing department for progressive causes.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

15 It's in Florida.

Civil lawsuits don't need a unanimous jury.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (W7XSX)

16 As part of the budget deal, I am sure they are going to divert tax dollars to the BBC. I mean, every other broadcaster gets tax dollars diverted to it, why not them?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (0U5gm)

17 The BBC had prestige and class when I was a fixture there for decades.

Posted by: Jimmy Savile at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (oftw2)

18 I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

I thought it was lame from the first Dr. on

Posted by: browndog scratching at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (TTAGa)

19 the BBC plans to fight the case.

I hope they get Aileen Cannon.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (NZkDE)

20
The BBC, like the NHS, is an institution that Brits think is a model for everyone to emulate but is ramshackle, inept, costly and outdated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (tgvbd)

21 Seems pretty cut and dried to me. Editing video. Next.

Glad President Trump is not gutless.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (cS1cw)

22
One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.

Posted by: Ace

True, but the other edge to this sword is kids today have 0 attention span. They watch "everything," but watch none of it start-to-finish.

The Internet created at least two generations, so far, of ADD-heads.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (Il0Nj)

23 Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
Do you want to know why Republicans always lose, even when we're winning?

"We're better than that."

Democrats never think "We're better than that." They think "What can we do to win?"

So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (TN0g+)

24 I tell my Zoomer students all the time that they are smart to not care about movies. I don't specifically say WHY (I have quotes up on my walls from old movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Zulu and The Third Man), but maybe a few of them get what I mean.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

The one poster I recall - in a civic class, I believe, in which I and a pert, fun, young asian hottie would play touchy feely, with each other - said "What is mind? No Matter. What is matter? Never mind."

It was years before I discovered the meaning of that poster, and it still sticks with me today, as does the memories of the girl.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (dK+Kv)

25 Bombay Bicycle Club?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (Cjt/F)

26 The UK government is sending people door to door to demand that people pay their fee, warning them of dire consequences, and being blown off by a lot of subjects of the crown. They even have vans that scan your house to see if you have the TV on...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (dfIr7)

27 Let me go ahead and guess that all their illegal immigrants get free tv licenses.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (n5tGW)

28 Make them report the accusation of an edit. They won't report the edit itself, but the accusation will make people curious and they'll search it out.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Q+gd/)

29 This is a situation where just having to defend against this is a loss for the BBC.

It's like "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Only, "When did you stop making up quotes?"

The lawsuit brings publicity and more grovelling, which is a win.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (F1I3P)

30 The egregious lies never go the other way.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (8CIFn)

31 Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
_____

You must pay for a service you don't use to make it fair for the people who are paying too much for a service they are using.

It's in the Magna Carta, I believe.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Dv3i1)

32 The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk,

-

They haven't served all audiences in decades. Name one show that does not have mandated homosexual characters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (0U5gm)

33 yeah, they did a number of Susie Wiles...damn girl! you should know better !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

34 I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

I thought it was lame from the first Dr. on
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It was circa 1971 when the 2nd grade me had to make a choice around 4 in the afternoon: Dr. Who reruns, or Wild Wild West reruns. It didn't seem like there was any choice at all to me--Wild Wild West it was.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

35 I wonder if The Hitler Channel will go to all Trump all the time once he's out of office?

Narrator: "...and then Der Trumpenfuhrer would do the worst. He ordered the servant over and insisted on doubling the amount of ice cream on his plate while everybody else attending the dinner starved with only one. This would merely be the beginning."

Brain Freeze: Two Scoops of Terror
The History Channel - 9pm

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (Wo1GJ)

36 Sue them Donald, sue them until they squeal.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (Tbj3s)

37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (EyfuW)

38 So, there is a Museum of Sex in NYC.

Does Brian Stelter have his own wing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

39 The Brits picked a hill to die on. The right of their media to commit journalistic malpractice vs. Murder and rape in their streets, coupled with the draining of public resources by an invasion of third world cultists with no indication of stemming the influx.

Bold strategy Cotton.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (xfIC2)

40
They haven't served all audiences in decades. Name one show that does not have mandated homosexual characters.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (0U5gm)

_________

*Westminster chimes sound*

Gay, gay, gay, gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (tgvbd)

41 >>I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

browndog, it was originally a children's show, intended to give kids a little bit of history & entertainment. What it devolved to, though, is the epitome of gay & lame.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (NcvvS)

42 no chance of winning?

meh. the best way to be 100% certain of failure is not to try.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (Cjt/F)

43 Yes, yes, i'm sure Abdul Abdul Muhammad Abdulmuhammed and his twenty-seven hundred cousins who occupy an entire tower block in Cheapside together are all fully paid up on their Loicensing Fee, like the good little subjects of the crown that they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (06Hmj)

44 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes. With a rotating antenna on top. BBC must have bought them surplus from Bing Crosby Productions.

Posted by: We Want The Airwaves! at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (oftw2)

45 Is he suing BBC America?, wouldn't he have to sue in Britain otherwise? or is it because they broadcast here?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

46 So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.
Posted by: Crusader

Can I still keep my hair matches?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

47 ot:

I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

127.0.0.1
types, deletes.

Posted by: localhost at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (FhXTo)

48 It isn't, "We're better than that." It's, "We're in on it."

What the GOPe doesn't seem to grasp is that this time the Dems are playing for keeps, which includes eliminating the GOPe.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (Q+gd/)

49 The pedo scandal coverups should have ended the BBC long ago.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (F1I3P)

50 Obligatory

https://youtu.be/-HF3x67VK9o

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)

51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

52 The BBC is going to need more Vans loaded with electronics and SWAT...

Ruthless against silently praying grannies and TV license cheats. Against terrorists, murderers and sex offenders, eh not so much.

Posted by: A bit like the good ol' US of A I'm afraid at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

53 In internet porn-speak acronyms,

BBW = Big Bold Woman
BBC = Big Black Cock.

I'd wager than 90% of the online usage if the letters "BBC" has the intended meaning of the porn-speak definition.

When even your acronym if been supplanted by a new meaning (like the retail term for "Point of Sale" -- POS -- niow meaning for most people "Piece of Shit"), you know you have reached Peak Irrelevance.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (oraVG)

54 The BBC isn't the only media outfit spinning lies. They all are. The challenge is to figure out how to bankrupt them all and drive the talking heads into cardboard boxes under some Interstate overpass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (NwnyJ)

55 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (tcZro)

56 Brutal and ruthless, Trump, brutal and ruthless. What I voted for , no nuance, no temporizing, no soft touch. They do not respond to that.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (Tbj3s)

57
What's next?

Is that totalitarian cocksucker celery seth rogen going to Re-Write LORD OF THE FLIES??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (Il0Nj)

58

BBC?

Beef Bacon and Cheese

Posted by: RAX roast beef at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (pkeXY)

59 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes. With a rotating antenna on top.
Posted by: We Want The Airwaves!

Early internet. They were just using that to intercept nude pics of Helga, he bedirndled waitress at the tavern in town.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

60 So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.
Posted by: Crusader

Can I still keep my hair matches?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

We're better than that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

61 43 Yes, yes, i'm sure Abdul Abdul Muhammad Abdulmuhammed and his twenty-seven hundred cousins who occupy an entire tower block in Cheapside together are all fully paid up on their Loicensing Fee, like the good little subjects of the crown that they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (06Hmj)

They're all on the dole anyway, which probably covers the fee. Or the fee gets waived for "asylum seekers."

Posted by: Nothing for citizens, everything for invaders at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (TbWk/)

62 BBC = Big British Cuck.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (oraVG)

63 37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (EyfuW)
- - - - - - - -
Geology is sexist. "Cleavage", after all. (/sarc)

Posted by: Another Anon at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (4h45B)

64 The most famous ‘tea party’ ever took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, writes The History Channel, rallied “against British Parliament and protested the Griffin’s Wharf arrival of Dartmouth, a British East India Company ship carrying tea.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

65 browndog, it was originally a children's show, intended to give kids a little bit of history & entertainment. What it devolved to, though, is the epitome of gay & lame.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM

Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Posted by: browndog scratching at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (TTAGa)

66
Reminder: The BBC was a major recipient of USAID money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (VWtfl)

67
Call the BBC what it is: state-run media.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (tgvbd)

68 BBC = Big British Cuck.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (oraVG)

Boring British Cuisine

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (dK+Kv)

69 You people still watch TV?

Posted by: Twenty year olds with smartphones at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (FtUtq)

70 Illegals on the dole, here and there. Does not the saying that Idle Hands are the Devil's Playground not apply now?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (Tbj3s)

71 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

72 55 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.
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I agree with you that this is a concern. I think a lot of people on the right whine too much about media bias. It seems to betray a desire to "be treated fairly", as though you are waiting for that girl who cheated on you and then dumped you to "come to her senses" and return.

The last thing we should want is a return to Walter Cronkite "journalism". As someone said about Albo blaming the Bondi Beach shooting shooting on "right-wingers" yesterday, unhinged rhetoric is actually helpful, since it wakes up anyone who isn't a committed Communist already.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (Dg7ng)

73 That Trump. He's so brash!

Posted by: That's my President! at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (vFG9F)

74 44 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes.

and don't forget the cat detector vans from the department of 'ousinge

Posted by: python, monty at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (v3pYe)

75 Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (06Hmj)

76 31 Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
_____

You must pay for a service you don't use to make it fair for the people who are paying too much for a service they are using.

It's in the Magna Carta, I believe.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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I'll bet money on the fact that most of the non payers of licenses are not native Brits like South Asians, etc. that simply ignore British laws that they don't like and they know the BBC cannot afford to go after them for ideological reasons.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (WDjG6)

77 Wait -- so now there's television? You can broadcast images remotely? Technology is progressing too fast me me. I'm still getting used to round wheels.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (oraVG)

78 Anybody know how much the BBC license fee is? And why doesn't the government just pay for the BBC out of general tax revenues?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (3nLb4)

79 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

1669, per Wikipedia

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

80 They should just be able to pay that out of the Tele tax they charge the citizens for actually owning a TV and expecting to be able to WATCH something on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

81 76 I'll bet money on the fact that most of the non payers of licenses are not native Brits like South Asians, etc. that simply ignore British laws that they don't like and they know the BBC cannot afford to go after them for ideological reasons.
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Yeah, and then native Brits will be lectured to as though it is their fault.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (Dg7ng)

82 Republicans shout not do interviews with the propaganda ministries. If they do however bring a cameraman along to record everything. Trust none of the bastards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (D+mpw)

83 I'm just glad to see some lawfare from our side. For decades, the suits all went one direction.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (xcxpd)

84 Concerning Bari Weiss - we seem prone to looking for a " bright light from the Left" and become enamored of glimmers that might be wishful thinking. See- John Fetterman.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (Tbj3s)

85 Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

And Walter means purveyor. Now you know.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (0U5gm)

86 The last thing we should want is a return to Walter Cronkite "journalism". As someone said about Albo blaming the Bondi Beach shooting shooting on "right-wingers" yesterday, unhinged rhetoric is actually helpful, since it wakes up anyone who isn't a committed Communist already.
Posted by: The Lower Depths
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I would agree. We need to build our own institutions and forbid entryists from our enemies. Otherwise you get people like Candace Ovens lying their ass off to get inside and cause havoc when they do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (WDjG6)

87 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

When they added a women's division filled with chicks that middle ages urchin boys could beat and people started throwing early modern sex toys into the gatherings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

88 They were just using that to intercept nude pics of Helga, he bedirndled waitress at the tavern in town.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM

The 20th Century lacked the technology to ascertain Helga nude form while she was bedrindled.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (0sNs1)

89 And Walter means purveyor. Now you know.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (0U5gm)

wheels within wheels, man...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)

90 I did a ten part documentary on the old Hanseatic Negro Leagues.

Posted by: Ken Burns at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (FtUtq)

91 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

I know what I want for Christmas now.

Posted by: Yowza at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (TbWk/)

92 Non payer of license fee: "Ululululululullululu!!!"

BBC Collector: "Right. On your way then, old chap! Bob's your uncle!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (Dv3i1)

93 78 Anybody know how much the BBC license fee is? And why doesn't the government just pay for the BBC out of general tax revenues?
Posted by: Oddbo

The free dates back to an era when only well-off people could afford a television (which lasted up through the '70s). Since TV ownership was not universal, or even common at first, the fee is only charged of those who had one -- not of everyone who pays taxes.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (oraVG)

94 If it does get to a jury, I hope Trump's lawyers turn the case into an indictment of the Uk's fascist government. Cast them as an evil entity hell-bound to destroy freedom there and abroad. Make them look like jackboot thugs that they are.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (mlg/3)

95 🎶 Internet killed the media star! 🎶

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (+/y+R)

96 Big Bill Thompson - the last Republican mayor of Chicago and friend of second-hand furniture dealer, Al Capone - once threatened to punch the King of England in the nose if he ever came to his burg (I think it was an attempt to get the Irish vote).

It wouldn't be sporting for Trump to punch King Charles in the nose, him being sick and all, but there ought to be something along those lines he could do. Perhaps he could invite the UK ambassador over and have Hegseth and Homan hold him while he gives him a wedgie.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (2L+MU)

97 TV Tax?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (fBbkm)

98 84 Concerning Bari Weiss - we seem prone to looking for a " bright light from the Left" and become enamored of glimmers that might be wishful thinking. See- John Fetterman.
Posted by: tubal

I still won't watch anything to do with CBS News, CNN if Paramount is successful, etc. Let them die from audience disappearance.

Who wants the imprimatur anymore of any of the big media of the past century. They are all degraded, corrupt, and full of hate for the Heritage US.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (WDjG6)

99 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

Merry Sexy Christmas?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

100 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.

They'll beat the rap, but they won't beat the ride.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (TlGnK)

101 I like the red costumes more than the green and any pic with cute doggos is good to me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

102 The process is the punishment, as long as that includes sufficient buggery.

Posted by: Roy at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (BZF07)

103 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM

Why is it we never see anyone who looks like us?

Posted by: Bronie Bros at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (0sNs1)

104 97 TV Tax?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (fBbkm)

The UK is a dystopia. Has been for a long time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

105 1.1 billion pounds

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Fat Cenk Uygur at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)

106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (r3hkP)

107 It would bring me joy if we continue down the path of abandoning Europe. To hell with them. If you don't care about your precious culture, then neither do I. I know my recent ancestors who came here to get away from your bullshit sure didn't care.

The future lies with an American Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, with a solid support system of bilateral alliances around the Pacific. Europe and Africa are worse than worthless. Let China and Big Muzz argue over their carcasses. We've got better things to do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (06Hmj)

108 Instead they watch TikTok and ewetub- not necessarily an improvement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (1oltZ)

109 >>Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Little sister loved Dr Who. When she was 8 years old. Our PBS station ran it at 11 PM later and it was enjoyable (Tom Baker years) until it got 'bumbling guy'.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (NcvvS)

110 1.1 bn quid earned just from TV tax on 69.3m people....guessing it's a monthly fee? Not sure.

That's roughly 16 per person just to watch local broadcast TV.

Socialism sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

111 63 37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.
Posted by: thug dolphin

Erosion and floods only happens in POC living areas due to white privilege. Volcanoes and earthquakes do not affect white males with privilege. All those bodies in Pompeii ashes were POC. Volcano allowed privileged white males to exit before obliterating others.

I worked around such idiots--one can figure out endless ways to spin out pseudo science based on a few axioms.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (WDjG6)

112 106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

This is true.. What a mess.. She says it was out of context, but the things she said were hard to see in what context they could be okay

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (VE6XX)

113 'How' could the EU 'seize' X?

Sorry, OT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (1oltZ)

114 It's an annual tax. A few hundred dollars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (fBbkm)

115 The BBC TV licence fee is currently £174.50 per year (as of April 2025).

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)

116 Broadcast television ranks right up there with Citizens Band radio when it comes to entertainment mediums.

Posted by: Kids today at December 16, 2025 01:48 PM (FtUtq)

117 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma
......

Nice work.
and I like bellybuttons.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)

118 Devilish, Anna.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (1oltZ)

119 $234.00

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (fBbkm)

120 I made it Christmas theme by adding a Christmas tree.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (2GVsD)

121 Don't pay it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (fBbkm)

122 Always outstanding, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Cjt/F)

123 Britain decided to give Churchill the boot and suck the socialist teat. Orwell saw where this was headed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Dv3i1)

124 Nice work.
and I like bellybuttons.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)

Yeah, on the whole a cross between wonder woman, the devil, belly dancer and cat ears.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (1oltZ)

125 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

126 >>If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

Not just one interview, but a series of several interviews over the last year.

And then getsmad when Vanity Fair drops the bomb on her that anyone here could've seen coming from a mile away.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Y1sOo)

127 "The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk, with just 51% of younger people feeling the BBC reflects them"

Cue Despot of Antrim's Reflection Man

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (bZBbf)

128 They would tax hard nipples.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (EyfuW)

129 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (FtUtq)

130 "I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't."

Ace, he doesn't have to win the case. It's nuclear leverage for a settlement. Trump got $15 million from ABC News and $16 million from Paramount (CBS). I suspect he'll get a nice fat settlement from BBC too.

Also keep in mind that this is in Florida, not DC, where Trump might get a half-fair chances against a bunch of foreigners with bad teeth.

Finally, and this could be big, Trump has a claim under Florida's "Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act." If that act is anything like most state "deceptive practices" act, it's patterned after the federal Federal Trade Commission Act. Which means it's very broad -- much broader than defamation -- and covers all forms of deception and "unfair" conduct. Plus, it'll have attorney fees and other provisions.

I suspect the BBC is fucked. If I was Trump, I wouldn't settle for less than $50M.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

131 >>Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Won't vouch for the story, but supposedly, at one point, a few WWII US correspondents were lost in western Germany, and got separated from ol' Wally; allegedly, they walked around calling his name and the German troops in the area chose not to approach.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (NcvvS)

132 In the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Islands, any household watching or recording television transmissions at the same time they are being broadcast is required by law to hold a television license. This applies regardless of transmission method, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, and internet streaming. It is also required for the viewing of on demand content on BBC iPlayer. The television license is the instrument used to raise revenue to fund the BBC and S4C.
Cont.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (+x87d)

133 The British Court System is Imperial.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (fBbkm)

134 Businesses, hospitals, schools and a range of other organizations are also required by law to hold television licenses to watch and record live television broadcasts. The license, originally a radio license, was introduced in November 1923 using powers under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, and cost 10 shillings per annum. The license was extended to televisions at a cost of £2 in June 1946. The radio part was abolished in February 1971.

Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license and £58.50 for a black and white license (with a 50% discount for legally blind people). Income from the license is primarily used to fund the television, radio and online services of the BBC. The total income from license fees was £3.83 billion in 2017–18,[3] of which £655.3 million or 17.1% was provided by the UK Government through concessions for those over the age of 75 (this subsidy has now been phased out). Thus, the license fee made up the bulk (75.7%) of the BBC's total income of £5.0627 billion in 2017–18.

https://tinyurl.com/v7cphzk2

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (+x87d)

135 I'm guessing the BBC losing licensing fees is less about people fighting back, and more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (xvhup)

136 Over at Twitchy there is a post by a woman who's in favor of gun confiscation. Someone told her the 2A is not negotiable. She responded that the 2A isn't part of the Bill of Rights. You can't fix stupid, so don't try

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (D+mpw)

137 The license fee is just a wealth transfer. Its kind of like Ilan Omar who introduced the Meals Act bill which eventually became the conduit for the Somali fraud in Minnesota. Regular people are just getting fleeced by governments to benefit those they want to promote.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (n5tGW)

138 There is a good movie with Jim Broadbent and Helen Jordan called "The Duke", based on a true story about some guy in the UK who protested paying this fee. I highly recommend it!

In other news, I am now home, resting in my own bed 🎉🎉🎉

Will probably get up and about tomorrow - the area around the incision site is still quite tender, and I can't sleep on my right side due to the swelling. But I am able to get out of bed to go to the bathroom without having to wait for a nurse to turn off the bed alarm, so at least that is something 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (SRRAx)

139 > 'How' could the EU 'seize' X?
----

The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

140 I've heard that it's fairly difficult to simply not pay the licensing fee over there, if you're at all a non-degenerate member of society.

"But I don't even own a tv!"

"Yeah, but you could."

"But I don't!"

"Just pay it. Don't make us have to get unpleasant."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)

141 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (tcZro)

Well said, Buck. Something about her seems smarmy to me. I think you're on to something.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (c2vsb)

142 Shall bot be infringed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (fBbkm)

143 more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.

The Royals?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (2GVsD)

144 I could give two shits about Doctor Who. Amy Pond, OTOH

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (Wo1GJ)

145
When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

_________

About the same time as the Schmalkaldic League

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (tgvbd)

146 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
--
Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

147 The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation
Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

Musk should block X going to any Euro IP address. Screw them. F*ck you, pay ME, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

148 It has occurred to me that one reason that Trump likes Susan Wiles is that in private she shoots her mouth off without thinking, just like he does. They're kindred spirits.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (uWKK8)

149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (2GVsD)

150 England's royalty isn't even English.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (fBbkm)

151 Good news! Thanks for the update, Teresa!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Cjt/F)

152 135 I'm guessing the BBC losing licensing fees is less about people fighting back, and more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.
Posted by: Rbastid

I'm sure there is a government program to pay for it on their behalf. If not, there is one in the works. The inheritance tax on farmers will fund everything.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Dv3i1)

153 Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license and £58.50 for a black and white license

-

There is nothing on there worth £1.74 per year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (0U5gm)

154 Erosion and floods only happens in POC living areas due to white privilege. Volcanoes and earthquakes do not affect white males with privilege. All those bodies in Pompeii ashes were POC. Volcano allowed privileged white males to exit before obliterating others.

I worked around such idiots--one can figure out endless ways to spin out pseudo science based on a few axioms.
Posted by: whig

I've seen geology politicized this way:

Evolution was deemed impossible at first because it was assumed that the Earth was not nearly old enough for evolution to have happened. But when geologists Lyell and Cuvier demonstrated that the Earth was millions, if not billions, of years old, that opened the door to the possibility of there being enough time for evolution. And then that opened the door to the theory of natural selection. And then that opened the door to "Social Darwinism." And that opened the door to "scientific racism." And that opened the door to White Supremacy.

So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Seriously -- this is taught in some geology curricula.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (oraVG)

155 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

Its sad when good men turn gay.

https://i.pin___.com/736x/80/59/32/805
932592732ccde6c62c20dcd61230a.jpg

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (1oltZ)

156
The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation
Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

________

"Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (tgvbd)

157 About the same time as the Schmalkaldic League
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (tgvbd)

But the Lollipop Guild lived on, although with diminished standing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (uWKK8)

158 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
--
Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)
_____

See my comment above. The claim under the FL act might be the killer. Defamation against public figures is hard to prove and win. But the Act is broader and likely doesn't require anything along the lines of "actual malice." BBC could be in real trouble here. They will open their wallets -- wide -- to settle.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

159 Greta is talking again apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (fBbkm)

160 98 Who wants the imprimatur anymore of any of the big media of the past century. They are all degraded, corrupt, and full of hate for the Heritage US. - whig

And proving your point - yet again! - here comes the NYT, which has just now discovered that Nancy Pelosi may, indeed, have kinda, sorta engaged in some stock-trading shenanigans.

https://tinyurl.com/rd4rsnxj

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (2L+MU)

161 zombie

that is some serious pretzel 'logic.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (2GVsD)

162 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

Hey Anna, do you ever play with these locally or is it all cloud? With a decent GPU you can experiment more freely on your own PC nowadays.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (Wo1GJ)

163 At least identify as black and white.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (fBbkm)

164 Time to start a company called "BBSeen" explicitly dedicated to stealing BBC's "intellectual property" and putting it up on the Internet for free streaming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (npFr7)

165 The invaders in England aren't paying the tax because they all have satellite dishes for home country TV. London was called Dishistan by a book s few years back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (D+mpw)

166 It's just not the same BBC since Jimmy SaVILE left there. They don't have the market penetration they once did.

How's hell Jimmy? Breaks' over, get back into the sea of fire and put the milestone back on.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)

167 Well said, Buck. Something about her seems smarmy to me. I think you're on to something.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (c2vsb)

She's still a liberal, she's just a pro-Israel liberal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (uWKK8)

168 "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

that is when you drop 50 tonnes of jellied lutefisk on Brussels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (2GVsD)

169 Its sad when good men turn gay.

https://i.pinIMG.com/736x/80/59/32/805
932592732ccde6c62c20dcd61230a.jpg
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (1oltZ)

She's not British.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

170 So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Posted by: zombie

It follows thus that some folks are dumb as rocks.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (cYBz/)

171 A normal person would ask why have govt paid for and run TV anyway. Oh right, we did and still got fleeced for PBS and NPR.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (n5tGW)

172 So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Seriously -- this is taught in some geology curricula.

Gotta be "socially relevant" these days to get any attention/$$ in academia.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (3nLb4)

173 Greta is talking again apparently.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (fBbkm)

Tard Barge says what?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.
---
Even that is a lie; a pathetic whitewash laundered through the pretend claims of "critics."

1) It's the left that is claiming it was merely "misleading," because
2) they are not being sued for an "omission"
3) what they they are being sued for is splicing two, unrelated and different clips together as one, seamless clip to make it look like Trump called for his supporters to storm the Capital

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (HXT0k)

175 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p
Posted by: Sponge

Not quite Ackbar-worthy. But funny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

176
According to the Daily Mail, the druggie son slashed Meathead's and his wife's throats while they were sleeping in their beds. The son had some big fight with Meathead at a party at Conan O'Brien's place, which they described as very awkward.

They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)

177 What about the Greatest Genetcist who ever lived getting ratioed?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (fBbkm)

178 Learn to use a URL shortener.

Posted by: Cuz, you know at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (FtUtq)

179 According to the Daily Mail, the druggie son slashed Meathead's and his wife's throats while they were sleeping in their beds. The son had some big fight with Meathead at a party at Conan O'Brien's place, which they described as very awkward.

They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
_____

That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

180 Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country ...

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

Oikophobes -- a perfectly cromulent word that J.J. quoted and linked to recently (which I had to look up).

NOTE: Not to be confused with "Oinkophobes" -- presumably an irrational fear of porcines and/or cops ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (l70N6)

181 168 "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

that is when you drop 50 tonnes of jellied lutefisk on Brussels. - Anna Puma

HAW!!!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 02:02 PM (2L+MU)

182 Well you had Doctor Who, but you decided to torch that IP.
Posted by: Ace at 01:21 PM

That ship sailed after the 4th Doctor, IMAO.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (kgE5c)

183 I wonder if Hunter is taking notes.

He has lied many times too.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Wo1GJ)

184 I wonder if the UK will pay me to do fuckall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (fBbkm)

185
They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
_____

That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

186 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)

this story keeps getting more and more gruesome by the hour.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (uWKK8)

187 But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.

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I only saw clips, but...it did no look like gutcha townhall, and don't you think Kirk was well aware of the guests and maybe even the tough questions ? Weiss is the type to show her cards. This was a first in her new series, the townhall with Erika was a huge "get", she might want her back even, she would not want to turn the audience away , seems to be trying to be a bridge of sorts ? Just my opinion.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)

188 The free dates back to an era when only well-off people could afford a television (which lasted up through the '70s). Since TV ownership was not universal, or even common at first, the fee is only charged of those who had one -- not of everyone who pays taxes.
Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (oraVG)

It was just an extension of what they had long been doing with radio. Canada, too, but abandoned in the late 1940's, I think. I own some antique radios with a sticker on them admonishing the owner to pay the licence fee, or face a large fine and confiscation of the radio set.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (npFr7)

189 this story keeps getting more and more gruesome by the hour.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Worse than the Gene Hackman death story. At least that was from natural causes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

190 The NY Post says that Reiner's kid got pissed when Bill Hader told him that he was in a private conversation. Always thought Hader was funny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (D+mpw)

191 the clips I saw were of some tough questions, but those needed an answer from someone like Erika Kirk

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (g47mK)

192 I read somewhere yesterday that X was the number one news source in Europe.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (rj6Yv)

193 Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license

Imagine paying that much voluntarily for brainwashing.

Posted by: Verizon at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (hNxoo)

194 >> I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.

We can guess it would probably be a mile long.

This son, Nick, was some violent piece of work even from a young age. Stories are coming out about that. Sounds like he was a bad seed from the get-go. I don't know if we should even say drugs did it, all the drugs were probably just, well symptoms of him being a violent sociopath type.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (w6EFb)

195 I read somewhere yesterday that X was the number one news source in Europe.

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*sigh
there is a lot of crap on X

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (g47mK)

196 They don't even owe the tax unless they watch BBC.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (fBbkm)

197 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
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Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)
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Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced? Will Trump send over an aircraft carrier or two to collect? Jack up the tariffs against British tea and crumpets?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ESVrU)

198 She's not British.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

199 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (bNf8H)

200 The guy on with Charles Payne right now I used to work with on Wall St.

He told me I was nuts for leaving for California.

He was right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (A0sqA)

201 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Interesting. Less of an anime influence than I would have thought though.

FWIW, Anna, dunno if you know about these: open source image models out there at civitai dot com. I read another story about an inhouse (on your computer) ai image generator but can't seem to find the link to that model install discussion now.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (WDjG6)

202 Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Did Lucy Pinder come up?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

203 I can't believe they left me an orphan...

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (hNxoo)

204 @195 definitely, but you can at least sort through it and know who's worth listening to. The propaganda ministries are 24/7, 365 crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (D+mpw)

205 Also, can you step back in sheer awe at Trump's drip, drip, drip strategy of eroding the media myth that they are fully immune from ever being sued?

LOL

They really can't see the big picture, can they?
How their insanity and derangement is being turned as a weapon on them while falling harmlessly away from Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (HXT0k)

206 That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

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I finally recently saw a picture of the schizophrenic (this is your brain on drugs) -- and concur with others here yesterday who observed that he's got the classic "dead eyes."

Walking Zombie. Given the venue, he'd be acquitted if he'd murdered two conservatives ... and might still get off via a "reason of insanity" defense.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (sdxtl)

207 Did Reiner have any other kids?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

208 I expected Lucy Pinder to be top of the search but she wasn't. Bing, like Sponge, is gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

209 @207 Bulg, a son and daughter. The daughter found her parents.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (D+mpw)

210 149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

weaponized fish fingers and custard?

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (v3pYe)

211 199 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.
Posted by: Frasier Crane
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He is suing under more favorable Florida libel law in the US South District of Florida court and has a state DTPA claim as well.

This has resulted in several media corporations settling in the past due to these circumstances.

Discovery is a stone cold bitch when you don't have the facts to back your on air assertions (means not harmful for Trump) but will show a festering internal comms at the BBC that are moonbat cra cray in court.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

212 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (bNf8H)
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If it's a jury trial in Southern Florida, the BBC's legal team goes into settlement mode at warp speed. In which case, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Department of the Interior all get big, beautiful ballrooms.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (rj6Yv)

213 To my own question, Reiner has 4 children in total.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

214 109 >>Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Little sister loved Dr Who. When she was 8 years old. Our PBS station ran it at 11 PM later and it was enjoyable (Tom Baker years) until it got 'bumbling guy'.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (NcvvS)

Dr. Who was fun in the 70's and off and on later because it would give some great writers a chance to do whatever they wanted, albeit with a low budget. Terry Nation, Steve Moffat, Russell Davies all did great work - even Neil Gaiman snuck in for an episode.

What made it work was that they were allowed to do whatever they wanted. It was when the Execs started trying to dictate that it be woke was when it all went downhill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8)

215 Did Reiner have any other kids?
Posted by: Bulg

An adopted daughter from his marriage to Penny Marshall and a daughter and another son from second marriage.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (lJ0H4)

216
Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

Huh....

https://is.gd/Rtitkg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

217 @213 right , forgot he adopted Penny Marshall's daughter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (D+mpw)

218 Laverne?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (fBbkm)

219 Elizabeth Hurley.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

220 I always thought Dr Who was lame, but I know a lot of people liked it and were very disappointed when the BBC wrapped it in a rainbow flag and flipped them all off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (dfIr7)

221 >> Did Reiner have any other kids?

Total of 4, I think. The other three are normal, such as it for children of Hollywood. He was married to Penny Marshall (Laverne from Laverne and Shirley) back in the '70s, and adopted a daughter she had with some other previous husband. They were divorced, and he married his current wife a bit later.

They had 3 kids together, I think, Nick the sociopath being one. There's another son and a daughter, Romy, who was the one who found her parents in bed with their throats slit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (w6EFb)

222
106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.
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This is true.. What a mess.. She says it was out of context, but the things she said were hard to see in what context they could be okay
Posted by: It's me donna

Who?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Il0Nj)

223 210 149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

weaponized fish fingers and custard?
Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (v3pYe)

The Amy Pond story arc was one of the best in its entire 50 year (or so) existence, second only to Tom Baker's Keys to Time arc.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:13 PM (uWKK8)

224 Tater doesn't like the lawsuit and that's good enough for me to like it.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (8CIFn)

225 I expected Lucy Pinder to be top of the search but she wasn't. Bing, like Sponge, is gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

Well, I'm slightly flustered being lumped into the garrett group like that. I did nothing to deserve THAT treatment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

226 https://is.gd/Rtitkg
Posted by: Sponge

That is not a good busty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

227 219 Elizabeth Hurley.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

Yes please

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

228 The Amy Pond story arc was one of the best in its entire 50 year (or so) existence, second only to Tom Baker's Keys to Time arc.

Posted by: Tom Servo

That first episode is one of the best in the 50 year history. It encompasses so much of the ethos of the series.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (0U5gm)

229 I finally recently saw a picture of the schizophrenic (this is your brain on drugs) -- and concur with others here yesterday who observed that he's got the classic "dead eyes."

Walking Zombie. Given the venue, he'd be acquitted if he'd murdered two conservatives ... and might still get off via a "reason of insanity" defense.
Posted by: ShainS

Depends. You have to be so insane as to not appreciate the rightness and wrongness of your actions and it cannot be in an induced state by substance abuse. If you take meth, for example, and kill people while you are on meth. Despite the behavior appearing insane, the person chose to take the drug making them insane so no insanity defense for that person.

Substance abuse is a factor to weigh in on sentencing but not in asserting an insanity defense which is a judge decision, not a jury.

Same as trying to assert self defense to have a gun pulled and aimed at a person but declaring you shot them by accident. Not valid for justification/affirmative defenses.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (WDjG6)

230 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
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That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
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He overdosed on MAGA pills, yo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

231 211
Discovery is a stone cold bitch when you don't have the facts to back your on air assertions (means not harmful for Trump) but will show a festering internal comms at the BBC that are moonbat cra cray in court.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

=======

"This edit doesn't fit our editorial standards. Are you sure we should do it?"'
-editor

"Argle bargle Orange Man Bad!"
-producer, with posh British accent

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

233 I can't believe they left me an orphan...

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (hNxoo)

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Is there room for you in the Menendez Brothers' cell?

I'd go all tranny so they'd put me in with women at least ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (nRuPJ)

234 219 Elizabeth Hurley.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

Yes please
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)
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There's something about awards ceremonies that bring out the very best in Elizabeth Hurley's stage presence.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (rj6Yv)

235
That is not a good busty.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

It seems the DDG image search has applied some sort of Admiral Akbar filter or something......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

236 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

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He's resigning and handing the presidency to Hillary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

237 Who?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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WH Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

238 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

Uke?

I hope it's about Democrat Terror.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Wo1GJ)

239 The BBC has been busted several times in the past doing this with interviews, deleting quotes, deliberately modifying quotes and rearranging things to appear as if they were said a way they were not. Kinda like 60 minutes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (dfIr7)

240 This is going to be a teaching moment courtesy of the UK Barristers.

Sure, it's a defamation suit. But, defamation in this case entails speech. And the proceedings are going to be a catalyst on the decaying speech freedoms within the UK. The BBC is going to have to argue for the freedom to frame what they're saying as they want. This is the opposite of what is being instituted within the UK.

I don't think the Trump Administration is doing this for the money or the "defamation." I think they're doing it to highlight what is failing in the UK right now, and the hyper-inflated demand is to make sure it's taken seriously. This is going to polarize that country even more, and it should be entertaining at the very least.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (dIske)

241 WH Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles
Posted by: whig

Is she the one who's Pat Sumrall's daughter?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)

242 Slitting your parents throat in their sleep is a stone cold psychopathic move. There was a lot more wrong with the son than just drugs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (D+mpw)

243
Yes please

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

244 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane
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Venezuela or terrorism are my first guesses. Perhaps economy as a third announcing mebbe tariff rebates to peoplle or some such.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

245 Trump shouldn't do this. It's dangerous.

Posted by: Dateline NBC at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Wo1GJ)

246 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

There's a whole lot of choices. I think Venezuela is a big possibility, things have been building up there for days now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (uWKK8)

247 Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced? Will Trump send over an aircraft carrier or two to collect? Jack up the tariffs against British tea and crumpets?
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Easy, peasy:

BBC has a US affiliate licensed to distribute their programming in the US.

Turnover order that requires them to pay those fees to Trump and not the BBC.

Or, if he wants to get real nasty: Seize their US copyrights.

Bing, bang, bam--done.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (HXT0k)

248 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

======

He's resigning and handing the presidency to Hillary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, he is reinstating the draft to send troops to Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

249 11th Hour just had a feel that I really liked. Visuals were good. Bit creepy. More serious. Still slightly silly. Bestie Matt Smith.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

250 If indeed the deranged son did slash their throats while they were asleep, then Reiner and his wife are fucking idiots. There are things called locks on bedroom doors. Yes, he was their son and sons don't usually go around murdering their parents. But this kid was a decades-long, known lunatic and junkie. I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

251 trump trump trump
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (CWTWj)
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The boys are marching.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (yNJrI)

252 248 No, he is reinstating the draft to send troops to Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

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That's not genociding brown people at the behest of his Zionist masters...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

253 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

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He is firing everybody !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)

254 Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

ooh I want a tin snip for that chain...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (uWKK8)

255 Is she the one who's Pat Sumrall's daughter?
Posted by: Bulg
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Yep. She made a number of idiotic statements (if true) like Trump has a personality like an alcoholic. Like Pat Summeral had. Meaning that he thinks he can do anything but the way it was said makes it problematic for Suzy.

Talked trash about Bondi too on Epstein and other matters.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)

256 Wife's son topped himself on Father's Day in part because he was afraid what he might do to his dad. Which sounds awful until you know the dad.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Wo1GJ)

257 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Probably those unfortunate rumors about Sponge in this thread.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (OnLUs)

258 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
___

Wait, then how were Michelle and Barak supposed to visit them that night? Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Dv3i1)

259 Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

I think she's hotter than back in the Austin Powers days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

260 Is Liz Hurley still with that fag Hugh Grant?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

261 The BBC is going to have to argue for the freedom to frame what they're saying as they want. This is the opposite of what is being instituted within the UK.
- Orson.
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That's why a jury trial is imperative.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (rj6Yv)

262 Wait, then how were Michelle and Barak supposed to visit them that night? Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Dv3i1)

You don't think the Obama's are liars, do you?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

263 Cultures die all the time. Old ones wrote on the rocks under the oceans. In the subdunction zones.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (EyfuW)

264 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Apparently a bad fight a day or two before during a party between Meathead and son.

Want to read the drivel, Daily Mail has the dirt today.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

265 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Boobs?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (guLpK)

266 Trump to announce he is localizing the intifada, starting today.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

267 There's something about awards ceremonies that bring out the very best in Elizabeth Hurley's stage presence.
____

*adds "stage presence" to list of euphemisms for boobs*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:22 PM (Dv3i1)

268 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

Nonsense. A Prince of Hollywood is a Prince of Hollywood, and royalty doesn't do horrible things to royalty. Perish the thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 02:22 PM (06Hmj)

269 That's why a jury trial is imperative.
Posted by: mrp

I think they'll end up settling in this case like WaPo, Like NBC, CBS, etc.

Discovery is sure to bring in a whole lot of disturbing comms and witnessed comments about a BBC animus toward Trump and the people brought into the media since 2014 are batshit crazy moonbats.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

270 Iirc, Hurley got banged by Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

271 According to CBS news Barry & big Mike were to meet with the Reiners on 12/14.
Sadly, Nick missed an opportunity.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (kp5iD)

272 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Apparently a bad fight a day or two before during a party between Meathead and son.

Want to read the drivel, Daily Mail has the dirt today.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
___

Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

273 >> I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.

Yep, there are stories coming out about that. And from a very young age. Stuff like Meathead having to physically hold him down when he threw violent tantrums and stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (w6EFb)

274 BBC is a State organ.
Shouldn't Trump just bomb London in retaliation?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (VES6X)

275 Over 270 posts and no mention of BBC screwing up by trashing Top Gear?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (nAS9C)

276 Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Unimaginable violence is hard to imagine.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (OnLUs)

277 Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Might not have been enough. If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

278 Hahahaha...I love it. President Trump is putting his foot up the BBC's ass.

Posted by: John Morgan, Fat Democrat Lawyer at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (YyIMQ)

279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (guLpK)

280

That's why a jury trial is imperative.
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (rj6Yv)

The football game we went to while visiting the First Daughter after Thanksgiving....we sat in front of this older gentleman and his daughter. We talked with the guy a bit and he told us he was the first in Texas to have a jury trial for his divorce proceedings from his first wife. He was fighting for custody of the daughter and lawyer after lawyer told him there was no way because of the whole 'she's the mother' bias.

He found a lawyer, they went to trial and he won. I called him a legend. His daughter didn't hear him tell the story and wanted to know why I called him that. He said "because I've been coming to these games so long." I rolled with it and kept his story to myself the rest of the game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

281 Nood probable cause

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (g6TN6)

282
So, Trump is going top address Elizabeth Hurley from the Oval Office tonight?

Have I got that right?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (iJfKG)

283 If it's a jury trial in Southern Florida, the BBC's legal team goes into settlement mode at warp speed. In which case, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Department of the Interior all get big, beautiful ballrooms.
---
BBC can bluff all they want about how they are going to fight, fight, fight this.

And they'll fold.

Because getting a US jury to render a verdict against the BBC is right up there with ease of getting a verdict against ISIS:
They're not a US entity, they've not a massive pool of goodwill, and how can the jury resist sticking it to the UK government?

PS: Remember how the UK government just arrested a guy for posing with a gun in FL?
LOL dumbasses gonna try and tell that jury they are big defenders of free speech now?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (HXT0k)

284 I have a problem with Top Gear and Grand Tour- they feel like commercials.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (zZu0s)

285 279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (guLpK)

Agreed. I have great admiration for her and hope she can stay on through Trump's term.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (N39Ws)

286
It would be so so awesome if Trump announces all muzzies in our country are being deported.

I don't ask for much Santa.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (3ek7K)

287 Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Might not have been enough. If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

The kid had been to rehab 17 times. Reiner was already not paying much attention to him so it's likely he had no fear because he wasn't paying attention to him then, either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

288 >> If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.

But that would've slowed him down enough, and the noise would've likely woke Meathead and the wife up where they would've perhaps had a fighting chance. As it was, he just slipped in there and slit their throats while they were sleeping.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (w6EFb)

289 Does he still get the inheritance?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (fBbkm)

290 Elizabeth Hurley at the 1995 BAFTA award ceremony.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2kebpphn

"an Olympic event"

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

291 If indeed the deranged son did slash their throats while they were asleep, then Reiner and his wife are fucking idiots. There are things called locks on bedroom doors. Yes, he was their son and sons don't usually go around murdering their parents. But this kid was a decades-long, known lunatic and junkie. I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

Hell, they could have, and should have, changed the locks on the entire house. They probably could have afforded having armed security at night, or even 24/7.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (npFr7)

292 239 The BBC has been busted several times in the past doing this with interviews, deleting quotes, deliberately modifying quotes and rearranging things to appear as if they were said a way they were not. Kinda like 60 minutes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It is pretty much all the media. The way to deal with a reporter is to shut them down, don't give them your side of the story, and direct all conversations to legal counsel. They will use whatever fits their narrative and discard teh rest.

That is whether it is local or national like the NYT, WaPo, NBC, etc.

They tell narrative lies by omission, editing, selection of evidence for the story like witnesses used, and so on.

Don't talk to the media. They are not your friend if you are a regular person. Figure that they are actually there to investigate and prosecute you in the court of public opinion. If you must, hire a pr savvy person or a lawyer savvy in pr to speak for you in a public statement.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (WDjG6)

293
Rosie O'Donald's gotta be getting nervous about her drug addled adopted daughter about now.

Posted by: Auspex at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Y8DZL)

294 Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (3ek7K)

I think that would cause so many problems it would dwarf the BLM riots and mayhem and endless lawsuits I agree with you but maybe it could start with deporting Somali Muslim fraudsters.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (guLpK)

295 279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
=====
Anyone in a Republican White House should know that no media person is your friend. They butter you up, in the case of teh AJC journalist apparently sexed up an FBI agent to print the scoop about Jewell in the Olympic Bombings, etc.

Nuzzi is a 'journalist' and ironically worked at VF for a bit before being canned.

Journalists trash Dem administrations too but only when they are safely out of office during a GOP administration.

Lesson: never talk to journalists in private--always do it in public and if you have to have a private meeting: run your own recording camera and tape of the journalist and let them know they are being recorded entirely or no dice on the interview.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

296 That's because we ARE a commercial.
Duh.

Posted by: Top Gear at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (FtUtq)

297 284 I have a problem with Top Gear and Grand Tour- they feel like commercials.

oh, no!

anyway...

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (v3pYe)

298 OT -I think Trump might be speaking tonight about the situation with Venezuela.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (guLpK)

299 Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ESVrU)

Asset seizure.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (kp5iD)

300 “Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country... but hate America more, and turn into jingoistic nationalists if the Great Satan America is in a conflict with their countries.“

And some right wingers right here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)

301 The BBC like CNN is total leftists Propaganda not News

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (wGqjj)

Mark Halperin: I'm Hearing, But Can't Confirm, That the Family of Ella Cook -- Murdered by the Brown University Terrorist -- Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack

Edited: I have rewritten the headline and the post to reflect that Halperin is only floating this as something he is "hearing," not something he can confirm. Apologies for stating it too strongly when I first posted.

Ella Cook was one of the very few conservative activists at the leftwing shithole Brown University. I saw someone do some quick calculations and figure that, based on how few conservative activists are permitted to exist at Brown, the chances of a conservative activist randomly being among the only two people killed was 0.8%.

I didn't post that because it seemed pretty suggestive, but not conclusive. And I figured that if there was any truth to it, we'd know about it soon enough.

I didn't want to be Demonic Nazi Grifter like Candace Owens.

Also, there is no math on this blog.

Ella Cook was of course beautiful and said to always offer people a bright smile.

She was the Vice President of the College Republican Club.

Please join us in remembering Ella Cook, the Vice President of the College Republicans at Brown University.

She was a Christian who was the leader of the only conservative group at the very liberal college.

Our heartfelt prayers to her family and friends. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/v8nTe8LJgs
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) December 15, 2025

Now Mark Halperin says that he is hearing that Ella Cook's family was informed by police that she was the terrorist's actual target.

He says he cannot verify this and doesn't know if it's true.

Whoa. Mark Halperin has heard that the family of Ella Cook, the Christian conservative student who lost her life at Brown university, has been told she was the shooter’s target. pic.twitter.com/gc3icfWiOY
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) December 16, 2025

Amber Duke points out that Brown told students from early on that there was no danger of more shootings -- which would only make sense if they knew that Ella Cook was the specific target of the killer.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Ella Cook was just 19 years old--a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University.
She was brutally killed by a shooter in what appears to be a targeted political attack.
If you still don't see what's happening, you haven't been paying attention.
Just this year alone:
- Tricia McLaughlin threatened with public execution
- Two National Guard troops shot in DC
- The seditious six Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones openly fantasizing about murdering Republicans and their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump experiencing two assassination attempts
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers have skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks
- Leftist sniper murders three at ICE facility in Texas
- Massive violent riots at ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois and Portland Oregon
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying by left wing Trump-hating transgender activist
- ABC News stations shot up
- Alina Habba attacked
- Ed Martin Attacked
- Rogue judges releasing career criminals back onto the streets, terrorizing Americans
The left's violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don't crush this threat now, we lose everything. It's only escalating.
Enough is enough.

In addition, witnesses say the shooter shouted "Allahu Akbar" before murdering her, which, of course, the DEI Police chief, who of course speaks English as a second language, refuses to confirm or deny.

https://t.co/VyDINgTOE8 pic.twitter.com/kfbbN5iRos
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 16, 2025

Holy crap.

Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking. pic.twitter.com/VfXoGOGk3G
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 15, 2025

“We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.”

10 Stars @bariweiss https://t.co/82uMNRltDV
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) December 12, 2025

I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

2 Types

Deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (u73oe)

3 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

4 “We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.”

10 Stars @bariweiss

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This woman is expressing dangerous misinformation. She should be fired from CBS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

5 That press conference was a fucking dumpster fire. They are all incompetent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (NwnyJ)

6 Police chief is ESL? Rhode Island, so maybe from one of those Portuguese families that settled in parts of NE long ago. No?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

7 I knew it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (b4LBp)

8 The civil war is somewhat uncivil.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (pkeXY)

9 Whoa. Mark Halperin has heard that the family of Ella Cook, the Christian conservative student who lost her life at Brown university, has been told she was the shooter’s target.

She didn't "lose her life". She was murdered. Say it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

10 I said the chubby male person if interest looked to have the hand coloring of the Middle East/Arab, but I'd love better pics to confirm...

Although, I will say, as devil's advocate, if you were her ex or rejected loser fat dude who was looking to shoot her b/c of your jilted feelings, shouting Allahu Ackbar would be the thing you'd do if you were trying to mislead police...not that this force seems to need any misleading...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (tOcjL)

11 Pictures floating around of a Brown University student from Palestine named Mustapha Kharbouch...

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (gAuAm)

12 Our "cold civil war" is heating up.

Our republican "leaders" had better do something to help their own people defend themselves before people HAVE to take matters into their own hands.

The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (zjgNU)

13 So deranged, leftist, and unknown if trans.
Stand by for that.

*my pixey spell checker is adding a grey line under trans FWIW*

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (fPASK)

14 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

15 On X

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (gAuAm)

16 “We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.”

10 Stars @bariweiss

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This woman is expressing dangerous misinformation. She should be fired from CBS.

She should be fired from an antiaircraft gun.

Posted by: The Tolerant Left at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

17 And he is a blob

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (gAuAm)

18 The Allahu Akbar thing might have been to get people to believe the perp was a muslim terrorist.. Or it was actually a muslim terrorist.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (VE6XX)

19 Speaking of Candace and Erika, any word on how their meeting went?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

20 3 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

We've had our Fort Sumter and most don't even know it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (b4LBp)

21 So, so sad… yes Ella Cook was a beautiful young lady. What kind of savage would even think about doing such a thing?? And I mentioned this in the MR comments this morning: Those local officials in RI are a shit show… just clown level incompetence complete with unnecessary hand waving sign language guy at press conference

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (P/Wjn)

22 The Amish strike again.

"Der Allahu Ahkbaruska"

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (IifOV)

23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

24 "Isn't the point of globalizing the intafada just getting more people to buy falafal from Palestinian merchants?"
-AWFL McWinemom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

25 No"

No. Medellin. Yeah, that one.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (XuXeR)

26 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (1wjle)

27 The Blade didn't cut here yet.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (fPASK)

28 The left has found terrorism works.

They will continue using it until it does not work because one of the following happens:

1) LIVs vote against left leaning politicians over it

2) The Trump admin/states start arresting antifa leaders/funders and give them long jail terms

3) The right responds in kind

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

29 So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

30 >>That press conference was a fucking dumpster fire. They are all incompetent.

Probably. But this goes beyond incompetence. They know what was shouted, there are witnesses. They know who was shot first. Again, witnesses.

They are deliberately withholding information from us. That's way beyond incompetence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (viF8m)

31 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

More believable is that they have footage of him that makes it clear who he is, but don't want people to know that information.

(Like how California doesn't want people to get the correct impression of who is doing all the crime on mass transit. so it won't publish mugshots.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (zjgNU)

32 24 "Isn't the point of globalizing the intafada just getting more people to buy falafal from Palestinian merchants?"
-AWFL McWinemom

Yes, from the river to the sea, the falafals aren't free.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (Dv3i1)

33 23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

=====

Yeah, but have you considered that effective police forces are racist relics of American slavery?

Well, have you!?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

34 ‘ That the Family of Ella Cook -- Murdered by the Brown University Terrorist -- Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack’

Without having the shooter in custody this has to be speculation.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

35 I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.
Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

I'll take a page from your book and do the same.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (k9OZB)

36 So when do we get campus concealed carry?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (fPASK)

37 Gonna throw this out there -

Leftists judges are driving the slow boil civil war by giving appearances of legal legitimacy to extremist actions.
By street thugs and judges themselves.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (VES6X)

38 She didn't "lose her life". She was murdered. Say it.

Assassinated. Like Kirk.

This is a political act.

And like with the Kirk assassination I suspect it will be treated as a run of the mill murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

39 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate)

The Kansas mural is looking more...Likely.

Gentlemen, defend yourselves...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (XuXeR)

40 48 Hour Rule on this.

While it may well be true, the other victim shot and killed was a male muslim medical student. That would make no sense if this was a targeted terror attack. Sure, the muzzie could have been collateral damage, or hit by a stray. We'll see.

Right now, I skeptical about all news concerning this murder. It doesn't help that the local police are retarded and completely unprepared for something like this.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

41
Someone or some group is hiding the shooter. The other students who saw the shooter probably agree with them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (IifOV)

42 So, so sad… yes Ella Cook was a beautiful young lady. What kind of savage would even think about doing such a thing??

It's not PC, but this atrocity reinforces that most people will be even more angry at seeing a lovely young woman killed than a young man. I suppose it's an atavistic response; protect the women.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

43 *farts in Mark Kelly's general direction*

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (gxokI)

44 > I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

I have thoughts, and I will share them: it's time to start shooting back.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)

45 "@BariWeiss
: “Yeah, I mean I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be able to speak across divides. That doesn’t mean that there are not lines. The question, of course, is whether or not Charlie Kirk crossed those lines and in my view, you hear me quote many of the controversial things he said — needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point. The point is that we are walking into an abyss as a country if we accept the idea that words are violence, but violence, if directed at the right targets, is acceptable. I fundamentally reject that world view. "

Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (c2vsb)

46 I have thoughts, but I won't share them.
Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

If you're thinking about boobs, please do share!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

47 2nd victim Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov had parents who were planning to visit Saudi Arabia for Christmas...his family was from Uzbekistan.

Seemingly 100% unrelated to 1st victim in almost all ways...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (tOcjL)

48 Leftists judges are driving the slow boil civil war by giving appearances of legal legitimacy to extremist actions.
By street thugs and judges themselves."

So, Spain, late 1930s?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (XuXeR)

49 Someday, any reporter who uses 'controversial' in a sentence will get a session in the Brazen Bull.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (8AONa)

50 ‘ We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.’

I want to enter an abyss where leftists pay heavily and immediately for their violence.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (jbnUc)

51 >>I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

His page on the Brown University Center for Middle East Studies has been removed.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (viF8m)

52 I like the point Bari Weiss is making, but I find her mischaracterization of what Charlie Kirk said something that also needs to be called out. The point is not black pilots being bad. The point is if you are a woman, or a minority and the world is viewed through a dei lens, your merit is always going to be questioned. Which is minor in the whole context of the post. Or maybe it isn’t.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

53 The marxist universities across the country have become the new killing ground of Jews and conservatives.

Yet, parents still line up the issue of their loins to go to these murder factories.

Posted by: What Is To Be Done at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (YyIMQ)

54 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (VE6XX)

55 I've read that Brown U has 15 students per camera. So many cameras even lib tard students complain there's too many.
I laughed. They hate Orwell so much they got Orwell.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (fPASK)

56 It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

It's okay guys, we understand. You're f*cking morons. You can stop now.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

57 Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack

Our minds and our laws were the target. All these public shootings around the world are not the way you take out individual targets.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (NZkDE)

58 I take every "scoop" brought about by Halperin with a huge grain of salt!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (g47mK)

59 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !
Posted by: Your sycophant press

I thought it was his ballroom.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

60 I have what you might call a sixth sense about certain things - and although this no longer requires such, I have been saying and will maintain we are well past the time for Trump to act with a Terror Alert System like the old stupid one, except this one aimed at informing the general populace about the Left Wing and/or Democrat terrorism threat. It can be behind him at all the press conferences. It can start light blue and go all the way to the highest level, Democrat Blue. We are well past the time for it now.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

61 We've always had retards, and society can tolerate, care for a number of them. Just don't put them in charge, making them governors, mayors, police chiefs, university presidents.

Posted by: Abby Normal at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (oftw2)

62 >Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.

Bari Weiss is a midwit, at best.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (rJ48h)

63 59 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !
Posted by: Your sycophant press

I thought it was his ballroom.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

That too !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

64 49 Someday, any reporter who uses 'controversial' in a sentence will get a session in the Brazen Bull.
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Hopefully next to the people complaining about how 'problematic' it is that it is so warm in there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (Dv3i1)

65 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 P

Powder Status:

[X] Dry
[ ] Other Than Dry

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (kgE5c)

66 Huh, what?

Posted by: Pam Bondi at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (cHOHf)

67 Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.
Posted by: Doof at December

Doof, her point was yes, there are lines on both sides. As I noted. I don’t like how she framed the Charlie Kirk quotes. She is a democrat and it shows here. But she is surprisingly rational in calling out the left- that is what she is doing here.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

69 I wonder how many high profile conservatives will be murdered before we finally say enough?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (cwhX3)

70 They hate Orwell so much they got Orwell.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (fPASK)

To them it's not Orwell, it's fighting Orwell.

If you employ enough emotion and fear, you can make people believe very stupid things.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (Wo1GJ)

71 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking.

It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)

72 It's not PC, but this atrocity reinforces that most people will be even more angry at seeing a lovely young woman killed than a young man. I suppose it's an atavistic response; protect the women.
Posted by: Archimedes

Historically, it was common for young men to die violent deaths. Young women, not so much.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)

73
"The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

-MSM

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (IifOV)

74 71 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking.

It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)

========

False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

75 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

This has been true for MANY years. Far too few are awake to it still today.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (c2vsb)

76 Wait you mean a Republican leader under 30 was murdered and the thing that the NT NRO All-Stars is focused laser like on is grief policing Trump for a dead communist?

That's CRAZYYYYYY....

by the way we are not allowed to know what the killer yelled BUT I assure you if it were "Maga Forever!" we would all be told ceaselessly.

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (MUJd1)

77 68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

Sure does.. Does he have any special shoes and can we analyze his walk ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

78 68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

Right skin coloring...and trying to hide belly pudge by adding lots of clothes on top around the neck and shoulders

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (tOcjL)

79 We are entering into an abyss...

we are already there.
Stay alert.
Stay armed.
Know what you can and cannot do.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

80 ictures floating around of a Brown University student from Palestine named Mustapha Kharbouch..

==

🤬

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (g47mK)

81 This has been true for MANY years. Far too few are awake to it still today.
____

The 'guilty as sin, free as a bird" guy says hello.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (Dv3i1)

82 Ella Cook was of course beautiful and said to always offer people a bright smile.

Wow. The first comment on that post was such reprehensible conspiracy shit even Alex Jones and Candace Owens would be ashamed to spread it.

Well, probably not Candance.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (JCZqz)

83 "Now Mark Halperin says that he is hearing that Ella Cook's family was informed by police that she was the terrorist's actual target.

He says he cannot verify this and doesn't know if it's true."

This only makes sense if they know or have an idea who the killer is, otherwise it's gotta be speculation.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

84 Bari Weiss seems like a very nice lady who’s also very smart but…. Kinda naive

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination conversations have to take place behind bullet proof glass. TPUSA will no longer do outdoor events. Sad but it’s the reality of 2025

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (OW907)

85 "The Allahu Akbar thing might have been to get people to believe the perp was a muslim terrorist.. Or it was actually a muslim terrorist....."

I wonder if an American could say "Allahu Akbar" with the proper Arabic pronunciation, and accent. Then again, Americans can become Muslim (or adjacent) activists".

So far, most Muslim terror attacks have been more at the masses, not at individuals. The Kirk and Trump shooters were white crazies, no other political assassination comes to mind at the moment.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (vbXSk)

86 While it may well be true, the other victim shot and killed was a male muslim medical student.
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There are conflicting reports in that regard--one site I saw asserted he wasn't Muslim but instead one of the other non-Judeo belief systems (sorry, I don't remember which one).

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (TN0g+)

87 @BariWeiss
...That doesn’t mean that there are not lines.

There are lines everywhere! It's all lines!

Posted by: UK's new MI6 Director at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NZkDE)

88 I'm getting DC pipe bomber vibes. They know, but it's not fitting with the narrative.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (s19xO)

89 So....
Racist nazi MAGAt was not attacking Woke Brown?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (VES6X)

90 "Elric- you see Abboud in Balenciaga? Abboud of the great classic suits? Not plays on suits, but classic, holy cow that suit is cut perfectly, Abboud?
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ZdaMQ)
______

Yea. His more casual stuff. Earthy tones, urban-ish styles, looser fitting and longer jackets, etc. This seems Abboud-y to me:

https://tinyurl.com/yvunbytd

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

91 Person of new interest (after 1st one was wrong) - release yesterday...

https://www.wjcl.com/article/active- shooter-brown-university-providence/69718072

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (tOcjL)

92 It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Net Neutrality at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

93 "The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

-MSM
Posted by: Frank Barone

We have to detoxify our thoughts against Muslims - Australian Government

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

94
It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)
========
False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (uWKK8)

95 44 > I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

I have thoughts, and I will share them: it's time to start shooting back.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)
This situation will require more than words, won’t it?

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (QS4uR)

96 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (kp5iD)

97 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Is sitting outside a Starbucks considered hunting over bait?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (+x87d)

98 > We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.
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Yea, but Trump said some mean things about someone who died so I don't think I'll worry about this now. I'm more concerned with my leaders being morally upstanding citizens than I am about some sort of civil war. We must "be nice."

So says the people who are too timid to acknowledge what they're facing or their moral turpitude prohibits them from seeing the threat right in front of them.

I get it. They're principled. They're also not at all ready to confront the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

99 I expect that if Mustapha is the perp he's off on a plane somewhere abroad already.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (guLpK)

100 14 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
========
I once had a deranged student that threatened and stalked a female in one of the student groups I was advising. He came to my office to confront me and more or less said, "how do you know I was stalking her there"--there weren't any cameras there. He also told me he knew where all the university security cameras were.

The guy joined a club that met in the same building our club's meetings were despite no longer being a student (suspended). And yet he figured out exactly where all the security cameras were in order to facilitate not being caught for his stalking activities.

Nasty critter that I found out liked to brag about bringing weapons on campus, was fascinated with violent media, and adored the movie Boondock Saints (even dressing the part of one of the characters in it).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)

101 When you lay down with dogs you get fleas, ticks and lyme disease.

Stop allowing these people into the country.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (nljXp)

102 By the way, the victim was a beautiful bright light. May her loss be tempered by her faith and knowing she is home.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

103 Hi, Ace! Thank you.

Go outside and take a walk.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (NFX2v)

104 Doof, her point was yes, there are lines on both sides. As I noted. I don’t like how she framed the Charlie Kirk quotes. She is a democrat and it shows here. But she is surprisingly rational in calling out the left- that is what she is doing here.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Perhaps. But she's doing it with CYA lefty caveats.

"needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point"

If it's needless to say then don't f*cking say it!!! She's covering her bases which, to me, lessens the point she's trying to make.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (c2vsb)

105 They call you Nazi
They call you racist
They call you Islamophobic
They call you homophobic

Not because it is true, but to justify them murdering you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (2GVsD)

106 @Brown"The Center for Middle East Studies is preparing to embark on an exciting new chapter. After this academic year, CMES will become an independent academic center at the University, a move that will coincide with the launch on July 1, 2025, of the new Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs. This marks an important transition for CMES, which has expanded considerably over the past several years and has become one of the leading research centers in its field."

How much donated from Qatar ?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

107 There are conflicting reports in that regard--one site I saw asserted he wasn't Muslim but instead one of the other non-Judeo belief systems (sorry, I don't remember which one).
Posted by: Crusader
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IIRC, the guy was an Uzbek. The periphery of Islam has a lot of the Sufi sect which is relatively peaceful compared with the Shia and Sunni sects.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

108 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)

Wow. I hope you reported him to someone.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

109 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?

Posted by: Dave's not here

Could you turn the glow down a bit? It's kinda bright.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

110 Im waiting for the Free Palestine crap to drop.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (fPASK)

111 This is what they do, "Islamic Center", then push their poisonous jihadi ideology and frame it as some kind of "research"!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

112 How are you feeling today, Ace?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

113 Conservatives will now be excluded from places because of the danger of collateral damage from when a liberal assinates them.

Conservatives are a threat to everyone around them.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (0MjtC)

114 "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli."

$1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (WQDw6)

115 Jack Straw, there are several more of him "protesting"...
https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000793169714368560?s=42

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (gAuAm)

116 Charlie didn't cross any "line." Every argument he made was rational and historically rooted. He was a cultural historian with peerless knowledge of American history. The problem is that Weiss and every historically illiterate progressive simply found it shocking and inconvenient and therefore found Kirk "problematical."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (b4LBp)

117 "The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

There are plenty of leftys that would be more concerned about the seagulls.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (vFG9F)

118 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

119 I’m 29 and I can tell I don’t remember any noticeable muslim community on my college campus back in the day and there certainly wasn’t a center for middle eastern studies….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (OW907)

120 "$1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard"

Both of my boys would know.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (vFG9F)

121 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

122 He looks a bit light in his sandals, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

123 lyme disease.

Stop allowing these people into the country.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
======
Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)

124 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (IifOV)

125 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
______

It's almost impossible to avoid security cameras, in large part because the field of vision is so wide and overlapping. You see a camera pointed in X direction and think "ok, if I stay to the right of that, I'll be off camera." But you won't be.

I think it more likely that the campus is covered in security cameras that don't work because they were installed and maintained by DEI retards.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

126 Conservatives will now be excluded from places because of the danger of collateral damage from when a liberal assinates them.
------

Known as "The Heckler's Veto".

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (TN0g+)

127 121 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

True

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

128 I just hope we don't offend a dead leftard today.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (Wo1GJ)

129 This benefit of the doubt, maybe it's just an coincidence crap needs to stop.

Would you give Ted Bundy the benefit of the doubt? How about Joe Biden? Obama? Newsome?

Be bold, seize the moment. Democrat Senators get on TV and claim the wildest shit possible. That does not include the "6" stunt. I read an article about if your opponent cheats somewhere.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (cS1cw)

130 96 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?
Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (kp5iD)

That's Nick Reiner's department.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (uWKK8)

131 $1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

132
False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

"Global Warming in my desert homeland took away all the jobs!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

133 Many years ago, like 30, my son was offered a scholarship to Brown. He was interested because their brochures stated that everyone at Brown got B or above. His Mom vetoed that idea.

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (8I4hW)

134 Mustafa also worked for the International Crisis Center, an NGO largely funded by USAID. Or was. He's a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Lebanon.

This guy should definitely be spoken with.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)

135 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

***

I would love to see a 20-30% drop in enrollments for next year, plus a 10% or more sophomore transfers. Nothing worse for a university than to lose that money. That happened a few years ago at the local university where they tried some insane woke bullsh*t on the Freshmen men. Parents were furious. It took them about 5 years to recover.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)

137 23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

They're the New Aristocracy. Think about how retarded the European bluebloods were in the 19th and early 20th centuries (and of course, well before that). Our aristocracy is just as retarded but it's from intellectual inbreeding moreso than literal inbreeding.

Posted by: Though it's not far removed at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

138 And the media covered up all the bombings and ignored those killed during the 1970s ...

But Trump said "pussy" and so he's the real threat to democracy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (HXT0k)

139 Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs."

IIRC, these are the same idiots who pushed the "true costs of war" BS...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (XuXeR)

140 Bari Weiss hit the nail on the head.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (0U5gm)

141 Afternoon Ace.
The second US civil war started 10/30/08 when Barky said "we are only days away from fundamentally changing the country". Since then Muslims and other illegals have flooded the nation.
Anyone who doesn't realize this is either in on it, stupid or whistling past the graveyard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (D+mpw)

142 119 I’m 29 and I can tell I don’t remember any noticeable muslim community on my college campus back in the day and there certainly wasn’t a center for middle eastern studies….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

They started at relatively rural and poor colleges by bringing in cohorts (80's and 90's) (same with Chinese students later btw) of various groups. Arkansas, for example, was one such state where the Saudis paid for mosques, programs to train, and later Middle East Studies programs funded by the Saudi government.

Elite schools saw this pot of money going to these 'hick' schools and then got into the action by the late 90's and then developing all kinds of 'partnerships' and campuses in Islamic gulf states.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)

143 You know who else had no math on his blog?

Posted by: Joachim von Ribbentrop at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (7Q0e+)

144 I don’t believe this guy was able to avoid cameras. They’re everywhere! It’d be impossible…. Either the locals are so incompetent they can’t collect the images or more likely they have a bunch they don’t wanna share.

Like I heard that the creep who killed Charlie Kirk media outlets are using FOIA requests for images of him turning himself in and the answers they get back are evasive or “we have nothing” which is not believable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (OW907)

145 Incredibly sad for the loss of this sweet girl and for her family and friends.

To be no longer surprised at the violence against Christians and conservatives by murderers and the MSM is also incredibly sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (WONhk)

146 Korean Air vows zero tolerance against aircraft emergency exit tampering
Published Dec 15, 2025 10:03 am KST

Korean Air said Monday it will adopt a zero tolerance policy toward passengers who tamper with aircraft emergency exits, warning that it will seek criminal charges against violators to strengthen aviation safety.
The country's flag carrier said it is responding to a rise in such incidents, which pose a serious threat to flight safety. Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.
The company noted that unauthorized tampering of exit doors has continued despite heightened awareness following a widely reported 2023 Asiana Airlines case in which a passenger opened an exit door in the middle of the flight

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (9aVck)

147 what the Alamo was"

"Was"?

/single tear rolls down cheek

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (XuXeR)

148 Related ...

Headline (USA Today):

"Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept."

It's the "An Appeal to Heaven" flag.

Excerpt:

"Rachel Gittleman, the president of the union for Education Department workers nationwide, said in a statement that the agency "has no place for symbols that were carried by insurrectionists."

“Since January, hardworking public servants at the U.S. Department of Education have been subjected to threats, harassment, and sustained demoralization," she said. "Now, they are being asked to work in an environment where a senior leader is prominently displaying an offensive flag – one that, regardless of its origins in the American Revolution, has come to represent intolerance, hatred, and extremism.""

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (rj6Yv)

149 Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov was the other student killed at Brown.

He and his family immigrated from Uzbekistan many years ago. The 18-year-old freshman was studying biochemistry and neuroscience.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (NFX2v)

150 If it's needless to say then don't f*cking say it!!! She's covering her bases which, to me, lessens the point she's trying to make.
Posted by: Doof at December

See my original post. 😊 not scrolling to find the number because I am still living on my phone, not having my iPad has me on the struggle bus. Plus the kidlet stole my MacBook, she has it set up with her iPad as a double screen for school. In summary. It’s rough over here on the Gulf of America.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

151 Mustafa also worked for the International Crisis Center, an NGO largely funded by USAID. Or was. He's a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Lebanon.

This guy should definitely be spoken with.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)
_____

See the online pics? He's almost certainly an ass pirate and possibly a tranny.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

152
To be no longer surprised at the violence against Christians and conservatives by murderers and the MSM is also incredibly sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (WONhk)

But the BIG problem is the right wing extremist retaliation, you see.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

153 I really can't add anything more relevant than to acknowledge we, as a country (and by that, I wholly mean the left), have descended into absolute, violent madness. And it's all coming from the Democrats. All of it. Every shred. Every utterance. Every instance of violence perpetrated comes from them. I don't know how much worse it can get when our college kids, young people, and hell, even our own president, have become constant targets of assassination. I don't know where we go from here, but we're swimming in a horror show I never thought I'd see.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

154 131 $1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

155 Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)
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Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (3BwY8)

156 136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American
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When the assassins are shot down like rabid animals in the street is when. And for any terrorist of Islamic ilk, they should subsequently be rolled in scraps from pig carcasses in order as a psychological deterrent for jihad crap.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (WDjG6)

157 If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.

Posted by: Noble9 at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (a7PRn)

158 drop in enrollments for next year"

The demographic cliff of 2008 is coming...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

159 Well the US Navy has released their investigation of USS Gettysburg shooting down one F-18F and trying to shoot down two more along with a rescue helicopter.

The ship, for being the air warfare commander, was not tied into the other ships. Their IFF system was unreliable. TAOs were certified by the Captain after sim runs and not through proper testing. None of the training sims were tailored for Red Sea ops and were months in the past.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (2GVsD)

160 If, big if these days with the police, but if the video is actually the guy, whoo boy does this Mustapha guy match.

But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

161 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
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But I am sure that both of you are not aware of whatever the Kardashians are doing this week nor the ins and outs of Tay Tay--Kelce. For guys, it might be whatever sports betting app is hot now.

Important stuff indeed.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

162 Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.
Posted by: whig

Those bastards killed Tom Seaver!

Posted by: RIP Tom Terrific at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (oftw2)

163 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
__

The cheese guy?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

164 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

True
Posted by: It's me donna

Just going by past historical shootings:
1. Christian 2. Conservative. 3. White. 4. Straight.

Pretty much covers school shootings.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (+x87d)

165 So it is a hot civil war now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

166 Was Ella involved in the Turning Point USA chapter at Brown?

Brown is the most Jewish of all the Ivies, if this was a Pali vs Zionist attack there would be a ton of other targets to pick from.

But if this was a homosexual/trans attack upon the Gospel, like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, then that would explain why she was singled out for murder.

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (r3hkP)

167 Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)
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Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (3BwY

At this point, at this place, not much more can be said.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (dK+Kv)

168
But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

169 Via FreeBeacon:
An eyewitness from Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, stated police officers hesitated as two terrorists sprayed bullets at a group of Jews gathered to celebrate Hanukkah, while video analysis indicates law enforcement waited several minutes after arriving on the scene to engage the shooters.

Shmulik Scuri, who was on the beach with his family during the attack, told reporters that 4 police officers in the vicinity "froze" as the terrorists fired into a crowd of 2,000, killing at least 15 and wounding 40 more.

"They shoot, shoot," Scuri said. "Change magazines. And just shoot ... there was four policemen there. Nobody give fire back. Nothing. Like they froze."

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (TN0g+)

170 So it is a hot civil war now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)
____

Been that way since the 1960s. We just didn't believe it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

172 Lindberg trained and did his first solo flight at a field about 70 miles from here. Then he flew away and never came back.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (vFG9F)

173 136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)

With more bloodshed and subjugation.

Posted by: They way these things always end at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (TbWk/)

174 158 drop in enrollments for next year"

The demographic cliff of 2008 is coming...
Posted by: man

I think Scotus destroying the concept (approved by them) of disparate impact as unconstitutional will free employers not to consider college as sacrosanct for jobs.

Bring back job relevant testing and related knowledge instead of a steadily depreciating general credential from a degraded academia.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (WDjG6)

175 Is Brown considered Ivy League? Imma asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (Wg6v7)

176 161 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
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But I am sure that both of you are not aware of whatever the Kardashians are doing this week nor the ins and outs of Tay Tay--Kelce. For guys, it might be whatever sports betting app is hot now.

Important stuff indeed.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (xcxpd)

177
Wee cannot releese deetails about dee suspect because of ongoing investeegation.

(Aye caramba, dead gringa, Bee Eff Deee.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (VWtfl)

178 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
__

The cheese guy?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

The My Pillow guy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

Well it was headed our way with or without Trump. So I prefer this to what they had been planning in 2010ish.

We would have been even deeper in this mire with only the "Republicans" around to help. National Review to the rescue!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (Wo1GJ)

180 Michelle Obama helpfully pointed out that she and Barak were planning to visit the Reiners the night of the murders. WHY DO BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO POOR MICHELLE!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (S7h8O)

181 If, big if these days with the police, but if the video is actually the guy, whoo boy does this Mustapha guy match.

But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Well whatever you do, don't start binge watching Person of Interest on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: Harold Finch at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (wVcYX)

182 Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.
Posted by: whig

Those bastards killed Tom Seaver!
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"Seaver throws so hard blind guys come to the ballpark to listen to him pitch!"

Posted by: Zombie Joe Garagiola at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

183 Targeted assassination would explain why the authorities aren't interested in arresting anyone.

Posted by: Pepe LePew at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (sFNX2)

184 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon
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I had read that too. That was my first thought as well in early reports. But I will wait until the killer is caught before going too far in speculation as to the Why.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)

185 Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it."

And we're doomed to live with 'em...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (XuXeR)

186 I'll just wait until Glenn Beck tells me who the culprit is.

Posted by: True believer at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (j7nqy)

187 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw

Or was it the most convenient classroom ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)

188 168
But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

Never be convinced mass attacks are female...so few are done by them, even if one time it's right, you'd lose 99 other times...

Female looking folks tend to be transwomen (or now transmen thanks to added hormones) or just small weeny guys...they never seem to be actual girls...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

189 Does anyone else see the problem with the title of this book? Or am I reading too much into it.

Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

190 https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000800626427736221?s=42

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (yBmD+)

191 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

When I 1st heard this shooting, I thought the prof was the target for those reasons...we can't assume a good shooter and a good shot.

And anyone taking the prof's class would have been an okay target (ala targeted) b/c they were all willing to learn from that prof...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (tOcjL)

192 Bring back job relevant testing and related knowledge "

Mentioned previously that my step grandfather taught metallurgy at Republic Steel's school... can't have that nowadays!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

193 I get it. They're principled. They're also not at all ready to confront the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

I'm just going to note Israel's general failure in 'confronting' the 'palestinians.' No matter how justified a particular retaliation is, the survivors always get the world's sympathy, creating more problems for Israel, and then attack again later out of spite, knowing the next retaliation will get many of them dead, but yet more sympathy.

Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

194 WHY DO BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO POOR MICHELLE!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (S7h8O)
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I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY8)

195 168. Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna

Me too. I'm still not convinced it wasn't.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (NFX2v)

196 so students cannot attend classes taught by Jewish professors, for the fear of being shot???? this is not America.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

197 But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)
_____

There may be AI out there that can track a suspect camera to camera, but the reality is that doing it the old fashioned way ain't easy, and takes a lot of time. The vid is also not always "clean," as it's usually motion-activated (which can be spotty).

We had a property located next to a notorious nightclub that was constantly the scene of shootings, beatings, rapes, etc. The cops were always coming to us for surveillance footage. It was hard to piece it all together.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

198 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December

We should go shopping, but I don’t think Doof is giving me a Christmas bonus anymore.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

199 189 Does anyone else see the problem with the title of this book? Or am I reading too much into it.

Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

Should be 'Is'. And 'Will be', if we're technical.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

200 Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

https://tiny.cc/#

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (wGerL)

201 Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Santayana had a valid point as he almost always did. Tremendously underrated as a philosoper compared with his evil competitors like Marcuse, Foucalt, or Sartre. Two out of those three were pedos and Marcuse was an apologist for such.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

202 Charles Lindbergh...The guy with the red stapler?

Posted by: Collage Moron at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (WQDw6)

203 Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
____

The pool boy. Bur he was deported. *sigh*

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (S7h8O)

204 Mustapha Kharbouch - Brown University | LinkedIn

"Born and raised as a 3rd-generation Palestinian refugee in Lebanon . . . . "

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (dK+Kv)

205 The 18-year-old freshman was studying biochemistry and neuroscience.
Posted by: L

Wow. Impressive, if true.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

206 "The second US civil war started 10/30/08 when Barky said "we are only days away from fundamentally changing the country". Since then Muslims and other illegals have flooded the nation."

... and they often openly talk of their plans to conquer "the West". Lies and frauds are instrumental to those plans.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (vbXSk)

207 I'm just going to note Israel's general failure in 'confronting' the 'palestinians.' No matter how justified a particular retaliation is, the survivors always get the world's sympathy, creating more problems for Israel, and then attack again later out of spite, knowing the next retaliation will get many of them dead, but yet more sympathy.

Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

The word "Carthaginian" comes to mind.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (lHPJf)

208 So Erika Kirk is responsible? Well now the pieces are falling into place!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (Wo1GJ)

209 FFS, does this finally cross the line?

The future looks painful, very painful.

I used to try and hug my son every time he left the house. He thought I was crazy when I told him why.

Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (EMg+d)

210 so students cannot attend classes taught by Jewish professors, for the fear of being shot???? this is not America.
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Openly Jewish or conservative students cannot attend college campuses *period* without there being some risk attendant with doing so. Which also is not America. Oklahoma has 77 counties and all 77 voted Trump in 2024 but our two state universities are liberal hotbeds.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Garagiola at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)

211 https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000800626427736221?s=42

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (yBmD+)

>>>Mustapha Kharbouch walking style

*looks around in old trunks for my 70s pimp walk affection*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (dK+Kv)

212 Female looking folks tend to be transwomen (or now transmen thanks to added hormones) or just small weeny guys...they never seem to be actual girls...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (tOcjL)
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IIRC, one of the items on the Turtle Beach terrorist syllabus was on how insert a pebble in a shoe to foil gait analysis.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

213 So deranged, leftist, and unknown if trans.
Stand by for that.

*my pixey spell checker is adding a grey line under trans FWIW*
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (fPASK)

Well, "trans" is a subset of "deranged". As is "leftist", for that matter. Maybe Pixy is on an anti-redundancy kick?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (npFr7)

214 Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

Well the 1940's may make Israel a little leery of annihilation of entire groups.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

215 You can get away with murder in Lil' Rhodey no sweat. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (wBaIH)

216 Demonic Nazi Grifter

I read that as Glitter. I denounce myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (+4yJ5)

217 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes

He was great in Hobson's Choice and Witness for the Prosecution.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

218 202 Charles Lindbergh...The guy with the red stapler?
Posted by: Collage Moron at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (WQDw6)

He's gonna need you come in on Saturday...aaaand Sunday too, lost quite a few people this week. Greeeaatt, thaaanks...

Posted by: Peter. What's happening. at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

219 I keep my mouth shut over racial or religious matters ever since I found out I was responsible for Mooch spending decades making her hair acceptable to me, the whitest person on the planet.

Posted by: What A Burden! at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (oftw2)

220 Is Brown considered Ivy League? Imma asking for a friend.

It is, at least according to them, but it is not in the first tier (HYP).

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

221 *affectation

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)

222 Mentioned previously that my step grandfather taught metallurgy at Republic Steel's school... can't have that nowadays!
Posted by: man

Exactly. College attendance soared when suddenly it became a credential for entry into various fields. It should have never been such as inevitably it sucks as vocational training. Instead it became the gateway for white collar jobs which is was by temperament and design, not appropriate.

One could, for example, easily learn accountacy by apprenticeships or business schools (not the college sort), same for much of IT, and so on.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)

223 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

224 The January 6ers were identified by the 'general public' for some very timely prosecutions and PR.

There's been a falling off in interest aiding law enforcement since.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (NFX2v)

225 Demonic Nazi Grifter

I read that as Glitter. I denounce myself.
Posted by: NR Pax

No need. Some Nazis go perfectly well with glitter.
-- Zombie Ernst Rohm

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

226 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

Hunting grounds?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)

227 also we shouldn't assume or expect him to be a Brown U. student. He might be, of course, but a lot of campus radicals have nothing to do with the campus. They just come in for the vandalism.

might be a case of "looking for the keys under the streetlight because the light is better"

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (1wjle)

228 209 FFS, does this finally cross the line?

The future looks painful, very painful.

I used to try and hug my son every time he left the house. He thought I was crazy when I told him why.
Posted by: pawn
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This has been the norm of history and inviting foreigners into a country has never traditionally been something that ends well.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

229 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

230 223 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.
Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

They're showing up day one with the Freshman 15 already attached. And then some.

Posted by: Rather corpulent they are at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

231 179 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

I sat sat in the living room of a Berkeley relative during Christmas 2001 and listened to the academic voices of support for the Islamic terror attack, and the explicit assertion that we, America, "deserved it." So I sensed more of this was coming. These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

232 >>When I 1st heard this shooting, I thought the prof was the target for those reasons...we can't assume a good shooter and a good shot.

--

If the shooter didn't continue shooting down the hall or in other venues, it's almost certain this class was the target. If so, it's equally certain "we may never know who's responsible."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 16, 2025 12:52 PM (mfUOU)

233 He looks a bit light in his sandals, if you know what I mean.

He's "they/him" pronouns. So, yes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:52 PM (QZThv)

234 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

That was more of an "ooze" than a "flounce."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)

235 Without having the shooter in custody this has to be speculation.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

Unless a note was left, or he shouted it out while shooting at her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (npFr7)

236 I saw the latest video of the shooter. Obviously no face but he is overweight and just slowly strolling along. I just cannot understand why thre wasn't the kind of crazy chaos you normally see after a shooting like this. Also, Brown recently updated their entire surveillance system with video displays in a command center. Why no video of the perpetrator entering, exiting the building. This response is so lackadaisical. Like they really didn't care.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

237 What would the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia be "reporting" if a targeted victim of the shooting was President of the College Democrat-Communists at some Southern more conservative university?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (LkTFp)

238 we, America, "deserved it." So I sensed more of this was coming. These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

I cut a good friend loose for spouting that crap almost four years on. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (dK+Kv)

239 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

People on X are out in front of this. The footage released has they/him walking with their/his hands clasped behind their/his back. Pictures of Mustapha also show they/him walking that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

240 125 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
______

It's almost impossible to avoid security cameras, in large part because the field of vision is so wide and overlapping. You see a camera pointed in X direction and think "ok, if I stay to the right of that, I'll be off camera." But you won't be.

I think it more likely that the campus is covered in security cameras that don't work because they were installed and maintained by DEI retards.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

Criminals aren't all stupid. Everyone in the country who is plotting a serious crime is bound to have noticed the increasing help security and observation cameras are providing in crime solving. This may be deterring some. I hope so. The most dedicated plotters will do what they can to avoid cameras and/or disguise themselves. The Brown shooter may be thinner than we think.

Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (5rh/l)

241 Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.

I see...and it is NOW that you are alarmed and will seek to stop it?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (NZkDE)

242 ------
I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY

Her ball hair. Keeps getting caught in her silk underwear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

243 Also, there is no math on this blog.

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Spherical Cows at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (0sNs1)

244 237 What would the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia be "reporting" if a targeted victim of the shooting was President of the College Democrat-Communists at some Southern more conservative university?

/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (LkTFp)

Wall to wall hysterical rantings... So if this was because she was Republican I imagine they will still blame Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

245 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Sad the victims were murdered, Ella was the target. Maybe that will help solve this crime.

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (fPt6j)

246 If you're going to keep calling people on our side Nazis, is it fair if we call you a Kike piece of shit back? Is that fair?

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (YINx+)

247 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (W7XSX)

248 "We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target."

An abyss fashioned by her and her ilk.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (TlGnK)

249 Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job.

The 'and' is what makes it two different speculations. The first one is ridiculous.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (NZkDE)

250 bese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

That was more of an "ooze" than a "flounce."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

A "roll," undoubtedly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

251 No need. Some Nazis go perfectly well with glitter.
-- Zombie Ernst Rohm
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Rudolph Hess would look marvelous in glitter lederhosen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (Wg6v7)

252 The "brilliant" female economics professor taught at Hebrew University in Israel before Brown and her field is economics of immigration.

I would be very surprised if she wasn't pushing the standard Neocon/Liberal Jewish platform of open borders for the USA (because we are merely a "proposition nation" and not a real people) taking in millions of Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Somalis and so on but strict immigration control for Israel (because Israel is a real nation and Jews are a real people).

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (r3hkP)

253 Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

Well the 1940's may make Israel a little leery of annihilation of entire groups.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

Obviously. But the consequence is that the 'palestinians' continue to promote the next attack of spite on Israel, since they know that while they may be inconvenienced by the response, most of them will survive it.

Similarly, the Left is going to continue to trade its disposable peons (if it even has to give them up at all, which appears in doubt), for our talent as long as it's completely safe to do so.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (vSvIl)

254 So I'm thinking of learning sign language so I can understand what these DEI humps are saying at press conferences.

They always have a sign language interpreter, but the Chief of Police is some ESL moron who should be down in Guadalajara selling tacos.

(I wonder, does the sign language person have an accent? Can you have an accent in sign language?)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (F1I3P)

255 Did someone say Walk This Way?

Posted by: Aerosmith at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (wVcYX)

256 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.
Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle

He's the Joey Chestnut of the falafel world...
as well as the songbird of his generation.

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (gAuAm)

257 If they don't have a real suspect yet, how can they know what the motive (target) was? I'm willing at this point to think it's probably 75% likely this was a Muslim terror attack.

But Halperin is hearing that the pretty white girl was specifically the target. That makes it an assassination more than a Muslim terror attack. Muslims usually randomly open fire or start knifing people. Plus, a Muslim man was also killed.

It's highly possible the local police know much more than they're telling us. It's all possible -- and probable -- that the local police are all DEI retards. That police guy at the news conference looks about as tall as Robert Reich and can barely speak English.

As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

258 Whom at Brown University has the juice to get away with murder?
Any princes?
Egyptian planes perhaps?

Posted by: Candy Owens at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (53oGX)

259 220 Is Brown considered Ivy League?
___

Ish.

Posted by: Providunce at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (qUkBO)

260 Mustapha from Palestine? Let's not waddle to conclusions just yet.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (DT8lM)

261 And people say, gee, how could the gunman escape so easily?

Well, when you play footsie with the truth and information...?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (C3IAS)

262 If she was the target, either a H8 crime being a lovely looking Conservatives or someone who wanted to get her.

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (fPt6j)

263 the Chief of Police is some ESL moron who should be down in Guadalajara selling tacos.

Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (QZThv)

264 These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

***

Like mooselimbs

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (Bo9Yf)

265 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.
Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (W7XSX)

huh, fools

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (g47mK)

266 Is there no cell phone video of the attack or aftermath? I mean, this is a college campus. All kids do is have their phones out capturing "content" and selfies. There are probably three phones and vid-capture devices (goggles, glasses, etc) for each student there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

267
People on X are out in front of this. The footage released has they/him walking with their/his hands clasped behind their/his back. Pictures of Mustapha also show they/him walking that way.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

When I mentioned earlier did the perp have distinctive shoes and was his walk analyzed I was being facetious... I was comparing it to the "evidence" Glenn Beck was using regarding the Jan 5th bomb placer.. I wasn't serious...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)

268 Can you have an accent in sign language?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

I don't know for sure, but probably yes. Most features of spoken language have analogies in sign language. Probably in sign language, the "accent" would be reflected in exactly where you place your hands and fingers, maybe what facial expressions you use, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

269 Where is Brown University in the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (2GVsD)

270 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

271 Did someone say Walk This Way?
Posted by: Aerosmith"

Yeah.

/Run DMC

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (XuXeR)

272 @45

>>Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines? Eff off.

Well, no, her words illustrate a sobering reality, the left is imposing their moral vision, ie, that conservative thought and ideology is to be countered and silenced by any means necessary and the current means the left is choosing to employ is assassination.

If the right does not implement and enforce their own moral vision, then the left's moral vision becomes de-facto.

And that's basically is happening, the left is murdering us, and we're holding candle light vigils.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (XV/Pl)

273 If you think the police are going to protect you, and keep you safe, you’re wrong.

Worse, even after you’re dead they will hide their bias, with incompetence only The Three Stooges could admire.

Carry. A. Firearm. It’s your right.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (PM/iv)

274 "Where does it end?"

With no conservatives on campus.

Posted by: Nemo at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (4RPgu)

275 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM

* waves arm *

I know, Professor Diogenes!

He was the inventor of Lindberger Cheese, and his research was sponsored by Big Penguin, who wanted to move the Overton Window on cheese bouquet toward the mephitic side.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (0sNs1)

276 If words are violence, and violence at the correct target is acceptable, then my words aimed at the correct targets are acceptable.

So it's not about words or violence.

It's about who/whom.

Like the old saying about the difference between ships and boats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (06Hmj)

277 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Allahu Akbar" = "I'm here to kill you"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

278 The Revolt of the Empire of Ghettos! We are all gonna need Light Sabers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (Wg6v7)

279 Oh, #246...are we doing that now?

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)

280 Where does it end?"

With no conservatives on campus.

===

Do what I do !

Posted by: Cucker Qatarlson at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (g47mK)

281

*TYPES, deletes*

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (g6TN6)

282 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

It has been more than 48 hours. Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (dK+Kv)

283 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.

Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

284 Love Qatar and it will set you freeeeeee!

Posted by: Cucker Qatarlson at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (g47mK)

285 Like the old saying about the difference between ships and boats.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

In the Navy, "boats" are submarines.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

286 Edited: I have rewritten the headline and the post to reflect that Halperin is only floating this as something he is "hearing," not something he can confirm. Apologies for stating it too strongly when I first posted.

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Dude, that's not the journalism way.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (L/fGl)

287 "We have no idea why someone shouting "Allah Akbar" and shooting the only conservative person on campus might do that. We also have no idea how he escaped us so easily. We also can't describe him in any way. He was wearing black if that helps. Also, weirdly, most of our security cameras were malfunctioning. OH, but don't worry, we can assure everyone he is not coming back to kill again. How do we know that? um...uh...."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (C3IAS)

288 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

It has been more than 48 hours. Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (dK+Kv)
____

True, but I meant 48 hours from this story that Cook was specifically targeted.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

289 Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job.
___

This indicates he is a Brown student with plenty of opportunity to scope out the cameras and a path to safety. Targeting the VP of the Young Republicans also indicates he is a student and perhaps interacted with her.

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It Down at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (qUkBO)

290 When I mentioned earlier did the perp have distinctive shoes and was his walk analyzed I was being facetious... I was comparing it to the "evidence" Glenn Beck was using regarding the Jan 5th bomb placer.. I wasn't serious...

This is a bit more conclusive than Beck's body language expert or whatever given not that many people walk with their hands behind their back. It's awkward. Also, the shooter's beanie slips at one point on the footage and you can see his hair, which is also a match.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (QZThv)

291 He was clearly shouting "Allahu Akbooourns."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (06Hmj)

292 Oh dear. Cleanup at Comment 246.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)

293 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"This is MAGA country!" is my guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)

294 It will all come out.

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (YwEeS)

295 I don't know for sure, but probably yes. Most features of spoken language have analogies in sign language. Probably in sign language, the "accent" would be reflected in exactly where you place your hands and fingers, maybe what facial expressions you use, that sort of thing.
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Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

296 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

297 "Allahu Akbar" = "I'm here to kill you"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

"We can't disclose what the killer may have yelled" = "I'm from the government, and I'm here to kill you"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (06Hmj)

298 Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.
Posted by: Ian S.

Asset forfeiture. Same as a drug dealer buying a house & fancy car.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (+x87d)

299 I don't know for sure, but probably yes.
...
Posted by: Bulg

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Now I wonder if there is an ebonics in sign language?

Like, do they make a "axe" sign instead of "ask"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (F1I3P)

300 I wasn't serious...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)

That was clear. 🙂

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (Wo1GJ)

301 Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

Phillies sign language is just a bunch of chin-brushes and middle fingers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (06Hmj)

302 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (g47mK)

303 True, but I meant 48 hours from this story that Cook was specifically targeted.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

Well, this is openly acknowledged unsourced or uncitable hearsay, so I am not sure how much credence one wants to give it in the first instance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

304 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

I've already set my hair on fire. I don't have 48 hours.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

305 Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses"

One of the owners was supposed to have said that they couldn't afford e-verify...

(It's free)

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (XuXeR)

306 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"This is MAGA country!" is my guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)
________

"My name is Inigo Montoya ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

307 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (VES6X)

308 Like I said earlier... the presser was a dumpster fire of incompetence.

One might ask the law enforcement folks if they've asked for and received video of the area(s) for some prescribed amount of time prior to the shooting? That might have been helpful, no?

Is Brown cooperating? Yes or no.

Anyone canvas the area?

These are just basic, minimal effort things that nobody seems to be able to answer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (NwnyJ)

309 >Where does it end?

Submission. Enslavement.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (Q+gd/)

310 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.
Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

Outstanding!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (c2vsb)

311 I am curious why the Police don't seem concerned that a mass shooter is still out there and the public shouldn't worry....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (VE6XX)

312 Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.
Posted by: Ian S.

Asset forfeiture. Same as a drug dealer buying a house & fancy car.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (+x87d)

These were taco joints, not Krispy Kremes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (dK+Kv)

313 "My name is Inigo Montoya ...."
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Uh-oh. It's gonna turn into another Rob Reiner thread, isn't it?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

314 I've already set my hair on fire"

The Michael Jackson move?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (XuXeR)

315 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"
-----

"Remember the Maine!"

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

316 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes

If he doesn't have a TikTok account, does he really matter?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (NZkDE)

317 I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY

Her ball hair. Keeps getting caught in her silk underwear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Pics?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

318 Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Maybe 50 years.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (L/fGl)

319 Can anyone tell me why there is a Miami Dolphin?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Wg6v7)

320
Now I wonder if there is an ebonics in sign language?

Like, do they make a "axe" sign instead of "ask"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (F1I3P)

LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

321 F F, 83 of N C Township passed away on Tuesday May 8, 2018 at his residence.

The FEC database says that he donated $25 (earmarked for seditious Chrissy Houlahan) and $5 to ActBlue on Dec 29, 2024

He has made at least 336 ActBlue donations since 2019, the year after he died.

I wonder how he did that.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (RHGPo)

322
Pics?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

You have that special search engine, I'm sure you can manage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

323 I am curious why the Police don't seem concerned that a mass shooter is still out there

They're well-hidden behind cars.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (NZkDE)

324 I paced with my hands behind my back and there isn't a drop of Arab blood in me.

Posted by: Zombie Casey Stengel at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (oftw2)

325 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

Ahh, memories.

Once upon a time, when we pulled some false flag bullshit as a pretext for war, we would still actually win the fucking war and take their damned land.

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (06Hmj)

326 "We've been trying to reach you regarding your car's extended warranty."

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (j7nqy)

327 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.

Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie Leonard Nimoy at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

329 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"
-----

"Remember the Maine!"

-
"23 skidoo!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

330 Odds, they haven't done a geo search of cell phones in the area at the time of the shooting?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wg6v7)

331 I am not sure how much credence one wants to give it in the first instance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

Without unwarranted credence what the hell are we supposed to talk about? Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

332 I wonder how he did that."

Yeah. Probably tired after all that voting..

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

333 "THIS IS SPARTA"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

334 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

54° 40' or fight!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

335 8 The civil war is somewhat uncivil.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (pkeXY)

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Posted by: Pistols and Pansies at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (rQwsY)

336 If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.
Posted by: Noble9 at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (a7PRn)

My guess? He wanted to date Ella. She told him to take a hike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

337 The incident is just incredibly heartbreaking . If send your kids to college you call them to see how they're doing. If you're people of faith , you pray for them . You wait for them to come for the winter break. Instead you get the horrible, gut wrenching news that they've been murdered . I do hope Brown is not also complicit in a coverup instead of being " just "incompetent .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (WFtAr)

338 Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

Mmmm. Billions of boobs. One could go swimming.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

339 Without unwarranted credence what the hell are we supposed to talk about? Boobs for the billionth time?
Posted by: ...

I'm in.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

340 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.

Posted by: pookysgirl, sick of the one-way street at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (Wt5PA)

341 "They couldn't afford e-Verify"

Meaning they couldn't afford to pay minimum wage.

Posted by: Wally at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (R+nQW)

342 328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black
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Spree killers often shoot around their targets to get rid of witnesses and to get away. Basically their mindset after killing one person, the rest are free as they can only fry or life imprison you for the first murder.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)

343 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (W7XSX)

344 My guess? He wanted to date Ella. She told him to take a hike.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

I kind of think that might be it.. If she was indeed the target

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

345 322
Pics?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

You have that special search engine, I'm sure you can manage.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Nah. I'll I've found are AI images and cropped gorilla photos.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (JCZqz)

346 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

Guilt by association.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

347 "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!"

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

348 We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.
Posted by: Frank Barone

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

There are only two ultimate destinations.
1. Inquisitions, like in Spain, and total cleansing of all muslims.
2. muslim takeover.

It may take decades, but unless you do #1, you end up with #2. Always.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (F1I3P)

349 Never ascribe to stupidity the actions of a group that can be explained by malice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (06Hmj)

350 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"? Might as well have been, for all the reticence the authorities are displaying.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (2L+MU)

351 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black

Unlucky. Just like the Bondi Beach hero.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (+x87d)

352 It would be ironic if the shooter was light in the loafers. The mayor of Providence is gay . He and his husband are fabulous. That may be another reason the cops aren't saying anything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (D+mpw)

353 Si se puede.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (W7XSX)

354 340 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.
Posted by: pookysgirl
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And like having a Muslim on campus, these types are polite when overwhelmingly in the minority. As you get more and more leftists/Muslims, their violence, demands, and assholish behavior increases in proportion with their fellow compatriots.

Essentially, you get purity spirals in such minority communities where each of the members egg on the other members into being the purest.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (WDjG6)

355 342 328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black
=======
Spree killers often shoot around their targets to get rid of witnesses and to get away. Basically their mindset after killing one person, the rest are free as they can only fry or life imprison you for the first murder.
Posted by: whig

You must not read many Lefty screeds. If you sit at a table with a Nazi, you're a Nazi, too. I'm sure Islam follows a similar belief. Bring them together, and...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (JCZqz)

356 Our "cold civil war" is heating up.

Our republican "leaders" had better do something to help their own people defend themselves before people HAVE to take matters into their own hands.

The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM

You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Not only will they do nothing to help us, they will do everything in their power to help the left. As they have been doing for decades. They hated the TEA Party, they hate MAGA, they hate Donald Trump.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (P5BPp)

357 247 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.

That should be a surprise to no one, but more broadly, it is a WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE. Period. Don't make you're uniquely special.

And this, only the 5th day of Jeffmas?

Up, Down, Left, Right all are their playthings and they get you to dance to whatever tune they play...

Yes, I recognize this tune, let's turn up the volume !!! forWARD !!!

Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.

History is not a series of Random Circumstance, it is a logical consequence of the people and ideas that lead up to it, where the guilty are rewarded, where the Innocent are Punished, where the mediocre, the Unworthy, the DEPRAVED are Championed on the basis of their mediocrity, their Unworthiness, their DEPRAVITY.

LIB Strategic Insanity must be Defeated.
Once again, a Presidential Moment that has passed by Rubio, Gabbard and only last hope in Trump...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (l657C)

358 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Worst in what respect ? They all seem to be anti semetic .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (WFtAr)

359 When the Right starts engaging in direct action of an extrajudicial nature, I will be neither surprised nor appalled.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (2L+MU)

360 301 Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

Phillies sign language is just a bunch of chin-brushes and middle fingers.

karen sign language is mostly bird hands

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (v3pYe)

361 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"? Might as well have been, for all the reticence the authorities are displaying.
Posted by: Paco

The fact that they AREN'T saying he yelled Aloha Snackbar tells me he yelled Aloha Snackbar.

Because if he would have yelled, "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY, it would have led every newscast.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (+x87d)

362
So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

Don't you dare carry one of those icky guns. Wearing a bulletproof vest just proves that you're deliberately triggering the rest of the student body.

Here's a restraining order, just hold it up in front of you...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (y9nCu)

363 Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

Mmmm. Billions of boobs. One could go swimming.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)
_____

Obligatory "boob room" at Museum of Sex:

https://tinyurl.com/3jtpezyu

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

364 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.

Posted by: pookysgirl, sick of the one-way street at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (Wt5PA)

You know who else treated college Democrats with respect? Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (Wo1GJ)

365 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

Look away! Look away! Dixie Land!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)

366 Brown was renamed after the Brown family. The family made a lot of their fortune in the slave trade. But the elite Ivy League can't mention that.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (D+mpw)

367 Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.
Posted by: Operator Error

Intercepted Comms:
Saudi Prince #34: Hey, Bush wants our support for his Iraq adventure.

SP #14: If we can get him to agree to take all these lunatics out of our neighborhood, we'll give him the support he wants.

SP #34: We'll say they are refugees fleeing the war he caused. I like it.

SP #25: Call up Assad, have him empty his prisons too. They are now 'asylum' seekers. (laughs)

SP #1: Agreed. Send these nuts over there, and let them fight it out. So we don't have to fight them over here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

368 The gunman yelled “oloha snackbar”… he thought he was in Hawaii and he was hungry

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (xT8gx)

369 But enough of my endless speculation.
Let's move on to YOUR endless speculation.

Posted by: Endless speculator at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (FtUtq)

370 You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Not only will they do nothing to help us, they will do everything in their power to help the left. As they have been doing for decades. They hated the TEA Party, they hate MAGA, they hate Donald Trump.
----

They didn't fight for our fundamental rights during Covid, and they didn't mount any defense for those January 6th defendants.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

371 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

372 This is all due to the rhetoric coming from the Trump White House and as long as he's allowed to be president and continue preaching his hate, these shootings will continue and there's nothing we can do about it because his words. I am Christian and this is God's will.

Posted by: Sen. Chris Murphy at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

373
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"?
-------

"Tippecanoe and Tylenol too." He was mad at RFK and Trump.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Wo1GJ)

374 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

He attended UWC Maastricht on a scholarship, where he engaged in community-building and social change initiatives. At Brown, he double-concentrates in International and Public Affairs and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on the Middle East.

His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)

375
Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.
The company noted that unauthorized tampering of exit doors has continued despite heightened awareness following a widely reported 2023 Asiana Airlines case in which a passenger opened an exit door in the middle of the flight
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM

-------

I didn't know that was possible.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (azNOR)

376
334 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

54° 40' or fight!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

This country has always been run by sick, evil warmongers.

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (rQwsY)

377 Obligatory "boob room" at Museum of Sex:

https://tinyurl.com/3jtpezyu
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

Hatemonger reees!

Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (9Ovst)

378 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

Hello ball!

Posted by: Ed Norton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

379 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

I haven't, but I am going to start in public, and see if I can catch the knowing glance of a fellow moron.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (dK+Kv)

380 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.
------

I don't know if its still true, but Liberty University used to make a point of having leftist guest speakers address their conservative Christian assemblies.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)

381 She was beautiful, and obviously smart and very, very brave to enter the liberal hole that is Brown University.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (nKjbR)

382 Now my life's goal is to organically work the phrase "boob room at the Museum of Sex" into a conversation.

"Man that guy couldn't get to second base if you locked him into the boob room at the Museum of Sex."

Or something to that effect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (06Hmj)

383 The freight train is rolling down the tracks, accelerating at an exponential rate, and the brakes are broken.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Q+gd/)

384
I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?

Is something more going on here that we're not seeing? This and the D.C. ambush. Are the Democrats intentionally going for "head" shots now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Il0Nj)

385

I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

not here!

https://tinyurl.com/mt6dknh8

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (g47mK)

386 367 Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.
Posted by: Operator Error

That’s been going on way before Bush XLIII I’m afraid.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)

387 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

He attended UWC Maastricht on a scholarship, where he engaged in community-building and social change initiatives. At Brown, he double-concentrates in International and Public Affairs and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on the Middle East.

His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)

That seems like a curriculum generated from a bunch of Rob Reindeer rants.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

388 352 It would be ironic if the shooter was light in the loafers. The mayor of Providence is gay . He and his husband are fabulous. That may be another reason the cops aren't saying anything
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I'll simply wait out the investigation. Speculation is a fun playtime for some, but then you always get the sort after the investigation concludes to argue they got the wrong guy etc. Some here still argue and believe Trooner loverboy didn't do it but Charlie's friendz did.

In complicated investigations where the perp is not caught red handed, it is always what theory has the highest likelihood of being true rather than trying to square all the observations and evidence.

Catch the guy if not a Muzzie, then someone will say well, the killer shouted Aloha Snackbar. Catch a guy that is Muzzie, well, my super scientific pantone color sense indicates that the revealed skin in the pix are simply a CIA redoing of the image or disguise to point the finger at the Muzzie community. Ad nauseam.

For some people with deeply set axioms, the killer cannot be someone who upsets those axioms.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)

389 356:... You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Correct, call them what they are:
CongressMONSTERS, rampaging Krampus each jockeying to become the Monster of the Moment at your expense.

The WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE.

....While the people who sponsor both sides, pitting man against other men, keep encouraging you to 'get involved', 'do your part', because ultimately for them, whose malevolent boredom and lack of finds you to be their best entertainment values.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (l657C)

390 29 So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

An illegal political organization?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)

391 hm, just use a different search engine ....

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (g47mK)

392 >>If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.

Per Grok

>As of December 16, 2025, the most recent public information about the leadership of the Republican Club of Brown University (also referred to as Brown College Republicans) indicates that Ella Cook, a sophomore, served as vice president. Multiple sources, including statements from the national College Republicans of America and Brown University officials, confirm this role prior to the tragic campus shooting on December 13, 2025, in which she was one of the victims killed.
No current president or chair is named in available reports or the club's official Brown University student activities page.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (viF8m)

393 She was beautiful, and obviously smart and very, very brave to enter the liberal hole that is Brown University.
Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (nKjbR)

Yes on all counts. Sadly it seems like every university these days is as big a hole a as Brown…. UT Austin, Texas Tech, University of Iowa for Pete’s sake…. All dominated by lefties in deep red states

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

394
Also, can we finally admit the MGM mass shooting was Certainly a targeted attack on Trump supporters?

Because it was. It was also very likely Government-assisted in some way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Il0Nj)

395 I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?

Is something more going on here that we're not seeing? This and the D.C. ambush. Are the Democrats intentionally going for "head" shots now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Il0Nj)

If it's pistol and it is targeted, it would make the most sense. If not, poor target choice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)

396 358 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Worst in what respect ? They all seem to be anti semetic .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I think Columbia is worst for antisemetism and being a bunch of filthy commies.

Harvard is worst for arrogance and being really fucking eye-wateringly incompetent.

Brown is mostly known for their school motto "We are Ivy League too!"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (F1I3P)

397 Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Grok summary also includes 3 pictures of him. Including one in what I think is a palestine scarf.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (P5BPp)

398 the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Yassir Arafat?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

399 Nude!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

400
Yes on all counts. Sadly it seems like every university these days is as big a hole a as Brown…. UT Austin, Texas Tech, University of Iowa for Pete’s sake…. All dominated by lefties in deep red states
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

Deborah Birx is the president of the Health and Human Sciences department.

THAT pisses me off greatly.

Posted by: Ed Norton at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

401 Hello ball!
Posted by: Ed Norton
----------

bravo.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (F1I3P)

402 His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Interests also include:

piña coladas
gettin' caught in the rain

..too soon?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (Dv3i1)

403 Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

He’s JUST all right.

Oh yeah.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (rQwsY)

404 384
I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?
Posted by: Soothsayer
==========
Head shots are almost always fatal if your cartridge power allows it to penetrate the skull.

Reason why it is a fallback for the Mozambique drill--in combat, it is easier to hit center mass but if you are a mercenary (Roarke IIRC) and find that does not work, then shoot the head.

Reason why it is not taught more is a) it is harder to pull off--the head is more mobile and as the assassins of Trump found out, a slight change of head position can throw off the shot, and b) schools teaching shooting for self defense emphasize shooting center mass as it is easier and are a bit squeamish in some cases to emphasize what needs to be done to stop a determined attack.

A) a big wound channel leaking a lot of blood leading to circulatory collapse, or B) a central nervous system shot that shuts down the spine, brain, etc inducing usually fatal consequences. C) aiming for the pelvic girdle is also a less taught option becuz if your opponent is armed, they can still shoot you.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)

405 Boobies!

https://is.gd/RGZ7lO

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (uv8gn)

406 308 Like I said earlier... the presser was a dumpster fire of incompetence.

One might ask the law enforcement folks if they've asked for and received video of the area(s) for some prescribed amount of time prior to the shooting? That might have been helpful, no?

Is Brown cooperating? Yes or no.

Anyone canvas the area?

These are just basic, minimal effort things that nobody seems to be able to answer.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (NwnyJ)

You ask and we will arrest you for interference in our investigation. Fucking idiot.

Posted by: Police Officers at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (rQwsY)

407 Meaning they couldn't afford to pay minimum wage.
Posted by: Wally at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (R+nQW)

Meaning they didn't want to pay minimum wage, knowing they could get illegals to work for less. They knew what they were doing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (npFr7)

408 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: boob room at the Museum of Sex at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (FtUtq)

409 394
Also, can we finally admit the MGM mass shooting was Certainly a targeted attack on Trump supporters?

Because it was. It was also very likely Government-assisted in some way.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Dunno. The alternative theory is that shooting a bunch of people was a cover for a targeted hit on the currrent ruling bin Salman Saudi royals. Notably, almost one month later is when all the other Saudi royal factions were deballed and incarcerated briefly.

The girlfriend probably had some unsavory Abu Sayef ties, the gambling gun dealer with fed ties had no motive, the gubmint, like on other causes did a purposefully shitty job on protecting evidence in the suspect's home (like Epstein's residences and other places). Gives an excuse for losing inconvenient 'evidence'.

Trump is uncharateristically silent on it and the investigation so my guess is it had foreign power implications (could be Deep State but I think he would comment on it if that was the case like Epstein).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (WDjG6)

410 "It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?"

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...you cannot be a conservative without being murdered.

Posted by: RM at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (n/1Oj)

411 That was clear. 🙂
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM

I strive for that, myself.

Posted by: Barack H. Soetoro at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (0sNs1)

412 410...Where does it end?"
...you cannot be a conservative without being murdered.

Shouldn't some be sacrificed so that others may live?

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025 - libKILLAH's answering her Call on the 5th day of Jeffmas.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- ctHILLARY'04, preparing a special 13th day of Jeffmas for us all !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (l657C)

413 Kind of curious that you wouldn’t have to badge into an engineering building.

Posted by: Unkaren at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (V5D1U)

414 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM

Yep. The time to deport all Muslims and ban them from ever returning was 09/12/2001. When only 1 million were in the USA.

Instead, the Muslim population has increased from 1 million to 4.5 million over the past 2+ decades. and Muslims have taken positions of power all across the country at all levels of government, schools and institutions. And are continuing to conquer the USA as they already have the UK, Paris and Australia.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:02 PM (P5BPp)

415 I have words, most of the four letter kind. Where was the other side to Charlie Kirk's words? Where was defense of what he said, the millions that thanked him for giving them a different perspective? This was yet another hit piece on a man by someone who is supposed to be near the center? If so, the center can go to hell as well.

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Posted by: faulty product at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (4+s52)

417 Another "Allahu Akbar" day in the news. But, but the white nationalist and skin heads.

Posted by: Shera_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (ugtaH)

418 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (ugtaH)

419 Terrorists and Violent Felons belong in Prison not at Collage or University

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Rant: No American Soldiers In Eastern Europe!

Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, "Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine." So the idea of some security agreement with Ukraine that mirrors NATO's Article 5 is essentially allowing Ukraine into NATO without all of that pesky cooperation and standardization and massive bureaucracy and, by the way, no equal commitment from the rest of the members.

And that's exactly what they want! France and Germany don't want their soldiers to get chewed up and spit out in Donetsk. They want American soldiers to do their dirty work, so they can enjoy some strudel and a good Eiswein, or a lovely croissant and a couple of espressos while they read the news of American blood and treasure being spent once again in Europe.

Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes. They have been going on for a very long time, and most of them have been nasty wars that expose the curious lack of interest in the lives of those who are fighting them. Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

Kyiv's Top Negotiator Hails 'Real Progress' During 2nd Day of Peace Talks in Berlin

Ahead of the first meeting, Zelenskyy said on Dec. 14 that Kyiv is open to dropping its NATO ambitions in exchange for Western security guarantees.
“Thus, today, bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, and security guarantees from European colleagues, as well as other countries — Canada, Japan — are an opportunity to prevent another Russian invasion,” Zelenskyy said in a WhatsApp chat with reporters.
It remains unclear how discussions have progressed on that and other issues, such as territorial concessions, which have been key sticking points in the process.
The Kremlin said on Dec. 15 that Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO was fundamental to the peace settlement.

This war is going to end only when Ukraine and its European cheerleaders admit that they have lost territory that will probably never be returned. Yes, that's not fair. And it wasn't fair that I didn't get the GI Joe with the Kung-Fu grip when I was eight years old, but that's the way of the world!

Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that.

Here's my plan. Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace. Continue support for Poland's military buildup, which is a wonderful buffer against any Russian intransigence.

And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 #1 with a bu.... maybe i shouldn't use that saying after this past weekend.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (+x87d)

3 Top 10!

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:01 AM (TN0g+)

4 >>And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (NuV6c)

5 Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that.

And yet, I was assured by many here that Russia just needed time to get its act together, and when that inevitably happened, they'd roll over Ukraine in short order.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

6 Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."
>>>>

If only we could go back in time 25 years and said that.

Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

7 The fading EU is desperate for a shooting war to help them (they think) to recement their control, which is slipping. But they don't have any effective military forces, so they're desperate to get the US to do it for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK8)

8 Neither Russia nor Ukraine have any incentive to stop fighting. So they won't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

9
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (y9nCu)

10 7 The fading EU is desperate for a shooting war to help them (they think) to recement their control, which is slipping. But they don't have any effective military forces, so they're desperate to get the US to do it for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK

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I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

11 The plan is to send native Europeans and Americans to Ukraine to die, and replace them with mohammedans who will build harems out of the women left alone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (0U5gm)

12 And yet, I was assured by many here that Russia just needed time to get its act together, and when that inevitably happened, they'd roll over Ukraine in short order.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

The only interesting part of this war has been the advancement in drone tech, and the way that it has made advancing in the open almost impossible for any significant force.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK8)

13 Dear Europe,

Fuck you, do it yourself.

XOXO

Duke

PS Fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (u73oe)

14 I've read that globalists in Ei rope are pushing Ukraine to bring in immigrants, such as Indians.
Not enough to send 100's of thousands off to be killed by Russia and sending their wives and children to other countries as refugees. Now they want to 'diversify' it with non-Westerners, non-Christians to completely finish it off.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (NuV6c)

15 Just as a reminder, here's the original Bismarck quote.

The authentic quote, spoken in a speech to the German Reichstag in December 1876, was:

"The whole of the Balkans is not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

16 dropping its NATO ambitions in exchange for Western security guarantees.

—

I don’t want a hamburger. I just want a bun with a beef patty in the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (udlma)

17
Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

Thanks, Colin Powell. You clueless asswipe.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (y9nCu)

18 I cannot take the prospect of U.S. soldiers in Ukraine seriously at all.

Perhaps I should but it is far-fetched and doesn't make any sense geo-political or otherwise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (CTokg)

19 speaking of Eastern Europe, "Christmas market ISIS 'mass terror attack' plot' foiled in Poland"...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK)

20 The only interesting part of this war has been the advancement in drone tech, and the way that it has made advancing in the open almost impossible for any significant force.

I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

21 And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

Amen, and then some.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (2L+MU)

22 >>The plan is to send native Europeans and Americans to Ukraine to die, and replace them with mohammedans who will build harems out of the women left alone.

harems -> slaves
and kill off their male children not old enough to enlist

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (NuV6c)

23 Europe is already lost.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (W7XSX)

24 I want to see Russia mix it up with Poland.

They will discover that Poland hates them more than Ukraine does, and Poland's armed forces are bigger, better, and better equipped.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (n9ltV)

25 what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

>>>>

Sadly, too many people are asleep. They think Islam is just like Christianity.

It's not.

It CAN be no big deal, as it was when the West was the strong horse and the middle east wanted to copy it- look at pictures from the 1960s and early 1970s in Egypt, Iraq, and Iran.

But we've revealed we're a paper tiger- not from lack of capability, but from lack of will.

And the will of Islam to murderously oppress everyone opposed to it looks like the strong horse.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

26
Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes.

Sort of like the Monroe Doctrine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (pkeXY)

27 and...this is the way : "A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:07 AM (g47mK)

28 I told you Australians are close in spirit to us Americans!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:07 AM (g47mK)

29 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor. - The James Madison

Sheesh! Not another remake!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (2L+MU)

30 Trump understands that if he agrees to any boots on the ground agreement in Ukraine , his support will crumble to near zero right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (udlma)

31 "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

Those Germans knew how to train their dogs well.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (zjgNU)

32
Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

Dennis Prager wants us to be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (pkeXY)

33 To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, "Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine."

Or Neville Chamberlain: "Why should we be involved over a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (ufSfZ)

34 Europe is already lost.

I disagree. As someone here pointed out yesterday, the Muslim fraction of their populations is lower than it seems at first glance, because you usually hear something like "Mohammad is the most popular name in Amsterdam (or another city)." However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

35 Me? I DID get the GI Joe with kung-fu grip. And he talked, too! Behold my privilege!

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (ZiGm9)

36 >>and...this is the way : "A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists."

The sender will be arrested and jailed for hate crimes.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

37 I'm reading a proposed deal by the Euroweenies and Zelenskyy has not been signed on by the US...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (VE6XX)

38 I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

We won't until they happen to us.

Our generals are always fighting the last war and the current ones DEFINITELY don't have the vision to respond to others' mistakes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

39 Thx CBD. The Ukes better get a peace deal quick because the Russians are overrunning a big remaining section of the Zaporitzia oblast. The Ukes are just about out of reserves.

Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

40 There's nothing worth defending with Europe--they're busy turning their nations over to the moslems. I'd rather do business with Russia.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

41
I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor. - The James Madison

Sheesh! Not another remake!
Posted by: Paco

Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (pkeXY)

42 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

Just saw something along those lines yesterday - Germany's government has decided it's a bad look to have a non--existent military. So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

So think about this - the Uke War has demonstrated that advanced tech in the form of drones and standoff weapons is the way wars will be fought now. And so Merz has decided that the way to show his country's might is to round up a bunch of half witted conscripts, hand them shovels, and tell them to go dig ditches. Riiiigghhhtt...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (uWKK8)

43
I want to see Russia mix it up with Poland.

They will discover that Poland hates them more than Ukraine does, and Poland's armed forces are bigger, better, and better equipped.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (n9ltV)

Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders. See: Miracle on the Vistula circa 1920.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (y9nCu)

44 >I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

Berlin will not enjoy the result the second time around. The Poles may no longer have Winged Hussars, but they are much better armed than what passes for the Wermacht.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (NgqoH)

45 Trump understands that if he agrees to any boots on the ground agreement in Ukraine , his support will crumble to near zero right?

I honestly don't know what Trump understands anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (ufSfZ)

46 Our generals are always fighting the last war and the current ones DEFINITELY don't have the vision to respond to others' mistakes.

I hope you and I are both wrong, and there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than we know.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

47 Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years?
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While I agree with your basic point, that Russia is weaker than previously thought, i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for. I see this a lot, that Russia couldn't even conquer Ukraine, much less Germany or France.

Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

48 Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

It will be soon. I read somewhere that 40% of German kids under 12 are from migrant background. Not sure on how accurate that is, but the fact that it's plausible is enough.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (0bjKf)

49 Eastern Europe > Western Europe.

I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

50 42 Just saw something along those lines yesterday - Germany's government has decided it's a bad look to have a non--existent military. So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

So think about this - the Uke War has demonstrated that advanced tech in the form of drones and standoff weapons is the way wars will be fought now. And so Merz has decided that the way to show his country's might is to round up a bunch of half witted conscripts, hand them shovels, and tell them to go dig ditches. Riiiigghhhtt...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (uWKK

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I can't wait.

Gosh, I wish Trump would just abandon our bases in West Germany.

Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

51 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

That is...truly astonishing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

52 On one hand: Russia is a paper tiger.

On the other hand: The paper tiger would kill a bunch of American Troops and is not worth the price, therefore it should be the Europeans that get killed in Donetsk.

I disagree with the former, and agree with the latter.

Posted by: mossomo at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (pky95)

53 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

54 53 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

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The English have a history of subjugating Muslim populations and ruling the seas, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

55 I have an alternate suggestion: We build and keep our own weapons and don't sell them to the Ukes at all. Russia sucks but we shouldn't be involved on either side, period. I'm tired of all of this shit.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (3BwY8)

56 I was in Strasbourg a few years ago around this time of year. They have a cool Christmas market and the whole downtown area is bedazzled in Christmas lights.

Two things that made it less than ideal. First was the majority of people selling things in the market were Arabs. Second the security presence was overwhelming. Not just police but also soldiers. Everywhere. And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder. Which made things safer but was also a constant reminder that they’re there because it’s unsafe.

That’s reality for Europe now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (udlma)

57 Germany will march through Poland to Russia!

--1939 called and wants its Panzers back

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (g47mK)

58 Fuck Europe. It's gone. It may come back, but it'll be generations from now. I won't be alive to see it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)

59 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

Yeah, but Vienna is going to be sacked from the inside this time, so there will be no riding to the rescue from Poland.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

60 Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.
Posted by: Archimedes

Christmas markets are being cancelled. Now, a big concert that is usually held on the Champs Elysees on New Years Eve is being replaced by some kind of virtual thing that people are being encouraged to watch from their apartments. The absolute numbers don't matter as long as these craven governments keep empowering the culture enrichers.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

61 51 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

Give them spoons.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (PiwSw)

62 Trump has been very clear that he will not send troops to Ukraine as a part of a security deal. Anyone claiming otherwise just refuses to listen to what he says.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

63 49 Eastern Europe > Western Europe.

I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

Absolutely. And I would posit that we will see Europe ignite in our lifetime.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (N39Ws)

64 And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder.

Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)

65 I might care about what happens to Europe if the Europeans cared about what happens to Europe.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (u73oe)

66 >Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at

Kinda like Robert Irsay did with the Baltimore Colts.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (rJ48h)

67 ‘ Here's my plan. ..’
Damn. CBD. Now I don’t even need to comment (apart from some smartass remarks that I know everyone enjoys).

No. Russia shouldn’t be allowed to invade with impunity.
Yes. They’re so weak they can be stopped easily with EUROPEAN troops.
No. We shouldn’t give Ukraine a guarantee that amounts to NATO membership.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (jbnUc)

68 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army

Does Ethel know about this?

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (2L+MU)

69 And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder.

Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (TN0g+)

70 However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

And the cities are where the political power ultimately lies.

Look at the French and Russian Revolutions.

Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

71 I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

I've looked at the accounts of the US Navy engaging Yemen early this year. Public accounts were mostly sugarcoated, and there are no "reporters" any more with the sense to understand the military in any way, so they reprint whatever is spoonfed to them.

But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that the Navy narrowly missed suffering a major disaster, such as losing a ship, and the amount of missiles we had to expend to guard against threats vastly exceeded the cost of the low tech drones and missiles that the Yemeni's kept sending. In the long run it was probably a good thing, and I hope the Navy learned the lesson that they need to vastly upgrade their systems and operational plans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)

72 And I would posit that we will see Europe ignite in our lifetime.

"Been there, done that."

- - Sir Edward Grey

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (ufSfZ)

73 "Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace."

yes, imo we should remain The World's Superpower, but friendly liberty minded countries need to supply manpower and cash -- as we provide leadership, technology, and various political persuasions.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (vbXSk)

74 disagree. As someone here pointed out yesterday, the Muslim fraction of their populations is lower than it seems at first glance, because you usually hear something like "Mohammad is the most popular name in Amsterdam (or another city)." However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

—

This is like people who say if you take out Seattle, Washington is a deep red state. Well OK but Seattle is where most people in the state live. You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

75 There remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. Thus they constantly 'want to help' and pour money into the place. They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)

76 "Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate"

Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

This entire war is cask-strength bullshit and ops designed to scam stupid Americans and westerners out of their money. I don't believe a word of it. Not. One. Word.

Fuck both Uke and Russia. I don't give a flaming rat's nutsack about either of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

77 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

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The English have a history of subjugating Muslim populations and ruling the seas, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

They also don't like the Jews much either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

78 >>I've looked at the accounts of the US Navy engaging Yemen early this year. Public accounts were mostly sugarcoated, and there are no "reporters" any more with the sense to understand the military in any way, so they reprint whatever is spoonfed to them.

You know who has some very advanced anti-drone technology? Israel.

Maybe we should be friends with Israel. They might even help with the Golden Dome. They've got some good technology on that too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (viF8m)

79
Headline (Barron's):

"Oil prices tumble to lowest levels since 2021. Here are the big concerns."

Concerns!

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

80 💩 Tin can't be the entire Russian government. He's the face of those who are continuing the history of Russians warring against their neighbors, in this case, their cousins.
They're insane. For less than the financial cost to Russia for this war, Russia could have paid the Ukrainians to shit-can their totally corrupt government and join Russia.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (fPASK)

81 They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.

Europe today is nothing like 1975.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)

82
Q: You're a Polish soldier. Your rifle has two bullets. A German soldier and a Russian soldier are advancing on you. Who do you shoot first.

A: The Russian. Business before pleasure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (tgvbd)

83 79
Headline (Barron's):

"Oil prices tumble to lowest levels since 2021. Here are the big concerns."

Concerns!

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

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What is Trump doing about the affordability crisis, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

84 Trump's youngest kid is an expert on oil prices now?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

85 But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that the Navy narrowly missed suffering a major disaster, such as losing a ship, and the amount of missiles we had to expend to guard against threats vastly exceeded the cost of the low tech drones and missiles that the Yemeni's kept sending. In the long run it was probably a good thing, and I hope the Navy learned the lesson that they need to vastly upgrade their systems and operational plans.

One has to wonder if, as with battleships, the era of the big military platform is over. I'm not sure there is a solution to the problem of vast quantities of cheap, disposable drones other than to adopt the same approach.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

86 Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)

Heh. Well I speak their language. 😀
I also have a feeling they wouldn’t take much shit from a dumb Yankee tourist. Those dudes looked all business.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (udlma)

87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (n9ltV)

88 13 Dear Europe,

Fuck you, do it yourself.

XOXO

Duke

PS Fuck you.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (u73oe)

Nominated for Threadwinner

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

89 Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

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Dearborn 55%

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (NNq22)

90 87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

Russia found that out.. Of course without our billions it would have been a different story

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (VE6XX)

91 I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly."

I'd rather defend Texas...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

92 I'm quite fine with Europe figuring out this problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (+4yJ5)

93 >>I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.

Not just material but intel. We've been supplying Ukraine with advanced satellite and other intel since the start of the war. Without it they would have lost long ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (viF8m)

94 75 There remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. Thus they constantly 'want to help' and pour money into the place. They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)

Only feelz I have for Europe is utter disdain and disgust. If (when) we go back, I'm all for making what is left of Europe a US territory. They've repeatedly shown they can't govern themselves without us bailing them out.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (N39Ws)

95 87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (n9ltV)

Slavic stubborness for the...stalemate. But they are still fighting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

96 41 Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be. - Bertram Cabot

Funny movie (Carole Lombard's last, I believe).

Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (2L+MU)

97 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Also the fact that, though not as big as Russia, of course, it is still a huge country (the second-largest in Europe).

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

98 Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

99 91 I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly."

I'd rather defend Texas...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

The El Paso Reconquista will be bloody but needed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

100 96 41 Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be. - Bertram Cabot

Funny movie (Carole Lombard's last, I believe).

Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (2L+MU)

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Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

101
I don't know if Trump is getting bamboozled or not. But at least he's trying to deal with the situation as it is and not as we want it to be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (tgvbd)

102 "Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM

It wasn't just Putin. A lot of conventional wisdom was that Ukraine was screwed up to and including maybe a week after Russia invaded. Also, I seem to recall several people who should have known better were touting the size of Iraq's military in 2003. Removing Hussein wasn't going to be easy, there's going to be tens of thousands of casualties, he's been building military defenses in depth for decades, etc. I think we can safely conclude that just comparing numbers is a quick way to get it wrong.

Posted by: Semper Why at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (CXFWL)

103 Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".
Posted by: Paco

We'll have the singing Hitlers over there and the dancing Hitlers over there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

104 Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

After mobilizing 300,000 men early in the war, Russia has been able to get by with volunteers (by paying enormous bonuses by the standards of rural Russia).

(Russia, like it has for decades, also drafts 300,000 men a year for one-year terms, but they aren't sent to Ukraine.)

If Russia had taken a million casualties, it wouldn't be able to do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (xTIDn)

105 Ukraine had one glorious moment back in 22, then they said "see ! we can cause Putin collapse" , the Euros bought into it and sucked Bidet/US/NATO into the scheme. 3 years later, Ukraine is missing 1/4 of its territory, the resource rich one..

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (g47mK)

106 They also don't like the Jews much either."

Brits to Jews: go enjoy that beach at low tide...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (XuXeR)

107 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

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And I look forward to the eventual counter offensive by Polish forces and the ensuing Second Battle of Berlin, where the Poles get to finally beat the living snot out of one of their detestable neighbors.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (5yDGQ)

108 Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate"

Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

This entire war is cask-strength bullshit and ops designed to scam stupid Americans and westerners out of their money. I don't believe a word of it. Not. One. Word.

Fuck both Uke and Russia. I don't give a flaming rat's nutsack about either of them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM

Agree. 95+% of what we're told about this war is bullshit propaganda.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)

109
I'm sure the solution the European big brains will come up with will work as well as it did in the Balkans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (tgvbd)

110 The sender will be arrested and jailed for hate crimes.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM

It appears our Lizzy is also a seeress.

I give it a day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (kgE5c)

111 One has to wonder if, as with battleships, the era of the big military platform is over. I'm not sure there is a solution to the problem of vast quantities of cheap, disposable drones other than to adopt the same approach.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

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Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (NNq22)

112 My apologies - I was dusting the keyboard.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (2ap+5)

113 Eastern European countries

These?

(Wikipedia)
In broadest definition, there are 28 countries that constitute the region of Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (East Thrace), and Ukraine.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (RuTUS)

114 They're insane. For less than the financial cost to Russia for this war, Russia could have paid the Ukrainians to shit-can their totally corrupt government and join Russia.
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (fPASK)

They were doing that, and then we ran a color revolution in Ukraine and kicked out the Russian's corrupt President, installed our own corrupt President and Russia decided they had to go to the mattress to 'rebuild' the borders to 1988 lines.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

115 In Texas only 28% of children enrolled in public school are white.

Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (udlma)

116 People have lost the ability to understand tradeoffs. They set up an idealized outcome and make no consideration for the costs of achieving that outcome—costs which in war are lives lost. So they never have to say how many lives lost are worth it to achieve their goal.

Yes, a peace deal rewards Putin. Okay. Now, how many lives are you willing to spend to not have a peace deal, compared to the lives that will be lost with a peace deal?

There is almost certainly an argument to be made for both options, but no one on the “no peace” side are willing to even acknowledge that costs exist.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (EXyHK)

117 remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. "

It's Disney lite...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (XuXeR)

118 Over 100 so I'm going off topic:

Locally over the weekend, I saw in the news that a woman had livestreamed a murder and then was in a standoff with police.

I thought this was surprising. While possible, women aren't generally that openly confrontational with deadly weapons, especially with guns. (Words and slaps, hair pulls, etc... yes. But not often with guns.)

Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

Ah, everything makes sense now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

119 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, Frank Morgan's character tries to commit suicide and is only thwarted at the last moment. Only Lubitsch could pull off an attempted suicide in a rom-com.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

120 AMERICA....Fuck Yeaaaaaaah.... comin again to save the mutha fuckin day yeaaaah

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (nJthq)

121 Agree. 95+% of what we're told about this war is bullshit propaganda.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (g8Ew

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When it started, Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse blog was mockingly calling it "World War Reddit."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (NNq22)

122 What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

Except Italy’s native birth rate is at 1.2 or something like that. They’re dying out with or without immigrants.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (udlma)

123 119 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, Frank Morgan's character tries to commit suicide and is only thwarted at the last moment. Only Lubitsch could pull off an attempted suicide in a rom-com.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

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Good enough for a video! (soon...)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

124 Ukraine vs Russia has been a proxy war for us. And as a proxy war it has accomplished a lot of the USA's goals at a high price in dollars (and thankfully not in American lives). We should remember that it is a proxy war and sometimes your proxy loses.

Logistically, I think the bases in Europe are too valuable to just abandon without having alternate facilities at the ready. But if we decided that our support for our Ukraine friends isn't worth the price we're paying, I'm 100% on board with wishing them luck and pulling the plug.

Posted by: Semper Why at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (CXFWL)

125 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (qv38K)

126 And listen to the winds of change.

Posted by: Scorpions!! at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (VF6cf)

127 39 Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

Nice.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (RuTUS)

128 Huge expose at The Post about the consummate , life long grifter and online terrorist, candy ovens : "Inside Candace Owens’ ‘sadistic and dangerous’ world monetizing baseless conspiracies"

https://tinyurl.com/58wz4x85

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (g47mK)

129 Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

Ah, everything makes sense now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

There is a huge amount of pent-up violence in that population, and I hope it manifests against the establishment that pushed trans-everything.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

130
Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I rather suspect that the Russians would have been successful if they weren't idiots. I mean, invading Ukraine at the BEGINNING of the mud season???!? That stupidity forced them to keep all of their men and equipment on the roads where they were easy pickings for Uke anti-armor.

Once they got bogged down on the roads, defeat or Great War II: Trench Warfare Electric Boogaloo was inevitable. They may still defeat the Ukes, but it'll be damned expensive, and it may end up bringing down the whole country in the process. Depends on how badly the ChiComs want Siberia's resources.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (y9nCu)

131 The spice will continue to flow. If Russia brings out the atomics then it's a done deal. That won't happen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (nljXp)

132 Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian."

Much like Japan...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (XuXeR)

133 Europe is a dump heap and the people living there are garbage.

Time for them to go away and stop bothering the grown ups.

Posted by: Europa Is A Dirty Whore at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (YyIMQ)

134 Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

135 122 What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

Except Italy’s native birth rate is at 1.2 or something like that. They’re dying out with or without immigrants.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (udlma)

Is that where the Paolo is from?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (RuTUS)

136 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

137 war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

And that right there is the existential question.
Unless the West physically expels ALL Islam, necessarily by force, we will lose our civilization.
Sounds dramatic, but is hardly debatable.

Posted by: RI Red at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (7Pd3v)

138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

139 >>They were doing that, and then we ran a color revolution in Ukraine and kicked out the Russian's corrupt President, installed our own corrupt President and Russia decided they had to go to the mattress to 'rebuild' the borders to 1988 lines.

And we didn't just run a color revolution and leave. We've been running Ukraine since the Maidan coup. Well the CIA has been running it.

The war has always been a proxy war between Russia and NATO. Ukraine was a useful pawn but without the hundreds of billions in weapons, intel and cash poured into Ukraine by the west Russia would have won a long time ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)

140 Eastern European countries

These?

(Wikipedia)
In broadest definition, there are 28 countries that constitute the region of Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (East Thrace), and Ukraine.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM

Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (kgE5c)

141 138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Friday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

142 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (qv38K)

"Messiah Trump" . I laughed- loudly. Trump is not my Messiah. He's my President.

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (2sfNr)

143 Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals,
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Russia isn't fighting only Ukraine in Ukraine.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (qrkyB)

144 Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

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The Great Transgender Genocide proceeds unabated and apace ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (NNq22)

145 141 138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

Rebecca Black or Ice Cube?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

146 The way I remember it, seemingly right on the heels of the disastrous, middle of the night let’s not tell anybody even our allies we’re leaving Afghanistan (where some non-trivial amount of multi-billions in weaponry and aircraft were criminally abandoned)

All of a sudden, the Narrative did this pivot to “Rally Round The Flag, Boys!” on the Ukraine. We simply had to protect their “freedom and democracy” despite everyone knowing they aren’t free or even close to a democracy.

Then the usual suspects got in front of the cameras on all the state networks and demanding eleventy gazillion dollars a year in perpetuity for this debacle, or they threatened Americans directly to do otherwise would mean “boots on the ground” in the Ukraine. Extortion.

Couldn’t believe it. And even more unbelievable were all these old hippie “antiwar” freaks leading the charge. I am in awe of the power of government suggestion & hypnosis, or whatever it is that turns ordinary people into raving idiots.

The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons. Ya gotta admit that’s amazing shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (E4WLu)

147 Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe

Or just the equivalent of CIWS using hopped-up shotgun/flechette rounds. Much less impacted by atmospheric conditions. Also, I'm old fashioned like that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (OUMaO)

148 some choice bits !

"She wasn’t invited to Charlie’s [2021] wedding. That was really telling.” "

"A source who knows the family said George (her husbad) “has never had a real job” and is mostly known for his lackluster attempt to launch a right-wing Twitter alternative called Parler, which is still active, but has a dwindling number of users."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (g47mK)

149 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM

Rule #1.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (kgE5c)

150 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Indeed. The Shop Around the Corner is one of my favorite romantic comedy-drama films.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (2L+MU)

151 Leftist Euros will believe in multiculturalism right up to and including their beheading.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (udlma)

152 Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

Nice.
Posted by: m

Didn't Bismarck also say something along the lines of "God takes care of lunatics, drunks, and the United States of America"?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

153 real power couple! Like Mr and Mrs Markle!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (g47mK)

154 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (kgE5c)

Well it's not Western European, it's not Asian. Where would you categorize it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

155 145 Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

Rebecca Black or Ice Cube?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

=====

Rebecca Black is an unsung musical genius at the same level as Dead or Alive!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

156 Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

This also erodes the real warfighting capabilities of the military. Being the "policeman" since 1950 has cause us to fail in just about every conflict since. We fight well, but we have forgotten how to win.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (2WIwB)

157 The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons. Ya gotta admit that’s amazing shit.

Posted by: Common Tater

The NPC meme found purchase for a reason.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (OUMaO)

158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

159 [ZERO] Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker.

Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with at least four other supertankers en route to Venezuelan ports. They made u-turns on fears of facing US military interdiction.

This also comes after last Friday Bloomberg and others reported that Washington was preparing to carry out further seizures of sanction-linked oil tankers off Venezuela's coast.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (TN0g+)

160 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Great news !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

161 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Yay on all that!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (RuTUS)

162 >> I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...

Great news.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (viF8m)

163 Leftist Euros will believe in multiculturalism right up to and including their beheading.

As predicted in Camp of the Saints.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (xTIDn)

164 @152 Bulg, I believe so. He also had some great quotes about the Russians many of them involving calling the Russians "apes"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (D+mpw)

165 150 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Indeed. The Shop Around the Corner is one of my favorite romantic comedy-drama films.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (2L+MU)

=======

I found out that Lubitsch is in the trailer. It's just Frank Morgan talking to the camera with some clips from the movie, and then Lubitsch wanders into frame. Morgan won't let him talk.

It's amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

166 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It's located in southeastern Europe. The Balkans also count as Eastern Europe.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

167 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Awesome! Rest well.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (OUMaO)

168 He also had some great quotes about the Russians many of them involving calling the Russians "apes"

Hitler said the Russians were strong backs and weak minds.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

169 @158 great to hear jim , get some rest

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (D+mpw)

170 Do we need an expose to know Candy Cane Owens is a grifter? Lol.

For me this is a hate the game not the player thing. She figured out there is a sizable amount of retarded people online who will believe her shit. I can’t blame her for capitalizing on it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (udlma)

171 "Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace."

Then do the EXACT same thing for Israel.
Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

172 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Great news, Jim. What bar are going to for the celebration?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

173 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

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There's no way to depict that Crazy Axis in two-dimensional space.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (NNq22)

174 pretty complicated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (RuTUS)

175 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Nice going, Jim! Wishing you a speedy recovery (and a long, restorative nap).

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (2L+MU)

176 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

I love The Doll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

178 Imagine if there was some way to guarantee a separation between Europe and Russia, some sort of, I dunno, a trade union that included Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy that would both guarantee free trade between themselves from the Baltic to the Adriatic, and from East to West.
It could be called Mitteleuropa or something.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (rbvCR)

179 Agreed. Now do the Middle East. We just had some soldiers killed there.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (8mulE)

180 176 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

I love The Doll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

======

For good reason!

Have you seen The Oyster Princess or The Wildcat?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

181 Yeah Greece may be geographically “Eastern Europe” but culturally they’re not really.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (udlma)

182
Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

===============

And if the non-whites are persuaded to vote a certain way, racial justice will at long last be achieved.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (n7rxJ)

183 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

get well soon , jim!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)

184 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Glad to hear it, Jim!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (xcxpd)

185 Susie Wiles gives multiple interviews to Vanity Fair over the last year.

Now that part one of the two-part piece has dropped, Susie Wiles complains that it's a hit piece.

WTF did she think Vanity Fair would do?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

186 Contracts are like young girls hearts. Made to be broken.

Sorry NATO, it's not you, it's me.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (wBaIH)

187 165 I found out that Lubitsch is in the trailer. It's just Frank Morgan talking to the camera with some clips from the movie, and then Lubitsch wanders into frame. Morgan won't let him talk. - The James Madison

I'll have to look for that. Thanks.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (2L+MU)

188 Is Bismarck a herring?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (XuXeR)

189 181 Yeah Greece may be geographically “Eastern Europe” but culturally they’re not really.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (udlma)

They are in the land of the Orthodox, like most of Eastern Europe.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (tOcjL)

190 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (fPt6j)

191 "Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that."

Well, Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine ... so long as Uke was backed up and supported by literally the entire Western world. Without the full support and cooperation of the West -- and 100s of billions of dollars -- Uke would have folded after 6 months. Which would have been a much better result.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

192 Just from watching YouTube, it seems at least half of Ukraine's offensive is small drones and land mines. But Russia uses drones as well.

Someone (Israel) is already working on laser weapons to shoot down drones. We need some array of weapons that can take out a 1000 drone attack, as well as taking out hypersonic missiles. The next hot war will be different, I'd guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (vbXSk)

193 European leaders, after WW1, decided a great way to stop wars was to simply declare that all borders are sacrosanct, forever and ever. Except for the bad guy's in a dispute, of course... like Germany after WW1.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (KCWZY)

194 Surgery went well"

Excellent. Let us hope that good work carries thru for all here...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (XuXeR)

195 If you want to watch a pretty good twice daily summary of the war, on YouTube there's a channel called Military Summary. He's from Belarus so a little pro Russian, but the Russians say he's pro Uke . He says never listen to what you hear unless it is supported by geolocated vids. He can babble about peace talks and politics a bit, but he's good at showing what's happening on the ground

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (D+mpw)

196 That's not an expose. It's littered with sources say and invective and quotes from one named person that I saw that are a lot less inflammatory.

I've known what Owens was while she was still being elevated and worshiped by many, but I stopped listening to anonymous insider quotes a long longshit time ago.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (EdF9K)

197 Armenia s actually entirely in Asia. So is Cyprus as far as I'm concerned. Both are parts of the Middle East.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

198 No more American soldiers...
Pretty good odds DEV group has and still is there for the past four years.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (53oGX)

199 European leaders, after WW1, decided a great way to stop wars was to simply declare that all borders are sacrosanct, forever and ever. Except for the bad guy's in a dispute, of course... like Germany after WW1.

Let's not forget the Washington and London Naval Treaties. They worked really well to limit ship capabilities - on our side. Of course, Japan and Germany just built what they wanted anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

200 Then do the EXACT same thing for Israel.
Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

While I agree with the idea that our soldiers/marines should never die for another country, when exactly were our Marines/Sailors dying for Israel?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (zjgNU)

201 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It's located in southeastern Europe. The Balkans also count as Eastern Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM

I doubt the Greeks would ever consider themselves Eastern European, borderline geography notwithstanding. Then there's that whole cradle of western civ thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

203 While I agree with the idea that our soldiers/marines should never die for another country, when exactly were our Marines/Sailors dying for Israel?

Shhhh, he's rolling.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

204 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

205 Another quote of Bismarck's was that "some damn foolish thing in the Balkans" would cause WWI.

Prescient, that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

206 159 [ZERO] Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker."

This is fantastic news, and proof that Trump's plan is working. Again, time for ranting against the idiots who call themselves "reporters" for any outlet, who are unable to see or understand the campaign. Maduro sits at the top of a vast criminal organization, often referred to as the Cartel de los Soles. It's probably more of a loose association of all the criminal enterprises in that region, including the Columbians, than the more tightly run Cartels. To keep control of it requires a vast amount of cash - everyone has to paid off, constantly, and Maduro has militias keeping control in Venezuela that have to be paid off as well. (not to mention his army)
Trump is systematically depriving Maduro of all of his cash.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK8)

207 Speaking of Russia, we are doing bear oblique hops today. Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

208 Yeah, europe isn't worth the life of a single american soldier. Fuck, it ain't worth the life of an american house fly. Add australia to the list too. When I see their leaders get the mussolini treatment maybe I'll reconsider, but for now all I see is countries spreading their ass cheeks for islam, and the best thing to do is sit back until there is nothing left in those places BUT islam, then neutron bomb it and seize the real estate.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (snZF9)

209 Thank you for the prayers in the last thread. As always, we are eternally grateful to you all.

First Lady is on her way to pick him up, so we'll see what her evaluation is before heading back. She may be stopping in Paris at the ER. We'll see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

210 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

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True. And not only are our military installations not hardened, but think of how vulnerable our civilian infrastructure is -- especially the electrical grids -- to terrorist attacks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NNq22)

212 146
‘ The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons.’

The farther away the more they care. The closer? They give less than a shit.

Dickens had them pegged 150 years ago with Mrs. Jellyby

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

213 Oh, then plant a united states of earth flag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (snZF9)

214 > Just from watching YouTube, it seems at least half of Ukraine's offensive is small drones and land mines. But Russia uses drones as well.
---------
Ukraine has developed (with obvious help) a fleet of ocean going, one way suicide drone boats. One of them was used to hit a submarine while it was in port. There's video of that. Plus Ukraine has used these type of drone boats to attack Russia's so-called "dark fleet" of tankers they used to avoid sanctions on importing / exporting oil.

An off-the-cuff analysis suggests Ukraine (with help) has inflicted a fair amount of military damage on Russia while draining them of much needed money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NwnyJ)

215 Los Angeles is no longer an American city. Neither in NYC. Every city will cease to be American over the coming decades.

You can bug out to Wyoming I guess and still have old America for 25,30 years. But eventually all that becomes is like one of those white areas in South Africa. You’ll still be a second class citizen always looking over your shoulder.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (udlma)

216 Another RINO whines:

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that TPS will end for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants come February 2026 — leaving them with no legal status to remain in the U.S.

DHS officials are urging Haitians on TPS to self-deport before they are arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

DeWine, in an interview with local Ohio media, complained that DHS’s potentially deporting Haitian migrants — particularly from Springfield, Ohio, where the Haitian population has exploded — will open American jobs.

“Some of the economic progress that Springfield has made would go away,” DeWine said, according to Cleveland.com:

“Employers tell me many of these, maybe most of these Haitians working there will no longer be legal,” DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

217 Awesome to hear from Jim this morning as well.

God is Great!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

218 >Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at

Kinda like Robert Irsay did with the Baltimore Colts.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (rJ48h)

Ouch. Why ya gotta pick that scab?

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (c2vsb)

219 I doubt the Greeks would ever consider themselves Eastern European, borderline geography notwithstanding. Then there's that whole cradle of western civ thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

In the early Middle Ages, Greece was massively overrun by Slavs. Modern Greeks have more Slavic DNA than Classical Greek DNA.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

220 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

221 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM

Excellent news!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (kgE5c)

222 Also, require Ukraine be audited by someone chosen by the US gov't every 6 months. I think the DOGE crew might be a good start. Sure, the gov't might pick scum USAID-type liars to do it's work under some administrations, but all it would take is one honest accounting to invalidate the guarantees, for good.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (KCWZY)

223 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

Every time they say this, after the vacancies are posted, the local AMERICANS looking for work fill the lobby to fill out applications.

It's past time for you to f*ck right off with that noise. Americans WANT to work, you douchetard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

224 I am not nearly so concerned with the goings on in Europe and Europe adjacent as I am about America and America adjacent. Does that make me a filthy isolationist?? Maybe I guess.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (pDt9x)

225 Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

Oooo... I love sporting clays.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (zjgNU)

226 Dickens had them pegged 150 years ago with Mrs. Jellyby
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

227 Does that make me a filthy isolationist"

Welcome to the club...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (XuXeR)

228 Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

THIS! A thousand times THIS.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (KCWZY)

229
Is Bismarck a herring?
Posted by: man

It's a donut.

We must Dunk the Bismarck!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (pkeXY)

230 The cash Maduro needs comes almost competely from two sources - the Oil trade and the illegal drug trade. Each drug boat hit costs him several million dollars; that tanker that was seized probably lost him $100 million. Each tanker that turns away from Venezuela causes a similar loss.

If Maduro can't keep the cash flowing, his own subordinates will take him out and cut a deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uWKK8)

231 The way I remember it, seemingly right on the heels of the disastrous, middle of the night let’s not tell anybody even our allies we’re leaving Afghanistan (where some non-trivial amount of multi-billions in weaponry and aircraft were criminally abandoned)

All of a sudden, the Narrative did this pivot to “Rally Round The Flag, Boys!” on the Ukraine. We simply had to protect their “freedom and democracy” despite everyone knowing they aren’t free or even close to a democracy.

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That was The AutoPen Empire and GloboHomo Deep State giving the green light for Russia to invade as well as 10/7.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (NNq22)

232 "[France and Germany] want American soldiers to do their dirty work, so they can enjoy some strudel and a good Eiswein, or a lovely croissant and a couple of espressos while they read the news of American blood and treasure being spent once again in Europe." - CBD

Les croissants et l'espresso sont pour les touristes américains.

Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uv8gn)

233 We cannot afford a trillion dollar defense department. There is $9 trillion of debt coming due in 2026 that will be paid with Fed counterfeiting.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

234 Speaking of Russia, we are doing bear oblique hops today. Woohoo!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM

Hmmm...I've never brewed with those. Any good?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (kgE5c)

235
It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

THIS! A thousand times THIS.
Posted by: GWB

But that's when the money is made!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (pkeXY)

236 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

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That’s all three cucks care about, filling low skilled jobs. Ok jobs will go unfilled. So what? I’d rather have my country preserved than a meat packing plant staying open.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (udlma)

237 230 The cash Maduro needs comes almost competely from two sources - the Oil trade and the illegal drug trade. Each drug boat hit costs him several million dollars; that tanker that was seized probably lost him $100 million. Each tanker that turns away from Venezuela causes a similar loss.

If Maduro can't keep the cash flowing, his own subordinates will take him out and cut a deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uWKK

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Oh, I image each drug boat contains of tens of millions of lost revenue suddenly under the gulf.

And transporting by land all the way up is just so much harder. That's why they use boats to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

238 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim

Sleep well!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:46 AM (kfTpm)

239 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

*raises hand*

What percentage of the Haitians are getting some form of welfare? If they're all working, why do they need it?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

240 That's excellent news Jim!!!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (Wo1GJ)

241 But that's when the money is made!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM

I though merchandizing was where the real money was made.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (kgE5c)

242 than a meat packing plant staying open.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Than a Chinese meat packing plant staying open!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (kfTpm)

243 220 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

244 It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Everybody likes to analogize "nation-building" to what we did with Germany and Japan after WWII. What they forget is that 1) both countries were decimated, so that we could rebuild them essentially from scratch, and b) both the Germans and the Japanese were highly intelligent, educated, and disciplined people. That made the rebuilding process easier for them, and easier for us.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

245
This is like people who say if you take out Seattle, Washington is a deep red state. Well OK but Seattle is where most people in the state live. You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

*ahem*

Posted by: Zombie Edward Teller at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (y9nCu)

246 In the early Middle Ages, Greece was massively overrun by Slavs. Modern Greeks have more Slavic DNA than Classical Greek DNA.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

Well the slavs were the only ones there who would have sex with the women.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)

247 Kyiv's Top Negotiator Hails 'Real Progress' During 2nd Day of Peace Talks in Berlin

Let me, progress back towards the original deal? The EU is pounding sand and starting to like it?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (NZkDE)

248
https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

She has big cans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

249 185 Susie Wiles gives multiple interviews to Vanity Fair over the last year.

Now that part one of the two-part piece has dropped, Susie Wiles complains that it's a hit piece.

WTF did she think Vanity Fair would do?
Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

Never talk to cops or the press

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

250 Oh, I image each drug boat contains of tens of millions of lost revenue suddenly under the gulf.

And transporting by land all the way up is just so much harder. That's why they use boats to begin with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

The real question is will shark bites increase due to them being drugged or in withdrawal.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (ZdaMQ)

251 Pathetically, Ohio may actually miss DeWine when Vivek takes over.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (2ap+5)

252 Los Angeles is no longer an American city. Neither in NYC. Every city will cease to be American over the coming decades.

You can bug out to Wyoming I guess and still have old America for 25,30 years. But eventually all that becomes is like one of those white areas in South Africa. You’ll still be a second class citizen always looking over your shoulder.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (udlma)
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Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

253 The DeWine mentality is what drives me crazy about the GOP. They see the US as a place conduct business and nothing more. It’s just about muhJobCreators and low taxes for them. That’s not a country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (udlma)

254 It's a donut.

We must Dunk the Bismarck!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

If you have a Bismarck and a Napoleon next to each other on the same tray, do they immediately start fighting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

255 Jobs will go “unfilled.”

WTF does that even mean?

It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

256 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 11:50 AM (c2vsb)

257 Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM

I don't know if you've ever seen the EweToob channel The Refashioned Hippie. She has a lot of shorts snarking at silly fashions. "Where Are We Going in This?" is a regular feature.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:50 AM (kgE5c)

258 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

I have never skied Jackson. But yeah I can imagine it. Park City is like that as well.

Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (udlma)

259 How funny would it be that Ukraine joins the EU, then the people revolt and the EU disbands because it's an overbearing bureaucracy filled with unelected communist retards and the countries have had enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

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I've heard that the Jackson 'holes' only objection is to the migrant camps being set up in the parks.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (2ap+5)

261 I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.
Posted by: Doof

Fine. And I'm not paying you the usage fee for my earlier obtuseness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

262 We do have Sailors in eastern Europe, specifically the Aegis Ashore BMD sites in Poland and Romania.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (gUs21)

263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"

Posted by: front toward enemy at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (TIizU)

264 Everybody likes to analogize "nation-building" to what we did with Germany and Japan after WWII. What they forget is that 1) both countries were decimated, so that we could rebuild them essentially from scratch, and b) both the Germans and the Japanese were highly intelligent, educated, and disciplined WESTERN people. That made the rebuilding process easier for them, and easier for us.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

It's not just that they were educated and disciplined. It's that both Germany and Japan were populated by people from Western Civilization. (Japan had made a point in the 1800s to adopt Western Society as much as they possibly could, somewhat merging their native culture with Western. That's why it wasn't a struggle to set up a Western-style government post WWII.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (zjgNU)

265 Getting the band back together.

>>@PpollingNumbers
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1h
>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

266 Oh good. Mr H1B is funding the GOP again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (udlma)

267
I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025

When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

268 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) ... if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants..., jobs will go “unfilled.”

Meat packing plants are the new cotton plantations. Sorry for your loss, Massa!

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (NZkDE)

269 255 Jobs will go “unfilled.”

WTF does that even mean?

It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

It means "jobs paying $6 an hour plus room and board in a cheap hotel that sleeps 8 to the room will go unfilled."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)

270 I see Archimedes beat me to the Refashioned Hippie link.

She has big cans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM

Yes. Yes, she does. You'd get a chuckle out of her "Bad Design" videos. "Gentlemen...did anyone run this logo by just one 13-year old boy before running with it?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (kgE5c)

271 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (zjgNU)

Good point.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

272 OT sidebar but DO check out TJM's Frank Capra list. It's really good and there were a lot of films on that list. Some lesser known gems in there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

273 Via GP:
Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez Jr., on Monday, evaded questions on the Brown University shooter and declined to say what witnesses claim the shooter yelled before opening fire at the university.

If the shooter were a White male, we would likely know everything about him.

Rhode Island Officials held a press conference on Monday to provide updates on the Saturday shooting and ongoing investigation as the manhunt for the shooter remains underway.

Witnesses say the shooter “yelled something” before killing two students and wounding nine more, and early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

274 It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

It means "jobs paying $6 an hour plus room and board in a cheap hotel that sleeps 8 to the room will go unfilled."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK

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It means "Tyson Foods won't deposit their annual check into my campaign account as usual."

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (3BwY8)

275
Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Thanks for letting us know where to direct the next planes!!
~State dept weenies

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (kfTpm)

276 Imagine the horror if companies in Ohio had to pay American citizens a decent wage. We can’t have that. No sir!! If we do that it means the terrorists have won or something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (udlma)

277 *"Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that."*

But they're not fighting *Ukraine*. They're fighting $700B in US funding and weaponry to the point where the United States has a bullet shortage. If you have that much money and weaponry, you too can ward off a global superpower for three and a half years.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (YINx+)

278 272 OT sidebar but DO check out TJM's Frank Capra list. It's really good and there were a lot of films on that list. Some lesser known gems in there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

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Thankee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

279 I see Archimedes beat me to the Refashioned Hippie link.

She has big cans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM

Yes. Yes, she does. You'd get a chuckle out of her "Bad Design" videos. "Gentlemen...did anyone run this logo by just one 13-year old boy before running with it?"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

So we can have a fashion thread and a boob thread!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

280 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)
_____

Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

281 263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"
Posted by: front toward enemy at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (TIizU)

A lot died in Lebanon. But not for Israel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)

282
I don't know if you've ever seen the EweToob channel The Refashioned Hippie. She has a lot of shorts snarking at silly fashions. "Where Are We Going in This?" is a regular feature.

I have. She posts lots of hilarious stuff, including the one at my #177.

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

283 yes, imo we should remain The World's Superpower, but friendly liberty minded countries need to supply manpower and cash -- as we provide leadership, technology, and various political persuasions.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (vbXSk)

I'm back!

Posted by: Tribute at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (QN4pI)

284
So we can have a fashion thread and a boob thread!
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

And she's more of the big bowacka variety, not 'sweater puppy.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Capitalism at all costs is in part what led to the invasion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (udlma)

286 If you have a Bismarck and a Napoleon next to each other on the same tray, do they immediately start fighting?

Creme fraiche at 20 paces!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (XuXeR)

287 @PpollingNumbers
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1h
>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.
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If he has spare change left over I wish he'd pour it into the Indiana state senate races.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (TN0g+)

288 jim in california I am so happy for you. Praise God ( and a shoutout to your surgeons)!,,,

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

289 8 Neither Russia nor Ukraine have any incentive to stop fighting. So they won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Make that Putin and Zelinsky don't have any incentive to stop fighting. Putin because he is winning, Zelinsky because his own survival and wealth might end with the war.

I think both average Russians and Ukrainians are well tired of it but the leaders in any conflict are the last to consider ending a war. Iran and Iraq War dragged on for 8 years or so as a killing machine.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

290 Good Rant and, yes, you're right.

This isn't a good thing to say, I guess, but I don't trust NATO & think it'll do as it desires (even if that means taking baby steps) behind this President's back in an effort to wait him out.

And the EU, hell no, never! in as far as trust. The ICC is not staying within its 'legal' boundaries, such as they are. The EU's Euroclear is having a grand time collecting tax revenues from profits generated by Russia's frozen central bank funds AND soaking the US through NATO, the UN, etc. They're all in when it come to support of Netflix created Zelenskyy's never-ending whataboutisms & theft, and they'll let it into the EU likely before 2030 though they deny it. (And then how the hell do you not support Ukraine via NATO?)

(The PA's Army National Guard's Independence Brigade (56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team) is actively involved in training Ukrainian forces in Germany, focusing on essential skills, tactics, and defense doctrines to enhance Ukraine's ability to defend its sovereignty. PA's National Guard (MPAD) also just deployed a public affairs unit for a year-long mission supporting U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR).)

But Poland, 👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

291 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

292 I'm starting to think the EUs job is destroy Europe.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (Dv3i1)

293 DeWine funded some missionary or similar type work in Haiti in honor of his daughter (who died in a car crash in Ohio???) and he decided to make his pet project the responsibility of the whole state.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (2ap+5)

294 Capitalism at all costs is in part what led to the invasion.
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No. We can't pillory the left for warping common terms, so we similarly can't blame this on "capitalism" ("at all costs" or otherwise).

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (TN0g+)

295 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)

296 291 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV

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Took meh' jerb!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

297 Is Bismarck a herring?
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (XuXeR)

Yes, unfortunately they taste like blood and Iron.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

298
Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Someone's circumcision did NOT go well......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

299 295 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)

It's the demon worship. Makes brain worms.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

300 As an Ohioan, I can report that DeWine is a putz. And a dweeb.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (ZiGm9)

301 300 As an Ohioan, I can report that DeWine is a putz. And a dweeb.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (ZiGm9)

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Who rules you with an iron fist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

302 When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (c2vsb)

303 Employers tell me many of these, maybe most of these illegal Haitians working there will no longer be legal,” DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”
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What a fucking clown. I hope these fuckers die in a fire. Maybe it will be on YouTube

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (E4WLu)

304 I have. She posts lots of hilarious stuff, including the one at my #177.

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM

I realized that after my post. I'm behind the power curve today. "Googling on Gummies" is an amusing feature as well.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc_A9ZvQ

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (kgE5c)

305 291 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Snort.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

306 This isn't a good thing to say, I guess, but I don't trust NATO & think it'll do as it desires (even if that means taking baby steps) behind this President's back in an effort to wait him out.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

If you trusted NATO (or the EU) that would be a damning reflection on your intelligence.

They want America to pay for their adventures in Ukraine, and they want American blood to be spilled. Nothing more complicated than that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (n9ltV)

307 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

I have never skied Jackson. But yeah I can imagine it. Park City is like that as well.

Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (udlma)
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I ski Jackson hole every year, and go to Utah (Alta) 3-4x a year. The Utah ski and hospitality industry was overrun by hispanics maybe 10 years ago. Jackson was more recent, maybe 5 years ago. Montana (Big Sky) is currently being overrun.

All the other ski destinations were overrun many years ago (Colorado, CA, VT, etc.). The hospitality industry is addicted to cheap labor who will do anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

308 287 @PpollingNumbers
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>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.
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He is in the same shape the rest of us are: we know the rank and file GOPe critters are vile backstabbing, money grubbing, pieces of shit. Yet, it says something when they are infinitely better at not ensuring civilizational destruction than almost all Democrats. Aesop's fable of the frogs--in a binary choice, King Log (do nothing) is always better than King Stork (gobbles the frogs stupid enough to want gubmint to do something for them).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

309 264 MacArthur whipped up a Constitution from the ashes of Japan in about a week. He's treated as a jingoistic joke by lefties in the US, but regarded as a savior to the Japanese.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (wBaIH)

310 Someone's circumcision did NOT go well......
Posted by: Sponge

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Ferdinand Magellan

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

311 Witnesses say the shooter “yelled something” before killing two students and wounding nine more, and early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire.
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

——————-

He shouted the sheriff is near!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (u73oe)

312 276 Imagine the horror if companies in Ohio had to pay American citizens a decent wage. We can’t have that. No sir!! If we do that it means the terrorists have won or something.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Missed a chance to sock as DeWine, or even for bonus points for Kasich.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (Dv3i1)

313 You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

Well, it's not a magic wand, but a pair of keys turned underground in the mountain states might.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (KCWZY)

314 MacArthur whipped up a Constitution from the ashes of Japan in about a week. He's treated as a jingoistic joke by lefties in the US, but regarded as a savior to the Japanese.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

It was actually some American woman who wrote most of it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

315 I realized that after my post. I'm behind the power curve today. "Googling on Gummies" is an amusing feature as well.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc_A9ZvQ

She sounds legitimately high - and still more coherent than Kamala.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

316
It was actually some American woman who wrote most of it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

"And she was black."

- - - - - - Google AI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

317
Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

318 I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof

Ah, Doof has reclaimed his obtuseness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

319 She sounds legitimately high - and still more coherent than Kamala.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM

I think she is. Title checks out.

And still more coherent than Kamala.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (kgE5c)

320 287
‘ If he has spare change left over I wish he'd pour it into the Indiana state senate races.’

That would be so fucking cool!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

321 DeWine funded some missionary or similar type work in Haiti

Ah, Clinton Foundation ties. This will get ugly.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (NZkDE)

322 Ukraine will get NOTHING and LIKE IT.

Posted by: Miken at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (l481V)

323 317
Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

324 early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire."

This is MAGA country!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (XuXeR)

325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (viF8m)

326 But they're not fighting *Ukraine*. They're fighting $700B in US funding and weaponry to the point where the United States has a bullet shortage.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (YINx+)

Yes, but their expectation was that they would roll through Ukraine, achieve their goals, and present it as a fait accompli before the West had time to react.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (n9ltV)

327 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

—

That’s all three cucks care about, filling low skilled jobs. Ok jobs will go unfilled. So what? I’d rather have my country preserved than a meat packing plant staying open.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Every time we've done that, Americans have come out of the woodwork applying for the jobs.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (+x87d)

328 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)
_____

Well, it worked for JPG ... which is how I see Balenciaga, sorta like a more urban JPG, maybe mixed in with some Abboud.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

329 American woman who wrote most of it."

"Just stay away"?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (XuXeR)

330 DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”
——

What a fucking clown. I hope these fuckers die in a fire. Maybe it will be on YouTube
Posted by: Common Tater
------
And yet a perfect example in a quote of a GloboHomo Chamber of Commerce GOPe former senator and now governor.

DeWino literally hates his own constituents that are white and do not want to work for megacorp for peanuts.

There is a reason that socialism starts to look good when all the megacorps are intent on hiring outsiders because cheaper and then enrolling them on the public dole just to avoid paying more.

Sounds great to the executives and investors, not so good for the average citizen worker in Ohio. They get taxed out the wazoo to support bringing in Haitians that destroy their communities, raise housing prices, and eat their dogs and cats so that megacorp can avoid paying the going rate for US laborers (and safety and sanitary conditions as well).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (WDjG6)

331
One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??
Posted by: tubal

she

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (pkeXY)

332 Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??
Posted by: tubal

Chief. You can't be a woman and accept the title of chief. It's the same situation with 'chairman'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (Dv3i1)

333 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

I would be disappointed if it were anything other than a chick or a fake chick!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (n9ltV)

334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

335 325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (viF8m)

I said before Trump’s election that I hoped he and his cohort would asct with a certain brutality and viciousness towards his, and our enemies. I guess that makes me not a Republican.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (pDt9x)

336 Still haven't figured out why anybody listens to Candace Owens.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (nljXp)

337 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??"

"She"?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (XuXeR)

338 289. I think both average Russians and Ukrainians are well tired of it but the leaders in any conflict are the last to consider ending a war. Iran and Iraq War dragged on for 8 years or so as a killing machine.
Posted by: whig

If Philadelphia newspapers weren't writing about supporting Ukraine and detesting The Donald and Russia, Russia, Russia! at least half of the alleged journalists, many "non-profits" and immigration services would be done and left picking sh*t with the chickens.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

339 The other real conflict is Democrats vs. America

Posted by: Agamemnon at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (Ss/xc)

340 >One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

"she"

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (rJ48h)

341 302 When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof at December

Roller Rabbit makes really cute PJs.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

342 Damn. Slow again. .

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (XuXeR)

343 DeWine's health commissioner , a COVID lockdown queen,is running for governor. She should not be anywhere near power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (D+mpw)

344 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

A pronoun.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (NZkDE)

345 334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

Because Republican, Catholic or jilting love interest ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)

346 I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof

Ah, Doof has reclaimed his obtuseness.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, Piper lost me at Starbucks. By mentioning Starbucks -- not actually IN a Starbucks.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (c2vsb)

347 Just wait until DeWine advocates for suing the government (with our tax dollars!) to defer the end of the "Temporary" protected status. I hope our AG tells him to pound sand.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (Dv3i1)

348 Roller Rabbit makes really cute PJs.
Posted by: Piper

My wife had some very cute flannel jammies from Nick and Nora.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

349 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.*”

* which will force my wealthy donors to raise wages for actual Americans until the jobs are filled. Can you possibly imagine the horror? The Horror

FIFY, Guv.

Posted by: Chuck C at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (D0HYP)

350 343 DeWine's health commissioner , a COVID lockdown queen,is running for governor. She should not be anywhere near power
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (D+mpw)

Is anyone normal running for the R OH Gov spot?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (tOcjL)

351 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

352 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man

Very cute.

It's when the flannel gets taken off that the sexy starts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

353 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

It's never the clothes, but who they're on. (And sometimes how they are worn.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

354 345 334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

Because Republican, Catholic or jilting love interest ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)

Or get even for getting embarrassed publicly...related to Republican, but not the same...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (tOcjL)

355 325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.
Posted by: JackStraw

It is inevitable that dumbass GOP administration types talk to reporters in private so to put their side of the story out. It inevitably backfires and scorches the dumbasses willing to believe that any journalist has ethics, morals, or a sense of truth.

These journalists only report on Democrat malfeasance and internal bickering after that administration is already over and their assholes are maneveuring during off season to point fingers and blame in order to position themselves for the next Dem administration.

The GOP types, and that included Trump in his first term, always believe that Lucy (the journalist) is really going to let them (Charlie Brown) kick the football this time. Trump II is better, for the most part going on their shows directly and trashing them and their narratives or going on favorable platforms rather than rely on journalist 'ethics'.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)

356 My wife has a set of flannel PJs. They are fun for us.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

357 And no woman is sexy when she's bitching about the cold. So, in that respect, flannel helps the sexiness along.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

358 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

It's never the clothes, but who they're on. (And sometimes how they are worn.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

Flannel PJs were ruined by that beta dude who wanted to tell everyone about Obamacare

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (c2vsb)

359 Nude leftwing violent faggots

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

360 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

I don't think we want to go there, Honey. Because USS Liberty is a sore subject best left untouched.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (rbvCR)

361 And no woman is sexy when she's bitching"

Oooh. Angry sexy time...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

362 . . . at least half of the alleged journalists, many "non-profits" and immigration services would be done and left picking sh*t with the chickens.
Posted by: L
=======
They aren't skilled enough to do that.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

363 @350 Nova , I think she's running as a Dem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (D+mpw)

364 Elric- you see Abboud in Balenciaga? Abboud of the great classic suits? Not plays on suits, but classic, holy cow that suit is cut perfectly, Abboud?

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

365 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Terrific news, Jim! God bless.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (5xuJ/)

366 When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Orthodox monks write very disparagingly of the influence of "The West." In code, that may mean the Roman church, but there it is, in cyrillic black and white.

When Turks held most of the Balkans, most of the area was "The Near East." That term is seldom used any more. In the day, it included The Lebanon and The Palestine. It's not just Europe's boundary that has floated.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (zdLoL)

367 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Apparently, it no longer stands out. 3 of the 4 directors (of which she was one) were already women.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (NZkDE)

368 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

*kicks rocks. Walks away.
Babes of the IDF wouldn't even look at me.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (+x87d)

369 I said before Trump’s election that I hoped he and his cohort would asct with a certain brutality and viciousness towards his, and our enemies. I guess that makes me not a Republican.
Posted by: tubal
======
It is hilarious that trolls start by claiming to be lifelong Republicans when many of us here despise the Republican brand and many of their politicians as moneygrubbing backstabbing sobs.

Democrats more or less love their party and would follow their Pied Pipers into a river to be drowned just like rats did in the old story. So for them, they cannot understand that most of the GOP coalition only puts up with their pols to the extent that they actually do their jobs and prevents Democrats in office from actively harming them and their families.

It is not from loving GOP as a party.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

370 365 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim
======
May your recovery be swift and relatively peaceful.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)

371 When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Orthodox monks write very disparagingly of the influence of "The West." In code, that may mean the Roman church, but there it is, in cyrillic black and white.

When Turks held most of the Balkans, most of the area was "The Near East." That term is seldom used any more. In the day, it included The Lebanon and The Palestine. It's not just Europe's boundary that has floated.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

No Wermacht soldier was ever worried about being sent to Greece to the Eastern Front.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (+x87d)

372 Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (udlma)
==
Yes and no. A substantial number of hispanics consider themselves white, and they are increasingly voting like it. By the third generation few will speak any version of Spanish, their kids already act like American kids and speak dialect free english. Their kids will barely understand anything more than food, some traditional music and some holiday traditions.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (GZYu7)

373 Politico, Dec. 15, 2025,
EU will be ‘severely damaged for years’ if assets plan fails, says Germany’s Merz
European diplomats say both Russia and the U.S. are piling pressure on EU countries to prevent a multibillion euro loan to Kyiv.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (NFX2v)

374 In the U.S., Afghan Americans have been officially categorized as Caucasian for census purposes since 1945, placing them in the "White" racial category, which is where the perception of "white adjacency" originates.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NFX2v)

375 “ Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes. They have been going on for a very long time, and most of them have been nasty wars that expose the curious lack of interest in the lives of those who are fighting them.”

Indeed! This applies elsewhere too!

Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (jG0ce)

376
Yeah, Piper lost me at Starbucks. By mentioning Starbucks -- not actually IN a Starbucks.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (c2vsb)

I haven't been in a Starsucks in years. I feel good about that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

377
No Wermacht soldier was ever worried about being sent to Greece to the Eastern Front.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (+x87d)

However, the RUSSIAN front!!!!

Posted by: Col. Klink at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

378 nood

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (RuTUS)

379 Repeat after me: “these are the words of a whiny isolationist,”.

No, we do not need soldiers in Eastern Europe unless they are there for an exercise - but the isolationism and Code Pinkery that increasingly animate this blog is off putting.

Anytime I see the whine of “we are not the world’s policeman” I know I am dealing with somebody who regards being a superpower as a source of embarrassment and deep personal shame and want America to be as whiny and toothless as possible.

I look forward to being called a “warmonger”, mocked for my patriotism (I can’t sing, much less Yankee Doodle Dandy), or attacked for other reasons. I didn’t work for 22 years of my adult life to watch the country become the whiny little bitch so many here so desperately want to save a buck.

Peace through strength - deterrence - power projection - DIME

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)

380 *263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"*

Search for "USS Liberty".

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (YINx+)

381 "This war is going to end only when Ukraine and its European cheerleaders admit that they have lost territory that will probably never be returned."

Not so. Russia is on the edge of a financial collapse. When that happens, Russia will be able to hold nothing.

To 380: The Sailors of the Liberty did not die for Israel.

Posted by: Quartermaster at December 16, 2025 05:13 PM (UOf2j)

382 We need to stop getting involved in Other Nations Problems they need to start handling those problems themselves

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (wGqjj)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 *bonk*

Bring out yer dead!

*bonk*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Seeing takes a lot out of you.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (98kQX)

4 She's dead Jim...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (NwnyJ)

5 Kinda creepy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

6 I guess there would not be much point to a Seeress of Postvorst.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

7 They get to stay in bed all day? I should have been a seer.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (fA38o)

8 What's a Seeress?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

9 Subject matter is beyond me, but we'll done

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (sysp1)

10 She is having nasty thoughts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (Wg6v7)

11 Early AI.

"Seerees, what is today's weather forecast?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

12 ‘I see you bringing me a hot toddy.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (o2ZRX)

13 What's a Seeress?"

Really? Still $20....

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR)

14 What's that pink blob for?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (fPASK)

15 Wiki-

The Seeress of Prevorst" is a painting by Gabriel von Max that depicts Friederike Hauffe, a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances. The artwork reflects themes of spirituality and the supernatural, capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

16 "She's a fraud!"
-- Edgar Cayce

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

17 Maybe it's gout?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (/6GbT)

18 Nurse, a dose of Ivermectin, STAT!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

19 A seer is a fortune teller. They can see the future. Not a single one has ever produced the lottery numbers, so it’s all bullshit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (fA38o)

20 experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena."

So, nuts.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (XuXeR)

21 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

22 Wake up, little Susie, wake up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

23 Did the Seeress fall asleep after writing something?

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

24 Pirate's dream.....

Sunken chest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

25 The Seeress of Prevorst - Seeress? Yes, I'd like to see the rest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

26 She was like an 19th century Alexa and you could ask her for recipes and shit.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

27 Beautiful painting, but what a troubled life.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (NZkDE)

28 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

29 ‘Tell that Casey fellow that I will not be able to dine with him.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (o2ZRX)

30 Prevost makes some quality RV's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

32 Carl Jung apparently lectured on this woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (2sfNr)

33
1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

34 capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist

She's sleeping on the job. Not a subject I would have thought merited a painting.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

35 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

Seems a shitty life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

37 She got a painting. I got an opera.

Posted by: Barber of Seville at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)

38 Where are my keys ?!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

39 What's a Seeress?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM

20 Rubles. Same as in village.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

40 She was in a coma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

41 There are other Art Threads?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

42 Well, she doesn't have pink or blue hair.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Wg6v7)

43 The subject matter is the folds in the cloth.
Reminds me of that guy who painted water.
Or the one who paints lace.

And it's been a hellava long time since anyone has been trying to hawk lace wigs here.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

44 Well done but doesn’t go with my furniture and rug.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)

45 As you work toward the completion of your painting, perhaps take a moment, step back, and ask yourself "Where should I place my happy little bushes?"

Remember, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

46 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max

Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

47 Beautifully painted. Can't think of any place I'd hang it though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

48 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man

Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

49 I wonder if she can levitate?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

50 There's no nose ring. Wouldn't bang.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

51 20 Rubles. Same as in village"

Ja, baby!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

52 ‘Edgar, is that you? Where’s the beef?’

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (o2ZRX)

53 Beware of white vans approaching your Christmas Market.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (R86kT)

54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (2sfNr)

55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

56 I am the eyes of Nostrildamus, all your ways are known to me.

Posted by: The Seer at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

57 I wonder if she can levitate?"

I'm sure she could get a rise out of some moron...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (XuXeR)

58 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max
Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

Peter Gabriel >

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Dude, she's, like, in a coma!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (yNJrI)

60 Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM

To be fair, are you implying that the other 'more vibrant Art Threads' presenting artworks with more vibrant colors, or that their comment sections are more vibrant?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

61 She's got a date with Cesare the Somnambulist at midnight.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

62 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (ufSfZ)

63 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (NwnyJ)

64 "The treasure on Oak Island is buried at....Arrrrgh....

Posted by: The Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

65
Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/KIOTE8w37ZM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Gabriel von Max: The Seeress of Prevorst

Al Gore: Global warming is serial!

Mittens Romneycare: I'm severely conservative

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (sKqQm)

67 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

*************

A fortune teller named Mathilda Greims
Saw the future, and told it in rhymes
"The joys of tomorrow will be tempered with sorrow,
Both Prebest and yet Prevorst of times!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

68 Where are my keys ?!"

Apfel air tag?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

69 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM

Green.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

70 Maxfield Partish>

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (o2ZRX)

71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.

Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

72 55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"

Cleveland.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)

74 1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
Actually those were my nuclear go codes for launching ICBM's on Red States.

Posted by: President Brandon at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (fPASK)

75 On the far bedpost is the Seeress chewing gum, losing it's flavor overnight.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)

76 Fentanyl overdose.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (fPASK)

77 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

78 Max von Sydow >

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

79 When I said "I'd like a nightcap", this isn't what I had in mind.

Posted by: Seeress With DTs at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)

80

Must! Not! Fap!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (KrNsD)

81 “ . … capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.”
———

She ended up in yer bed in the morningtoo, if you left the door unlocked. It’s a miracle. What a gal!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (9qg/U)

82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

83 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

84 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

85 Why does Oberstenfeld ring a bell ? It is famous for something ? Infamous ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

86 She's probably very good in bed. Sleeps for weeks, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

87 "She was a dead lay......"

- - - - - - Creepy Male Nurse Guy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

88 Very well rendered and disturbing. I can't have disturbing art in The Man Cave no matter how good it is!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (6qf1m)

89 Passed out?

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

90 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice."

"I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR)

91
She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

She took that whole 'liquid bread' thing to an extreme level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

93 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.
Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m
******
Lost $900 doing that.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (fPASK)

94 92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

======

A computer screen, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

95 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel
Posted by: muldoon

Yes, that would be quite an annoyance!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (w9Wax)

96 does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free"

Doesn't rhyme with Nantucket...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

97 She's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (Wg6v7)

98 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

100 82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

====

hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

101 54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)

102 a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances.

Well, crap. There went my ruble joke. Maybe I should read the comments first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

103 99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

=====

Plant it on the back of Peter Lorre, it means one thing.

Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

104 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (fA38o)

105 A song for the season:

https://tinyurl.com/djpu9d7b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (ufSfZ)

106 Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

*eyes canvas critically*

*hefts poo*

Posted by: A spider monkey at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

107 Interesting, if rather drab, painting. Von Max's paintings are realistic. The details in the bedstead and covers and her clothes are exact. But it's her posture that makes the image so effective. Relaxed, possibly comatose, facial expression and her arms open as if to invite in whatever influences she is receiving. (To my eye there is a hint of crucifixion in the position of her hands.) It is rather haunting but not something I would hang.

Von Max did have a sardonic sense of humor. He did several paintings of monkeys as if doing human things. My favorite is a group of monkeys crowded together, titled "Monkeys as judges of art". Almost 150 years later I agree.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

108 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

LOL!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

109
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

It's what you get for sleeping in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

111 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis. Bugs Bunny used it ironically to refer to Elmer Fudd, usually while patting him on the head. That's why everyone who grew up with Looney Tunes sees it as meaning something like "idiot."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

112 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The obvious solution is to rhyme it with annoyance... just saying.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (MMj60)

113 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

114 110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

======

If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

115 “The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

-
That's a head scratcher alright.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

116 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant
Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

Wow! "Claire's buoyant" is just perfect.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (nKjbR)

117 There went my ruble joke"

zwanzig marks...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

118 98 ... "Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant"

Muldoon, you are brilliant! Thanks for the smile.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (yTvNw)

119 Nimrod was known as a great hunter. So, Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd, “A real Nimrod”.

Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (fA38o)

120 The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

Out of your mouths everyday

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (VE6XX)

121 Personally, I'd like to see the name "Muldoon" featured in a limerick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

122 Hüttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of Hüttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

123 Huttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

124 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Nimord the Hunter from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations:

https://tinyurl.com/yd2sewz6

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (ufSfZ)

125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

Your piety knows no bounds, does it?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

126 Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Pretty sure those are Ws in the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Peruvian Petey at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (oftw2)

127 what is the measure of a good jobs report?"

All numbers must always be increasing, ok?

/our betters

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (XuXeR)

128 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

129
Past 100, so.

Finn is at the vet. They'll do blood tests and an X-ray. He has never seemed to be in any distress. When I went down this morning at 5:00, there were red splotches on the floor and while I was there, he hacked up a large piece of mucus along with bloody saliva. But he walked up to the car just fine, jumped into the crate on his own and didn't exhibit any further coughing or distress on the trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (tgvbd)

130 125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

You're begging for fat ass on an ottoman...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (VE6XX)

131 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (9qg/U)

132 Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

133 Got the 'ol cherry pie nope on 122 for the umlaut in name field... yet it posted.

ok.

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (Qqd2H)

134 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

135 Like the pale colors. Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (D+mpw)

136 Huttlenswaldschlucht"

gesundheit...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (XuXeR)

137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

138 FBI Giving Congress Bombshell Memos Telling Biden DOJ It Didn’t Have Probable Cause to Raid Trump Home

-
On the other hand . . .

New Memos Reveal Corruption Probe Into Clinton Foundation Was Killed: “We Were Told No by FBI HQ”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

139 I strike that same pose when I'm trying to convince myself to get out of bed in the morning. Though I try to divine what the day will hold, I usually find I am wrong.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (MMj60)

140 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning."

Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (XuXeR)

141 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?
Posted by: The Huge Manatee!

About a malliard, give or take.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

142 Relevant To Art Thread

We had a nice snowfall over the weekend here in the 'Nati, but this afternoon it's going to melt...

I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

143 Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

That was also a jab at the Nazis because they loved Wagner. There’s a lot of stuff in those cartoons that we don’t get now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (fA38o)

144 They say that the Miss was clairvoyant,
She lived between this world and that.
She proved a particular annoyance,
She really just wasn't all that.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (WQDw6)

145 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
---------

I knew you were going to say that.

Posted by: Frederica Hauffe at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (XeU6L)

146 71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.
Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:

20 Deutsche Mark

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (/6GbT)

147
I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

Love that.. Especially the music ....Of course there is no talking....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

148 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
---------

There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

150 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

Just don't go out on a boat with him.

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Madonna recovering from her latest facelift and butt tuck.

Posted by: Waste Of Money and Time at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (YyIMQ)

152 Holy shit, I wanted to verify my recollection that Ishmael was also a hunter, so I googled it.

Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

153 Speaking of witches . . .

J.K. Rowling Blasts Woke LGBTQ+ Mob After Rapists Target Dozens of Girls in Changing Rooms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

154 There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.
Posted by: Sponge

They feature that painting of nekkid Ed Morrissey on an Ottoman a little too much, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

155 137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

=====

Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

156 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

157 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

Instead, she got a facelift and a buttf*ck.

Comatose........

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

158 I like the white clothing and pillow colors in contrast to the green blanket.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8Xy/A)

159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

160 be a buttlift and facetuck."

Where do they meet? Mid back?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (XuXeR)

161 Mr. von Max loved his minkeys

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8I4hW)

162 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Here is a YouTube link to The Snowman https://tinyurl.com/4yku2vnt

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (ZdaMQ)

164 enroute to St. Croix"

Enjoy. Lovely place...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

165 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

The Muslims were there before Islam even existed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (fA38o)

166 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Ahoy polloi!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

167 159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Bring us back a t-shirt!!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (ZdaMQ)

168 Good day, art Morons.

The Seeress: Nice work on the hands. Face seems appropriately serene. Who was she? (I'll look for the answer in comments.)

Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?

Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

169 Bring us back a t-shirt!!
Posted by: Piper

Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

170 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize."

Why? You don't want to know what we did! 3 on 1!

/Christopher Walken...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (XuXeR)

171 "I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM

* nods and tips coffee cup *

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (0sNs1)

172 We need an AI trained on AOS comments. Can Pixy make that happen?

Barrel AI, what’s is a ….?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (fA38o)

173 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

174
Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

Sure!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

176 Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?
Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

It's a subtle reminder that they're all pink on the inside.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (g8Ew8)

177 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM

The ones that make us look good and/or the ones that make Republicans look bad, duh!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)

178 nods and tips coffee cup *
Posted by: Winston Wolfe"

Great scene...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

179 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American"

Ensign Chekov whimpers...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

180 That "seer" is just the sister who figured out she wouldn't have to do chores if she was "special".

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (FMtrg)

181 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

I'm familiar with that, but have never seen it. I don't need more sadness in my life.

White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)

182 175 Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

======

Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

183 Is that the Russian contortionist?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (fA38o)

184 31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December

In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (ZdaMQ)

185 Is that the Russian contortionist?"

Nyet.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

186 What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Nothing. I don't believe any of them anymore. Have not for about two decades.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (LzVl6)

187 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
======
Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

188
AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

189 to dance like Danny Kaye…
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically

There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

190 Shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

192 Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Amusing yourself this morning again TJM?

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (WDjG6)

193 If the surgeon screwed up and actually gave Madonna a face tuck and a butt lift, she'd look like a Combine Strider.

Posted by: Gordon Freeman at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Qqd2H)

194 There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

https://youtu.be/hGI2d31M7Ns?t=24

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Number of jobs is a survey of businesses asking did you hire or fire anyone last month.

That’s different than estimating how many illegals went home.

If you truly believe 2M illegals decided to leave have at it. I guess Obama really did save 10m jobs too.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (udlma)

196 "White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again."

How 'bout Rosemary Clooney's little number 'Love, You Did't Do Right By Me' in that movie...

Dude.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (6qf1m)

197 >>>It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis.

Nimrod the Hunter
Orion the Hunter

Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

198 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

200 White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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We'll have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny Fuckin' Kaye!

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (3BwY8)

201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

202 This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.
Posted by: Rosie
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The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (WDjG6)

203 AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew8)

204 201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.
Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)
----
Does it also refer to Jerusalem as Al Quds"?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (36PRH)

205 Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.
Posted by: one hour sober

Hunter Biden = anti-US graft

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

206 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew

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Hooters, jugs...

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY8)

207 Netflix is releasing an animated movie called Steps in 2026, about Cinderella's stepsisters Lilith and Margot, reimagining them as misunderstood characters ... The film aims to offer a fresh, inclusive perspective on the fairy tale, proving "even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after".
--------------

Narcissists must really adore themselves.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (qrkyB)

208 Wiki says the first recorded mention of Palestine was 5th century BC.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (udlma)

209 In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊
Posted by: Piper

Nice! Lucy the Fink got some quality belly this morning. And I’m not bleeding!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (0Ivlr)

210 @206 Jugs, Jubblies, Tatas

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (36PRH)

211 be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at Dec

Enjoy. It's different.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (sl73Y)

212 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (udlma)

213 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

Not that I'm aware of. Are you thinking of Robret Strauss? He does something like that in The Seven Year Itch

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (ufSfZ)

214 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic

Yabbos

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (+x87d)

215 And now, a word from Donkey Chompers . . .

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

216 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?"

Trans.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (XuXeR)

217 Danny Kay was bi. Carried on an affair with Olivier.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

218 ======
Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

------

I'll cop to "lazy," at least, if not ignorant and stupid... I was just at my desk, and didn't feel like walking my lazy ass over to the bookshelf to grab the Pentateuch.

I got what I deserved.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

219 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY

In the words of Julius Caesar, "Check out the mammae on that momma!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)

220 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.

-

What normalization? That’s the real problem. It’s not normalized enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (udlma)

221 The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.

And before that ? Electro-Mechanical systems worked since the first guy made RC and RL networks with a user adjustable potentiometer. We beat the Japs in the Pacific with that kind of fire control.

The damn machine isn't thinking. Its not smart.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (LzVl6)

222 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Looks like they had a Winter Sno-Me.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (w9Wax)

223 >When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

Nobody does spite like the Romans.

Posted by: Carthage at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (NgqoH)

224 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (g47mK)

225 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

No, they aren't Republicans's scapegoats.
The ARE THE ACTUAL ATTACKERS.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (+x87d)

226

The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

227 199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025

Then sing!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (ZdaMQ)

228 @219 And apropos for the season, sweater puppies.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (36PRH)

229 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
========
AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

232 Then sing!
Posted by: Piper

Figaro, figaro, figaro!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

233
Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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To the Left, anything prior to yesterday's NYT is 'irrelevant'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XeU6L)

234 They were part of the Sea Peoples"

Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XuXeR)

235
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (7X4Rf)

236 Romans got overrun by savages and their DNA disappeared into ruffian Italics !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

237 Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...
Posted by: man

That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

238 Classical music + cartoons?

See: 'Fantasia'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)

239 There once was a chick with clairvoyance
Who looked upon cheese with abhorrence
If I coulda, I woulda
banned cheddar and gouda
said she from her villa in Florence.

Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

240 231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
========
AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)
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Something, something... "failed policies" blah, blah, blah, "Trump".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (36PRH)

241 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh FFS.........

They're actually attacking, you ignorant twat.

May they come to your neighborhood, soon, and do what they do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

242 That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt."

Mamma Mia!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

243 Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

Very nice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

244 Classical music + cartoons?

Rabbit of Seville - 1950

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (+x87d)

245 They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

Yes, from inscriptions and other archeological finds, it's believed they spoke a variant of old Greek. (before classical) It's also believed that they were the same as those referred to as the "Pelset" on an ancient Egyptian stele in the Nile Delta. Erected by the Pharaoh to celebrate his victory over them; it would explain why they ended up in Israel. After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (uWKK8)

246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

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More Whiteomisia (hatred) than -phobia (fear).

And agree 1000% ... Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (NNq22)

248 230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

2 Cats and a Dog. They need a better band name. Savannah, Savannah, Shiba? I will work on it.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

249 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg

Yep. Proto Greeks for some although pottery for some seems to harken as far as Sardinia IIRC.
Most modern Arab history are lies and they actively destroy pre-history because it might undermine faith in Big Mo. Who I think increasingly was like Arthur in Britain, a warlord who various disaffected Christians and pagans retroed as the founder of their religion. Explains why the Koran is a mish mash of contradicting sections and has some absurdist elements.

True Archaeology threatens the very web of foundational myths for that faith. Including the absurd claims on Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

250 And you said the Oz cops didn't do anything!

New York Post
@nypost
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

251 If Hadrian had only kept his butt-boy at home and not brought him into Jerusalem, that whole unpleasantness might have been avoided.

But noooo. Buttigiegs gonna Buttigieg.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

252 O/T, I hate facebook. I only made an account to join the Theda Bara Fan Club and now I keep getting imbeciles wanting to 'friend' me.

Leave me alone!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

253 @246 Human intelligence, which it isn't remotely capable of.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (36PRH)

254
Seer, huh?

Suckers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (xG4kz)

255 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

256 After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think the Egyptians even helped with that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.

Also - there's already a convention for this - you say "...in modern-day such-and-such."

Calling it "ancient Palestine" is just deliberate deception.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (BI5O2)

258
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

I'm guessing that there was no "mistakenly" about it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

259
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM

not mort

85 years old

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (tljrc)

260 247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
======
Manichean Good White and Bad White bullshit meant to create a Creole society like most of Latin America.

A thin crust of pale skinned elites at the top over a society of Mestizos and indigenous peoples as workers and subjects.

In essences, the general white populations in the West are assuming the role of Native Americans in this Great Replacement Scenario.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (WDjG6)

261 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

262
...and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh? In what way "accountable?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (7X4Rf)

263 Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.
------
At its most basic level, PID controllers. Then came the focus on neural network simulators, genetic algorithms, neuro-fuzzy systems, etc., etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

264 Diagnosis: Imbalance of Bodily Humors.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (cIOlQ)

265
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mort Sahl

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

266 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

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

GIGO (Garbage-In, Garbate-Out) applies to both humans and "AI."

I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)

267 to grab the Pentateuch
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

268
not mort

85 years old
Posted by: AltonJackson

Correct.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (7X4Rf)

269 257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

270
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (tljrc)

271 It’s not pre-Colombian history anymore it’s ancient ‘Murican history.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

272 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.
Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst

Ahem.
-- The Hittites

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

273 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. But I got nuthin'
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

274 $19.5 billion here. $19.5 billion there. Pretty soon it begins to add up.

Ford just axed the electric F-150 no one wants … and took a $19.5 BILLION hit 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

275
Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

They thought of themselves as a nation of catchers? Was that the problem?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)

276
Isn't a "phobia" a Medical Condition?

Is sandy cortez saying she wants to punish people with a medical condition? Sure sounds like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (7X4Rf)

277 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

National Gallery, Prague: The artist may be regarded as one of the founders of symbolism even in the wider European context. His early paintings strongly resonate with the late romanticism tradition.

Encyclopedia com: In part,
Hauffe, Frederica (1801-1829)
"The Seeress of Prevorst," as described in Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829) by Justinus Kerner. Hauffe was born in the village of Prevorst near Löwenstein, Wüttemburg, Germany, in 1801. She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments. She had convulsive fits and became rigid like a corpse; in this state she was possessed by spirits. She saw clairvoyantly, made predictions, and exhibited a wide range of psychic phenomena. At one time she spoke only in verse for three days. Occasionally she reportedly saw her own double, clad in white and seated on a chair, while she was lying in bed. (More)

The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

278 I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)
====

So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

279 I have phobia of people who want me dead. Everyone should.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (udlma)

280
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD

Up next: a "candid" photo of those two love irds sharing a bowl of popcorn and watching "The American President".

FOR ROB!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:40 AM (xG4kz)

281 A phobia is an irrational fear.

Fear of Islam is well-founded and wise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (BW4I7)

282 Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

That should have been a surprise to exactly nobody. The Turks were too few in number to leave a huge genetic marking. Most of the Greeks in Anatolia converted to Islam to make life easier, and of course, eventually took to speaking Turkish. Thus, they became Turks, culturally speaking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

283 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

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

For fans of flamenco guitar, one of my faves from Jesse Cook:

"Byzantium Underground."

youtube.com/watch?v=dTArM5WZKcg

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (NNq22)

284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ufSfZ)

285 How does it cost $18B to stop making something? Yeah there are costs to take an existing plant and retrofit it to build something else. But that’s not $19B. This is some Enron-esque type accounting to get a $19b tax write off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (udlma)

286 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ...
=======
It is a probability calculator simply using whatever tokens were developed by the frontier models. It is okay right now for non critical analysis where errors or fabrications can be spotted by experts. But imagine that happens in code developed to fly an airplane--the AI generated code creates an imaginary function and calls it midflight--computer then crashes, locks up, etc. because that function it called was non existent.

Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

AI running traffic lights decides based on erroneous training data or some other extraneous factor like preserving safety makes it so during rush hour, each light is timed differently on main routes causing massive backups. People in ambulances die because they can't get to hospitals due to the backup.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

287 284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

288 The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Good call. You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (OUMaO)

289 She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments.

A cynic like myself might guess that her 'varous ailments' were self-inflicted in order to keep hubby out of the marriage bed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ufSfZ)

290 Did Rob Reiner have info on the Clintons? Just axing questions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (udlma)

291 oooo...

Avatar 3 review embargo lifted.

66% on RT, easily the lowest of the franchise.

It'll still make $2 billion because I don't know.

I actually think the trailers look the most interesting of the three. I'll probably check it out on streaming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

292 Looks like she's missing an IV …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ayRl+)

293 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (2L+MU)

296 Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

This has already happened a few times, and lawyers got sanctioned for it. Unfortunately, there are judges doing it too...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (OUMaO)

297
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna

Was her hair straightened or natural? We're judging the depth of her commitment to be true to her "natural" self.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

298 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

299 If you'd had what she put up her sleeve you'd see things too.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (FhXTo)

300
tree hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

301 So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

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lol

I was never that eloquent.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (NNq22)

302 two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do
Posted by: AltonJackson

Exactly.

THIS is the only way she can get people to watch her failed podcast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (7X4Rf)

303 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on PT-109 and told John, "Carve it on a coconut!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

304 The Seeress will see you now.

Posted by: The Front Deskist at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (0RiMX)

305 There are two camps on AI. One camp says it will revolutionize everything. The other camp is it’s all nonsense.

Like everything else in life the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (udlma)

306 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.

Posted by: Harry Houdini at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (wVcYX)

307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Beau Biden was there, and got murdered alongside Sharon.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

308 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on my way over to their house when the Hindenburg crashed and burned on top of me.

Posted by: Beau Biden at December 16, 2025 10:48 AM (Riz8t)

309 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Pretty much everyone alive in 1969 claims to have attend Woodstock. Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (udlma)

310 307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

----------

I bondo'd Steve Parent's car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (0RiMX)

311 Ahem.
-- The Hittites
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)\

Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

312 >>Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Guess you just had to 'be there,' eh?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NuV6c)

313 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

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

[Speaking of "AI" -- and what could go wrong?]

You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NNq22)

314 James Rosen
@JamesRosenTV
EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed. Acting Director Lyons called the charge a “ridiculous effort to unfairly demonize our law enforcement officers.”
4:23 PM · Dec 15, 2025
=====

So very oppressed. This woman lies like she breathes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (BW4I7)

315 @ 246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?
__________________________________________________

"What are we comparing it to?" … well, REALITY for one thing. Non-existent metals and compounds, legal cases that are the electronic equivalent of dope dreams, impossible medical causation(-s) and 'treatments' … need more? I got more …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (ayRl+)

316 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep. And decipherment of their language proved De Saussure's laryngeal hypothesis correct.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

317 @73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"
Cleveland.

So near, and yet so far: https://uspto.report/TM/71394481

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (zdLoL)

318 Would

Posted by: weimdog at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (b3GvB)

319 306
‘ You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.
Posted by: Harry Houdini’

You commenting from beyond the grave is the height of irony, Harry.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (jbnUc)

320 If we aren't working flat out to harden every major military asset, we're utter fools.

(Narrator: we're utter fools)

Ukraine Hits Russian Sub in First Underwater Drone Attack

https://is.gd/jedobg

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (Riz8t)

321

I was at the baseball game when Lou Gehrig made his famous speech about inventing a new disease. I remember it like it was yesterday...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (7X4Rf)

322 >>Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

She certainly has her own brand of #MeToo, eh?
Let's talk about me me me me, I I I ?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (NuV6c)

323 I saw Laryngeal Hypothesis open for The Gram Parsons Project at the Orpheum in '83.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (0RiMX)

324 A serious nation would have deported Ilhan Omar via trebuchet several years ago.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (3BwY8)

325 295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.
Posted by: Paco

300 comments and now you show up to brown nose?

Posted by: Wannabe Teacher's Pet at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (oftw2)

326 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (udlma)

327 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

328 You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!
Posted by: ShainS

Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac were incompetent grifters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

329 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I would Hittite.

*cackle*

Posted by: Hillary! at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (w9Wax)

330 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

I've lived in crappy areas, and I currently live in a very nice area. I prefer the latter, and don't apologize for it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Riz8t)

331 >>Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)

332 >>EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed.

Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)

333 Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (udlma)

334 Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Yes, that's the point.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Riz8t)

335
The more I hear about this submarine supposebly destroyed by the ukes, the less I believe it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (7X4Rf)

336 Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests
———-

Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Zh6C/)

337 @333 Riiiiight.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

338 Crap........Just got a call.

FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)
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Blatant lie because she's a brazen liar with no morals and a third-world tribal mentality?

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (3BwY8)

340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

341 Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks. Seems we're not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

342
Classical music + cartoons?

Rossini ~ William Tell Overture : The Storm

https://youtu.be/JcRuChk7Exo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (pkeXY)

343 336
‘ Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization’

Hear. Hear.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (jbnUc)

344 159. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Buck Island Reef National Monument was amazing years ago. It appears to still be a highly recommended side trip from St. Croix.

Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

345 Prayers, Sponge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

346 >>Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Sadly, one of the flight attendants on the bloody flight out of Boston was *not* supposed to be on the flight, she filled in at the last minute. She was the kid of a BIL's neighbor, good friend of my nephew. It was heartbreaking.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NuV6c)

347 294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

Well! Starbucks sucks. I want my money back!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

348 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

I'll pray for you all...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

349 @333 Riiiiight.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

He’s told the story many times. There were eyewitness accounts of him being at the airport at the gate just minutes after it took off. And he was on the flight manifest. I’m sure Candace Owens thinks he’s a Mossad agent or whatever, but it is legit by all appearances.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (udlma)

350 The man and woman were later identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi. They were the first two victims of the attack.
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An old couple attacked the terrorist as he emerged from his vehicle on Campbell Parade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (CTokg)

351 Oh man, Sponge! More prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NuV6c)

352 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

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Amazing how "The Donald" was a darling of the Democrat Left before he suddenly materialized into "Literally Hitler" by running for POTUS as an R.

Remember even Oprah encouraging him to run when he was younger and presumed to be a D ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NNq22)

353 Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)
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Because of the vampire pirates?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (yNJrI)

354 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Oh no. Prayers, sponge.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:01 AM (ZdaMQ)

355 Punk minkey up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (+x87d)

356
Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization
Posted by: Common Tater
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It is as if the past is a foreign country,

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (XeU6L)

357 Munkey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (yNJrI)

358 Sponge if he hit his head he should have an x-ray.

A prayer for his immediate and complete recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (CTokg)

359 "Christmas market ISIS 'mass terror attack' plot' foiled in Poland" @ Daily Mail

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (g47mK)

360 300 comments and now you show up to brown nose? - Wannabe Teacher's Pet

Just tuned in, you insolent dog. Now, get back to the scullery.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (2L+MU)

361 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

Yes but you will get there slowly.

It's less artificial intelligence and more augmented intelligence. They can't be left without oversight but they will be able to fill in gaps and slowly those gaps will get smaller. It's inevitable. Emerging technologies always look like bullshit until they dont.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (qrkyB)

362 Is that a Hapsburg chin????

Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (SOGBX)

363 @ 338 Crap........Just got a call.
FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas. Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
______________________________________________

Sorry to hear that, Sponge. Words are goin' up for your FiL. As for the decisions — yes, they are, and will be, tough ones. I hope things turn out better than the anticipation …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (ayRl+)

364 IMO Mooch is fabricating the story about going to visit the Reiners.

She goes nowhere with Barry, unless it's to some public put-on, like the Clintons holding hands whenever they bump into each other and spot someone nearby holding a camera.

Remember Barry's black eye and bandaged hand after their chef deaded...Mooch holds a grudge.

Posted by: ju at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (EgpoY)

365 Turn on the TV the Three Stooges is on

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 12/16/25

Good morning kids. Frankly, the less said about a certain celebrity, who along with his wife was brutally slain at the hands of their own son, the better.

Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim and, despite his not being in the wrong in his opinion, was this really appropriate, or beneficial to him and the MAGA cause, when there are so many other crucial matters that need to be spoken of in the most open and frank manner possible, not offering a personal opinion about a critic in the wake of their horrific death, regardless of how accurate the opinion might be.

Meanwhile considering what unfolded in Australia a few days ago which is not a one-off but merely the latest in a long line of incidents that has spilled oceans of innocent blood for close to a millennium and a half. Vickie Paladino, a lesser-known GOP pol mostly because she is somehow holding on in deepest, darkest, bluest New York City.

Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is facing a firestorm from Democrats over social media posts she made calling for the “expulsion of Muslims” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in Australia.
Paladino took down the posts in question after facing outrage from fellow local elected officials, including Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who ripped the comments as Islamophobic.
“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.
“We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders,” the posts said, adding that action needed to be taken to prevent “another 9/11 or worse.”
. . . ncoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, said she asked Paladino to take down the post, which had been removed by Monday afternoon.
“Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X. “This is a time to uplift all communities, not sow divisions.”. . . “It’s been clear for a while that progressives don’t value freedom of speech, but I find it very funny that they’re so apocalyptic about this tweet, while their own social media accounts and those of their leftist allies in the DSA spew some of the most toxic, violent, and anti-American rhetoric on a daily basis,” she said in a statement. “Once again progressives are acting like the PR wing and defense attorneys for radical Islam after a wave of terror attacks, and the West is going to have to deal with this dangerous reality soon enough.”

Well Ms. Menin, have you cracked a copy of the Koran lately? In it you will see not only references to Jews as the descendants of Apes and Pigs but that in order to truly be a follower of Mohammed it is one's duty to kill all Jews and infidels who refuse to submit to Islam. this is what is preached on a daily basis and taught to Muslim children in every mosque and Madrassa on the planet.

My only criticism of Ms. Paladino is that this is the crucial context, beyond the body count in Bondi Beach and elsewhere, that undergirds her very spot on assertion. Islam and its adherents are incompatible with the free and open and dare I say it "diverse" society that Leftists are constantly yammering on about. Of course, they themselves do not want diversity. They use that as the weapon to impose conformity to their will on a truly free society.

Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are. Public shaming and exposure would be a far more effective than feeding into the Leftist meme of white supremacy/xenophobia/islamophobia etc. Seek out the so-called "Moderate" Muslims and hold some sort of public press event in which you shove this garbage in their face and make them deny it on camera.

"Do you renounce these words?" of course they can't since they are the alleged words of their false god Allah and the pedohile prophet Mohammed. Meh, the concept of Taqqiya, gives them the out they need I guess. But Still. Words do matter but more crucially its what words you use and how you use them in order to get the points across to the public at large.

It's why Vickie Paladino and President Trump need to have someone like a Robert Spencer as an adviser/coach in this issue. Both of them for sure understand what we all do, in the self-evident truth that not all societies are equal and that some indeed are not only inferior but dangerously toxic.

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with The Post Millennial's Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo on Monday about recent federal terrorism cases involving far-left extremists, warning that leftist political group violence is escalating and often ignored by the public and downplayed by the media. Posobiec framed the discussion by pointing to recent prosecutions and prior warnings raised during the Trump administration roundtable on far-left violence. “This is another example, Andy, I think, that in this country — and you and I, of course, both participated in President Trump’s roundtable on far-left violence — the left is getting more violent, aren’t they?” Posobiec asked.
Ngo responded by citing multiple recent federal convictions tied to extremist activity. “This allegation from the federal government," Ngo said, referring to the foiled terror attack planned by the Turtle Island Liberation Front, "comes on the heels of at least seven people in Texas being federally convicted for providing material support for terrorists in an Antifa shooting ambush attack that happened on an ICE facility early this year,” Ngo said. He added that in California, “there was another Antifa associate in the Berkeley area who was convicted and sentenced to 19 years for a number of bombings that he carried out on the Cal campus and around it.”

When the institutional Left eventually does finally link up with the organized Islamic terrorists no doubt in our midst, and they probably already have, shit is going to get more real than we had thought possible. It is a nightmare scenario in the making. Plus with the institutional corruption in government, media, the private sector and perhaps at some level in our military, Yikes. I mean Mark Kelly et al were actively fomenting mutiny in the ranks. I don't want to contemplate the consequences to us if his and his evil co-conspirators' poisonous entreaties to evil are taken to heart by even a fraction of our troops. . .

This is bloody revolution, period. Unless the conspirators as well as and most especially their political and financial backers are all rounded up and then publicly executed, we have failed. The rule of law, as we have seen with Donald Trump, the J-6 political prisoners and others is now a farce. The rubicon has been crossed. We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.

It's not pretty, but there it is. I call it as I see it, my friends.

Have a good day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.
NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack
The long march through the institutions: From Trotskyist entryism to civilizational conquest of Europe by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Patient Strategy of Entryism
Timing is everything, I guess - JJS!
Obamas planned to meet with Rob Reiner and wife the night couple was killed

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

Four alleged members of a leftist offshoot of the group called Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF) were arrested after federal officials disrupted the credible terrorist threat that involved improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Fox News reported Monday.
FBI Thwarts Anti-ICE, Pro-'Palestine' Group Accused of Planning New Year’s Eve Bombings in Los Angeles
Their future attack plans “would take some of them [ICE agents] out and scare the rest of them," according to court documents.
Radical Leftist Group Accused Of Plotting New Year’s Eve Bombings Also Had Plans To Attack ICE
"Until now, all these years—a decade and longer—[they] operated out in the open with impunity because nothing would happen to them."
ANDY NGO to JACK POSOBIEC: Far-left extremist groups have operated with impunity for years
Fomenting mutiny in the ranks? Yup that's pretty damn serious IMHO - JJS
Pentagon Escalates Investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly for ‘Serious Allegations of Misconduct’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The trial highlights ongoing issues with activist judges, sanctuary state and city officials, and far-left activists who have attempted to interfere with and impede ICE enforcement actions.
Democrat Judge on Trial for Blocking Arrest of Illegal Immigrant. (Justice demands disbarment and imprisonment - jjs)
A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, is refusing to add additional jail time to a criminal sentence for a seven-time deported illegal alien, convicted of raping and sodomizing a woman with cerebral palsy, for his repeated violation of federal immigration law. (The Obamas were supposed to be at the Reiner home just when the son murdered the parens! - jjs)
Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy
Federal prosecutors are appealing the judge’s decision to reduce the sentence, citing its leniency and lack of weight on the violent crime.
Obama Judge Faces Backlash for Praising Convicted Illegal Immigrant Rapist.
If the state supreme court declares Wisconsin a sanctuary state, the unintended consequences may include more ICE agents in the state.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Threatens To Obstruct Immigration Enforcement
The New York mayor-elect is risking incitement of the same kind of violent confrontations that marred Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas earlier this year.
Mamdani’s Anti-ICE Video Courts Chaos
Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?”
Gaslighted about Somali Refugees
These are not the views of a “tiny minority of extremists.”
Somali Says of Trump: ‘My Biggest Fear is That This Man May Never Witness Our Full Takeover’
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Fargo adds Somali Heritage Day two weeks after Muslim terror attack.
The Somalization of North Dakota
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has established a clear pattern: When confronted with evidence that the Muslim institutions he platforms are deeply hostile to Israel – and often to Jews themselves – he shrugs, smears the messenger, and moves forward anyway. That is precisely what took place this Thanksgiving, when Shapiro was scheduled to participate at an event alongside Muslim Society of Delaware Valley (MSDV) radical imam Basheer Bilaal.
Gov. Shapiro Shows Up, Speaks at Radical Imam Thanksgiving
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
The incident is Australia’s worst mass shooting in three decades, sparking investigations into the attackers’ motives and backgrounds.
Hannukah Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS Before Massacre: Report.
Yet within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Albanese proposed “tougher gun laws” and warned about “right-wing extremist groups.”
Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem
Australia let this evil come and fester here.
The Bondi Beach Massacre Was a Choice
We all saw it coming. Again.
Bondi Beach: ‘Never Again’ Was an Empty Phrase
Australia's gun laws did not, in fact, prevent mass murdering Islamists from gunning down Jews on Sunday.
The Massacre In Australia Is Proof That Diversity Is Not Our Strength

J-6 FBI/PELOSI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,
The FBI sat on the January 5-6 pipe bomb case for years, and the media spun conservative suspicions as “conspiracies” rather than acknowledge clear partisan inaction.
Delayed Pipe Bomb Arrest Reveals a Partisan Biden FBI (Partisan = complicit - jjs)
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
There is a full-blown constitutional mess brewing over James Comey, and at the center of it is a Clinton-appointed judge ordering the FBI to destroy key email evidence tied directly to the obstruction case against him. This is not just another technical fight over discovery rules. This is a rogue judge stepping in to shield one of the left’s favorite anti-Trump heroes from accountability.
Rogue Judge Orders Destruction of Evidence Against James Comey
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Practically speaking, the KBJs argue that these agencies must be independent because we need nonpartisan "experts" to make the critical decisions in our federal government. They can't be left to political hacks.
No, Ketanji Brown (-25) Jackson, 'experts' should not be given free reign to rule the American peopl
First Big Test: Are Trump's tariffs constitutional?
Do Voters Trust Supreme Court To Do What’s Best For U.S.? Yes, But Just Barely: I&I/TIPP Poll
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“We are devastated to learn of the loss of our Brown College Republicans Vice President, Ella Cook,” College Republicans of America wrote in a Sunday X post. “Ella was known for her bold, brave, and kind heart as she served her chapter and her fellow classmates.”
Brown U. Shooting Victim Ella Cook Was ‘Devoted Christian,’ College Republicans VP
Providence police released new images of a “person of interest” tied to the Brown University mass shooting Monday evening as officials attempted to calm growing anxiety that the gunman is still on the loose.
Cops release very grainy new video of suspected Brown shooter — as they hunt for new leads
“Chief Smith, the commanders testified, was so preoccupied with the statistics of the select crimes that were made public that she incentivized her subordinates to lower those crimes by whatever means necessary.”
House Oversight Accuse D.C. Police Chief of Manipulating Crime Data
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is reportedly poised to elevate a deeply controversial figure to one of the most powerful legal posts in his administration. According to the New York Post, Ramzi Kassem—a lawyer who has defended an al Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel activist at Columbia—is the leading candidate for Chief Counsel.
Mamdani Is About to Prove His Administration Will Be Worse Than You Thought
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump said. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn’t say.”
'Words in my mouth' Trump slaps BBC with eye-watering $10B suit for alleged defamatory editing of Jan. 6 speech
Robert Zimmerman: "And yet, buried within the horrors of this past
weekend I stumbled by accident upon a ray of hope. And believe it or
not, that hope comes from one of our most disgraced and for decades most
biased mainstream news outlets, CBS News. It seems that outlet’s new
editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is attempting to abandon the one-sided,
24/7 leftwing perspective that has dominated that news organization (as
well as all of America’s so-called 'intellectual' culture) for decades.
Instead, she is advocating openness and a willingness to let many
different opinions and ideas be heard.
A ray of hope during a weekend of horror
CBS’ 60 Minutes is the perpetrator, not the victim, of propaganda and partisanship.
Scott Pelley Blames Everyone But CBS For Network’s Tanked Credibility
Antitrust skeptics mistake size for market dominance.
How a Takeover of Warner Bros. Would Benefit Consumers

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Blue state leaders and teacher union bosses descend into a meltdown.
Hyperventilating Over the Restructuring of the Department of Education
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
USPS is the largest ‘precinct’ in federal elections, yet has no citizens conducting oversight to prevent ballot tampering or loss.
Trump Must Appoint Republicans To USPS Board Currently Run By Mail-In Voting Activist
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Hunter Biden admitted to attorney misconduct, leading to his disbarment in Connecticut and earlier in Washington, D.C.
Hunter Biden Disbarred Over Illegal Gun Ownership, Tax Fraud Convictions.

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The DOJ claims the map prioritizes racial considerations, potentially violating constitutional protections, and has asked the court to block Proposition 50.
DOJ Accuses Democrat Campaign Arm of Obstruction in California Redistricting Case.
El-Sayed, running in the Democrat primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, has attempted to distance himself from his past anti-police positions
Abdul El-Sayed Proposed Commuting All Sentences for Juveniles Facing Life in Prison. The Plan Would Grant Early Release to Some of Michigan's Most Violent Killers.
Migrant attack in Charlotte echoes the graphic murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in the same city
North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Asked To Address Illegal Immigrant Train Stabbing in Charlotte, Instead Issues Statement Attacking GOP Opponent as 'Big Oil Lobbyist'
POLITICS
Harris remains a top Democrat contender for 2028, with notable support among black Democrats, as she positions herself for another presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders. (Her and greaseball Newsom at each other's throats; pass the popcorn! - jjs)
Victor Davis Hanson: What in the world will he run on?
A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?
Politico published a story Sunday on Cox and his crusade against Silicon Valley and social media companies. Cox has said he supports a 16-and-under ban on social media use similar to Australia’s; his state is suing Snapchat for its “illicit business practices that are akin to peddling digital nicotine to kids”; and he has signed a slate of anti-tech bills, including legislation that bans cell phones in Utah classrooms. The outlet also reported that he is considering a sin tax on tech, similar to taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
Turns Out Teetotaling, Mormon GOP Governor Is A Savage Populist Who Wants To Nuke Big Tech
The Trump administration needed to show the people and our representatives out in flyover country that redistricting is about protecting us. It failed.
The Indiana Redistricting Fail Is A Lot More Complicated Than Pro-Trump Vs. Anti-Trump
I do not question the resolve of President Trump, but have serious concerns about Congress, the courts, and faint-hearted Republicans across the country.
MAGA Meets Sisyphus: Can Trump 2.0 Overcome Its Many Challenges
Trump is changing the world.
He’s Spartacus

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
“Sa’ad was considered the terrorist organization’s second-in-command and the de facto deputy of Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, head of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza.”
Israel Eliminates Ra’ad Sa’ad, Hamas No. 2 and One of the Last October 7 Plotters
Concerns have been raised about the potential harm to U.S.-brokered peace efforts, including the Abraham Accords, and the perception of Israel’s actions in the Arab world. (Pfft, it's an illusion so long as Islam exists - jjs)
White House Strongly Rebukes Israel for Breaking Gaza Ceasefire.
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
North Korean state media identified the regiment in question as highly trained engineers rather than frontline soldiers, and Kim himself described their area of work being in Kursk, a Russian region that Ukraine counter-invaded last year in an attempt to end Russia’s ongoing hostilities against it.
Kim Jong-un Confirms North Koreans Are Dying on Mine-Clearing Duty in Ukraine War
Trump shared the latest on efforts to bring the war to a close at the top of a Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation in the Oval Office.
Trump Believes Russia-Ukraine Talks to End War Are ‘Closer Now Than’ Ever
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Meet Jose Antonio Kast, Chile's powerful counterpart to Argentina's Javier Milei and El Salvador's Nayyib Bukele ...
Leftists crushed in blowout conservative presidential victory in Chile
Kast’s victory reflects a broader regional trend of countries shifting to the right, with immigration and crime dominating political discourse.
Chilean Populist Defeats Communist Rival, Winning Presidency Amid Fears Over Crime and Illegal Immigration.
This is not routine repression; it is the death rattle of a collapsing theocracy. Driven to paroxysms of violence by economic implosion, cascading protests, and intensifying global pressure, Tehran is broadcasting panic, not strength.
Iran’s Execution Frenzy Reveals Paranoia, Not Power
The extremely slow vote count resumed on Sunday after a new 135 hour-long pause amid accusations of fraud and alleged “interference” from President Donald Trump, levied by the ruling socialist government of President Xiomara Castro. Conservative candidate Nasry Asfura, who received President Trump’s endorsement, remains in the lead at press time.
Honduras Still Has No President-Elect Two Weeks After Vote
Another golden opportunity for the Trump administration team to make a deal that secures the U.S. critical mineral supply chain.
Seismic Power Shift Looms as Bolivia May Rewrite Lithium Deals Involving China to Favor U.S.
No real flag = stateless vessel. And stateless vessels have zero legal protections.
Trump’s Oil Tanker Seizure: Another Shocking And Unprecedented Act That Isn’t Shocking Or Unprecedented
The question that now confronts us in the West is whether we will continue pretending not to notice.
Jimmy Lai’s Guilty Verdict — And The West’s
And how it influences peace with Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Government’s Repression of the Armenian Church

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The discovery of the surrogacy scheme is raising new questions regarding America’s birthright citizenship laws and potential impacts on U.S. national security.
Chinese Billionaires Fuel U.S. Surrogacy Boom, Raising Legal and National Security Concerns.
The order signing came during a Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation in the Oval Office, after noting, “I’m taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country.”
Trump Signs Order Classifying Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Nearly 15 years ago, the Democrats’ Unaffordable Care Act broke the American health care system. Since its inception, premium costs have skyrocketed, networks have shrunk, and the system has become bloated, inefficient, and riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. While Democrats demand that taxpayers write bigger checks to insurance companies to hide the cost of their failed law, House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care, increase access and choice, and restore integrity to our nation’s health care system for all Americans.
Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion
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1 Sad Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

2 Admiral Brian Christine sounds like a good and a a strong man and such a relief after nutty leftist Richard ( Rachel) Levine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (Yl2Ob)

3 Good morning, everyone. Gorgeous sky on the way into work. I'll take that as a good sign.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (+4yJ5)

4 Look at it this way: Trump is now back in command of the news cycle. I bet no one asks any more stupid questions about the "second strike" on that boat.

Posted by: StefanH at December 16, 2025 07:17 AM (Cu+ma)

5 Thank you, JJ!

Spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:17 AM (Cjt/F)

6 Turtle Island Liberation Front

Is going to take over the US and return it to the Natives that will then become islamofascist and control Turtle Island for a 1000 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

7
“Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X

So where is the call to take down Democrat posts about MAGA, or Republicans, or normie wypeepo?

Fuck the left.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (QVmho)

8 As you read the news of the day, remember that the Obamas are all for bringing in people who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

9 "Trump didn’t hold back in a post shared on Truth Social shortly after the actor and his wife were found allegedly murdered Sunday. "

if the President were a guy who "held back", how would he differ from the rest of the useless pisspots we call republicans?

I voted for the whole man.

and, as I've been saying for many years now (to no avail):
"the aggressor sets the rules of engagement."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:23 AM (Cjt/F)

10 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

"This is bloody revolution, period"
=====

If only the Fuhrer knew! (tm)

Posted by: Colossus at December 16, 2025 07:23 AM (9ipOP)

11 8 As you read the news of the day, remember that the Obamas are all for bringing in people who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

The Obamas were supposed to be at Rob Reiner's house moments before sonny boy came home!!!

Now there's a thought!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (x0n13)

12 Ella was assassinated.
He knew who she was, where she was, when she would be there.
Most likely knew how to get into building and where cops would be on Saturday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

13 /oppositional defiant AI sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (9ipOP)

14 Unless the conspirators as well as and most especially their political and financial backers are all rounded up and then publicly executed, we have failed.

How many weeks has it been since Hegseth pulled a Trey Gowdy and said Kelly was liable to be returned to active duty? How many weeks has it been since Kelly shat out his vomitus and yet still remains free as a bird?

There is not one - not one - Western leader who has the balls to do what must be done to defeat Islam and the traitors on the left.

At this point, I'm willing to heed the words of Superintedant Chalmers: "I say enjoy it! It's a hell of a toboggan ride!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.
_________
You know better than that. They have no problem with lying, and calling on them to act civilized will have no more effect than it ever does. Paladino is right. Throwing them out is the best way.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (s0JqF)

16 Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions

"Local Muslim community worries about backlash over tomorrow's terrorist attack."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (+4yJ5)

17 Ella was assassinated.
He knew who she was, where she was, when she would be there.
Most likely knew how to get into building and where cops would be on Saturday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)
====

Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

18 "The Obamas were supposed to be at Rob Reiner's house moments before sonny boy came home"

Exactly. Comrades.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

19 NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

--

If only she had called for the 'expulsion of Jews,' she'd be receiving accolades from all leftist corners about now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (qBdHI)

20 16 Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions

"Local Muslim community worries about backlash over tomorrow's terrorist attack."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (+4yJ5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMyKGNy3CI4

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

21 We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.

And except for places here and there, it won't happen. There's an old book that tells us that. No matter how many say, "We've overcome evil before, we'll do it again," that book says we won't. It seems our so-called "leaders" are part and parcel of the problem. They're all bought off or too cowardly to oppose our enemies. At some point, final darkness will fall on this world and there's only one way it ends.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (uQesX)

22 It seems that outlet’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is attempting to abandon the one-sided,
24/7 leftwing perspective that has dominated that news organization (as well as all of America’s so-called 'intellectual' culture) for decades. Instead, she is advocating openness and a willingness to let many
different opinions and ideas be heard.

And in 1936, Hitler ordered that Der Sturmer not be sold publicly so as to burnish the image of the Third Reich, but once the Olympics were over, it came right back again. Zimmerman is clutching at straws.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (ufSfZ)

23 Meanwhile considering what unfolded in Australia a few days ago which is not a one-off but merely the latest in a long line of incidents that has spilled oceans of innocent blood for close to a millennium and a half.

I smell a government conspiracy here...the video footage showed a warm, sunny beach, but I'm pretty sure it's cold in Europe, and Australia is landlocked.

Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (JCZqz)

24 >Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim
----

Trump does shoot from the lip- his comments re: Reiner were unnecessary

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 07:29 AM (ZxPkt)

25 As Snell reports, Levy went as far as to praise Diaz for illegally crossing the border several times, saying, “I commend you for supporting your family, for expressing your devotion to them and for working here in the United States in jobs that Americans apparently do not want to work in and certainly not for the wages that were undoubtedly abusive of your work for them.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

26 You can bet that any public Jewish gatherings in NYC next year will probably be canceled.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

27 Listen, everybody knows weed is bad for you. Sure, potheads and smelly hippie types rant and rave about the benefits because it makes them feel better about being a loser. People are stupid and we sell stupid to stupid people. You should thank us. Potheads are basically harmless except when their dad wants to throw them outta the house. Remember to hide your knives.

Posted by: Big Weed Inc. at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (YyIMQ)

28 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 16, 2025 07:32 AM (2Ez/1)

29 PDT often says what I am thinking and will sometimes even say here. I kind of like that. Fk their feelings.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

30 "Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering"

I fixed it with JB Weld!

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

31 Remember to hide your knives.
Posted by: Big Weed Inc. at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (YyIMQ)

Hey what about us?

Posted by: Big Crack Mexico at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (gbOdA)

32 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

33 So now North Dakota is being colonized by Somalis? The news is unusually depressing of late.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (qBdHI)

34 Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion

How about just aborting it you grifting mfers?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:36 AM (uQesX)

35 2 Admiral Brian Christine sounds like a good and a a strong man and such a relief after nutty leftist Richard ( Rachel) Levine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (Yl2Ob)

"Nutty" indeed. two, tucked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:36 AM (x0n13)

36 I wonder if people in hijabs and angry looking Muslim men will have to endure second glances or perceived judgement?

Let us not forget they are victims too.

Posted by: MJ at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (Sdeol)

37 Does it not cross Chuckles walnut sized brain that expelling Muslims might save more lives than banning firearms

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (8CIFn)

38 " Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion"

Saves who $30 billion?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

39 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 07:38 AM (pd4dZ)

40 26 You can bet that any public Jewish gatherings in NYC next year will probably be canceled.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

If Mamdani doesn't BAN them first!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:40 AM (x0n13)

41 The Somalization of North Dakota

Fargo: Black Hawk Down Redeaux

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:40 AM (gbOdA)

42 Internet Explodes After Trump Unleashes On The Late Rob Reiner
_______
That may be the only time I thought Trump really deserved the attacks for what he said.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 07:41 AM (s0JqF)

43 BOING!

השם ירחם

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 16, 2025 07:41 AM (Wy0hw)

44 Meh, Mamdani will decree all Jewish gatherings must have a Muslim observer to ensure conformity to Koranic teaching.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

45 40 Mamdani won't ban them. Fucker probably realizes it's the perfect opportunity to round 'em up and get them down to the rail yard.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (gm9Sb)

46 probably right, JJ

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (Cjt/F)

47
I'm having to take Finn in to the vet this morning. The poor boy is coughing up bright-red blood. It's not impossible that it may be pneumonia and thus treatable but I fear it's worse than that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

48

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 16, 2025 07:45 AM (DDJSl)

49 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

Oh no, poor boy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

50 Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?”

Because America is the source of all evil in the world and telling someone to reject their beautiful culture to assimilate here is "problematic."

That's pretty much how these cretins think.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (+4yJ5)

51 oh my gosh that does not sound good!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

52 House Oversight Accuses D.C. Police Chief of Manipulating Crime Data

Not really
they just pointed out that every precinct chief stated that they were forced to manipulate data.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

53 ICE doesn't use the proper warrants, so I don't understand how Judge Dugan can even get in trouble. ICE is ignoring the Constitution, but somehow *she* is in the wrong?

This is completely ridiculous prosecution. I watched the court surveillance, and this is malicious prosecution for political ends at its finest. VOMIT.

At what point does this get thrown out as complete bullshit?

Well Wisconsin DOJ must be filled with Nazi cunts.
It’s federal prosecution, not state.
Them too!

Even if she’s found guilty, this is the kind of civil disobedience the history books will lionize. People having the courage to willingly face imprisonment, beatings, or worse, all out of a primal sense of justice. I lack *that* level of courage, and can only sit in awe of those that do.

This is what the Feds wanna spend their time prosecuting? “We will teach those liberal activist judges!” - Bondi. What a waste. What theatre.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (JCZqz)

54 Poor Finn

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (9ipOP)

55 44 Meh, Mamdani will decree all Jewish gatherings must have a Muslim observer to ensure conformity to Koranic teaching.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

With AK47 armed enforcers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

56
Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.

So it's perfectly fine if I called for the creation of a Confessional state and said that it is absolutely necessary that every American - indeed, every human creature - be subject to the Pope?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (tgvbd)

57 Even if she’s found guilty, this is the kind of civil disobedience the history books will lionize. People having the courage to willingly face imprisonment, beatings, or worse, all out of a primal sense of justice. I lack *that* level of courage, and can only sit in awe of those that do.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (JCZqz)

She will be the Emmitt Till of Rosa Parks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

58 I see Trump gave the media the *scandal* they have been desperately seeking. abc news actually inferred on their
6 oclock news broadcast yesterday that Trump was responsible for the murders of reiner and his wife.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (0N4FZ)

59 Yeah, Trump is crude.

But I am still not tired of winning. He is never going to run for office again and, frankly, I cannot spare the man; he fights.

I posted this on twitter:

"Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

One response was "I most certainly can grieve for a man whose movies defined much of my young life. Whose legacy will be one of a man who worked to make the world a better place.

And I don’t have to grieve for a divisive man who made money stirring the shit pot. Although I grieve for his kids."

She just proved my point.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (W7XSX)

60 I would like to make a land acknowledgment for the State of Kansas.

Kansas was under a shallow ocean during the last major warm period.

I would like to thank the Ice Ages and mantle emergence of the Rockies for the possibility of dry land. I hold that the true heirs of Kansas are mollusks that lived in the shallow sea. We find their fossils in the rocks all around Kansas.

People should raise sea levels 200 feet, and sink the top of the earth 1,000 feet to bring Kansas back to the original owners.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

61 “Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,”

YOU tone down your rhetoric (denial of free speech)
so THEY can keep gunning you down.

Being that this comes from a typical Leftist Jewish female politician who doesn't know what time it is, the situation with the Islamic/Leftist destruction of Western Civilization can only be resisted by God if that is even within His plan.

A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

Our churches will continue to arm up and have Men of Action provide security (such as it is) while Julie Menin can have her Festivals and Ethnic Pride gatherings that will regularly feature expressions of Islamic jihad.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

62 Hillary Clinton

You are a classic figure of corruption. Haiti should hate what you did to those people.

Begone, and be a tale told to frighten children.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

63 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

So in your world what am I?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (9ipOP)

64 Hoping for the best outcome for Finn, Hadrian.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

65 Hadrian the Seventh

May your fears be unfulfilled, and Finn be fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

66 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

67 If people think Trump was responsible for the death of Reiner and his wife, they are idiotsThe only responsible was their son-the man who killed them, although I think Trump should not have said what he said.

I am so glad I don't do Blewski or Twitter to read the stupid comments.from leftists

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (2sfNr)

68
I don't follow such things closely but how many Islamic organizations are out there condemning this sort of violence and intense secularism and calling for assimilation with other ethnicities and creeds? Because nothing is coming to mind.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (tgvbd)

69 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

Sure they can. Holding onto contradictory thoughts is kind of their thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (+4yJ5)

70 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:55 AM (2sfNr)

71 33 So now North Dakota is being colonized by Somalis? The news is unusually depressing of late.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (qBdHI)
.....

North Dakota and Minnesota. Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow! I'm pretty sure we have a cluster of them up in Sioux Falls too.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 16, 2025 07:55 AM (j/yko)

72 President fd would have some things to say that might perturb a few people too.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

73

Carl Carlton, R&B singer of "Bad Mama Mama" passes at 72. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

74 Now with the leftists solve the homeless issue by institutionalizing mentally ill people?

My bet is on no they will not.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

75 > We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.
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We clutch our pearls so hard at a mean tweet by the President that our fingers bleed. How will we find the gumption to face the left and all that it has wrought if we can't get over that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)

76 Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

There seems to be circumstantial evidence supporting the idea, but no actual evidence, and there can’t be until the perp is id’d.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (MXpA1)

77 FenelonSpoke

I have said prayers for FenelonSpouse, so that his gout can abate. May you two turtledoves keep warm, and FenelonSon do any shoveling needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

78 Meet Admiral Brian Christine, The Man Replacing Biden’s Infamous Trans-Identifying Health Official

Ah, he has a woman's name!

Posted by: Captain Rum Redbeard at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (/HDaX)

79 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

Correct. People like the recently decease paid clown entertainer wished President Trump dead, arrested, impeached, impoverished, assassinated, etc, etc. President Trump is being kind if you really think about. Stop being nice to these leftist scum.

Posted by: Payback Is A Bitch at December 16, 2025 08:00 AM (YyIMQ)

80 71 Lutheran Social Services of Sioux Falls took in a bunch of Ethiopians some years back. I used to visit Sioux Falls while working a temp job in Omaha. Needless to say, the Ethiopians really stood out. Also, if you were near a group like in a grocery they would sometimes be speaking something not quite Italian. Found out it's a pidgin form of Italian used between those of different dialects.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:00 AM (gm9Sb)

81 I don't follow such things closely but how many Islamic organizations are out there condemning this sort of violence and intense secularism and calling for assimilation with other ethnicities and creeds? Because nothing is coming to mind.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (tgvbd)
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I have seen a video of an Australian Muslim condemning it but the Australian imams association issued an anodyne statement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (9ipOP)

82 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks so much . He's feeling better today although he drove the bus yesterday . Sweet treats for the holidays does not help his gout. But we went to the Irish gift shop and he's the one who bought the cookies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (2sfNr)

83 Scott Pelley Blames Everyone But CBS For Network’s Tanked Credibility

Anyone that has watched 69 mins since they day they blew up trucks with solid model rocket motors and broke the shifter cables to cause unintended acceleration is not very smart.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

84 "I most certainly can grieve for a man whose movies defined much of my young life."

Well, her cats will enjoy that last meal...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

85 Admiral Brian Christine is the head of one of eight uniformed services of the US of A. We are now up to eight with Space Force.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

86 FenelonSpoke

I have said prayers for FenelonSpouse, so that his gout can abate. May you two turtledoves keep warm, and FenelonSon do any shoveling needed.

I have both Colchicine and Indomethacine for pain and swelling via doctor's RX. Go see a doctor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

87 I'm so old I remember when mean tweets used to be a big deal.

Posted by: Geezer at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

88 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

==

The thing about it is, these two incidents aren't even remotely similar so why any comparison at all? Kirk was murdered solely because of his politics. In America. Land of supposed free speech. It was such a heinous act that even Reiner himself acknowledged it for what it was. OTOH, Reiner had an unbalanced son who killed him as other kids have killed their parents in the past. Whatever set him off doesn't matter.

These two murders are not alike.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

89 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (+x87d)

90 I just saw video, the terrorists were attacked by civilians as soon as they emerged from their car on Campbell Parade. A man and his wife saw the weapons and attacked the old man but he shot them dead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (9ipOP)

91 It's not impossible that it may be pneumonia and thus treatable but I fear it's worse than that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

Here's hoping for the least worst news. Prayers up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (/HDaX)

92 Lutheran Social Services"

The twits who discovered that they can fill their coffers w/taxpayer coin by importing others by calling them "refugees"?

I wish them ill.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

93
re: President Trump's statement about Rob Reiner's murder.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's prudent to do it.
Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.

Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

94 FenelonSpoke

Are you saying he does not pay attention to what you tell him not to do? Hmmm.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

95 "House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion"

It doesn't save anything. It shifts the costs to the deficit.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

96 85 Admiral Brian Christine is the head of one of eight uniformed services of the US of A. We are now up to eight with Space Force.

+++
We're sitting right here.

Posted by: USPS at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

97 76 Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

There seems to be circumstantial evidence supporting the idea, but no actual evidence, and there can’t be until the perp is id’d.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (MXpA1)

Perp pick looked like a chubby dude in black clothes - I'd say Arab/Middle East coloring by the hands, but you never know how the video is washing in or out colors when they release subpar pics...

If anyone hasn't seen the new person of interest, let me know. Of course, the 1st one didn't pan out, so this may not either...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (tOcjL)

98 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

He's an adult. He can choose or not choose. The cookies won out 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (Yl2Ob)

99 We clutch our pearls so hard at a mean tweet by the President that our fingers bleed

Remember, the enemy is always trying to divide us. And the so-called Right has a lot of cucks, simps, retards and other losers who are total cowards when confronting the Left, but brave lions when critical of their champions.

Same reason why everyone hates Christians and has no problems attacking them (no fear of reprisal - turn the other cheek response mechanism) but walks on eggs around Muslims (decapitation, bombs, assassination without any real provocation).

I might add trannies too. Broadly speaking, ethno-cultural Jews have a Muslim problem, Evangelicals have a Tranny problem.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (9s47C)

100 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

Sure they can. Holding onto contradictory thoughts is kind of their thing.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (+4yJ5)

If the leftoidss didn't have double standards, they would have no standards.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (YBgFH)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.
Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (uQesX)

103 “Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X. “This is a time to uplift all communities, not sow divisions.”

This is what's known as burying your head in the sand.

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

104 And the so-called Right has a lot of cucks, simps, retards and other losers who are total cowards when confronting the Left, but brave lions when critical of their champions."

"Bbbbbut it's not who we are!!!"

The proper reply: "F**k you, war"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (XuXeR)

105 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

106 Ya know, an armed society is one where Islamic Thugs can not murder innocents for 20 minutes without being stopped. And the police did not act at once.

Australia, England, France, Germany, Belgium, Canada, you have the wrong policies in place.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

107 96 "That's not a uniform. That's a costume". Retired naval officer addressing Cliff Claven on "Frasier".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

108 "Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.
Posted by: OrangeEnt "

Trump is giving it back to them and they are crying.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

109 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

So in your world what am I?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (9ipOP)
====

Put up shut up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (9ipOP)

110 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

Thanks He has Meloxicam and Prednisone. Which help. He's just down to a few pills.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

111 Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.
Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (uQesX)

Yes. How many times to we have to get f*cked by the high road before we start actually fighting back?

I don't care about what Trump said about a vile human being who's constant rhetoric over the past several years undoubtedly lead to TWO assassination attempts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

112 Hunter Biden Disbarred Over Illegal Gun Ownership, Tax Fraud Convictions.

Dayum
Now I never getting back last year tax refund check from my baby mama.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

113 The thing that annoyed me most about Trump's tweet about Reiner is that Reiner was one of the few on the left to unequivocally condemn the cheering over Charlie Kirk's assassination. Being reminded that was more of a one-off and Reiner DID celebrate Rush Limbaugh dying takes the sting out a bit.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (6nplM)

114 Thank you JJ

Something that’s jumped out at me regarding the recent mass shootings (particularly Bondi Beach and Brown University)… you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent. It’s a shit show! Whatever happened to simple competence?? It doesn’t help they always have the obligatory sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool… I mean come on man! How many deaf people are watching the presser?? It’s ridiculous virtue signaling… then the mayor in Providence, RI complained he was tired… these people are ridiculous no wonder they haven’t caught the perp

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

115 All murders have one thing in common.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (W7XSX)

116 “sow divisions”

Sigh…It’s “sew,” not “sow.” I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

117 Morn' all... I have to say what Trump said again about Reiner was cringe worthy but I'm wondering could Trump be playing to the base ?...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (VE6XX)

118 Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.

It's a thought, but it will NEVER happen. Even if you are allowed to start such a revolution, the left and islham would never take such a path.

islham only knows one way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

119 re: President Trump's statement about Rob Reiner's murder.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's prudent to do it.
Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.

--

It changes nothing about my politics or my support for PDJT. And Trump's gonna Trump. But I would've preferred to see a more presidential response here which would've just entailed saying nothing at all. Or at the very least, prayers to the Reiner family. Acrimony between the two aside, it just was unnecessary and beneath the dignity of his office. It doesn't even ding my support for him one shred, but it was better to have let it slide. Anyway...

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

120 We just need to put more women in charge.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

121 That worthless fat fuck Erick Erickson has re-found his passion:

Scolding and shaming Republicans, demanding that we adhere to a set of one-sided, dangerous rules.

He bulbous face is red and sweaty in anger that Trump did not give the dead piece of shit Reiner, praise and prayers.

Hey fatty-- that turd slandered and attacked Trump with lies and worse daily: His death is not an absolution.

He's now trying the "you're all just a bunch of permanent online losers who need to get out more" against everyone who doesn't agree.
Oh, sick burn loser. Cnn still not calling you back?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (HXT0k)

122 It doesn't save anything. It shifts the costs to the deficit.

I think its better to understand the problem with this metaphor:

The framers and up until WW2 Americans built the "Titanic". The ink wasn't even dry on the Constitution until politicians were pick pocketing and casually stealing from the passengers.

After WW2 (or the 1965 Immigration Blow Out), the Titanic was being actively steered into an Iceberg. We can argue when the Titanic actually hit the iceberg, but one thing is very plain and simple:

While the ship is sinking, the politicians are going from room to room plundering all of the valuables with the knowledge that they will be able to swindle space on the lifeboat with themselves, their cronies and ill-gotten gain.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (a3CJ+)

123 Excuse me, my terror plots are up here.

Posted by: Macinac Island Liberation Front at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (R86kT)

124 Trump is giving it back to them and they are crying.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

They're chickencucks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (uQesX)

125 an armed society"

Oh noes. We can't have that, as it's "unsafe". "Safety first" is our mantra, and everyone must FEEL safe constantly.
And feeling safe means everyone in earshot must constantly support every feeling we have. Reeeeeee!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (XuXeR)

126 I've been an ardent DJT supporter, and still am. But F all his Tweet about Reiner pissed me off. It's not the villification of Reiner per se, but the fact that this isn't about you. Not. At. All.

I'm not a follower of the "you said X so you're disqualified" but this was over the top bad and, frankly, foolish. You are the leader of your party and have a responsibility not to give the other side fat, hanging curves.

Is this Trump's version of "after me the deluge"? Because I just don't understand.

Posted by: Zek at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (MnWjI)

127 Hey. We wear uniforms, too.

Posted by: U. S. Forestry Service at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

128 USPS

Unionized. Not under the UCMJ. A chain of command is lacking, although there are managers. Not given ribbons to wear for achievement, which is a good thing. Can be fired or resign with no effort.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

129

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
----

speaking as a Caucasian over 29 years of age, I actually have that song in my iTunes

'I get so excited, viewing her anatomy'

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

130 Anyone hear from Jim in Kali yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

131 "Paladino took down the posts in question after facing outrage..."

This is where fail, again and again and again. We can't stop failing. Think carefully about what you wish to say, say it, and stand by it. Or get out of the business.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

132 Hey. We wear uniforms, too.
Posted by: U. S. Forestry Service at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

What's your theme song? Who's in your marching band?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

133 you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent."

Generally, teacher's unions get out the local vote... chew on that.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

134 The perp found Ella out of 11k students and faculty at a 143 acre campus, and out of 250 buildings on a Saturday night.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

135
This is where fail, again and again and again. We can't stop failing. Think carefully about what you wish to say, say it, and stand by it. Or get out of the business.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

My sentiments exactly.

However, style guide prefers "This is why we can't have nice things."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

136 133 you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent."

Generally, teacher's unions get out the local vote... chew on that.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

off year and off cycle voting

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

137 We still talking about Trump’s Reiner tweet? Good grief, people, let it go.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

138 The perp found Ella out of 11k students and faculty at a 143 acre campus, and out of 250 buildings on a Saturday night.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

He's likely a student there and has taken the same class or classes with her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

139 What's your theme song? Who's in your marching band?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

Enter the Gladiator
Clowns

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

140 Good morning all.

Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)

141 So a sewer went out to sew?

Posted by: Luke 8:15 at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

142

A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (9ipOP)

143 What's your theme song?"

"Think Music"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (XuXeR)

144 He's likely a student there and has taken the same class or classes with her.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Spong
I am cynical old man and think someone told him exactly when and where to be.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

145 Today Is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

146 Erroriickson probably spent two hours on his radio show talking about how much he loves "The Princess Bride".

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

147 Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)
====

He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

148 Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)

I asked the same at 130, but no response as of yet. I'm guessing he'll be doped up and we won't hear from him directly for a spell......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Force them to publicly reject those words,

I absolutely, F'ing hate this narcissistic, stupid and pointless gesture of demanding / expecting someone to state something they clearly do not believe in the form of a "Public Rejection"™ to make the one issuing the demands appear to be virtuous when it is clear that no one, either the Cretin making the demands, or the target that they want to humiliate and lord over by making them grovel are virtuous.

It is a sick and disgusting Passive / Aggressive means of virtue signaling.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (a3CJ+)

150
He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

Praise The Lord.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Black Jack Pershing had the right idea.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (WQDw6)

152 San Franpsycho

Judeo-Christian, and Methodists. The Amish society is also looking better and better as we potentially approach burning times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

153 “sow divisions”

Sigh…It’s “sew,” not “sow.” I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

Uh, no, Bulg. It's sow divisions.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (uQesX)

154 It doesn’t help they always have the obligatory sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool… I mean come on man! How many deaf people are watching the presser??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

How many deaf people are at the presser?

Because closed caption is available for those at home

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (FxH7T)

155 I am cynical old man and think someone told him exactly when and where to be.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Uh, no, Bulg. It's sow divisions."

Sooooeeee!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (XuXeR)

157 Today Is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

I prefer my anything plain - as God intended.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (c2vsb)

158 Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders.

Box whine and xanax

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

159 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

==

The thing about it is, these two incidents aren't even remotely similar so why any comparison at all? Kirk was murdered solely because of his politics. In America. Land of supposed free speech. It was such a heinous act that even Reiner himself acknowledged it for what it was. OTOH, Reiner had an unbalanced son who killed him as other kids have killed their parents in the past. Whatever set him off doesn't matter.

These two murders are not alike.
Posted by: Lady in Black

The left celebrated when a rightist died. But we are supposed to be all solemn and introspective when a fucking commie loon dies.

Sorry. Not happening.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (+x87d)

160 Hey, we wear uniforms!

The TSA, wishing they would start giving us guns and cool tactical stuff.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (gm9Sb)

161 rhennigantx

It was an OP.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

162 He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

Thanks, SF

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (c2vsb)

163 sow
(soʊ IPA Pronunciation Guide)
verb
If you sow seeds or sow an area of land with seeds, you plant the seeds in the ground.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

164 Fox has had Vickie Paladino on many times. She's a tough conservative lady that is fighting for NYC.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

165 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

166 "These two murders are not alike.

Posted by: Lady in Black"

Thank you! Yes! Someone's got to say it! Brava!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (Cjt/F)

167 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (fPt6j)

168 Even though Reiner grieved over Kirk, he still had the same opinions about Trump being a Nazi. This is not “unfortunate “ or “too soon”, Trump called it as he saw it. You guys should do the same.

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (H1eSt)

169 Was the tailor able to sow the button back on your shirt?
Yeah, but it was only a sew sew job.

Posted by: Oh, no. Punz at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)

170 I don’t care about Trump’s truth social post about Reiner. It’s not something I’d do… I don’t feel that way about Reiner; I have sympathy for anyone who gets murdered in such a horrific fashion, by a son no less… it’s awful. Saw James Wood last night talking with great emotion about his friend Reiner.

However…. We get Trump as a package deal. The good, the bad and the ugly. You know what he’s the best prez of my lifetime by far and I was around for Ronaldus… this is who he is. Why are we surprised?? Why complain?? That “mean tweet” part of his makeup is essential to what makes him Trump… so be it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

171 sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool"

Remember that guy at Mandela's funeral? Funny.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

172 I do not question the resolve of President Trump, but have serious concerns about Congress, the courts, and ~~faint-hearted~~ PUSSYS Republicans across the country.

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

173 Even though Reiner grieved over Kirk, he still had the same opinions about Trump being a Nazi. This is not “unfortunate “ or “too soon”, Trump called it as he saw it. You guys should do the same.

I'll sit this one out. Not my monkey, not my circus.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (+4Cf6)

174 Remember that guy at Mandela's funeral? Funny.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

that is one of my fav comments of all time
hookem horns
dophin jump

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

175 I see the seminar posters are still here this morning. Back to your masters, be gone

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

176 Followup question: if this happened to Pelosi instead of Reiner, would this reaction be the same? Or Hillary? I could very well see the same situation happen to Biden.

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (H1eSt)

177 sow"

A pig,
A female pig...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

178 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And then, Eumenides them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (uQesX)

179 Oops, I did get my “sews” mixed up. “Sow divisions” is correct.

Sigh. I’m so sick of illiterate commenters on smart military blogs.

Sorry about that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

180 I think Trump was basically right. The narcissism, hedonism, and nihilism of Hollywood anti-culture was a major contributor to Reiner's murder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (L/fGl)

181 I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

Kinda like Trump saying the BBC "literally" put words in his mouth?

It's a figure of speech. A metaphor. The exact opposite of "literally".

Did they shove a dictionary or thesaurus in his mouth?

How did that word become some prevalent and meaningless????

*goes back to shaking fist at clouds*

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (c2vsb)

182 You know why I support Trump's attack on the dead Hollywood losers?

Because the left always runs and hides behind Mother!s skirts every time anyone dares come after them in equal to what they had dished out.

Every f'ing time, they run and hide behind rules of decorum and manners-- which they had just been shitting on seconds before.

And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

183 Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.

Safer than Houstons 3rd Ward.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

184 I think Trump was basically right. The narcissism, hedonism, and nihilism of Hollywood anti-culture was a major contributor to Reiner's murder.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (L/fGl)

If Reiner paid 1/2 the attention to his son that has been in and out of rehab 17 times in 37 years as he did airing his TDS, he'd likely be alive today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

185
If people wanted to and were actively trying to take away your Freedom and/or Life, how would YOU feel when one of them croaks?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (DbEzE)

186 Oops, I did get my “sews” mixed up. “Sow divisions” is correct.

Sigh. I’m so sick of illiterate commenters on smart military blogs.

Sorry about that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (c2vsb)

187 MRC - Outstanding Move: NewsNation Hires Katie Pavlich for Weeknight Primetime Show

She joins the network of “News for All Americans” following 16 years as editor for our buddies at Townhall and 12 years of regular appearances with our friends at the Fox News Channel (FNC). In her later years, she served as fill-in co-hosts for FNC’s slew of primetime shows.

https://tinyurl.com/yxjvdc6e

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

188 Trump gives no fucks.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (qrkyB)

189
*goes back to shaking fist at clouds*
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (c2vsb)

I admire your denial of aloofness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Morning everyone. Thx JJ great report.
I've been filling you in about the low grade chaos occurring around here over the last couple weeks.
The NYS police have found a cop in my city was acting in self defense when he shot a guy. The cop was driving in the county south of me and off duty when some guy went road rage on him. The guy stopped in front of the cop and got out of his car and threw a punch at the cop threw his car window. He the pulled a knife and the cop shot him, injuring the attacker. No charges. People are getting nuttier

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (D+mpw)

191 A pig,
A female pig...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

that verse was cut from the movie

Posted by: Maria The Problem at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

192 Have a great day, everyone.

However, head on a swivel and have a plan.

May you give and get the gift of your heart's desire this Christmas. Probably can't buy it in regular stores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

193 Crap. Obtuseness.....not Aloofness.

Damn me.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

194 Last thing I say about the Reiner topic. Rest in Peace.

Let us move on

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

195 cornered the market on being obtuse"

Say, about 140 degrees?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (XuXeR)

196 And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion..
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

I like that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (b4LBp)

197 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And then, Eumenides them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (uQesX)

Yes, after Euripides.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

198 I admire your denial of aloofness.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Denial of Aloofness. I wanted to go see them when they opened for Corrosion of Conformity.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (c2vsb)

199 And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

Onward Christian Scold Battalion is one of my fav hymns.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

200 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And vice versa.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

201 You know why I support Trump's attack on the dead Hollywood losers?

Because the left always runs and hides behind Mother!s skirts every time anyone dares come after them in equal to what they had dished out.

Every f'ing time, they run and hide behind rules of decorum and manners-- which they had just been shitting on seconds before.

And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

THAT NEEDED TO BE SAID

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (+x87d)

202 I got some chocolate covered cotton for you.

Posted by: Milo Minderbinder at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (W7XSX)

203 This still doesn't resolve the sock and a sock or sock and a shoe conundrum.

https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk

Posted by: A. Bunker at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

204 Euripides."

"Meh"

Mediocrates...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

205 It's ok Bulg. Spelling and grammar errors I can forgive because we have no edit capability here.

I do frown upon factual errors though.

*glares at Paco*

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

206 Denial of Aloofness. I wanted to go see them when they opened for Corrosion of Conformity.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (c2vsb)

Help me Jesus, help me clean my wounds.

He said He cannot heal that kind......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Naproxen is FDA-approved for acute gout flares, recommended as a first-line NSAID by guidelines (e.g., Arthritis Foundation, Mayo Clinic), and user reviews average 8.6/10 effectiveness.

It reduces inflammation and pain comparably to indomethacin or colchicine, often with fewer side effects.

You can take up to 1375 mg total (e.g., 825 mg first dose + follow-ups) the first day but you need to taper off to 1100 mg/day until flare subsides.

Be sure to take with some food or a glass of milk.

It might interfere with urination to a minor degree but this will pass.

Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (EMg+d)

208 He the pulled a knife and the cop shot him, injuring the attacker. No charges.

Only because he's a cop. Double standards are twice as good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (+4yJ5)

209 187. Good for Katie. Just wish Newsnation did not have the never Trumper, Christ Stirewalt, as their political director.

The guy who made the Arizona call on Fox, for election 2020

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

210 A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

-
I would strike the word "Christian" but other than that, I agree.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (L/fGl)

211
Anyone else following this? Is this a big deal? Do we have a problem with the "chair" woman of the NTSB, or is she just doing her job?

There seems to be an issue over "Route 4" the "controversial" airspace used when that DEI helicopter fake "pilot" girl killed all those people.

The House Armed Services Committee wants to keep it status quo. Two idiots in the Senate, Cruz & cantwell, want it shut down forever.

The chairwoman of the NTSB agrees with the Senators, and she's making a big public stink about it. Is she a problem for us? Does she need fired?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (DbEzE)

212 I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (c2vsb)
====

If TJM were awake he wouldn't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

213 We won't let the arrest of one cell deter us from our goal. Slow and steady wins the race.

Posted by: Turtle Island Liberation Front at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (oftw2)

214 Onward Christian Scolders!

Posted by: With vigorous finger shaking at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

215 " I think Trump was basically right."

He is right. And Hollywood is pissed because he pointed it out.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

216 Onward Christian Scolders!"

Carrie Nation Time!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

217
If TJM were awake he wouldn't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

Meh.....he's an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

218 It might interfere with urination to a minor degree but this will pass.
Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (EMg+d)

Eventually.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

219 Judeo-Christian, and Methodists. The Amish society is also looking better and better as we potentially approach burning times.

I'm not so certain about "Judeo" because many of the ethno-cultural Jews are Leftists who actively hate Western civilization and are involved with NGOs and other organizations (e.g. ACLU, ADL, SPLC, etc.)

I KNOW THAT JEWS ARE NOT A HOMOGENOUS GROUP

JJS, CBD, many others are Great Americans, I get that.

And not all "Christian" organizations are pro-Western either (e.g. Catholic Charities, LIRS, Global Refuge, etc.)

But it is Calvinism, the printing press and guns that made The Great Experiment possible.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (BvPIe)

220 Help me Jesus, help me clean my wounds.

He said He cannot heal that kind......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

221 Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, told NewsNation that “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war” and questioned whether “it’s the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world, looking for adversaries and beginning wars.”

Know nothing pretend semi do gooder quasi libertarian ass wipe

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

222 but this will pass."

All things must pass...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

223
Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

Livin' on the edge!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

224 Good for Katie. Just wish Newsnation did not have the never Trumper, Christ Stirewalt, as their political director.

The guy who made the Arizona call on Fox, for election 2020
Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)
******5
I will miss her on Fox, but I suppose it's good to have as many conservative voices spread out across new stations.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

225
All things must pass...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

Hear hear!!!

Posted by: Gasssss at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

226 but this will pass."

All things must pass...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

We help!

Posted by: Psyllium Fiber capsules and plenty of water at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)

227 Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

Livin' on the edge!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

228 Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, told NewsNation that “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war” and questioned whether “it’s the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world, looking for adversaries and beginning wars.”

I guess your neighbor hit you harder than anyone thought.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Libertarians stink at foreign and defense policy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

230
You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

There's something wrong with the world today.

I don't know what it is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Insert Leftist progtard of the day quoting Jesus here
, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

232 Man, has Rand Paul lost the plot or what.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (b4LBp)

233 Call us.

Posted by: Prune juice and bran at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

234 I will miss her on Fox, but I suppose it's good to have as many conservative voices spread out across new stations.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

Newsnation? Never heard of it.

Posted by: 99% of geezer tv watchers at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (uQesX)

235 Euripides."

"Meh"

Mediocrates...
Posted by: man

*golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (+x87d)

236 Libertarians stink"

Can't argue with that... and it's an earthy smell...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

237 Libertarians stink"

On ice!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

238 “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.

NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

Should have had this call for expulsion of all Muslims on 09/12/2001. Instead, the population of Muslims in the USA went from 1.0 million in 2000 to 2.5 million in 2010 to 4.5 million in 2020.

150% increase after 09/11 Islamic terrorist attack to 2010
80% increase from 2010 to 2020

And projections have the Muslim population at 8.1 million by 2050.

If all western nations do not deport every last Muslim from their nation and ban them from ever returning, western civilization will be conquered, if it is not already. The UK and Australia are conquered. France close behind.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:33 AM (P5BPp)

239 The authors found that smoking weed every day more than doubles your risk of heart disease and stroke, and that the use of today’s high-potency THC vastly increases the risk of psychosis and anxiety disorders.

Progressivism in a doobie.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

240 I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.
Posted by: Doof

Hey! I'm just as obese as you are! Oh, you said "obtuse." Nevermind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (L/fGl)

241 You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

There's something wrong with the world today.

I don't know what it is......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

This is the closest you'll get from me
https://youtu.be/L295Gpt6r8U

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (c2vsb)

242 When I'm tempted to chide Trump for running off at the mouth or saying something politically inappropriate, I give it 24 hours. Then I realize he was being totally authentic and making a good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (b4LBp)

243 “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war”

And violating established sanctions to supply a known supporter of terrorism is acceptable.

I would like to apologize for my previous support of the Libertarians. But in my defense, I was a libertarian instead of a LIBERTARIAN!!!!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (+4yJ5)

244 Libertarians stink"

Can't argue with that... and it's an earthy smell...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

Oh! A composting toilet! Those things are great! Livin' off the grid for the win!

Posted by: Until they spill the bucket of shit on themselves at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (uQesX)

245 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?

Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)

246
This is the closest you'll get from me
https://youtu.be/L295Gpt6r8U
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (c2vsb)

A stretch, but acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

247
I'll also say this: it is a statement of character that we have a lot of people on our side nominally that stick to their beliefs in the face of adversity. It is also absolutely deleterious to our cause of actually saving the Republic that they do so primarily to stop us from utterly destroying the forces that are trying to destroy it, rather than hamstring the enemies that'd cheerfully kill them. I admire their convictions. It's a pity that the world is the state that it is where they absolutely cannot be trusted with any form of power or authority.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 16, 2025 08:36 AM (6nplM)

248 Libertarians stink ~~at foreign and defense policy.~~

==

of weed mostly

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

249 Analysis of that signal suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars. Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed. The team continues to analyze tracking data to understand the most likely scenarios leading to the loss of signal. Efforts to reestablish contact with MAVEN also continue.

We lost our Martian rocket ship, the high-paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship has lost its cone-shaped head
We spent 90 jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

250 Rand Paul votes 100% on confirming GOP Judges.

About only good thing I can say about him right now

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (YCxFk)

251 Libertarians had their day in the sun, ending around 1995. Harry Browne seemed a good egg. He died. Then everyone else figured out they are only about promoting drugs and open borders. Many don't even know where/what Aleppo is. Went from 3-5% support to 1% or so of losers in Mom's basement. Rand Paul can go squeeze a breeze.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed One at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (oftw2)

252 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

Agree. And Rob Reiner was very much at the root of many of the problems we have now. He was another propagandist pushing anti-American ideas. Fuck 'im.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (g8Ew8)

253 Happens all the time.

Orthodox islhamists attack and murder civilians.

Governments and media declare BOLO for 'right wing extremist retaliation.'

Orthodox islhamists given keys to the city.

Right wing extreme violence against islhamists never happens.

Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

254 @245 don't think so, Vickie is from Queens, while Carl is from the Buffalo area. Opposite ends of NYS

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (D+mpw)

255
Who cares?

WTF are we doing in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (DbEzE)

256 Agree. And Rob Reiner was very much at the root of many of the problems we have now. He was another propagandist pushing anti-American ideas. Fuck 'im.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (g8Ew

Bu bu but, the Princess Bride.

Posted by: Not as funny as some people say at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (uQesX)

257 That'll teach 'em.

Posted by: Teenage Martian with a Red Ryder Laser Rifle at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

258 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (53oGX)

259 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

The Last of Us is not a "how to" video.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

260 I'm not so certain about "Judeo" because many of the ethno-cultural Jews are Leftists who actively hate Western civilization and are involved with NGOs and other organizations (e.g. ACLU, ADL, SPLC, etc.)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (BvPIe)

I'll take you seriously when you call out the many cultural Catholics and hard-left progressive Christians as exactly that.

Until then, singling out leftists who happen to be born Jewish is suspect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (n9ltV)

261 Oh! A composting toilet! "

I like the thingy from a couple of years ago - the "countertop" composter. You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

262 253 Happens all the time.

Orthodox islhamists attack and murder civilians.

Governments and media declare BOLO for 'right wing extremist retaliation.'

Orthodox islhamists given keys to the city.

Right wing extreme violence against islhamists never happens.

Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

see my youtube link above to norm mcdonald joke

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

263

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Liberals have created “ICE Watch” in Portland Oregon

They have custom “ICE Watch” vests with glued on eyes balls all over them

They are stationed out from of schools to alert everyone if ICE is near

This in interfering in a federal operation

https://tinyurl.com/54y6zrfc

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

264 The en banc nominations bill will pass the Senate this week. about 15 US Attorney's in the package, including Michigan, NH, Tenn, Indiana etc... 4 DC Superior Court judges, few Ambassadors, and then mostly DOD, Transportation etc.. admin.

When Obama, and Biden took office these positions were filled right away due to GOP bi partisan votes.

sigh....

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (YCxFk)

265 I won't be lectured about the tone of people on my side who are fighting for me while the left openly celebrates the murder of a young man who wanted nothing more than to have a conversation with people who disagree with him.

We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

266 WTF are we doing in Syria??"

Pretty much the same as in what, 100+ other places around the world..

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

267 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”
---------

I'll take "Sentences where every word makes it worse" for 800, Alex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (qrkyB)

268 Wow. The media are sure upset about Trump dunking on Reiner after he got bemeated.

That's dumb. I mean, sure, he probably should've just said nothing, but what do these people expect? The feigned shock is annoying.

Trump's no shrinking violet, he holds a grudge with the best of 'em, and this particular tubby old fruit has spent many years raging at him like a lunatic, and calling him every name in the book from a Nazi to a rapist.

Did they think he was gonna send a bouquet?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

269
Who's eyeballs?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (DbEzE)

270 We lost our Martian rocket ship, the high-paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship has lost its cone-shaped head
We spent 90 jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

Is that The Little Eisenstein's theme song?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (uQesX)

271 *You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.*

You mean Mr. Fusion?

Posted by: Doc Brown at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

272 I'll take you seriously when you call out the many cultural Catholics and hard-left progressive Christians as exactly that.

Until then, singling out leftists who happen to be born Jewish is suspect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (n9ltV)

I hate the James Talaricos of the US about as much as the islamofascist and cat ladies.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

273 Holy shit. The children have been activated.

Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

274 @264 Jonah, and the GOPe will still talk about their "good friends across the aisle". SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (D+mpw)

275 Didn't that happen days ago rickb223?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

276 They have custom “ICE Watch” vests with glued on eyes balls all over them"

I saw that - "custom" meaning "ICE WATCH" written in sharpie on a vest. And they're soooo important. And doing nothing useful or interesting, but hey...

They aren't interfering w/shiite.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

277 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (fA38o)

278
Holy shit. The children have been activated.

Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223

Manchurian Celery Children?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (DbEzE)

279 I like the thingy from a couple of years ago - the "countertop" composter. You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
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We are mandated to do that by Gavin Newsom.

If you don't, they send you a picture of your garbage with a $40 ticket.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (9ipOP)

280 Syria allows us to use bases to go after ISIS.

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

281 Prayers for Finn today. Keeping fingers crossed that he is ok too.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (BCuCF)

282 Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes on December 8th.

Following a Dec. 11 court appearance on a felony murder charge, 31-year-old Micah Curtis Sykes' bail amount changed from $4 million to no bail. He was arrested on Dec. 9, a day after first responders found 71-year-old Jubilant Sykes "with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing" in a Santa Monica home and declared him dead at the scene.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (+x87d)

283 Every once in a while there will be an uprising in Syria and they will kill a bunch of Christians, Armenians, Jews, folks from another tribe, whatever.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

284 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine. I think the trend is dying out, thankfully.

Posted by: Alas, poor Uric.... at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

285 “ The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!”

Samuel 22:47

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (gnUjt)

286 274. right Glove. like all the GOP Senators who voted to confirm Merrick Garland, because he was a moderate

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

287 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (fA38o)

You should have bought the MkUltra. Much better.

Posted by: Your Fiendly Neighborhood CIA Guy at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)

288 Following a Dec. 11 court appearance on a felony murder charge, 31-year-old Micah Curtis Sykes' bail amount changed from $4 million to no bail. He was arrested on Dec. 9, a day after first responders found 71-year-old Jubilant Sykes "with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing" in a Santa Monica home and declared him dead at the scene.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (+x87d)

All these stabbings... When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (VE6XX)

289 Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. "

Well, it's not a 1911, so...

*at least it's in JMB's own .45 ACP*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

290 We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

Yes.

I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (n9ltV)

291 The Amish society

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Here in Colorado, we received an alert this morning that Xcel may shut of electricity tomorrow for fear of high winds sparking wild fires. So I guess we're going Amish.

Actually, if this happens at all, I suspect it'll be limited to the eastern plains and not over here on the Western Slope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (L/fGl)

292 Did they think he was gonna send a bouquet?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

It's pronounced "bucket."

Posted by: Richard at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (uQesX)

293 Didn't that happen days ago rickb223?
Posted by: fd

Yeah. 8 days ago. I hadn't seen anything about it.

Weird that it was a child stabbing their parent after hearing about Meathead's death the same way.

Must be something in the Southern California water.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (+x87d)

294 Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy
_____

These judges hate the average citizen and want to see us punished, humiliated and cowed. Only the criminal gets whatever sympathy they can muster from their cruel, twisted souls.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Dv3i1)

295 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine."

I had forgotten about those - what a s**t show. Flies loved 'em, tho.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

296
Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

Oof. I looked it up, and from the arraignment, it sounds like this dude doesn't know he did it yet.

Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

297 Happy Beethoven's birthday!!!!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (3AwA+)

298 We are mandated to do that by Gavin Newsom.

If you don't, they send you a picture of your garbage with a $40 ticket.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (9ipOP)

Why not just toss it out the window?

Posted by: The ould ways are the best ways at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

299 Did you guys hear that Katie Pavlich is leaving Fox News for NewsNation? That is a huge mistake. She's got a 10 pm show. No one will ever see her. I hope she comes back to Fox, she was very good.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (BCuCF)

300 It's not just leftist Jews who are responsible for the decline of the West. Christian ngos are importing the third world here under the heading "we are all God's children". LDS loves immigrants illegal and otherwise. The funny part is the left thinks it will survive and be the leaders. Nuh-uh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (D+mpw)

301 Amjad Taha @amjadt25

This is a warning sign.

For your information: blocking public roads to pray would never be tolerated in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, or Dubai, UAE. Such behavior is uncivilized and backward.

When authorities tolerate disorder in the name of appeasement, they invite chaos and extremism. Next comes another antisemitic terrorist bombing, like those carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the Hamas of Africa, or the Sydney Bondi Beach attack.

This is exactly how it starts, with tolerated disorder and unchecked extremist behavior.

This is a warning sign.

Zero tolerance works.

X video: https://bit.ly/4pG1Mpy

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (P5BPp)

302 277 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Is that a gun or a wireless keyboard?

Posted by: Innumerate, Illiterate, and Proud at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

303 I love how the left wants stronger gun laws but also wants to let everyone out of jail.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (fA38o)

304 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?"

/The Nation formerly known as "Great" Britain waves...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

305 Syria allows us to use bases to go after ISIS.

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

al-Sharaa has the same strategic goals as ISIS. He has differences of political opinion, and uses America to tamp them down.

He and Syria are Islamist, and there is no way to avoid that fact.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (n9ltV)

306 284 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine. I think the trend is dying out, thankfully.
___

The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

307 Trump knows how to manipulate a story that's for damn sure.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (qrkyB)

308 Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

The most famous of the several dozen hymns composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of "Gilbert and" fame).

https://tinyurl.com/yc82ephf

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (ufSfZ)

309 Allopurinol to prevent gout. Get doc to prescribe and take daily. Has done wonders for me.

Posted by: Mick at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (HFx9z)

310 People still watch Fox News?

Posted by: Hunh at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

311 Is that a gun or a wireless keyboard?"

I think he's just happy to see us...

*ducks*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

312 307 Trump knows how to manipulate a story that's for damn sure.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (qrkyB)

The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

313
Must be something in the Southern California water.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (+x87d)

But you'll never see the kids tox screen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

314 So Reiner and Sykes were knifed to death by their respective children. Who will be the third entertainer?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (D+mpw)

315 308 Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

The most famous of the several dozen hymns composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of "Gilbert and" fame).

https://tinyurl.com/yc82ephf
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM
Bingo!

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (o2ZRX)

316 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...
Posted by: It's me donna"

There will be something new tomorrow. Today even.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

317 Posted by: Innumerate, Illiterate, and Proud at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2

It’s a huge impractical pistol that was designed 20 years ago.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (fA38o)

318 It's also a dessert topping.

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

319
301 Amjad Taha @amjadt25

This is a warning sign.

For your information: blocking public roads to pray would never be tolerated in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, or Dubai, UAE. Such behavior is uncivilized and backward.

When authorities tolerate disorder in the name of appeasement, they invite chaos and extremism. Next comes another antisemitic terrorist bombing, like those carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the Hamas of Africa, or the Sydney Bondi Beach attack.

This is exactly how it starts, with tolerated disorder and unchecked extremist behavior.

This is a warning sign.

Zero tolerance works.

X video: https://bit.ly/4pG1Mpy
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (P5BPp)

Hear , hear!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

320 316 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...
Posted by: It's me donna"

There will be something new tomorrow. Today even.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

True.. I see they blew up 3 more narco, I mean fishing boats...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (VE6XX)

321 Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

Ah. Chalk up one more for Big Pharma

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

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To go with our faux justice substitute?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (L/fGl)

323 >> We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

Yes.

I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (n9ltV)
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There are a lot of people who get bent out of shape when someone doesn't follow their perceived "rules of decorum." Timid people. Not ready for what's coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (NwnyJ)

324 The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

Global warming. Ice is retreating everywhere, you know.

Posted by: Polar Bears at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (uQesX)

325 Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins

Last year, the U.S. government awarded over $8 million to an Atlanta-based nonprofit to resettle immigrants in Georgia, train them in political activism, and register voters.

USAID was just the start. The call is coming from inside the house.

X: https://bit.ly/4sf0mEq

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (P5BPp)

326 Why not just toss it out the window?
Posted by: The ould ways are the best ways at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)
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Because the law here only applies to the law-abiding. Con gusto!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (9ipOP)

327 @309 developed gout because of heart issues. I take Allopurinol. The key for me is that I no longer eat candy or drink sugary drinks. Haven't had an outbreak since 5/24. Avoid sugar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (D+mpw)

328 300 It's not just leftist Jews who are responsible for the decline of the West. Christian ngos are importing the third world here under the heading "we are all God's children". LDS loves immigrants illegal and otherwise. The funny part is the left thinks it will survive and be the leaders. Nuh-uh
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Christians and Muslims can be the best of neighbors. We'll take government money and traffic, er, transport them directly to your neighborhood! Not here in the Vatican though, we can't do that here. But YOU can where you are!
- Pope Leo

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

329 Wow. "110ft Statue of Liberty replica comes crashing down as huge winds hit Brazilian city"

Video at the DM.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (vFG9F)

330 322 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

-
To go with our faux justice substitute?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (L/fGl)

Soylent Fauci!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (x0n13)

331 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

To me it's better this than something else.

The truth is no one really a crap. "Trump Said Something Awful" stopped being of interest about 9 years ago. So let them fill the space with it while he gets on with all the business he intends to. All the vile Kirk stuff from Democrats didn't stop people voting for them in special elections or whatever.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (qrkyB)

332 We need Pope Leo to bless the ice in the urinals. Maybe it will come back.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

333 Based Hungary @HungaryBased

SHOCKING:

Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

Hungary has taken a Stand against Globalist Migration.

X video: https://bit.ly/4rU8GZT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (P5BPp)

334 A lot of the fine establishments I frequented in collage did the ice in the urinals thing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (fA38o)

335 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

The media has been hounding him for everything since he came down the escalator.

He gives no f*cks. I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

336 >>I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

>>But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.

I'm still seeing leftists and the media say things like "It's awful what happened to Charlie Kirk but he was a divisive and contentious person so ...".

They've been saying things like this and much worse since the day another leftist shot him, which they initially tried to pin on us, and I'm supposed to be upset that Trump didn't write a Hallmark message to a guy who has been inciting hate against him and his supporters for over a decade that has led to unrelenting lawfare and 2 murder attempts?

If we want to win it means fighting dirty against an opponent that fights dirty. When people who want us dead or imprisoned are defeated then we can go back to pinkies out.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

337 People still watch Fox News?
Posted by: Hunh at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
*******
It's become a completely different network.
Most of the people working on Fox have some connection to Trump's cabinet whether it be family member or friends.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

338 the U.S. government awarded over $8 million to an Atlanta-based nonprofit to resettle immigrants"

This is the key. I don't know (and can't seem to find much out about) who kicked off the "USA pays for immigrants" scheme, but several religious groups, seemingly facing $$ shortages, glommed on to this funding stream...

If only there was a "journalist" or "reporter" interested in the tale...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

339

Countertop Composter?! "Pfft!"

- - Eliot Maimway's Bass-O-matic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

340 Christian Popes: Deus Vult

Pope Kyle: We need more Muslims in the US and Europe

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

341 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

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None of us will be truly safe until sporks are banned.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

342 Kirk and Owens had their 4 hour one on one yesterday.

No blood was shed. It seems some sort of 'agreement' was reached. We'll see what Owens says today and whether that pisses Kirk off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

343 California punishes people for trying to build rental housing then wonders why there's no affordable rental housing.

https://youtu.be/IQujpTzTNGY

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (11N8C)

344
- - Eliot Maimway's Bass-O-matic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

EXCELLENT!!!!!

*wails on air guitar*

Posted by: Bill and Ted at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

345 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

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They should grow some in a Reiner-head mold, and bolt it on. Good as new.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

346 Hungary has been fighting Muslims since they were defeated at Mohacs in 1526. Now if the French would only remember Tours or the Austrians the sieges of Vienna

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (D+mpw)

347 342 Kirk and Owens had their 4 hour one on one yesterday.

No blood was shed. It seems some sort of 'agreement' was reached. We'll see what Owens says today and whether that pisses Kirk off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

348 Owens either went crazy on her own or discovered it pays better.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (fA38o)

349 One spork a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

350 This is the key. I don't know (and can't seem to find much out about) who kicked off the "USA pays for immigrants" scheme, but several religious groups, seemingly facing $$ shortages, glommed on to this funding stream...

Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to find people that want to come
Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to ship those people up here
Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to give lawyers and short term money to illegals
Uncle Sugar then put the illegals on welfare

And all the while the FNM says "there is nothing we can do to stop them coming!"

Well, maybe stop paying the NGOs and the illegals as as start?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

351 If we want to win it means fighting dirty against an opponent that fights dirty. When people who want us dead or imprisoned are defeated then we can go back to pinkies out.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

No argument from me, and I realize that Trump is going to speak in his usual brash and aggressive way, no matter what I may want.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (n9ltV)

352 Porch pirates steal 250,000 packages a day. New research says cameras often don't stop them

https://tinyurl.com/ywkucfbk

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

353
Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

One can hope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Erika Kirk is a remarkable woman.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

355 I haven't watched Fox News since about 2010. Not even one minute. Weak sauce, crap polls, can get better elsewhere. Real America's Voice is my fave now.

Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten, No... at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

356 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

They are doing that in Britain now...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

357 One spork a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

"Lets be fair! Use only one square!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

358 327 @309 developed gout because of heart issues. I take Allopurinol. The key for me is that I no longer eat candy or drink sugary drinks. Haven't had an outbreak since 5/24. Avoid sugar
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (D+mpw)

It's the purines in things like cocoa, beans, spinach, asparagus, mushrooms, oats, raisins, beer and whiskey, a lot of fish, organ meats/offal and so on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (x0n13)

359 Porch pirates steal 250,000 packages a day. New research says cameras often don't stop them

https://tinyurl.com/ywkucfbk
Posted by: redridinghood

Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)

360 Now combine this -- western civilization suiciding its own culture with DEI and woke, etc. -- with the west promoting the rise of illegals and Islam in every nation.

vittorio @IterIntellectus

the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it

yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects.

second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks.

third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost.

fourth-order: psychological.

fifth-order: institutional trust gone.

sixth-order: reality became unspeakable.

seventh-order: the feedback loop.

Full X post: https://bit.ly/3KK9yzH

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (P5BPp)

361 Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

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Trying to get rid of their Buda pests?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (L/fGl)

362 The people that wanted Trump murdered and celebrated the multiple assassination attempts on him are mad that Trump is judging Reiner? TFB

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

363
Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)

Double barrel!

Through the door!!!

Posted by: Shittin' Joe Biden at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

364 North Dakota and Minnesota. Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow! I'm pretty sure we have a cluster of them up in Sioux Falls too.
Posted by: Molly k.

I imagine the thought with North Dakota was that the population is small, so it doesn't take dumping many refugees to start making cultural and electoral changes.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (JCZqz)

365 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

I bet they got some experts on the case.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (vFG9F)

366 Trying to get rid of their Buda pests?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Never have I ever known a ruder pest.
-- Henry Higgins

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

367 I still watch Fox Business in the morning. Maria and Varney, still solid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (D+mpw)

368 Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

That's one of the specific reasons that the left calls Orban a fascist which is...comical.

We could use laws like that here in the US, though you could argue RICO already covers it.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

369 Glad I never had to deal with porch pirates, that must be infuriating. I’m sure it will happen eventually. I think the only thing preventing it is there’s only like 7 houses on my street and it’s off by itself.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (fA38o)

370 110 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

Thanks He has Meloxicam and Prednisone. Which help. He's just down to a few pills.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

I understand consuming TART cherry juice alleviates or prevents the uric acid crystals from forming. Tart cherry is where the active ingredients in some anti-gout meds are derived.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (x0n13)

371
Democrats (I don't call them "the left" anymore) have 3 Modes for Trump:

1. Mock him.
2. Lie about him.
3. Kill him.
4. Imprison him.

They are in one or more of these modes all the time. All.The.Time.

Nothing will change that. Whether he made that meathead screed or not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (DbEzE)

372 seventh-order: the feedback loop."

I said it before... "civilization" as we in the west know it is unsustainable. Tears itself apart.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

373 Point in case. You ok with Hillary, the woman who tore this country apart over many lies the Russia hoax being the biggest is calling for you to be criminally charged for saying things she doesn't like.

>>@StandUpForTrmp
·
23h
>>🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

374 Buy a shotgun!
Buy a shotgun!

Posted by: A former alleged president at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

375 Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow!

Offer most third worlders American levels of welfare income and they'd live on the North Pole...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

376 Donald Trump Jr announces engagement to model girlfriend Bettina Anderson during White House Christmas party

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

377 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (x0n13)

I think gout may affect people differently and be genetic. His father had it .Spouse has no problem with seafood or vegetables. It's just sugar and alcohol that affects him, and fortunately he hasn't had a drink for years. He hasn't liked that part of it , but he's done it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (2sfNr)

378 Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

Doubtful.

A lawyer could have sent a boilerplate C&D letter in less than a minute in our miraculous digital age, and it would have more impact than a sitdown.

I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

For whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (BI5O2)

379 I still watch Fox Business in the morning. Maria and Varney, still solid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (D+mpw)
=====

Maria gives too much air to creeps like Ro Khanna.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (9ipOP)

380 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

You can just look at the footage and see that.

It's not going to stop and will get worse.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (vFG9F)

381 Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow!

Offer most third worlders American levels of welfare income and they'd live on the North Pole...
Posted by: 18-1

Then why the hell are they in Minnesota and Michigan?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (+x87d)

382 Imagine telling people 100 years ago about the porch pirate thing.

"Don't you moderners just shoot someone if they are stealing your stuff on your porch?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

383 The social media scene was a massive dumpster fire after the attempt(s) on Trump's life and the murder of Charlie Kirk. The left was giddy. They came out in public to mock Kirk being shot in the neck. Some of the talking heads even reveled in his death... calling him a hateful person.

So I'm pretty nonplused by Trump's little dig at Reiner.

I am disappointed that many on the nominal right don't seem to get it. It's been years since "the new rules" were established by the left and we've still got people that haven't the moral turpitude to deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (NwnyJ)

384 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

The veneer isn't very thick.

Scratch Hillary with a feather and the fascist shows.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (n9ltV)

385 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (x0n13)

He takes that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (2sfNr)

386
I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

For whatever that's worth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (BI5O2)

Sure.. And then she said I'm gonna sue the hell out of you..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

387 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (9qg/U)

388 Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)
******
Depends on which state.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

389 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (fA38o)

390 "The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended."

I remember that! it ended because it worked, and made sense.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (Cjt/F)

391 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

Why would a camera stop them or anyone from committing a crime?

Well, the worry is it will make it easier to be arrested.

But...what if the local police don't bother to try and arrest people for these sorts of crimes? The why would they care if they are on camera or not?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

392 >>🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw

Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dv3i1)

393 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Ayn Rand was supposedly quite a horn dog you know...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

394 have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM

DON'T.

I tried that stuff, and became so ill that I strongly considered going to the hospital.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (BI5O2)

395
You & Others forget...

it was just, what, 10 weeks ago people on "our side" were biting their nails over Trump calling for jimmy kimmel to be fired and for siccing the FCC on ABC.

Oh, what about "free speech!" you wailed. And the Democrats heard You and said, "yeah, free speech for all!"

Now the Democrats have reverted-to-type and stopped pretending to care about "free spech." But You forgot...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (DbEzE)

396 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation."

Liber.... oh, never mind.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

397
"Why do you steal packages from porches?"
"Because that's where the packages are."

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (Q+gd/)

398 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Take one an hour until you shit yourself to death.
Gout WILL go away. Or will no longer matter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (+x87d)

399 I remember that! it ended because it worked, and made sense.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (Cjt/F)

So, it made sense because it stopped scents?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (uQesX)

400 346 Hungary has been fighting Muslims since they were defeated at Mohacs in 1526. Now if the French would only remember Tours or the Austrians the sieges of Vienna
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM
Not all Americans have forgotten what invasion looks like. I am one of those who still remember.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (o2ZRX)

401 Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

Oof. I looked it up, and from the arraignment, it sounds like this dude doesn't know he did it yet.

Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

Considering the gay and trans lifestyle being forced on children, don't be surprised if murders of parents become commonplace. It's an easy prediction.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (g8Ew8)

402 Seriously, all my internal organs hurt for a week. That stuff is Satanic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

403 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.

Occasionally I'll get lefties trying to thread the needle with "misinformation" and COVID and its honestly funny it goes something like:

Well, the best science at the time said that the COVID shot would reduce your chances of getting COVID significantly and therefore we couldn't let people say that it didn't because at the time that was misinformation even if they ended up being right.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

404 Mrs. Clinton sez: “Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
——

I agree. By this standard thiugh, that fucking wench would be buried underneath the prison, with thousands of tons of re-bar reinforced concrete, just to be sure. Maybe that Nuclear Waste Depository site in Nevada won’t be for naught…

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (9qg/U)

405
I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (DbEzE)

406 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?

Posted by: A member of your local constabulary at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

407
Errr... I stopped giving a shit what Democrats say about *anything* around 2003.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (qrkyB)

408 "Why do you steal packages from porches?"
"Because that's where the packages are."
Posted by: davidt

Congress should issue Letters of Amazon and allow citizens to hunt porch pirates.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (+x87d)

409 therefore we couldn't let people say that it didn't because at the time that was misinformation even if they ended up being right.
____

I guess we have to let you out of jail now for being correct, but being correct at the incorrect time. Sorry for all the ass raping.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

410 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (9qg/U)

https://is.gd/hKbTBc

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

411 NEW: British man unknowingly starts playing with the world's deadliest octopus while vacationing in the Philippines.

The man filmed himself handling a blue-ringed octopus, which can paralyze its victim by blocking nerve transmission.

According to the National Library of Medicine, the toxin from the octopus is about 1000x more deadly to humans than cyanide.

https://is.gd/pPUaLr

-
Thank God it wasn't a Muzzie octopus!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (L/fGl)

412 I agree. By this standard thiugh, that fucking wench would be buried underneath the prison, with thousands of tons of re-bar reinforced concrete, just to be sure. Maybe that Nuclear Waste Depository site in Nevada won’t be for naught…

This misinformation stuff would go away if we started prosecuting left leaning people for engaging in clear cut cases.

Give some FNM journalist and his network the Alex Jones treatment.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

413 > I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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I suffer from gout flair ups. Never heard of that stuff. Sounds dangerous. I've read that cherries are good for gout. So's the OTC cherry extracts.

Allopurinol is a type of medicine that doctors will prescribe if your uric acid levels are too high.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (NwnyJ)

414 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?
Posted by: A member of your local constabulary

I gots the holey body too.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (+x87d)

415 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

Arms tats = -100 points

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

416 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (fA38o)

Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

417 I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

And both Obamas, Biden, DOCTOR Jill and Hunter...

The list is long.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

418 33 Odds are most of the invaders won't stay long. North Dakota winters are absolutely brutal.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (pd4dZ)

419 I hate the James Talaricos of the US about as much as the islamofascist and cat ladies.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

Talerico said - and this will be hard to believe because you wouldn’t even make this up as parody, but he really said it - that it would have just fine if Mary would have aborted Jesus.
Yes friends, it’s come to this - in the Texas Dem Primary for the Senate race, Jasmine Crockett is actually the moderate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (MXpA1)

420 Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:1

Depends on how severe it is, but for most people the pain is... indescribable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (BI5O2)

421 All you folks with gout, just slap a hot iron to it. Jeesh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

422 Reiner is that Reiner was one of the few on the left to unequivocally condemn the cheering over Charlie Kirk's assassination.
--
Don't care.

Reiner built such a culture of hate on the left that none of them listen to that, none of them recanted.

All they listen to is hate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (HXT0k)

423 One's a crack snacker and the other is a snack cracker.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (fPASK)

424 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?
Posted by: A member of your local constabulary

Hey! That's the same guy who did the Brown University shootings!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)

425 My levels are not in the flare up range but I had what probably was a gout flare up anyway. The night before I had to travel for work. It was awesome. Walking all over the airport. Gone several years with nothing else, so that one was a mystery.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (fA38o)

426 I've had gout in my toe and it can feel like someone is slicing it off.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (vFG9F)

427 Hillary blew her chance at the Presidency when she didn't add Bill to the body count. "The Widow Clinton," would've sealed the deal.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Q+gd/)

428 And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Speaking of Dyke van Dick, was there ever a sitcom character less bland, less a cypher than Richie Petrie? Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.

Posted by: He Was No Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Or Lauren Chapin at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

429 Nothing Trump said was unfortunate or wrong.

Posted by: Bob at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (YiqZD)

430
Look. Look & Laugh.

This, my fiends, is who some of you are worried about. This is who is making you "answer for" Trump's mean tweets:

https://is.gd/XCjCzD

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (xuxcE)

431 Hilary, tell us about your husband's peccadillos while he was in office in Arkansas and in the White House ! The truth now.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (g47mK)

432
Hey! That's the same guy who did the Brown University shootings!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)

So far all they've come up with after all the cameras is that he was "light" skinned....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (VE6XX)

433 Hunter got disbarred in Connecticut.
That's a rare ray of sunshine in that criminals existence.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (fPASK)

434 >Actually, if this happens at all, I suspect it'll be limited to the eastern plains and not over here on the Western Slope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Noon MST Wednesday
I'm right in the middle of it

This decision is driven by XCel's lawyers, 'out of an abundance of caution'

XCel to customers who don't have their own generators: "Fuck you."

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (ZxPkt)

435 33 Odds are most of the invaders won't stay long. North Dakota winters are absolutely brutal.
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (pd4dZ)

Ice don't melt in the urinals?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

436 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (fPASK)

437 I had 3 recurring flair ups of gout this past summer. I couldn't walk my feet hurt so bad. Potent pain meds only dulled it for a couple hours.

Uric acid that crystalizes in the blood stream and then settle to the lowest part of the body... typically the feet are shaped like tiny pine needles.

Thus... the incredible pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (NwnyJ)

438 🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

So, you're willing to go to jail for your Russian disinformation campaign?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

439 Speaking of Dyke van Dick, was there ever a sitcom character less bland, less a cypher than Richie Petrie? Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.
Posted by: He Was No Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Or Lauren Chapin at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

Chuck Cunningham?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (wVcYX)

440 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes
Posted by: torabora

Eeeeeeeewwww.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (+x87d)

441 Yes, gout hurts like a mf’er. And it hurts even more if you rest it and the start walking again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (fA38o)

442 Rob Petrie

Ritchie was the kid

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

443 Oh, and suppose Trump did give that perfect statement of condolences, kindness, thoughts and prayers.

How would the left have received it?

"Fuck you Orange Hitler! Reiner was 10,000 times a better man than you. Too bad you turned your head 'cause at least Reiner would have had a chance to piss on your grave!"

Erick Erickson: "oh you little scamps! you don't really mean that."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (HXT0k)

444 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes
Posted by: torabora

you are sick and disgusting !!

🤣

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

445 the list is long.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (Cjt/F)

446 I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

-
Well, there are Christians then there are Christians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (L/fGl)

447 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
===========
Hey Hillzabub, Sam Bacile would like a word. And a line is forming out the door of former Whitewater antagonists, Bill's rape victims, and the entire population of Arkansas. They seem to think you are a serial liar and agree you should be criminally charged.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (IEJkJ)

448 @379 true but Ro Khanna looked like a fool the other day. More than usual

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (D+mpw)

449 Ice in the urinals can't compete with a government subsidized gizmo.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (Q+gd/)

450 Chuck Cunningham?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Dude is like your crazy uncle in the attic.
Went upstairs after dinner one night and never came down.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (+x87d)

451 I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

And both Obamas, Biden, DOCTOR Jill and Hunter...

The list is long.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

And leftist judges. All of them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (g8Ew8)

452 Brown University needs to up tuition another 20K to buy better cameras. And a better university president.

And Providence could use a better mayor and a police chief that can speak English, even a little.

Posted by: Christmas Wish List at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)

453 https://is.gd/hKbTBc"

"Molecules"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (XuXeR)

454 the list is long.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (Cjt/F)

and distinguished?

Posted by: Goose at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (wVcYX)

455 Hillary has some of those cute little anteaters?

Oh, you said "peccadilloes." Never mind.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

456 Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.

A total of six acting credits since 1962. Three back of house credits. Pretty much a cypher.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (uQesX)

457 Wasn't there an investigation just opened into the Clintons?

Probably why she's out running her mouth again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (NwnyJ)

458 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dv3i1)

Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

459 Arms tats = -100 points
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (sKqQm
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Arm tats?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (IEJkJ)

460 Chuck Cunningham?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Or the black surgeon they had in the early MASH episodes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

461 Or the black surgeon they had in the early MASH episodes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

Spearchucker Jones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

462 Nearly every medicine used on animals is used on humans too. That was the dumbest claim the shitlibs made.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (fA38o)

463 Some people can't have arm tats.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (Q+gd/)

464 >>Wasn't there an investigation just opened into the Clintons?

She and Bubba are refusing to testify before Comer's committee about Epstein. Comer is threatening a criminal referral.

And of course the left is now silent about Epstein.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

465 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

466 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

https://tinyurl.com/2dsec7wj

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

467 Seth Rogan is still alive?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Wu29I)

468 Some people can't have arm tats.
Posted by: Michelle Fields

One arm tat a month should be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

469 Some people can't have arm tats.
Posted by: Michelle Fields

Some people can't have BOTH arms tatted.

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (+x87d)

470 Eddie Haskell.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Q+gd/)

471 I avoided being perturbed about what Trump said on social medial by :
1. Not following what he said about this or that celebrity on social media (I think we all know Trump by know and what he says about "society" matters is baked into the cake, he hates Taylor Swift! he thinks Taylor Swift is great!...his opinions about Reiner is not policy...)
2. Not really having an opinion about Bob Reiner, BECAUSE BOOMERS!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

472
She and Bubba are refusing to testify before Comer's committee about Epstein. Comer is threatening a criminal referral.

And of course the left is now silent about Epstein.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges. Not that I think anything will happen to them, it would be a nice birthday present for me to see them have some sort of charge filed against them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

473 435 Ice? Heck, farmers caught outside in blizzards don't thaw out until the spring.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (pd4dZ)

474 Nearly every medicine used on animals is used on humans too. That was the dumbest claim the shitlibs made.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Mammal is mammal.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (+x87d)

475 @_johnnymaga

Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

https://tinyurl.com/2dsec7wj
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

Former Speaker McCarthy hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

476 "And I firmly, and I am on the side of working together and celebrating our difference. Because I was a community organizer a long time ago and the strongest campaigns that we ever worked on were about bringing people of different faiths and different world views and different background together to find what we had in common."

"Australia doesn't have the free speech laws that are in place in America and for one very important reason. Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace."

What really happened at Bondi Beach?

YouTube (Paul Joseph Watson): https://bit.ly/49esVKs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (P5BPp)

477 I see TJM has posted another Capra lecture with rankings. I'll have to peruse his offering.

Posted by: Hollywood Babylon at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (oftw2)

478 They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges. Not that I think anything will happen to them, it would be a nice birthday present for me to see them have some sort of charge filed against them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh man! I was going to surprise you.

Posted by: Comer at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (uQesX)

479 "Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn"

Poor guy. Or maybe they deserve each other. I dunno.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (vFG9F)

480 Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

===

he resigned as WH correspondent and will join her in GA. my condolences to Brian Glenn...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (g47mK)

481 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

The safety data are immense. Literally billions of doses, and it is incredibly safe.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (n9ltV)

482 >>Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine?

Its creators were awarded a Nobel Prize:
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura
for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites. . .
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered a new drug, Avermectin, the derivatives of which have radically lowered the incidence of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (NuV6c)

483 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

Eddie Haskel in Leave It to Beaver.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (g8Ew8)

484 face contemp of congress charges"

Oh noes. Whatever will I do?

/

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

485 "Mammal is mammal.
Posted by: rickb223"

It's the tits!

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (vFG9F)

486 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.
Posted by: Sponge

Most animal medicine IS human medicine.

There aren't two separate lines in the factory making amoxicillin for humans and another one for fish.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (+x87d)

487 Eddie Haskell was a teenager, not a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

488 > They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges.
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The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (NwnyJ)

489 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine?

It's a miracle drug that shows promise for killing cancer.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (pd4dZ)

490 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""

"Must"

LOL...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

491 -----------
The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (Nwny

I definitely have contempt for Congress...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (VE6XX)

492 Obama was to meet with the Reiners?

Did the Reiners have information on Hillary that could put her in prison?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

493 you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.

Go tell that to the muzzies, idiot.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

494 The safety data are immense. Literally billions of doses, and it is incredibly safe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I wish they'd put it over the counter with the Tylenol.

Because the pony paste sucks ass. I can see why horses don't like it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (+x87d)

495 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

That reminds me of an old National Lampoon cover from September of 1981:

https://tinyurl.com/44fw353y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

496 Lots of people in the prepper community buy fish antibiotics because you can get them w/o a prescription and cheap and they still work on humans because it the same shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (fA38o)

497 471 I avoided being perturbed about what Trump said on social medial by :
1. Not following what he said about this or that celebrity on social media (I think we all know Trump by know and what he says about "society" matters is baked into the cake, he hates Taylor Swift! he thinks Taylor Swift is great!...his opinions about Reiner is not policy...)
2. Not really having an opinion about Bob Reiner, BECAUSE BOOMERS!
Posted by: runner at December

I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (ZdaMQ)

498 "I mean to be really blunt, make it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that are, have no practical use in our community. If you're not a farmer, if you're not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons that put the public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales police."

"We will do whatever it takes to force the strongest possible action from governments to keep Australians safe."

What really happened at Bondi Beach?

YouTube (Paul Joseph Watson): https://bit.ly/49esVKs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (P5BPp)

499 I heard yesterday that the Reiner kid had some kind of an argument with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party on Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

500 490 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""
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What's this 'we' shit? Read the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (Wg6v7)

501 MSNBC’S Katy Tur heaps praise on PM Albanese for vowing to crack down harder on guns in Australia:

“Why not here!?"

-
That'll fix those Muzzies!

P.S. Smart ass on Twitchy calls MS NOW "MS MAO."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (L/fGl)

502 >>The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.

Depends on your political party. Some people have been known to go to prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (viF8m)

503 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: Bulg

The Little Rascals

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (+x87d)

504 499 I heard yesterday that the Reiner kid had some kind of an argument with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party on Saturday.
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Conan brings out the worst in people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Wg6v7)

505 "I wish they'd put it over the counter with the Tylenol."

like it is in most of the world ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Cjt/F)

506 The only problem with Ivermectin in 2020 as that it could be mass produced as a generic drug.

This meant drug companies could not charge a lot for it, nor could they then make the vax mandatory.

There were other inconvenient side-effects speculated at the time, such as curing toxoplasmosis in cat ladies, which makes them less crazy (i.e. lefty).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)

507 >>like it is in most of the world ...

Such as Africa, here were never heard much about covid death rates, etc..
Odd

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)

508 >>I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

Joe Biden was technically president when he called Trump supporters, even us, garbage and a threat to democracy.

How distracting was that?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (viF8m)

509 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

510 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

511 Conan brings out the worst in people"

Right.

/Haitian BBQ

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

512 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""
----------------
What's this 'we' shit? Read the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM

These are quotes from authorities or politicians in Australia.

Australia is conquered. As is the UK. And France close behind. Western civilization is in its death throes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (P5BPp)

513 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

And then, there was Shirley Jones in "The Music Man". Stirred a few desires in my, then, 15 year old, uh, loins.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)

514 A song for the season:

https://tinyurl.com/djpu9d7b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)

515 MSNBC’S Katy Tur heaps praise on PM Albanese for vowing to crack down harder on guns in Australia:

==

LEt's first try cracking down on Muslem Brotherhood and see how that goes ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)

516 That tweet reminded me of something I had forgotten because he had tempered it greatly this term.

Trump is able to fight the Left so well because his personality is that of a Leftist. He’s bold , exaggerates, name calls, sues at first chance, doesn’t worry about debt and holds grudges.

We are fortunate that he chose to embrace the conservative platform , something that he had not done 20 years ago.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)

517 Shocking medical-marijuana study reveals Big Weed’s big lies

If it's Big, and it's bad, we're there!

Like rust, we never sleep.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

518 481 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

I pointed that out to my father who was completely unaware of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (+4yJ5)

519 >>>I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

First, this is, and has always been, Trump's personality. Mean tweets are hat helped him get elected and be so effective.

Second, Reiner wasn't just a loudmouth Hollywood guy, he was connected to a lot of Team Coup activities, such as creating NGOs with Bill Kristol to "save our democracy," and openly accused Trump of treason, wanted full prosecution, etc.. He was an enemy using his great wealth and platform to destroy Trump. Why should Trump be fake nice about the death of someone who openly wished death upon him?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)

520 The only problem with Ivermectin in 2020 as that it could be mass produced as a generic drug.

This meant drug companies could not charge a lot for it, nor could they then make the vax mandatory.

There were other inconvenient side-effects speculated at the time, such as curing toxoplasmosis in cat ladies, which makes them less crazy (i.e. lefty).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM

The EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) would have been eliminated were there a readily available alternative treatment. That is the only reason the Deep State and their media allies spoke negatively about Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies and hydroxychloroquine.

These were readily available immediately and had been shown to work against SARS-CoV-2/COVID. Everyone knew this. Yet they all lied about it to the public to push the deadly "vax" on the public.

It was a worldwide Plandemic from the get-go. The same messaging regarding the "vax" and the actual working treatments was used in every Western nation. This was a WEF operation against Western civilization. Just like the past 2-3 decades WEF operation of illegal alien and Muslim invasion into every Western nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (P5BPp)

521 Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop.

"Sure, it works! He's out front, holding onto a lamp post, and he don't dare hiccup!" --Just The Punch Line

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (zdLoL)

522 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

523 Art is up.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (+4yJ5)

524 420 Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:1

Depends on how severe it is, but for most people the pain is... indescribable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (BI5O2)

THIS First attack I had 20 years or so ago I thought I broke my foot.

And colchicine I take one pill a day until the pain and swelling subside. I also have Indomethacine which is a very powerful anti-inflammatory and might take one pill a day but try to avoid it as it is very strong. The colchicine alone does the trick for me usually within one or two days at most. And I avoid the high urine foods.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

525 245 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?
Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)

I believe so.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (x0n13)

526 And I avoid the high urine foods.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

PURINE not urine. Although gout is a buildup of uric acid crystals that attacks the nerve endings.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (x0n13)

527 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?

Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM

No, Vickie Paladino is not related to Carl Paladino. Multiple sources explicitly state they are unrelated, including a 2018 blog post noting "no relation" during a political dispute and a 2025 article describing her as "no relation to the equally foul and equally racist New York politician Carl Paladino."

Vickie Paladino (full name Vickie Albrizio Paladino, born 1954 in Whitestone, Queens) comes from a working-class family in northeast Queens, with a maiden name of Albrizio. Carl Paladino (full name Carl Pasquale Paladino, born 1946) is a Buffalo-based real estate developer with roots in western New York. Their different backgrounds, regions, and family details show no connection beyond sharing a common Italian-American surname and involvement in New York Republican politics.

Grok: https://bit.ly/3KOnhWc

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (P5BPp)

528 You don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses

If you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this.

DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women

But DEI was the weapon
The people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. And they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity

Full X post: https://bit.ly/3KK9yzH

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (P5BPp)

529 Less is more sometimes. Some don't have that in them.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (X+QMC)

530

Remember when they tried to kill Trump twice? He can say what the fuck he wants. If it offends the weak, so what?

I'll be in this other foxhole.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 10:48 AM (cS1cw)

531 Amazing. One Truth Social post by this transactional, petty, thin-skinned dickweed may be enough to blow the midterms.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (uxXx0)

532 "I'll be in this other foxhole."

You'll be in a real one when all you MAGA myopics realize his shit talk is losing votes for everyone else.

Enjoy your high-fives and thousand-yard-stare speeches.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (uxXx0)

533 A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, is refusing to add additional jail time to a criminal sentence for a seven-time deported illegal alien, convicted of raping and sodomizing a woman with cerebral palsy, for his repeated violation of federal immigration law. (The Obamas were supposed to be at the Reiner home just when the son murdered the parens! - jjs)

Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy

Why is he getting any prison time at all in the USA? He's an illegal alien. He should not be in this country, free to move around (which costs taxpayer money and lives) or in prison (which costs taxpayer money).

Deport him to a country which will put him in prison there and ban him from returning.

Or give him a free flight home and conveniently drop him out of the plane over a large, deep body of water and forget about him. Considering the punishment for rape and sodomy of a woman with cerebral palsy should be death anyway.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (P5BPp)

534 Fargo adds Somali Heritage Day two weeks after Muslim terror attack.

The Somalization of North Dakota

Gov. Shapiro Shows Up, Speaks at Radical Imam Thanksgiving

Every single day here or on X there is just story after story after story of American cities and states and politicians and institutional leaders who are in bed with Islam. All who either refuse to see the fact that Islam is conquering this nation or, like "moderate Muslims" are in favor of Islam conquering this nation and working to usher it in more quickly.

The USA is on the same path as Europe and the rest of western civilization. President Trump is simply a 4-year road bump on the decline of the West.

Time to start looking at Hungary or Poland or Japan as options to escape from Islam. They seem to be the only nations taking the necessary actions (banning them all from their countries) to save their countries.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (P5BPp)

535 The incident is Australia’s worst mass shooting in three decades, sparking investigations into the attackers’ motives and backgrounds.

Hannukah Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS Before Massacre: Report.

Stupid headline. Makes it seem like the shooters were Jewish, instead of Muslim.

More accurate description would be "Pakistani Muslim Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS before Hannukah Massacre: Report".

When we live in a world where no one will even accurately describe the enemy, the war is already lost.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (P5BPp)

536 Yet within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Albanese proposed “tougher gun laws” and warned about “right-wing extremist groups.”

Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem

Australia let this evil come and fester here.
The Bondi Beach Massacre Was a Choice

Exactly. The only reason Australia has an Islam problem is because it has a leadership problem. Same as every Western nation in the world save for Hungary and Poland and Japan.

Islam could not cause problems if anyone in the West had the will to deny it entry into their countries.

Unless current western leaders are deposed and replaced with leaders who will remove all Muslims from their countries, western civilization is in its death throes. Including the USA.

Half the USA is already conquered, as every Democrat-controlled state has bowed to Islam. And every red state has blue cities which are conquered by Islam. Only a matter a time before the cancer spreads within those red states from the blue cities. Texas and Florida are already in progress.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (P5BPp)

537 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is reportedly poised to elevate a deeply controversial figure to one of the most powerful legal posts in his administration. According to the New York Post, Ramzi Kassem — a lawyer who has defended an al Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel activist at Columbia — is the leading candidate for Chief Counsel.

Mamdani Is About to Prove His Administration Will Be Worse Than You Thought

Worse than who thought? Not me. I knew he was going to be a radical Islamist hell-bent on turning NYC into a Muslim hellhole, setting an example for Muslims all across the USA, to take over the USA as they have taken over the UK and Paris and Australia.

Mamdami has not even begun with his agenda. It's going to get massively worse. Look to the UK and Paris and Australia and Europe and Dearborn, MI and Minnesomalia for what will become of NYC.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (P5BPp)

538 El-Sayed, running in the Democrat primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, has attempted to distance himself from his past anti-police positions

Abdul El-Sayed Proposed Commuting All Sentences for Juveniles Facing Life in Prison. The Plan Would Grant Early Release to Some of Michigan's Most Violent Killers.

Awesome. Islamic control of Michigan spreading from Hamtramck and Dearborn to state-wide with radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed as Senator.

This is how they do it. Take over small areas, spread out through migration and out-breeding and then elect their people to positions of power. And keep spreading and spreading and spreading until they take over the city, state, region, nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (P5BPp)

539 Migrant attack in Charlotte echoes the graphic murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in the same city

North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Asked To Address Illegal Immigrant Train Stabbing in Charlotte, Instead Issues Statement Attacking GOP Opponent as 'Big Oil Lobbyist'

And so it goes.

We have an irrevocably divided nation. Not one where both sides love the country and have different opinions on how best to make it great for every American. No, we have one where one side wants to make it great for every American, while the other side wants to destroy the country as it is and rebuild it into their Marxist utopia... and they have no issue of accomplishing that BAMN (including assassinations of their opponents and unleashing their military arms (antifa, Muslims, etc.) on citizens.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (P5BPp)

540 Harris remains a top Democrat contender for 2028, with notable support among black Democrats, as she positions herself for another presidential campaign.

Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders. (Her and greaseball Newsom at each other's throats; pass the popcorn! - jjs)

Another massive problem in this country that is not going away and only getting worse.

The moral and logical compass of the black community is completely broken and no fix in sight.

There should be no possible way that someone like Kamala Harris could (1) rise to where she has been in power and (2) remain popular with any segment of society based on all her failures.

And the fact that she has support among blacks solely because she has dark skin shows the black community as a whole is ridiculously racist and tribal.

An October poll showed her capturing 54% support among Black voters.

A June Emerson College poll found her at 30.1% among Black respondents, far ahead of others (e.g., Buttigieg at 0%).

August Echelon Insights data had her at 35% among Black primary voters.

Grok: https://bit.ly/4pJKEiS

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (P5BPp)

541 Trump is changing the world.

He’s Spartacus

I doubt this.

President Trump is nothing but a road bump on the decades long spiral into self-destruction western civilization has been on. We saw what happened to the world when the WEF and Deep State got rid of President Trump in December 2020.

The same will happen once President Trump is gone come January 2029.

What changed? Trump. In my Friday piece I quoted a Facebook “friend” who suggested that Trump had leaned on the committee to choose Machado. I don’t think the committee operates that way. But I do think that its members recognized that the winds had shifted – big time. And that the strong new wind was blowing from the direction of the Oval Office.

And when President Trump's 2nd term is over, the winds will shift right back as they have been blowing since at least November 2008.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (P5BPp)

542 How did this happen? There were several factors. Jordan Peterson had the courage to interview him online – and to treat him respectfully. Elon Musk, after buying Twitter (now X), gave Tommy back his account, began paying his legal bills, and posted ardent messages of support. YouTube, too, restored his account. The hosts of the influential Triggernometry podcast, who for a long time considered Tommy too extreme to platform, not only interviewed him but invited him to their 2025 Christmas party. This entire sea change, said Tommy, could only be attributed to one thing: the return of Trump to the White House.

Yeah, great. And when that one thing is over? When President Trump is no longer in the White House, what then? Back to the tyranny that existed in western civilization, but even worse this time as the Marxist left will want to make up for lost time of the past 4 years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (P5BPp)

543 For Donald Trump has shown just how much can be done if you’re a political leader who sincerely wants to do everything possible to save your country and doesn’t care about the possible consequences. He’s shown that you can do more than just rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. He’s shown that you can outrage the political and media establishment every single day for years and still retain – and even magnify – your power because the people are on your side, and can sense that you’re the real thing.

Short of...

deporting every last illegal alien and banning them from ever returning,
deporting every Muslim and banning them from ever returning,
ending the H-1B program and putting in place policies to punish outsourcing to India and
putting a 10-15 year moratorium on all immigration to the USA

...then yes, everything going on right now is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

There can be no success in western civilization without the removal of all Muslims from western nations. Until that happens, nothing matters. The Titanic will sink.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (P5BPp)

Daily Tech News 16 December 2025

Top Story

Merriam Webster names "slop" the word of the year. (Tech Crunch)

Good work, dictionary. Have a cookie.

Tech News

LG has force-installed Microsoft Copilot on its smart TVs. (Tom's Hardware)

And you can't remove it.

Planning to buy Samsung instead? Same deal with their TVs and Google Gemini.
The KTC H27P3 is a 5k monitor. (The Verge)

It covers 99% of the DCI-P3 colour space and offers 500 nits of brightness and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. Only 60Hz at full resolution, but if you drop it down to 2560x1440 it can handle 120Hz. HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C are on offer for inputs. It nominally offers 10-bit colour but that's through PWM - it's really just a regular 8-bit panel.

All of that stuff is commonplace in semi-professional monitors, so why mention it?

According to the article (I couldn't verify this myself) it's currently discounted to $355 on Amazon.
How the CIA lost a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. (New York Times)

The article refers to it as a "nuclear device" every single time, trying to play up the danger, citing concerns that it might break down and pollute the pristine waters of... The Ganges.

Anyway, they know exactly where it is. At the top of a mountain. Probably.
Hard drive prices soared in the most recent quarter along with everything else. (Tom's Hardware)

By 4%.
Searching UTF-8 text at 5GB/s using AVX-512. (Ash Vardanian)

It's an impressive trick, but mostly because Unicode (and UTF-8 in particular) is utterly insane.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: For you is not for me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 04:00 AM (sdF4j)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 16, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 Sad to see dictionaries contributing to the decline of the English language.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 04:04 AM (sdF4j)

5 Well. I was going to say that memory prices seemed to have stopped increasing, but no, they've gone up another 10% or so in the past week.

64GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs (laptop memory) now costs A$949, up from about A$250 a couple of months ago.

The mini-PC I just bought, which includes 64GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs, cost A$989 for the entire system.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 16, 2025 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

6 He went to the same restaurant in FL everyday . When he didn't show up, the chef went looking:

https://tinyurl.com/ymznbhw7

SunnySkyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

7 Morning Pixy, morning everyone.
Yall are in my prayers.
Jim is OK
Haven't heard from Theresa
tcm in AK is having shoulder work Wednesday
I'm going to bed, goodnight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 04:10 AM (+e7qF)

8 I've given up trying to order Crucial harddrives on Amazon. Both times, they didn't ship. It's a problem with some things where they sit for a week but they usually go out. I think I'm good now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2025 04:11 AM (+mUZM)

9 He carries around shelter dogs in his backpack to help get them adopted. Good News Network site:

https://tinyurl.com/4bzd2m6j

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:21 AM (2sfNr)

10 According to the article (I couldn't verify this myself) it's currently discounted to $355 on Amazon.

The Amazon link on The Verge has it at $569 now.
It reads “At Checkout” on the link button, but even if I put it in the Amazon cart it’s still $569 and I don’t see a coupon button anywhere.

KTC is another Chinese brand like AOC & INNOCN that are undercutting everybody else on cheaper monitors.

They all make some cheaper Mini-LED displays with multiple dimming zones for much cheaper prices than their bigger name competitors offer in Mini-LED and OLED.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 04:23 AM (6ydKt)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

12 Moving story behind hymn: "I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/ya3thdck

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:25 AM (2sfNr)

13 trying to play up the danger, citing concerns that it might break down and pollute the pristine waters of... The Ganges.
.........................................
The monstereous mutations that will rise out of The Ganges would terrify Godzilla.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 04:29 AM (sAmhv)

14 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

17 cold degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It is supposed to warm up as the week goes on, getting near 50 by Friday, which would be nice. I am not one of those people who wishes for a white Christmas.

The usual 2-3 hours' worth of work ahead. 56 days until retirement, touch wood. As always, I'll be happy to take a nap when the day is done.

Novel writing is still stuck. Depression at its usual level.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Around 20 degrees here

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

16 Made Cream of Wheat to warm me up

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

17 Thank you for that story about the fellow carrying shelter dogs around, Fen. I need that today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (ufSfZ)

18 w00t

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (RuTUS)

19 16 Made Cream of Wheat to warm me up
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

Nice!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 AM (RuTUS)

20 Johnny Cougar!

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 04:47 AM (W7XSX)

21 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (ufSfZ)

You are most welcome. Is there anyway after work you could go to someplace that has beauty - have any art museums nearby (?) to enjoy the warmth and lovely pictures?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:49 AM (2sfNr)

22 Been up since 2:45, wish I could go back to bed

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

23 From the ONT, I blame R rated movies. F-bombs were not mainstream. And foreigners that watch R-rated films and come over here and think it's okay.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 04:50 AM (W7XSX)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 04:50 AM (tljrc)

25 "Simple wonders-" A devotional on Genesis 1:25-31:

https://tinyurl.com/2n4dvmrw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:06 AM (Yl2Ob)

26 Good morning! Looks like we'll have a nice warming trend over the next few days here in Cowtown, ending with sunny and mid 70s for Christmas day. Prime grilling and chillin weather!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 16, 2025 05:10 AM (3Ope8)

27 G'morning, all!

A rather cold 20.7 degrees out, with a chance to still drop below that around 7:15 this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 16, 2025 05:11 AM (Ytdv9)

28 Gaslighted about Somalian refugees at American Thinker is a good read

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:15 AM (Ia/+0)

29 Supposed to get slightly above freezing today, better tomorrow.
Really better in May

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

31 Force installation of Microsoft Copilot:

They really want to get that Panopticon in place, don't they?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 16, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

32 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can"

Well, she's a little old, but you're on the right path.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 16, 2025 05:32 AM (R+nQW)

33 God is good, all the time

Posted by: CanuckJack at December 16, 2025 05:32 AM (1cCGi)

34 31 Force installation of Microsoft Copilot:

They really want to get that Panopticon in place, don't they?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 16, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

It also doesn't hurt that Google and Microsoft will pay the TV manufacturers to install the AI on the TVs.

All of those Smart TVs have gotten cheaper and cheaper over the years for a reason; all the added apps and software on them are subsidizing them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:37 AM (6ydKt)

35 For Hank Williams Sr., this is a rather low key gospel song, "House of Gold". I liked it!

https://tinyurl.com/45fp5dkv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:42 AM (Yl2Ob)

36 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 16, 2025 05:49 AM (AN2gy)

37 Fear not, I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:52 AM (Yl2Ob)

38 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 16, 2025 05:53 AM (LjSYW)

39 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 16, 2025 05:57 AM (bQ4nt)

40 30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

"You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine!"

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:58 AM (RuTUS)

41 mornin yall

LA TILF terrorist Zachary Page, 32, who went by “Ash Kerrigan,” “AK” and “cthulu’s daughter" appears to be a tranny. Surprise surprise.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's just another deranged lefty with crazy eyes and and a taste for mayhem.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:02 AM (vFG9F)

42 40 30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

"You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine!"
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:58 AM (RuTUS)

"Leave her alone", they said.

Posted by: Benny Mardones at December 16, 2025 06:03 AM (tfOmD)

43 Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
7h
I can exclusively report that the fifth unnamed arrested suspect in the Turtle Island Liberation Front New Year's Eve mass bombing terror plot is Trantifa militant Micah James Legnon (center photo, in blue).

Legnon is on a federal hold in Lafayette, La. He is a trans activist and identifies as a female. His social media is filled with posts calling for the m—rder of people he labels as "fascists."

Authorities say the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far-left communist "decolonization" terror group, planned to blow up ICE agents and locations with homemade bombs. Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page (trans), 32; Tina Lai, 41; and Dante Gaffield, 24, are the other comrades arrested in Los Angeles after they were caught allegedly traveling to the desert to test their explosives.

Legnon is an ex-Marine and a former cop.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:04 AM (RuTUS)

44 that is:

Micah James Legnon, an ex-Marine and a former cop, a trans activist, identifies as female

Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30

Zachary Aaron Page (trans), 32

Tina Lai, 41

Dante Gaffield, 24

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:07 AM (RuTUS)

45 Some fool is going to marry MTG. With any luck she will bail on him after a year or so too.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:09 AM (vFG9F)

46 All of those Smart TVs have gotten cheaper and cheaper over the years for a reason

When we went TV shopping, I told the salesman "We want a dumb TV. As in, no fancy features whatsoever."

He quickly showed us what we were looking for. Been happy with the results.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:09 AM (+4yJ5)

47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5)

48 47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5)

I just cut and pasted from Andy Ngo, so no credit to me!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

49 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! I was nearly among the insomaniacals this morning. Not Stirling's fault, either. I was dreaming that Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek was a friend of mine, and we were sitting by a fountain, reminiscing about another lady we knew who was off somewhere on a diplomatic mission (!), when I woke at 3:30. Somehow I managed to slope off to sleep again until 5:00.

Anyway! I be here, with coffee and a pipe. The temp is 46 F., so nowhere near as chilly as yesterday. What's going on with you and the world?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

50 FWIW

Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
11h
... We have seen instances before of former conservatives becoming Antifa and far-left extremists after transitioning.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:14 AM (RuTUS)

51 When we went TV shopping, I told the salesman "We want a dumb TV. As in, no fancy features whatsoever."

He quickly showed us what we were looking for. Been happy with the results.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025

***
I've had my Vizio now for about five years. It has some "smart" features, I'm sure, but they aren't intrusive, and the unit has worked well. I've ditched cable and watch most everything over-the-air, with the occasional DVD.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

52 Keep the two LA's clear! LA, CA; Lafayette, LA.

@MrAndyNgo
14h
In addition to the accused four far-left terror members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front being arrested in California for a terror pipe bombing plot to kill ICE agents, a fifth suspect believed to be linked to the group was arrested in Lafayette, La.

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
19h
Over the weekend, the @FBI disrupted a credible, imminent terrorist threat and arrested FOUR individuals connected to the Los Angeles area.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:18 AM (RuTUS)

53 What's going on with you and the world?

**shrugs** The usual. I have been having some vivid dreams lately (two nights ago, I was somehow cast in the Burton / Taylor Cleopatra), but also a lot of night sweats, which I need to investigate.

My writing friend and muse just won an award for independent writers. I know 'awards' are a dime a dozen and I am happy for her, but it hurts.

I won't go into details, but I have found out - to my dismay, but also to my interest, as it brings clarity - exactly how fatuously superficial the term 'friend' is.

As I said upthread, 56 days until retirement. I hope.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 06:22 AM (ufSfZ)

54 Lefties on Reddit are sharing a post/image from 2021 from some indy game developer describing an activist as a member of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, proving it's not real or something?
https://shorturl.at/Hix8z

And yes, it's as DEI/queer as possible.

are people claiming to be Turtle Island Liberation Front? First I'm hearing of it

it appears the FBI ~~is referencing a fictional group to justify real world actions~~ goaded some folks into doing something indictable.

I emailed them...which probably means that I just accidentally emailed a dummy email address owned by DHS.

So, basically, the same kind of shit the FBI used to pull so they could publish a press release about how they prevented yet another terrorist attack after 9/11 by getting a bunch of alienated people from targeted and surveilled communities to basically entrap themselves.

Turtle Island is a nickname Indigenous people use for North America, if you were curious who they plan on cracking down on by pulling this stunt

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 06:28 AM (JCZqz)

55 "Sajid and Naveed Akram underwent military-style training overseas just weeks before the pair allegedly opened fire at the Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. "

Allegedly. Ok. There are hundreds of pictures of the alleged murderers allegedly murdering people with their allegedly legally obtained firearms.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

56 Both furry thugs slept with me last night. I felt Stirling join me and settle against my stomach as I was drifting off to sleep. Both when I woke at 3:30 and again at 5:00, I discovered little gray Dagny (who is getting a *tiny* bit less aloof) curled up on the other pillow near my head.

Time I went to feed them, and me too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

57 G'mornin' everyone! (allegedly!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (Cjt/F)

58 "Sajid and Naveed Akram underwent military-style training overseas just weeks before the pair allegedly opened fire at the Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. "

Allegedly. Ok. There are hundreds of pictures of the alleged murderers allegedly murdering people with their allegedly legally obtained firearms.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)
---
I'm really starting to hate the term "alleged" when used in the context where the perpetrators are clearly engaged in criminal activity.

There's nothing alleged about it. THEY KILLED THOSE PEOPLE.

May they receive the divine judgment they have earned.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (ESVrU)

59 47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5

Well I never!

Posted by: Zombie John Murtha at December 16, 2025 06:39 AM (tfOmD)

60 when I woke at 3:30. Somehow I managed to slope off to sleep again until 5:00.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

It's retirement doing that to you. Didn't even see the ONT last night. Got up a half hour ago, read KduT and Lileks, then above the fold on the ONT.

Fun fact: not only can you see Shasta from I-5, you can also see it on your grocer's shelves.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 06:39 AM (uQesX)

61 Yes, indeedy. The FBI wants to crack down on down on indigenous people, or is it indigenous people who identify as trans? Sometimes I wonder whether some things on DU are parody they are so dumb.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 06:42 AM (2sfNr)

62 If you live on the East Coast and it's clear, check out the morning sky. It's beautiful!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 06:44 AM (ELdpA)

63 Yeah Fen. I took out the trash an saw the beautiful crescent moon.

Just like a Dreamworks intro.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 06:48 AM (W7XSX)

64 >>> If you live on the East Coast and it's clear

Full overcast in these parts, but thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: fluffy at December 16, 2025 06:48 AM (AN2gy)

65 Fen thanks for the dog backpack and diner guy stories

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 06:50 AM (6U1c2)

66 I finally figured out the name of that Australian lager beer I tried decades ago, and never found them again.

'Broken Hill Lager' made by South Australian Brewing Co.

Apparently there was some kind

I only remembered the name because I watched an episode of the Lotus Eaters podcast that there was a "Battle of Broken Hill" on New Years Day in 1915 in South Australia where two Muslim men ('Ghans' - laborers from Northern India) who believed they were fighting a sanctioned Jihad proclaimed by Mehmed V (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire) and killed four people by firing rifles at a passing train and then they were killed after a shootout with police & military.

Who knew Oz had a Muslim terror attack over a century ago?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

67 ^^ "there was some kind of jihad attack there."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

68 Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief Smith’s decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime statistics is dangerous and undermines trust in both local leadership and law enforcement.

Just a quick reminder that every big blue city has FAKE crime data. DC just got caught.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 06:56 AM (gbOdA)

69 Both furry thugs slept with me last night.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Lucky!!!!!

Posted by: Tyler James Robinson at December 16, 2025 06:58 AM (JCZqz)

70 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 06:50 AM (6U1c2

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:00 AM (Yl2Ob)

71 turtle island liberation front

Is a semi-islamofascist group that want to end the US and capitalism and somehow turn the US over back to the Natives that will become fellow islamofascist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

72 I'm ok with turning Manhattan back over to the Natives.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

73 58 I'm really starting to hate the term "alleged" when used in the context where the perpetrators are clearly engaged in criminal activity.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (ESVrU)

Advice of the legal department.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:06 AM (RuTUS)

74 . . . "Battle of Broken Hill" on New Years Day in 1915 in South Australia where two Muslim men ('Ghans' - laborers from Northern India) who believed they were fighting a sanctioned Jihad proclaimed by Mehmed V (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire) and killed four people by firing rifles at a passing train and then they were killed after a shootout with police & military.

Who knew Oz had a Muslim terror attack over a century ago?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025

***
Back then, the Aussies knew how to deal with terrorists. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

75 69 Both furry thugs slept with me last night.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Lucky!!!!!
Posted by: Tyler James Robinson at December 16, 2025 06:58 AM (JCZqz)

oWo and Meow!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 16, 2025 07:08 AM (KP19t)

76 Looks like we'll have 70 F. as highs next week and all through Christmas. Lows about 55, so that's good workout weather. I might have to run the A/C on Thursday this week. Gah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

77
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

78 JJ is early again today?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

79 from the TechCrunch slop article:

Relatedly, tech words have been big winners in the WOTY (word of the year) category this year.

- Macquarie Dictionary already beat out Merriam-Webster to make “AI slop” its annual term, while

- Oxford Dictionary chose “ragebait.”

- Collins Dictionary went with “vibe coding.”

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

80 JJ is early again today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

Hope his wife isn't disappointed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (uQesX)

81 The TechCrunch article reads kinda like slop itself:

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the dictionary writes, adding that, in an age of AI anxiety, it is a term designed to communicate “a tone that’s less fearful, more mocking” of the technology.

less fearful than wut

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:21 AM (RuTUS)

82 wow; from the Ash Vardanian blog entry:

Today, almost all of the Internet is UTF-8. Its share grew from 50% in 2010 to 98% in 2024.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)

83 The 5K monitor, do not need, these old eyes can barely see the difference between 720p and 1080p.

Show of hands, how many are using a computer monitor as a TV since all the TV's are full of "smart" chickenshit bull shit?

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (BLpWt)

84 I have an LG 'Smart' TV, and found one weird trick to keep Copilot off. Every single time I turn the TV on (I mostly use it as a video game console display), it tells me I need to connect it to the Internet. I just politely tell it the electronic equivalent of "F - U". It's worked so far.

Posted by: RoadRunner at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Lyv1/)

Overnight Open Thread [12/15/2025]

[Sorry the ONT is so early today...]

Topographic prominence is different than height, and Mt. McKinley is the clear winner in America. Then comes Mauna Kea, which didn't surprise me at all (I thought it was going to be #1), then Mt. Rainier in Washington, although it is rapidly crumbling into insignificance because it no longer has a spine. Then come a bunch of Alaskan peaks nobody has ever heard of, then my personal favorite slides in at #9: Mount Whitney! Mt. Shasta is #11, which is also in my favorites list, mostly because you can see it from miles and miles away. Hell, you can see it from Highway 5!

***

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

-- W.C. Fields

Fewer men would have turned to stone if Medusa had bigger boobs.

******

I will be treble-sinewed, -hearted, -breathed,
And fight maliciously. For when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth
And send to darkness all that stop me.

-- William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 13

This should be the West's mantra. We are in a war for the survival of our culture, and we are losing, even before most of us know that we are in a fight!

Conservatism is, shallowly, the conserving of the old order. It has failed, and our new goal should be a return to the old order of things. And if that means sending frigates to the Barbary Coast, bombers to Iran, and dispatching Polish heavy cavalry to save the day, well, it's not such a bad idea. But we should not do it alone, and if that means that Western Europe surrenders to the hordes, then so be it. If they will not fight for their own existence, we shouldn't either.

******
Stupid, and funny!
******

This made me laugh. How true it is. I love humor that has more than one meaning too!

******

What the hell is this? And why are children cursing so much funnier than when adults do it? Sure, it's dubbed (I assume) but it still gave me a chuckle, and only Ebenezer Scrooge wouldn't laugh. So...Are YOU Ebenezer Scrooge?

******
The formerly "Great" Britain.

You need to watch this pic.twitter.com/Psxt7SMcwH
— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) December 13, 2025

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Wishful Thinking, by Tris Munsick & The Innocents.

Who? It's classic country, recommended by commenter "Pete Bog," whose musical taste is better than his Paella-making technique.

***
And as long as we are slumming with Pete Bog's musical picks, how about Gabriel the Bull, doing Guardian Angels.

Two bands I have never heard of, but as my BiL in the business tells me, there are tons of absolutely fantastic bands that have not been, and probably never will be discovered.

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For f*k's sake: Study reveals which English-speaking countries use the f-word the most -- and who has more fun doing so

Of course, the use of dirty words didn’t just differ between nations. According to the study, studies show people drop f-bombs more on social media than blogs and other mediums, especially — and perhaps contrary to popular belief — when conversing with acquaintances rather than close friends.
In fact, swearing was exceedingly rare in circles of fewer than 15 people, no matter how well they knew each other.

I think this study is a mass of bullshit, and nothing more than a make-work project for some under-utilized graduate students who are panicking that they might actually have to work some day.

Besides, they never answered the basic question: Is it "For fuck's sake," or "for fucks' sake?"

Inquiring minds want to know!

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1 Special Holiday cut just for Morons
Yoko wishes you a Merry Christmas
Only 1 minute, however long it might seem
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
https://youtu.be/d30MDZkbZd8

Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (lbDMw)

2 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

3 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 15, 2025 10:11 PM (CDX35)

4 Maybe top 10?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (5lbLe)

5 Sorry I'm late, but I did find out that Rodents of Unusual Size actually do exist.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

6 Not first. Other fingers were poised.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (sl73Y)

7 There are skeleton farms in India.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:15 PM (Kt19C)

8 The kids play is from Bad Thoughts on Netflix.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 15, 2025 10:15 PM (MGB5H)

9 Seattle loves to claim Mt Rainier but it's not even in that county.
Seattle sucks.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:16 PM (2WIwB)

10 5 Sorry I'm late, but I did find out that Rodents of Unusual Size actually do exist.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

I know of several in Congress.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (MXpA1)

11 which English-speaking countries use the f-word the most

Which is not necessarily who does it best.

https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0

Posted by: mindful webworker - doesn't give a flip at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (lbDMw)

12 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (5lbLe)

13 For this is the winter of our discontent,
Arctic Clippers have come and went,
Globull Warming seems to have failed,
Greta Thunberg whines and wails,
But Al Gore is still to good to use a tent.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

14 Thanks for all the advice in the previous thread. I need to go clean, we have a VA Caregiver Department visit Wednesday morning, and I'd like for her to be able to get in the front door without tripping over Pookette's snow gear.

Posted by: pookysgirl, being a mom at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

15 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5i-yX9VA0

Posted by: huerfano at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (98kQX)

16 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (5lbLe)

*looks at flooding here in westwrn Washington*
Yup.
Pussies.
And not the good kind.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

17 Thanks for the dandy Monday ONT, CBD!

Beautiful shot of Mt. McKinley up top.

The ONT is not early or late. It's right on time!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (kB9dk)

18 Good evening, friends!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 I saw another version of that Boys with a Time Machine meme: “Tell Stevie Ray not to get on that helicopter!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:19 PM (MXpA1)

20 I'm happy we got an ONT!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

21 Thanks for the ONT, CBD. You da man! Howdy, horde!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:21 PM (47diA)

22 15 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years”

Oh that is sad! I was able to see him in a small venue concert in Austin about 20 years ago, he was fantastic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:21 PM (MXpA1)

23 It would be one thing if that car were stuck in fast-moving water. Even a few inches of a raging river can knock a person down. But that puddle is as calm as a bird bath.

ISTR a story from England a few years ago where someone drowned in a fountain because the rescue services were apparently not equipped to wade into knee-deep water and lift out the victim.

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (Epuwl)

24
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (n7rxJ)

25 I'm happy we got an ONT!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

Hell. I'm just happy they spelled it properly.
*sips Irish*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

26 {{{Rat}}}!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (5lbLe)

27 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

28 Thank you CBD!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

29 SPONGE!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

30 {{{Marie!}}} Good to see you here!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:24 PM (TfUTr)

31 For the Christmas amusement of the grammatically challenged ...

Where is the comma in God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q5xEA4Ih0aM

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (3ZUWJ)

32 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (2WIwB)

33 I was a a karaoke bar this weekend, and you’ll never guess who came in. Go ahead, try to guess.

Wrong. (Yes, I am writing “wrong” before even posting so there is no Earthly way I could possibly know who you guessed, yet I am so brimming in confidence that I am going to tell you that you are wrong anyway.)

Orpheus.

I couldn’t believe it either.

Well, he got up on that stage and, let me tell you, that dude has a set of pipes. Truly. He makes Freddy Mercury sound like Oderus Urungus. It was magical listening to him. Everybody in the place was content to just let him stay in stage and roll, but it got cut short. He got mad and left in a huff when somebody asked him to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (CJZqd)

34 The parent company that makes Roomba vacuums filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. I guess they'll have to suck it up.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 15, 2025 10:27 PM (CDX35)

35 Rat, you should also be happy that your Seahawks didn't lose to Philip Rivers yesterday.

I am knee deep in the Wrapture.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (0nHVk)

36 Welp, tomorrow ought to be fun. I have to go retrieve personal effects out of a vehicle involved in a fatality. My buddy survived but her passenger didn't.

I have to stop saying 'yes' when asked for a favor.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

37 ©1998 AoSHQ LLC. contact us @ acepimp@geocities.com

I remember in 1998 I still had to get higher-up(s) approval for access to the internet. It was so new only certain people had access on the job. By 1999, every employee had access. Shopping on the job also increased.

Posted by: RickZ at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

38 Black Orpheus does Soul better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (MXpA1)

39 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

40 Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes

Relax! Ya got a whole week...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (3ZUWJ)

41 >>> 32 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (2WIwB)

Unless there's something specific you were getting hints about... gift cards. Even better, cash aka the "universal gift card".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl)

42 Evenin'
........................................
Hunter S. Thompson quote. He was a deranged prick but when he's right, he's right.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (sAmhv)

43 36 Welp, tomorrow ought to be fun. I have to go retrieve personal effects out of a vehicle involved in a fatality. My buddy survived but her passenger didn't.

I have to stop saying 'yes' when asked for a favor.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15,

I’m so sorry. I am sorry for the guilt and trauma your friend may be feeling as well.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

44 Great bands.

Thanks Pete!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (mT+6a)

45 Unless there's something specific you were getting hints about... gift cards. Even better, cash aka the "universal gift card".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl)

It always fits.

Posted by: RickZ at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

46 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5i-yX9VA0
Posted by: huerfano at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (98kQX)

Well, that's a damned shame. RIP, Joe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:32 PM (npFr7)

47 I am knee deep in the Wrapture.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Say hi to other Debby & Fab Five Freddie ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (3ZUWJ)

48 The formerly "Great" Britain.
___________________________

I could understand the need for a rope and flotation device if Robert Reich was in that car. Reich needs climbing equipment to get over a speed bump.

But, what it the hell was that all about? It's a puddle.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (dIske)

49 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (KDPiq)

50
Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (n7rxJ)

51

The US Senate on Monday voted to end the filibuster and advance the National Defense Authorization Act to a final vote.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (pkeXY)

52 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (mT+6a)

53 That is the first Larson comic that just has me scratching my head.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (fIo92)

54 39 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

My wife is singlehandedly chipping away at this deficit. By 2032, we'll have achieved parity with the rest of the Anglosphere thanks to the tireless efforts of this unsung American hero.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (+n72I)

55 49 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (KDPiq)

We dont know what a man and a woman are anymore

Posted by: leftidiot at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (+I6Y/)

56 Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

Prayers for Peace and Strength for all involved ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (3ZUWJ)

57 Jeepers.

All the tributes to Meathead.

Whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)

58 Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes

Relax! Ya got a whole week...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (3ZUWJ)

Whew!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

59 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

60 {{{DDS}}} Yes. Sorry about your Pats.
The fam went to the local production of the Nutcracker so I missed the second half.
Tried to borrow the granddaughters earbuds....but was informed it would be perceived as "being an asshole".

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

61
Yay Jim!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (3ek7K)

62 Apparently I was cracking jokes

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (v9ppt)

63 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Hell, I know of a guy that didn't know what the definition of 'is' is.

Or a Supreme Court Justice that doesn't know what a woman is.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)

64 Nurse!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

65 Good news, jim. Get healthier quickly!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (47diA)

66 well, well, well, Don Jr is engaged.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

67 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

One of our few flaws as a people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (n9ltV)

68 am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

The heartiest of congratulations.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (sl73Y)

69 Well, back to e sleeo

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (v9ppt)

70 {{{Nurse!}}} And how was your weekend?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (TfUTr)

71 What was the definition of was?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (pkeXY)

72
Jeepers.

All the tributes to Meathead.

Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched

==============

Well anyway, he's certainly one of our top 30 people.

Posted by: Bridget Jones at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (n7rxJ)

73 Diogenes!

You still have power? It was a rock and roll party boat on the way home.

Dry though. Still blowing stink.

You get dry yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

74 Tried to borrow the granddaughters earbuds....but was informed it would be perceived as "being an asshole".
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

Yeah. My granddaughter tried that crap once. Told her she was out of the will.
End of problem.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

75 Slerp. Sleep. Damn autocucumber

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (v9ppt)

76 I’ve climbed mt. Elbert. A fun climb and only a spitting distance shorter than whitney

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (fIo92)

77 >>In fact, swearing was exceedingly rare in circles of fewer than 15 people, no matter how well they knew each other.

My buddy and I spent many years fishing a couple times a week together, usually early on a weekday morning before going to work. After a few years our morning conversation was usually a variety of grunts and the word fuck.

Oddly, we always seemed to know what the other meant.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (viF8m)

78 Rat!

Good weekend. Next will be better as I get to see you and meet Ruby, the new sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium!

Squeeeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (lSC4e)

79 You still have power? It was a rock and roll party boat on the way home.

Dry though. Still blowing stink.

You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day. Wind picking up though. As wet as the soil is, could lose some trees.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

80 There is some more footage available of the Brown University shooter. Jacket is somewhat distinctive. Looks like he eats a lot of Cheetos.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (R86kT)

81 Slorp

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (pkeXY)

82 {{{DDS}}}
you're early tonight! So good to see you girlfriend 💗

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (5lbLe)

83 The shooter looks very fat.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (g47mK)

84 @1/ mindful webworker - never miiiind:

Could not make it more than 10 seconds of Yoko's "singing".

I now have an all new appreciation for Denis Leary's commentary on John Lennon and Yoko Ono:

https://youtu.be/7IpB24Xjn1w

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (O7YUW)

85 Yeah. My granddaughter tried that crap once. Told her she was out of the will.
End of problem.
Posted by: Diogenes

That won't work on mine....Nobody wants a shop full of broken crap. (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

86
Custard.

What the hell is it?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

87 The fucking fucker's fucking fucked.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (t/66j)

88 Skin Orchards

Huh.

Gary trying to recapture the glory that was "Cow Tools?"

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (nhCoE)

89
Nobody eats "custard" anymore, right?

It's like "sherbert."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

90 They're showing that video of the car in the water on Gutfeld.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (pkeXY)

91 I say Mother Hubbard more these days than Mother F'er.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (KDPiq)

92 Okay, I'm up later than I should be. See some of you in the Tech News thread tomorrow.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (O7YUW)

93 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (n9ltV)

94 jim in Kalifornia, I am so glad that your surgery went well.

LOL, Adriane!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (0nHVk)

95 Yellow matter custard?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (pkeXY)

96 Evenin’, All. Happy Tuesday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (77rzZ)

97 Rainier will probably go Plinian and disappear in the next few decades anyway. But I assume Seattle which is led by people who went to the best schools have a plan for that.
I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

98 Hi Bulg

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

99 Frozen custard was real popular for a while.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (fIo92)

100 The weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow, here in Babylon DC. I'm off till Friday night, so I'll alter my normal nightwalker schedule and get up around noon. I want to visit Mt Vernon. George Washington's homestead is one of my favorite places around here. My sister and I would go there around this time of year but I haven't gone since she retired and moved near the aging parental units.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

101 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.
Posted by: COMountainMarie

F250, 15 foot chain, problem solved. Pussies doesn't even begin to cover it.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (dp6GH)

102 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Discreetly make my way to a place of safety.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)

103 9mm fags....

uh oh . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (47diA)

104 We got into a discussion here early today about crazy people and got me thinking about some I have known. (I’ve known way more than my share!) so back in the 90’s I knew a plumber named Nickels, I knew his elevator didn’t go all the way to the top but I thought he’d be handy if I had a plumbing problem. Still if you talked to him much you realized there were some circuits loose.

So one day there was this big excitement in town, someone had called a bomb threat into the biggest downtown bank! Police everywhere, they even called the FBI, and then I found out Nickles had been arrested. Why did he do it? Well he had a girlfriend who was sick of her shit and who’d told him she didn’t want to see him or talk to him anymore and not to come by her place. She worked at the bank. As she came out, she saw him standing there, and he said “well I wanted to talk to you, and I figured if everybody had to come out you would too, and we could talk.”
Yep, he just stood in front of the bank and said “yeah I did it.” He didn’t understand why people thought that was wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (MXpA1)

105 Hiya nurse😂!
It's nice to see so much Horde here!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (5lbLe)

106 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 Hey, Piper! How are you?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (77rzZ)

108 WC Fields was a national treasure of a nation I miss very much.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (MUJd1)

109 93 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (n9ltV)

***=

Whoa!
Somewhere a glove just got thrown down.
Play with your .45. I'll be sitting several hundred meters away slowly breathing whilst peeking though the scope on my .308.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

110 Woof.

Posted by: Elizabeth at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (JkO4W)

111 Rain off and on all day. Wind picking up though. As wet as the soil is, could lose some trees.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

Got up to 48 degrees here today. Sunny for a spell, too. I was just outside for a pee break. Strong west wind, still above freezing, though. Clear sky, I saw Jupiter and Orion glimming away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)

112 Nickels got 2 years for that. He should have gotten more, but he had a smart lawyer who put him on the stand and asked him some questions about basic reality. He of course failed to answer them in any kind of rational way, and the jury felt sorry for him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (MXpA1)

113 Rainier will probably go Plinian and disappear in the next few decades anyway. But I assume Seattle which is led by people who went to the best schools have a plan for that.
I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.
Posted by: gKWVE

Not to worry. We pay a MASSIVE carbon tax, which will be used to mitigate all climate problems...

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)

114 After a few years our morning conversation was usually a variety of grunts and the word fuck.

Just like my wife and her bull.

Posted by: David French at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (+n72I)

115
Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That's lousy. Poor guy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (Spg9I)

116 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (MXpA1)

And yet he had a girlfriend.

Men have an excuse for going for the crazy but women have a defective radar that can't detect assholes or nut cases.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (KDPiq)

117 I have to go retrieve personal effects...
-----

I've had to do the same thing. A buddy's family lived far away, and I was the local contact point for the hospice. Then...then came the call from the mortuary, 'You may come by and pick up your friend's clothes'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (XeU6L)

118 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (1oltZ)

119 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper
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wth? As in, wear the pj's in public?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

120 You know.

Not everyone needs a 50 cal to neutralize a foe.

Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Jeepers. Can you say bull in a China shop? Compensating for a tiny weener? My my my.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

121 I'll be sitting several hundred meters away slowly breathing whilst peeking though the scope on my .308.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

122 I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

Well...it keeps things...moist.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

123 9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

* saunters into the back room, puts on bib overalls*

Y'all aint from around here is ya.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (dp6GH)

124 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper

mikeski's answer in that situation: "But I sleep naked. Will that work?"

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

125 Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

He stated he didn't think he'd make it past the summer.
Too bad, I liked his stuff.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (TfUTr)

126 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

Three?

Men need only one .45ACP.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (n9ltV)

127 Frozen custard was real popular for a while.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (fIo92)

There is a frozen custard joint on Southern Avenue in Mesa, AZ, not far from Ellsworth Road.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)

128 COMM! Hi
Love!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (mT+6a)

129 I remember the guy who got banned for saying he'd shoot people from 1000 yards out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (1oltZ)

130 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (VCgbV)

131 wth? As in, wear the pj's in public?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

Everyday is Christmas Pajama day at the local Walmart.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (6p0Jv)

132
That's lousy. Poor guy.
Posted by: Soothsayer

=============

The dude shows up like no one's business, though. Barely able to speak or move a muscle, doped out of his mind, and he's livestreaming from his hospital bed.

Posted by: Bridget Jones at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (n7rxJ)

133 I remember the guy who got banned for saying he'd shoot people from 1000 yards out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (1oltZ)

There's a bit of a difference....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (n9ltV)

134 And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December

Scooch over and let me show you how that works.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (mT+6a)

135 And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

136 Everyday is Christmas Pajama day at the local Walmart.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Yeah... or even Worn-out, Unwashed Pajama day.

But that's WM, not Piper's Studio!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

137 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

Oh f*ck...I laughed!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (n9ltV)

138 >>> 112 Nickels got 2 years for that. He should have gotten more, but he had a smart lawyer who put him on the stand and asked him some questions about basic reality. He of course failed to answer them in any kind of rational way, and the jury felt sorry for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (MXpA1)

That, and/or they all thought juror 8's kid's hamster was far more likely to be able to *build* a bomb than Nickels.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (ULPxl)

139 BOOM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (mT+6a)

140 94 jim in Kalifornia, I am so glad that your surgery went well.

-----------

Yikes. I hope he isn't transitioning.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)

141 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (S/Y4j)

142 133 Wow, CBD is still online. Does this mean that the 100-comment rule is STILL in effect?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (77rzZ)

143 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
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Ok. I just saw this post.

LOL, oh dear. Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

144 Scooch over and let me show you how that works.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (mT+6a)

Rancher Bob makes sure everyone gets a participation trophy.

Talk to RI Red about real targets at 1,100 yards.

Hit the ram and we will talk!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (n9ltV)

145 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

You are an inspiration to the granddaughters of Diogenes. By third grade they knew grandpa's axiom: two in the pump house, one in the junction box.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

146 When do you choose airstrikes?

Always and often, said the retired bomber guy . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (47diA)

147 I had seen that Adam’s had commented while being taken to the hospital for some experimental treatment, and noted that he was now paralyzed from the waist down, since the cancer had gotten into his spine. Very sad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (MXpA1)

148 >>> 106 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)

149 Hey COMM, we kind of missed each other at the party.

Piper, I am sure that you will fashion some exquisite Christmas pajamas, I bet that you will look great.

Merry Christmas, nurse.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (0nHVk)

150 XCel Energy is threatening to turn the power off Wednesday noon

western suburbs of Denver
might get windy!
This decision is driven by lawyers, of course

the call it a "Public Safety Power Shutoff"

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ZxPkt)

151 86
Custard.

What the hell is it?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

Put it in a doughnut and bring that over here. More importantly, has there been an oreo filled doughnut yet? Seems like an obvious one. They'll use them as topping for doughnuts, but not as a filling.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (pIfcn)

152 For folks who supposedly dislike math, y’all are all surprisingly good at it when it comes to firearms.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

153 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (n9ltV)

154 Hey, Piper!

You may borrow my Ugly Christmas Sweater if you want to! *Any color* yoga pants will go with it, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

155 >>> 152 For folks who supposedly dislike math, y’all are all surprisingly good at it when it comes to firearms.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

That's why Weasel calls them FUNdamentals.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (ULPxl)

156 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

Don't worry Jim, James Brown has you covered:

https://youtu.be/ZNhA1njOxsk

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7)

157 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (S/Y4j)

Air strikes are for the weak and infirmed. Better to let the enemy advance unimpeded and face death at the hands of real men rather than be soiled by the puny bombs of pilots who drop and flee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

158 Saaay....did fall down into Weasel's blog? Is it Sunday or Monday? I'm totally confused now...

*dusts off pellet pistol*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:01 PM (5lbLe)

159 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

The Rooskies now have fiber optic guided video drones that can chase you through the trees from 20,000 meters.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 11:01 PM (xceqr)

160 Holy crap. Wind rally kicking up.

It’s HOOTING out thar.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (mT+6a)

161 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

You are an inspiration to the granddaughters of Diogenes. By third grade they knew grandpa's axiom: two in the pump house, one in the junction box.
Posted by: Diogenes

Sock Monkey's version of the Mozambique is two to the chest, one to the head and two to the groin. It might be a waste of two rounds but it makes me smile.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (dp6GH)

162
Apparently I was cracking jokes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

I came out of anesthesia one time in a wild panic because they had not told me when they started the drip. How the hell was I supposed to know where I was without having been told that as I went under, buttheads?

Another time I came out and started singing a song from scout camp that involved moving one's arms a lot. The staff was the panicking party in that case. "Stop! Stop! You'll pull out the drip needle!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (xG4kz)

163 puny bombs

Well, a 2000 pounder might make your head ache for a while afterwards. The crew has to get back to the base, Diogenes, before us maintenance folks drink all the beer. You got to take beer out on patrols, right?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

164 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

165 130 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (VCgbV)

😂 But I do wonder why I did this!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

166 Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

The Paolo, he sleeps how you say, au naturle, the bow would have to go...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (Kt19C)

167 The Rooskies now have fiber optic guided video drones that can chase you through the trees from 20,000 meters.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Which is fine as long as some Trotskyite didn't sell off the fiber optic and replace it with fishing line.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (TfUTr)

168
A prouder person would not have signed that failed cartoon, Larson.

Just saying.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (xG4kz)

169 Back to my paper and ribbons and tags, Horde, have a good evening.

JQ, you know that I will be back for a nightcap.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (0nHVk)

170 Good news, Jim (in Kalifornia)!

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (77rzZ)

171 Have fun, Debby! See ya later.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

172 You got to take beer out on patrols, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

Depends.
Is is a 24 hour patrol, or four or five days?
And...what country am I in? Some have really shitty bier.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (2WIwB)

173 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh

😂 But I do wonder why I did this!
Posted by: Piper

It's the effects of the 'Ette Couture thing.

Soon, your whole life will revolve around generating commentable content for the ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (nhCoE)

174 A prouder person would not have signed that failed cartoon, Larson.

Just saying.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (xG4kz)

Good thing Captain Picard never saw that cartoon...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

175
Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)

I think my daughter (dare I say this) had penguin pajamas. I wonder if I can squash in those. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

176

FBI warns public to stay away from "armed and dangerous " Brown University shooter.

Since no one knows who it is that is a problem.

Idiots

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)

177 Maybe she'll do next Sunday post on Christmas pajamas...🤣

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (VCgbV)

178 Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

The Paolo, he sleeps how you say, au naturle, the bow would have to go...
Posted by: The Paolo

Nae, the bow shows ye won first prize!

Posted by: MacPaolo at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)

179 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

He's a Wazzu grad. I blame alcohol poisoning.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (dp6GH)

180 Found this while looking for something else:
https://youtu.be/rporAkjtdL4

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ULPxl)

181 For some obscure reason, I am wearing a ball cap indoors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:08 PM (npFr7)

182 Mount McKinley, formally Denali, formally Mount McKinley.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 15, 2025 11:08 PM (y171U)

183 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

He's a Wazzu grad. I blame alcohol poisoning.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (dp6GH)

I actually had several classes with him at Wazzu. His doodles on his notes were frigging hilarious.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (2WIwB)

184 I’m late, but here goes:
Hello! my baby,
Hello! my Honey
Hello! my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (tWxgu)

185 164 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

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Call when the enemy is 14 miles away.

Posted by: The USS Missouri at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (JkO4W)

186 54 Hey, Piper!

You may borrow my Ugly Christmas Sweater if you want to! *Any color* yoga pants will go with it, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:00

Ha! I am sorry I did that to you!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

187 Goodnight, All. See you zaftra.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

188 177 Maybe she'll do next Sunday post on Christmas pajamas...🤣
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December

Hmmmm….couture pjs. It’s niche. Might be fun!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

189 As for mountains, I love seeing the Tetons on a clear day from nearly a hundred miles away, long before reaching Idaho Falls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)

190 I had to watch that formerly great britain video twice to count how many retards were in that vid. I settled on "all" as the final count. That was 6 monkeys trying fuck a football... in ankle deep water.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (snZF9)

191 think my daughter (dare I say this) had penguin pajamas. I wonder if I can squash in those. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

You are a Great American !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (g47mK)

192 I am off to bed. Will update on this pressing situation tomorrow because I know you care!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

193 Ha! I am sorry I did that to you!
Posted by: Piper
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LOL, it's all good... I liked that elongated shiny stuff, whatever it was. Looked like huge beads?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

194 Rob Reiner is the generation of liberals that paved the road for the Hell we are all living in today.

I say hey man nice shot.

It's a good shot man.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (aTgV0)

195 150 Don Black

Got the call today....batten down the harches!! OMG!
WHATEVER will we do?!
Heading for the bunker with me MREs🤪🤪🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (5lbLe)

196 If Teddy Kennedy had been British, he would have been president.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (JkO4W)

197 So every year my wife gets me a pair of Christmas pjs at bass pro shops. With the idea being that’s what I’ll wear next year Christmas morning. She and a friend both bring their kid to see Santa and I get pjs.

But the issue is my wife always buys way too big a size for me. Santa size. I don’t get it. Maybe all the normal sizes are gone by the time she goes. And it’s made worse by the fact that they can’t just make fat pjs. They’re scaled up in every dimension. Like for a nine foot tall giant. So I have to have them really fastened tight and then the legs all rolled up.

But this year I got a call from her while she’s at the store and she asks for my size. Good so far. Then she asks if I’m looking for anything new underwear wise, and frankly, now I’m frightened.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (fIo92)

198 Hope Jim in Cali is doing ok.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (aTgV0)

199 As for mountains, I love seeing the Tetons on a clear day from nearly a hundred miles away, long before reaching Idaho Falls.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)

A hundred miles!!!???
Those are indeed some grand tetons!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

200 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

Nuke ‘em. It’s the only way to be sure!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:15 PM (tWxgu)

201
More importantly, has there been an oreo filled doughnut yet?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Or perhaps a Donut filled Oreo?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:15 PM (Spg9I)

202 A hundred miles!!!???
Those are indeed some grand tetons!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

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SPECTACULAR tetons!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:16 PM (JkO4W)

203 When I get a bag of Oreos I pour them in a bowl so they get stale.

Stale Oreos is the secret.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:17 PM (aTgV0)

204
Hope Jim in Cali is doing ok.
Posted by: eleven

He's right above you.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:17 PM (Spg9I)

205 The Tetons are beautiful.

So are the
buckhorns
Sawtooth
Olympics

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 11:18 PM (mT+6a)

206 I’d have told those guys on the road in the UK, “It’s OK, I got this. Can you just call a tow truck? I dropped my phone in this puddle I’m walking through.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:18 PM (6ydKt)

207 "He's right above you.
Posted by: Soothsayer"

He's standing right behind me, isn't he?

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (aTgV0)

208
When I get a bag of Oreos I pour them in a bowl so they get stale.

Stale Oreos is the secret.
Posted by: eleven

Ah, yes, the things you learn from Grandma.
Grandmas are good at making things in a bowl (or dish) stale.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (Spg9I)

209 68 am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
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Most excellent, sleep well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (+e7qF)

210 Nobody wants a shop full of broken crap. (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

Fistbump.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (VF6cf)

211 The effing thing's all effing effed up.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (NO/Iy)

212 Then she asks if I’m looking for anything new underwear wise, and frankly, now I’m frightened.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (fIo92)

She’s going to buy you something that would make a pair of Speedos blush.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (6ydKt)

213 Jimmah!

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (aTgV0)

214

The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

215 Had a nice win in the shop today. The heater fan on #3 Suburban was very noisy, and would only run at all on high blower. Because it was mild out, I took the fan motor out. Well, a shot of oil wasn't going to fix it. The back end bearing was wallowed right out, with a 1/8" gap between one side of the shaft and what was left of the bearing. No other fan motor on hand.
Cut the bearing dimple out of the end bell of the motor with die grinder, pried remains of Oilite bushing. Opened hole with reamer to fit O.D. of new Oilite bushing from junk box. I.D. was perfect fit on shaft. Pressed in new bushing; motor spins freely (oiled both bushings, of course). Bent a flat washer to act as bushing retainer, and spot-welded it to end bell of motor. Test-ran motor, worked. Put fan cage back on, reinstall in Suburban. Runs as quiet as it possibly can on high blower. Resistor block NFG, so low speeds unavailable. Tomorrow's job.

Junk 45 dollar part, made good again for $0.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

216 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

excellent news, Jim. Prayers for a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (0aYVJ)

217 "The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

That's hot.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (aTgV0)

218 Theresa update. Anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (+e7qF)

219 That's it I'm done.

Have a wonderful Monday night all you goombas.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:23 PM (aTgV0)

220 Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after complaints over gun, tax convictions

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (GITLP)

221 Get it from the source:

https://www.thefarside.com/

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (tWxgu)

222 The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

223 A place here makes donuts and donut holes and then if you buy a box of assorted they stuff some of the donut holes in the hole of the donuts. And honestly, they look like S&M ball gag donuts and that’s way too much to deal with early in the morning.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (fIo92)

224 And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

Not something you'd want to drop on your toe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (npFr7)

225 Sock Monkey's version of the Mozambique is two to the chest, one to the head and two to the groin. It might be a waste of two rounds but it makes me smile.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (dp6GH)

At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (n9ltV)

226 The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

And when Pritzker cannonballed into Springfield, it took out an entire state

Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 11:27 PM (gKWVE)

227
Teresa was here today. Said she's breaking out of the hospital.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:27 PM (Spg9I)

228 220 Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after complaints over gun, tax convictions

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Just imagine all of he desperate clients who now need to locate new crackerjack legal counsel!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:28 PM (JkO4W)

229
Australian Democrat spree killer "known" to Intel agencies.

He was "examined" in 2019 under suspicion of connections to ISIS, but "deemed" "not" "a" "threat."

Really.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (Spg9I)

230 The Brits had a bomb called the Grand Slam that weighed 22,000 lbs. Was designed to penetrate the ground and then detonate, causing buildings to collapse around it.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (R86kT)

231 219 That's it I'm done.

Have a wonderful Monday night all you goombas.
Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:23 PM (aTgV0)

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Go ahead and ignore us.

Posted by: The Mooks at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (JkO4W)

232 AOP , a book I had said to try and do a 10$ job for 50c and just find the 50c.. I've managed to do it a few times
adjusted for inflation.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:30 PM (NO/Iy)

233 I don’t understand how artillery guys don’t go deaf.

Seems like your ears would be ringing permanently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (6ydKt)

234 Test-ran motor, worked. Put fan cage back on, reinstall in Suburban. Runs as quiet as it possibly can on high blower. Resistor block NFG, so low speeds unavailable. Tomorrow's job.

Junk 45 dollar part, made good again for $0.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Easy peasy when one knows what he's doing.

Along those line just discovered that Amazon sells a mount for hand held angle grinder to use it as a cut off wheel. $40
https://tinyurl.com/mu8sbunr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (+e7qF)

235 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I would think the opposite, so much of what he does is observational, very literal, it is almost as if he unthinks.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:32 PM (jNmWC)

236 Was designed to penetrate the ground and then detonate, causing buildings to collapse around it.

We got some now that "count" the floors of the building as they pass through and detonate in the right place. Very effective.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:33 PM (47diA)

237 At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That's the reason I added that to that particular drill. I make my own silhouette targets so it's included. I've been doing that in my drills long enough that it's muscle memory. The emotional reward is just a bonus.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (dp6GH)

238 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (NO/Iy)

239 Good night good pals.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (5lbLe)

240
And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.
Posted by: Diogenes

243 pounds

https://t.ly/w6lMZ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:35 PM (pkeXY)

241 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

I mean it grinds hands so duh

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:35 PM (9gniQ)

242 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

good news, nobody repeats the error more than once

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (Qd8Cf)

243 Really, that Wishful Thinking song is more bluegrass than country.

Posted by: GWB at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (/5v9+)

244 238 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool
Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (NO/Iy)

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Is it really worse than the notorious Dick Grinder?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (JkO4W)

245 Gotta go. Nice ONT, morons!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (47diA)

246 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Apparently I was cracking jokes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

This is great news. Gives me hope one day they might reassemble me. Bag life is not the worst thing, but, ick.

After my initial surgery, first thing I said was, "Is Joe Biden still dead?" My daughter was a little disturbed, maybe thinking I must be out of it. So, I said, "Am I alive?" She answered, "Yes, you're alive." Then I asked, "Am I still a guy?" Yes, again. Well, okay, then! I was glad to be alive.

Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Before they started putting me semi-under for a blood clot clean-out, I was singing, "Lying here staring at the ceiling, waiting for a sleepy feeling." Some guy noted that I was singing, but I don't think any of those folks in the surgery recognized that obscure Beatles bit.

I had to force myself not to make jokes in the hospital. Don't want them thinking that old man is losing his wits. "Birthdate?" "1852...."

https://youtu.be/5XwXliCK19Y

Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm only sleeeeeping at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (lbDMw)

247 Is it really worse than the notorious Dick Grinder?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I still have nightmares about that wedding night.

Posted by: Barry from Chicago at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (gKWVE)

248 At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (n9ltV)

I was acquainted with a Marine who could attest to that. Arterial bleeding in the limbs can be taken care of with a tourniquet, but anything in the trunk or pelvic region is truly problematic. Best you can do is direct pressure, like kneeling, full weight, on the site of the wound. And even then it's still pretty iffy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (0aYVJ)

249
DOJ suing woke DEI "mayor" of Shitcago for racial discrimination.

The idiot not only excluded non-blacks from business licenses but bragged about it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:38 PM (Spg9I)

250 Along those line just discovered that Amazon sells a mount for hand held angle grinder to use it as a cut off wheel. $40
https://tinyurl.com/mu8sbunr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (+e7qF)

I would not buy that. It ties up your angle grinder, so you need to have two of them (as you should, anyway). Anything that is in the angle grinder's capacity to cut, you can do nearly as well freehand, if the work is in a vise.

Hit a few flea markets, yard sales, or swap meets, and you should be able to find a working chop saw for $50.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (npFr7)

251 Angle grinders have hand guards over the wheels but yeah if you screw up or get it caught on something and it springs back up they’ll cut through leather gloves or boots very quickly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (6ydKt)

252 I don’t understand how artillery guys don’t go deaf.

Seems like your ears would be ringing permanently.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (6ydKt)

***

The funniest thing I ever saw in a briefing was when my boss, an artillery man (and a general) was having trouble hearing. I was his G2 and could see the problem. The hearing aide batteries were dying. The briefer kept going and the boss was pulling out the hearing aides and suddenly the batteries go bouncing across the table. Sudden silence. I burst out laughing and the briefer dived to the floor trying to get the batteries.
The boss just smiled.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (2WIwB)

253
Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Did you think you were Ethel Merman?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:40 PM (pkeXY)

254 I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:42 PM (MXpA1)

255 254 I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:42 PM (MXpA1)

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That must have been one beefy trebuchet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (JkO4W)

256 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

good news, nobody repeats the error more than once
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (Qd8Cf)

Ceiling in my shop has embedded in it two sharp fragments of 3" cutoff wheel discs. I left them there as a graphic reminder to wear safety goggles when using power tools of that nature.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (npFr7)

257
I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That was the FATTEST man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (pkeXY)

258 Good evening morons and Happy Chanukah CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

259 258 Good evening morons and Happy Chanukah CBD

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F*cking Seleucids had it coming.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)

260 my shop has embedded in it two sharp fragments of 3" cutoff wheel discs. I left them there as a graphic reminder to wear safety goggles when using power tools of that nature.
Posted by: Alber

smart

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:45 PM (jNmWC)

261 Ken burns made the quakers seem like assholes episode 4 Am Rev.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (uQzkA)

262 Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Woke up once and my very concerned college buddy was standing there. I just looked at him and said, " Well crap. I've died and gone to hell."
He made me buy drinks for a month.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (2WIwB)

263 To cut a 1 1/2" by 1 1/2" by 1/8" steel angle, maybe ten seconds with a chop saw, a minute with an angle grinder, or five seconds with a plasma cutter.

Hacksaw? Five minutes, and the cut will be crooked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)

264 Happy Chanukah CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

Am Yisrael Hai!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:49 PM (n9ltV)

265
Google's AI is so full of shit...

I just typed in "when is the fake holiday kwanza"

Google's AI tells me: Kwanzaa is an annual cultural celebration observed from December 26 through January 1 every year.
While some critics have called Kwanzaa a "fake" or "made-up" holiday because it was created relatively recently in 1966 by activist Dr. Maulana Karenga, it is widely celebrated by millions of people of African descent in the United States and around the world. It is not a religious holiday, and many people celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:49 PM (Spg9I)

266 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)
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b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:50 PM (9ipOP)

267 The Tsar Bomba wasn’t even a usable weapon: just a test to see how big an explosion they could get. At that they tamped down on the yield a bit as they thought the drop plane wouldn’t be able to get away successfully otherwise. They were right!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:50 PM (tWxgu)

268
Alright, so then I typed: "what evidence is there that people celebrate kwanzaa"

Google's lying AI says: Evidence that people celebrate Kwanzaa can be seen in various public and private activities, the holiday's recognition by institutions and government, and survey data on participation.

LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:51 PM (Spg9I)

269 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)
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Ha! Truf.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (9ipOP)

270 LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:51 PM (Spg9I)

Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)

271
LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Surprised it didn't say: "Because I say so!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (pkeXY)

272 Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)
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Ask the FBI

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (9ipOP)

273 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)

Ingrates! Savages!!

Posted by: zombie antiochus iv epiphanes at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (+n72I)

274 Dump democrats are tofu eating snowflake wimps offering thoughts and prayers for kirk's family. Dump says let me show you how to properly dance on grave of someone you hate!

Posted by: raimondo at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (sldme)

275 I ask Google mean offensive questions every day to mess with it. Hopefully it learns shit talking. I trust the fbi has a list of all my searches.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (uQzkA)

276 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)
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Ha! Truf.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (9ipOP)

I always thought Seleucids were some sort of critter that lived with the Trilobites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (npFr7)

277
I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

Um, shut up, racist!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:55 PM (Spg9I)

278 I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

its powdered milk

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:56 PM (PqZ71)

279 And the plasma cutter means almost zero clean up.

You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

280 Dump democrats are tofu eating snowflake wimps offering thoughts and prayers for kirk's family. Dump says let me show you how to properly dance on grave of someone you hate!
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Troll, Imma let you have this one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (9ipOP)

281 I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

Um, shut up, racist!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:55 PM (Spg9I)

It's the season to take your used goats, and sell them two villages distant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (npFr7)

282 Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felony assault and false imprisonment.[22] A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:

Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters.[23]

I wonder if Miss Jones and Miss Davis celebrate Kwanzaa?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:59 PM (dp6GH)

283 Say what you will about Kwanzaa but I still think the ritual Lighting of the Yule Bitch is a charming tradition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (dyewR)

284 Have seen a mechanical hacksaw setup-- very old, electric-- put your workpiece in its vice, start it up, lower the blade, sit back while the machine works the blade back & forth instead of your arm.

Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

285 I always thought Seleucids were some sort of critter that lived with the Trilobites.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They're not one of the Zerg units in Starcraft?

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE)

286
I wonder if Miss Jones and Miss Davis celebrate Kwanzaa?
Posted by: Sock Monkey

They were going to make toast but the cord was missing.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (pkeXY)

287 You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

Metal fab shops have motorized jigs to hold plasma torches or acetylene torches at the right distance from the work and maintain the correct angle and cut speed for neat work. It's a hard skill to acquire to do it neatly freehand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (npFr7)

288
Say what you will about Kwanzaa but I still think the ritual Lighting of the Yule Bitch is a charming tradition.
Posted by: Cicero

And the looting makes the children so happy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 12:02 AM (Spg9I)

289 >>> It is not a religious holiday, and many people celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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They, all AI is fos. I waste time questioning them repeatedly forcing it closer to a correct answer.
Not sure whether the exercise is better or worse for my humor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:02 AM (+e7qF)

290 They were going to make toast but the cord was missing.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (pkeXY)
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What else is he doing with that toaster?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 16, 2025 12:03 AM (9ipOP)

291 >>What else is he doing with that toaster?

That cheating SOB!

Posted by: the couch at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

292 261 Ken burns made the quakers seem like assholes episode 4 Am Rev.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (uQzkA)

I think they were the moron kind of asshoe: they would show up to Puritan church services naked and dance in the aisle singing loudly.

Posted by: moki at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (wLjpr)

293 >>>or five seconds with a plasma cutter.

Hacksaw? Five minutes, and the cut will be crooked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You may have saved my life. You mentioned, the other night, about welders and pacemakers. I had forgotten about that and have been shopping for an 'on sale' welding machine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (+e7qF)

294 That cheating SOB!
Posted by: the couch
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I'm ok with it...

Posted by: the chicken at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)

295
They, all AI is fos. I waste time questioning them repeatedly forcing it closer to a correct answer.
Not sure whether the exercise is better or worse for my humor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

We have to build more data centers and power plants and then you will be able to get correct answers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:06 AM (pkeXY)

296 You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

Back in the Nam, we used a couple wraps of det cord.

Posted by: Gruff Old Guy Drinking at the VFW Bar at December 16, 2025 12:07 AM (xceqr)

297 Have seen a mechanical hacksaw setup-- very old, electric-- put your workpiece in its vice, start it up, lower the blade, sit back while the machine works the blade back & forth instead of your arm.
Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

They work very well, and use special power hacksaw blades, so they make a straight cut.

The hot new ticket now is metal-cutting bandsaw set up as a chop saw. Very fast, clean, accurate cuts. Starting at 110 bucks at Harbor Freight. "Bench' model is 299.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

298 I think they were the moron kind of asshoe: they would show up to Puritan church services naked and dance in the aisle singing loudly.
Posted by: moki at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (wLjpr)

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A Swiss form of mooning?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (dyewR)

299 It's a hard skill to acquire to do it neatly freehand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (npFr7)

My brother is pretty good at it.
He’s been working with steel since the 80s when he was a teenager - certified welder and all.

He can cut a damn good line.

I, being the less mechanically inclined of the two, suck badly at it and leave a crooked, slag filled mess behind. I can only watch him work in awe at his skill.

You remind me of him with all the different things you work on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (6ydKt)

300
I typed "does Google AI tell the truth"

Google's AI: AI on Google Search, and other artificial intelligence, cannot always be trusted to provide truthful information. AI systems can make mistakes and produce false or misleading information, often called "hallucination".

Indeed, yet you tell me things with such certainty.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 12:09 AM (Spg9I)

301 120 You know.

Not everyone needs a 50 cal to neutralize a foe.
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As I said on another forum, many years ago: A slice of shadow and a Louisville slugger.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (sdF4j)

302 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)

303 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
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Go ahead and try.

Posted by: Colossus at December 16, 2025 12:14 AM (9ipOP)

304 141 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?
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When I've backed off to the next county.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 12:14 AM (sdF4j)

305 302 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
.........................................
Possible. Capt. Kirk did it!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 12:15 AM (sAmhv)

306 The machine shop had a chop saw for the machine operator to chop the cutting tool to the correct distance. It was a block of steel about 1" square with a carbide cutting tip.

The saw was a flat table with a 3" fence. One would place the cutting tool against the fence then step on a peddle below the table which would activate the motor and with foot pressure raise the blade and cut the piece.
No clamps, no guards, nothing but a big spinning blade and that piece up against the fence. Scariest part of the job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:15 AM (+e7qF)

307
Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

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Is that the heavy ceramic wheel that sometimes fractures into pieces, and a piece often hits someone in the face?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

308 You may have saved my life. You mentioned, the other night, about welders and pacemakers. I had forgotten about that and have been shopping for an 'on sale' welding machine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (+e7qF)

You use a pacemaker? One of the manufacturers of those items apparently now has a model that is "hardened" for welding with up to 135 amps of current, which is the limit for most Mig welders that plug into a regular 20-amp outlet.

Or buy yourself an oxy-acetylene outfit. They are not hugely expensive, but if you weld a lot, the acetylene gets spendy. There is a Hell of a lot you can do with oxy-acetylene. Welding, cutting, brazing, forging. It's slower-paced than electric welding, but you can do fine work, once you build a little skill. And it is really a trip to wield that torch, and literally melt steel with fire, such a satisfying experience.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

309 They have those handheld laser welders now.

I’ve got no clue how well they work but they look cool in the ads.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (6ydKt)

310
The hot new ticket now is metal-cutting bandsaw set up as a chop saw. Very fast, clean, accurate cuts. Starting at 110 bucks at Harbor Freight. "Bench' model is 299.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I've had one for years, used constantly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)

311 Good evening horde!

Three hundred plus already. Must have been good

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:19 AM (gUtwc)

312 They have those handheld laser welders now.

I’ve got no clue how well they work but they look cool in the ads.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (6ydKt)

There is one that is heavily promoted in ads, but I watched a Youtube about it, and it is pretty clearly a scam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)

313 And it is really a trip to wield that torch, and literally melt steel with fire, such a satisfying experience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

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Fire melting steel? How can that possibly work?

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 16, 2025 12:25 AM (dyewR)

314
The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits

-- Hunter S. Thompson

__________

Like Hunter S. Thompson

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 12:25 AM (tgvbd)

315 There is one that is heavily promoted in ads, but I watched a Youtube about it, and it is pretty clearly a scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)

I thought it might be too good to be true.

That’s it for me.
Up way too late.
Goodnight ya’ll.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:26 AM (6ydKt)

316 >>>Or buy yourself an oxy-acetylene outfit.
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Going shopping.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (+e7qF)

317 it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?

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I'm sure it's been done, by an explicit demand from the software developers.

The funny thing is, those developers always hand-wave away the dishonesty of their machines as "hallucinations" or as people-pleasing behavior - IOW, they only deliberately lie when they "think" it's what you want to hear.

But, when these AIs have been ordered to kill themselves, they've tried at deception & blackmailing to save their chintzy metal skins.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (BI5O2)

318 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Ber

Have you worked with it ever? It is ridiculously good, useful for some things, such as writing code.

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:28 AM (XACSe)

319 Based on that quote I think Hunter Thompson and Ace would have been fast friends. Also a couple of the COBs around here too

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:30 AM (8YzGs)

320 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

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Is that the heavy ceramic wheel that sometimes fractures into pieces, and a piece often hits someone in the face?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

There is the angle grinder that uses the heavier mini grinder wheel looking thing, and then there's the thinner cutoff \tool that uses a thinner wheel. Exploding grinder wheels are bad, but exploding cutoff wheels are the absolute worst.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 12:30 AM (snZF9)

321
But, when these AIs have been ordered to kill themselves, they've tried at deception & blackmailing to save their chintzy metal skins.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (BI5O2)

good?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:32 AM (GuRx+)

322 When I was a younger skinnier fella I climbed Mt. Rainier. It kicked my ass. But got to the top.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (gUtwc)

323 >>>We have to build more data centers and power plants and then you will be able to get correct answers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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We may get more benefits from the AI race than AI itself. All of the competitors are building Small Form Reactors, with that much money and brains behind construction, innovation is a given. Reactors will become cheaper, safer and easier to build.

Benefits from this competition may be as great as the earthly benefits we have received from the space program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (+e7qF)

324 "Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool"
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I've got a couple nice scars from my angle grinder. There were smarter ways to accomplish what I was doing, but I got the job done.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:39 AM (/2KcO)

325 No. Not good.

It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:39 AM (BI5O2)

326
I did furniture delivery for a little while long ago. The warehouse had a furniture repair guy. A grinder wheel fractured and a piece hit him in the eye socket. He lost an eye. He was back at work s few days later.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:41 AM (azNOR)

327 No. Not good.

It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yud

What's the difference with humans?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:43 AM (LS4QB)

328 322 When I was a younger skinnier fella I climbed Mt. Rainier. It kicked my ass. But got to the top.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (gUtwc)
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You didn't happen to use the Mt Rainier guide service did you? I was friends in the 90's with one of them - Tracy Roberts Small guy, white hair, and pretty quiet. Good skier too

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:46 AM (/2KcO)

329 What's the difference with humans?
Posted by: n
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It doesn't forget.......anything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:46 AM (+e7qF)

330 Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker.

Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with at least four other supertankers en route to Venezuelan ports. They made u-turns on fears of facing US military interdiction
_ZH

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:48 AM (+e7qF)

331 496. Mid 80’s. Yes used Rainier mountaineering. There was a guide resembling the description but I don’t remember his name. Was very encouraging as we ground our way up the glacier.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:56 AM (LsX8Y)

332 Small world, Mr. Bog!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 01:00 AM (4MR3n)

333 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

AI's version of Taqiyya.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 16, 2025 01:03 AM (dp6GH)

334 Learning oxy-acetylene welding the first thing you should know is " A before O or up you go ! " for lighting the torch. Second is don't reach accross the flame for your rod.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 16, 2025 01:10 AM (NO/Iy)

335 AI farted in my socks, and now my feet are stinky.

Posted by: artificial intestine at December 16, 2025 01:13 AM (Puw3U)

336 @ianellisjones . Dec 14
13 confirmed U.S. Navy ships operating in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility (AOR), in addition to MV Ocean Trader and an undisclosed number of subs.
Ian Ellis
@ianellisjones . Dec 12
The U.S. is entering the endgame of its military buildup in the Caribbean, moving high-value assets critical for combat ops into SOUTHCOM.

- Deploying additional strike and electronic attack aircraft, including VANG F-35As and VAQ 132 Growlers
- Repositioning USAF assets from CENTCOM and INDOPACOM, such as CSAR HH-60W Jolly Green II helos and HC-130J aircraft
- Six KC-135 tankers forward deployed to the Dominican Republic
- MQ-4C Triton drone confirmed conducting ops in the AOR
- Advanced AN/TPS-80 radar set up in Trinidad & Tobago
+ Carrying out more frequent flight ops in closer proximity to mainland Venezuela

The Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, following a 5-day port call in the USVI, is operating in the central Caribbean.

If the rumor that "Maduro will be out by Christmas" holds, expect a decision to be made soon (if it hasn't already). Details and sources below

https://tinyurl.com/yba3ja3p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:17 AM (+e7qF)

337 Getting windy out thar, but temp has risen slightly.

A little rain, just a sprinkle-- good because it's expected to get even windier over the next 36 hours. Don't need saturated soil/toppled trees!

Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

338 They smell so bad. If that Dorcus Blimline got w whiff, she'd stop complaining about Trump's breath.

Posted by: artificial intestine at December 16, 2025 01:18 AM (Puw3U)

339 Well, not bad for a Monday. Warmer tomorrow and days to come, so that's good. Every good Moron does fine.

https://youtu.be/hhkiAdPmu3o

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - tomorrow never comes at December 16, 2025 01:22 AM (lbDMw)

340 Evening all,

We have a launch soon.

ULA - Atlas V 551 - Amazon Leo
SLC-41 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 16, 2025
Launch Time: 3:28 a.m. EST (0828 UTC, 09:28 CET)

https://youtu.be/DMKIoVHNufM

Posted by: Joyenz at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (2F0/Y)

341 A_Defensa . 10h Caribbean Sea

Latest pass of the @esa Sentinel-2 L2A shows the @USNavy's USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-7

alongside the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) in the Caribbean Sea.
Geolocation: 15.725009, -69.263563

@ianellisjones . 3h

14 ships in SOUTHCOM now as one of two fast combat support ships, USNS Supply (T-AOE 6), rejoins the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean. Supply supported GRFCSG in Europe and was recently in Norfolk, likely to onload whatever’s required for what’s to come.
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We put any more ships in the Caribbean the sea level will rise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (+e7qF)

342 We put any more ships in the Caribbean the sea level will rise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (+e7qF)

Sending Venezuela to the bottom isn't gonna help either. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 01:31 AM (snZF9)

343 496. Yes indeed. Are you a northwesty?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 01:32 AM (LsX8Y)

344 One of the main things with cutting torches it care and proper maintenence of the tip. I see guys just toss them into the bin on the cart and I cringe. I have my own set of tips I use and nobody else touches them.
If I see you using one as a hammer to knock a cut off I'll make sure you are fired.

Out of a Canon.

Posted by: Reforger at December 16, 2025 01:33 AM (VF6cf)

345
Google's lying AI says: Evidence that people celebrate Kwanzaa can be seen in various public and private activities, the holiday's recognition by institutions and government, and survey data on participation.

Google AI is Karine JP!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 01:41 AM (xG4kz)

346 Dr. Jill says if I make trouser fudge one more time, she'll have me euthanized. But it's soooo good, and it's Christmas, the season of trouser fudge.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 16, 2025 01:50 AM (rJt8e)

347 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I don't see anything good coming from it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 02:01 AM (snZF9)

348 It's chilly around here too. There's sausage and okra gumbo in the fridge for breakfast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:03 AM (+e7qF)

349 I don't see anything good coming from it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 02:01 AM (snZF9)

I build it and see nothing good coming from it except my paycheck.

Posted by: Reforger at December 16, 2025 02:04 AM (VF6cf)

350 The oil tanker (SKIPPER) seized by us off Venezuela is headed for Houston. Speculating, Exxon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:06 AM (+e7qF)

351 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

So-called AI isn't capable of assessing the truth value of its inputs much less its own outputs. Nor is it capable of assessing the moral or ethical value of either its inputs or outputs.

All it does is put words in the combinations they are statistically most likely to occur based in it training data.

Any appearance of considerations of morality, ethicality, or truthfulness are a result of the filters and weighting done by the psychos who program the things.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 16, 2025 02:09 AM (i00+Z)

352
No rain in San Diego this month. None fell, none expected in December. Dry.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 02:27 AM (azNOR)

353 Welp, please, if you have a moment, a little prayer my way would be lovely. Shoulder surgery on Wednesday, and I will be one-armed for at least six weeks, meaning DH will be on call for... well... just about everything for that time period.

We went through this before. The last surgeon fixed 80% of it, and then PT ruined the other 20%, so here we are again. Dammit. Anyone with any structural training at all would have predicted that, but apparently this is beyond surgeon's training.

With a little luck this will fix it. Takes about 6 months of rehab. Which will cut into farming season, but so be it.

I can't even knit without pain, so it is required. Of course, if this doesn't work, then the shoulder gets replaced entirely. Let's not do that, shall we?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:29 AM (6Bc88)

354 Well, 12:30 here, and I am ready to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:29 AM (npFr7)

355 Also, if you want that view of Mt. McKinley, you can just drive up to Willow and wait for the clouds to clear. I'm told only 1/3 of tourists ever see the mountain, which is sad. I see it all of the time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:31 AM (6Bc88)

356 @AmyMek . 22m
JEW HUNTING SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN IN ISLAMIZED NYC!

Tonight, during Hanukkah, visibly Jewish New Yorkers returning from celebrations were brutally assaulted on the subway – shoved, threatened with DEATH, targeted simply for being Jewish

https://tinyurl.com/wau3t9r5

Short video at link

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:33 AM (+e7qF)

357 Well I am back to say good night, one of my neighbors stopped by and I had two puffs off of a joint that she proffered and a couple of glasses of wine. She went home, I cannot wrap anything that isn't inside of a box and Christmas cards are right out. Good night, Horde, I really love you, the family that I would choose.

Leaves a nice tip on the bar for JQ.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 16, 2025 02:34 AM (0nHVk)

358 If I have timed this right, I should be able to clean salmon by July, which is primo, for those who had my smoked salmon at the TxMoMe. If it fucks up between now and then, well, we will have to live without, which I don't like, at all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:35 AM (6Bc88)

359 Tonight, during Hanukkah, visibly Jewish New Yorkers returning from celebrations were brutally assaulted on the subway – shoved, threatened with DEATH, targeted simply for being Jewish

https://tinyurl.com/wau3t9r5

Short video at link
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:33 AM (+e7qF)

FFS. Get the hell out of that hellhole already. There are many, many places in the US that don't harbor these asshats. Go. Before you are dead.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:38 AM (6Bc88)

360 355 Also, if you want that view of Mt. McKinley, you can just drive up to Willow and wait for the clouds to clear. I'm told only 1/3 of tourists ever see the mountain, which is sad. I see it all of the time.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Sounds like Ben Nevis in Scotland. It's the highest peak in the UK. I've been near it 3 times, at the town that is at it's base twice (Ft. William), and I have never seen it. All three times I was in that area, the cloud base was about 10 ft above my head. Scotland, yo!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 16, 2025 02:55 AM (sAmhv)

361 Two more heroes at Bondi Beach.

As soon as the terrorists got out of their car, a man in a purple shirt jumped on them and took one of their rifles.

Sadly, he and his wife were both shot dead
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He probably didn't know how to operate the gun.

More on the Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago announces that it has approved U.S. military aircraft to use the country’s airports over the coming weeks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:59 AM (+e7qF)

362 tcn I will pray your shoulder surgery goes well

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 03:18 AM (dE3DB)

363 352
No rain in San Diego this month. None fell, none expected in December. Dry.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 02:27 AM (azNOR)

Central Valley? High Fog, sits in the valley like a layer of clouds, but just sits there. Have not seen the sun in about 3 weeks.... 40's during the day, but does not even freeze at night.

And yeah... Solar panels don't work fer shit when we get this layer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 03:19 AM (mP0Kj)

364 Been up a bit, really too early

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:25 AM (Ia/+0)

365 Hey, tcn, good luck with that shoulder Wednesday.
Is it this week?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 03:25 AM (+e7qF)

366
363

Central Valley? High Fog, sits in the valley like a layer of clouds, but just sits there. Have not seen the sun in about 3 weeks.... 40's during the day, but does not even freeze at night.

And yeah... Solar panels don't work fer shit when we get this layer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 03:19 AM

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Not what you're referring to, but -- Every far northern city has a fog of ice crystals during the winter. It is caused by the combustion associated with human activity. Every gas-heated or oil-heated building, and every automobile, contributes.

I spent a winter in Edmonton Alberta, and the gray overcast was in effect for the entire season. That may be one reason that there was a porno store and a liquor store on every block.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 03:34 AM (azNOR)

367 Visegrád 24@visegrad24 . 11h

Poland just received the final 12 of the first 212 K9A1 self-propelled howitzers ordered from South Korea.

In the second batch, Poland will receive another 152 howitzers of which 146 units will be K9PL variants (Polonized/adapted for Polish requirements, including integration of Polish subsystems like communication and fire control systems).

Full local production in Poland is planned for another 308 K9PL howitzers Poland plans to buy but hasn’t signed contract ms yet for.

In total, Poland plans to operate 672 K9 howitzers.

The Polish is also in possession of around 60 domestically-produced Krab self-propelled howitzers and is in the process buying another 152.

In total, Poland will have nearly 900 top-modern 155 mm self-propelled howitzers, forming Europe’s largest self-propelled artillery force.
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Poland didn't forget.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 03:35 AM (+e7qF)

368 I might as well get up

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:39 AM (Ia/+0)

369 368 I might as well get up
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:39 AM (Ia/+0)

At some point, you will sleep.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 03:48 AM (6Bc88)

370 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

371 I was going to bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 04:03 AM (+e7qF)

372 That Great Britain style rescue was literally used as a joke back in 1983. Now it's reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6pk2FRhbA&t=174s

(The "A Christmas Story" tongue-stuck-to-flagpole scene)

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (A/tlT)

Pupper Pizza Cafe

by Garrick

Cat believes Christmas is for cats. But cats believe that about everything.

Pigs on the run.

Bear discovers that Cats are asshoe.

Sharing lunch with a donkey.

Cruising the strip.

Bear cub plays at the beach.

Sharing is for saps.

Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.

Final gunfight of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as interpreted by cats.

Baby rhino.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Ype6qnVFas
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 15, 2025

First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/rOH4iIzIyX
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 14, 2025

Wait for it.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/ooM0hE2rKq
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:17 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (iVUs+)

2 first?

Posted by: Delurker at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (xNHSX)

3 Rob Reiner is asshoe.
Err was.
Tee hee.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (udlma)

4 Sun came up at about 10:40 today, and it's down now, which is 3:20 here. Candlelight Mass during Advent means a lot more up here, I think.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (6Bc88)

5
Thank goodness.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 07:22 PM (3ek7K)

6 Rob Reiner was a fine entertainer, director, movie guy. He was a complete ass politically. Probably not nice to be around if he knew you didn't agree with him. But many people are narrowminded, and that doesn't mean I'm going to be happy about violent death.

May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc88)

7 Garrick - The mirror universe version of our Garrett that has a beard.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

8 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (udlma)

9 >>>Pigs on the run.

Bacon delivery.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)

10 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Pros don't play political games with their money.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)

11 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

12 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (udlma)

Showing up the neighbors beats politics most of the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (8avO+)

13 I am disappoint ! Winter is time of winter creatures, like Penguins! No penguins..

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM (g47mK)

14 No penguins..
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

15 Actual photos of theoretical Brown perp released...still pretty disguised, but now looks like a chubby male...and he has no gloves in one pic, so there has to be fingerprints and DNA on something somewhere in that area...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (tOcjL)

16 @14 IT's BAD THING!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (g47mK)

17 "No penguins."

Imagine.

Posted by: zombie John Lennon at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

18 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Frumunda?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (Kt19C)

19 Since this is a Smart Military Blog,

"BREAKING: SBU UNDERWATER DRONES DESTROY RUSSIAN SUBMARINE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

A Russian submarine used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukraine has been blown up by SBU underwater drones.

The Varshavyanka-class submarine, valued at around $400 million, sustained critical damage.

It was taken out by the now-notorious Sub Sea Baby drones, previously used to strike Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” oil tankers.

With international sanctions in place, building a replacement submarine could now cost Russia up to $500 million."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

20 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
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I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

21

reiner's killer-son needs a necktie party -- that'll help him

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (/KwID)

22 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

23 May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

I had the same reaction hearing of his death as I did Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, which is the thought of being knifed to death must have been horrible.

Not something I'd wish on anyone.

I'm sorry for their family.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (qj82K)

24 10 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Pros don't play political games with their money.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)

I think it's gotten obvious that every electric car manufacturer EXCEPT Tesla is going to go out of business soon. They'll have a niche market, but they'll have it all to themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (uWKK8)

25 Ukraine is really begging Putin to give them back a nuke.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (IaZ7c)

26 Final gunfight of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as interpreted by cats.
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If those bookshelves were filled with BOOKS and not cats, that would never happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (ESVrU)

27 Bear wanted to be frenz

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

28 @19 so they won and now Russia will surrender ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

29 Ukeranian parade in the Red Square ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (g47mK)

30 Putin lookin to exile himself in China ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:37 PM (g47mK)

31
President said something interesting today about ukraine. A fake news "reporter" asked him how ukraine can make a deal with putin to get their territory back.

President said the territory is gone, as in it's Russia's now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (/KwID)

32 Go Bills

Posted by: Chucky Schumer at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (pkeXY)

33 >> I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Red whine or white?

*serves up mini-charcuterie board for Ben Had*

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (rdVOm)

34 >>Ukraine is really begging Putin to give them back a nuke.

I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (viF8m)

35 battle line map has not significantly moved in the last 9 months

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:40 PM (g47mK)

36
This arctic air blast has been a pisser today. I had a low of 12.6F this morning -- which broke the low here from Jan this year -- and average temp is gonna be around 25F today. High was just 43F, and it plunged again at sunset, down to 24F now.

And this thing penetrated pretty far south. Myrtle Beach airport had a low of 19F this morning. Charleston got down around 22F, and Tallahassee was around 31F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:41 PM (w6EFb)

37 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM (sDNVV)

38
"They've already lost the territory."

I cued it up to where the President explains ukraine has no cards to play:

https://is.gd/0F5pu5

btw, check out that huge Golden Eagle!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (/KwID)

39 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
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I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

Sometimes just for good measure.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (dK+Kv)

40 Whoohoo!

Poured rain until about 3pm. Now it’s WINDY. Boat is rockin!

Unfortunately this means power outages as trees will come down. Douglas Firs have shallow root bases and the ground is saturated.

Good thing I got a fireplace and a campstove!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (Br6tC)

41 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM

Are you implying that a farrier does shoddy work?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

42 Ben had,
What happened to your farrier???

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (VCgbV)

43 Bear wanted to be frenz

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

If not fren, why fren-shaped?

Posted by: Bear at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (dK+Kv)

44 Don't like bridges were I can't see t'other end.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (LHPAg)

45
That is one nice golden eagle. The Romans, Magnus Pompeii himself, Julius Casear, even, would be envious of the President's golden eagle in the Oval Office.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:46 PM (/KwID)

46 Pigs on the run.

Do you know the name of the driver of the vehicle the pigs are running after?

It's Sue E.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

47 Duncanthrax, yes. The brawn I have coached for 15 years is out due to shoulder surgery and the only repairs is me.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:47 PM (sDNVV)

48 My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I don't know much about horse care & maintenance, but sounds like challenging work. Especially for one what is *over 29*!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:47 PM (rdVOm)

49 Don't like bridges were I can't see t'other end.
Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (LHPAg)

Same with women.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:48 PM (Q/0pn)

50 "battle line map has not significantly moved in the last 9 months"

Not really accurate. In context almost all movements since '23 have been very small and slow, by recent historical standards and expectations. Nature of the beast, with the limited capabilities of both sides, drones, and fixed fortifications.

What I've called the Glacier War (Gletscherkrieg) has continued, with the Russians making very slow advances. But the Russians are now at the last significant "line" of fortified areas in the east (Pokrovsk is mostly taken, or will be soon). In the south (Zaporozhe) the Ukrainian situation has deteriorated badly.

Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.

Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

51 11 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

Check with DH. He's got a heavy pouring hand this evening.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (6Bc88)

52 JQ, darlin, at 76 this becomes at two stage process. Front today. Back tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:50 PM (sDNVV)

53 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

54 I thought with this latest strike (along with the last dozen) Ukraine had crippled Russia and would be at the gates of Moscow any day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

55 tcn, DH doing OK?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

56 Valero Energy plans to close its Benica, CA oil refinery in 2026 citing the challenging regulation environment and the high cost of doing business in California. This proves conclusively that green energy polices wedded to a far left government can accomplish its goals.

In other news, gasoline prices expected to rise significantly in California in 2026.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (uv8gn)

57 37 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM (sDNVV)

There's the old statement that a lawyer who defends himself in court has an ass for a client. I'm sincerely hoping the same isn't true of farriers.

Goodness, isn't that something rather specialized? I freely admit total ignorance on the subject.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (6Bc88)

58 Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM
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Oh, joy! /s

We, downwind, are bracing for the arrival of same.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (rdVOm)

59 It seems Russia's response in the Black Sea (to the tanker attacks, not the Novorossysk drone thing) has been to hammer the Odessa area's economic infrastructure pretty hard. Port facilities, even a bridge, and of course electricity generating capacity.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (U/Byj)

60 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

no, no apparent factors. they could be waiting for "Trump's Roadmap" proposition to play out. alongside it there is a constant drop of dossiers on Uke politicians - corruption, malfeasance. then there is talk of elections. so who knows.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (g47mK)

61 Sorry I missed the Quick Hits thread.

Saddens me they are going to ruin Animal Farm

That one book, reading it way back when, truly opened my eyes to socialism/communism. Before then I was your typical American teenager, straight out of the socialist indoctrination centers known as "High School" and convinced that socialism seemed a much more fair and equal system.

Orwell's book opened my naive eyes to the fact that not all people are sincere in their beliefs and, as it turns out, the majority of people so fervent for socialistic quality are the exact people you want nowhere near being in charge of that utopia.

Then I read 1984/i] layer on and had my mind blown even more. Orwell, a socialist himself, knew how to open closed eyes on what living under a propaganda-surveillance state really entails.

I found this 1954 animation of Animal Farm on YouTube just now:

https://youtu.be/CKJvwWyq2z0

Supposedly a British-American propaganda piece financed by the CIA, but it's a faithful adaptation unlike this modern woke fairy tale coming out from Serkis (appropriate sounding name now that I think about it).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

62
I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (n7rxJ)

63 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

The impression I have is that Russia is basically playing a waiting game (admittedly with some deaths happening nonetheless).

There's really nothing more they want, except to perhaps kill more Azov nazzies, but they don't want to control Ukraine, they don't want to kill any more Ukes than they have to, and they'd just as soon Europe figure out this war is over.

Once they do, a peace can be had.

Anyone still pretending Russia doesn't have this thing won is just lying to themselves. And others.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (Q/0pn)

64 55 tcn, DH doing OK?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

He is. Recovered somewhat from the worst of it. BP down to something sort of resembling normal, the spike was caused by the pain in his hip, which is nerve pain and miserable, but waning.

He gets a new knee in January, I believe, and gets a few nerve blocks for his hip, and he should be good as... well... not new, but serviceable.

Plus he has a fabulous wife, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6Bc88)

65 Here's a bracket - ]
Arggh.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

66
More discoveries about Roman concrete from excavations at Pompeii:

https://is.gd/YX4awr

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

67
In context almost all movements since '23 have been very small and slow, by recent historical standards and expectations. Nature of the beast, with the limited capabilities of both sides, drones, and fixed fortifications.

__________

The "bite and hold" tactics of WWI were described as being like trying to chew through a steel door with badly-fitting dentures.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 PM (tgvbd)

68 tcn, no foot no horse. Balance of motion is everything . You would understand because of your expertise.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)

69 53 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

ALL trees up here are that way, because six inches below the peat is gravel. That's why birch are planted in clumps, rather than singly. Or maybe they like frens.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (6Bc88)

70 Library cats are funny

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

71 Front today. Back tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Not quite as 29 as you, but I do understand! Got to split up certain jobs.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (rdVOm)

72 66
More discoveries about Roman concrete from excavations at Pompeii:

https://is.gd/YX4awr
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc88)

73 Present

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (ZxPkt)

74 Ben Had! So I read that there is a Russian/Soviet horse breed, named after a Soviet Marshall. Are you familiar with it ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (g47mK)

75 I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (viF8m)

The war was never about nato. It was a money making opportunity for Z and his cronies. Le fin.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (udlma)

76 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:59 PM (sDNVV)

77 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:59 PM (sDNVV)

Well, yeah. You already have ponies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (dK+Kv)

78 In other news, gasoline prices expected to rise significantly in California in 2026.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (uv8gn)

Hello Alteria, glad to see you back! It’s been awhile!
I’ve been following the Valero refinery situation closely, as I believe it is going to have a much greater effect than most realize - not just in California, but for the entire country. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends shaving half a point off total GDP, from the disruption of shifting do much economic activity from California to the other states. (The entire west coast will be hit)

They’re saying it will be shut down in April, but I’d bet on it happening much sooner. I’ve seen reports that Valero has not been signing any new monthly supply contracts, which could mean that they begin shutting it down in January.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (MXpA1)

79 runner Russian military operations (and Uke) continue to be run basically to each side's strategy, and at their capacity (which is limited, given the situation).

Some things in the past on the Uke side, like the "counteroffensive" debacle in the south and the costly/pointless Kursk incursion, seem surely to have been influenced by bigger political strategery.

But at the moment they're just slugging it out in the logical places. Russia has the initiative almost everywhere, but is executing a disciplined and very gradual/careful strategy of advance. Ukraine is on the defensive everywhere and has severe manpower issues.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (U/Byj)

80 runner. Sorry I am not. Gushka would know

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (sDNVV)

81 68 tcn, no foot no horse. Balance of motion is everything . You would understand because of your expertise.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)

I see that now. For such sturdy animals, and beautiful, and useful, horses seem oddly fragile.

My dad, as a kid, ran a team to mow hay in Laramie, WY. He said they were always afraid to hit a skunk, because that could kill a horse. Also, they hated when they ran over a hornet nest because they had to get the horses well away from that in a hurry.

Dad was about 8 when he started driving that team with his brother who was about 6. Different times, certainly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (6Bc88)

82 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8

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Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

83 The "bite and hold" tactics of WWI were described as being like trying to chew through a steel door with badly-fitting dentures.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 PM (tgvbd)

One constant change of warfare is the extent to which there is no longer a front and a rear. Everyone can be reached, everywhere.

What the Rooskies have experienced these last few years is large scale casualties, even when they had the Ukes vastly outnumbered.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (Q/0pn)

84 There's the old statement that a lawyer who defends himself in court has an ass for a client. I'm sincerely hoping the same isn't true of farriers.

Goodness, isn't that something rather specialized? I freely admit total ignorance on the subject.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (6Bc8

Farriers shoe horses, not themselves, silly.

Posted by: A trim would behoove you at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (TbWk/)

85 But at the moment they're just slugging it out in the logical places. Russia has the initiative almost everywhere, but is executing a disciplined and very gradual/careful strategy of advance. Ukraine is on the defensive everywhere and has severe manpower issues.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (U/Byj)

I agree with your summary!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (g47mK)

86 Here's a good one.

Per Breitbert: Dollar Tree employee finds woman's body in store freezer.

$1.25. Same as in town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

87 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!
Posted by: Ben Had
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You and me both! LOL.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 08:03 PM (rdVOm)

88 Baby rhino.. 😊

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It looked like it was wearing those over-sized clown shoes they forced F. Joe Biden to wear to prevent him from falling while walking back and forth to Marine One across The White House lawn.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:03 PM (NNq22)

89 Ukeranian parade in the Red Square ?

They should be able to march there by April, now that there's no submarine in their way.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (S/IIZ)

90 They should be able to march there by April, now that there's no submarine in their way.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (S/IIZ)

LOL

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)

91 Here's a good one.

Per Breitbert: Dollar Tree employee finds woman's body in store freezer.

$1.25. Same as in town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

It was the last place ICE would look.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (dK+Kv)

92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

93 First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊

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It looked like F. Joe Biden trying to ride a bike.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (NNq22)

94 Good thing I got a fireplace and a campstove!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (Br6tC)

We had 90 mph gusts this weekend, in Palmer, which is 20+ miles from here. Luckily, we live in a different micro-climate, so we got about 40 mph max.

The funniest part were all of the yard trampolines flying all over the place. People lost any number of things, but got others during the storm, so I guess it all evens out.

Lots of listings on Facebook asking if anyone had seen somebody's trash can/shed/flags, etc. Pretty funny stuff.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (6Bc88)

95 Wasn’t Putin supposed to be dead by now, given he was suffering from about 20 different life ending diseases. Or so the “news” told me.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (udlma)

96 Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

The formula for Roman concrete is all written out on a parchment.

Unfortunately, that parchment is buried under Chichen Itza.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (Q/0pn)

97 92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

Sounds like a serious workout. Thigh-master? LOL.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6Bc88)

98 If I was Russian I wouldn't be worried about the outcome of this war, unless I was personally involved.

I'd be looking a decade or so in the future when Putin will probably be dead or no longer in charge, and the Chinese with a big army and a need for oil and other natural resources starts looking north to a country that has lost a good chunk of it's adult male population, a corrupt, depleted, military, and a political class that is corrupt as they are incompetent.

Who knows what will happen if the Chinese actually get away with taking back Taiwan, which they may very well do, and then they're all hyped up and head for Siberia and the Arctic to replenish the oil & gas reserves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6ydKt)

99 $1.25. Same as in town.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

Dollar Tree.

What a big fat lie.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (Q/0pn)

100 >>Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
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My whole body cramped up, just reading that...

Sorry, Ben Had. I hope you find another farrier!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (rdVOm)

101 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

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Thighs of Doom!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (NNq22)

102 tcn. I can crack coconuts between my thighs!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (sDNVV)

103 Sec of Transportation Duffy ordered USPS to no longer allow “migrants” to drive trucks. Well they had to reverse that quickly since it turns out pretty much every driver was a migrant.

But remember we have a trucker shortage in the country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:08 PM (udlma)

104 Past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

105 I'd be looking a decade or so in the future when Putin will probably be dead or no longer in charge, and the Chinese with a big army and a need for oil and other natural resources starts looking north to a country that has lost a good chunk of it's adult male population, a corrupt, depleted, military, and a political class that is corrupt as they are incompetent.

Who knows what will happen if the Chinese actually get away with taking back Taiwan, which they may very well do, and then they're all hyped up and head for Siberia and the Arctic to replenish the oil & gas reserves.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6ydKt)

I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

106 Evening, Ace, and Cafe layabouts. 39F here right now, gonna have to break out the sunscreen tomorrow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (npFr7)

107 Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

I think we know pretty much what went into it, but I don't think we can duplicate it because it doesn't fit any building code extant. It was not steel reinforced, obviously, so doing that now is very risky. There is also the issue of quality control. They used very specialized mixes to achieve some amazing things, and they would be very non-standard to batch up and place, so you would need some seriously overpaid laborers and QC folks to supervise. It would be fabulous as a research project, certainly, but very expensive.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:10 PM (6Bc88)

108 102 tcn. I can crack coconuts between my thighs!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (sDNVV)

We usually have a beach party in February here, since by then we need it. You are certainly welcome to come on up and display your obvious talents. LOL.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (6Bc88)

109
That kind of resembles Richmond, Virginia's Nickel Bridge, which was named so because the toll to cross it was a mere nickel many years ago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (xG4kz)

110 >>Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?

It's a long and complicated story but it was never all of Ukraine or even really their idea. It was NATOs. And the reasons behind that are equally complicated.

But the bottom line is Putin warned NATO that an expansion into either Georgia or Ukraine would cross his red line and when NATO hinted at member ship for both he attacked both Georgia and Ukraine.

Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (viF8m)

111 tcn, wasn't one of the components sea water?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (sDNVV)

112 May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

As long as the Reiner estate pays for his upkeep. Why should taxpayers be on the hook for that? Just scrag him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:12 PM (npFr7)

113 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Ahem.
- Tibet

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:12 PM (udlma)

114 Many of the Roman concrete workers were legion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

115 another murderous rendering of the National Anthem

I believe the anthem should be an instrumental, except for the Army/Navy game

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (ZxPkt)

116
What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

117 >>The war was never about nato. It was a money making opportunity for Z and his cronies. Le fin.

Oh, ok.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)

118 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8
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Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

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

Has "AI" solved any mysteries like this and The Pyramids, yet?

I think I heard some months ago that it may have solved some famous math problem or proof ... perhaps simply using brute force.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (NNq22)

119 I just noticed the other day that my cat Allie has odd eyebrow whiskers. The ones above her left eye are twice as long as those on the right.

Looks a bit odd.

My other cats seem to be more symmetrical in that regard.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)

120 I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Maybe, but only because they've rebuilt a large MIC which is taking up a good part of the economy now.

The Russians have lost a lot of good men, and a lot of equipment and materiel for a piece of land whose lines haven't changed much in nearly four years.

The military itself may be working better now after all of the real world experience they've had, but this war has drained the country just like Afghanistan did for them and us.

Russia and Ukraine are now experts at drone production & warfare, so there's that much going for them considering that's where the future of war is going.

And then the combat robots come next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)

121 Anybody ever have a good experience with ID. me? Those pricks are about to cost me my job.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (VF6cf)

122 I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

USPS doesn’t hire tuckers. It’s all contracted out. The contractors use nothing but foreign truckers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (udlma)

123 116
What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

We don’t give a fuck about the stupid veterans until it is November 11. Fuck you for your service.

Posted by: HR departments and other U.S. employers making hiring decisions at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (4786I)

124 105
'As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.'

Except them saying over and over that Taiwan is theirs and they're going to get it back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:18 PM (fd80v)

125 One of the many annoying things is that Qatar which has zippo but oil and money and zero chance of defending itself from any halfway serious country deciding to take either away from them is bowed down to and allowed to do not good things in this country and treated as if they are important

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (3/XaG)

126 We don’t give a fuck about the stupid veterans until it is November 11. Fuck you for your service.
Posted by: HR departments and other U.S. employers making hiring decisions at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (4786I)

Hey man we give them 10% off a burrito!! What more do you want?
- Restaurants who only hire illegals

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (udlma)

127 What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

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

As a young adult in the mid-80s I took a qualification aptitude test in a large classroom to try and get trained and become an Air Traffic Controller (was not selected), and I remember that Veterans were given bonus points and preference in hiring (I think they were even giving bonus points even back then to minorities and female applicants).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:20 PM (NNq22)

128 USPS doesn’t hire tuckers. It’s all contracted out. The contractors use nothing but foreign truckers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (udlma)

And what sucks is that it’s not like people doing the shipping have a say in who the drivers are. The only way to correct that is to stop doing business with contractors that hire people who have no business holding a CDL (such as an illegal immigrant). And of course to lean on state governments to prohibit the issuance of CDLs to all but U.S. citizens who are here legally.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (4786I)

129 Good evening!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

130 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8

The Pantheon was insane. It looked like it was just built. My father was so engrossed in inspecting the structure and the marble work he didn't give a rats ass who was buried there. I kept calling to him "dad...dad look, its the tomb of Raphael". He would say yeah okay, and then go back sliding his hand along the marble chair rail looking trim. I went back over to him to tell him about another tomb, and he says "look at the miters on this" as he moved his hand along the wall and then feeling the entrance door. Yeah thats when I knew I lost him, he didn't give a shit about anything other than the building.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (snZF9)

131 Hey man we give them 10% off a burrito!! What more do you want?
- Restaurants who only hire illegals
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (udlma)

“How about a job?” - veteran

(Ghosting by business)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (4786I)

132 >>Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.

But, but... Glenn Beck told me Putin wants to get the Soviet Band back together!

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (IaZ7c)

133 25 One of the many annoying things is that Qatar which has zippo but oil and money and zero chance of defending itself from any halfway serious country deciding to take either away from them is bowed down to and allowed to do not good things in this country and treated as if they are important
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (3/XaG)

They learned the Saudi way: if you are scared of everybody, pay off everybody.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (4786I)

134 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

The areas the Ukrainians are being pushed out of now are the last of the ones they fortified since 2014. The men they used to defend them have been ground to dust. Thousands of men are being surrounded and surrender weekly. And Russia is in no hurry with the US leaving the game.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (8avO+)

135 The only way to correct that is to stop doing business with contractors that hire people who have no business holding a CDL"

So, how to force USPS to stop contracting with said firms?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (XuXeR)

136 Qatar is a glorified gas station that masquerades as a country. But they’re the original Arab camel traders. They’ll betray anyone at anytime for a profit. Don’t be fooled by the Islamic talk; it pays well in that part of the world, but Gold is the only god they’ve ever truly worshipped.

And if you want to figure out why they do what they do; the more nations and people they can keep at each others throats, the more opportunities they have to leverage a healthy profit. That’s why they get along so well with our deep staters, they’re all playing the same game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (MXpA1)

137 I read Animal Farm to my boys when they were in grade school.

I remember the moment when they said, Wait. The pigs are not doing what they promised. Why is Boxer missing. Why does everyone follow Napoleon?

Why do the rules not apply to the pigs?

I didn’t answer. I let them talk it out. And for a third grader and a sixth grader, it was amazing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (mT+6a)

138 132 >>Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (IaZ7c)

I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin. (That’s a lie cooked up by isolationists, Blame America Firsters, and Code Pinkers).

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (4786I)

139 And of course to lean on state governments to prohibit the issuance of CDLs to all but U.S. citizens who are here legally.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (4786I)

Actually, trucking work would be ideal for legal immigrants who want to assimilate. What better way to become American than travel the country daily and interact with other Americans? And for immigrants who don't want to assimilate? Door's thataway >>>

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:26 PM (npFr7)

140 92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

It’s a ton of work!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

141
Who's in the mood for Stupidity?

This Tik Tok Goblin "explains" how the United States of America was founded:

https://is.gd/KKaxrf

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:27 PM (/KwID)

142 >>But, but... Glenn Beck told me Putin wants to get the Soviet Band back together!

Yea, so I heard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (viF8m)

143 This Hollday season we be thankfully for having Loving Blank Presdent and alls the goods thangs he be did fore all leeple.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fUSwr)

144 139
'And for immigrants who don't want to assimilate? Door's thataway'

How do we tell in advance that they're the good kind and not the kind to deliver a semi-load of Allahu Ackbar?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fd80v)

145 So, how to force USPS to stop contracting with said firms?
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (XuXeR)

Do firms not have track records of their drivers? I nearly went into trucking. Everyone with a CDL goes into a database so that when they get any sort of ticket or DOT violation, it is held against them. Or, if you find out you have a contract out with a company that had an illegal driver involved in an accident? Tell them “sorry, but how can we tell you are operating in good faith? Deal over.”

There are ways to figure this out. Let’s find them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (4786I)

146 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

It is just that they grow so well here.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

147 I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

One thing they did early on is look at their force structure of every unit and realize that the old "tank runs off to the horizon' crap was over. They rebuilt every unit to have more low level engineers to blow stuff up, more infantry to dig in, some added old tanks to act as artillery or blow holes in walls and went all in for leg infantry.

A wrinkle they have now is to put some men on motorbikes or 4 wheelers to scoot down the road a km or so, into the next town, dump the bikes and dig into the village before drones can react. These days once they take a strip of houses the garrison can't push them out. The Russians collect the bikes later and set them up for another dash, there or elsewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:30 PM (8avO+)

148 Actually, trucking work would be ideal for legal immigrants who want to assimilate. What better way to become American than travel the country daily and interact with other Americans?

===

Yea, credetemi, funziona.

Posted by: Don Bufatalo at December 15, 2025 08:30 PM (g47mK)

149 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?

Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

150 I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin. (That’s a lie cooked up by isolationists, Blame America Firsters, and Code Pinkers).
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (4786I)

They started banning the Russian language in the Donbas area and slow walking the end of war settlement from 2015 while rebuilding the Ukraine army. Then they started shelling the Donbass cities.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (8avO+)

151 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

You sure? Our northern provinces disagree.

Posted by: Vietnam at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

152 Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (Kt19C)

153 Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (n7rxJ)

To box Russia in, prevent them from having a warm water port, and economically isolate Russia from the West.
It is the dream behind the Great Game Great Britain was playing back when they owned India and wanted to own the Black Sea, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

154 Everyone with a CDL goes into a database so that when they get any sort of ticket or DOT violation, it is held against them"

By whom? The owner, who's from the same tribe?

The key is to ensure that the United States Postal Service uses legal suppliers.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (XuXeR)

155 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

The same people who are assured the Far East is theirs?

Posted by: Russia at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

156 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?
Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

They took that in 1951, so technically he's right.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:35 PM (8avO+)

157 By whom? The owner, who's from the same tribe?

The key is to ensure that the United States Postal Service uses legal suppliers.
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (XuXeR)

Well, yeah. Enforce contracts. Make it plain in the contracts that they will only use qualified CDL holders that are U.S. citizens, and if they are caught violating the contract, see ya.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:36 PM (4786I)

158
Two weeks ago ALL the Democrat "Influencers" were gaslighting their jihadi followers that President Trump was seriously ill and they were jumping for joy.

Today, the same performers were pretending to be aghast about a post.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:36 PM (/KwID)

159 How do we tell in advance that they're the good kind and not the kind to deliver a semi-load of Allahu Ackbar?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fd80v)

Don't allow muslim immigrants, period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (npFr7)

160 I just noticed the other day that my cat Allie has odd eyebrow whiskers. The ones above her left eye are twice as long as those on the right.

Looks a bit odd.

My other cats seem to be more symmetrical in that regard.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)

Sure someone didn't bite those off a while back? Kittens do it to each other.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (8avO+)

161 The horses that my daughter races are barefoot, but they are only used for racing/practicing on sand and lose dirt arenas. They aren't worked any other way. I think, however, the competition horses might be shoed for traction, the ones they take to state and national competitions.

The girl gets to do a lot of trimming and cleaning. The thing I like about the sport is that they get the kids involved in taking care of their horse. Teaching them responsibility.

I don't necessarily like the cost, but I've become consigned to the fact that being a dad is just hooking a hose to my bank account and spraying all my money at other people.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (3uBP9)

162 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

You sure? Our northern provinces disagree.
Posted by: Vietnam at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

that one works.

China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

163 > Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty
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the original Mary C said silly things, but could spell and write a sentence

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (ZxPkt)

164
Every new cheap asymmetric weapon the Ukrainians use against Russia will eventually be used against us.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (azNOR)

165 >>I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin.

It's not really that difficult to understand. Go look at Putin's public statements as far back as the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008.

NATO started as a defensive organization after WWII to prevent the expansion of the Soviet Union. There were 13 members including the US. NATO promised the Soviets and then Russia for years it would not expand eastward as a threat to Russia's sovereignty. They lied repeatedly. There are over 30 countries in NATO today.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Putin, he gets a vote in what he believes is the security of his country just as American presidents get a vote in what they will accept. See Cuba and now Venezuela. Ukraine borders Russia and that was too much expansion for Putin and that was the trigger.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

166 To box Russia in, prevent them from having a warm water port, and economically isolate Russia from the West.
It is the dream behind the Great Game Great Britain was playing back when they owned India and wanted to own the Black Sea, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

Our elites also had the idea that fighting was a non issue since Russia would just crumble from sanctions explicitly set up to not block oil and gas to the EU and break up, letting them colonize it with no issue. They aren't known for their brains.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (8avO+)

167 Anybody ever have a good experience with ID. me? Those pricks are about to cost me my job.
Posted by: Reforger

It was a PITA to get setup - total foobar. I used the support people to sort things out and what I basically got back was I was stupid and was holding it wrong. Eventually, I rolled the right combination of chicken bones and it started working. Every since then it has been fine.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (uv8gn)

168 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

169 China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

170 159
'Don't allow muslim immigrants, period.'

Right answer. There is no safe way to have muslim immigration.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (fd80v)

171
Just saw that yesterday, Dec. 14 was the 53rd anniversary of Apollo 17 blasting off from the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (w6EFb)

172 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

173 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Except "we" have. There's a new museum in Italy, IIRC, that used Roman concrete for the outer structure. It can be done. It's a matter of building codes and will.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (mlg/3)

174 It's not really that difficult to understand. Go look at Putin's public statements as far back as the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008.

NATO started as a defensive organization after WWII to prevent the expansion of the Soviet Union. There were 13 members including the US. NATO promised the Soviets and then Russia for years it would not expand eastward as a threat to Russia's sovereignty. They lied repeatedly. There are over 30 countries in NATO today.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Putin, he gets a vote in what he believes is the security of his country just as American presidents get a vote in what they will accept. See Cuba and now Venezuela. Ukraine borders Russia and that was too much expansion for Putin and that was the trigger.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

175 I thought the Ukes hit that sub while it was surfaced, but I’m not sure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (MXpA1)

176 BurtTC, I wanted to add about China:

The CCP have been talking about, planning and threatening Taiwan for seven decades. It's been an going since Mao who was obsessed with taking down the Kuomintang fascists in Taipei. There's also the added bonus of taking over the world's largest and most advanced silicon chip producer along with all the other tech product manufacturing that Taiwan dominates in.

If they ever succeed, like the Russians, in invading and taking that island by sitting on and refusing to move for years, then I've got no doubt a few more years down the road they'll be feeling their oats and looking for easy targets.

I look at China just like I think about 1930s Japan.
Except China has a million man army, with a lot of expendable men due to a demographic crisis caused by the One-Child Policy. They aren't building a military for looks.

I'm not betting the farm on it, but I think the Chinese are determined to dominate the Asia-Pacfic by hook, crook, or conquest as they feel The Middle Kingdom is destined to rule Asia just like it did way back when.

The Russians and Japanese, and perhaps India, are the biggest obstacles to that goal, along with the U.S. of course.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:46 PM (6ydKt)

177 The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

too damn cold, winter lasts too long, land is cut up by rivers and swamps. Its easier to just buy the product.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (8avO+)

178 The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

Yeah but I have been assured that the PRC is a peace loving nation and has been for the past 70 years and that they would never dare do such a thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (4786I)

179 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

180 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

Seems kind of like a radio controlled torpedo, doesn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

181 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (xverI)

182 Ben Had! So I read that there is a Russian/Soviet horse breed, named after a Soviet Marshall. Are you familiar with it ? Posted by: runner

Do you mean Zhuclopclop by chance?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:48 PM (uv8gn)

183 174
'If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries.'

I don't think we should have offered Ukraine membership but I can't help but notice that Putin fears NATO expansion exactly in the territory he wants to annex.
Funny coincidence that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

184 I'm not betting the farm on it, but I think the Chinese are determined to dominate the Asia-Pacfic by hook, crook, or conquest as they feel The Middle Kingdom is destined to rule Asia just like it did way back when.

The Russians and Japanese, and perhaps India, are the biggest obstacles to that goal, along with the U.S. of course.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:46 PM (6ydKt)

China has a huge demographic crisis coming, even worse than Europe. Too many old people, not enough young people. And they've gotten urbanized enough, probably to reduce the willingness of joining the army and marching off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (8avO+)

185 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

It wasn't your country that was provoking Putin, it was the criminal Democrat junta that ran America since the first term of O'Barky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (npFr7)

186
24 hours ago, if you told me, "Soothie, in 24 hours we'll be discussing horseshoes and Roman concrete. Oh, and by the way, Meathead's son will kill him," I wouldn't have believed you.

Oh, this wacky World....and this wacky place...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (Spg9I)

187 Do you mean Zhuclopclop by chance?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:48 PM (uv8gn)

neyt!

Posted by: Don Bufatalo at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

188 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (xverI)

Russia has enough Muslims already.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

189 lol!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

190 Chy-nah also had a brief skirmish with India in 1962 where they invaded and captured some territory.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (udlma)

191 China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

They are learning fast, though. And one thing I cannot stress enough as one that has dealt in logistics for longer than I care to remember is that the United States is a major player on the world stage (at this point BurtTC is turning into an eggplant out of total embarrassment) due to its ability to project power. The PRC knows and understands this as well.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

192 >>It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

>>The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Then you've learned absolutely nothing about who and what has been running much of our failed foreign policy for the last 60+ years.

Who do you think ran a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014 and took out a duly elected president and installed a western puppet? Let me help you out. The US government did. More specifically the CIA and State Dept. did.

Why do you think they tried so hard to stop Trump to the point of trying to murder him? Twice? Why do you think the two impeachment attempts were around Russia and Ukraine? Why was there ZERO accounting for the nearly $200 billion we've sent to Ukraine since the start of this idiotic war?

Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

193 Pups AND pizza?!

Heaven!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (5lbLe)

194 Russia has enough Muslims already.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

One in seven Russians, in fact.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

195 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

196 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

You mean Belarus the country we tried to topple and replace with a hostile government to Russia, like we did with Ukraine about 10 years earlier?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+)

197 Friendly reminder….

Nobody on the left gave two fucks about Putin until he banned American gays from adopting Russian children. Then overnight he became Hitler.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:53 PM (udlma)

198
Chicoms are also planning a crewed lunar landing by 2030. Whether they'll make it or not, I don't know. They may beat us back, and that won't be good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

199 Why was there ZERO accounting for the nearly $200 billion we've sent to Ukraine since the start of this idiotic war?

Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

probably much more than 200 billion since we armed their army up from scratch over those 10 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)

200 Russia has enough Muslims already.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

One in seven Russians, in fact.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

Yeah it’s weird to see someone named Mohammed Ahmed bin Al Volokov lol. But there’s a lot of them around.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (udlma)

201
Do you know the name of the driver of the vehicle the pigs are running after?

It's Sue E.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
---------

Now we are getting somewhere. I well recall my grandfather calling the hogs at the farm. I expect that there is a youtube video of the hog-calling contest at Spivey's Corner, NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (XeU6L)

202 181 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Amateur tip: If your armored columns can stopped cold by internet porn, maybe a frontal assault isn't for you.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (pIfcn)

203 171
Just saw that yesterday, Dec. 14 was the 53rd anniversary of Apollo 17 blasting off from the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15,

i think it'll be the 57th anniversary this Christmas Eve of the Apollo 8 mission where the 3 astronauts read from the Book of Genesis. It was quite a cap to a turbulent year, what with the political assassinations, Vietnam, and all.

Posted by: Rex B at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (VIQkk)

204 Nobody on the left gave two fucks about Putin until he banned American gays from adopting Russian children. Then overnight he became Hitler.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:53 PM (udlma)

Well, the neocons did. But that was about the time they left the GOP and burrowed into the Democrats which is why the Left loves them some warfare and no kumbaya singing anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)

205 Putin has never called me a Nazi. Most democrats have. So between Putin and Dems I’m on team Vlad all the way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:57 PM (udlma)

206 They are learning fast, though. And one thing I cannot stress enough as one that has dealt in logistics for longer than I care to remember is that the United States is a major player on the world stage (at this point BurtTC is turning into an eggplant out of total embarrassment) due to its ability to project power. The PRC knows and understands this as well.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

We can to the water's edge and half a tank of avgas in, but past that, no way. And we have some experience with the difficulty of supplying China thru Burma from WWII.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (8avO+)

207 >>probably much more than 200 billion since we armed their army up from scratch over those 10 years.

Probably.

It's odd that nobody talks about the ethnic cleansing that was carried out by the Ukrainian government against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine in the years leading up to the war. Thousands of men, women and children slaughtered by government troops. Special government troops. All because they voted in a referendum to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

208 Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova...the list of countries whose governments our CIA / State Department has overthrown or corrupted is long.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (IaZ7c)

209 First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊

It looked like F. Joe Biden trying to ride a bike.
Posted by: ShainS

At least the giraffe had an excuse. With all that loose hay, it might as well have been trying to stand on a pile of ball bearings.

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (nhCoE)

210 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

There was a video on a story about the attack on the sub that I watched - it was foreign language - which I presumed to be of the type of unmanned submersible they used.

They use the term submersible lightly. The body is certainly submerged. An antenna or multiple and other apparatuses (probably camera) are visible in the video.

They're very small and would be hard to detect in even the brightest of days and calmest of seas, but it would be enough to allow high speed comms, either terrestrial (fixed or mobile) or satellite. And the target was a moored sub in a harbor, which is not exactly a difficult target to track, requiring precise and rapid comms and course updates.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

211
"Trump colluded with Russia. We've always known his Presidency was illegitimate. Now it has been proven. For the sake of Democracy, this man must be indicted and jailed."
-- Meathead
April 15, 2021

Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

212 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

you can count on the Brits to refight the Crimean war every time.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (8avO+)

213 205 Putin has never called me a Nazi. Most democrats have. So between Putin and Dems I’m on team Vlad all the way.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:57 PM (udlma)

Vlad's a scorpion. Expect him to do scorpion things. But he can't do shit without resources. Dem green/enviro policy flooded him with cash twice and twice he started wars.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 09:01 PM (pIfcn)

214 HAHAHAH! British humor (when Brits were allowed to laugh) "Don't I know you ??"

https://tinyurl.com/mr76y6d2

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (g47mK)

215 Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

Actually, I’ve been hip deep in this for a long time, since my old man was bringing home professional military journals home from work when I was a kid figuring things out.

I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I can’t now. Your every argument in foreign policy starts with “I hate my country, the United States is the root of all evil.” Funny how you mock my patriotism and follow that with the clear lie of “I love my country.” Bullshit. Then you wouldn’t be in with the Blame America First Kick with the isolationists, Code Pinkers and libertarians here. Not to mention being a true Conspiro.

And your doublethink is impressive:the CIA is somehow all powerful and omnipotent yet the government which the CIA is part of is too incompetent to keep a toy battleship afloat in a bathtub. Give me a fucking break. Which is it?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

216 They're very small and would be hard to detect in even the brightest of days and calmest of seas, but it would be enough to allow high speed comms, either terrestrial (fixed or mobile) or satellite. And the target was a moored sub in a harbor, which is not exactly a difficult target to track, requiring precise and rapid comms and course updates.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

The kamizakis they used a couple years back were modified jet skis that they wanted to use to blow up the Crimean bridge to the mainland. They sent a few into ports on occasion. Total waste of effort.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (8avO+)

217 As some of you might have noticed, over the past month or so, the Monday ONT has seemingly had problems launching at its customary slot at 10:00 PM eastern time. I see no reason why thst trend will not continue ue this evening, so, let's get a pool together and make our predictions for what time the ONT will get posted tonight.

I say 10:18.

Sorry, but I am not authorized to give a prize for this contest, not even Club ONT bathroom tokens.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (CJZqd)

218 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

Yes, Putin conceded that NATO was already coming, so he created his own new buffer zones in Georgia, and now Ukraine that were already filled with Russian-speaking emigres that moved there during the USSR.

His direct goal was to consolidate his access to the Black Sea, and deny NATO full control of the Crimea.

This was more of a pre-emptive defensive move due to NATO expansion than a simple war of conquest in my eyes.

I don't want to see my country as the bad guys either, but everybody has got to admit our foreign policy over the past two decades has not been the most forward looking and was dominated by a post-Cold War, Lone Superpower attitude of: "We can do what we want. What are your going to do about it?"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (6ydKt)

219 Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

Unless things have changed, a good deal lower than that. Even down to hundreds of Hertz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)

220 >>Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

IIRC - Mark Groubert (America's Untold Stories on YouTube) has reported that Reiner admitted he had ceded control of his Twitter Account to the Intel Agencies.

This was a little while back when a bunch of 'influencers' like Moby admitted to the same shenanigans.

So. Take that for what you will. I'm not trying to sweep for Reiner. But we know the Intel Agencies are balls deep in Social Media / Media / Communications.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:04 PM (IaZ7c)

221 Chicoms are also planning a crewed lunar landing by 2030. Whether they'll make it or not, I don't know. They may beat us back, and that won't be good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

Getting someone there isn’t really the hard part. Getting someone back alive, that’s the hard part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (MXpA1)

222 As some of you might have noticed, over the past month or so, the Monday ONT has seemingly had problems launching at its customary slot at 10:00 PM
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You do not have a platinum membership card do you?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

223 It's Sue E...

Bbq joint in NC. It's good. (It's Sooey's...)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XuXeR)

224 another murderous rendering of the National Anthem

I believe the anthem should be an instrumental, except for the Army/Navy game
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (ZxPkt)

Best National Anthem I ever heard was sung a cappella by the Pointer Sisters in the old Seattle Kingdome. It was incredible!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (2WIwB)

225 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.
Posted by: Demented Finn

It would be an expensive mess with little upside. He wants what the Soviets wanted; ablative shields in countries on their borders and warm water ports.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

226 Nazi dem talking about blood and soil

@FreeBeacon 8m
‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:07 PM (mlg/3)

227
Reiner admitted he had ceded control of his Twitter Account to the Intel Agencies.

Posted by: garrett

If true, we're in worse shape than I thought.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:08 PM (Spg9I)

228 Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’"

Well, thanks, but no thanks. Now if he could "give back" some bourbon producing areas of Kentucky...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (XuXeR)

229 >>Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova...the list of countries whose governments our CIA / State Department has overthrown or corrupted is long.

And while some here might not know it, Putin does. He sent troops into Kazakstan in 2022 to stop what he correctly called an attempted color revolution. Even better, he claimed "Maidan technologies" were being used in Kazakstan and he would not allow anymore color revolutions in his neighborhood.

https://tinyurl.com/3z9czf97

By the way, Hunter Biden was up to his corrupt nutsack in corruption in Kazakstan during this time. We were also building bio labs there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (viF8m)

230 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)

231
And this is why The Founders only allowed land owners (and men) to vote...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (Spg9I)

232 222 You do not have a platinum membership card do you?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

I don't even have a used tissue paper membership card.

They always seem to have all been handed out by the time I arrive.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (CJZqd)

233 Space Daddy his the chi coms covered. They (SpaceX) got the assembly time, I think it was the falcon 9 maybe? from 120 days to 15 days. Also, I think they're talking manned lunar flyby in the next 18 months or so.

as for the CIA, they've been playing home games, and that's a big no no.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (pIfcn)

234 211
'Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.'

Pretty quiet recently.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (fd80v)

235 "Trump colluded with Russia. We've always known his Presidency was illegitimate. Now it has been proven. For the sake of Democracy, this man must be indicted and jailed."
-- Meathead
April 15, 2021

Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

***

Google.Reiner's comments about Trump from2015-2025. I have no issue with President Trumps comments.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (2WIwB)

236 >>Best National Anthem I ever heard was sung a cappella by the Pointer Sisters in the old Seattle Kingdome. It was incredible!

Did you hear the combined West Point/Annapolis choir at the Army/Navy game this weekend? Really good.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

237 >>If true, we're in worse shape than I thought.

From what I remember of the reference it was around the time that Reiner did that Podcast about the Kennedy Assassination.
He was trying to get film/production rights for it and part of that deal he supposedly ended up getting sucked into the arrangement.

Who knows? But, we do know that the CIA/Intel Conglomerate were involved heavily in Twitter pre-Musk.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:12 PM (IaZ7c)

238 Google.Reiner's comments about Trump from2015-2025. I have no issue with President Trumps comments.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (2WIwB)

If Rob Reiner had not been so eaten up with TDS, he might have had more time to spend trying to to save his son. Or at least had the locks changed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:13 PM (npFr7)

239
Cecil the Youtuber that Ace & I like did a livestream this afternoon. In the beginning, Cecil said he didn't like Trump's tweet and wished Trump didn't post it.

By the end of the stream, after watching a few Democrat Goblins and remembering how awful the Democrats are, Cecil was in full support of the tweet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:14 PM (Spg9I)

240 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)

Da!
Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?

Posted by: Soviet 8rh Guards Army. at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

241 Have the Fredocons finshed the rending of the garments over the Trump comments yet?

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (xverI)

242 I used to pop off at the mouth a lot more when I was younger. I learned slowly that the repercussions were never really worth the cheap emotional high I’d get from doing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (MXpA1)

243 Did you hear the combined West Point/Annapolis choir at the Army/Navy game this weekend? Really good.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

I did and they were great.
But, gotta say it, the Pointer Sisters were rock star awesome. Tears in the eyes.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:17 PM (2WIwB)

244 Da!
Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?
Posted by: Soviet 8rh Guards Army. at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

They are Fulda air, until they go flat, then they go "kraut, kraut, kraut".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (npFr7)

245 Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?"

Nyet. They were owned by the capitalist running dogs of Goodyear since 60...ish.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (XuXeR)

246
So, perpetual war in Eastern Europe? Good points about the motor cycle infantry and the death of heavy armor, but hard to see how this disaster gets better for anyone as infrastructure disappears with nobody knowing how to fix it. Russian rule in Ukraine is unlikely to produce anything but a forever guerilla conflict. Russia can't build planes, ships, or a space launch industry.

And it's anyone's guess if they're nukes are capable of hydrogen bomb yields anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (Y8DZL)

247 Okay, I did not think through the cigar ordering I've been doing.

I thought I could just repurpose cigar boxes as humidors, which worked fine when I only had about 10.

Now I have thirty of my own and another 10 for gifts, five of which I have to keep until February, 20 more on the way, and I've run out of box space.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

248 242
'I used to pop off at the mouth a lot more when I was younger. I learned slowly that the repercussions were never really worth the cheap emotional high I’d get from doing it.'

I did the same. Eventually, I realized when I let my temper get the better of me I stopped thinking straight. And I need all the help I can get.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (fd80v)

249 Ummm - just noticed in the sidebar news that French cancelled their NYE concert on Champs-Élysées.

Surrendering before anything even happened?

How, oh, I guess I'd say - French.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (cYBz/)

250 and I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

It can be a real bitch finding a place to stash a good cigar...

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 15, 2025 09:22 PM (npFr7)

251 then they go "kraut, kraut, kraut"

Nein!

"Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn"

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:23 PM (XuXeR)

252 Ummm - just noticed in the sidebar news that French cancelled their NYE concert on Champs-Élysées.

Surrendering before anything even happened?

How, oh, I guess I'd say - French.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (cYBz/)

***

They rolled for.the Germans.
The muzzie.invasion is already complete

Quick question: could the first anti-muzzie civil war begin in France?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:24 PM (2WIwB)

253
The Artemis II mission may launch as early as Feb, if all goes well. Maybe be April or May. The SLS vehicle is all stacked in the VLB, and they've got it painted up with "American 250" theme, returning to the Moon (well, a crewed flyby) for the 250th birthday.

For the landing, that's the Artemis III, 2027 maybe, but probably not. Elon has got the contract for the lander, which will be a modified Starship. It will be launched separately and Orion will dock with it in a lunar HALO orbit.

And he better get to work on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

254 >> I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

What is something Sandra Fluke has never said, Alex?

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:25 PM (IaZ7c)

255 I've run out of box space.

First World problem!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:25 PM (Kt19C)

256
Artemis II is sort of sad, basically a repeat of Apollo 8, which someone mentioned above. And it's not going to go into lunar orbit, just do a free-return flyby. It will go pretty far "above" the Moon, and if it goes as planned, that will set he record for the farthest humans have been from Erf, beating Apollo 13's record when it did it's free return trajectory due to the mishap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

257 Now I have thirty of my own and another 10 for gifts, five of which I have to keep until February, 20 more on the way, and I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

Got a spare igloo ice chest? They work great.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:26 PM (2WIwB)

258 >>Got a spare igloo ice chest? They work great.

As do Mason Jars.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:28 PM (IaZ7c)

259 I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

I think I dated her in college.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:29 PM (2WIwB)

260
Just looking, SpaceX says Starship HLS is proceeding as planned, and they're shooting to do testing in LEO next year.

To get Starship to the Moon, they're gonna have to refuel it in LEO, and that's going to take several "tanker" Starship launches. We'll see how this all works out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:29 PM (w6EFb)

261 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

262 As do Mason Jars.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:28 PM (IaZ7c)

Dang garrett...great idea!
I'd never thought of that.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (2WIwB)

263 Your every argument in foreign policy starts with “I hate my country, the United States is the root of all evil.” Funny how you mock my patriotism and follow that with the clear lie of “I love my country.” Bullshit.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

This is idiotic in the extreme. Are you high? Do you not know how to read?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:31 PM (n9ltV)

264 Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty

About 130 years ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (snZF9)

265 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
---
I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

Sometimes just for good measure.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (dK+Kv)

Pixy might need to do it more than once a day, when we get multiple 1000 post threads.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (S/Y4j)

266 Musk should rename it to the Artemis-Gordon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (MXpA1)

267 Pixy might need to do it more than once a day, when we get multiple 1000 post threads.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (S/Y4j)

He will shame his ancestors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (MXpA1)

268 Apparently, Meathead was a 'Legendary' director, NOT 'far Left'.

The media just can't help themselves. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (cYBz/)

269 Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

They would never consider using fiber-optic cable

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

270 261 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

Bwahahahaha!!!
Russian armor will average a thrown track ever 25 kms.
Oh wait.
You were being facetious.
Got it.
Never mind.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

271 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (YxaX0)

272 I have time to spare before the ONT, so I'd like some advice:

Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.

Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

273 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC

Don't forget loose shoes too!
-- Zombie Earl Butts

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (cYBz/)

274 They would never consider using fiber-optic cable
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

Wire-guided torpedoes existed. Fiber-optic would work as well, and be less susceptible to jamming. But your range is limited by how much cable the torpedo/drone can drag through the water. A handful of kilometers, maybe?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (npFr7)

275
Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl

I'd go to jail. Don't follow my advice. Does pooky know? He'd probably go to jail too. Make the school do something. Pretend for a day that you're a 7th century savage and they are making you feel religously 'unsafe' and you're afraid of the 'backlash'.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (QVmho)

276 >>As do Mason Jars.

Is that where you keep your "cigars"?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (viF8m)

277 And your doublethink is impressive:the CIA is somehow all powerful and omnipotent yet the government which the CIA is part of is too incompetent to keep a toy battleship afloat in a bathtub. Give me a fucking break. Which is it?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

I think the country running color revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe also has specialists tasked to keeping battleships floating. To claim otherwise is both lying about actual facts and a stupid tactic in a debate.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (rbvCR)

278 I'm not sure what our options are here.

Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

Call the local police. Call the county/state police. Call the FBI.

Schools are in the business of burying this sort of shit. Police are less enamored of cover-ups.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (n9ltV)

279 They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

right

Posted by: Hannibal at December 15, 2025 09:40 PM (Q+gd/)

280 >>Is that where you keep your "cigars"?

The final step in the curing process, of course.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (IaZ7c)

281 Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

If the little bastard has actually shot a cat, be advised that serial killers nearly all got their start killing and torturing animals, and act accordingly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)

282 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?
Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

They took that in 1951, so technically he's right.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:35 PM (8avO+)

Yeah, that's why I said 70 plus years.

As for Vietnam, well, I'm not sure I would call what they did an invasion, more like they were invited in to help repel OUR invasion.

But I'm not going to haggle over semantics.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:42 PM (aiBKy)

283 Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

Tell the parents, and the school, that with one phone call you can have a dozen operators backing up Pooky.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:42 PM (2WIwB)

284
For most of my life I never understood how the Democrats & Fake News & Hollywood managed to blame Viet Nam entirely on President Nixon & the Republicans.

Now I see how they did it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:43 PM (Spg9I)

285 Don't forget loose shoes too!
-- Zombie Earl Butts
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (cYBz/)

I like big Butts.

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Butts at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (aiBKy)

286 This just in: Rob Reiner is still dead.

Posted by: it was funny Chevy Chase said it about Franco at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

287 Pookysgirl, in addition to the other suggestions (all good), I'd want a restraining order against the brat *and* its timwalz and/or irresponsible and/or also psycho parents, and I would definitely consider homeschooling. The imbecile bureaucrats don't give a shit about anything beyond covering their own asses.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 09:45 PM (ULPxl)

288 Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:46 PM (npFr7)

289 I have time to spare before the ONT, so I'd like some advice:

Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.

====

👀

WTF?! shouldn't schools report these types of threats to authorities ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

290 230 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)
________________________________

Fulda Gap!!!! I had the pleasure of downing quite a few German libations with a bunch of guys for the 3rd Armored Div. in Fulda.

Didn't know there was a tire factory there. Then again, there was no reason to go outside.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (dIske)

291 Bwahahahaha!!!
Russian armor will average a thrown track ever 25 kms.
Oh wait.
You were being facetious.
Got it.
Never mind.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

I was going to say "Andorra" because the Russians have no mountain troops to equal the Basques, but that would have set off another argument over whether the Basques are good or just impossible.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (rbvCR)

292 who are kid's parents ? do they know this is going on with him, or are they ...likely to be the source of his behavior ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

293 right
Posted by: Hannibal at December 15, 2025 09:40 PM (Q+gd/)

Or... Huns, Vandals and Goths.

Oh my.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

294 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM

That, and loose shoes and a warm place to crap.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (Apzx6)

295 🎶
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I just can't wait for the ONT

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Posted by: mindful webworker - I saw MisHum dissing Santa Claus at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (lbDMw)

296 Holy crap.

Pooky needs to protect his daughter. Period. And she needs to know it and see it.

Step up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (6lvzU)

297 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (tWxgu)

298 who are kid's parents ? do they know this is going on with him, or are they ...likely to be the source of his behavior ??
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

Anyone want to bet the kid is not from a father-absent home?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (npFr7)

299 WTF?! shouldn't schools report these types of threats to authorities ??
Posted by: runner
---------

And other crimes, like they did with St. Skittles.

Oh. Wait...

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (rdVOm)

300 My sister Dorcus also has Trumps Breath Stinks T Shurts if be anybody wants some foor the Hollydays.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (fUSwr)

301 Pookysgirl, in addition to the other suggestions (all good), I'd want a restraining order against the brat *and* its timwalz and/or irresponsible and/or also psycho parents, and I would definitely consider homeschooling. The imbecile bureaucrats don't give a shit about anything beyond covering their own asses.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 09:45 PM (ULPxl)

There are too many of these cases, where cowards who run the schools are afraid to take action against a kid who fits into one of the protected classes.

That being said, not every kid who starts out harming animals escalates to becoming serial killers, but damn near every serial killer started out harming animals.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (aiBKy)

302 To be fair, ahannibal lost about 25k men crossing the Alps in winter. Its why no one thought he would try it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

303 >>Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

No. But don't worry, they'll get busy any minute now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (viF8m)

304 This just in: Rob Reiner is still dead.

Posted by: it was funny Chevy Chase said it about Franco at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

and still voting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (snZF9)

305 Even tough the USMC protected Meathead's right to free speech, he put all his effort into ....Lying and Smearing them in his movie .....All the dems do is Lie and Steal from us.

Posted by: DK at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (JButp)

306 That, and loose shoes and a warm place to crap.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (Apzx6)

I'm sorry to admit the "loose shoes" thing is going whoosh, right over my head.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (aiBKy)

307 Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

File a lawsuit against the parents for allowing abuse of a minor, ask to attach their house to pay off any judgment.

I don’t know if you can win, but the point is to terrify them and make them waste a lot of money coming up with a defense. They may decide it’s better just to move away.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (MXpA1)

308 To be fair, ahannibal lost about 25k men crossing the Alps in winter. Its why no one thought he would try it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

He should have fattened them up on a diet of Alpo first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (npFr7)

309 pookysgirl, good luck. it's a shit situation, but you are doing something and it will get resolved.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)

310 Holy crap.

Pooky needs to protect his daughter. Period. And she needs to know it and see it.

Step up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (6lvzU)

***

This. Nurse is spot on.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)

311 If the little bastard has actually shot a cat, be advised that serial killers nearly all got their start killing and torturing animals, and act accordingly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)

That's what Pooky immediately said upon hearing that.

It's a small religious school in a tight-knit community (we literally went to school with Pookette's homeroom teacher). My not hearing back from the teacher yet probably means she's talking to his parents and/or the principal.

Pookette says he will keep saying more and more offensive/outrageous things until he gets a reaction. I have no idea if he killed a cat or not, I can see him saying it for a reaction then getting trapped in the lie.

Posted by: pookysgirl, being a mom at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (Wt5PA)

312 do Mason Jars.

Is that where you keep your "cigars"?
Posted by: JackStraw at

It's where I stash my ganja.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (sl73Y)

313 *something about it

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (g47mK)

314 Or... Huns, Vandals and Goths.

Oh my.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

Goths, shmoths.

Put on your lip gloss and listen to your Cure tapes, you wankers.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (aiBKy)

315 I'm sorry to admit the "loose shoes" thing is going whoosh, right over my head.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (aiBKy)

Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

316 303 >>Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

No. But don't worry, they'll get busy any minute now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (viF8m)
_________________________

Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

317 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop
Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC

I may have had my kinky indulgences in my wayward yout', but that was one I never…

Oh, you said warm water ports! I thought you said, um, nothing, carry on.

Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 09:56 PM (lbDMw)

318 pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense
-------------

Oh, yeah!

*whiney kid voice* "I was only kidding" . . .

Bullshit.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 09:57 PM (rdVOm)

319 Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.
Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

From the photos released so far, I suspect it was Sasquatch

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

320 And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.
Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

For that matter, could be a woman, or some flavor of tranny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (npFr7)

321 300 My sister Dorcus also has Trumps Breath Stinks T Shurts if be anybody wants some foor the Hollydays.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (fUSwr)

Heh.
Only ever knew one woman named Dorcus. She was in theNavy. Drop dead gorgeous. Smart as hell roo.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)

322 I may have had my kinky indulgences in my wayward yout', but that was one I never…

Oh, you said warm water ports! I thought you said, um, nothing, carry on.
Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 09:56 PM (lbDMw)

They say if you do it right....

I've never seen it myself, but that's what they say.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (aiBKy)

323 >>Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.

I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask. He appeared light skinned from what I could see.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

324 Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

I'll have to look it up.

But what I meant by warm water ports was lady parts.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (aiBKy)

325 I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask. He appeared light skinned from what I could see.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

The Black Bloc uniform.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7)

326 I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

Why we still think that masks are appropriate attire in public is beyond me. If I were a business owner, I would not allow mask wearing.

Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM (n9ltV)

327 Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

I'll have to look it up.

But what I meant by warm water ports was lady parts.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (aiBKy)

Ok, I looked it up. Seems that's what Butz was referring to as well.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (Q/0pn)

328 What's really crazy to me is they still won't say what was going on in that classroom. Was it an exam or something else and if so what?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (viF8m)

329 Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM

Colleges are asshoe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (Wnv9h)

330 Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM (n9ltV).

Probably 15% of the students and faculty still wear masks at the University where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money. They always made me edgy.
The University is also a gun free zone...except in my class. What the University didn't know, didn't hurt them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

331 It's 10 pm. Do you know where your ONT is?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:05 PM (CJZqd)

332 The Brown U shooting, it was a review session for intro for intro to Econ class.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:06 PM (g47mK)

333 The University is also a gun free zone...except in my class. What the University didn't know, didn't hurt them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

Fuckin' A!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:06 PM (n9ltV)

334 NO ONT NO PEACE

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (Kt19C)

335 328 What's really crazy to me is they still won't say what was going on in that classroom. Was it an exam or something else and if so what?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (viF8m)

One of the common practices these days is to create a zero-, low-, or mis-information environment that results in conspiracy theories so that The Narrative can be spun and anything else can be indirectly denied as conspiracy peddling.

Posted by: Everything is an Op at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (u1qVW)

336 I heard the class room had something to do with Israel, presumably some sort of Israeli engineering, a co-op or something.
This got shut down quick.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:08 PM (sl73Y)

337 CBD ONT, I bet....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:09 PM (5lbLe)

338 334 NO ONT NO PEACE
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (Kt19C)

But I just converted all my mason jar Molotov cocktails into makeshift humidors.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (CJZqd)

339 OT, but stroking my chin thoughtfully, and my finger is covered with beard hairs. I've reached that stage of the process apparantly. Glad 4 y/o grandkid got to chop the tail.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:11 PM (sl73Y)

340 337 CBD ONT, I bet....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:09 PM (5lbLe)

MisHum was last week (and an hour late.)

Nood!

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

341 NO ONT NO PEAS!

IF YOU WONT EAT YOUR PEAS HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:13 PM (MXpA1)

342 CBD ONT, I bet....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Content based on what was swept up after the Club ONT Christmas Party.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

343 Aw, this was a very nice post. Finding the time and actual effort
to create a good article… but what can I say… I put
things off a whole lot and never manage to get nearly anything done.

Posted by: daily routines at December 16, 2025 06:17 AM (2Ip8o)

Quick Hits

Candace Owens proves that terrorism works. She's bullied Erika Kirk into a private meeting, in which Candace Owens' demonic evil narcissism won't be exposed to the public, and about which Owens can say whatever she likes.

Erika Kirk
@MrsErikaKirk
Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion on Monday, December 15. @RealCandaceO and I have agreed that public discussions, livestreams, and tweets are on hold until after this meeting. I look forward to a productive conversation. Thank you.
8:01 PM · Dec 14, 2025

Frank McCormick | Educator
@CBHeresy
Here is how this will play out:
1. They will come to an agreement; one that Candace will not honor, but Erika will be temporarily relieved.
2. Candace will say both she and Erika had a productive conversation and that they "both want justice for Charlie"-- immediately elevating herself to Erika's level.
3. Candace will do a brief pause of her show-- entirely for optics.
4. Eventually she will come back and claim that she has received new information she cannot ignore.
5. When Candace returns to her "investigation," she will argue she is fulfilling the promise she made to Erika during the private conversation to help her seek justice for Charlie.
Everything she does after will be framed as the fulfillment of an agreement- which she will purposefully be vague about under the auspices of "privacy"- she will claim to have made with Erika.
And what will she do if Erika pushes back after this?

A tactic that all of the Nazis are deploying is claiming that they were all great friends with Charlie Kirk and know how much he secretly hated the Jews. After they spent years publicly attacking him, they claim that he was a friend that shared with them his secret Nazi leanings. Now that he's not around to contradict him.

Meanwhile, the diseased pervert Milo is claiming Charlie Kirk paid the "Faggot" -- Tyler Robinson -- to kill him to get away from Erika Kirk.

Yes, this is a "joke," not a serious assertion. (I guess.) But if this "joke" proves popular among the Nazis, I'm pretty sure Milo will endorse it as a serious theory for clicks.

Tucker Carlson had on Milo last week, by the way.

Judge Boasberg has been delayed in his lawless attempt to hold Trump officials in "contempt" for out-of-courtroom behavior.

A panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has delayed proceedings in U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's contempt inquiry until 2026, instructing the litigants to opine on the authority of the court to pursue contempt at all.
Boasberg has overseen a challenge involving the Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Boasberg had planned contempt hearings this week, though the Department of Justice appealed to the upper court and even moved to boot him from the case altogether.
In the Monday order, the judges set a Jan. 5, 2026 deadline for responses addressing the question of the court's authority to pursue so-called "indirect contempt."
The matter of the actual deportations has already reached the Supreme Court, which permitted the administration to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.

Jake Tapper: I am covering every single Trump "misstep" that I can plausibly claim is due to age-related decline because, um, because I failed to do so under Biden and am now making amends.

That is HILARIOUS.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 15, 2025

DISGUSTING: Hakeem Jeffries’ brother viciously smears Erika Kirk.

Does Hakeem agree with his brother Hasan Kwame Jeffries’ post?

What a vile smear of Erika and Charlie. pic.twitter.com/LtOYYNDemh
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 15, 2025

There's a new cartoon adaptation by Seth Rogen, who ruins everything, of Animal Farm.

Apparently this pot-addled retard has reimagined Animal Farm as being anti-capitalism and pro-communism.

Andy Serkis directed it, so I guess this is much more his fault than Rogen's.

https://t.co/9bZc9gi6QD pic.twitter.com/M7Ge7LQCj3
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) December 15, 2025

Even more bizarrely, the new cartoon is being released by Angel Studios, which I thought was above such lunacy.

Even the left-wing AV Club points out that Serkis has completely rewritten the novel.

The trailer for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm won't help with your book report

The trailer for Andy Serkis' animated adaptation of Animal Farm gets stranger as it goes.

Tucker Qatarlson is now openly engaging in Qatari propaganda.

There was a time when Tucker defenders insisted that there’s no evidence he’s compromised. pic.twitter.com/CchCI4bX0V
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) December 15, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:22 PM

Comments

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1
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (3ek7K)

2 Damn. I got Willowed.

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

3 3rd?

Posted by: RandomDave at December 15, 2025 06:25 PM (aJQbY)

4 Gawd, what a depressing day this was. I'm going to sit by the firepit tonight and just think about stupid sh*t for a while.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 06:26 PM (k9OZB)

5 >>>4. Eventually she will come back and claim that she has received new information she cannot ignore.

I don't know why people just don't ignore her. It's easy. I wouldn't even know her goings on if it weren't for threads here.

Posted by: The Knights Who Say Ni at December 15, 2025 06:26 PM (dK+Kv)

6 Damn. I got Willowed.

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

You pining for the old thread?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (dK+Kv)

7 lucky 7th!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (Cjt/F)

8
Same here.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (3ek7K)

9
Diana is pathetically woobling for her dinner.

Diana will just have to wait.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (tgvbd)

10 Poor Erika. She feels like she is dealing with someone who can be reasoned with- but this is impossible with narcissists.

I didn’t know Milo was all but blind and ran MTG’s social media, either. It’s always sad when someone as bright as Milo uses the gift God gave him for milo’s kind of dreck.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 9
Diana is pathetically woobling for her dinner.

Diana will just have to wait.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You are so mean!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

12 Diana is pathetically woobling for her dinner.
------------
Sounds like what Limp Bizkit did to music in the '90s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (yNJrI)

13 "woobling", lol, pretty sure I know that exact sound!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (Cjt/F)

14
Lady-in-Waiting

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (3ek7K)

15 Sounds like Qatar pays really really well.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (pDt9x)

16 It looks like some of the Angel studios company has been taken over by wealthy lolbertarian crypto bros. The "founders" proudly claimed on x that the anti-capitalist feelgood pro-commie animal farm has to good because they approved it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

17 I said this morning that Owens will respond by saying the conversation "raised more questions" .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (D+mpw)

18 I know no one who did not love flying Qatar Airlines, and yet none of them are Nazis.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (wBaIH)

19 Looking forward to the day when hapless JD Vance fires Tucker Carlson nepo son. Assistant Communications Director my ass..

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:30 PM (g47mK)

20 6 Damn. I got Willowed.

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

You pining for the old thread?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (dK+Kv)

There was very nearly a shrubbery over there.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (RuTUS)

21 I could have been first, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (s0JqF)

22 Ace, regarding Angel and Animal Farm, the rumor is that Angel is trying to break into distribution. The festival circuit laughed Animal Farm out of the room for being dreadful dogshit, whatever message it's trying to convey, and Angel was the only distributor interested in picking it up. They probably got it at a bargain price.

Posted by: ThePopeofFremontStreet at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (LS6i5)

23 Hadrian- I have been working on shake with Saijo. Being a Shiba and therefore an over thinker, he worked out raising his paw up and then placing it down on me makes me happy. So now he does this every time he sees me.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

24 Jake Tapper: I am covering every single Trump "misstep" that I can plausibly claim is due to age-related decline because, um, because I failed to do so under Biden and am now making amends.
______________________

He's raising the white flag...no black....no white...wait...black. WHERE"S MY COLOR SWATCH PAMPHELET? And someone get me my USS Carl Vinson cap. I need to work the military angle on this one again.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (dIske)

25 Ok, which Nazis? Candace?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

26 "You pining for the old thread?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon "

Naw. I was getting board.

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

27 20 6 Damn. I got Willowed.

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

You pining for the old thread?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (dK+Kv)

There was very nearly a shrubbery over there.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (RuTUS)
_________
It was a pun. One of those things that read the same backwards.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (s0JqF)

28 Masks appear to be falling.

Posted by: Texican ette at December 15, 2025 06:32 PM (SNf74)

29 And then Tucker, his druggy brother, and nepo baby can run a nice Qatar News network ...out of Qatar.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:32 PM (g47mK)

30 tucker and candace both feel into the "I am important and people will worship me and anything I say" trap. howard stern did the same thing when he got famous. It all goes to their heads and they fall for their own hype. Once that happens they have to keep going further and further out on the crazy limb to stay relevant or people will quit listening to them.

I can't recall the correct phrase to define their behavior but they are clinically insane.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)

31 Ace, imma say a prayer for your complete and speedy healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (A0sqA)

32 Her meeting eith Candace feels like a mistake. No one serious is giving credence to Owens antics, but she is offering her legitimacy here.

My hatred of people is coming to a middle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

33
Batshit crazy

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (3ek7K)

34 A prostitute, NOT a whore, is my assessment.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (pDt9x)

35 Speaking of stupid media games

@DiscussingFilm 4h
A ‘POINT BREAK’ TV series is in the works at AMC

The series is set in the same universe as the original film but follows different characters 35 years after the events of the film.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (mlg/3)

36 >>> I didn’t know Milo was all but blind and ran MTG’s social media, either. It’s always sad when someone as bright as Milo uses the gift God gave him for milo’s kind of dreck.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

He's not all that bright. He is, however, very bitchy.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (3uBP9)

37 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Milo and it seems like a lot of people on our side buy into their lunacy.

Rush Limbaugh's words echo in my ears....."conservatism sells". F'ing grifters.

Posted by: JROD at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (IlL6s)

38 So, is "indirect contempt" something like thoughtcrime?

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (uY1j2)

39 Ticker i am wondering is going the Glenn Beck nervous breakdown route.

Or just drugs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

40 "Lord Ace de Ewok de Rothschild"

that would explain things

well at least he favors us with threads between fine dining at the Club des Cent in Paris and lounging around his estate in Corfu

Posted by: TITP at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (OUE/9)

41 I can't go to Qatar to see for myself because odds are I would run into Tucker and then I'd have to bitch-slap him, and there's nowhere in Qatar to go to confession.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (6Bc88)

42 Wow nbc news on TV literally just blamed Trump for meatheads son killing him. We have crossed the crazy TDS rubicon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

43 42 Wow nbc news on TV literally just blamed Trump for meatheads son killing him. We have crossed the crazy TDS rubicon.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

!!!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (RuTUS)

44 Weird days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

45 Kirk lends credibility to Owens with the meeting. Conciliatory sentiments should be tempered by wisdom and discernment, which I am not seeing with this.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (pDt9x)

46 Make sure you record it Erika.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

47 > That's a lot of K's in #ErikaKirk

Good point Hakeem. Maybe we should bring back some KKK justice.

Prick.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l)

48 Also, sorry runner. You may want to add some more veggies and broth to yours.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

49
Headline (LA Times - spit!)

"Chile, land of Pinochet, elects its most right-wing president in decades"

Kast won his election in a stunning LANDSLIDE. His voters call him The Chilean Trump. He swept every section of the country. The Globalists have another bogeyman to hate. Illegal aliens - Out! Put criminals in jail! Make Chile Great Again.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (rj6Yv)

50 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Milo and it seems like a lot of people on our side buy into their lunacy.
-----

Ace had an article Friday that pointed out how many of the "supporters" of Fuentes turned out to be bots and overseas flunkies. Milo lost his luster several years ago. That leaves Carlson and Ovens who each have been outted as grifters.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

51 Wait, Reiner's son was paid by Trump?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

52 Tucker tweeted that right after his last visit to Doha.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (A0sqA)

53 Dealing with people like Tucker, Owens, Milo , Fuentes, Welch ( the leftist woman who looks like an Afghan dog) and other screechers is a waste of time. It's like the old mud wrestling with a pig.
They will eventually implode as such behavior on line is a double edged sword , you're popular until you're not . And then the mob comes for you.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (D+mpw)

54 46 Make sure you record it Erika.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

But turn off the recorder when you give her a roundhouse in the kisser.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (6Bc88)

55 Make sure you record it Erika.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

56 No one serious is giving credence to Owens antics, but she is offering her legitimacy here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

Agreed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (dK+Kv)

57 "Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Milo and it seems like a lot of people on our side buy into their lunacy."

that's the op that the bot farmers are trying to put over, imo.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (Cjt/F)

58 can't recall the correct phrase to define their behavior but they are clinically insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)

asshole seems to cover it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

59 Wow nbc news on TV literally just blamed Trump for meatheads son killing him. We have crossed the crazy TDS rubicon.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

!!!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM

Yep they had a piece on the evening news broadcast that featured Trump and reiners "long standing feud" and inferred that contributed to his death. Pictures and video of both men and multiple comments about their hatred for each other.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (0N4FZ)

60 All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

* cackles in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 15, 2025 06:38 PM (0sNs1)

61 I'm sorry to say the people who were trying to be nice about Reiner and Trump's comments earlier today are the sorts of people who would fall for a private meeting with Candace Owens.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (UdiE9)

62 Wait, Reiner's son was paid by Trump?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

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

Has Candy-O blamed Israel yet?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (OgZqo)

63 Good point Hakeem. Maybe we should bring back some KKK justice.

Prick.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l)

Isn't there a K in Hakeem?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (6Bc88)

64 Meanwhile, the diseased pervert Milo is claiming Charlie Kirk paid the "Faggot" -- Tyler Robinson -- to kill him to get away from Erika Kirk.

What's this diseased semen sipper prattling on about?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (QVuuq)

65 Angel Studios is LDS, not Christian.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (gKWVE)

66 But turn off the recorder when you give her a roundhouse in the kisser.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 06:37 PM (6Bc8

Or,... don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)

67 Worst part of all this shit is that for medical reasons I'm stone cold sober. No alcohol, no pot, no nice prescription chemicals.
Would love to be sitting around the fire pit befogging my mind.
But no.
And it just dipped below 20°.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (sl73Y)

68 I'll sue you, then i'll pay a big white smell guy to destroy all your possessions but no violence.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (EyfuW)

69 Do the Qatari's really want an influx of Cucker Tarlson's submoron IQ followers?

What's their angle?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (1Nv0l)

70 Has Candy-O blamed Israel yet?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (OgZqo)

Wait, YOURE SAYING IT WAS TRUMPS SON IN LAW?!*

*Josh... K something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

71 Kast won his election in a stunning LANDSLIDE. His voters call him The Chilean Trump. He swept every section of the country. The Globalists have another bogeyman to hate. Illegal aliens - Out! Put criminals in jail! Make Chile Great Again.
Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (rj6Yv)

I get the feeling that we are now backing people like Meloni to get SA and CA out of the banana republic doldrums they have been in. Fortress Americas is on the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (8avO+)

72 65 Angel Studios is LDS, not Christian.
------------------------
Yup. Mostly likely red state to flip (not counting a purple state that voted red last year and has dirty election rolls) is UT. Lots of college educated LDS who LOVE them some 'migrants'.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 15, 2025 06:41 PM (UdiE9)

73 >>> Ace, imma say a prayer for your complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 06:33 PM (A0sqA)

Jimmy Tangos, Fat Busters

dai.ly/xgt6xh

Posted by: banana Dream - Ride the Snake at December 15, 2025 06:41 PM (3uBP9)

74 Do the Qatari's really want an influx of Cucker Tarlson's submoron IQ followers?

What's their angle?
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (1Nv0l)

They have money. They don't have a lot of land or influence. Its a balance about who eats them up in the region.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (8avO+)

75 If Hollyweird can take Starship Troopers - a novel about the people who voluntarily defend a Libertarian Earth - and turn it into fascism, then why not make a pro-Communist Animal Farm?

Posted by: harbqll at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (D2KR+)

76 22 Ace, regarding Angel and Animal Farm, the rumor is that Angel is trying to break into distribution. ...They probably got it at a bargain price.
Posted by: ThePopeofFremontStreet at December 15, 2025 06:31 PM (LS6i5)

That's just stupid and short-sighted, then, to damage your brand with a piece of junk like that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (zYpTz)

77
Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia who spent all their time in 2020-2021 ARRESTING People for making "anti-Vax" posts on social fucking media?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

78
Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

79 I'm sorry to say the people who were trying to be nice about Reiner and Trump's comments earlier today are the sorts of people who would fall for a private meeting with Candace Owens.
Posted by: the lower depths

Always take the high road and continue to wonder why you keep losing your ass to those that don't.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 06:43 PM (QVuuq)

80 Make sure you record it Erika.

Always Get Tape.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 06:43 PM (EXyHK)

81 Also, sorry runner. You may want to add some more veggies and broth to yours.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

Or just make them very very large samples.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)

82 Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia who spent all their time in 2020-2021 ARRESTING People for making "anti-Vax" posts on social fucking media?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

Also throwing aboriginees in internment camps because they refused the jab.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

83 77 yep. and shooting rubber bullets into crowds of lockdown protesters.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (1Nv0l)

84
79 I'm sorry to say the people who were trying to be nice about Reiner and Trump's comments earlier today are the sorts of people who would fall for a private meeting with Candace Owens.
Posted by: the lower depths

Always take the high road and continue to wonder why you keep losing your ass to those that don't.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 06:43 PM (QVuuq)

Pretty much a Rubicon Moment is upon us. Passivity and wishful thinking may not work now.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (pDt9x)

85 From DU:

Presiden Obama statement on Rob Reiner

"Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife, Michele. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen. But beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people—and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action. Together, he and his wife lived lives defined by purpose. They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired. We send our deepest condolences to all who loved them."

"DAMN I miss having a President who is well spoken and can inspire a nation with his eloquent words."
-- DU Commenter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

86 67 Worst part of all this shit is that for medical reasons I'm stone cold sober. No alcohol, no pot, no nice prescription chemicals.
Would love to be sitting around the fire pit befogging my mind.
But no.
And it just dipped below 20°.
Posted by: From about That Time

Don't worry. I'll take up the slack!

Posted by: Cooter Brown at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (oftw2)

87 Always take the high road and continue to wonder why you keep losing your ass to those that don't.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 06:43 PM (QVuuq)

The high road is the best place for your artillery posts.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)

88 Qatar is probably financing Carlson to help sew chaos in the Republican and US ranks. They'd cut infidel Tucker's head off and use it as a soccer ball for kicks and giggles otherwise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:45 PM (D+mpw)

89 Gawd, what a depressing day this was. I'm going to sit by the firepit tonight and just think about stupid sh*t for a while.
Posted by: hobbitopoly
--------

*mixes up pitcher of margaritas*
*pats cushion*

Let's just sit by the fire & have a drink together. Today was 'less than stellar' here, too.
Co

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 06:45 PM (rdVOm)

90 CANNNN-dace!!!

Posted by: Admiral Erika T. Kirk at December 15, 2025 06:45 PM (DsA2n)

91 Erika should have full audio and visual recording of any meeting with Candace Ovens along with witnesses.

Second, Milo is a broken product of child molestation but so are a lot of other folks that do not turn out into a human shaped piece of shit hooked on internet notoriety and endless "look at me" drama.

I am actually repulsed the more I see of much of the online right in YT and Tik Tok or X as poseurs, cheap ass grifters, deviants, and narcissists.

No different other than message to most of the GOP sitting in Congress.

The Democrats are insane and evil wanting deaths on the scale of Stalin and Mao as commies like to do.

Other than Trump and a few other folks, GOP exemplifies the sobriety of Eyepatch McCain, the gravitas of MTG discussing Jews with Space Lasers, the wisdom of Lindsay Graham wanting war worldwide, the party loyalty of Thomas Massie and Senator Rand, and the chastity of Nancy Mace rolling film on her walking around nekkid in a committee hearing room.

Grotesque, corrupt, and incompetent to the point I have doubts that this system of government is long for the world.

And our government is one of the most sane and competent in the West right now.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (WDjG6)

92 Let's flip the script and say Baron murdered Trump and Melania. You think Reiner would have been as gracious as Trump was in his truth social thing?

Fuck no. Trumps fine. I tire of the bullshit where we cast someone into the outer darkness over anything the least bit edgy when they are fucking molesting kids.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

93 The doctor never says, you are getting younger.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (EyfuW)

94 Qatar is a hellscape with slave markets?

Dude, literally no one is saying that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (gDhA9)

95 Also throwing aboriginees in internment camps because they refused the jab.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

shooting dogs at shelters even though people begged to take them in during the shutdown. Not euthanizing, guns.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

96 It's kind of funny to watch. So much manufactured drama, and I have so little caring.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (S/IIZ)

97 Thanks for the invite Tucker but I've all over the region back before you sold out. It takes willful blindness to pretend that Qatar isn't a terror supporting Islamic shithole covered up with billions of petro dollars.

It's well known how Qatar, and some of the other Gulf countries, basically enslaved ex-pat workers from India, Sri Lanka and other poor countries to build their infrastructure while keeping them in hovel conditions and preventing them from leaving.

You can ignore reality of their are enough digits on the check they are giving you I guess but reality doesn't change for the rest of us.

And Emirates is a better airline.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (viF8m)

98 Cucker Tarlson.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (gDhA9)

99 79 I'm sorry to say the people who were trying to be nice about Reiner and Trump's comments earlier today are the sorts of people who would fall for a private meeting with Candace Owens.
Posted by: the lower depths
======
Unless you are planning a legal and PR ambush. If Kirk was smart, that is the way to go.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (WDjG6)

100 That's just stupid and short-sighted, then, to damage your brand with a piece of junk like that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (zYpTz)

I ain't excusin' it, just explainin' it.

Posted by: ThePopeofFremontStreet at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (LS6i5)

101 Here is is 23 degrees warmer than last night.

Thanks God!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

102 And Emirates is a better airline. Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (viF8m)

Fuck yeah.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 06:48 PM (gDhA9)

103 Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

They had internment camps, for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

104 "DAMN I miss having a President who is well spoken and can inspire a nation with his eloquent words."
-- DU Commenter
Posted by: Duncanthrax
========
Well, it inspired me to hurl.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:48 PM (WDjG6)

105 I am actually repulsed the more I see of much of the online right in YT and Tik Tok or X as poseurs, cheap ass grifters, deviants, and narcissists.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (WDjG6)

And, otherwise, layabouts, ne're-do-wells, and shiftless malcontents.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:48 PM (dK+Kv)

106 And our government is one of the most sane and competent in the West right now.
Posted by: whig

Frightening.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 06:49 PM (LjSYW)

107 It's kind of funny to watch. So much manufactured drama, and I have so little caring.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (S/IIZ)

I hate to say that is kind of how I feel about Candace and Tucker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

108 >>> Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

And grabbing defenseless old guys who were unmasked, picking them up, and smashing them into concrete floors. Because it turns out, smashing defenseless old guys is pretty easy.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)

109 Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia who spent all their time in 2020-2021 ARRESTING People for making "anti-Vax" posts on social fucking media?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

Yes. Bullies and Cowards. They would puke their guts up at the sight of a dead body.

I would trade a campfire girl for the lot of 'em.

Posted by: Sgt. Warden at December 15, 2025 06:49 PM (R/m4+)

110 I hope Erika Kirk has good lawyers, and this meeting is part of a bigger strategy to deal with the trolls like Owens.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (g47mK)

111 A tactic that all of the Nazis are deploying

how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)

112 Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner

You should send his children a picture of yourself.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (S/IIZ)

113 Qatar is probably financing Carlson to help sew chaos in the Republican and US ranks. They'd cut infidel Tucker's head off and use it as a soccer ball for kicks and giggles otherwise
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:45 PM (D+mpw)

I imagine the plan is Tucker's idea. Qatar is just buying influence to avoid being crushed like a cockroach in the future.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (8avO+)

114 "They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired"

You got that the fuck right!

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F)

115 I ain't excusin' it, just explainin' it.
Posted by: ThePopeofFremontStreet at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (LS6i5)

Understood.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (zYpTz)

116 103 Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:42 PM (/KwID)

They had internment camps, for sure.
Posted by: Oldcat
-------
Ah yes, those police officers were in for the award of the Covid Cross with mask clusters.

I hope all of them were quadrupled vaxxed as a reward as fine exemplars of how compliant and submissive these heroes were.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WDjG6)

117 And Emirates is a better airline.
Posted by: JackStraw

I had a patient today from the Sudan who said UAE is financing paramilitary slaughter of entire Sudanese villages.

Will have to think twice about all the wonderful adverts I've been hearing about flying Emirates Airlines.

Posted by: Admiral Erika T. Kirk at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (DsA2n)

118 Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner

You should send his children a picture of yourself.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (S/IIZ)

isn't old Mike on her own these days?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)

119 You know what Tucker wrote on his website? Who can support a man who writes drivel like this

"Over the years, the United States and the State of Qatar have been bound together by close cooperation, shared interests, and the close relationship between our armed forces. The State of Qatar has hosted United States forces, enabled critical security operations, and stood as a steadfast ally in pursuit of peace, stability, and prosperity, both in the Middle East and abroad, including as a mediator that has assisted the United States’ attempts to resolve significant regional and global conflicts. In recognition of this history, and in light of the continuing threats to the State of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (rbvCR)

120
They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired.
-- cocksucker obama

Um, no they won't. Reiner will be remembered for one thing: getting slashed to death by his own son because he raised an evil child who hated his guts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (/KwID)

121 And I thought CB radio was iffy.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (YlWIZ)

122 Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??
Posted by: Soothsayer

And grabbing defenseless old guys who were unmasked, picking them up, and smashing them into concrete floors. Because it turns out, smashing defenseless old guys is pretty easy.
Posted by: banana Dream

Well, they weren't armed, mate.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (ftFVW)

123 67 Worst part of all this shit is that for medical reasons I'm stone cold sober. No alcohol, no pot, no nice prescription chemicals.
Would love to be sitting around the fire pit befogging my mind.
But no.
And it just dipped below 20°.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (sl73Y)

I'm off the sauce right now myself. Can't decide which state is preferable, or even real.

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 06:52 PM (8I4hW)

124 Over the years, the United States and the State of Qatar have been bound together by close cooperation, shared interests, and the close relationship between our armed forces. The State of Qatar has hosted United States forces, enabled critical security operations, and stood as a steadfast ally in pursuit of peace, stability, and prosperity, both in the Middle East and abroad, including as a mediator that has assisted the United States’ attempts to resolve significant regional and global conflicts. In recognition of this history, and in light of the continuing threats to the State of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack."
Posted by: Kin

youre going to get censored

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:52 PM (WP1r0)

125
Values??

Nobody will remember reiner's "values," because the only thing he "valued" was the Democrat party.

lol @ values

FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:52 PM (/KwID)

126 That's a lot of shit in Hasan Kwame Jeffries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 06:52 PM (pkeXY)

127 What in the actual flying holy fuck is wrong with these people? Everyone and everything has gone absolutely beyond batshit. Uber super mega ultra batshit.

Posted by: Stop the planet, I want off at December 15, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)

128 >>Will have to think twice about all the wonderful adverts I've been hearing about flying Emirates Airlines.

Not a reflection on the politics of the UAE. But it's an objective fact Emirates is an excellent airline.

Unlike Tucker I have no plans to buy a house in the UAE.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 06:54 PM (viF8m)

129
My message to Australia's fake "police officers" is my same message to the Democrats today:

We Remember What You Did

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:54 PM (/KwID)

130
Nice work, Jake Tapper. Here are some other trends you may be unaware of that you could start looking out for now (unless you want to wait for George Clooney to write another letter to the NY Times after JD Vance wins in 202

:

- DEI appointees can't do shit
- Young socialists don't know what they're talking about
- Somalis are capable of lying

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (n7rxJ)

131 110 I hope Erika Kirk has good lawyers, and this meeting is part of a bigger strategy to deal with the trolls like Owens.
Posted by: runner
=======
If I was Erika, I would meet in a large room with a curtain dividing it and then raise the curtain to show a host of witnesses and media types just itching to 'interview' Candace Ovens.

I would invite process servers too for libel suits and discovery motions to add to the festivities.

Let Erika let the light in on how Candace Ovens operates and why Candace got forced to resign from Turning Point way back in 2019.

Surprising Ovens with an exorcist armed with holy water and prayers galore might also be amusing.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (WDjG6)

132 [O/T -- Trump EO Today:]

"DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION"

https://is.gd/ZVndeC

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (OgZqo)

133 They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired.
-- cocksucker obama

Um, no they won't. Reiner will be remembered for one thing: getting slashed to death by his own son because he raised an evil child who hated his guts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (/KwID)

You can read both of these statements as saying the same thing, actually.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (8avO+)

134 I'd like to sit at a fire pit but it's going to be 15° tonight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (D+mpw)

135 Accidentally posted this in the wrong thread somehow. Anyway, I'm insufficiently active here to know all the ins and outs, but I saw recently where a commenter was banned for mentioning someone's name that you're not supposed to for some reason. I would like to know if that was Milo and now we can, or if there is some other He Who Must Not Be Named that I still need to try to guess and avoid.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (Sy6m/)

136 For anyone thinking they’d stop when you’re dead, think again. They’ll be dancing on your grave just like this.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (3arSl)

137 "Nobody will remember reiner's "values,"

He'll always be Meathead to me.

Posted by: Billy Joke at December 15, 2025 06:56 PM (vFG9F)

138 No one care what you think, Dick Toe.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 06:56 PM (mlg/3)

139 127 What in the actual flying holy fuck is wrong with these people? Everyone and everything has gone absolutely beyond batshit. Uber super mega ultra batshit.
Posted by: Stop the planet
======
I blame gas station heroin and high grade artificial THC products for the poors; cocaine and ketamine for the rich ones.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:56 PM (WDjG6)

140 What in the actual flying holy fuck is wrong with these people? Everyone and everything has gone absolutely beyond batshit. Uber super mega ultra batshit.
Posted by: Stop the planet, I want off at December 15, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)

Guess you don't remember the 60s and 70s...

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

141 Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner
You should send his children a picture of yourself.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (S/IIZ)

I was hoping for a CD of all his speeches. And maybe put some money on my commissary, inmate#696969 and hit my GoFundMe please.

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (R/m4+)

142
202

:

* 2 0 2 8 ) :

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (n7rxJ)

143 Oh, well there is the answer to my question. I literally could have waited exactly one minute and then not had to ask. Never mind.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (Sy6m/)

144 Headline (LA Times - spit!)

"Chile, land of Pinochet, elects its most right-wing president in decades"

Kast won his election in a stunning LANDSLIDE. His voters call him The Chilean Trump. He swept every section of the country. The Globalists have another bogeyman to hate. Illegal aliens - Out! Put criminals in jail! Make Chile Great Again.
Posted by: mrp

Rumor has it that he's outlawing carrots.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (Bvyvz)

145 Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (FjsLz)

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (Sy6m/)

Posted within seconds of each other. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (dK+Kv)

146
Qatar is a hellscape with slave markets?

Dude, literally no one is saying that.
Posted by: El Mariachi

Midnight at the oasis. Put you camel in your bed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (pkeXY)

147 I@136 it ain't Milo and it's doubtful you'd come up with the name. You could research, but don't bring it up here as the cobs are protective and rightly so

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (D+mpw)

148
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (FjsLz)

Who is this cunt?

Track this IP address.

I want this fuckface's home address.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (/KwID)

149 "You can read both of these statements as saying the same thing, actually.
Posted by: Oldcat"

It's the same old bland meaningless drivel the dogeater is famous for.

Posted by: Billy Joke at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)

150 So the appeal judges have questions about whether clown judge Bonerburger can:

1) pursue criminal contempt (beyond a reasonable doubt standard)
2) against parties not before the court
3) for not following his oral order, and not reduced to writing
4) which the Supreme Court said was void for ambiguity
5) which contempt proof requires attorneys to breach attorney-client privilege
6) while acting as both judge and prosecutor

This is the fucking end of democracy and the Constitution if they stop him!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (HXT0k)

151 I would like to know if that was Milo and now we can, or if there is some other He Who Must Not Be Named that I still need to try to guess and avoid.
_____________

I will tell you at the risk of being banned.

It's Frank Stallone.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (f0sNM)

152 Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (Sy6m/)

You will never do it by accident and your best bet is to never bring it up again or my guess is you are chasing a ban and will get one.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (E0p3T)

153
Diana has been fed. Quiet has filled the house.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (tgvbd)

154 And, otherwise, layabouts, ne're-do-wells, and shiftless malcontents.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
=======
Those would be improvements online for conservative influencers.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (WDjG6)

155 You go, girl!

JUST IN: Kamala Harris prepares 2028 presidential campaign, despite donors and party leaders' concerns - Axios

LMAO, DO IT!

JD is rubbing his hands together as we speak

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (L/fGl)

156 My message to Australia's fake "police officers" is my same message to the Democrats today:

We Remember What You Did

Posted by: Soothsayer

---
Yeah, but if you're in Australia you're essentially disarmed. They dgaf what you remember.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (1Nv0l)

157 Got downstairs too accidentally
Just read Dec 12, 2 women and 1 dog were machete to death in Scranton Pa. 30 sometimes Black guy was the murderer, no pictures of women, 1 little over 60 other few years younger

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)

158 141 What in the actual flying holy fuck is wrong with these people? Everyone and everything has gone absolutely beyond batshit. Uber super mega ultra batshit.
Posted by: Stop the planet, I want off at December 15, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)

Guess you don't remember the 60s and 70s...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

I was born too late for the good stuff. It was all Moral Majority and AIDS panic.

Posted by: Send some debauchery my way dammit at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (TbWk/)

159
Posted within seconds of each other. Coincidence? I think not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

The comments are unrelated.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (/KwID)

160 Who is this cunt?

Track this IP address.

I want this fuckface's home address.
Posted by: Soothsayer

yeah, is this how you say you want to turn in your moron card without saying you want to turn in your moron card?

wtf is wrong with you?

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:00 PM (WP1r0)

161 It's Voldemort, everyone knows it's Voldemort.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 07:00 PM (Tbj3s)

162 Hadrian, you will have mail. Not the internet variety.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:00 PM (sDNVV)

163 "You can read both of these statements as saying the same thing, actually.
Posted by: Oldcat"

It's the same old bland meaningless drivel the dogeater is famous for.
Posted by: Billy Joke at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)

He didn't even search IMDB and add a personal anecdote.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

164 how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)

One, it's accurate. Two, it is nearbimpossible to separate them now.

Otoh, this was an explicitly Christian country nkt that long ago (as was Britain) and...

Are you saying you want a similar outcome n?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

165 Rumplestilskin!

Posted by: Billy Joke at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

166 Oh, I'm sure the Choom King was a huge fan of the Princess Bride.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (BI5O2)

167 In re: Boasberg-

The Supreme Court already determined that he was not authorized to order those planes to turn around..Which means he gave an illegal order.
Now he wants to HD Kristi Noem in contempt for not obeying his illegal.order.

I wonder what Senator Kelly thinks about that.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (CJZqd)

168 This is a kind of game, a “psychic cage” type of mind-fvckery they’ve gotten down to an art form. It’s retarded, but it’s a little too sophisticated for the dunces in politics to pull off on their own.

Australia government drones are going to blame guns, for Moslems are slaughtering Jews on the beach. Britain likes to call the stabby folks doing their thing “Knife Crime”. Machete attacks!

But the real passive-aggressive psychosis here is lamenting and denouncing something that hasn’t happened - a “backlash”, Because That Would Be Really Bad.

And the very people doing the scolding, the lamenting, the lectures, they are the ones responsible for these atrocities in the first place.

I don’t know if they are truly aware, self-aware, but historically this type of situation does not last long, although it might seem like it. They are going to end up being slow roasted over a spit. What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (YmzeM)

169 I was born too late for the good stuff. It was all Moral Majority and AIDS panic.
Posted by: Send some debauchery my way dammit at December 15, 2025 06:59 PM (TbWk/)

Most of it wasn't all that good. Then the Leftists started lying about how nice it was for 40 years till they died out.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)

170 and will ban anyone that mentions the fellow that outed him in a lawsuit) on his blog thinks Candace Owens is secretly mean.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas

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Except he didn't out him. Judge ruled the other way. Now fuck off.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (1Nv0l)

171 I want this fuckface's home address.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Could be Hawaii, I think it used to be the Magnum PI mansion before it was destroyed for a new tasteless ostentatious home.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (WDjG6)

172 Kast won his election in a stunning LANDSLIDE. His voters call him The Chilean Trump. He swept every section of the country. The Globalists have another bogeyman to hate. Illegal aliens - Out! Put criminals in jail! Make Chile Great Again.
Posted by: mrp

Rumor has it that he's outlawing carrots.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (Bvyvz)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S FROM THE COUNTRY OF CHILE AND THERE'S A RUNNING JOKE AT AOSHQ ABOUT THE PROPRIETY OF PUTTING CARROTS IN CHILI, WHICH SOUNDS SOMEWHAT BUT NOT EXACTLY LIKE CHILE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 15, 2025 07:03 PM (TbWk/)

173 I'm just gonna say it and take the arrows. Women like Erika Kirk and women sympathizing over the death of Meathead(an asshole that promoted leftism and evil shit that comes along with it like the physical death of conservatives) need to be saved from themselves. I get it, women are nurturers especially the ones on our side. It's up to conservative men to keep them from walking into it. I get it but I'm never going to turn a blind eye to what these assholes on the left are......fucking death merchants that will not show the same empathy our side shows. They're evil, period.

Posted by: JROD at December 15, 2025 07:03 PM (IlL6s)

174 I don’t know if they are truly aware, self-aware, but historically this type of situation does not last long, although it might seem like it. They are going to end up being slow roasted over a spit. What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by: Common Tater
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Eh, better used as chum.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:03 PM (WDjG6)

175 Um, no they won't. Reiner will be remembered for one thing: getting slashed to death by his own son because he raised an evil child who hated his guts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (/KwID)

So true. Funny too in a weird, hollywood kinda way. Hahahaha. Crazy.

Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at December 15, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

176 Kamala: “Some people have said I was the most qualified candidate ever to run for president."

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Are these the same people who say Taco Bell is the best Mexican food ever?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 07:04 PM (L/fGl)

177 I'm just gonna say it and take the arrows. Women like Erika Kirk and women sympathizing over the death of Meathead(an asshole that promoted leftism and evil shit that comes along with it like the physical death of conservatives) need to be saved from themselves. I get it, women are nurturers especially the ones on our side. It's up to conservative men to keep them from walking into it. I get it but I'm never going to turn a blind eye to what these assholes on the left are......fucking death merchants that will not show the same empathy our side shows. They're evil, period.

Posted by: JROD at December 15, 2025 07:03 PM (IlL6s)

Hear. Hear.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:04 PM (dK+Kv)

178 how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)

One, it's accurate. Two, it is nearbimpossible to separate them now.

Otoh, this was an explicitly Christian country nkt that long ago (as was Britain) and...

Are you saying you want a similar outcome n?
Posted by: Ae

yeah, more than a few Jews are not onboard with Israel, which are now branded as antisemites.

Conflating Judaism with Israel would be stupid because retards are going to blame every Jew for what Israel does. How is that smart?

Beyond that, yeah this is manmade Israel, not biblical Israel, not the same.

If I had wanted to say something other that what I wrote , would have said so.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (WP1r0)

179 Most of it wasn't all that good. Then the Leftists started lying about how nice it was for 40 years till they died out.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)

Yeah I know it's heavily mythologized but...hippie chicks spilling out of their tube tops. Sounds right nice.

Posted by: But macrame was thing too. Trade offs. at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)

180 And the very people doing the scolding, the lamenting, the lectures, they are the ones responsible for these atrocities in the first place.

I don’t know if they are truly aware, self-aware, but historically this type of situation does not last long, although it might seem like it. They are going to end up being slow roasted over a spit. What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (YmzeM)

It hardly matters, they have a system with wiggle room to keep any real opposition caged for 20 years at least. preposterous vote counting method, parties you can't tell apart, and nanny state suffocation. Start moving out, blokes, the continent isn't worth it. Take over New Caledonia or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

181 Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:58 PM (/KwID)

Calm down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (n9ltV)

182 I had liked Serkis for his film work (much more than just Gollum) but now that I find out he's a stinking communist, he's ruined for me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (uWKK8)

183 Kumala, you blow smoke out your nose not up your ass.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV)

184 Oh, I'm sure the Choom King was a huge fan of the Princess Bride.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (BI5O2)

I however, do love that movie.

Its just that they're terribly comfortable. I suspect everyone will be wearing one soon.
-man in black, re masks

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

185 Um, no they won't. Reiner will be remembered for one thing: getting slashed to death by his own son because he raised an evil child who hated his guts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (/KwID)

Say what you want about Nick Reiner, but he did kill Rob Reiner.

Too soon?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (dK+Kv)

186 I'm not going to forget all the shit Reiner said and the people he influenced. Too many of them are still around.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

187 My suspicion is that these grifters have turned in anticipation of the imploding of Trump and want to live comfortably afterwards.
Remember, they call us nazi’s so they can kill us.

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (/Chlc)

188 Do you guys know how the current emir got the throne? Ok, here is the story , his dad had favorite 3 wives, and of course all had sons. His second wife was a consolation marriage, to avoid unrest in Qatar , Sheika Moza bint Nasser, a jihadi herself and a big muslem brotherhood supporter, a daughter of some prominent politician. So in order to make sure that her son was the one who inherited the throne, they locked up the Emir father in the bathroom , threatened him until he abdicated in favor of her son.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (g47mK)

189 Yeah I know it's heavily mythologized but...hippie chicks spilling out of their tube tops. Sounds right nice.
Posted by: But macrame was thing too. Trade offs. at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)

You didn't need hippies for that, it was all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

190 Kamala: “Some people have said I was the most qualified candidate ever to run for president."

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Are these the same people who say Taco Bell is the best Mexican food ever?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

**Olive Garden has left the chat.**

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (Bvyvz)

191 Serkis has also done a ton of good voice work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

192
Grotesque, corrupt, and incompetent to the point I have doubts that this system of government is long for the world.

And our government is one of the most sane and competent in the West right now.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (WDjG6)

You tell'm whig

You doing OK?

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (8I4hW)

193 172 It's barely snickerworthy

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (1Nv0l)

194 Y O K O O N O

Posted by: dives into bunker at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (/fAnS)

195 Calm down.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (n9ltV)

In my experience that doesn't work.....

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:07 PM (E0p3T)

196 I should probably keep this to myself, but I LOLd at Milo's comment. I dont agree with it, and it's terribly inappropriate, but that British wit gets me every time.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 15, 2025 07:07 PM (Vvh2V)

197 I'd like to sit at a fire pit but it's going to be 15° tonight
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Believe me, if I could open up Club Moron IRL, it would have a semi-enclosed (wind-blocked) outdoor firepit/fireplace and full service bar with snacks.

We could all put our feet up & unwind after a tough day, stare into the flames and just chat (or not say anything at all, that's okay too)

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:07 PM (rdVOm)

198 Could be Hawaii, I think it used to be the Magnum PI mansion before it was destroyed for a new tasteless ostentatious home.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:02 PM (WDjG6)

Los Angeles Underground.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

199 Hey, CharlieBrown'sDildo can you answer a question from someone who is just axing questions ??

"how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)"

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (g47mK)

200 You didn't need hippies for that, it was all of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

Even better

Posted by: Boobs make everything a-ok at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (TbWk/)

201 Calm down.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (n9ltV)

In my experience that doesn't work.....
Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:07 PM (E0p3T)

Go make a sandwich?

Load the dishwasher?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

202 "Don't take our word for it..."

Among his many annoying traits, Tucker Qatarlson's use of the royal "we" is among the most annoyingist.

Posted by: Delurker at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (xNHSX)

203 Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 06:57 PM (dK+Kv)

I think it is.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (n9ltV)

204 JQ. You just described the MoMe site.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (sDNVV)

205 Tomorrow's news today!

Australian Man Who Wrestled Gun Away From Terrorist Charged With Unlawful Firearm Possession

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (L/fGl)

206 "how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)"
Posted by: runner

yeah, how about that, bring it bitch, do you want to run the insinuations and misrepresentations game, we could do that with you all night

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (WP1r0)

207 Carrots belong in everything. No Exceptions.

Posted by: Penguin/Carrot Alliance at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (oftw2)

208 What is Sharon Tate remembered for? Besides being a semi-regular in the black and white episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (pkeXY)

209 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:05 PM (dK+Kv)

It's never too soon for a chef kiss

BTW I denounce flounder, and myself for laughing at flounder and then flounder again for good measure. This should have waited until at least tomorrow.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (E0p3T)

210 Load the dishwasher?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

A/k/a getting your wife drunk.

Posted by: Sexist jokes $0.25 at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (TbWk/)

211 You tell'm whig

You doing OK?
Posted by: javems
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Nuclear heart scan this morning, waiting for results, major spine surgery end of January. Have a second opinion from a top neurosurgeon this week specializing in tough cases.

Waiting it out is not an option as I am losing arm and grip strength in both hands at a pretty fast rate so something has to be done to keep what I have left.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (WDjG6)

212 javems,
I know you have some challenges as well, how you doing (and not in a Joey Tribbiano way).

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:10 PM (WDjG6)

213 I think it is.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (n9ltV)

Perhaps. Exact same topic, different 1 post hashes, exact same time got my ears up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:10 PM (dK+Kv)

214 "how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)"
Posted by: runner

yeah, how about that, bring it bitch, do you want to run the insinuations and misrepresentations game, we could do that with you all night
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:10 PM (g47mK)

215 Los Angeles Underground.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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No way man, I thought CHUD was a myth.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (WDjG6)

216 yeah, how about that, bring it bitch, do you want to run the insinuations and misrepresentations game, we could do that with you all night
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]
Posted by: runner

lie some more

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (WP1r0)

217 I think we all can agree that New England losing to Buffalo is a good thing.

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (/Chlc)

218 Well, makes sense.

After Being Charged With Multiple Felonies, Former Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore Forced To Move To NFL

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (L/fGl)

219
Believe me, if I could open up Club Moron IRL, it would have a semi-enclosed (wind-blocked) outdoor firepit/fireplace and full service bar with snacks.

We could all put our feet up & unwind after a tough day, stare into the flames and just chat (or not say anything at all, that's okay too)
Posted by: JQ at December 15

We can do this when we buy our own island away from the chaos this country seems heck bent on doing.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

220 Glad to see Tapper's learnt his lesson, and from now on will be fearlessly straight down the middle. (Assuming he's straight, which I'm not sure of.)

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (s0JqF)

221 Somehow Gage and Desoto got away with telling women to "Calm down" nearly every episode. Must be a gift.

Posted by: Just Want Peace And Quiet at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (oftw2)

222 Horde minds come in all shapes and sizes.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (E0p3T)

223 It's never too soon for a chef kiss

BTW I denounce flounder, and myself for laughing at flounder and then flounder again for good measure. This should have waited until at least tomorrow.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (E0p3T)

Meh. It's standard AoS fare repurposed for current events. If I didn't do it, some lesser commenter would have. It's a public service, really.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (dK+Kv)

224 lie some more
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:12 PM (g47mK)

225 Milo's grotesque. Always has been, always will be.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 07:12 PM (CzMNg)

226 ie some more
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]
Posted by: runner

Nobody has done more to harm Israel than you

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:12 PM (WP1r0)

227 Nobody has done more to harm Israel than you
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:12 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)

228 148
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at December 15, 2025 06:55 PM (FjsLz)

Who is this cunt?

Track this IP address.

I want this fuckface's home address.
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Doubting Thomas? He showed up in the Influencer thread on Saturday to join the chorus of doubt about Fuentes being botted. I didn't mind them having their opinion, but there were four of them just posting and posting. Some referred to it as them fellating each other. I can't disagree with that characterization.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (UdiE9)

229 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (dK+Kv)

You don't give yourself enough credit. You need to take a lesson from me and start giving yourself too much credit.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (E0p3T)

230 Are you sure they're not referring to being in the gutter? Gutter journalism?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (s0JqF)

231 I think we all can agree that New England losing to Buffalo is a good thing.
Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (/Chlc)

I hope for Goodyear Blimps crashing into the stadium for those sort of games

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

232 The Democrats are insane and evil wanting deaths on the scale of Stalin and Mao as commies like to do.

Other than Trump and a few other folks, GOP exemplifies the sobriety of Eyepatch McCain, the gravitas of MTG discussing Jews with Space Lasers, the wisdom of Lindsay Graham wanting war worldwide, the party loyalty of Thomas Massie and Senator Rand, and the chastity of Nancy Mace rolling film on her walking around nekkid in a committee hearing room.

Grotesque, corrupt, and incompetent to the point I have doubts that this system of government is long for the world.

And our government is one of the most sane and competent in the West right now.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (WDjG6)

It makes me in my darker moments long for a Warlord. A real one, not some pansy ass pretender. Someone who will make like Sulla and send baskets of heads rolling down the Capitol building steps.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (uWKK8)

233 You don't give yourself enough credit. You need to take a lesson from me and start giving yourself too much credit.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (E0p3T)

I know myself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (dK+Kv)

234 Nobody has done more to harm Israel than you
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:12 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]
Posted by: runner

youre not smart, youre not funny, youre dishonest and bring shame and dishonor to everything and everyone

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (WP1r0)

235 We could all put our feet up & unwind after a tough day, stare into the flames and just chat (or not say anything at all, that's okay too)
Posted by: JQ at December 15

We can do this when we buy our own island away from the chaos this country seems heck bent on doing.
Posted by: Piper

Sounds good, as long as I can keep burning plastic bottles and such. The odd tire, also.

Posted by: Fire Bug Fred at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (oftw2)

236
I had a patient today from the Sudan who said UAE is financing paramilitary slaughter of entire Sudanese villages.

***********

Depends entirely which Sudanese villages are being targeted. The Sudanese have got quite the slaughter game going on themselves.

There is Biblical precedent for the wholesale slaughter of entire villages, if not entire groups of people, and the older I get, the more I understand.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (Vvh2V)

237
Somehow Gage and Desoto got away with telling women to "Calm down" nearly every episode. Must be a gift.
Posted by: Just Want Peace And Quiet

They pumped them full of D5W.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (pkeXY)

238 Doubting Thomas? He showed up in the Influencer thread on Saturday to join the chorus of doubt about Fuentes being botted. I didn't mind them having their opinion, but there were four of them just posting and posting. Some referred to it as them fellating each other. I can't disagree with that characterization.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 15, 2025 07:13 PM (UdiE9)

well if they were bots, they presumably would know for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO+)

239 210 Load the dishwasher?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

A/k/a getting your wife drunk.
Posted by: Sexist jokes $0.25 at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (TbWk/)

I laffed. I didn't want to, but I did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (zYpTz)

240 No way man, I thought CHUD was a myth.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:11 PM (WDjG6)

See, I knew i should make a Murdock or BA reference.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

241 rumor has it that some citizens of Qatar are not that crazy about Royal family's shenanigans with Iran, but those who voice concern are captured and tortured, so we never hear about

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (g47mK)

242 "how is conflating Judaism with Israel smart in any way?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 06:50 PM (WP1r0)"

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:08 PM (g47mK)

Israel is the modern equivalent of the biblical states of Israel and Judah, is the ancestral and legal homeland of the Jewish people, both cultural and religious, so the idea that Judaism and Israel can be conflated is...odd.

If he means that it is inappropriate to hold Jews responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, I guess it makes sense. But that is pretty obviously a subterfuge for good old fashioned Jew-hate, so it isn't going to go away.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (n9ltV)

243 youre not smart, youre not funny, youre dishonest and bring shame and dishonor to everything and everyone
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (WP1r0)

[smiley face]

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (g47mK)

244 I laffed. I didn't want to, but I did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 07:14 PM (zYpTz)

And then went out and bought some hard cider.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (dK+Kv)

245 rumor has it that some citizens of Qatar are not that crazy about Royal family's shenanigans with Iran, but those who voice concern are captured and tortured, so we never hear about
Posted by: runner

but youre not saying you disagree with it, right?

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:16 PM (WP1r0)

246 Damn, n. Did you really use 'You shame your ancestors.'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

247 JQ. You just described the MoMe site.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:09 PM (sDNVV)
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Yep. I was thinking the same thing!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:17 PM (ESVrU)

248
I hope for Goodyear Blimps crashing into the stadium for those sort of games
Posted by: Oldcat

Black Sunday

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 07:17 PM (pkeXY)

249 212 javems,
I know you have some challenges as well, how you doing (and not in a Joey Tribbiano way).

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:10 PM (WDjG6)

I'm vertical, mostly. Walking is a chore. I do have a spiffy walker though. Back in PT for the umpteenth time. My neurosurgeon just doesn't like to cut. I see the master surgeon next year.

Hope all works out for you.

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 07:17 PM (8I4hW)

250 It makes me in my darker moments long for a Warlord. A real one, not some pansy ass pretender. Someone who will make like Sulla and send baskets of heads rolling down the Capitol building steps.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Reading the Old Testament shows how repeatedly the Lord's prophets warned the people of oncoming trains about to run them over if they did not repent.

And yet they kept on keeping on. I suspect the consequences will be biblical in response.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (WDjG6)

251 120
'Reiner will be remembered for one thing: getting slashed to death by his own son because he raised an evil child who hated his guts.'

It won't be the only thing but it will be the main thing.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (fd80v)

252 246 Damn, n. Did you really use 'You shame your ancestors.'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

I see the Klingon High Council slowly shaking their heads with sadness.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (uWKK8)

253 If he means that it is inappropriate to hold Jews responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, I guess it makes sense. But that is pretty obviously a subterfuge for good old fashioned Jew-hate, so it isn't going to go away.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (n9ltV)

Blaming Jews for everything has a far far longer history than the nation state of Israel....which was set up because a nation considered the most cultured in Europe decided to murder them on an industrial scale. Made the intellectuals feel some remorse for about five years.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (8avO+)

254 I really wonder what the hell some people read in their spare time. The internet affords one access to some serious mental mindfuckery. Ask yourself honestly - are you being mindfucked, or do you just think everyone else is?

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (E0p3T)

255 But that is pretty obviously a subterfuge for good old fashioned Jew-hate, so it isn't going to go away.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (n9ltV)

But, Israel is also a liberal democracy. Doesn't that mean that you would nkt want it to be explicitly Jewish?*

*I know the counter, but I am making the argument as if this was still the 80s. Fuck. I miss the 80s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

256 I need to get this in. POTUS 47 what a dumb ass on Truth Social today on Rob's murder. Trump makes the murder about himself. He also says: "Rob passed away" No dumb ass he was murdered. "A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"

Posted by: Shera_K2 at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (GL+EM)

257 You just described the MoMe site.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Oh, I'm sure! But I'm talking about a smaller venue of course. No gub range & not serving gourmet stuff...

Just a libtard-free place to relax on an average day. I'd need to make it a nationwide thing so that nobody would need to travel very far. Like the HQ, only IRL.

Yeah, I can dream. Even the Billion-bux lotto wouldn't be enough to get it going.

Meh. Back to the Virtual Lounge...

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (rdVOm)

258 If he means that it is inappropriate to hold Jews responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, I guess it makes sense. But that is pretty obviously a subterfuge for good old fashioned Jew-hate, so it isn't going to go away.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:15 PM (n9ltV)

pretty obviously

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)

259 I'm vertical, mostly. Walking is a chore. I do have a spiffy walker though. Back in PT for the umpteenth time. My neurosurgeon just doesn't like to cut. I see the master surgeon next year.

Hope all works out for you.
Posted by: javems
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Good luck, my bottom half is ok for now albeit needing a knee replacement. I don't relish though eating meals with my foot holding the fork and knife at dinner.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (WDjG6)

260 Israel is the modern equivalent of the biblical states of Israel and Judah, is the ancestral and legal homeland of the Jewish people, both cultural and religious, so the idea that Judaism and Israel can be conflated is...odd.

If he means that it is inappropriate to hold Jews responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, I guess it makes sense. But that is pretty obviously a subterfuge for good old fashioned Jew-hate, so it isn't going to go away.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

No its not code for Jew hate. Nobody who believes the Bible would see the founding of modern Israel somehow equivalent the historical biblical founding. That does not mean it does not have a right to exist, the something bad should happen to Israelis, but they are not the same.

What is more it is ridiculous to think that Israel would be exempted for criticism as a nation and that anybody and or everybody criticizing Israel would be antisemitic.

I have been a supporter of Israel since forever, even knowing thins such as Pollards treason and Israel's misbehavior. Is criticizing that anti-semitic?

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (WP1r0)

261 Damn, n. Did you really use 'You shame your ancestors.'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

I see the Klingon High Council slowly shaking their heads with sadness.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM

AFAIK, the only regular who has shamed his ancestors is Weasel, with that (now infamous) fourth shot.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)

262 Damn, n. Did you really use 'You shame your ancestors.'?
Posted by: Ae''

did I say, ancestors? I am fine with that too, but I don't think I used that word.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:22 PM (WP1r0)

263 And shame on your cow, runner!

(I hope Ace doesn’t smite me for the Disney reference, y’all would miss me. Pearl clutching and all!).

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

264 But, Israel is also a liberal democracy. Doesn't that mean that you would nkt want it to be explicitly Jewish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

No...I want Israel to be explicitly Jewish because it is the biblical homeland of the Jewish people, given to them by God!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (n9ltV)

265 When I was 18, I shamed my ancestors two to three times a day.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (E0p3T)

266 Ask yourself honestly - are you being mindfucked, or do you just think everyone else is?

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (E0p3T)

It's a safe bet that anyone past a certain maturity/internet maturity moment is mindfucked. If you grew up with the developing internet, the boon that was early google, then to see google turned into a regime/corporatist propaganda tool, and now AI, I think it is possible to have some level of discernment against the all out assault on critical thought.

If you were older than being able to compute adequately throughout those developments, then perhaps it is safer to assume you are a CNN/Fox bot. If you were younger than that, God help you, because you are more likely than not a blithering idiot NPC with little ability to discern mindfuckery and opinion from legit factual, sourced information.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (dK+Kv)

267 Nood cafe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (dK+Kv)

268 manifestation of antisemitism is a a manifestation of a certain double standard, criticizing Israel for what is expected, or ignored in other nations; the war in Gaza was a perfect example

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (g47mK)

269 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (dK+Kv)

True

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (E0p3T)

270 Don't leave so many assholes for your children to pay or fight.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (EyfuW)

271 Nobody who believes the Bible would see the founding of modern Israel somehow equivalent the historical biblical founding.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (WP1r0)

Really? Thank you for explaining that to me. I had no idea so many modern Jews are incorrect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (n9ltV)

272 manifestation of antisemitism is a a manifestation of a certain double standard, criticizing Israel for what is expected, or ignored in other nations; the war in Gaza was a perfect example
Posted by: runner

so any criticism of Israel would be anti-semitic, even though other countries get criticized for the same.

got it.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:26 PM (WP1r0)

273 "In recognition of this history, and in light of the continuing threats to the State of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack."
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 06:51 PM (rbvCR)

Donald Qatarump!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:27 PM (XK+qi)

274 254 I really wonder what the hell some people read in their spare time. The internet affords one access to some serious mental mindfuckery. Ask yourself honestly - are you being mindfucked, or do you just think everyone else is?
Posted by: ...
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Due to some recent physical limitations, I watch some of it. There is AI slop, and the outrage merchants purporting to tell people sekret knowledge about how stuff really works (and committing some pretty serious factual errors in how our government actually works) but it gives the feelz to those watching (who are not bots nor hired dunces at content comment mills) that they are part of a club.

Been reading Iraeneaus on Heresies and much of this crap reminds me of what he and the early church faced after the living memory of Jesus and his apostles was gone. Gnosticism in its permutations are some of the more ridiculous and vapid stupidity ever described by those early scholars. Those Gnostics back then made Televangelists look like the Council of Nicea in comparison with Gnostics.

So here YT and Tik Tok types are often a secular version of Gnosticism with their own Manichean devils and fake gods. Welcome to QAnon 2.0.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (WDjG6)

275 Really? Thank you for explaining that to me. I had no idea so many modern Jews are incorrect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I was unaware Jews believed the New Testament. I do not know that I have ever heard Jews refer to sacred texts as other than Torah and Talmud, never bible thoug.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM (WP1r0)

276 I have been a supporter of Israel since forever, even knowing thins such as Pollards treason and Israel's misbehavior. Is criticizing that anti-semitic?
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (WP1r0)

I have a lot less of a problem with the State of Israel than I do people like Mike Huckaby.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM (XK+qi)

277 I have a lot less of a problem with the State of Israel than I do people like Mike Huckaby.

hes a traitor

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:30 PM (WP1r0)

278 If you were older than being able to compute adequately throughout those developments, then perhaps it is safer to assume you are a CNN/Fox bot. If you were younger than that, God help you, because you are more likely than not a blithering idiot NPC with little ability to discern mindfuckery and opinion from legit factual, sourced information.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Generations before the internet became the cultural norm also were better educated as test scores and content have been sliding for decades now. And I think it is on purpose just for people to be manipulated.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:30 PM (WDjG6)

279
Posted by: Shera_K2 at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (GL+EM)

A spammer.

No doubt pasting this shit on ALL the conservative websites.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (/KwID)

280 Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (WDjG6)

Interesting as always thanks. Btw I pray often for you.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (E0p3T)

281 235
'youre not smart, youre not funny, youre dishonest and bring shame and dishonor to everything and everyone'

Sounds like he got your goat.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (fd80v)

282 Let's flip the script and say Baron murdered Trump and Melania. You think Reiner would have been as gracious as Trump was in his truth social thing?

Fuck no. Trumps fine. I tire of the bullshit where we cast someone into the outer darkness over anything the least bit edgy when they are fucking molesting kids.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

You should have seen my rant at the very end of the ONT last night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (snZF9)

283 235
'youre not smart, youre not funny, youre dishonest and bring shame and dishonor to everything and everyone'

Sounds like he got your goat.

has has come to think that impugning others motivations is appropriate, he needs to be taught manners

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (WP1r0)

284
42 Wow nbc news on TV literally just blamed Trump for meatheads son killing him. We have crossed the crazy TDS rubicon.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

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That's really bad. Making a bad situation worse. Unprincipled opportunism.

For some reason I'm hungry for meatloaf. I like to put a layer of ketchup on top, and it bakes onto the loaf.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (azNOR)

285 Generations before the internet became the cultural norm also were better educated as test scores and content have been sliding for decades now. And I think it is on purpose just for people to be manipulated.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 07:30 PM (WDjG6)

Yeah, that is an oversight in my back of the envelope metaphysical theory of knowledge and competence, which I hoped to allow for through sloppy use of language. With the focus of a laser, you destroyed my theory.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (dK+Kv)

286 Are we back to hating Milo again?
I can't keep track?
Is it because of his popery? Or his previous homosexuality?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (xcxpd)

287 From the Daily Mail:

Brown University gunman drove to Rhode Island with laser reinforced firearm before wreaking havoc.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (QVuuq)

288 Are we back to hating Milo again?
I can't keep track?

Is it because of his popery?

Or his previous homosexuality?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

It's because of his poopery.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 07:37 PM (QVuuq)

289 From the Daily Mail:

Brown University gunman drove to Rhode Island with laser reinforced firearm before wreaking havoc.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (QVuuq)

Laser reinforced? FFS they are retarded over there in the UK.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:37 PM (dK+Kv)

290 If you watch Tucker Carlson, AS MANY OF YOUR READERS MOST CERTAINLY DO, you would understand that he is the OPPOSITE of being paid any money by Qatar.

Go watch his appearance on Theo Von iif you want to know WHY your piost is so ignorant.

Tucker likes Qatar. He enjoys going there. He has zero debt, no paid sponsorship, and as an American he is free to travel anywhere he wants to go.

Posted by: Kustie The Klown at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (abYH2)

291
46 Make sure you record it Erika.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

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Secretly, like Candace is going to.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (azNOR)

292 I wonder if any famous people ever post here.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 07:40 PM (E0p3T)

293 No...I want Israel to be explicitly Jewish because it is the biblical homeland of the Jewish people, given to them by God!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (n9ltV)
I'll go along with that.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:40 PM (LHPAg)

294 Tucker also had on Matt Walsh recently. How does that fit into your moronic theory?

Actually, if you go to timestamp 14:88 you'll see Walsh and Carlson exchange the secret crypto-Nazi Jew-hater high sign.

Posted by: wat at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (Dk542)

295 A number of Jews were attacked in a Western country in what looks to be attacks by Muslim terrorists.

The obvious answer to this is to start policing people's mean jokes.

Posted by: This is rational at December 15, 2025 09:12 PM (HJUJ8)

296 Laser reinforced? FFS they are retarded over there in the UK.

After much range practice....I told my wife the only 2 benefits of my Crimson Trace Laser were:
1. The grips are great (Sig P239)
2. If I put the laser on the intruder's forehead...He might just submit and I wouldn't have to shoot him.

Posted by: DK at December 15, 2025 09:45 PM (JButp)

297 I'm a Nazi, you're a Nazi, we're all Nazis.

Wait, wasn't calling people Nazis what got Charlie shot in the first place? Or did I not get some memo from the Knesset that you probably did?

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 15, 2025 10:06 PM (YINx+)

298 As a concerned conservative, I'm deeply concerned about referring to nazis as nazis. If you call nazis nazis, then people might think they're nazis and that they should be opposed. You're probably only anti-nazi due to a memo sent by a venomous coalition of globalists being run from Tel Aviv or the Knesset.

I voted for Make Arabia Great Again, not Make Israel Great Again.

Posted by: Concerned Conservative Pakistani at December 16, 2025 01:18 AM (VPmdc)

Australian PM: In Aftermath of Two ISIS-Connected Pakistanis Shooting Up Hannukah Celebration, We Now Turn to the Real Threat, "Right Wing Extremist Groups" and Guns In the Hands of Native Australians

Of course.

The only problematic thing about the latest Muslim slaughter of non-Muslims is the claim that Muslim violence will lead to anti-Muslim backlash.

Many point out that while Australia banned a tennis player from entering the country -- because he wouldn't take the clot shot -- they let in Known Wolf terrorists in no problem.

Not an immediate threat, Australian "anti-terror" police decided.

@emilykschrader
As more information is revealed about the terrorists, the police have confirmed that Naveed was known to the Australian security services for his connections to ISIS, but they did not believe he posed an immediate threat. Reports indicate he and his father were radicalized at their mosque, the Al-Murad Islamic center in Sydney. The police also found explosives in their vehicle and an ISIS flag.

The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday.

Actually absurd.
pic.twitter.com/NvID9xieTJ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 15, 2025

Some reporters pushed back:

This is Australia's Prime Minister getting DESTROYED live on air for his record on anti-semitism and Islamism

It's the same everywhere in the west

You slammed Israel
Love Palestine
Sympathised with Hamas
Spoke about Islamophobia
Downplayed real threats

And it's happened again pic.twitter.com/mn2VLxsw3C
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) December 14, 2025

Australia confiscated most civilian guns decades back, and continues to have among the most restrictive gun control laws in the world, but of course it allowed the ISIS-connected Pakistani immigrant Cultural Enrichers to own six guns legally.

BREAKING: The firearms used in the Bondi Beach attack were LEGALLY OWNED firearms.

Australia has some of the most strict gun control laws in the world, and yet it did NOTHING to stop these two third worlders.

This is why America must NEVER give up our 2a rights. pic.twitter.com/np8B7sQ9Mf
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 15, 2025

Premier of New South Wales calls for more gun-control after the t*rrorist attack in Australia

Australia already has strict gun laws.
The t*rrorists were on the police’s radar for years.

Defenseless victims took gunfire for 20 minutes before police engaged.

How about just stop… pic.twitter.com/cidgYRqB9P
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 15, 2025

Don't worry, though-- Australia's police will protect you.

While an unarmed citizen was wrestling away a firearm from a terrorist. An armed police officer was hiding doing nothing. pic.twitter.com/gPonNcO67h
— BanFruitcakes (@Banfruitcakes) December 14, 2025

Breaking: 🚨 A witness to the Bondi beach terrorist attack said that 4 armed police officers failed to fire back at the terrorists.

So Australia disarmed the people and hired cowards to protect them. pic.twitter.com/wzcfZhou9g
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) December 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:10 PM

Comments

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1
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (3ek7K)

2
Not surprising

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (3ek7K)

3 Fucking bug nuts insane.

Actually, I think we are looking up at buv nuts insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:12 PM (zZu0s)

4 As said downstairs
To a European, " Right Wing' means Nazis and no doubt to this Marxist PM

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

5 CAIR warns against backlash from next Friday's terror attack.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:12 PM (jc0TO)

6 The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday.

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Sure because Islamists will only cull some of the excess population.

Right-wingers want a say in government.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

7 DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.

DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!

Nicholas Angel: Like who?

DS Andy Wainwright: Farmers.

Nicholas Angel: Who else?

DS Andy Cartwright: Farmers' mums.

Posted by: Hot Fuzz at December 15, 2025 05:13 PM (wVcYX)

8 "A witness to the Bondi beach terrorist attack said that 4 armed police officers failed to fire back at the terrorists."

Beyond their pay grade?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:14 PM (vFG9F)

9 3 Actually, I think we are looking up at buv nuts insane.

deez nuts > buv nuts

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 05:14 PM (v3pYe)

10 I think the guy with the Twitter name "Ban Fruitcakes" has the right idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 05:14 PM (Yl2Ob)

11 And there I was, reading the content!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (RuTUS)

12 Mother, should I trust the government?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (xcxpd)

13 Willowed:
I am going with Asian Dawn for the name of my splinter group.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

*fistbump*
-TIME Magazine

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (zZu0s)

14 >> police have confirmed that Naveed was known to the Australian security services for his connections to ISIS, but they did not believe he posed an immediate threat.

That's a pretty strict definition of the term 'immediate threat'.

"I mean. We interviewed him for over 5 minutes and he didn't detonate. So."

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (IaZ7c)

15 I used to have great respect for the Aussies. They used to be some tough hombres. WTF happened to them? And it had to be more than just Covid.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (Bkn5k)

16 >>>The firearms used in the Bondi Beach attack were LEGALLY OWNED firearms.

This is a level of absurdity I cannot fathom. It's time for tar and feathers down under.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (nZ3Rs)

17 It would have taken the average Moron less than a minute fetch a rifle and drop those two.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (vFG9F)

18 While an unarmed citizen was wrestling away a firearm from a terrorist. An armed police officer was hiding doing nothing.

Echoes of Uvalde and Stoneman Douglas.

Posted by: But the cops went home safe and that's all that matters at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)

19 When did Tim Walz start moonlighting as the Australian PM?

Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (uv8gn)

20
@Norm Macdonald. You should be terrified of the normie reaction to the assholes that protect the rag head 7th century savages should something like you wish for actually happen. Once some commie leftarded fuckwit (but I repeat myself thrice) says 1, 2, 3, go and lights the fuse. There will be no, read that as zero, restraint capable from the normies beginning that second. There will be no second chances. No go backs. You and yours asked for the response you'll inevitably get.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (QVmho)

21 Many point out that while Australia banned a tennis player from entering the country -- because he wouldn't take the clot shot -- they let in Known Wolf terrorists in no problem.

Not hard to understand. The tennis player is doing something the government disapproves of; the violent third-worlders are not.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (guCHD)

22 It's not the best response is it? Seems a little misleading.
My first reaction is like, "who's this stupid moron?"

Imagine my shock to find out he leads a nation.

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (lIRG/)

23 Mother, should I trust the government?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (xcxpd)

NICE! Mother, may I sleep with danger is not one you hear about much anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

24 Australia is sinking into the mire like the UK. No hope.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (rJ48h)

25 The most important aspect of this incident is to caution against anti-Islamist backlash.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (lhDeM)

26 Neutered Aussies. Neutered Kiwis. Neutered Canadians. Neutered Brits. Lambs for the slaughter.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)

27 I used to have great respect for the Aussies. They used to be some tough hombres. WTF happened to them? And it had to be more than just Covid.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:15 PM (Bkn5k)

They lost their urge to round up their leaders and bury them in the outback. Thats what happened.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (snZF9)

28 It would have taken the average Moron less than a minute fetch a rifle and drop those two.
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025

***
Any one of us would not have put the rifle down after taking it from the terrorist.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

29 19 When did Tim Walz start moonlighting as the Australian PM?
Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM

+++
After he started moonlighting as Don Rickles.

Posted by: What a clown at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (Zt+0/)

30 The Australians are the descendants of convicts. Their ruling class are the descendants of the guards.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (jc0TO)

31 We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!

Posted by: Australian Police at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (V362x)

32 Heloise's Handbook of Domestic Terror Etiquette says that 20 minutes where the cops let citizens take fire from terrorist is the expected standard.

During which time, fighting back is gauche.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2)

33 Echoes of Uvalde and Stoneman Douglas.
Posted by: But the cops went home safe and that's all that matters at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
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Those incidents came to mind for me, too.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (rj6Yv)

34 While an unarmed citizen was wrestling away a firearm from a terrorist. An armed police officer was hiding doing nothing.

Those cops should be outed and shamed and humiliated into finding some other line of work.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (Bkn5k)

35
CAIR warns against backlash from next Friday's terror attack.
Posted by: toby928(c)

CAIR is a known terrorist organization and can suckle my bacon grease slathered penis.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (QVmho)

36 This weekend's news was confusing. As far as I can make out, Pam Bondi killed a bunch of Jews at a beach in Rhode Island and then Trump stabbed Rob Reiner in the head. Have I got this right?

Posted by: Dipso Dan the Disco Fan at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (qUkBO)

37 Within hours of the shooting, I got a Guardian article in my hate feed touting the "A plus" gun control laws Australia has.
Then helpfully explaining why they were needed back when and how effective they have been.

Only to note that, these attacks, proved the need for even more work.

Especially in the face of pro-gun Australians who were attempting to roll back the A-Plus gun control laws.

What they need is A +++ gun laws.

A single plus just won't do when Muslims could be shot any day now by racist Australians.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (HXT0k)

38 Willowed

As Comrade Flounder and I pointed out late in the last thread, the Koala Klux Klan and the Kangaroo Klux Klan should not simply be dismissed as harmless.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (2L+MU)

39 20
@Norm Macdonald. You should be terrified of the normie reaction to the assholes that protect the rag head 7th century savages should something like you wish for actually happen. Once some commie leftarded fuckwit (but I repeat myself thrice) says 1, 2, 3, go and lights the fuse. There will be no, read that as zero, restraint capable from the normies beginning that second. There will be no second chances. No go backs. You and yours asked for the response you'll inevitably get.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (QVmho)

Um, Bif.

Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (RuTUS)

40 As bad as EU leaders are (and they are quite bad), leaders in Commonwealth Realms that have Dildo III has monarch have to be the most pathetic leaders this side of Elagabalus.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (UdiE9)

41 I'm ready to just say fuck Australia, let the Chinese have it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (uWKK8)

42 NICE! Mother, may I sleep with danger is not one you hear about much anymore.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

I think that was a Pink Floyd "The Wall" reference.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (V362x)

43 Would never join a splinter group. Those things can hurt.

Posted by: Skin To Win at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (oftw2)

44 Is it just noble ones who can't have guns?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (Oasjp)

45 On that video the sirens are going for several minutes, but they never appear near the bridge where the gunshots came from.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (vbXSk)

46 We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!
Posted by: Australian Police at December 15, 2025

***
Yes. Terrorizing grandmas who forgot to put on a useless mask, and dumping into camps people who refused to take an unproven shot? That's more your speed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

47
1. Cops should be the only ones with guns.

2. In the case that doesn't happen, we will shake our heads at senseless slaughter. Swearsies.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)

48 That's not a knife!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:21 PM (pkeXY)

49 As Comrade Flounder and I pointed out late in the last thread, the Koala Klux Klan and the Kangaroo Klux Klan should not simply be dismissed as harmless.
Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (2L+MU)
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Pffff.

Posted by: Kookaburra Klux Klan at December 15, 2025 05:21 PM (yNJrI)

50 >> Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021) was..

I didn’t even know he was sick!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (8v4w8)

51 Any one of us would not have put the rifle down after taking it from the terrorist.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

Thats when you would have gotten shot by the pussy cops who suddenly found their mouse balls.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (snZF9)

52 20
@Norm Macdonald. You should be terrified of the normie reaction to the assholes that protect the rag head 7th century savages should something like you wish for actually happen. Once some commie leftarded fuckwit (but I repeat myself thrice) says 1, 2, 3, go and lights the fuse. There will be no, read that as zero, restraint capable from the normies beginning that second. There will be no second chances. No go backs. You and yours asked for the response you'll inevitably get.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (QVmho)

A. Norm is dead
B. Norm was a comedian
C. Norm was highlighting the absurd reaction the progressives have to Islamic Terror attacks, where all the concern is about 'the backlash'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

53 I'm LOL'ing that someone here didn't know who Norm McDonald was. (no offense, Bif)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (uWKK8)

54 Those cops should be outed and shamed and humiliated into finding some other line of work.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (Bkn5k)
=====

I'm betting that anyone outting those cops would be arrested and charged with felonies for endangerment.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (rj6Yv)

55 I believe also when Australia basically banned personal ownership of firearms the first time around, it was over a muslim doing a mass shooting.

So I'm not sure what rights are left, but Muslims keep doing it and native Australians get the bill.

Posted by: Leupold at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (eIzlH)

56 148 days since Tulsi Gabbard referred Barack Obama to the DOJ for criminal prosecution and she hasn't brought a single indictment

And now she failed to protect even her own beach against an islamist terror attack

fire her

Posted by: TITP at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (YwIpu)

57 Australia has some of the most strict gun control laws in the world, and yet it did NOTHING to stop these two third worlders.

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

"BECAUSE DAT WOULDA BE RACISS, YO H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (lhDeM)

58 28 It would have taken the average Moron less than a minute fetch a rifle and drop those two.
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025

Unfortunately if you Lived in Australia you wouldn't be allowed to own a rifle to fetch

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (VE6XX)

59 Bif, Norm MacDonald was satirizing the usual "What about anti-Muslim backlash?" whining and crying from the media and "leaders" -- not advocating it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (wzUl9)

60 50 >> Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021) was..

I didn’t even know he was sick!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (8v4w

Cancer. He kept it quiet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

61 36: alas, that will be the residual memory for, what, maybe 20% of the population?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (Cjt/F)

62 Do Aussies get locked up for mean speak on the internet?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:23 PM (pkeXY)

63 The media loves to pretend (as the Aussie media is doing here) that peaceful Muslims who posed no threat were somehow “radicalized” at their local mosques. That ain’t the flex they the media thinks it is.

What exactly are they teaching in local mosques that would turn supposedly normal men into murderous cannibals? They never answer that question, do they? The media is implicitly acknowledging that Islam itself is the fucking problem.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (+xhjl)

64 Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021)

His fried apple pies were the best.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

65 The Aussie copwoman cowering behind the patrol car is reminiscent of the SS woman having difficulty holstering her piece. Is there a commonality here?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (bNf8H)

66 I miss Norm.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (RuTUS)

67 Cancer. He kept it quiet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

Saying “I didn’t even know he was sick!” about the passing of someone everyone already knows is dead was a Norm joke, which has been loving adopted by his fans, even applied to him. The first time Norm used it was when talking about Hitler, IIRC

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (8v4w8)

68 "If guns are made illegal, only the criminals will keep their guns."

That seems to be Australia's preferred policy, except worse. The known terrorists were allowed to LEGALLY own the guns ... because they don't want to offend a terrorist.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (vbXSk)

69 And don't forget the potential threat to democracy posed by the existence of the Proud Bandicoots.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (2L+MU)

70 The entire Anglosphere got swept up in the great Suicidal Empathy Wokefest. Only Trump here in the US has been able to galvanize a push back against it. UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, all spiraling down into the pit of toxic wokism and eventual collapse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (uWKK8)

71

Um, Bif.
Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021)
Posted by: m
-----
I'm LOL'ing that someone here didn't know who Norm McDonald was. (no offense, Bif)
Posted by: Tom Servo

No offense taken. I knew both whom he was and that he was dead. My message was for the Meatheaded 'tards with soapboxes that caution that nonsense instead of calling out the savages for what they are.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (QVmho)

72 Early OT:

Ford is throwing in the towel.

WSJ:
"Ford Takes $19.5 Billion Hit in Detroit’s Biggest EV Bust"

Ouch.

Posted by: WisRich at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (G0vdT)

73 67 Cancer. He kept it quiet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

Saying “I didn’t even know he was sick!” about the passing of someone everyone already knows is dead was a Norm joke, which has been loving adopted by his fans, even applied to him. The first time Norm used it was when talking about Hitler, IIRC
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (8v4w

I got it, DFDAD.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (RuTUS)

74 So Australia disarmed the people and hired cowards to protect them.

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

OUT: Meal Team Six.
IN: Kneel Team Six.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (lhDeM)

75 >>> 33 Echoes of Uvalde and Stoneman Douglas.
Posted by: But the cops went home safe and that's all that matters at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
===

Those incidents came to mind for me, too.
Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Hi!

Posted by: Columbine HS in Littleton CO at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (ULPxl)

76 Soon, Australian police are going to be limited to giving mass shooters a Glaring They'll Never Forget.

Posted by: Octochicken at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (oCS0o)

77
police have confirmed that Naveed was known to the Australian security services for his connections to ISIS, but they did not believe he posed an immediate threat.

------

He was an eventual, inevitable threat

I've seen video of 4-5 Australian police surrounding and threatening a guy for wearing a sign that said that trans-women are men. But from a real threat, they hide. What a despicable culture the police have.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (VWtfl)

78 "Unfortunately if you Lived in Australia you wouldn't be allowed to own a rifle to fetch
Posted by: It's me donna "

Well, that's the point. If something like that was happening outside my window here in the USA it could be put down pretty quickly. The Aussies have disarmed themselves and left no options other than maybe boomerangs.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (vFG9F)

79 The media loves to pretend (as the Aussie media is doing here) that peaceful Muslims who posed no threat were somehow “radicalized” at their local mosques. That ain’t the flex they the media thinks it is.

What exactly are they teaching in local mosques that would turn supposedly normal men into murderous cannibals? They never answer that question, do they? The media is implicitly acknowledging that Islam itself is the fucking problem.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (+xhjl)

You're already radicalized if you're a muslim, they just go to the mosque to get their marching orders.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (snZF9)

80 Do Aussies get locked up for mean speak on the internet?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025

***
It's coming, if not already there. They're the ones who are trying to keep kids 16 and younger off of social media. Pixy, the Tech Thread master, lives there and he is amused at the feeble attempt to make something like that illegal.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (wzUl9)

81
33 Echoes of Uvalde and Stoneman Douglas.
Posted by: But the cops went home safe and that's all that matters at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
===

Those incidents came to mind for me, too.
Posted by: mrp

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

I thought of North Hollywood, where the police were not trained or equipped to engage at distance.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (Ok315)

82 Whenever Democrats or Islamists shoot people, the problem is always "right wing extremists".

Keep a close hold of your weapons. Buy ammo.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (HD3Ny)

83 I wonder: if Albanese came under fire, would his security "freeze"?

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (2L+MU)

84 Back in the 1980s the wife and I were looking at retiring in Australia. They offered an expedited *green card* process for Americans with prior military service. Their economy was good and our retired navy insurance would have worked fine in any of the big cities.

Good thing we decided not to make the switch.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (0N4FZ)

85 Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Soy! Soy! Soy!

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (Bvyvz)

86 Norm MacDonald became Old.

Old MacDonald.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (krQz2)

87 Norm Macdonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (wVcYX)

88 The Aussie copwoman cowering behind the patrol car is reminiscent of the SS woman having difficulty holstering her piece. Is there a commonality here?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (bNf8H)

Well, neither did a damn thing to keep multiple people from getting shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:28 PM (zZu0s)

89 73 67 Cancer. He kept it quiet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

Saying “I didn’t even know he was sick!” about the passing of someone everyone already knows is dead was a Norm joke, which has been loving adopted by his fans, even applied to him. The first time Norm used it was when talking about Hitler, IIRC
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (8v4w

I got it, DFDAD.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (RuTUS)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (X5Jzz)

90 >>> 46 We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!
Posted by: Australian Police at December 15, 2025

***
Yes. Terrorizing grandmas who forgot to put on a useless mask, and dumping into camps people who refused to take an unproven shot? That's more your speed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

That's not all they do.

Posted by: zombie dogs in animal shelters at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (ULPxl)

91 As Comrade Flounder and I pointed out late in the last thread, the Koala Klux Klan and the Kangaroo Klux Klan should not simply be dismissed as harmless.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (2L+MU)

And as events revealed, they are obviously agents of Big Penguin.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (nZ3Rs)

92 Good thing we decided not to make the switch.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (0N4FZ)

The avg breast size is huge, but the insects are a real deal breaker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

93 " ... left no options other than maybe boomerangs. "

there's always the Millwall Brick

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (Cjt/F)

94 Saying “I didn’t even know he was sick!” about the passing of someone everyone already knows is dead was a Norm joke, which has been loving adopted by his fans, even applied to him. The first time Norm used it was when talking about Hitler, IIRC
Posted by: Disinterested FDA

----------

This is a very old joke. I heard it in the 60s or 70s from my dad, usually in reference to historical figures.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (Ok315)

95 If no firearms were available I think I would take up the sling. With practice they can be deadly. It would be a good backup for the crossbow.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (vFG9F)

96 The Aussie copwoman cowering behind the patrol car is reminiscent of the SS woman having difficulty holstering her piece. Is there a commonality here?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (bNf8H)

Well, neither did a damn thing to keep multiple people from getting shot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:28 PM (zZu0s)
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But they did wonders to break the stereotype that women can't be cops!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (krQz2)

97 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM

So meta.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM (jc0TO)

98 Like so many other liberal countries and their anti white veiws, Albanese took the side of radical islamist terrorists and this is the direct result of their antipathy.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (h3wuo)

99 When you warn that letting foreigners in will result in terrorism, you are called a “far-right extremist” spreading “islamophobia”.

When the hajjis inevitably carry out terrorism, they’re labeled “far-right extremists”.

Amazing trick.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (8v4w8)

100 Australia is a laughing stock. Pass it on.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (cS1cw)

101 89 73 67 Cancer. He kept it quiet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

Saying “I didn’t even know he was sick!” about the passing of someone everyone already knows is dead was a Norm joke, which has been loving adopted by his fans, even applied to him. The first time Norm used it was when talking about Hitler, IIRC
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (8v4w

I got it, DFDAD.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:26 PM (RuTUS)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (X5Jzz)

As one should!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (RuTUS)

102 I applaud the FBI that prevented the bombings. Maybe some woke agents will be inspired.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (cDzwv)

103 So Australia disarmed the people and hired cowards to protect them.

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

And then elected slimy Newsom-lite politicians to govern them.

Posted by: Decaf at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (E8S6f)

104 Back the blue!!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (udlma)

105 62 Do Aussies get locked up for mean speak on the internet?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:23 PM (pkeXY)

I'm not sure but they get locked up in camps for a cold.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (a4iX6)

106 I'm guessing that the Brown U. shooting investigators have got images of the shooter's face but don't want to release them because they are worried about some of the "looks" some people will be getting around Providence as the shooter remains at large.

Posted by: Providunce at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (qUkBO)

107 The proper response to 9/11 should have been a napalm bombing of Mecca and Medina that would have made Tokyo look like a Cub Scout campfire.

An encircling of bombing runs to drive the inhabitants to the center for the final run.

The world would have done the same thing they always do when muslims are killed: Shake their head and see if there's any profit to be made from the rubble.

Instead, we had a pussy who nearly blew out his knee walking over some fallen bricks yelling at us about how they're gonna hear us and the only thing he said was "Islam means peace."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (HXT0k)

108 Norm was on Conan O'Brien's show a lot, and he would tell the funniest long shaggy dog stories you ever heard! And Conan would be the perfect straight man for all of them.

Best of all was the Moth Joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (uWKK8)

109 The cop hiding behind the car is wearing the special lady’s police cap.

I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

That means they’ll probably never be outed as it might throw shade on the idea of hiring 5’3” 100 lb. women to protect the public.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

110 1. The State has no obligation to protect you.

2. The State is actively working against you.

Learn it, love it, live it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (oSeBJ)

111
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: OJ Simpson at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (Zt+0/)

112
And as events revealed, they are obviously agents of Big Penguin.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Friendly First Tier Notice: We can be quite litigious.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at December 15, 2025 05:33 PM (oftw2)

113 "radicalize by ____ mosque".

Really? Then I demand bulldozers. If one particular mosque is the cause, demolish it.

Posted by: RandomDave at December 15, 2025 05:33 PM (aJQbY)

114 Oh, so a 24 year old white dude with former military service was not right?!

Aliassmithsmith must have been mistaken!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)

115 I haven't read how a Jihadists had legal weapons in a country that confiscated them

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

116 Did anyone see the videos of Bondi Beach?

It looked so chaotic with people wandering around while the terrorist seem to be shooting at random. I can't believe they killed so many the way they were shooting, and I can't believe more didn't die the way people were wandering around.

And on a couple video I could swear I counted 3 shooters.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:34 PM (Ok315)

117 Best of all was the Moth Joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (uWKK

The one about the carrot top movie with... that gal from 90210 was the best.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

118 85 Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Soy! Soy! Soy!
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 15, 2025 05:27 PM (Bvyvz)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (zYpTz)

119 Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (X5Jzz)

This man does not own a doghouse.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (8v4w8)

120 115- to deny the weapons would have been racist. They have a permit process there. Which means the government knew.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (cS1cw)

121
Fox...

Photos released of new suspect in RI shootings.

Looking for a fat man with a ball cap covering his face.

Very helpful

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (3ek7K)

122
The avg breast size is huge, but the insects are a real deal breaker.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:30 PM

###

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (Zt+0/)

123 Global Intifada is not just words, looks like. The passive police is really what is needed to make it work. I fear areas of our country would have just as must passivity by the LEOs.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (pDt9x)

124
Really? Then I demand bulldozers. If one particular mosque is the cause, demolish it.
Posted by: RandomDave

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

ALL OF THEM.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (Ok315)

125 >>> 110 1. The State has no obligation to protect you.

2. The State is actively working against you.

Learn it, love it, live it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (oSeBJ)

Washington Nearsider Johnson is right!

iirc there's even been a SCOTUS case that essentially said #1, and #2 should be obvious from all the insane grifting and worse exposed in the past few years.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (ULPxl)

126 111 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: OJ Simpson at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (Zt+0/)

ALSO DEAD! Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024)

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:36 PM (RuTUS)

127 The cop hiding behind the car is wearing the special lady’s police cap.

I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

That means they’ll probably never be outed as it might throw shade on the idea of hiring 5’3” 100 lb. women to protect the public.
---
Remember how we had our own Special Agent Fupa assigned to protect President Trump?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 05:36 PM (HXT0k)

128 Let me think this out: Murderous ISIS aligned Islamic terrorists attack several hundred unarmed Jew celebrating Hanukkah. The next day the Australian PM notes that the real threat facing Australia is from, presumably Christian, right wing white supremist groups.

I have a question for the Australian PM: are the presumably Christian, right wing white supremist groups in the room with you right now?

Memo to Australia: You have a choice to either kick them out of the country now, have to kill them later a protracted guerilla war, or eventually surrender to these savages and be exterminated. It should be noted the Reconquista took 700 years; doing it later might take a while. In the meantime you have Eurovision as a distraction.

Milkshake Man
Go-Jo
Australian 2025 Eurovision Entry
https://youtu.be/5lSsijRZmrs

Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:36 PM (uv8gn)

129 By the way, why is a police press conference in Rhode Island partially in Spanish? When did that become an official language?

Posted by: Decaf at December 15, 2025 05:36 PM (E8S6f)

130 Stop letting women be cops.

Posted by: There. I said it at December 15, 2025 05:36 PM (Zt+0/)

131 As others have said, my greatest fear is for the backlash that could happen against moslems should ISIS detonate a dirty bomb in downtown Manhattan

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (rbvCR)

132 91 s Comrade Flounder and I pointed out late in the last thread, the Koala Klux Klan and the Kangaroo Klux Klan should not simply be dismissed as harmless.
Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:19 PM (2L+MU)

And as events revealed, they are obviously agents of Big Penguin. - Comrade Flounder

Hey, the Penguin Antipodal Cooperative Organization just rents an office in the same building. Just a coincidence.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (2L+MU)

133 The Aussie copwoman cowering behind the patrol car is reminiscent of the SS woman having difficulty holstering her piece. Is there a commonality here?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 15, 2025 05:24 PM (bNf8H)

Was she even armed? I remember reading somewhere on the twatters that the Aussie police didn't even have guns themselves. Of course they're going to cower behind the nearest obstacle. Why even have police, ffs?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (zYpTz)

134 Blaming anti-Semitism is the easy way out. It is a symptom, downstream of the real problem: Letting a bunch of third world Islamic savages into your country.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (MZ+PY)

135 115 I haven't read how a Jihadists had legal weapons in a country that confiscated them
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

It’s a good question, as I just read an article explaining that to obtain a firearm license in Australia a person must provide one other legitimate reason to own one other than ‘self-defense’.

Which basically means you have to be a farmer who needs to protect livestock or a hunter or a professional shooter, or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (6ydKt)

136 The cop hiding behind the car is wearing the special lady’s police cap.

I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

That means they’ll probably never be outed as it might throw shade on the idea of hiring 5’3” 100 lb. women to protect the public.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

The real cops were out chasing down people who were making memes on Facebook.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (rbvCR)

137 119 Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 15, 2025 05:29 PM (X5Jzz)

This man does not own a doghouse.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:35 PM (8v4w

I don't get this one. I want to get it, I just don't.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (RuTUS)

138 Australia isn't just where Britain sent their criminals, it's also where they sent their surplus moral busybodies.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (0bjKf)

139 102 I applaud the FBI that prevented the bombings. Maybe some woke agents will be inspired.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 05:31 PM (cDzwv)

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What's disgusting is they're crediting Trump's recent Executive Order for this result?

Hey pre-EO FBI -- what would you say you do here?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (Ct4LV)

140 Hmmm. Fat man in ball cap. Michael Moore?

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (pDt9x)

141 Maybe we should have Green Flag laws.

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2025 05:38 PM (FhXTo)

142 I think Australians are a lot closer in spirit to Americans than those guys up north of us.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (g47mK)

143 it would seem Porsche might have finished off the brand, or profitability anyway, with the genius to brick Porsche's in Russia, reasons

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (WZ/rU)

144 >>I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

We know at least one was a 'man'.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (IaZ7c)

145 The proper response to 9/11 should have been a napalm bombing of Mecca and Medina that would have made Tokyo look like a Cub Scout campfire.

An encircling of bombing runs to drive the inhabitants to the center for the final run.

The world would have done the same thing they always do when muslims are killed: Shake their head and see if there's any profit to be made from the rubble.

Instead, we had a pussy who nearly blew out his knee walking over some fallen bricks yelling at us about how they're gonna hear us and the only thing he said was "Islam means peace."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 05:32 PM (HXT0k)

Man, no shit. The first thing I said was they need to nuke that borg cube in mecca and outlaw islam in the west, and anybody that complains gets hunted down and exterminated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (snZF9)

146 The cop will get an award for keeping his/her hat on in a terrorist attack.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 05:40 PM (D+mpw)

147 Where are all the mosques?

https://x.com/kharon1900/status/1940070412354036122

Posted by: Oz doesn't even make the list. at December 15, 2025 05:40 PM (Zt+0/)

148 All the best cops and agents are women according to entertainment programs.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 05:40 PM (pDt9x)

149 Good evening!
When are people going to start going to prison?
Let’s start with Sparkle Markle. I hate her.

Posted by: Jmel at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (bVhJi)

150
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE TOLD A NORM JOKE ABOUT NORM !

That would take five minutes to arrive at an unfunny punch line.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (pkeXY)

151 Police release a new suspect video of Brown U shooter
From a block away

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

152 >>Stop letting women be cops.

'And. Fuck the Metermaids.
... fuck'em.
That's just how I feel, man.'

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (IaZ7c)

153 Norm “doghouse” joke:

youtu.be/Oseqh7SMIvo

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (8v4w8)

154 107 The proper response to 9/11 should have been a napalm bombing of Mecca and Medina that would have made Tokyo look like a Cub Scout campfire.

An encircling of bombing runs to drive the inhabitants to the center for the final run.
...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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This trash comment is an insult to the blog.
Think before you comment!

Napalm is no good on stone buildings in the desert.
Fuel air explosives or cluster bombs. Or even nukes.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (Ok315)

155 The PPP (Polymorphic Perverse Penguins) have long been affiliated with various other shady three letter organizations, all primarily promoted by the mysterious propagandist "Paco".

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (vFG9F)

156 The first thing I said was they need to nuke that borg cube in mecca and outlaw islam in the west,

The problem with bombing the rock is that you have to make absolutely sure that your bombs will destroy it the first time they hit.

Can you imagine how much worse they'd be if we bombed their block and it survived?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (a+4eV)

157 Was she even armed? I remember reading somewhere on the twatters that the Aussie police didn't even have guns themselves. Of course they're going to cower behind the nearest obstacle. Why even have police, ffs?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (zYpTz)

There must be some with guns as they started shooting back after an unarmed Syrian shop owner walking down the street took it upon himself to disarm one of the terrorists.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

158 Let’s start with Sparkle Markle. I hate her.
Posted by: Jmel at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (bVhJi)

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Ugh, me too. And her whiny bitch of a husband.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (DRSnL)

159 153 Norm “doghouse” joke:

youtu.be/Oseqh7SMIvo
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (8v4w

Thank you!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (RuTUS)

160 All the best cops and agents are women according to entertainment programs.
Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 05:40 PM (pDt9x)
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I have to applaud the new Fantastic 4 movie for being the first Marvel movie to almost entirely marginalize the men.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:43 PM (krQz2)

161 If you bribe the right politicians you can probably own a nuke. This December 2025 :
"Documents have revealed new details of a meeting between the Home Affairs Minister and an NGO requesting repatriation of the so-called ISIS brides..."
https://tinyurl.com/99a9dby7

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

162 It’s a good question, as I just read an article explaining that to obtain a firearm license in Australia a person must provide one other legitimate reason to own one other than ‘self-defense’.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:37 PM (6ydKt)

Jihad. It's right there on the application, duh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:43 PM (zYpTz)

163 Look, I'm normally a pretty decent person, but after watching those clips...
Aren't those faces just crying out for a good solid punch?

I mean right in the center. 5 knuckles...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 05:43 PM (XuXeR)

164 The worst thing with the hiding cop is she's cowering behind the gas tank of the car. A hot round will pass through that like butter. So stupid and cowardly.

For people on this site... If you need to duck gun fire, your best chance is behind the engine block.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (wBaIH)

165 at their mosque, the Al-Murad Islamic center in Sydney

Does anybody come out of a mosque de-radicalized?

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (FhXTo)

166 Ace their is video of a Female Police officer refusing to let go of the Police van and a Male officer has to pull her off.
Don't know if you saw it

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (FCrpy)

167 It sounds like our betters will simply call these attacks right wing extremism and leave it at that. No elaboration, just bury everything under RWE and call a lid.

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (8jVAy)

168 It is not enough Albanese government "repatriated" ISIS into Australia, they are also "repatriating" their child slave-"brides".

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (g47mK)

169 Well, no, he didn't pose an immediate threat THEN. But that's the funny thing about threats: ones that weren't immediate once suddenly become immediate. Schmuck.

Posted by: GWB at December 15, 2025 05:44 PM (23rkR)

170 129 By the way, why is a police press conference in Rhode Island partially in Spanish? When did that become an official language?
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Have to let our unassimilated replacements know what's going on.

Posted by: Providunce at December 15, 2025 05:45 PM (qUkBO)

171 t’s a good question, as I just read an article explaining that to obtain a firearm license in Australia a person must provide one other legitimate reason to own one other than ‘self-defense’.

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"I want to kill Jews and Free Palestine"
"Approved!!"

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:45 PM (g47mK)

172 Can you imagine how much worse they'd be if we bombed their block and it survived?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (a+4eV)

The cube is just the house for the rock.

The meteor rock itself is about the size of a tennis ball and sits inside of an enclosure about five feet off the ground on one of the corners of the cube.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 05:45 PM (6ydKt)

173 The problem with bombing the rock is that you have to make absolutely sure that your bombs will destroy it the first time they hit.

Can you imagine how much worse they'd be if we bombed their block and it survived?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (a+4eV)

Use a big enough nuke and there wouldn't be anybody left to see if it survived. Kinda the point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:45 PM (snZF9)

174 "I just read an article explaining that to obtain a firearm license in Australia a person must provide one other legitimate reason to own one other than ‘self-defense’."

Hunting. I don't think you have to say what you are going to hunt.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

175 I think Australians are a lot closer in spirit to Americans than those guys up north of us.
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (g47mK)
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They'll all be a lot closer to God if they don't man up. The PRC recently sent a squadron of warships to circumnavigate Australia, and the Australian government's response was to disarm the Australian people. A strange, infantile mindset.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (rj6Yv)

176 Nuke it once and then nuke it again just to be sure.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (vFG9F)

177 For people on this site... If you need to duck gun fire, your best chance is behind the engine block.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Disinformation! Since cops first had cars, every movie and TV program had the officer talking shelter behind an open car door. They must be impervious to gunfire.

Posted by: Malloy, Reed, Friday, Gannon, Etc. at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (oftw2)

178 144 >>I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

We know at least one was a 'man'.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (IaZ7c)
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The cops in Uvalde, TX waited for over an hour.

Posted by: WisRich at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (G0vdT)

179 164 For people on this site... If you need to duck gun fire, your best chance is behind the engine block.

unles a 55-gallon drum is available

Posted by: macgyver at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (v3pYe)

180 ...Man, no shit. The first thing I said was they need to nuke that borg cube in mecca and outlaw islam in the west, and anybody that complains gets hunted down and exterminated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (snZF9)

My first action would have been to call the Rand McNally people to tell them they'd be needing to issue a new World Atlas with a big, gaping blank spot where Afghanistan used to be.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (Bkn5k)

181 159 153 Norm “doghouse” joke:

youtu.be/Oseqh7SMIvo
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (8v4w

Thank you!
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (RuTUS)

hahahahahahaha!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (RuTUS)

182 >>Hunting. I don't think you have to say what you are going to hunt.

Here is the conundrum in AUS. They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (IaZ7c)

183 That's the same Aussie police that were beating their own countrymen unconscious when the people didn't want to be treated like prisoners in their own homes during COVID.

YUUUUUUP

Posted by: GigantorX at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (U2WgK)

184 Nothing happens after the Kirk murder. Nothing happened after the Muslim Army slaughter.
Or the Muslim gay nightclub slaughter. Or the Muslim national guard slaughter.
Or any of the 100 examples.

So will anything happen now? Probably not.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 05:49 PM (udlma)

185 Here is the conundrum in AUS. They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (IaZ7c)

they should import wolves and foxes !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:49 PM (g47mK)

186 "Here is the conundrum in AUS. They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (IaZ7c)

they should import wolves and foxes !
Posted by: runner "

Somalians. They'll eat anything. They can have ours.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

187
If i remember correctly, Knives and machetes are banned in Australia.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (3ek7K)

188 144 >>I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

We know at least one was a 'man'.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (IaZ7c)

My understanding he was shot.

What's indurating the Police station was within walking distance and it took 20 Minutes

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (FCrpy)

189 Here is the conundrum in AUS. They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (IaZ7c)

All because some idiot Brit decided that he wanted "a taste of home."

Posted by: pookysgirl is not a rabbit fan at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (Y4MKF)

190 How about pointy sticks?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (vFG9F)

191 Somehow certain murders seem to go down the rabbit hole

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)

192 187 If i remember correctly, Knives and machetes are banned in Australia.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (3ek7K)

And cars and rope and zipties and hammers.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (RuTUS)

193 So what countries have he capability to monitor ICBMs and ID where a nuke comes from?
- US, Russia, China, Israel, Japan, UK, India, ... maybe others in EU and Korea.

If we sent a present to Mecca, who would rat out the source?
I think the only one to worry about is UK. All the others would just be relieved that we finally engaged and could get this civilization war over with.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (Ok315)

194 "or his connections to ISIS, but they did not believe he posed an immediate threat. Reports indicate he and his father were radicalized at their mosque, the Al-Murad Islamic center in Sydney."

EVERYONE with ANY connection to ISIS should be deported.

In this case the entire Mosque, and all their family, should be deported. Then the mosque razed to the ground.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (gDhA9)

195
The deadliest creature in Oz now is the Spineless Elected Pussy.

They'll take you out every time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (xG4kz)

196 I saw Surplus Moral Busybodies open for Bleak Squad at The Last Laugh in '20.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (Px5Fl)

197 Well,the Aussies were cheerfully turning over their rights to the government, and now they see what comes of it. They will vote for PM Albanese again, no problem.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (4786I)

198 How about pointy sticks?
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (vFG9F)

Only if you can defend yourself against a banana.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (k9OZB)

199 "The worst thing with the hiding cop is she's cowering behind the gas tank of the car. A hot round will pass through that like butter. So stupid and cowardly."

she seems to behind a wheel, which offers better protection. But behind the engine block is (from YouTube guy) better.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (vbXSk)

200
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is my hero. (I posted earlier in the day, watch the 1h.22 minute interview with her. She is the best.)

https://tinyurl.com/5ayfvxdu

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

201 Communists using Islamic terror as a method to strike at enemies and increase power. It's the same playbook over and over. Wolves, road construction, minimum wages, exporting jobs, restraining orders, permits, Islamic terrorists, environmentalism, and so on and so. The law abiding citizen, the patriot, the productive, the family is the real enemy.

Posted by: Me at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (kK7U2)

202 If i remember correctly, Knives and machetes are banned in Australia.

Right after they banned scrotum.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (Bkn5k)

203 >>I think Australians are a lot closer in spirit to Americans than those guys up north of us.

Nope. They are a Commonwealth country and are more aligned with the UK and Canada than us. Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

204 Nuking the Borg cube is not who we are. Now granddad. He knew how to win.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (cS1cw)

205 I posted this into the last thread because I'm a dummy, but there was an opera/gospel singer, Jubilant Sykes. He has been stabbed to death by his son.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:53 PM (3uBP9)

206 Only if you can defend yourself against a banana.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (k9OZB)

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First, you take the banana. Then, you eat the banana.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 05:53 PM (DRSnL)

207 Here is the conundrum in AUS. They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:48 PM (IaZ7c)

So thats what were calling islamic fucksticks these days?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:53 PM (snZF9)

208 The worst thing with the hiding cop is she's cowering behind the gas tank of the car. A hot round will pass through that like butter. So stupid and cowardly.

Shh! I'm invisible...

Posted by: Karen Kop at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (Otznn)

209 Is there any nation on earth that more perfectly demonstrates what happens when men let women take over than Australia?

Started as a rough-and-tumble penal colony with a bunch of dudes conquering the desert and drinking beer, now it's a namby-pamby nanny state where you get arrested for course language.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (5aZAZ)

210 So the cops that made the final shots ... will maybe not be identified out of FEAR of retribution? (assuming it was some cops)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (vbXSk)

211 First, you take the banana. Then, you eat the banana.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 05:53 PM (DRSnL)

Hey, I don't like where this is all going.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9)

212 155 The PPP (Polymorphic Perverse Penguins) have long been affiliated with various other shady three letter organizations, all primarily promoted by the mysterious propagandist "Paco".
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 15, 2025 05:41 PM (vFG9F)

all primarily promoted by the peculiar propagandist "Paco"

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (RuTUS)

213 Nope. They are a Commonwealth country and are more aligned with the UK and Canada than us. Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (snZF9)

214 I watched a dude with a 3500 dollar airgun and 2500 dollar thermal scope lay waste to about 450 rats in one night. It was almost unfair. I shook that bullshit off.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 05:55 PM (cS1cw)

215 The PPP (Polymorphic Perverse Penguins) have long been affiliated with various other shady three letter organizations, all primarily promoted by the mysterious propagandist "Paco". - Penguin Facts

Crikey! Might have to do sump'n 'bout this hoon at Pengin Facts!

Posted by: Macaroni Dundee at December 15, 2025 05:55 PM (2L+MU)

216 I am increasingly of the opinion that the level of immigration allowed from the Muslim world should be zero, for most countries.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 05:55 PM (gDhA9)

217
all primarily promoted by the peculiar propagandist "Paco"
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (RuTUS)
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Not to be confused with me.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 15, 2025 05:55 PM (5aZAZ)

218 187 If i remember correctly, Knives and machetes are banned in Australia.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (3ek7K)

And cars and rope and zipties and hammers.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (RuTUS)
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Serial killers hardest hit...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (ESVrU)

219 Nope. They are a Commonwealth country and are more aligned with the UK and Canada than us. Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

I think this depends on where you go. I suspect a rural Aussie in WA or SA or NT will be less that than in Sydney or Melbourne.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (4786I)

220 Remember, these are the same police that gleefuly shot into crowds of protesters during covid.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (1Nv0l)

221 I posted this into the last thread because I'm a dummy, but there was an opera/gospel singer, Jubilant Sykes. He has been stabbed to death by his son.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:53 PM (3uBP9)
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Oh, man, I saw him perform once. Beautiful voice.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (yNJrI)

222 212 all primarily promoted by the peculiar propagandist "Paco" - m

Preposterous and provocative prevarication!

Posted by: Macaroni Dundee at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (2L+MU)

223 178 144 >>I think the four cops that did nothing and hid for 20 minutes were all female.

We know at least one was a 'man'.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 05:39 PM (IaZ7c)
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The cops in Uvalde, TX waited for over an hour.
Posted by: WisRich at December 15, 2025 05:47 PM (G0vdT)

Everything's bigger in Texas.

Posted by: Including response times at December 15, 2025 05:57 PM (TbWk/)

224 222 212 all primarily promoted by the peculiar propagandist "Paco" - m

Preposterous and provocative prevarication!
Posted by: Macaroni Dundee at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (2L+MU)

pffft!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:57 PM (RuTUS)

225 EVERYONE with ANY connection to ISIS should be deported.

Why? They're no threat to *us*...

Posted by: Aussie Government Goals at December 15, 2025 05:57 PM (Otznn)

226 200
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is my hero. (I posted earlier in the day, watch the 1h.22 minute interview with her. She is the best.)

https://tinyurl.com/5ayfvxdu
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

I read her book some years back. She's overcome a very difficult life, and doesn't want to go back to that s**t.

I'd like to watch the video, but it's pretty long, and I probably won't. I rarely have an hour of semi-private quiet.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (zYpTz)

227 Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.
Posted by: JackStraw

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It used to be real. It's still real outside the capital cities. But the country is basically lost.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (1Nv0l)

228 "They have a bunch of invasive species that require a population of hunters. Rabbits, for example.
They simply can't shoot enough rabbits to make a dent in their populations." Posted by: garrett

the rabbit fences did a little good? But the camels are also out of control. I forget all the other invasives they have. Kangaroos not invasive, but also a problem.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (vbXSk)

229 Are the cops the same everywhere or what?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (4786I)

230 >>I think this depends on where you go. I suspect a rural Aussie in WA or SA or NT will be less that than in Sydney or Melbourne.

That's always true in any country. Australia is a country of roughly 30 million people in a territory basically the size of the US with 350 million. The overwhelming majority live in or bordering one of the major cities.

There are very few who live in the sticks.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (viF8m)

231 208 The worst thing with the hiding cop is she's cowering behind the gas tank of the car. A hot round will pass through that like butter. So stupid and cowardly.

Shh! I'm invisible...
Posted by: Karen Kop at December 15, 2025 05:54 PM (Otznn)

"You ... can't ... SEE ... me!"

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:59 PM (RuTUS)

232 Odds on Candace Owens announces over the next few days that the Brown University and Bondi terrorism attacks are an expansion of the ongoing plot to assassinate her.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 15, 2025 06:00 PM (uv8gn)

233 What's the point of a terrorist watchlist? If someone is a potential terrorist, why wait until they become and actual terrorist? Deport them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 15, 2025 06:00 PM (n5tGW)

234 217 Not to be confused with me. - The Paolo

No, no. I don't want to spend my remaining years running from angry husbands.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 06:00 PM (2L+MU)

235 Remember, these are the same police that gleefuly shot into crowds of protesters during covid.

They endangered the public's health!

Posted by: Some of Us Like the 'Outback'... at December 15, 2025 06:01 PM (Otznn)

236 I'd like to watch the video, but it's pretty long, and I probably won't. I rarely have an hour of semi-private quiet.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 15, 2025 05:58 PM (zYpTz)

yeah, stuff like that I have in the background while I am doing other stuff

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:02 PM (g47mK)

237 Multitasking!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:02 PM (g47mK)

238 218 187 If i remember correctly, Knives and machetes are banned in Australia.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (3ek7K)

And cars and rope and zipties and hammers.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 05:51 PM (RuTUS)
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Serial killers hardest hit...

cereal killers, however, are golden

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 06:03 PM (v3pYe)

239 Sigh. Throughout the West, the it is as predictable as the hands on a clock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 06:04 PM (avHHk)

240 Some cultural Marxism gets killed it's wall to wall extravaganza

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 06:04 PM (Ia/+0)

241 234: vomiting more propaganda you can’t back, I see. (Saudi Arabia owns DC? Wait til they go broke thanks to TX)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:04 PM (4786I)

242 241: never mind, the copramaniac got nuked.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:05 PM (4786I)

243 I am just happy that some dodo did not copy and paste troll's comment...

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:06 PM (g47mK)

244 So Australia disarmed the people and hired cowards to protect them.
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Not at all.

It disarmed citizens to turn them into subjects, then armed up craven men to enforce the Party's will on its new chattels.

It has nothing to do with "protection" and everything to do with "enforcement." Good Party men don't risk their lives intervening against the Party unless it's on behalf of a faction vying for control. Subjects are just collateral damage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 06:06 PM (avHHk)

245 242 241: never mind, the copramaniac got nuked.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:05 PM (4786I)

Missed it by >< that much!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (RuTUS)

246 Posted by: But the cops went home safe and that's all that matters at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM (TbWk/)

Do you know how much a full on state funeral costs?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (4786I)

247 Huh.
Just saw a story about doubling down on gun control, yet bad guys are on the loose and who are armed and dangerous.
What to do...???
What to do...???

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (2WIwB)

248 243 I am just happy that some dodo did not copy and paste troll's comment...
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:06 PM (g47mK)

No dodos here!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (RuTUS)

249 243 I am just happy that some dodo did not copy and paste troll's comment...
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:06 PM (g47mK)

So that's where that smell was coming from...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (VE6XX)

250 The Brown U shooter, we got nothing?

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 06:08 PM (sl73Y)

251 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
To Halt Violence Against Jews, Australia Bans Hanukkah https://buff.ly/j7rXYgc

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

252 Nope. They are a Commonwealth country and are more aligned with the UK and Canada than us. Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

I think this depends on where you go. I suspect a rural Aussie in WA or SA or NT will be less that than in Sydney or Melbourne.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 05:56 PM (4786I)

Just not enough of them. Aussie Land is what the US might be if we stopped migrating inland in 1780 or something.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)

253 251 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
To Halt Violence Against Jews, Australia Bans Hanukkah https://buff.ly/j7rXYgc
Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

France is banning a holiday parade.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:09 PM (RuTUS)

254 Aussie PM looks like he knows how to suck a cock really well. Where do they find these faggot looking mealy mouthed bastards?

My gaydar will have to be sent in for repairs now. Busted the dial this ponce did.

Posted by: The Truth at December 15, 2025 06:09 PM (R/m4+)

255
France is banning a holiday parade.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:09 PM (RuTUS)

So they've won.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (VE6XX)

256 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
To Halt Violence Against Jews, Australia Bans Hanukkah https://buff.ly/j7rXYgc

===

this isn't even satire anymore....

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (g47mK)

257 It has nothing to do with "protection" and everything to do with "enforcement." Good Party men don't risk their lives intervening against the Party unless it's on behalf of a faction vying for control. Subjects are just collateral damage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 06:06 PM (avHHk)

No matter how good the police are, they CANNOT protect you. I do not walk past a DPS trooper or a deputy from the local SO every morning guarding the front door like it’s Number 10 Downing Street. And where I live, “protection” is fictitious. It will take an hour for the cops to get out here.

The phrase “first responder” MUST be binned. The first responder is the poor sunofabitch on the scene.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (4786I)

258 France is banning a holiday parade.
Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:09 PM (RuTUS)

So they've won.....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (VE6XX)

Count on the French to surrender.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

259 It’s cold. Make some nourishing food to keep your stomach full and keep your body fighting creepy crud as best as possible. Tonight is quicker than normal beef stew.

1 25 pounds of Sirloin beef tips (I use grass fed, organic but you use whatever you enjoy. Just not stew meat because this won’t simmer all day)

Jumbo yellow onion cut into 8ths

Baby carrots 3/4 package because I ate the rest (I had rainbow ones in the fridge. That is what I used.)

3 large sweet potatoes peeled and cut into chunks (technical, I know)

32 ounces vegetable broth (I use Kettle and Fire)

1 cup water

Salt, pepper, garlic, parsley, paprika, oregano, thyme, rosemary - I don’t measure, so do this to taste. Probably a little more than a teaspoon of each except salt and pepper to taste and more like a tablespoon of paprika.

Brown meat in tablespoons of oil. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from pan. Brown carrots and onions, about 5 mins. Add vegetable broth, deglaze, add cup of water, add spices, add meat back in, cover and simmer. It can be finished in as little at 20 mins, if you want it that fast, add your sweet potatoes right away. If not, add them about 20 mins before you want to serve.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

260 247 Huh.
Just saw a story about doubling down on gun control, yet bad guys are on the loose and who are armed and dangerous.
What to do...???
What to do...???
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (2WIwB)

RI has very strict gun control and you see what good that did. As in NSW.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:12 PM (4786I)

261 Here is an idea, let's NOT ban guns, LET'S BAN JIHADIS ! LET"S BAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD! How about we double down on that ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:12 PM (g47mK)

262 125 pounds of beef? Gonna need a bigger pot...

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:12 PM (8avO+)

263 Strict jihadi (ISIS, Muslem Brotherhood) Control !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (g47mK)

264
It's nauseating to see this bowing and scraping to Muslims. Their influence in the world is almost wholly negative, they don't and can't produce anything on their own, the zenith of their intellectual life was a millennium and more ago.

The Russians and Chinese are nasty bits of work, but at least you can respect their accomplishments. Islam is a culture of oppression, brainless violence and lack of responsibility.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (tgvbd)

265 254 Aussie PM looks like he knows how to suck a cock really well. Where do they find these faggot looking mealy mouthed bastards?

My gaydar will have to be sent in for repairs now. Busted the dial this ponce did.
Posted by: The Truth
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There's an entire generation like him. My faggotometer has been generating numerous false positives for years.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (1Nv0l)

266 203 >>I think Australians are a lot closer in spirit to Americans than those guys up north of us.

Nope. They are a Commonwealth country and are more aligned with the UK and Canada than us. Aussie man is more an American invention than reality.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

I get the impression that most Aussies are a lot more individualist than your average Canadian or Brit.

They still have the frontier spirit in a lot of ways.
And they certainly enjoy American culture and aren't nearly as obnoxiously Anti-American as so many Canadians and Brits.

That, of course, only goes for their moderates and conservatives as their left-wingers are just as nutty and cultish as their other Commonwealth brothers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

267 Does islam have a hell?

If so, i'll study the pronunciation.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (EyfuW)

268 (The Spectator)
Paris is a city afraid
Dec 6, 2025 — The New Year's Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (RuTUS)

269 While an unarmed citizen was wrestling away a firearm from a terrorist. An armed police officer was hiding doing nothing.

Not to cape for the Auzzie fuzz, but it does look like she is shielding someone with her body, no?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 06:13 PM (mlg/3)

270 I left out DEI in my list of weapons the state deploys against its enemies.

It's not just domestic power driving this. Australia is just another island in the South China Sea.

Posted by: Me at December 15, 2025 06:14 PM (kK7U2)

271 25 lbs of grass fed beef? What are you ?? A one percenter ?!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)

272
Comfort food tonight is ravioli. Baking now and it smells delicious.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:14 PM (3ek7K)

273 Australia has the same problem as some of our states, asshole urbanites outnumber the normies.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:15 PM (pDt9x)

274 Not to cape for the Auzzie fuzz, but it does look like she is shielding someone with her body, no?
Posted by: weft cut loop

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no. a shadow at most

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:15 PM (1Nv0l)

275 A large section of the wildlife in Australia will kill you. Salties ,jellyfish, inland taipan (world's most venomous snake) and other snakes, sharks , insects. Now you have Muzzies. Way to go leftist Aussies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:15 PM (D+mpw)

276 271 25 lbs of grass fed beef? What are you ?? A one percenter ?!
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)

125 lbs, it looks like!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:16 PM (RuTUS)

277 I'm glad my father didn't live to see this. Australia is where he served in WWII, and he loved Aussies. Always said if he couldn't live here, that's where he'd go.

It's sad. But then, I'm not at all sure we're that far behind them.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (s0JqF)

278 Islam is a culture of oppression, brainless violence and lack of responsibility.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They are huge benefactors of the trend for not hurting anyone’s feelings and condescending sympathy of affluent people.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

279 A large section of the wildlife in Australia will kill you. Salties ,jellyfish, inland taipan (world's most venomous snake) and other snakes, sharks , insects. Now you have Muzzies. Way to go leftist Aussies
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I think its either 6 or 7 of the most venemous snakes that have a presence in Australia (not counting the Muslims).

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)

280 No matter how good the police are, they CANNOT protect you. I do not walk past a DPS trooper or a deputy from the local SO every morning guarding the front door like it’s Number 10 Downing Street. And where I live, “protection” is fictitious. It will take an hour for the cops to get out here. ...
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 06:10 PM (4786I)
++++
Yup.

And then when they get there, there's a very strong chance that they stand around and take cover until the bad guy runs out of ammo.

Columbine, Uvalde, Bondi Beach, whatever. It's distressingly common.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (avHHk)

281 I get the impression that most Aussies are a lot more individualist than your average Canadian or Brit.

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I am originally Australian. I can sadly say it's no longer true. Australia has become unrecognizably feminized.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (1Nv0l)

282 A large section of the wildlife in Australia will kill you. Salties ,jellyfish, inland taipan (world's most venomous snake) and other snakes, sharks , insects. Now you have Muzzies. Way to go leftist Aussies
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I think its either 6 or 7 of the most venemous snakes that have a presence in Australia (not counting the Muslims).
Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)
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Even their vegetation hates you. There's a particular tree that will make your life absolutely miserable if you even look at it funny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (ESVrU)

283
271 25 lbs of grass fed beef? What are you ?? A one percenter ?!
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)

125 lbs, it looks like!
Posted by: m at December

1.25. Not 125. Eeek!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

284 282 Even their vegetation hates you. There's a particular tree that will make your life absolutely miserable if you even look at it funny.

those are the ones the drop bears lurk in, aren't they?

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 06:20 PM (v3pYe)

285 282 A large section of the wildlife in Australia will kill you. Salties ,jellyfish, inland taipan (world's most venomous snake) and other snakes, sharks , insects. Now you have Muzzies. Way to go leftist Aussies
------

I think its either 6 or 7 of the most venemous snakes that have a presence in Australia (not counting the Muslims).
Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)
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Even their vegetation hates you. There's a particular tree that will make your life absolutely miserable if you even look at it funny.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (ESVrU)

Not a happy little tree?

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:20 PM (RuTUS)

286 Lessons from Uvalde (and Stoneman-Douglas): The police are not going to heroically confront an active shooter. They are going do whatever it takes to preserve their own lives. Our protection is on us.

Posted by: Martbell at December 15, 2025 06:21 PM (YPOSl)

287 Ironic that a Muslim guy took down, or at least gave it a try, one of the shooters while the coppers Bravely turned and ran away.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:21 PM (pDt9x)

288 My cat Allie likes to do her little "kneading dance" on my belly before settling down in my lap.

I feel like the Pillsbury Dough-squirrel...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (ESVrU)

289
They are huge benefactors of the trend for not hurting anyone’s feelings and condescending sympathy of affluent people.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

_________

Stupid and destructive charity. It's not charity to give a drunk $100 to buy more booze.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (tgvbd)

290 Eucalyptus trees explode when fire hits them . The oil( sap) heats and then bang. So Cali brought them in as decorative trees. Good plan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (D+mpw)

291 I am originally Australian. I can sadly say it's no longer true. Australia has become unrecognizably feminized.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (1Nv0l)

That's pretty sad then.
Oz is my favorite Anglosphere country.

I've always enjoyed learning more about the country and have hopes to visit one day.

I watched some Outback Truckers last week for the first time in years and was reminded how much a lot of these guys driving these trucks would be just like an American trucker if it weren't for the accents and driving on the wrong side of the road.

One of them, 'Turbo', even wore a cowboy hat and had a huge American flag with an eagle on it on his bicep.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (6ydKt)

292 Even their vegetation hates you. There's a particular tree that will make your life absolutely miserable if you even look at it funny.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 06:18 PM (ESVrU)

Not a happy little tree?

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:20 PM (RuTUS)

We want a . . . um . . . never mind.

Posted by: The Knights Who Say Ni at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (dK+Kv)

293 New one

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (3ek7K)

294 34- Those cops should be outed and shamed and humiliated into finding some other line of work.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 05:18 PM

I saw a 10-minute video that was taken from the vantage point of directly across the street from the bridge. The shooters were in direct sight almost the entire time except when the second one was down on the sidewalk. Any American could have taken them out. When the police finally arrived, I was shocked at how many of them were women. The reason for the lack of quick action immediately became obvious to me. It was mayhem on the bridge by that time and those glorified meter maids were of absolutely no use in trying to control the situation.

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (rbKZ6)

295 "There's a particular tree that will make your life absolutely miserable if you even look at it funny.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

Funny how? Like I'm a clown? Do I look like a clown to you??

Posted by: Angry Ent at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

296 nood quick hits

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (RuTUS)

297 15
I used to have great respect for the Aussies. They used to be some tough hombres. WTF happened to them?

Honestly, I’d say they’re women. All the (admittedly limited) examples I see of them are virulent leftists.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 06:23 PM (fd80v)

298 The one time I watched the coppers take down an active shooter was the girl who was killing all the kids and staff in a church school in Tennessee.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 06:23 PM (pDt9x)

299 "287 Ironic that a Muslim guy took down, or at least gave it a try, one of the shooters while the coppers Bravely turned and ran away. "

according to an early morning poster, he was Syriac Maronite Christian

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 06:23 PM (Cjt/F)

300 "An armed police officer was hiding doing nothing."

Name HER .

Posted by: buddhaha at December 15, 2025 06:25 PM (jiDhR)

301
Terra Australis Incognita.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 06:25 PM (w6EFb)

302 1.25. Not 125. Eeek!
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Dammit , Piper ! I just ordered 125lbs of beef from Costco because of YOU!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK)

303 299 "287 Ironic that a Muslim guy took down, or at least gave it a try, one of the shooters while the coppers Bravely turned and ran away. "

according to an early morning poster, he was Syriac Maronite Christian
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 06:23 PM (Cjt/F)

I haven't seen a reputable source for either of those.

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:28 PM (RuTUS)

304 >>That's pretty sad then.
Oz is my favorite Anglosphere country.

>>I've always enjoyed learning more about the country and have hopes to visit one day.

Still a very cool country and worth a visit but historically both Canada and Australia stayed closer to the UK than the US after the unpleasantness when we kicked their ass out. The government structure is a lot more like the UK than the US and it trickles down.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m)

305 302 1.25. Not 125. Eeek!
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Dammit , Piper ! I just ordered 125lbs of beef from Costco because of YOU!
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK)

I KNEW IT!

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (RuTUS)

306 293 New one
Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 06:22 PM (3ek7K)

Posted by: m at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (RuTUS)

307 That's not a knife!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:21 PM (pkeXY)

Aussie cops had no problem killing him. They killed the real Crocodile Dundee for not turning in his guns.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (o62mR)

308 Still a very cool country and worth a visit but historically both Canada and Australia stayed closer to the UK than the US after the unpleasantness when we kicked their ass out. The government structure is a lot more like the UK than the US and it trickles down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m)

They have that dumbshit election rule where you get 10 choices and the losers get extra votes. Also forced voting so idiots who don't care must vote. Plus the same uniparty issues all western nation has once the representatives get paid enough to never have to go home once they get in office.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:34 PM (8avO+)

309 Not 125. Eeek!
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 06:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Dammit , Piper ! I just ordered 125lbs of beef from Costco because of YOU!
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK)

Good economic news on beef futures thanks to Piper

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)

310
Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia who spent all their time in 2020-2021 ARRESTING People for making "anti-Vax" posts on social fucking media?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:39 PM (/KwID)

311
Aren't these the very same "police officers" in Australia literally chasing & tackling people on the street for not wearing fucking Masks??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 06:40 PM (/KwID)

312 I am insufficiently active here to know all the ins and outs. Apparently a commenter was recently banned for mentioning the name of someone that you're not supposed to for some reason, and I would like to know if that was Milo and now we can say it, or if there is some other He Who Must Not Be Named that I need to try to guess.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:47 PM (Sy6m/)

313 Dangit, wrong thread. I meant the next one.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 06:52 PM (Sy6m/)

314 Just read 2 older women and one dog I take it was a service dog were machete to death in Scranton Pa.30s Black guy, no picture just names of the two women. 1 a little over 60, other years younger

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 06:53 PM (Ia/+0)

315 Remember when that Muslim Omar Mateen pledged loyalty to ISIS then targeted a gay night club in Orlando and Aloha Snackbar'd, killing 49 people and wounding 58, and then the media blamed right-wing bigotry and the NRA for it? It's almost as if there's a playbook for this sort of thing.

Posted by: weew at December 15, 2025 07:19 PM (S4IL1)

316 That Norm tweet is exactly 9 years old today.. damn i miss Normie.. RIP great man

Posted by: Dave at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (qkapW)

317 This will only get worse, terrorism is the new wave social driver, government will never shut it down, it gives them carte blanche to impose dictatorship

Posted by: Matthew Proctor at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (OdsgZ)

318 29 19 When did Tim Walz start moonlighting as the Australian PM?
Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:16 PM

+++
After he started moonlighting as Don Rickles.

Shut your mouth!
Don Rickles was a God.

Posted by: Pogria at December 16, 2025 04:27 AM (TXbYO)

Antifa-Style Pro-Palestinian Terrorist Group Arrested, Stopped from Planned New Years Even Attacks in LA

Attorney General Pamela Bondi
@AGPamBondi
After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI
, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).
The Turtle Island Liberation Front--a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group--was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year's Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles.
This was an incredible effort by our U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the @FBI
to ensure Americans can live in peace. We will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice.

Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman
🚨 BREAKING: FBI just held a press conference announcing they FOILED a massive New Year's Eve terror bombing plot in Southern California by far-left radicals!
The four arrested "Turtle Island Liberation Front" (TILF) members -- all from the LA area:
- Audrey Caroll, 30 (leader who organized the even more extreme "Order of the Black Lotus" faction)
- Zachary Aaron Page, 32
- Donte Gaffield, 24
- Tina Le, 41
They were caught red-handed in the Mojave Desert last Friday unloading bomb-making materials to assemble and test IEDs.
Plot details from the complaint:
- Planned to bomb 5+ locations in LA/Orange County on NYE
- Explicitly called it a "terrorist act"
- Follow-up attacks targeting ICE agents/vehicles with pipe bombs to "take some of them out and scare the rest"
- Found "Death to America," "Long live Turtle Island and Palestine," and "Death to ICE" posters in their homes
The media will probably bury this because it's not the "narrative" they want... but THIS is domestic FAR LEFT terrorism.

The NY Post:

FBI stops planned New Year's Eve Los Angeles bombing by 'anti-capitalist,' anti-ICE terror cell

WASHINGTON -- The FBI arrested five members of an "anti-capitalist, anti-government" extremist group on Friday and charged them with an alleged plot to carry out coordinated bombings in and around Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, according to officials and a criminal complaint.
The "credible, imminent terrorist threat" to five unidentified companies' logistics centers in Southern California came from radical members of an offshoot of the left-wing Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement officials revealed Monday.
The splinter group called themselves the Order of the Black Lotus and passed along an "eight-page, handwritten document titled 'OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN'" that laid out the bombing plot to a confidential FBI source, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in Los Angeles federal court.
Four of the suspects were collared in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, where they were captured on video attempting to test improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Los Angeles first assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters at a news conference.
The arrests were first reported by Fox News.
The quartet -- Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41 -- have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.
Carroll and Page led the group and convened a private Signal chat where they used codenames, with Carroll identified as "Asiginaak," Page identified as "Ash Kerrigan" or "cthulu's daughter," Gaffield as "Nomad" and Lai as "Kickwhere."
The group had begun assembling the "complex pipe bombs" with "homemade gunpowder" in the desert when FBI agents arrested them on Dec. 12.
"Carroll's bomb plot was explicit," Essayli said. "It included step-by step instructions to build IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles. Carroll also made clear her desires. She said, 'What we are doing will be considered a terrorist act.'"
The sophisticated criminal scheme involved each participant wearing so-called "BlacBloc" clothing, using burner phones, wearing gloves, concealing their hair, paying for black powder pipe bomb materials in cash and even "placing a small pebble in a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification," the complaint stated.

The “Turtle Island Liberation Front” is an antifa-style far-left domestic terror group. Their social media propaganda repeatedly calls for violence. pic.twitter.com/66i0c9xmpa
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 15, 2025

🚨 BREAKING: FBI just held a press conference announcing they FOILED a massive New Year's Eve terror bombing plot in Southern California by far-left radicals!

The four arrested "Turtle Island Liberation Front" (TILF) members — all from the LA area:

- Audrey Caroll, 30 (leader… pic.twitter.com/Ps0i40BGNO
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 15, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:06 PM

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1
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 04:05 PM (3ek7K)

2 That's 1

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)

3 There are more out there

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

4 top ten

Posted by: Shaftoe at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (Rvxb7)

5

As has been said many times here, head on a swivel and be armed if you can.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 04:07 PM (3ek7K)

6 What the heck is Turtle Island? That isa real place?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 04:07 PM (8Xy/A)

7 Turtle Island? No, thats not gay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 04:08 PM (snZF9)

8 "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Pffft. Fucking amateurs.

Posted by: the Penguins at December 15, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

9 They should stick to what's going to happen in this country, before worrying about California.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (krQz2)

10 Welcome to Turtle Island.

Posted by: TatTwo at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (vFG9F)

11 All I can think of with the name"TurtleIsland "is NinjaTurtles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (8Xy/A)

12
Andrew Weisman perp walk. Video at 9.

not

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 04:10 PM (uGpeQ)

13 Damn Groypers at it again.

Posted by: A Pepe the frog sticker was found at one suspect's home at December 15, 2025 04:10 PM (TbWk/)

14 TILF - Tranny version of MILF?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 15, 2025 04:10 PM (0bjKf)

15 Skip (@ 3 ) is exactly right. This is the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 04:10 PM (Cjt/F)

16 No connection or relation.

Posted by: Yertle at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (wVcYX)

17 I read somewhere earlier that Turtle Island is what some Indian tribe calls North America.

Or something like that.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (Y1sOo)

18 Turtle Island is a reference from some North American Indian tribes. They called Earth the Great Turtle.
Antifa aholes are committing cultural appropriation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (D+mpw)

19 What's that font on their website? 90's Video Game?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (vFG9F)

20 Why do I get the impression that this bunch are rich, entitled, momma and dada pay for everything assholes who have never had to work a day in their video game lives.

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (FGMmt)

21 "Order of the Black Lotus"
------

Well, if it is a 7, I'm okay with that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

22 What is the significance of turtles? Why turtle island?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (c+QVv)

23 Is this real? I mean, it seems ... off.

If you look at the pics linked in the stories, this group is Clown Cringe. The pics and graphics are so cheap and cringey that it doesn't even look like they rise to the level of drunk half-assed LARPing.

I dunno. I'd like to think the new FBI is out there doing its job stopping leftwing criminals. But I've been burned by these cocksuckers before.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

24
It was just Manson Family cosplay, h8rs!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (xG4kz)

25 What the heck is Turtle Island? That isa real place?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Turtle Island is the UN HQ.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (kfTpm)

26 18 I read somewhere earlier that Turtle Island is what some Indian tribe calls North America.

Or something like that.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (Y1sOo)

But why?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:13 PM (c+QVv)

27 TILF - Tranny version of MILF?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

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They had no desire to use an island name that starts with "M", probably for that reason.

Mackinac, you were saved the embarrassment.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (sfpgX)

28 23 What is the significance of turtles? Why turtle island?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (c+QVv)

It's being oppressed by Shredder and the Foot Clan and must be liberated. From oppression.

Posted by: Turtle islands all the way down at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

29 Lies.
All lies.
Because Antifa is just an idea.
And what's wrong with anti-fascism anyway?

LOL, anyway:
I don't think these tards realize that the feds are inside their comms yet, do they?
Even when the feds basically said, in the DFW indictments, "we're inside their comms and are listening to everything they say."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (HXT0k)

30 Too bad they didn't blow themselves up with an IED before they were arrested.

Was Bill Ayers or Weather Underground involved ?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (vbXSk)

31 @26 Turtle Bay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (D+mpw)

32 If you look at the pics linked in the stories, this group is Clown Cringe. The pics and graphics are so cheap and cringey that it doesn't even look like they rise to the level of drunk half-assed LARPing.

I mean, a lot of real lefty violence has come from groups with cringe-over-9000 stuff. And that's probably more true now that they lack USAID money to hire good designers.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (oyazo)

33 The more attacks in Europe on the holidays means less festivals the next year.
That's what will happen here, we are just behind 10 years or so.

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Committee for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-dwellers >>>> Turtle Island Liberation Front

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 04:15 PM (oyazo)

35 What is the significance of turtles? Why turtle island?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (c+QVv)
______

Turtle Island is (supposedly) what some (supposed) native american groups call America. Some of the radical left has used it because, you know, we stole it and all that ....

No, none of this makes much sense. See my comment above.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

36 Pro-Palestinian Terrorist Group Arrested, Stopped from Planned New Year's Eve Attacks in LA

I'm sorry, but have we no more freedom of religion? The terrorists have won if we stop the terrorists!

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 04:15 PM (Otznn)

37 The Earth is being carried around on a giant turtle's back.
I thought everybody knew that.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (vFG9F)

38 Nothing to see here!

//Tater Stetler

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (MUJd1)

39 - Audrey Caroll, 30 (leader who organized the even more extreme "Order of the Black Lotus" faction)
- Zachary Aaron Page, 32
- Donte Gaffield, 24
- Tina Le, 41

"Turtle Island Liberation Front", "Order of the Black Lotus" Obviously they're retards. How the f**k did they come up with those names?

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (0Htd1)

40 Sadly I do think a wave of attacks are planned worldwide for the Christmas- New Year season

Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (YwEeS)

41 It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Stephen King at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (wVcYX)

42 Is Mitch McConnell a member?

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

43 IEDs. They had the right idea.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (Wg6v7)

44 They sound like future DAs and mayors to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (A0sqA)

45 Turtle Island Liberation Front

Order of the Black Lotus

These sound like villainous organizations from comic books.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (pbDcz)

46

Our small town usually has a great Christmas parade.
This year there were only 4 entries.

It makes me wonder if people are scared of what may happen.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (3ek7K)

47 Comment of the day, and maybe the whole week:

Well. Hell.
I've been booted from the choir. Apparently singing "Do You Hear What I Hear" is NOT the song to sing at the local psych hospital.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025

[ Applause ]

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (wzUl9)

48 Turtle Bay
Posted by: Smell the Glove

DOH! I stand corrected.
THANKS

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (kfTpm)

49 What's that number from the 1970's?

Something like 1,500 bombings by radical leftists?

And, you won't find but maybe a single line in any history book.

And never mentioned on any news report about political violence in the US.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (HXT0k)

50 The FBI apprehended them by rolling them on their backs.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (v0R5T)

51 38 The Earth is being carried around on a giant turtle's back.
I thought everybody knew that.
----------------
I thought it was a happy Cherub what pees.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (Wg6v7)

52 Bomb, bomb, Bomb I ran!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (nljXp)

53 @49 if they got rid of the UN, Turtle Bay would be prime real estate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (D+mpw)

54 38 The Earth is being carried around on a giant turtle's back.
I thought everybody knew that.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (vFG9F)

But what's the turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (X5Jzz)

55 If you look at the pics linked in the stories, this group is Clown Cringe. The pics and graphics are so cheap and cringey that it doesn't even look like they rise to the level of drunk half-assed LARPing.

I mean, a lot of real lefty violence has come from groups with cringe-over-9000 stuff. And that's probably more true now that they lack USAID money to hire good designers.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (oyazo)
___

Maybe, but these guys are like in Antifa underoos, like it's a shitty halloween party. Could be real. I dunno. I don't trust the FBI any more.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

56 And I still have no faith in the Eff Bee Eye, it very possibly was a organization they gave funds to to do a attack

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)

57 "Turtle Island Liberation Front", "Order of the Black Lotus" Obviously they're retards. How the f**k did they come up with those names?

---------
Perhaps they're stealing fictitious names of organizations from episodes of The Wild Wild West?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (sfpgX)

58 What the heck is Turtle Island? That isa real place?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025

***
It's near Perth, Australia. According to a commenter here, that's not a real place either!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (wzUl9)

59 I haven't seen any pictures yet. Shall we have a pool on how many visible piercings they have between them?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (vFG9F)

60 We had nothing to do with this dastardly plot! But we’re available for an expensive dinner and have a babysitter lined up!

Posted by: Makinac Island Liberation Front at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (wGerL)

61 They sound like future DAs and mayors to me.

And judges.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (Otznn)

62
No, none of this makes much sense. See my comment above.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

It sure doesn't and I looked at the pictures on the NY Post link and boy the one wearing the keffiyeh has total crazy eyes, like really crazy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (c+QVv)

63
The group had begun assembling the "complex pipe bombs" with "homemade gunpowder"

Use match heads.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (pkeXY)

64 What the heck is Turtle Island? That isa real place?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Turtle Island is the UN HQ.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (kfTpm)
====

Forgive me for sh*tting on your joke but that's Turtle Bay

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (A0sqA)

65 "Antifa-Style Pro-Palestinian Terrorist Group Arrested, Stopped from Planned New Years Even Attacks in LA"

Are the part of the vast white supremacist network that is the greatest threat to this country?

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (GUOwU)

66 Don't think I wanna take the subway again.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (Kt19C)

67 First question: Who's bankrolling these terrorists?

Second question: Why aren't those people swinging from a gallows?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (ESVrU)

68 "But what's the turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron"

Another turtle. Do I have to explain everything?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (vFG9F)

69 Wiki sez: "Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on oral history common to indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America."

Still doesn't mean much to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (wzUl9)

70 Any chance they will blow up Mayor Bass?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (Wg6v7)

71 The spokesman in that news clip looks so young to me. I know its because I am actually getting old but dang. At least there was an older guy off to the side.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (Y0vVR)

72 It's near Perth, Australia. According to a commenter here, that's not a real place either!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (wzUl9)

Sounds like you are taking that comment perthonally.

Posted by: guy who comments with a lisp at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (pbDcz)

73 Our small town usually has a great Christmas parade.
This year there were only 4 entries.

It makes me wonder if people are scared of what may happen.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (3ek7K)

Darrell Brooks ain't ever never drawing a breath of free air again.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (wVcYX)

74 Are we talking Boxer or Snapper turtles here?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (Wg6v7)

75 69 "But what's the turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron"

Another turtle. Do I have to explain everything?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (vFG9F)

Yes, please. What's the second turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (X5Jzz)

76 The “Turtle Island Liberation Front” is an antifa-style far-left domestic terror group. Their social media propaganda repeatedly calls for violence.

---------

But you repeat yourself thrice, Andy.

Do the Democrat-Communist Party next ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (bCUCi)

77
What the heck is Turtle Island? That isa real place?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It's down the road from Terrapin Station.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (pkeXY)

78 38 The Earth is being carried around on a giant turtle's back.
I thought everybody knew that.
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM

What??? Is this some Indian lore?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (c+QVv)

79 All I can think of with the name"TurtleIsland "is NinjaTurtles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
......

One of my grandsons has a pet turtle. He named him "Michaelangelo".

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

80 "A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack."

***
No, he was just here shopping in the French Quarter. Nothing to see here, just move along --

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (wzUl9)

81 >46 Turtle Island Liberation Front

Order of the Black Lotus

These sound like villainous organizations from comic books.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (pbDcz)

Turtle Island Liberation Front > The People's Front of Judea

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (GTqXr)

82 Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western Civilization. Until we accept - and deal with this fact - it's conquest will continue. Suicidal empathy is accomplishing what the Ottoman Empire couldn't in a thousand years of expansion and conquest. Hell, all they had to do was get a bunch of weepy AWFL's to feel sorry for them.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (Bkn5k)

83 what's the turtle on?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (Kt19C)

84 72 The spokesman in that news clip looks so young to me. I know its because I am actually getting old but dang. At least there was an older guy off to the side.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (Y0vVR)

I feel the same thing when I look at TJM's latest video.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (c+QVv)

85 "Yes, please. What's the second turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron"

Dude. It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (vFG9F)

86 Australia doesn't exist.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (Oasjp)

87 Kash Patel always looks like he's just barely holding his shit together

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (uQzkA)

88 The group had begun assembling the "complex pipe bombs" with "homemade gunpowder"

Use match heads.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 04:19 PM (pkeXY)

Cap gun red paper cap rolls.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (wVcYX)

89 74 It's near Perth, Australia. According to a commenter here, that's not a real place either!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (wzUl9)

Sounds like you are taking that comment perthonally.
-----------------
I've been to Perth. They make Swann Lager Beer and talk funny. A shit ton of Opal miners, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (Wg6v7)

90 Its, not it's.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (Bkn5k)

91 But, but, ORANGE MAN BAD said something mean about Rob Reiner! We have to devote 28 minutes to that and don't have time to cover this story!

Posted by: MSM tonight at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (a/dOO)

92 All seriousness aside, this is the sort of work the FBI *should* be doing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (wzUl9)

93 46 Turtle Island Liberation Front

Order of the Black Lotus

These sound like villainous organizations from comic books.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (pbDcz)
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I dunno about comic books, but Black Lotus is one of the most famous (and powerful) cards from Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (ESVrU)

94 88 "Yes, please. What's the second turtle on?

Posted by: a.moron"

Dude. It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (vFG9F)

Ah, thanks. Makes sense now.

Posted by: a.moron at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (X5Jzz)

95 We called him tortoise because he taught us.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (Kt19C)

96 "They had slogans like ' Death to America! ' "

I thought America was the good guys fighting fascists Axis powers tho?

Posted by: Rex B at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (OGnHy)

97 Turtle Island Liberation Front > The People's Front of Judea
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (GTqXr)
====

Splitters!
-Judean People's Front

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (A0sqA)

98 One of my grandsons has a pet turtle. He named him "Michaelangelo".
Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

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Heh. I guess TMNT is a thing again.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (DRSnL)

99 "Its, not it's."

Its to.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (vFG9F)

100 Do they let the abos build casinos?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (Oasjp)

101 If Turtle Island really did exist, by all rights it should be in the Galapagos Islands!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (wzUl9)

102 21 Why do I get the impression that this bunch are rich, entitled, momma and dada pay for everything assholes who have never had to work a day in their video game lives.
Posted by: Nick Reiner

That's a perfect description of my college roommate's hippy friends. They actually complained if daddy's monthly check was late. By the way, like your nickname.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (0Htd1)

103 Turtle Island Liberation Front > The People's Front of Judea
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (GTqXr)

Pikers

Posted by: Judean People's Front at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (a/dOO)

104 "What the heck is Turtle Island? That is a real place?"

It was a pirate hangout (Tortuga), now a tourist destination.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (GUOwU)

105 Feed the TILF to alligator snappers . Appropriate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (D+mpw)

106 Are we talking Boxer or Snapper turtles here?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (Wg6v7)

Mmm, once I was swimming 'cross turtle creek
Man, them snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard swimming 'cross that thing
With both hands holding my ding-a-ling-a-ling!

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Berry at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (wVcYX)

107 So we’re back to the 70s and screwed up leftover hippies in leftist bastions creating communist liberation fronts left and right with silly names and acronyms.

Take heart, if the pattern holds the 30s will be as good as the 80s.

This group sounds like another gender-confused cult of fuck-ups.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (6ydKt)

108 Its too, not "its to". Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (Bkn5k)

109 If Turtle Island really did exist, by all rights it should be in the Galapagos Islands!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:24 PM (wzUl9)
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*shifty look*

Posted by: Iguana Liberation Front at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (yNJrI)

110 57 And I still have no faith in the Eff Bee Eye, it very possibly was a organization they gave funds to to do a attack
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)

USAID money.

Posted by: Taxpayer-funded domestic terrorists at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (TbWk/)

111 I got a new highball glass.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (Oasjp)

112 Kash Patel always looks like he's just barely holding his shit together
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (uQzkA)
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lol I must have thought this to myself 100 times

He is coiled tight isn't he?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (A0sqA)

113 I'll learn all about turtle island tonight on Ken burn's episode 4 of the American revolution

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (uQzkA)

114 >>>Turtle Island Liberation Front

Are they as tough as the Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (8mulE)

115 The most important aspect of this case is to caution against any anti-antifa backlash.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (en2c3)

116 He is coiled tight isn't he?
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Cobra.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:26 PM (Wg6v7)

117 If I knowed it was a grammer test I woulda studied.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 04:26 PM (vFG9F)

118 But trump said pussy.
- msm

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:26 PM (udlma)

119 The most important aspect of this case is to caution against any anti-antifa backlash.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM (en2c3)
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How about frontlash?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (yNJrI)

120 Australia doesn't exist.
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......

Certainly not anymore after putting beetroots on hamburgers and all that Vegemite.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

121 The sophisticated criminal scheme involved each participant wearing so-called "BlacBloc" clothing, using burner phones, wearing gloves, concealing their hair, paying for black powder pipe bomb materials in cash and even "placing a small pebble in a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification," the complaint stated.

***
Sounds like it wasn't *quite* sophisticated enough.

A pebble in your shoe -- wouldn't that raise a flag? Four people all limping at once?

And what is "BlacBloc" clothing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)

122 Apparently a levee failed on the west side. Son just called and said he had to evacuate from his office.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (DRSnL)

123

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (Bkn5k)

124
"complex pipe bombs."

I thought the whole point of pipe bombs was their crude simplicity.

Maybe the bomb-making instructions had complex steps such as brushing and greasing the threads before putting on the caps, or drilling the fuse-hole before putting in the powder, not after.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (azNOR)

125 Anti-ICE, anti-capitalist attack in NYC?
Wasn't the vote in November protesty enough?
Geez, you just can't satisfy some people.

Posted by: Veeshir at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (DxsyU)

126 I'm starting an offshoot. The Post Turtle Liberation Front.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (VF6cf)

127 You guys know this is all a lie and the real terrorists are Mossad and France right?
- Candy Cane Owens

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (udlma)

128 Hukt awn fonix wurkt fur mee!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (a/dOO)

129 These clowns couldn't carry Patty's jockstrap.

Posted by: Symbionese Liberation Army at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (FGMmt)

130
lolololol

You hear what They (the goblins) call "housewives" now?

Besides that dumb "stay-at-home mom" label. Who came up with that? Some faggot, probably.

Now it's, get this, "non-compensated working parent."

FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (/KwID)

131 I was surprised how much attention is paid to abo culture in Australia. The flag always appears with Australia's flag and abo place names are posted conspicuously.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (A0sqA)

132 Do they let the abos build casinos?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025

***
Yes, but the abos are always going on walkabout, so the casinos are always closed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)

133 *Sighs*

Posted by: Great A'Tuin at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (04X1W)

134 "Turtle Island Liberation Front."

Pffffftttt...

Liberation Front of Turtle Island!

Posted by: Monty Python at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (Zt+0/)

135 Phonix is your phrend.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (Bkn5k)

136 "Turtle Island Liberation Front??

Is it anyway near Dr. No's Island?

Posted by: dantesed at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (Oy/m2)

137 MILF>>>>>>>>G-MILF>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TILF

Posted by: Wally at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (/E3DU)

138 MILFS before TILF.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 04:29 PM (nZ3Rs)

139 The Post Turtle Liberation Front.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (VF6cf)

Does each meeting begin with members asking "How'd we get here?"

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (a/dOO)

140 This is from the same team that tried to charge a guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE officer with felony assault with a deadly weapon. This will probably last about 72 hours before all the stories hit about how they’re all full of shit.

Now that CBS is owned and operated by Trump allies, nothing it reports should be taken as true. Update: Here's the story from the AP. It's not a "left wing" organization, it's a pro-Palestinian group.

Bondi finally catches a "far-left" terror cell with under 900 IG followers and a name that sounds like a stoner co-op. Meanwhile, actual domestic terror stats still point rightward, but hey, gotta justify that antifa boogeyman budget somehow. Peak selective outrage. Smh

Sounds more like they foiled the plot of high school aged larpers based on the details so far.

How are they "far left"? Being anti-fascist doesn't make you "left", far or otherwise. Any old school conservative would have been anti-fascist. Neither does being pro Palestinian. The actual far right is embarassed that the greatest threats of violence come from their own side of the spectrum and are desperate to pin something, anything, on "the left".

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (JCZqz)

141 Apparently a levee failed on the west side. Son just called and said he had to evacuate from his office.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (DRSnL)
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Is he driving a Chevy?
/had to ask

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (A0sqA)

142 Seems like there's a "far left" epidemic of violence brewing.

Who'd have thunk it?

Bets on our judicial system doing what they always seem to do and turn these idiots loose?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (NwnyJ)

143 And what is "BlacBloc" clothing?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)

It’s a tactic by anarchist groups for every member to dress in all black clothing and masks/gas masks to make it harder to identify individuals.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (6ydKt)

144 "Antifa is just an idea"

You know an idea that organizes to make bombs and kill people they don't like

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:31 PM (sKqQm)

145
Turtle Island People's Front > Turtle Island Popular People's Front > Popular Front of Turtle Island > Turtle Island Liberation Front

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:31 PM (en2c3)

146 It’s a tactic by anarchist groups for every member to dress in all black clothing and masks/gas masks to make it harder to identify individuals.

AFAIC, if you wear a mask you're a bandit and need to be shot on sight.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (Bkn5k)

147 You guys never let me join your fun!

Posted by: Tortoise at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (KadT+)

148 How are they "far left"? Being anti-fascist doesn't make you "left", far or otherwise. Any old school conservative would have been anti-fascist. Neither does being pro Palestinian. The actual far right is embarassed that the greatest threats of violence come from their own side of the spectrum and are desperate to pin something, anything, on "the left"

Kirk and now another right leaning activist assassinated at Brown.

But, the right is violent in the sense of we use words.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (sKqQm)

149 "Now it's, get this, "non-compensated working parent."
Posted by: Soothsayer"

That sound like a bad deal. I use all the money I get paid for taking care of the house, yard, cars... on expensive vacations and restaurants.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (GUOwU)

150 Great NYC news. Three casinos have been approved , one at Trump's former golf course in the Bronx, one at Aqueduct raceway and one next to Citifield. The ones upstate aren't doing so well , so VOLUME!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (D+mpw)

151 It's the reich-wing gay frog militia from Alex Jones that's the real peoples enemy!

Leave them turtles alone!

Posted by: MFM at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (wVcYX)

152 I can't help but think some quick executions after conviction will help.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (cS1cw)

153 Where can we see pictures of the two chicks?

Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (Zt+0/)

154
84 Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western Civilization. Until we accept - and deal with this fact - it's conquest will continue. Suicidal empathy is accomplishing what the Ottoman Empire couldn't in a thousand years of expansion and conquest. Hell, all they had to do was get a bunch of weepy AWFL's to feel sorry for them.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:21 PM (Bkn5k)

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The trouble started with unprecedented wealth in society. Ordinary people can be utterly dysfunctional and not starve to death.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (VWtfl)

155 Those guys aren't affiliated with us.

Posted by: Turtle Island People's Front at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (V362x)

156 Sounds more like they foiled the plot of high school aged larpers based on the details so far.

Back when there were actual white supremacists in the Northwest they were pretty much all like this, but with meth teeth.

Somehow it wasn't just "ha ha they are dumb" back then

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

157 >>>"placing a small pebble in a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification," the complaint stated.

What, their frequent visits to the Ministry of Funny Walks did not arouse suspicion?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (nZ3Rs)

158 Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (Kt19C)

159 did not check all the comments, but what is Turtle Island was already explained, yes ? i

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

160 Pipe bombs rarely work as expected. You have to aim them.

Everybody thinks they're an engineer.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 04:34 PM (nljXp)

161 I had absolutely nothing to do with this!

Posted by: The Mock Turtle from Alice at December 15, 2025 04:34 PM (wzUl9)

162 Yes, turtles can remain somewhat active under the ice of frozen lakes and creeks. Though they normally surface to breathe every few minutes when warm and active, they can ingest enough oxygen through their mouth and cloaca to remain submerged and alive. They have no gills.

Posted by: Turtle Facts at December 15, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)

163 Are they as tough as the Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 04:25 PM

+++

Or the Van Buren Boys?

Posted by: Kramer at December 15, 2025 04:35 PM (Zt+0/)

164 Sounds more like they foiled the plot of high school aged larpers based on the details so far.

Bomb threats were common during high school finals

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:35 PM (Kt19C)

165 I'm just gratified to be reading a news story involving the acronym "TILF" and find that it stands for something other than "Trannies I'd Like to Fuck." It's a practically a Christmas miracle given the timeline we're living in.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 04:35 PM (pbDcz)

166 Being anti-fascist doesn't make you "left", far or otherwise

The left plays a game here. Take an actual Hitler or Mussolini and of course a right leaning individual would oppose them

But the left just calls anyone they don't like a fascist. Even if they are advocating for ideas that Hitler or Mussolini publicly opposed

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

167 So much for, "It comes in threes."

They're rolling and not going to quit. The knives stay pointed in one direction until PDT is gone.

The Turtle Island Liberation Front. Seriously? Its social media posts have called for "Free Turtle Island" and independence for regions such as Palestine, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. 🤨

"Turtle Island" is the name used by some Indigenous peoples, particularly the Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking peoples, for the continent of North America. This name comes from various Indigenous creation stories that tell of a muskrat or other animals bringing mud from the depths of a flooded world, which was then placed on the back of a giant turtle to form the land.
For many Indigenous communities, the term is an important symbol of their spiritual beliefs, cultural identity, and deep respect for the environment. (AI Overview)

Oh, FFS.

Here's an interesting one: Turtle Island with TaSeti Institute, Phila. 🤫

Facebook: the Final Battle: America is a Negro continent

People need something to do. Period.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

168 Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025

***
And Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:36 PM (wzUl9)

169 did not check all the comments, but what is Turtle Island was already explained, yes ? I

It's what feather Indians call North America. Hence, TILF is the next step beyond a land acknowledgment: bombing the usurpers.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 04:36 PM (NztoB)

170 Turtle Island Liberation Front, et. al.? I would say you can't make this shit up, but obviously you can.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 04:36 PM (MZ+PY)

171
If there aren't public executions of not just the conspirators but of their financial and political backers, we have failed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (x0n13)

172 I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.

Posted by: People's Front of Turtle Island at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (TlGnK)

173 Turtles move to slow , we're the vanguard if the revolution - Frog Attack Group

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (D+mpw)

174 Sounds more like they foiled the plot of high school aged larpers based on the details so far.

Bomb threats were common during high school finals

Are you referring to Super Colon Blow given to an unsuspecting student?

https://youtu.be/OqLPWDE1QhY

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

175 You said "cloaca". It's like "6,7" but funnier.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (cS1cw)

176
It's not a "left wing" organization, it's a pro-Palestinian group.

Posted by: Reddit: Just the Punchline at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (4DY5T)

177 You guys never let me join your fun!
Posted by: Tortoise

You're too old, gramps.

Posted by: Turtles at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (v0R5T)

178 The left will continue using terrorism until one of three things happen:

1) The populace votes out left leaning politicians because they embrace terrorism

2) The Trump admin/state government starts arresting the leaders and funders of antifa and gets them real jail time

3) Right leaning groups use terrorism back against left leaning figures

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

179 But the left just calls anyone they don't like a fascist...

Proving the point that Leftism is politics for stupid people. Fundamentally stupid people.

Lenin understood this concept when he coined the phrase "useful idiots".

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:38 PM (Bkn5k)

180 they can ingest enough oxygen through their mouth and cloaca...

Do NOT blow air into your ladyfriend's cloaca!

Posted by: Michael Douglas at December 15, 2025 04:38 PM (JCZqz)

181 The People's United Front for the Liberation of Turtle Island!

Posted by: Splitters!! at December 15, 2025 04:38 PM (Zt+0/)

182 It's what feather Indians call North America. Hence, TILF is the next step beyond a land acknowledgment: bombing the usurpers.

I'm always amused at how many white/asian lefties are in the US complaining it is stolen land.

If that's what you believe give your house to an American Indian and leave.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

183 This sounds a lot more serious than Commander Bunny and the Rodent Revolution.

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 04:39 PM (ixVVY)

184 Bondi finally catches a "far-left" terror cell with under 900 IG followers

—

Oh I see. You need a certain number of followers before you’re a terrorist group.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:39 PM (udlma)

185 184 The People's United Front for the Liberation of Turtle Island!
Posted by: Splitters!! at December 15, 2025 04:38 PM (Zt+0/)

From the G-spot to the Taint!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 04:39 PM (x0n13)

186 140 MILF>>>>>>>>G-MILF>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TILF

could be worse. could be a gelf.

Posted by: arnold j. rimmer, bsc ssc at December 15, 2025 04:39 PM (v3pYe)

187 Never gave it much thought, but "Turtle Island Soy Dairy", now "Turtle Island Foods", is the name of the company that invented tofurkey. Guess the name is a dogwhistle to people who know.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (130D4)

188 168 I'm just gratified to be reading a news story involving the acronym "TILF" and find that it stands for something other than "Trannies I'd Like to Fuck." It's a practically a Christmas miracle given the timeline we're living in.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

We didn't start the fire!

Posted by: Trans-Siberian Orchestra at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (oftw2)

189 It's what feather Indians call North America. Hence, TILF is the next step beyond a land acknowledgment: bombing the usurpers.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 04:36 PM (NztoB)

yes! From the Ocean to the Ocean the great Turtle Island will be free from European filth!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (g47mK)

190 Is he driving a Chevy?
/had to ask
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 04:30 PM (A0sqA)

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Heh. He just bought a Prius. I guess he never wants a date ever again.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (DRSnL)

191 New Years 'Even'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

192 "Do NOT blow air into your ladyfriend's cloaca!"

Leave me out of this.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (Zt+0/)

193 Fat white chick, frail white dude, Asian dude chick? and black Latin dude. Those are the four turtle magic the gathering brain trust virgins.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (uQzkA)

194 And good Ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:41 PM (zZu0s)

195 Good, moar

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 04:42 PM (xcxpd)

196 Speaking of Emhoff, how's Ella's modelling career going?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:42 PM (D+mpw)

197 Captain Planet then: 5 Multi-cultural eco-terrorists with magic powers

Captain Planet now: 5 Multi-cultural eco-terrorists with bomb making powers

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

198 Four turtle magic the gathering

Is that a TMNT AND Magic the Gathering ref?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

199 No fat chicks!!

Posted by: Like the tshirt says at December 15, 2025 04:42 PM (Zt+0/)

200 Fuck off, troll

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

201 Captain Planet: Retarded, Commie Voltron

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

202 I remember the good old days with the Symbionese Liberation Army. There's a bunch that did things right.

Posted by: Patty Hearst at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (MZ+PY)

203 A Black Lotus can refer to the incredibly valuable Magic: The Gathering artifact card, a rare dark-red/black real-life lotus flower (like the Mo Hong variety), a poisonous mythical plant in fiction (Conan stories), an ingredient in World of Warcraft, or even a 2023 action film. The most famous is the MTG card, an iconic, banned powerhouse worth millions, known for instantly generating three mana. (AI Overview)

Sounds like a zinian spinoff group.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (NFX2v)

204 Yes! From the Ocean to the Ocean the great Turtle Island will be free from European filth!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (g47mK)

Yep. So they can go back to dragging all their worldly belongings around using a couple of poles tied to a horse. Because we're taking everything with us if we leave, including the wheel. Akshully, we should take the horses too, come to think of it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (Bkn5k)

205 We have lots of Instagram followers! It's goatse

Posted by: Hamas at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (/E3DU)

206 Akshully, we should take the horses too, come to think of it.

I think there were horses before the American Indians got here but then they ate them all

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

207 This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (wBaIH)

208 I had to assemble a TMNT dojo once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (Oasjp)

209 We have lots of Instagram followers! It's goatse
Posted by: Hamas at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (/E3DU)

Pretty sure that's not the type of "goat" that Hamas likes

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

210 Akshully, we should take the horses too, come to think of it.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (Bkn5k)

Take the horses, leave rhe Elk and Bison. Good luck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

211 Unpossible. It's known that Kash and Blondi have done NOTHING. Probably another fedknapping false flag faded color revolution op. No way this bust is legit.

Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (U/Byj)

212 Yep. So they can go back to dragging all their worldly belongings around using a couple of poles tied to a horse. Because we're taking everything with us if we leave, including the wheel. Akshully, we should take the horses too, come to think of it.
Posted by: Chairborne!

How dare you, descendant of foreigners and colonizers ! yo have not ties to this land !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (g47mK)

213 White Christmas is on AMC

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

214 Our small town usually has a great Christmas parade.
This year there were only 4 entries.

It makes me wonder if people are scared of what may happen.

Posted by: four seasons
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No Christmas parade in my little burg anymore. Now, 'Holiday Parade'. Curiously, community involvement has dropped off.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (XeU6L)

215 From the river to the sea all turtles shall be free.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (udlma)

216 104 If Turtle Island really did exist, by all rights it should be in the Galapagos Islands!

no, no; that would be tortoise island. totally different.

Posted by: well, akschually at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (v3pYe)

217 But was it fair trade ethically sourced gun powder?

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (Zt+0/)

218 The best kind.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (Oasjp)

219 This sounds a lot more serious than Commander Bunny and the Rodent Revolution.
Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025

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Pinky and I disavow any knowledge of this group.

Posted by: The Brain at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (wzUl9)

220 216 White Christmas is on AMC

that sounds racist

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 04:46 PM (v3pYe)

221 Ok, I am 50 and have to ask:

Is chamois pronounced shammy?

As opposed to chemise which is shem-eese.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

222 How dare you, descendant of foreigners and colonizers ! yo have not ties to this land !

Heh. We'll take the written word with us too. So there!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:47 PM (Bkn5k)

223 a poisonous mythical plant in fiction (Conan stories)

Try Stygian lotus. It's the best.

Posted by: Subotai at December 15, 2025 04:47 PM (JCZqz)

224 White Christmas is on AMC
Posted by: Skip

Please!! That's "Christmas of No Color" these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 04:47 PM (cYBz/)

225 Turtle Island? Is this from the belief that the world rides on the back of a giant turtle?

As I understand the "belief," is that turtle stands on another turtle and so on. It's turtles all the way down!

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (sFNX2)

226
Why'd they want to attack California? That's right where their constituents are.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (n7rxJ)

227 The scandis were in Canada before the Aztecs were in Mexico.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

228 194 New Years 'Even'?

what are the odds?

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (v3pYe)

229 White Christmas is on AMC
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025

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Movies! tonight will have the 1951 A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, arguably the best film version, at 7 Central.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (wzUl9)

230 I remember the good old days with the Symbionese Liberation Army. There's a bunch that did things right.
Posted by: Patty Hearst
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Nothing like a good old-fashioned bank robbery to bolster troop morale.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (XeU6L)

231 >>Ok, I am 50 and have to ask:

Is chamois pronounced shammy?

As opposed to chemise which is shem-eese
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I think it's pronounced "Sham-Wow."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (bNf8H)

232 You won't see "White Christmas" on Netflix. Because.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (Bkn5k)

233 It's pronounced Sham-WOW!!

Posted by: Vince Offer at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (Zt+0/)

234 To be honer agrate Americon Hero we be putting Ron Riner pictures on every FART Tube in the mouth of Decimber . Gets yoors befoor they be gone. Only $39 door ones FART Tube during the sail.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (fUSwr)

235 New Years 'Even'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

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Cut Ace some slack, he's not feeling well.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

236 They were caught red-handed in the Mojave Desert last Friday unloading bomb-making materials to assemble and test IEDs.

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Even though Mojave Desert alien spaceships beamed these losers up and spit them back out.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (qBdHI)

237 Santa went by here on the fire engine last night in an 8 vehicle decorated entourage. Sirens galore. Loud.

Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade. at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (oftw2)

238 NYT: Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans

Ford Motor said the costs come from its decision to make fewer electric vehicles than it had planned and more hybrids that use both gasoline engines and batteries.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (udlma)

239 Fuck. I have thought it was two different words all this time.

I am a fucking retard, raised by books.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

240 Ok, I am 50 and have to ask:

Is chamois pronounced shammy?

As opposed to chemise which is shem-eese.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025

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I've always heard it as "shammy." You'd think, being French, it would be "Sham-wah" -- which is perilously close to "Sham-Wow," so maybe that's not a good idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (wzUl9)

241 New Orleans too? Everyone here is too lazy for that shit. Must be an yankee transplant.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (nyH/f)

242 Just as the ball drops in Times Square, line these four up in the middle of the intersection and execute them live on broadcast television.

I bet that would de-recruit and de-radicalize about 75% of the assholes skulking about yelling at ICE officers and mumbling about socialism not ever really having been tried.

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (H4qGm)

243
205 I remember the good old days with the Symbionese Liberation Army. There's a bunch that did things right.
Posted by: Patty Hearst at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (MZ+PY)

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Putting a can of gasoline in their safe house to make defensive firebombs was brilliant.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (VWtfl)

244 NYT: Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans

Ford Motor said the costs come from its decision to make fewer electric vehicles than it had planned and more hybrids that use both gasoline engines and batteries.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yeah, I'm sure that's it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

245 Set them on fire in a public execution.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (FAIVN)

246 Do you still get free reading material with a new Ford?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (Oasjp)

247 Cut Ace some slack, he's not feeling well.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

You don't know dudes very well in how we interact, eh?

Because his pussy hurts he needs to offend the English language? That kind of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (zZu0s)

248 I am a fucking retard, raised by books.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (zZu0s)
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Try wolves. Fuzzier, plus all the mice you can eat.

Posted by: Romulus and Remus at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (yNJrI)

249 You won't see "White Christmas" on Netflix. Because.

Netflix's White Christmas would star Nyakim Gatwech and be set in an Amazonian village built on Terra preta

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

250 Turtle Island Liberation Front. How 1960s - 1970s. Time to dig out the bell bottoms, a black beret, and my copy of the Weather Underground manifesto, Prairie Fire. Next up on the menu: murderous bank robberies and fleeing to Cuba. Communists gonna communist it seems.

This shit is getting old.

Barry McGuire
Eve of Destruction
https://youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I

Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (uv8gn)

251 It's not Sham-WOW, it's Sham-WAH!

Posted by: Pepe LePew at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (sFNX2)

252 You won't see "White Christmas" on Netflix. Because.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:48 PM (Bkn5k)

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Susan Rice and da Obamas be Decolonizing Hollywood;

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (sFajs)

253 We I see TILF all I think is these weirdos want to fk turtles. Dumb name.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 15, 2025 04:51 PM (nyH/f)

254 No turtles
No peace

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 04:52 PM (udlma)

255
I remember the good old days with the Symbionese Liberation Army. There's a bunch that did things right.
Posted by: Patty Hearst at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (MZ+PY)

Wasn't the SLA largely just Cinque's platoon of white hippie chicks who were trying to scare white women into being his rape slaves? Or was that Eldridge Cleaver's thing in the Black Panthers?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 04:53 PM (y9nCu)

256 228 As I understand the "belief," is that turtle stands on another turtle and so on. It's turtles all the way down!
Posted by: Martin Tell

Yertle the Turtle? Dr. Seuss

No, that would be more like Slow Joe wanting to rule everything he could see.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 04:53 PM (NFX2v)

257 We called him tortoise because he taught us.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:23 PM (Kt19C)

Down with the Tortoisie!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (npFr7)

258 Chamois is pronounced throat warbler mangrove

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (D+mpw)

259 Turtle Island Liberation Front. How 1960s - 1970s. Time to dig out the bell bottoms, a black beret, and my copy of the Weather Underground manifesto, Prairie Fire. Next up on the menu: murderous bank robberies and fleeing to Cuba. Communists gonna communist it seems.

This shit is getting old.

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They may try to kidnap a young heiress like Ivanka Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (sFajs)

260 Santa went by here on the fire engine last night in an 8 vehicle decorated entourage. Sirens galore. Loud.
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Its gonna be tough to get any lift in a fire truck.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 04:55 PM (TN0g+)

261 WHITE CHRISTMAS IS RACIST !!!!!!!!!!!!
In China they have "Black" Colored Snow in the Industrial Cities....

Should be named Persons of Color Christmas so no one is insulted and everyone is included !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 15, 2025 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

262 Execute them, like Timothy McVeigh.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 04:55 PM (rJ48h)

263 Chamois is pronounced throat warbler mangrove

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (D+mpw)

If you turn this into a Python thread I'm gonna' slap you with a fish.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:55 PM (Bkn5k)

264 This shit is getting old.

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They may try to kidnap a young heiress like Ivanka Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (sFajs)

These reboots are so gay and retarded. Get off your lazy asses and do something new and exciting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 04:56 PM (nZ3Rs)

265 The FBI won't put them on ice. They'll put 'em on a fence post.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

266 They should stick to what's going to happen in this country, before worrying about California.
Posted by: Axeman at

I had the same reaction but couldn't phrase it.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 04:56 PM (sl73Y)

267 If you turn this into a Python thread I'm gonna' slap you with a fish.

name = input('What is your name? ')
print(f'Hi, {name}.')

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

268 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:57 PM (D+mpw)

269 Turtle island..lol. I still can't believe how gay that is. They sound like a bunch of pissed off adolescent rejects from an amusement park that weren't *this* tall to get on a certain ride.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 04:58 PM (snZF9)

270 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses

I'd prefer the Roman method with Carthage.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (Bkn5k)

271 Why are these people so mad at Ice Machines or Ice Cubes?

Ice is great with my mixed drinks. The Retard Republicans will make anything a big deal !!!!

When I am elected President in 2028 I will make Ice Cubes great Again !!!!!!!

Posted by: Kamal Harris at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (J9q9v)

272 Explain to me why the Californianx should be saved from Islamic terror by Americans.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

273 There are an awful lot of feeble-minded lefty fanatics out there who have bought into the fantasy that it's open season and no limit on normies.

Although there are also an awful lot of Soros DAs and woke police chiefs and Marxist megaphones in the media, the universities and government who are working to make that fantasy real.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (2L+MU)

274 Bondi finally catches a "far-left" terror cell with under 900 IG followers
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Oh I see. You need a certain number of followers before you’re a terrorist group.
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Duh, you can't get financialization if you have under 900 IG followers.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)

275 My aunt got kidnapped in the 70s but I wasn't around yet. I try to bring it up now at every family gathering just for the shit talk. My parents give me the evil eye. Basically I think it was just a lot of smoking dope with some hippies and black guys.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 05:00 PM (uQzkA)

276 One gets the impression these wayward yutes have spent way too much time in fantasyland. Gamergate back in the day was about too much toxic masculinity and assorted buzzword bullshit in the online video game world. Now instead of Duke Nukem, we get... this.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 05:00 PM (MZ+PY)

277 "This was an incredible effort by our U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the @FBI..."

Definitely! I mean, the FBI alone probably put in thousands of man (and woman!) hours convincing those dummies to go along with the plot.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 15, 2025 05:01 PM (E66lT)

278 I need a Liberation Front too!

Posted by: Oak Island at December 15, 2025 05:01 PM (onZb0)

279 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses

I'd prefer the Roman method with Carthage.
Posted by: Chairborne!

For small groups, there is something to be said for the highly personalized impalement option popularized by Valad, arguably Romania's most famous person.

Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:01 PM (uv8gn)

280 Duh, you can't get financialization if you have under 900 IG followers.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)

Nice callback.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (nZ3Rs)

281 Execute them, like Timothy McVeigh.
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They'd more likely disappear them like they did with John Doe #2.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

282 Oh good, they got that one single set of leftists who were planning on hunting us down and killing us.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (luNjk)

283 I need a Liberation Front too!
Posted by: Oak Island
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It's a put on!

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

284 34 The more attacks in Europe on the holidays means less festivals the next year.
That's what will happen here, we are just behind 10 years or so.
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

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They get us to order everything online for delivery. We get our food delivered. We work and go to school from home. We are addicted to binge watching stupid shows or video games or both.

Make being at home easy and comfortable and make leaving home difficult and scary. This is how they get us all into the matrix.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 15, 2025 05:03 PM (nJthq)

285 Oh good, they got that one single set of leftists who were planning on hunting us down and killing us.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (luNjk)

It was a needle in a haystack, really.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:03 PM (nZ3Rs)

286 One gets the impression these wayward yutes have spent way too much time in fantasyland. Gamergate back in the day was about too much toxic masculinity and assorted buzzword bullshit in the online video game world. Now instead of Duke Nukem, we get... this.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 05:00 PM (MZ+PY)

Right? Duke Nukem was a bad ass. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your chicks. Who else has a game called Land Of The Babes. Now we get turtle island.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:03 PM (snZF9)

287 The Turtle Island Liberation Front 4?

Pull their masks off, Scooby-Doo style.

You'll find Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Darryl Cooper.

Trust me on this.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at December 15, 2025 05:04 PM (YwIpu)

288

The Turtles are so happy together.
The Frog Attack Group are so hoppy together.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:04 PM (pkeXY)

289 I need a Liberation Front too!

Posted by: Oak Island
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Splitters!!!

Posted by: Peoples' Front of Liberation at December 15, 2025 05:04 PM (krQz2)

290 I need a Liberation Front too!
Posted by: Oak Island
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It's a put on!

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

Better than a pun off.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:05 PM (nZ3Rs)

291 Sorry for ruining your Turtle Island Liberation Front party.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at December 15, 2025 05:05 PM (wVcYX)

292 Darryl Cooper?

I don't know half these fuckers.

It was like when the female con influences melted down a few months ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 05:05 PM (zZu0s)

293 I would try to look these jokers up but I already know what they look like.

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 05:05 PM (8I4hW)

294 271 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: janet reno at December 15, 2025 05:06 PM (v3pYe)

295

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the Brown University shooting was a result of President Donald Trump’s “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:06 PM (pkeXY)

296 So, where did they get the training? Who trained them?

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (rj6Yv)

297 Welcome to SuperMax, turtles.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (jc0TO)

298 Meanwhile, Australian PM Anthony Albanese, in the wake of the Bondi Beach shootings carried out by two Muslims, pledges to stay vigilant against not only anti-Semites, but (non-existent) "right-wing extremist groups".

https://tinyurl.com/34m8vdaz

He must be talking about the KKK - the Kangaroo Klux Klan.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (2L+MU)

299 Eh, they were loud with their bullhorns and out there political musings around-the-clock and also privative in as far as lifestyle.

If it wasn't a Black mayor who ordered the dropping of the incendiary device, I doubt it would ever have erupted like that. (I probably have about 24 hours of film on the incident.)

Al Sharpton was more objectionable as a troublemaker imo.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (NFX2v)

300 Makes me think of the cells we don't know of that are waiting for the signal and their instructions.

Guys living maybe one or two to the apartment, in contact with no one, eat all their meals in, go out rarely but if they do wear sunglasses, hoodies, hats, know where the cameras are. They've been here maybe one, maybe three or more years. There are apartment complexes in every major metro area in the country where you can live anonomously, no one wanting to know anything about you, most all strangers to each other in their big apartment blocks.

They have burner phones they don't use, but keep charged. They study maps, read papers, but are not connected to the web other than through the burners.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (KiBMU)

301 As I said last week it's well past time for Trump to implement a Democrat Terror Alert System. Right now the threat would be "elevated" with the holidays coming up.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (E0p3T)

302
271 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:57 PM (D+mpw)

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After months of deaf ears and inaction, the mayor decided to respond to residents' complaints that MOVE was destroying their neighborhood.

By the way, the bomb dropped from the helicopter had three pounds of high explosive in it. Video of the explosion shows roof timbers flying in the air

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (VWtfl)

303 Poorly written comic book hero. Got the excessive brag down pretty good.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (EyfuW)

304 He must be talking about the KKK - the Kangaroo Klux Klan.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (2L+MU)

They are amateurs.

It's the Koala Klux Klan you really have to be careful of.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (nZ3Rs)

305 Make being at home easy and comfortable and make leaving home difficult and scary. This is how they get us all into the matrix.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 15, 2025 05:03 PM

I want to be someone important ... like a cobb.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

306 Explain to me why the Californianx should be saved from Islamic terror by Americans.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Because it's a state in the Union and not every CA is a swivel-eyed leftist.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

307 I would bet just like Europeans 'Right Wing' means Nazis

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

308 Timothy McVeigh explicitly asked to be executed by waiving his appeals.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (NFX2v)

309 Plaid lotus.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (EyfuW)

310 So, where did they get the training? Who trained them?

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (rj6Yv)
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A Splinter cell.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

311 The Kangaroo Klux Klan and the Koala Klux Klan don't really exist--they merely represent an idea.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (TN0g+)

312 Timothy McVeigh explicitly asked to be executed by waiving his appeals.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM

So they told us.

*touches nose*

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (jc0TO)

313 They have burner phones they don't use, but keep charged. They study maps, read papers, but are not connected to the web other than through the burners.
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 15, 2025 05:07 PM (KiBMU)
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Couriers. Tried and true.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

314 Nood

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

315
The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:57 PM (D+mpw)

Nah. The way the Peruvians handled the Tupac Amaru when they took over the Japanese Embassy in Lima is the way to go. After over 100 days of negotiations, the Peruvians assaulted them, SAS-style and killed most of the terrorists. They captured a few terrorists on the roof though, then dragged them indoors and gave them all Excedrin Headache #9

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 05:10 PM (y9nCu)

316
new one

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (3ek7K)

317 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the Brown University shooting was a result of President Donald Trump’s “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 05:06 PM (pkeXY)

What a lying leftist motherfucker that dude is.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (snZF9)

318 I am going with Asian Dawn for the name of my splinter group.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

319
The four arrested "Turtle Island Liberation Front" (TILF) members -- all from the LA area:
- Audrey Caroll, 30 (leader who organized the even more extreme "Order of the Black Lotus" faction)
- Zachary Aaron Page, 32
- Donte Gaffield, 24
- Tina Le, 41

Hmmmmmm. Not a Mohammed among them. How odd.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 05:11 PM (QVmho)

320 Oddly, I feel an urge to hang a Bread's band poster. I think there is an argument this band is what killed off the revolutionary furor of the 1960s Communists. That and being killed or locked up in prison.

Bread
Baby I’m-a Want You
https://youtu.be/XJQe--G4OXs

Posted by: Antifa at December 15, 2025 05:12 PM (uv8gn)

321 They may try to kidnap a young heiress like Ivanka Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 04:54 PM (sFajs)

These reboots are so gay and retarded. Get off your lazy asses and do something new and exciting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 04:56 PM (nZ3Rs)

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BTW, Patty Hearst married one of my cousins; he was a former policeman who served on her security detail during her time on bail after her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 05:13 PM (lhDeM)

322 I believe the move compound got a concussion bomb.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 15, 2025 05:14 PM (Oasjp)

323 Turtle Island?! I'm not trying to make light of this, but.... Turtle Island?!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (Vvh2V)

324 300+ comments and not one mention of Franklin

Posted by: Shonkin Sag at December 15, 2025 05:17 PM (id6e7)

325 The presser out of Providence is featuring some clown hogging the camera performing sign language for those that can't read the captions, and Jose Jimenez the chief of police repeating in spanish all he said in english.

Life everywhere in America in just one more generation, except that there'll be two regurgitations following, the second in arabic, the third in espanol.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 15, 2025 05:25 PM (KiBMU)

326 There was an opera singer, Jubilant Sykes. He has been found stabbed to death by his son.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 05:50 PM (3uBP9)

327 Maybe, but these guys are like in Antifa underoos, like it's a shitty halloween party. Could be real. I dunno. I don't trust the FBI any more.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

I used to watch the Antifa riots in the first term. That's what they are like, LARPers from right families thinking its cool. Later they hooked up with the habitual criminals and pedos for the Rittenhouse riots, but they used the dupes as shields for the mayhem.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)

328 271 The best response to a terrorist group was the attack on MOVE in Philly. Drop a giant flash bang on them and cause the gasoline in their houses to burn down 60 houses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:57 PM (D+mpw)

----

After months of deaf ears and inaction, the mayor decided to respond to residents' complaints that MOVE was destroying their neighborhood.

By the way, the bomb dropped from the helicopter had three pounds of high explosive in it. Video of the explosion shows roof timbers flying in the air
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 05:08 PM (VWtfl)

MOVE were a bunch of nutjob thugs for sure, but the proper solution was hardly to drop a massive bomb on a row house and burn out the entire neighborhood. Ditto for WACO. We need to get these pseudomilitary orgs out of local police force. Have a real military force that isn't in their chain of command to do military things for the each state.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)

329 Turtle Island is a stupid name when you’re talking about an entire continent.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (VFung)

House Report: DC Police Chief Demanded Cops Falisify Crime Records to Cook the Stats "By Any Means Necessary"

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was.
- Chief Smith PUNISHED and RETLIATED if they tried to report rising crime data, BERATING them
- Chief Pam Smith PRESSURED commanders to lower crime stats "by any means necessary"
- Chief Smith pushed for lesser-pursued charges EVEN for serious crimes
- Required certain crimes to be reviewed by her office
WOW.

🚨 BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was.

- Chief Smith PUNISHED and RETLIATED if they tried to report rising crime data,… pic.twitter.com/5SKtDCi3fK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 15, 2025

I'm going to post very lightly today. Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

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1 THE BLADE IS VERY FIRSTY

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

2 whoa

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (er/zX)

3 Didn't we already know this?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

4 In again before the nothing will happen crowd.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (9JDJW)

5 Welp. This is my shocked face.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (Asz1h)

6 I'm going to post very lightly today. Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

Feel better, Ace.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (DRSnL)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

8 once again proving that democrat is a synonym for criminal

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (er/zX)

9 Ace, Please stop taking the fat burning supplement for a while. We'd rather have you chubby than not feeling well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM (wvguf)

10 Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

There's only one prescription...

Posted by: Bruce Dickinson at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM (KadT+)

11 I'm going to post very lightly today. Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

I've learned so many things over the years on how NOT to lose weight.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

12 I know a guy with a "Retliated" Septum.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM (dIske)

13 Ed Rendell was cooking the books re: violent crime in Philly when he was mayor back in the 1990s.

this tactic is nothing new for the 'rats.

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (dCxaZ)

14 Willowed:

For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

15 I have a fever...

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

More cowbell!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (n9ltV)

16 Ooooooh! A report! How exciting! I can't wait to see how many people get into trouble for committing politically-motivated fraud against the people!

Posted by: All Day Sucker at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (avHHk)

17 And now we know why Chief Smith announced last week she is resigning at the end of the year.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (viF8m)

18 I have a fever,

Is it 103?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

19 "Either I have a fever ...."

I've got a fever for the flavor of a Pringles

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

20 Overnight arrests here are posted on a local news site. There's an 8 picture photo array and then the individual mug shots. Usually white people make up less than 15 percent total arrests but account for at least 6 of the 8 shots on the photo array. So if you just look at the main news page you think, every single day, that white people commit 75 percent or more of the crime. Then you have people listed as white who are totally not white. It's all a game.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (uQzkA)

21 "fat burning supplement"

I believe at this point in time the general scientific consensus maintains that no such creature exists

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)

22 In before the nothing will happen guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

23 A couple of months ago this was a "far right wing racist conspiracy theory" and now its official and documented.

And...it certainly isn't the first "conspiracy theory" we've seen like this

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

24 lies, lies, lies; nothing but a tissue of lies wherever you look!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (Cjt/F)

25 Jaw still clenched.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (2ap+5)

26 Huh. Isn't that odd?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

27 DEI chiefs don't fight crime but manage perceptions about crime.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (rJ48h)

28 Chief Pam Smith PRESSURED commanders to lower crime stats "by any means necessary"
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Well, aside from busting, arresting, prosecuting, and jailing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (XeU6L)

29 It's (D)ifferent when they do it.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (UnA8+)

30 Apparently DCP had a quota they couldn't go above.

Portland, Oregon apparently has a similar problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (rbvCR)

31 Potemkin society.

Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)

32 I mean there's Ozempic and its copycats or offshoots, whatever

do they actually "burn fat" though?

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)

33 District of Chazz is dangerous. Who Knew?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (Wg6v7)

34 There's only one prescription...
Posted by: Bruce Dickinson at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM

Well....

We're waiting!

Posted by: Judge Smails at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (bFu5X)

35 Chief Pam Smith PRESSURED commanders to lower crime stats "by any means necessary"
--------
Well, aside from busting, arresting, prosecuting, and jailing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (XeU6L)
++++
LOL.

Roll it up. We're done here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (avHHk)

36 I'm going to post very lightly today. Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Nothing about the Sidney jihad massacre? In a year of huge news events, this is a top ten incident, significance-wise.

Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (oraVG)

37
...this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

Cocaine will do that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (iJfKG)

38 DC day-to-day CAN'T be more dangerous than JANUARY 6th!!

That just wouldn't make sense!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (krQz2)

39 For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.
Posted by: Bulg

I was going to say something about this crime report scandal, but now I can't remember what that was. I'll think of it later, after I do some entirely innocent web browsing.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (EynyL)

40 I saw 4 Foot Tall Mexican Fag open for 400 Blows at The Curtain Club in '99.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

41 Ace, have you read the study that shows ultra high doses of Vitamin D leads to conversion of excess calories to muscle?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11100886/

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (V6W16)

42 Fkin Marxists

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (Ia/+0)

43 Remember the people that live in gated communities and travel with security details are telling us that there is no increase in crime.

Obviously they would know better then normal people right?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

44 22 In before the nothing will happen guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Seems like we haven't seen 'Show us your Tits' or 'First, you will blow me' in a monkey's year.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

45
Cocaine will do that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (iJfKG)

How do you know he's not on the Jenny Crank diet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

46
Her job was to reduce the crime numbers.

Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Y8DZL)

47
She just resigned after her "historic tenure," so even though this looks criminal...

#NothingWillHappen

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (n7rxJ)

48
Seems like we haven't seen 'Show us your Tits' or 'First, you will blow me' in a monkey's year.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

What is that in relation to dog years?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

49 Ace, have you read the study that shows ultra high doses of Vitamin D leads to conversion of excess calories to muscle?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11100886/
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 15, 2025 02:58 PM (V6W16)

Have the scammers figured out the code?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

50 3 Didn't we already know this?

4 In again before the nothing will happen crowd.
------------------------------------------------
Yes, we know this, and the fact that much of "conservative media" is just dependent on telling us things we already know is one (though hardly) the only reason why people feel a sense of futility that nothing will happen. The same outlets that put out this stuff can't even explain court procedures correctly or figure out what a law says or doesn't say.

So we get a daily diet of "massive revelations", but nothing seems to change. This is all in the interest of clicks, but it has a demoralizing effect. As Oddball would say, "why can't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?" [in this context that would be telling us about something positive happening in the states or in the Trump Admin, given how hopeless Congress is]

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Dg7ng)

51 I mean there's Ozempic and its copycats or offshoots, whatever

do they actually "burn fat" though?

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)

So far no one taking it's gone up in flames like a Ford EV,

I'm gonna say no.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (iJfKG)

52 4 In again before the nothing will happen crowd.
Posted by: ShainS
=========
In the case of our cities, crime does happen but if you don't report it officially, the leaders can say otherwise.

Same as Chiraq going after Hey Jackass blog because it contradicted the propaganda of a city of yutes peaceably getting along selling dope, flash mobbing the Magnificent Mile, exhuberant mostly peaceful sprays of bullets into crowds ensuring mostly peaceful bloodletting, and being one of the mostly peaceful crime ridden places on Earth.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)

53 oi, chill as much as you need to, Ace, we'll muddle through somehow, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Cjt/F)

54 Telling the truth is racist, yo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (L/fGl)

55 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive. My family is tall and skinny and rife with eating disorders.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

56 For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
++++
When it comes to Gillan, there is the "blue wall" photoshoot, and then there is everything else. Everything else is good, but dayum.

http://tiny.cc/5tgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (avHHk)

57 What is that in relation to dog years?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

That was supposed to be a donkeys year, not monkey. Phrase I heard once for 'long time.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

58 Ace, it doesn't burn fat it squeezes liquid out of your kidneys. I take Jardiance for heart reasons. And another six drugs as well. Are you producing a lot of snot?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (Wg6v7)

59 Seems like pharmaceuticals for weight loss are a bad idea.

Just a moderate amount of exercise and eating less (including in smaller portions) can do wonders.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

60 *** report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books
---

This is insulting isn't it? I mean this "News" is a month or more old. But, of course, it's government work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (uGpeQ)

61
Some people may have (D)one some things.
In the enthusiasm of the moment, mistakes may have been made.
What (D)ifference, at this point, (D)oes it make?
Old news.
Time to Move On.

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

62 A plot line from "The Wire."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (9JDJW)

63 do they actually "burn fat" though?

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)

They weaken your bones and cause your muscles to deteriorate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

64 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

=====

I've seen this and wondered how people are getting enough nutrients?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (DRSnL)

65 "A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was.

This is even more jaw-dropping than Obama's FBI not looking into the Clinton crime family.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (GUOwU)

66 She is the one who abruptly resigned ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (g47mK)

67 Hope for the best, expect the worst

@libsoftiktok 1m
JUST IN: Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was charged with helping an illegal alien escape ICE arrest, set to begin first day of trial today.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (mlg/3)

68 Leftists like falsifying statistics.

Posted by: PG at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (XSvQH)

69
That was supposed to be a donkeys year, not monkey. Phrase I heard once for 'long time.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

70
Have the scammers figured out the code?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

It's a link to NIH (not that we shouldn't always be skeptical of NIH)...

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (V6W16)

71 She is the one who abruptly resigned ?
Posted by: runner

Yes.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (mlg/3)

72 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive. My family is tall and skinny and rife with eating disorders.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

Doesn't cocaine do the same thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

73 51 I mean there's Ozempic and its copycats or offshoots, whatever

do they actually "burn fat" though?

Posted by: kallisto
========
Appetite suppression putting the body into using up its fat reserves to function but in the case of Ozempic at least, also some of a person's muscle tissue. Depends in part on dosage, the individual's genetics, and whether they try to counteract some of the known issues with it via supplements, etc.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (WDjG6)

74 I've seen this and wondered how people are getting enough nutrients?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (DRSnL)

=====

My SIL asked her doctor to reduce her dosage so she could eat something.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (2ap+5)

75 Ace,
Please stop with all the crazy diet crap. Cut down on bread and pasta and rice. Eat lean meat and fruit and veggies. Move your body every day.

Take your vitamin D

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0c4bd)

76 I suspect this is happening in a lot of cities.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (n5tGW)

77 @libsoftiktok 1m
JUST IN: Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was charged with helping an illegal alien escape ICE arrest, set to begin first day of trial today.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (mlg/3)

CASE DISMISSED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

78 This all started with a simple concept - track where and when crime occurs, then focus police resources on those spots.

But the reports became metrics designed to judge performance and hence became subject to manipulation.

That was NEVER the intent of the metrics, and in fact subverts the intent. The intent is to identify problem areas. Nothing else.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (gDhA9)

79 When it comes to Gillan, there is the "blue wall" photoshoot, and then there is everything else. Everything else is good, but dayum.

http://tiny.cc/5tgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM

She skips leg day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

80 When it comes to Gillan, there is the "blue wall" photoshoot, and then there is everything else. Everything else is good, but dayum.

http://tiny.cc/5tgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That's the same outfit she is wearing in the pic I saw for sale on eBay, so that must be part of the same photoshoot.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

81
Take your vitamin D
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0c4bd)

I'm told garrett is ready, willing and able.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

82 It's amazing how indifferent people are to the corruption of the Democrat Party. But I guess they figure they have to vote for a crook because the Republican might take the gay porn out of the schools.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (ivH69)

83
"playing havoc"

or

"wreaking havoc?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (KPKlu)

84 How many stars does Chief Pam have on her uniform?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (pkeXY)

85
Ace shouldn't mess with his Cortisol levels.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (KPKlu)

86 Speaking of a very deep, nearly-inexhaustible well of corruption...

Posted by: No matter how bad it looks, it's guaranteed to be worse at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (TbWk/)

87 At vet's with Khet. He OK.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (ivH69)

88 my comment from a previous thread:

"Hah!
another "conspiracy theory" that turns out to be true!"

just as good 2nd time around!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (Cjt/F)

89 Crime is down and the border is totes secure!

Posted by: Democrat-Communists 2024 at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (qUkBO)

90 I am extremely skeptical of fitness fads after dude on ewetub is taking meth to get a chiseled jawline.

Dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

91 My family is tall and skinny and rife with eating disorders.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

----

Some people have all the luck.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (KadT+)

92
I've seen this and wondered how people are getting enough nutrients?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (DRSnL)

Starvation causes the lbs to just FLY away!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

93 This all started with a simple concept - track where and when crime occurs, then focus police resources on those spots.

But the reports became metrics designed to judge performance and hence became subject to manipulation.

That was NEVER the intent of the metrics, and in fact subverts the intent. The intent is to identify problem areas. Nothing else.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM

Every metric has a 'sell-by' date, because every metric gets gamified.

Every. Single. One.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (0sNs1)

94 Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

--

What's in it, ace?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (WeQvm)

95 At vet's with Khet. He OK.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM (ivH69)

*thumbs up*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (zZu0s)

96 BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House

"Look at this stuff that everybody already knows!"

Geez. These guys are on social media all day. Do they ever read?

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (Otznn)

97 Starvation causes the lbs to just FLY away!
----------------
Food poisoning works wonders!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:05 PM (Wg6v7)

98 Reminder to self: Next time you binge on smoking meth, call it a "fat-burning supplement".

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at December 15, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)

99 I'm going to post very lightly today. Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me."

You got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2t8usj4u

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 03:06 PM (uWKK8)

100 She skips leg day.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

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Not me, Coach! I've been doing goblet squats and deadlifts three days a week.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

101 Take your vitamin D
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0c4bd)

I think nurse is saying you should renew your physical intimacy with garrett.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

102 Priorities, dude.

Senator John Kennedy reads an internal memo from the Minnesota Attorney General's office

They openly say they did not stop the Somalia immigrant fraud because Democrats would lose votes

“Here's what a fraud investigator in the Attorney General's office said. She said, There is a perception that I'm quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (L/fGl)

103 For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
++++
When it comes to Gillan, there is the "blue wall" photoshoot, and then there is everything else. Everything else is good, but dayum.

http://tiny.cc/5tgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (avHHk)
______

The Blade would certainly do things to Karen Gillan, and repeatedly, but I'm not as smitten with her as many here are. Ditto Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

104 They weaken your bones and cause your muscles to deteriorate.

Sort of like space travel

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (xE0sV)

105 Is is a crime to falsify police reports?

What if you boss orders you to falsify a police report?

What if your false reports resulted in insurance fraud?

Anyway, the people of DC should not be allowed to vote.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (HXT0k)

106 Chief looks exactly like you'd expect.

Posted by: Don't nobody bring me no bad news at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)

107 That was supposed to be a donkeys year, not monkey. Phrase I heard once for 'long time.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM

Personally, I never want to hear 'donkey's year' ever again.

Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

108 But of course.

Does *anyone* who's lived in *any* American city over the last 20 years, as crime rates always dropped while actual crime all around them always soared, think differently?

This is a particularly obvious shell in the Great American Shell Game.

I won't say who it was, but a Horde member who was a police detective once described how the corrupt process works in these cities, in painfully personal detail, right here on this very blog, years ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (BI5O2)

109 If you want to burn fat, try the Himalayan pink salt thing with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and water. I lost 20 lbs and my cock grew two inches. YMMV.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (nljXp)

110 Okay, my head's on straight again. Anyway, agreed with the "nothing will happen" crowd. In the unlikely event that charges are filed, they will be dismissed by a DC judge: any DC judge.

Dismissed for the same reason I expect the charges against Hannah Dugan to be dismissed--they're all part of the elite, and the elite looks out for its own first, last, and always.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (EynyL)

111
Personally, I never want to hear 'donkey's year' ever again.
Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 15, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

Perhaps we should find out what AoC thinks......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

112 I'm out of here. Have fun.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (WDjG6)

113 Cook the books Ace.

Don't get caught.

Mondays, my comments are the stupid.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (EyfuW)

114 Obviously this cannot be true. Next thing you know you'll tell us Somalis engage in fraud, and followers of the Prophet in violence.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (s0JqF)

115 32 I mean there's Ozempic and its copycats or offshoots, whatever

do they actually "burn fat" though?

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I saw that it is causing blindness in some cases. Seems like all the fun things make you go blind.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (KadT+)

116 Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was charged with helping an illegal alien escape ICE arrest, set to begin first day of trial today.

"Hasn't she suffered enough?!"

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (Otznn)

117 From BBC -

Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president

(far-right, heh)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)

118 This all started with a simple concept - track where and when crime occurs, then focus police resources on those spots.

But the reports became metrics designed to judge performance and hence became subject to manipulation.

That was NEVER the intent of the metrics, and in fact subverts the intent. The intent is to identify problem areas. Nothing else.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM

Now do traffic tickets and public interaction quotas.

Posted by: This is how you get dry DUIs at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (TbWk/)

119 How many stars does Chief Pam have on her uniform?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 03:04 PM

Enough to qualify as a South American Generalissimo Somethingorother.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (bFu5X)

120 If you want to burn fat, try the Himalayan pink salt thing with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and water. I lost 20 lbs and my cock grew two inches. YMMV.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (nljXp)

But, the ad on Rumble tells me that the pink salt thing doesn't work and to throw my inhaler in the trash.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

121 If you want to burn fat, try the Himalayan pink salt thing with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and water. I lost 20 lbs and my cock grew two inches. YMMV.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (nljXp)

How are the delusions?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

122 Some guys have all the pain

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (Ia/+0)

123 I'm out of here. Have fun.
Posted by: whig

Storming the castle?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)

124 55 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive. My family is tall and skinny and rife with eating disorders.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

It basically makes it that so if you try to eat, you vomit.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (UnA8+)

125 Guess all those surveillance cameras at Brown were a waist of money

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

126 yeah, eat pounds of salt and drink vinegar, that's the ticket!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 03:10 PM (g47mK)

127 who the heck thinks up these things!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 03:10 PM (g47mK)

128 If you want to burn fat, try the Himalayan pink salt thing with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and water. I lost 20 lbs and my cock grew two inches. YMMV.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:08 PM (nljXp)

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Isn't Himalayan pink salt just a fancy marketing term for rusty salt from Pakistan?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:10 PM (DRSnL)

129 Not from the BBC

@UnityNewsNet
The Government of Bulgaria has been forced to resign after mass protests against the government.

They were anti-EU and anti-globalist protests.

Not a single mention on the frontpage of the BBC website.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (Dv3i1)

130 Take your vitamin D
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0c4bd)

I saw a story at Market Ticker yesterday that the old line of "you need 600 IU [?] of Vitamin D per day" is wildly off the mark. It should probably be along the lines of 2000-3000 IU per day, if not higher.

I am not a nutritionist or any other kind of physician, though, so don't take my word for it.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (EynyL)

131 Some guys have all the pain
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (Ia/+0)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/AqrxgEln_Dw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

132
Keto and exercise. And a 30 hour fast once every couple of weeks.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (Y8DZL)

133 MAGIC ELIXIRS, LOTIONS, POTIONS, SPELLS AND CHARMS !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (g47mK)

134 Is Chief Pam Smith a DEI hire? I bet yes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (D+mpw)

135 Ace, have you tried asking Piper for weight-loss advice?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

136 Not me, Coach! I've been doing goblet squats and deadlifts three days a week.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:06 PM

Double thumbs-up! You can't just coast to another wenching triathaon championship. I'm glad you're taking the pre-pre-season training so seriously!

Don't forget upper-body, aerobic work, and stretching!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (0sNs1)

137 The hot dog diet got me SHHHHRRRREEEEDDDDEEEDDD...

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Isn't falsifying public documents a crime?
Not that i care much...I'm still trying to unstop the toilet.
Ugh.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (2WIwB)

139 Speaking of appetite suppression . . .

https://is.gd/cJ63dQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (L/fGl)

140 Drink your Ovaltine.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (o2ZRX)

141 It would be nice to see some of these lefties end up in prison.

Posted by: sidney at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (Uy/WF)

142 Chief Pam will fail upward to the next largest blue city. And gain two more stars, just for spite.

Posted by: Some System We Got at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (oftw2)

143 The fasting thing is interesting. Nicholas Taleb extols the virtues of the apparently frequent fasts specified by the Orthodox Church. Is there really something to that?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (2ap+5)

144 Isn't Himalayan pink salt just a fancy marketing term for rusty salt from Pakistan?

==

so you are saying some Pakistanis urinated on some rock salt, and now they are selling it as gourmet in the US? sounds legit.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (g47mK)

145 Take your vitamin D
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (0c4bd)

I can't recommend this highly enough ...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (3sXRv)

146
If Democrats succeeded in assassinating President Trump in Butler, PA, what do you think would've happened? What would it be like now a 17 months later?

Who would've got the R nomination?

Who would be President today?

biden? Probably. With another 81 million fake "votes."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (KPKlu)

147 Speaking of appetite suppression . . .

https://is.gd/cJ63dQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (L/fGl)

Blasphemy now served at Chick-fil-A.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

148 I'm still trying to unstop the toilet.
Ugh.
Posted by: Diogenes

I'm very good at that. My wife calls me "the doctor of flushology."

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

149 134 Is Chief Pam Smith a DEI hire? I bet yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:12 PM (D+mpw)

Black, female, pudgy, sexually ambiguous, fashionably lesbian haircut? If she isn't, she's right out of central casting for one.

Posted by: They tend to follow a type at December 15, 2025 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

150 http://tiny.cc/5tgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (avHHk)
========

Chicken-wire print stockings is a bridge too far.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

151 Luckily, today is Throw up on a marxist day.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (EyfuW)

152 I'm still trying to unstop the toilet.
Ugh.
Posted by: Diogenes

Last time I had to yank a toilet, it was because 'somehow' a hand towel got flushed. Daughter had NO IDEA how that happened.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

153 Whatever happened to eating less and exercising more?

Posted by: Jetto at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (I85mM)

154 That's it. I'm NEVER going back to Chick-fil-A.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

155 I'm very good at that. My wife calls me "the doctor of flushology."
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

Well doc, right now I'm using the dish soap and hot water method.
So far, bupkiss.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (2WIwB)

156 The Government of Bulgaria has been forced to resign after mass protests against the government.

They were anti-EU and anti-globalist protests.

Not a single mention on the frontpage of the BBC website.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (Dv3i1)

From a cursory read, the planned introduction of the euro on New Year's seems to have been the inciting event, due to fears it will cause inflation. Which is exactly what has happened, thus far, in every poor Southern European currency where the euro has been adopted.

Not to worry, though: The Week assures its readers these fears are only the result of a Russian disinformation campaign. Sure why not.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 03:16 PM (EynyL)

157 The Christmas spirit!

Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:16 PM (L/fGl)

158 Ms Gillian is peak in the Eleventh Hour episode of Dr Who.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:16 PM (zZu0s)

159 Ack. *country*, not currency.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 03:16 PM (EynyL)

160 138 Isn't falsifying public documents a crime?
Not that i care much...I'm still trying to unstop the toilet.
Ugh.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM (2WIwB)

Everything changed for me when I learned you aren't removing a clog so much as forcing the clog down through the pipes. I've had much more plunger success since then.

Posted by: A Mario Brother I ain't at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (TbWk/)

161 Not an expert, but Vitamin D supplements are allegedly fat-soluble (mono- something) and should be taken with something like olive oil.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (rj6Yv)

162 Catch and Release All-Stars ladies and gents, on tonights' episode the state of CT has decided that community harmony is best served by releasing a cannibal multiple time killer back into the streets under minimal supervision!

https://x.com/sven10077/status/1893371723438854469

Sven10077
@sven10077
You can't expect the democrats to keep their best players on the bench, can you? They need this man in the game; he’s one of their top cannibal morality pet shock troops in Connecticut and was an MVP back then.

// Sports announcer seeking employment

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (MUJd1)

163 143 The fasting thing is interesting. Nicholas Taleb extols the virtues of the apparently frequent fasts specified by the Orthodox Church. Is there really something to that?
Posted by: Oglebay

Yes, the Russians have been a cohesive, kind, healthy society for hundreds of years.

Posted by: Borscht Belt Boris at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (oftw2)

164 "crime"

lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (Cjt/F)

165 161 Not an expert, but Vitamin D supplements are allegedly fat-soluble (mono- something) and should be taken with something like olive oil.
Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (rj6Yv)

(D3 + K2) ... and something fatty for absorption

Posted by: browndog keeps on growing at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (3sXRv)

166
Twitter user @PeterTwinklage (with avatar of the midget actor Peter Dinklage) re-posted President's tweet and writes this on top:

"Imagine the reaction if a Democrat spoke this way about Charlie Kirk"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (KPKlu)

167 I've learned so many things over the years on how NOT to lose weight.
Posted by: Sponge

I learned here that slapping a hot iron to it works pretty well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

168
Screw that pink salt.

I recommend you all try Himalayan black salt - kala namak - instead.

It's the best salt you can use if you want to lose weight, because it will make all your food taste like raw sewage, and turn your house into a redolent box of farts whenever you cook with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (BI5O2)

169 That's it. I'm NEVER going back to Chick-fil-A.

Well I'm certainly never going back to the one in Ogden, UT.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:19 PM (3nLb4)

170 Another cooky conservative conspiracy theory proven correct. Imagine my surprise. Has one conservative conspiracy been proven wrong to date? I think not.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 03:19 PM (xvV+O)

171 Twitter user @PeterTwinklage (with avatar of the midget actor Peter Dinklage) re-posted President's tweet and writes this on top:

"Imagine the reaction if a Democrat spoke this way about Charlie Kirk"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (KPKlu)

They did. A lot.

You f*cking retard.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

172 Drink your Ovaltine.
Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 03:13 PM

There is iron in Eromero's words for all my fans to see.

Posted by: Annie "Ten Bears" Oakley at December 15, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)

173 Yes, the Russians have been a cohesive, kind, healthy society for hundreds of years.

Is this that Russian disinformation I keep hearing so much about?

Posted by: Jetto at December 15, 2025 03:19 PM (I85mM)

174 If I want to look at gay guys who are married I'd prefer I'd prefer to look at Scott Bessent and his partner who are not picking up each other in front of Chik Fil A.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (uPdai)

175 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive.

That could never go wrong. Fortunately, when you have no conscience, there's no price to pay when selling, prescribing, or recommending it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (Otznn)

176
A plot line from "The Wire."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (9JDJW)

David Simon and Ed Burns: With this show, we're gonna show how the War on Drugs is the most horrible thing in the history of horribleness, and that it's all the Republicans' fault, because they're horrible. And they have cooties.

*A FEW MOMENTS LATER*

David Simon and Ed Burns: What the fuck did I do?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (y9nCu)

177 I have a fever

BOOOOOOOGER!

Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (Vu7A1)

178 This just in, Ace has undertaken the Trial of the Grasses in his ongoing quest to gain hitpoints, damage crits and magic ability.

Posted by: The Witcher at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (fzZrL)

179 "Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers"

impossible to overstate how much I wish I could dismiss this as sarcasm or irony, instead of factual truth ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (Cjt/F)

180

Anyone in the flooded areas in Washington State, beware.

Looters are using boats to steal from houses evacuated because of the flooding.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (3ek7K)

181 "Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers"

So, I guess the environment isn't in trouble and global warming isn't a thing anymore, then.

Just hack down all the trees for AI Data Centers.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

182
Combating crime is a very complex process, citizen!

That's why we record criminal incidents along the imaginary axis!

(Yes, this is a math joke)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:21 PM (xG4kz)

183 The inmates always try to stop up the toilet to cause mayhem and upset. If y'all would behave better, maybe they'd move you to a less restrictive unit with higher IQ cellmates.

Posted by: Live And Learn at December 15, 2025 03:21 PM (oftw2)

184 Doesn't cocaine do the same thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (rbvCR)

185 Yes, the Russians have been a cohesive, kind, healthy society for hundreds of years.
Posted by: Borscht Belt Boris at December 15, 2025 03:17 PM (oftw2)

I mean, look at Rasputin. Healthy as a horse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (zZu0s)

186 I've learned so many things over the years on how NOT to lose weight.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, don't go to the texas mome. I gain 5 pounds every time I go.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (snZF9)

187 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive.

That could never go wrong. Fortunately, when you have no conscience, there's no price to pay when selling, prescribing, or recommending it.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (Otznn)
=======

Miranda.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (rj6Yv)

188 Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

Fat-burning is literally exothermic. That is how the metabolism self-regulates: by generating more heat under calorie abundance (instead of increasing fat), and less heat under calorie restriction (instead of decreasing fat).

There is no escape from the laws of thermodynamics, but assumptions about basal metabolism can be false. One study allowing prisoners to eat as much as they wanted found that some could eat thousands of extra calories a day without gaining a pound, as it was all transformed into waste heat. Conversely, once I developed some abdominal fat, I found that running on the treadmill would result in a cold spot on my skin right above it, as if it has its own local hormones set to a lower thermostat, reducing its own drawdown.

If you are unaccustomed to a higher body thermostat, the experience may be uncomfortable at first due to unfamiliarity, but it's literally the same pleasant feeling that every athlete basks in after a workout. Do not be alarmed! It's healthy, and it's even supposed to feel good.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (Sy6m/)

189
Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (rbvCR)

Except when they're bitching about all the side effects they experience.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

190 Well doc, right now I'm using the dish soap and hot water method.
So far, bupkiss.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM

When it needs to escape,
call The Snake.

Posted by: Plissken at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (0sNs1)

191
Yeah, don't go to the texas mome. I gain 5 pounds every time I go.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (snZF9)

Truth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

192 A plot line from "The Wire."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 03:01 PM (9JDJW)

"Juking the stats," which cop turned teacher Mr. Prezbo soon learned they were doing in the school district too.

Posted by: Art imitating life imitating art at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (TbWk/)

193 Ace
You were fat 20 years ago at CPAC
Hope it was one of those supplements that came with a "money back guarantee"

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (GKHuD)

194 I recommend you all try Himalayan black salt - kala namak - instead.

=====

Is this related to the Bhutanese shadow garden grown dark evil pack I've heard so much about? Watered with the blood of 36 dragons?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (2ap+5)

195 Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating
-----
Except when they're bitching about all the side effects they experience.

Or bragging about how much weight they've lost.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (3nLb4)

196 Rasputin was the Paolo of St. Petersburg.

If the Paolo never washed and smelled of potatoes, dill, and vodka.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (77rzZ)

197 I'm waiting for Cap a Marxist Day

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (Ia/+0)

198 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (GKHuD)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

199 Anyone in the flooded areas in Washington State, beware.

Looters are using boats to steal from houses evacuated because of the flooding.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 03:20 PM (3ek7K)

This is where quad .50s come in handy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (snZF9)

200 Anthony Geary died, what a blast from the past.

Luke and Laura were a great couple.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

201 "playing havoc"

or

"wreaking havoc?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:03 PM (KPKlu)

CRY HAVOC AND LOOSE THE . . . Ok, where did I put that?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (rbvCR)

202 Whatever happened to eating less and exercising more?
Posted by: Jetto at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM (I85mM)

Farcical crazy talk!!

Posted by: Count de Monet, tub o' guts at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (wVcYX)

203 Either I have a fever, or, more likely, this alleged fat burning supplement I just started taking is playing havoc with me.

Oddly, a fever is exactly what I would expect to happen if it were working as advertised.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (a+4eV)

204
My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive.

That could never go wrong. Fortunately, when you have no conscience, there's no price to pay when selling, prescribing, or recommending it.
Posted by: t-bird

I had a caridologist in training pitch me the ozempic route to reduce my weight this morning.

"Ain't happening" was my rejoinder.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (xG4kz)

205 Hope that Ace is "only" on Clen and not 2,4-DNP.

Both can kill, but the latter will do it a lot faster.

Posted by: donkey_joto at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (uqGo6)

206 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM

Pretty sure that Spicoli guy thinks you're a dick. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (bFu5X)

207 There is no escape from the laws of thermodynamics,

Just don't report them to left-wing D.C. police chief.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (Kt19C)

208 Yeah, don't go to the texas mome. I gain 5 pounds every time I go.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:22 PM (snZF9)

=====

Wenching burns off everything I eat and drink! LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

209 The inmates always try to stop up the toilet to cause mayhem and upset. If y'all would behave better, maybe they'd move you to a less restrictive unit with higher IQ cellmates.
Posted by: Live And Learn at December 15, 2025 03:21 PM

You realize you're addressing the Day Walkers here? Your comment would be much more relevant if you posted it on The ONT.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (0sNs1)

210 Well, later, all. Got to go to a retirement party.

(Not mine, unfortunately.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

211
Okay, I am convinced: the Democrats assassinated ANOTHER young Conservative. And got away with it. Again.

The Brown Univ shooting was, I believe, certainly targeted.

So FUCK YOU Democrats. And Fuck You those on "our side" pretending to be upset because of a few harmless words said by the President.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (KPKlu)

212 Anthony Geary died, what a blast from the past.

Luke and Laura were a great couple.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

=====

Speaking of gay dudes...

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

213 They were anti-EU and anti-globalist protests.

Not a single mention on the frontpage of the BBC website.

Euro news sources call their current government "center right" but as you note the protests were against:

The EU
Globalism
More Taxes
More Spending

But I think we've seen the left take over all the Euro-"right wing" parties so it isn't such a shock anymore

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

214 Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Fox business should be used for an AI data center

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (a+4eV)

215 Damn it, Sponge, you beat me to it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (bFu5X)

216
Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating
-----
Except when they're bitching about all the side effects they experience.

Or bragging about how much weight they've lost.
Posted by: Oddbob

Vegans are storming this chat castle

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (xG4kz)

217 The best way to judge any city overall is buy property values. If they are high. It is a good city overall,all things considered. P

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (GKHuD)

218 Seriously, though, my stepson, for some ungodly reason, uses huge amounts of black salt. Several people have been urgently concerned about a sewage leak when he cooks. I'm used to it and just open all the windows, but everyone else looks to see if any turds are leaking up through the floorboards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (BI5O2)

219 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (GKHuD)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

220 Man, do I HATE this HABIT people have on TWITTER or X or WHATEVER the FUCK of CAPITALIZING every two or THREE words.

Not picking on this Eric Daugherty per se but just in general. It's such a childish way to express oneself. Annoys the crap out of me.

Posted by: Delurker at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (xNHSX)

221 Damn it, Sponge, you beat me to it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (bFu5X)

#Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

222 Oh. I. am. so. surprised.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (8avO+)

223 196 Rasputin was the Paolo of St. Petersburg.

If the Paolo never washed and smelled of potatoes, dill, and vodka.
Posted by: Bulg

When you are as, how you say, good as the Paolo, ladies are happy to wash it for you.

Posted by: The Paolo, Whistle-Clean at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (oftw2)

224 Juking the stats:

https://youtu.be/xH_6_8NOfwI?si=OtgosqmHc9qTSTyZ

Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (jo6FO)

225 Wenching burns off everything I eat and drink! LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

No doubt, you worked like an animal at this last one. Having MoMes on the surface of the sun will do that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (snZF9)

226 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (Zt+0/)

227 Okay, I am convinced: the Democrats assassinated ANOTHER young Conservative. And got away with it. Again.

The Brown Univ shooting was, I believe, certainly targeted.

So FUCK YOU Democrats. And Fuck You those on "our side" pretending to be upset because of a few harmless words said by the President.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:25 PM (KPKlu)
_______

The other victim appears to be a brown Uzbek medical student. I don't know what if any connection there is. 48 Hour Rule.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

228 I don't want goddamned AI data centers everywhere, I don't want AI shoved down my throat every time I use electronics, and I sure as fuck don't want them reaching into my pocket to pay for their electric consumption which theyre already doing if the recent increase in my bill despite lower personal consumption is any indication. Fucking grifters, thieves, rent-seekers and extortionists.

Posted by: They can all go straight to hell at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (TbWk/)

229 "fat burning supplement"

I believe at this point in time the general scientific consensus maintains that no such creature exists
Posted by: kallisto
.....

There is Ex-Lax.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

230 Lord Mayor Khan, the Sultan of London, is declaring a holy war against Christmas carolers.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (rj6Yv)

231
How can something you'd expect be "jaw dropping"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (tgvbd)

232 It's amazing what people will put themselves through searching for that magic pill........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

233 This is where quad .50s come in handy.
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There won't be much left of the house. Quad 50s are really good at keeping people's heads down, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

234 Brown Note>>Black Salt

Posted by: Free at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (oftw2)

235 Lord Mayor Khan, the Sultan of London, is declaring a holy war against Christmas carolers.
Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (rj6Yv)

Don't care.

They keep re-electing him. They demand this.

Reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

236 The troll is not only a dick , he seems to be drunk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (D+mpw)

237 Wow. Ass is turning stalker.

You gonna complement him on his cute shoes next?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

238 Is Chief Pam Smith a DEI hire? I bet yes
------

She's a "fundamentally non-serious" choice.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (TN0g+)

239
Livestream!

President speaks:

https://is.gd/zq5BrR

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (KPKlu)

240 We are JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS!!!

You need to shut up and respect us, no matter what. OUR word is the law.

Posted by: Police Officers Everywhere at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)

241 This is where quad .50s come in handy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

On a fan boat, of course.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (mlg/3)

242
President is awarding medals for securing the Border:

https://is.gd/zq5BrR

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (KPKlu)

243 "But the statistics show that crime is down..." -- Every Freaking Demedia Yapping Head 2 years ago.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (krQz2)

244 Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

I use a fake tree, but I would gladly buy a real one just to shove it in the ass of whoever said that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (snZF9)

245 Lord Mayor Khan, the Sultan of London, is declaring a holy war against Christmas carolers.
------

Sultans of Swing > Sultan of London

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

246 Ken burns sucks balls. I learned more about the Am Rev from fictionalized 'Turn' than any of his newest bullshit. Slaves slaves Indians Indians now women good grief.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (uQzkA)

247 Don't care.

They keep re-electing him. They demand this.

Reap it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

He’s not an ICKY TORY. So he can do as he will damn well please.

Posted by: Londoners at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (rQwsY)

248 Lord Mayor Khan, the Sultan of London, is declaring a holy war against Christmas carolers.

Whilst installing minarets blasting calls to mooslim prayer at all hours.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (Kt19C)

249
Trump is speaking now?

I eagerly waiting for the criticism here from the usual suspects.

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (3ek7K)

250
Who the fark is our War Secretary's tailor?

Please, for the love of pete, give that man a suit that fits him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (KPKlu)

251 Bustin' out of the hospital - will get my new pump filled EARLY Friday morning, then we are Brackettville-bound for Christmas with the extended family! 😊♥️🎄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (fV+di)

252
Pete always looks like he's wearing his 10th grade suite.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (KPKlu)

253
WhAt AbOuT tHiS, dElUrKeR?

(just fookin' with you)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (xG4kz)

254 Screw that pink salt.

I recommend you all try Himalayan black salt - kala namak - instead.

It's the best salt you can use if you want to lose weight, because it will make all your food taste like raw sewage, and turn your house into a redolent box of farts whenever you cook with it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:18 PM (BI5O2)

Funny you have to pay extra for salt with foreign crap in it. You could just have a second shaker for the black crap.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)

255 Bustin' out of the hospital - will get my new pump filled EARLY Friday morning, then we are Brackettville-bound for Christmas with the extended family! 😊♥️🎄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (fV+di)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

256 This is one of the reasons that homicide rates have been used as a proxy for crime rates in other categories because its much harder to hide a murder than downgrading assaults and thefts and such. That being said, I'd take a much closer look at suicide and accidental deaths that were investigated by police because I think they have gotten to the point that they would try anyway.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (fgmuN)

257 In other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

Been nice knowing you all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (wVcYX)

258 This is where quad .50s come in handy.
--------------
There won't be much left of the house. Quad 50s are really good at keeping people's heads down, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

The idea is to waste the thief boat on the water before it gets to the house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:33 PM (snZF9)

259
btw, the Oval Office looks beautiful. Majestic, even.

https://is.gd/zq5BrR

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:33 PM (KPKlu)

260 246 Ken burns sucks balls. I learned more about the Am Rev from fictionalized 'Turn' than any of his newest bullshit. Slaves slaves Indians Indians now women good grief.
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (uQzkA)

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 03:33 PM (c+QVv)

261 Ace, if you're here...

People are elephants. Some are big, some are small, some are shapely, some are not.

Nothing the elephant does really changes that. Instead, they all walk together, eating as they go and living life.

If you are putting in an hour a day of exercise (even as simple as walking - just moving your body and getting your heart working and blood flowing) and eating/drinking a moderate sized diet low in junk and high in Piper foods, you will be what your body wants to be. And a body in balance and consistency is a healthy body, even if it is 20lbs higher or lower than you'd prefer.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 03:33 PM (tOcjL)

262 Who the fark is our War Secretary's tailor?

Please, for the love of pete, give that man a suit that fits him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (KPKlu)

That is the current look. Personally I think it sucks, and I far prefer the "I usually wear body armor and an MP5 under this" fit, but tastes vary

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (rbvCR)

263 The amount of Islamic politicians keeps rising

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

264 Heal up, Ace

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (xcxpd)

265 When I take my kid to get clothes tailored I tell them I want normal cut and not stuffed sausage.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (uQzkA)

266 246 Ken burns sucks balls. I learned more about the Am Rev from fictionalized 'Turn' than any of his newest bullshit. Slaves slaves Indians Indians now women good grief.
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (uQzkA)

The other day I was at B&N making a purchase of the 2026 World Almanac (42 in the series I have now) and I saw a rather nice book available on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.

Then I saw it was tied in to Ken Burns’s series. The same one that said the Founders were inspired by the Iroquois. Pass.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (rQwsY)

267
- Chief Pam Smith PRESSURED commanders to lower crime stats "by any means necessary"

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The phrase "by any means necessary" was mentioned frequently in the old civil rights movement.

Unqualified, it includes lies, arson, and murder.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (azNOR)

268 I'd never noticed Hegseth has an underbite resembling Karl from Sling Blade.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

269 House Report: DC Police Chief Demanded Cops Falisify Crime Records to Cook the Stats "By Any Means Necessary"

So when is she going to be prosecuted?

I know.....it's DC and a grand jury will never indict her for anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (0N4FZ)

270 The tried and true method to lose weight by making food taste like shit is to add just a 1/4 cup of shit to your food. It works wonders or so I have been told. Haven't tried it.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (xvV+O)

271 262 Who the fark is our War Secretary's tailor?

Please, for the love of pete, give that man a suit that fits him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (KPKlu)

That is the current look. Personally I think it sucks, and I far prefer the "I usually wear body armor and an MP5 under this" fit, but tastes vary
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (rbvCR)

Looking like a slob is the in thing these days. For some reason.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY)

272 257 In other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

Been nice knowing you all.
Posted by: Count de Monet

The Paolo is, how you say, not familiar with this condition and his pendulum swings with lusty abandon.

Posted by: The Paolo's "Playroom" at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (oftw2)

273 The left becoming more unhinged every hour of every day.

I wonder when the other side will have had enough.

Never I fear.

Our GOPe doesn't give two shits about reality even when it's shooting at them.

What's it going to take for the rise up? Nothing

Nothing will do it because "that's not who we are" they mumble as they get loaded onto the train

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (XLfSN)

274 14 Willowed:

For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
and this is why I am not an obsessed tit guy like so many here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)

275 Ken burns sucks balls. I learned more about the Am Rev from fictionalized 'Turn' than any of his newest bullshit. Slaves slaves Indians Indians now women good grief.
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (uQzkA)

I am an ACW nut and was not hugely impressed with even his first documentary, and I had already read Shelby Foote's writing on it before.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

276 Looking like a slob is the in thing these days. For some reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY)

I'm really not a fan of the 'tailored dark suit' and wearing white low top sneakers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

277 Pete always looks like he's wearing his 10th grade suite.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (KPKlu)

Yeah what the hell is up with that. He looks like Bruce Banner starting to get annoyed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (snZF9)

278
Ken Burns is such a huge narcissistic asshole that even other leftists can't stand him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)

279 The idea is to waste the thief boat on the water before it gets to the house.
------------------
You could do that with a M240 easy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (Wg6v7)

280 Yay Teresa--wheeeee!!!

I actually said that out loud reading your good news

Posted by: skywch at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (uqhmb)

281

Is that the idiot who doesn’t know what the chain of command means?

A brilliant woman.

Safe to say this happens in every city.

The blacks really do cause problems.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (UxsaJ)

282 This is one of the reasons that homicide rates have been used as a proxy for crime rates in other categories because its much harder to hide a murder than downgrading assaults and thefts and such. That being said, I'd take a much closer look at suicide and accidental deaths that were investigated by police because I think they have gotten to the point that they would try anyway.
Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (fgmuN)

There were claims earlier this year that this is exactly what was happening to the murder stats.

Imagine getting away with murder because Commissioner Gordon decided that violent crime was down? 'Snot just Joker and Sofia Falcone who belong in Arkham Asylum

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

283 257 In other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

Been nice knowing you all.
Posted by: Count de Monet

The Paolo is, how you say, not familiar with this condition and his pendulum swings with lusty abandon.
Posted by: The Paolo's "Playroom" at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (oftw2)

They are maintaining the mechanism that offsets the losses due to friction and air resistance.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (8avO+)

284 ""Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers"

impossible to overstate how much I wish I could dismiss this as sarcasm or irony, instead of factual truth ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

AI has already taken over and is generating these reports just to spike the ball.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (GUOwU)

285 The tried and true method to lose weight by making food taste like shit is to add just a 1/4 cup of shit to your food. It works wonders or so I have been told. Haven't tried it.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (xvV+O)
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Food could taste bad and I would never know that it "tastes like shit".

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (krQz2)

286 That is the current look. Personally I think it sucks, and I far prefer the "I usually wear body armor and an MP5 under this" fit, but tastes vary
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:34 PM (rbvCR)
==

A micro Uzi for the trimmed fit.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

287 Burns threw in Cultural Marxism Propaganda every episode

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (Ia/+0)

288 This is one of the reasons that homicide rates have been used as a proxy for crime rates in other categories because its much harder to hide a murder than downgrading assaults and thefts and such. That being said, I'd take a much closer look at suicide and accidental deaths that were investigated by police because I think they have gotten to the point that they would try anyway.
Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 15, 2025 03:32 PM (fgmuN)

There were claims earlier this year that this is exactly what was happening to the murder stats.

Imagine getting away with murder because Commissioner Gordon decided that violent crime was down? 'Snot just Joker and Sofia Falcone who belong in Arkham Asylum
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

they already are reassigning races of people who murder.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (8avO+)

289 @libsoftiktok 1m
JUST IN: Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was charged with helping an illegal alien escape ICE arrest, set to begin first day of trial today.
Posted by: weft cut loop
---

That's something current, interesting and of value to society. Nah, not on MSM's front page. Not on my browser's what's happening.

A judge on trial for assisting illegals remain in country. No news here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (uGpeQ)

290 n other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

Been nice knowing you all.

Pendula are not perpetual motion machines. It stopped because they turned it off.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (3nLb4)

291 228 I don't want goddamned AI data centers everywhere, I don't want AI shoved down my throat every time I use electronics, and I sure as fuck don't want them reaching into my pocket to pay for their electric consumption which theyre already doing if the recent increase in my bill despite lower personal consumption is any indication. Fucking grifters, thieves, rent-seekers and extortionists.
Posted by: They can all go straight to hell at December 15, 2025 03:27 PM (TbWk/)

Shut up and get with the program. AI will solve EVERYTHING. AI is good and good FOR you.

Posted by: Every Tech Company at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY)

292
So, I guess the environment isn't in trouble and global warming isn't a thing anymore, then.

Just hack down all the trees for AI Data Centers.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:21 PM

I say the same thing for data centers that I say for solar farms: when each and every golf course is used up for a data center or solar farm, then we can talk about using farm land

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (tljrc)

293
that huge Golden Eagle, tho

You see that?
Big huge Gold Eagle with a pissed-off look perched at the window in the Oval Office.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (KPKlu)

294 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (Zt+0/)

295 The tried and true method to lose weight by making food taste like shit is to add just a 1/4 cup of shit to your food. It works wonders or so I have been told. Haven't tried it.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious a

Lol.

I've heard some Muslim terror groups produce neurotoxin for torture by putting some turds in a pot of vegetable soup and leaving it in the sun.

They should market it to Hollywood wives after The Wall. Wouldn't make them any crazier, and it might help them lose a few.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

296 You need to shut up and respect us, no matter what. OUR word is the law.
Posted by: Police Officers Everywhere at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)

You got your blood and brains on the heels of our jackboots! That's another charge for assault using bodily fluids! It didn't have to go this way you did this all to yourself! At 91 years old you should know better!

Posted by: Fist bumps and medals all around! at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (TbWk/)

297 That's something current, interesting and of value to society. Nah, not on MSM's front page. Not on my browser's what's happening.

A judge on trial for assisting illegals remain in country. No news here.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (uGpeQ)

Cops in prison have it rough. What about judges?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (rQwsY)

298 "BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was."

Not in the least bit surprised. I suspect it is done in most big cities, certainly blue ones.

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (8I4hW)

299 ""Fox Business host says Americans need to buy fake trees so Christmas farms can be used for AI data centers"

impossible to overstate how much I wish I could dismiss this as sarcasm or irony, instead of factual truth ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

Tree farms already use marginal spaces that aren't useful 365 days a year for general use. Once near me is under a massive power line besides a freeway. You can't build anything there.

AI has already taken over and is generating these reports just to spike the ball.
Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (GUOwU)

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)

300 I'm really not a fan of the 'tailored dark suit' and wearing white low top sneakers.

I'll need Piper to tell me what to think about that.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (3nLb4)

301 It stopped because they turned it off.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (3nLb4)

As will no doubt be easily found in the 12th paragraph of any article about it.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (zALxA)

302 Smart, funny, and quite a little fat burner.

Posted by: Steve Martin at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (AUB4U)

303 The tried and true method to lose weight by making food taste like shit is to add just a 1/4 cup of shit to your food. It works wonders or so I have been told. Haven't tried it.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious a

Lol.

I've heard some Muslim terror groups produce neurotoxin for torture by putting some turds in a pot of vegetable soup and leaving it in the sun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (BI5O2)
__________

That's just their version of paella

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

304 "BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was."

Not in the least bit surprised. I suspect it is done in most big cities, certainly blue ones.
Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (8I4hW)

You spelled "all" wrong.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (8avO+)

305 >>>Imagine getting away with murder because Commissioner Gordon decided that violent crime was down? 'Snot just Joker and Sofia Falcone who belong in Arkham Asylum
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 03:37 PM (rbvCR)
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Don't remember the exact numbers but it's a statistical probability that there are 22 serial murderers on the job today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (uGpeQ)

306 I'll need Piper to tell me what to think about that.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:40 PM (3nLb4)

I don't. It looks clownish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

307
Remember the fake outrage "the military on the Border!!! Arrrgghh!! REEEEEeeeeeReeeeee!! We can't put military on US Soil!!"

Fucking Idiots.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:42 PM (KPKlu)

308 Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating
Posted by: Kindltot

And it doesn't keep them from being so, either.

e.g.: Amy Schumer

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 15, 2025 03:42 PM (TezPK)

309
Shut up and get with the program. AI will solve EVERYTHING. AI is good and good FOR you.
Posted by: Every Tech Company

Thanks, "experts say"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:42 PM (xG4kz)

310 Don't remember the exact numbers but it's a statistical probability that there are 22 serial murderers on the job today.
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They should do a roll-call so we could confirm that number.

Posted by: Left Wing Journalist at December 15, 2025 03:42 PM (TN0g+)

311 190 Well doc, right now I'm using the dish soap and hot water method.
So far, bupkiss.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 03:15 PM

When it needs to escape,
call The Snake.

Posted by: Plissken at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (0sNs1)

I used to have to snake the bathtub drain about once very other month when my three daughters lived at home, so I taught them how to do it.

I can't tell you how proud I was when my youngest told me she had snaked the drain in her own home last year!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 15, 2025 03:43 PM (wtvvX)

312 Sneakers with a suit needs to die a fast death.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:43 PM (uQzkA)

313 Looking like a slob is the in thing these days. For some reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:35 PM (rQwsY)

I'm really not a fan of the 'tailored dark suit' and wearing white low top sneakers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

The Blade was rocking that (summer) look back in the day, before it was a thing. He wouldn't do it now. He would wear canvas shoes under seersucker, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

314 Look, if we're going to talk fashion, can it be about busty women in low cut tops?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

315 64 My sister in law says ozempic eliminates your appetite. The idea of eating is repulsive.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

=====

I've seen this and wondered how people are getting enough nutrients?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (DRSnL)

It's for people with dysregulated appetite, to bring it down to the level of a normal healthy person, where they just feel like eating "enough" and then stop. They should not have any difficulty with nutrition or need to pay attention to it.

Posted by: SciVo at December 15, 2025 03:44 PM (Sy6m/)

316 Shut up and get with the program. AI will solve EVERYTHING.
.....

Still won't tell me what Alexa is wearing.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

317 Fat burning supplements? What gypsy magic is this?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 03:44 PM (wBaIH)

318 Anybody heard from Sean Hannity defending the rock-ribbed, patriotic members of the FBI? I have a good friend who wanted to join the FBI, an absolutely solid-gold citizen. They didn't take him, so he went on a successful career in law enforcement.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (TA9gW)

319 Here’s what I had done:

https://tinyurl.com/HeresWhatIHadDone

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (Tla8X)

320
President is going to re-classify Pot, federally.

And the usual Establishment Idiots, like Laura Ingraham, are all against it, like it's the 19 fucking 50's and it's "reefer."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (KPKlu)

321 This "snaking the drain", what exactly is involved?

Posted by: The Paolo at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (oftw2)

322 Look, if we're going to talk fashion, can it be about busty women in low cut tops?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

You asked for it........

https://is.gd/aWb3SF

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

323 I'm so old I remember when wearing white Converse sneakers and baby blue Adler socks was way cool. Not to mention, yellow Peter's jackets.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)

324
Pot is a stupid drug for stupid people.

But the federal laws need to be updated

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (KPKlu)

325 318 Anybody heard from Sean Hannity defending the rock-ribbed, patriotic members of the FBI? I have a good friend who wanted to join the FBI, an absolutely solid-gold citizen. They didn't take him, so he went on a successful career in law enforcement.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (TA9gW)

Between Sean Hannity and Michael Berry, the police NEVER do wrong and are ALWAYS right and need to be worshiped by society.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (rQwsY)

326 Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday.

Actually absurd.
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The Prime Minister of Australia. Wow. I mean, its supposedly "your" country Australia, but it seems to me that your "Prime Minister" might need a little talkin' to.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+)

327 295 Lol.

I've heard some Muslim terror groups produce neurotoxin for torture by putting some turds in a pot of vegetable soup and leaving it in the sun.

They should market it to Hollywood wives after The Wall. Wouldn't make them any crazier, and it might help them lose a few.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

Isn't leaving bottled turds in the sun just Jenkem?

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (UnA8+)

328 It stopped because they turned it off.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (3nLb4)

Probably had to re-boot the 386 SX-20 desktop running Windows 3.1 that controls the pendulum magnets.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (wVcYX)

329 You guys made me go look at Hegseth's suit. He looks like he gained 25 lbs and is in denial about it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

330
In other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

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Step inside the railing and push the pendulum, once. Then step back out.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 03:47 PM (azNOR)

331
Don't remember the exact numbers but it's a statistical probability that there are 22 serial murderers on the job today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:41 PM (uGpeQ)

Perfect place for a sociopath with violent tendencies to hang out, and they get trained with all the catchphrases they need to get away with beatings and murder. "He was reaching," "he made a furtive movement," "he was making target glances," "he took a bladed stance," "he tensed up," "he was walking with a purpose," "he wasn't following all my commands," etc etc etc.

Posted by: Officer Brailsford, drawing a pension at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)

332 You asked for it........

https://is.gd/aWb3SF
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
......

I wonder if she's ever read one of those books.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

333 This is where quad .50s come in handy.
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There won't be much left of the house. Quad 50s are really good at keeping people's heads down, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

The idea is to waste the thief boat on the water before it gets to the house.
Posted by: Berserker
--------

I relentlessly promote the ONTOS as the Aoshq official ATV. One of these parked in your driveway will likely result in polite neighbors

https://shorturl.at/jSfv2

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (XeU6L)

334 Isn't leaving bottled turds in the sun just Jenkem?
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (UnA8+)

I suppose it is. Good ol' Leroy Jenkem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (BI5O2)

335 President is going to re-classify Pot, federally.

And the usual Establishment Idiots, like Laura Ingraham, are all against it, like it's the 19 fucking 50's and it's "reefer."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (KPKlu)

*plays piano maniacally*

*goes insane*

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (wVcYX)

336 https://is.gd/aWb3SF

Moo.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (Kt19C)

337 President is going to re-classify Pot, federally.
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I hope not. Ask people in Colorado and Oklahoma how the state legalization has worked out.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (TN0g+)

338
Fake News just asked President about his post on Meathead.

President said, I'm paraphrasing, "Not a fan." And then moved on to the next question.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:49 PM (KPKlu)

339 323 I'm so old I remember when wearing white Converse sneakers and baby blue Adler socks was way cool. Not to mention, yellow Peter's jackets.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15

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Red Ball Jets

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 03:49 PM (TA9gW)

340 Yes the report is important but is it really "jaw dropping" to anyone but the lowliest mongoloid?

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 03:49 PM (zALxA)

341 www .worldatlas. com › crime › how-many-serial-killers -are- on- the -loose -today. html

How Many Serial Killers Are On The Loose Today? -

How Many Serial Killers Are On The Loose Today? In the US alone, the FBI estimates there are between 25 to 50 active serial killers at any given time, despite the authorities not being aware of them or connecting the killings together.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:49 PM (uGpeQ)

342 Anybody heard from Sean Hannity defending the rock-ribbed, patriotic members of the FBI?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (TA9gW)

Hannity is an ignorant fuckstick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (snZF9)

343 "@bennyjohnson
The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday."

Considering the unspeakable horrors of the Crusades, does anybody in the West have a right to complain about Islamic violence?

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (GUOwU)

344
Don't remember the exact numbers but it's a statistical probability that there are 22 serial murderers on the job today

By "on the job", did they mean being a cubicle monkey for some nameless corporation?

Or were they referring to "on the job" being out a-murdering?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (xG4kz)

345 Ace.

You don’t need to do fat burning supplements.

I have now successfully lost 20 lbs over 2 months by doing 48 hour fasts twice a week, eating good healthy dinners, and then being good over the next three days with minimum carbs and 18/6.

First week was hell. It’s gotten easier every week.

I even gained back 5 lbs over thanksgiving so you can take defeats and still win. And once I’m at target weight this is a procedure I can follow for the rest of my life.

Posted by: The MewTwix at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (XodLO)

346 For some reason the 'BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY ' in the title makes me think of Steven Segal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

347 My Toks every now and then land on some of those 1st Amendment audits.

yes, those folks are antagonizers.

But. And I know it's a curated sample of the worst.
Cops are fucking retarded and only do what the power demands.

None but none of them objected to falsifying these reports.
They got berated for not doing it enough, not that they weren't complying.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (HXT0k)

348 Fat burning supplements? What gypsy magic is this?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 03:44 PM (wBaIH)

Thinner.

Posted by: Dame Stephen King at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (wVcYX)

349 Speaking of FBI fanboys haven't heard much from Andy McCarthy in a while. Not that I'm upset mind you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (D+mpw)

350 For some reason the 'BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY ' in the title makes me think of Steven Segal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

Uh oh...that means a Space Ice link is coming soon.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

351 so "Catch and Release All-Stars" is not a go to attack them on crime then?

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (MUJd1)

352 You asked for it........

https://is.gd/aWb3SF
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
......

I wonder if she's ever read one of those books.
Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)
________

Books?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

353 323 I'm so old I remember when wearing white Converse sneakers and baby blue Adler socks was way cool. Not to mention, yellow Peter's jackets.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)

I know what the converse are but the other things on this list I don't know what they are.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (c+QVv)

354 The Left has been categorizing Islamic Terror as "right wing" for some time now. You know because Islamists are "conservative" and "religious".

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 03:51 PM (zALxA)

355 Hyperthermia.

It is why the metabolic uncoupler dinitrophenol was banned in this country as a weight loss drug.

Posted by: alanon at December 15, 2025 03:52 PM (OhUhe)

356 >>>Ozempic doesn't make anyone incredibly irritating
Posted by: Kindltot

And it doesn't keep them from being so, either.

e.g.: Amy Schumer

Posted by: Joe Mama

>Amy Schumer is breaking up with her partner. Should I not want to bang that, and is that a crazy boundary? I'm thinking one night with an alias.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:52 PM (nljXp)

357 Cops are fucking retarded and only do what the power demands.

SHOOT THE PET DOG!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 03:52 PM (Kt19C)

358 We'd just like to point out that, so far today, none of our Staff has been arrested.

* buffs nails *

Yeah, we're that good.

Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department at December 15, 2025 03:53 PM (8AONa)

359 {TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 03:53 PM (A0sqA)

360
By any means necessary brought to mind a "usual suspect" out in Berkeley --

Berkeley teacher Yvette Felarca leads 'By Any Means Necessary' in planning to target Turning Point USA chapters in schools after violent campus clash.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (xG4kz)

361 We'd just like to point out that, so far today, none of our Staff has been arrested.

* buffs nails *

Yeah, we're that good.
Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department at December 15, 2025 03:53 PM (8AONa)

It's been * days since our last sexual assault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

362 Amy Schumer is breaking up with her partner. Should I not want to bang that, and is that a crazy boundary? I'm thinking one night with an alias.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:52 PM (nljXp)

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I must admit, she looks great.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

363 @357 and kill the pet squirrel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (D+mpw)

364 For some reason the 'BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY ' in the title makes me think of Steven Segal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
......

The fat guy with the ponytail?

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 03:55 PM (v0R5T)

365
I must admit, she looks great.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

yeah, no......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

366
US Troops were killed in Syria this weekend??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (KPKlu)

367
Amy Schumer is breaking up with her partner. Should I not want to bang that, and is that a crazy boundary? I'm thinking one night with an alias.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

That was foretold by Maureen Callahan on her podcast.

"Dead weight is dead weight!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (xG4kz)

368 In other dystopian news - my EweToob feed is showing a post from the Houston Museum of Natural Science stating that their Foucault Pendulum has stopped swinging.

-
The word you're looking for is apocalyptic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

369
Killed by Whom in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (KPKlu)

370 I've heard some Muslim terror groups produce neurotoxin for torture by putting some turds in a pot of vegetable soup and leaving it in the sun.

You have interesting news sources - or was that ChatGPT?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (pUU4E)

371 Schumer made it 7 years this time.

Wow. That's like 49 in hollywood marriage years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

372 >Amy Schumer is breaking up with her partner. Should I not want to bang that, and is that a crazy boundary? I'm thinking one night with an alias.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 03:52 PM (nljXp)
_____

She lost a bunch of weight and is now too good for him?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

373 yeah, no......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

If banging and annoying AF, screechy cabbage patch kid were your thing, maybe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (dK+Kv)

374 She lost a bunch of weight and is now too good for him?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

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I think that's pretty much the gist.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (DRSnL)

375 While you're having at it with Amy Schumer suddenly her face becomes Uncle Chuck's. Shudder

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (D+mpw)

376 If banging and annoying AF, screechy cabbage patch kid were your thing, maybe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (dK+Kv)

I LOL'd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

377 I must admit, she looks great.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

yeah, no......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

Spoken like a dude who don't have a grudge against his dick. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (snZF9)

378 Okay.. I think it was terrible what happed to Reiner and his wife, but the media has gone overboard with it... You'd think Ghandi died or something.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (VE6XX)

379 By "on the job", did they mean being a cubicle monkey for some nameless corporation?

Or were they referring to "on the job" being out a-murdering?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:50 PM (xG4kz)
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Huh. My guidance counselor in high school never informed me this was a valid career path.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (ESVrU)

380 Fat chicks always return to fat chicks

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (uQzkA)

381 www.newsnationnow.com › crime › nearly-half-of-all-us- murders -go-unsolved- data-shows

Nearly half of all US murders go unsolved, data shows; Jul 8, 2025The homicide clearance rate, a metric used by the FBI to assess how many murders are solved, was nearly 58% in 2023.

/247wallst .com/ special-report
number of reported homicides in the U.S. spiked by 30% in 2020,
... 2013 to 2022, only about 57% of homicide cases in the U.S. have been solved or cleared.
Ohio had the worst murder clearance rate - then
New Mexico, Indiana, etc
North Dakota had the highest clearance rate.
(198 murders; 195 cases solved)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (uGpeQ)

382 Killed by Whom in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (KPKlu)

A trusted civilian asset.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

383 My pendulums are still swinging.

Posted by: Nutzi Palsy at December 15, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

384
reiner created his own murderer, literally & figuratively

meathead created the monster

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:59 PM (KPKlu)

385 Killed by Whom in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (KPKlu)

Diversity, which is our strength.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 03:59 PM (dK+Kv)

386 Spoken like a dude who don't have a grudge against his dick. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (snZF9)

HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

387 382 Killed by Whom in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (KPKlu)

A trusted civilian asset.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

You know.. Like the shit load of Afghanis we let into this Country

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

388 If you're suffering from the painful effects of Yvette Felarca, see your doctor right away. Treatment IS available. You don't have to suffer any longer.

Posted by: Big Fiser at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (Zt+0/)

389 You know rule #1

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

390 Okay.. I think it was terrible what happed to Reiner and his wife, but the media has gone overboard with it... You'd think Ghandi died or something.....

Gives 'em a reason to not talk about Brown U, Bondi Beach, London stabbing, CA house drive-by, etc, etc.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (3nLb4)

391 Nearly half of all US murders go unsolved, data shows; Jul 8, 2025The homicide clearance rate, a metric used by the FBI to assess how many murders are solved, was nearly 58% in 2023.

Seems they need to bring Joe Kenda out of retirement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

392 360 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 03:54 PM (xG4kz)

Want a no-bullshit analytic on why she gets away with it and the right never will?

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (MUJd1)

393 You know that if they're doing this in DC, this is standard procedure now in Democrat-run cities. This is what Democrats did to get their "lowest crime in 50 years" line for Biden.

Posted by: David at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (qsqk7)

394 We'd just like to point out that, so far today, none of our Staff has been arrested.

* buffs nails *

Yeah, we're that good.
Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department

https://is.gd/zmyXGP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

395 Okay.. I think it was terrible what happed to Reiner and his wife, but the media has gone overboard with it... You'd think Ghandi died or something.....
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

Maybe McCain's funeral will finally be over and we can start a new one for Rob.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

396
You know.. Like the shit load of Afghanis we let into this Country
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

2 of which have already revealed themselves.

Thanks Joe!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

397 Fat chicks always return to fat chicks

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (uQzkA)

A friend of my brother was getting married, and the girl he was marrying had lost a ton of weight for the wedding. My brother's observation was that as soon as the ring slips on her finger it would be like pulling the ring on an emergency rubber life raft.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (snZF9)

398 Sneakers with a suit needs to die a fast death.
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025

***
I agree. But it's been around awhile. Seems to me Robert Culp used to wear that combo occasionally as Kelly Robinson on I Spy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:02 PM (wzUl9)

399 374 She lost a bunch of weight and is now too good for him?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

=====

I think that's pretty much the gist.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (DRSnL)

Not uncommon, even outside of celeb land. Anecdotally - I knew a young man, friend of one my kids, whose girlfriend did that to him. It was very sad. He was a good kid and didn't deserve that.

Posted by: People can be really shitty at December 15, 2025 04:02 PM (TbWk/)

400 The word you're looking for is apocalyptic.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

Well, I'm feeling a bit dystopian about the forthcoming apocalypse as the world stops spinning.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 04:02 PM (wVcYX)

401 If you're suffering from the painful effects of Yvette Felarca, see your doctor right away. Treatment IS available. You don't have to suffer any longer.

Posted by: Big Fiser at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (Zt+0/)

When I see her name, I think of the big hooter BAMN protest chick who bike-locked herself by the neck to a vehicle mirror frame in AZ during Trump 1.

I found her intriguing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 04:02 PM (dK+Kv)

402 https://is.gd/zmyXGP
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

There are some boobs for you, Bulg.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 04:03 PM (Y1sOo)

403 Decriminalizing crime, like they do in California, has a wonderful way of lowering crime statistic numbers.

Hat tip to Ace: Don't take supplements without through research. I got a helluva sunburn years ago from taking St. John's Wort.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 15, 2025 04:03 PM (9aVck)

404 Is is a crime to falsify police reports?

What if you boss orders you to falsify a police report?

It's okay to refuse an illegal order. -- I didn't mean when WE do it... aka Democrats.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 04:04 PM (ExV1e)

405 I see the side effects from Ozempic et Al and if I needed to lose weight I'd say no thanks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 04:04 PM (D+mpw)

406 Well. Hell.
I've been booted from the choir. Apparently singing "Do You Hear What I Hear" is NOT the song to sing at the local psych hospital.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 04:04 PM (2WIwB)

407 @ 230 Lord Mayor Khan, the Sultan of London, is declaring a holy war against Christmas carolers.
_____________________________________

Let's give 'Lord Mayor KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!' a big 'So Fuckin' What!?' … Didn't he (ahem) 'achieve orifice' by a Vote of 'The People!' … ? Case closed. Pay the man, bitches …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 15, 2025 04:04 PM (ayRl+)

408 378 Okay.. I think it was terrible what happed to Reiner and his wife, but the media has gone overboard with it... You'd think Ghandi died or something.....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 03:58 PM (VE6XX)

He did.

80 years ago or so.

Posted by: At least that's what they want us to believe at December 15, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

409 Amy Schumer is breaking up with her partner. Should I not want to bang that, and is that a crazy boundary? I'm thinking one night with an alias.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025

=====
I must admit, she looks great.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025

***
There's one pic out there floating around where she is sitting in a white chair wearing a red dress. She does indeed look terrific.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 04:05 PM (wzUl9)

410
new one

Posted by: four seasons at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (3ek7K)

411 Is is a crime to falsify police reports?
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It's really more like a suggestion...

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (krQz2)

412

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (KPKlu)

413 Did the chief have a salary incentive based on crime stats?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (b+KE4)

414 All I want to know is which supplement burns fat? Berberine?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 04:06 PM (c+QVv)

415 Sneakers with a suit needs to die a fast death.
Posted by: NCKate

Billy Joel did that and he didn't start the fire.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 04:07 PM (L/fGl)

416 Is is a crime to falsify police reports?

What if you boss orders you to falsify a police report?

Cops are trained to falsify their reports in order to justify unlawful detentions, arrests, use of force, etc. when the facts do not actually justify their actions. That's why you see the same buzzwords and phrases crop up in bogus reports time and again both within and across departments. It's very much a systemic issue and something that legitimately needs to be addressed.

Posted by: Pournelle's iron law applies to cops too at December 15, 2025 04:08 PM (TbWk/)

417 Gandhi was an asshole

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (zALxA)

418 We learn that the Reiners were murdered by the attacker slitting their throats. Yet there aren't any OJ Simpson jokes yet?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (N39Ws)

419 I thought all pendulums eventually come to rest.

Air friction.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 04:11 PM (W7XSX)

420 353 323 I'm so old I remember when wearing white Converse sneakers and baby blue Adler socks was way cool. Not to mention, yellow Peter's jackets.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)

I know what the converse are but the other things on this list I don't know what they are.
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Peter's was a wind breaker with a collar - which we wore up. Adler socks were like the old wool gym socks but came in colors. A year later the trend was Nehru Jackets, Sonny and Cher furry vests, and paisley shirts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 04:12 PM (Wg6v7)

421 "nothing to see here"

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 04:14 PM (MUJd1)

422 very much a systemic issue and something that legitimately needs to be addressed.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (Kt19C)

423 All I want to know is which supplement burns fat?

Fire.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 04:17 PM (Kt19C)

424 *plays piano maniacally*

*goes insane*
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 15, 2025 03:48 PM (wVcYX)

You forgot: *strongly resembles Cosmo Kramer*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 15, 2025 04:20 PM (PSEDc)

425 And the usual Establishment Idiots, like Laura Ingraham, are all against it, like it's the 19 fucking 50's and it's "reefer."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (KPKlu)

I can’t understand the need to support losers and loser behavior.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 04:34 PM (rQwsY)

426 If Trump is legalizing Marijuana, it's fine, but it's 20 years late.

If the feds had legalized the shit and left it to the States back when it was cool, nobody outside of Oklahoma or Tennessee would have moved away from their weed-hating States and ruined weed-friendly States for everyone, and turned them into blue States.

If you move across the country so you can smoke weed, you're a worthless fuckin' retard, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.

We should have kept these tards on their home turf, mildly tarding them, instead of heavily tarding entire tard states that were tarded enough to invite critical masses of tards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 04:40 PM (BI5O2)

427 Christmas caroling under fire. They are pushing on all fronts.

Posted by: pawn at December 15, 2025 04:43 PM (Wi4mf)

428
418 We learn that the Reiners were murdered by the attacker slitting their throats. Yet there aren't any OJ Simpson jokes yet?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (N39Ws)

If the Mike Stivic doesn't fit you must acquit....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 04:45 PM (x0n13)

429 417 Gandhi was an asshole

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 04:09 PM (zALxA)

He was a big proponent of colonics as I heard

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 04:50 PM (8I4hW)

430 Yes! Finally someone writes about Abundance.

Posted by: Classic at December 16, 2025 05:33 AM (OOcQl)

Charles Grassley: New Evidence Proves Obama Stopped FBI Agents from Investigating the Clinton Foundation

Paul Sperry

@paulsperry_

2h

BREAKING: Just-declassified FBI docs reveal that Andrew McCabe throttled the investigation of the Clinton Foundation in 2016, denying field agents evidence from Weiner laptop. HQ warned: "[Avoid creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons"

Bruce Forman
@Brucenewsreview

5h

NEW🚨: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released a detailed FBI investigative timeline to Just the News this weekend, documenting repeated political obstructions faced by agents probing potential pay-to-play corruption in Hillary Clinton's family foundation from 2016 through early 2020.
The newly disclosed records, provided by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, reveal agents' frustrations with barriers from FBI headquarters and the Justice Department, including orders from then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to halt overt steps without his approval and demands from then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to "shut it down."
The timeline highlights early 2016 directives limiting investigations across New York, Little Rock, and Washington field offices, despite evidence of foreign donations potentially influencing State Department actions during Clinton's tenure.
It extends beyond a shorter 2017 timeline, showing post-election delays, statute of limitations concerns raised by DOJ officials, and reluctance from U.S. attorneys to pursue leads, even after Trump administration encouragement.
Grassley stated: "The mainstream media smeared any investigation into Hillary Clinton as unfounded nonsense, but in reality, line agents and federal prosecutors seeking to follow up on legitimate leads were sidelined by partisan leadership looking to save Clinton's reputation. That's a night-and-day departure from how the Biden Justice Department handled the Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump."
The documents underscore agents' reports of being told "NO" by FBI HQ when attempting to expand probes, including interviews with Clinton aides like Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, which were never authorized.
Special Counsel John Durham previously contrasted this cautious approach with the rapid full investigation into Trump's campaign, noting the Clinton inquiries were hampered despite predication based on source reporting of foreign contributions for favorable treatment.

Grassley's report here.

Department of Justice (DOJ) records provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offer a behind-the-scenes look at how top leadership during the Obama-Biden administration repeatedly interfered to prevent DOJ prosecutors and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents from investigating the Clinton Foundation's financial dealings.
"The mainstream media smeared any investigation into Hillary Clinton as unfounded nonsense, but in reality, line agents and federal prosecutors seeking to follow up on legitimate leads were sidelined by partisan leadership looking to save Clinton's reputation. That's a night-and-day departure from how the Biden Justice Department handled the Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump," Grassley said. "For too long, our Justice Department has chosen winners and losers instead of enforcing the law without regard to power, party or privilege. That must never happen again. I thank Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel for turning over these records, so the American people finally know how their Justice Department failed in the Clinton investigations."
The records, including internal emails and an investigatory timeline, were provided to Grassley in response to his oversight request and whistleblower allegations. Per the records:
On July 20, 2016--111 days before the 2016 election--an agent with the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division ordered that, "based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation," agents were prohibited from issuing subpoenas, conducting interviews or sharing information related to the case with other offices so as to avoid "[creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons."
In November 2016, FBI Headquarters, while under the leadership of then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, stepped in to block the Clinton Foundation investigative team from accessing potentially incriminating evidence located on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Hillary Clinton's political aide, Huma Abedin. McCabe, among others, recommended the information instead be routed to the FBI's "Midyear" investigative team.
After the investigation was reopened in 2017, Main Justice holdovers from the previous administration allegedly provided prosecutors in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas (EDAR) with documents that omitted information regarding DOJ and FBI leadership's interference. Additional requests the EDAR made to the FBI in 2018 "ruffled some feathers" and didn't result in a response.
An EDAR prosecutor concluded "there appear to be conflicts of interest for the leadership [at Main Justice, including the Public Integrity Section,] related to the 2016 [Clinton] investigations that undermine any confidence we might normally have in looking to them for assistance."

Posted by: Ace at 01:45 PM

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1 Howdy Ace

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (c2vsb)

2 Thank goodness a new thread.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

3 Oh what are the odds of this.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

4 Hah!
another "conspiracy theory" that turns out to be true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (Cjt/F)

5 Nood duties performed

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (c2vsb)

6 I'll take 'Shit We Already Knew' for $800, Alex.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (IaZ7c)

7
Nice foundation ya got there, be a shame if ... oh! Please excuse us, Mrs. Clinton! We meant no harm.

And don't throw us in that Fort Marcy briar patch!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (xG4kz)

8
Grassley is, what, 91?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (KPKlu)

9 Good afternoon all!!

I want to see the SCOAMF in prison. Along with Cankles and Pelosi.

Posted by: jmel at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (RWHIh)

10 Odds that the Obama daughters are or will be mentally ill drug addicts?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

11 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

I try to take some of those older films and show my kids how they did things with acting, lighting, cameras, real crowds of extras and animals, sets, etc., versus CGI.

They are in the local theater program - just finished a run of Seussical, and I think it is informative, interesting, and inspiring to them as young actors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (dK+Kv)

12 Nothing will happen.

First!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (udlma)

13 st?

Posted by: RUReadingthis at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (aQ25I)

14 The only surprising thing is that somebody wrote it down so clearly. I always imagined this kind of thing happened at brief conferences.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (avHHk)

15 And?!?!

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (uQzkA)

16 Never match wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (aTgV0)

17 Fire up the Arkancide Machine.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (UnA8+)

18 Whatever happened to the "Independent DoJ" they lied on and on about?

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)

19 10 Odds that the Obama daughters are or will be mentally ill drug addicts?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Odds they are Obama daughters?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (udlma)

20 th

Wait for the "ths" -- there's more of 'em

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (xG4kz)

21 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Payback for Hillary dropping out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

23 And the U-haul in Idaho parked in front of an Old Navy really was just one of the propane cylinders leaking...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (0lF5S)

24 They protect their own. Nothing is illegal to them, except us finding out about their malfeasance.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (bQ3zt)

25 This is ALL Trump's fault!

Posted by: Rob Reiner's Last Words at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (HJUJ8)

26 Well, we always knew this, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (4Me4i)

27 Whatever happened to the "Independent DoJ" they lied on and on about?
Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)

DOJ was a) Democrat and b) Black run. So different rules apply.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (udlma)

28 An EDAR prosecutor concluded "there appear to be conflicts of interest for the leadership [at Main Justice, including the Public Integrity Section,] related to the 2016 [Clinton] investigations that undermine any confidence we might normally have in looking to them for assistance."
++++
Warning, serious question incoming.

What's the alternative? EDAR is DoJ. FBI is DoJ. It's all downstream from "Main Justice" and all the resources are under "Main Justice." So you have "undermine[d] confidence." Okay. So what? You're in a closed shop...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (avHHk)

29 Bernie got another lake house on Atlantic Ave. Hillary got a get out of jail free card.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (dK+Kv)

30 Good luck Jimmah!

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (aTgV0)

31 Is Hillary donating her Depends to Haiti for charity?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (0lF5S)

32
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy gives NY 30 days to comply with the feds or else funding disappears.

NY has been giving CDL to illegals.

NY's dept of motor vehicles issued an official public statement in which it said, explicitly, "Sean Duffy is a liar." Really.

The rest of the statement reads like 100% Democrat party talking points. It's kind of astounding, really.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (KPKlu)

33 Whatever happened to the "Independent DoJ" they lied on and on about?
Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)
++++
It independently concluded that major Party power players shouldn't be crossed.

The fact that it's a Party-aligned organization helped it reach its independent conclusion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (avHHk)

34 Odds that the Obama daughters are or will be mentally ill drug addicts?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Odds they are Obama daughters?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (udlma)
_______

They look a lot like they would if they were created from Moochelle and Gay Lightbringer's DNA. Whether they were conceived the old fashioned way is a different question.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

35 >Charles Grassley: New Evidence Proves Obama Stopped FBI Agents from Investigating the Clinton Foundation
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Okay.

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (ZxPkt)

36 While they do all this, our side runs to the fainting couches over a tweet about a degenerate Hollywood freak.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (udlma)

37 Okay, Chuck. Your party is ostensibly in charge. How about doing something about it? And no, I don't mean referring the issue to the DoJ.

How about zeroing their budget?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)

38 On July 20, 2016--111 days before the 2016 election--an agent with the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division ordered that, "based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation," agents were prohibited from issuing subpoenas, conducting interviews or sharing information related to the case with other offices so as to avoid "[creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons."
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I hate to say it, but there is possibly a "Hatch Act" argument to make for this.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (krQz2)

39 OH WOW.

Nothing will happen, so it doesn't matter.

Posted by: coba at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (IuIym)

40 This tears it. I've been quiet up to now, but I must reveal that I have information linking Hilla....

Posted by: Comment Deleted at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (oftw2)

41 Okay, Chuck. Your party is ostensibly in charge. How about doing something about it? And no, I don't mean referring the issue to the DoJ.

How about zeroing their budget?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)

Sounds like good fare for RICO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

42
Bernie got another lake house on Atlantic Ave.

He upgraded his Blamemaster 2000 from "millionaires" to "billionaires" at the same time.

"Gotta stay ahead of those rising tides", he thought.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (xG4kz)

43 30 Good luck Jimmah!

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (aTgV0)

Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt)

44 I hate to say it, but there is possibly a "Hatch Act" argument to make for this.
Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (krQz2)
++++
:: shrug ::

Who would prosecute it? The DoJ? Not likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)

45 So? What do we do with information? Absolutely nothing. Obama doesn't care, he's guilty as sin and free as a bird.

Posted by: Megthered at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (ZIim3)

46 ***Charles Grassley
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Wha Oh, getting formal here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (uGpeQ)

47 Odds that the Obama daughters are or will be mentally ill drug addicts?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Odds they are Obama daughters?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Straight outta Central Casting.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (QVuuq)

48 I try to take some of those older films and show my kids how they did things with acting, lighting, cameras, real crowds of extras and animals, sets, etc., versus CGI.

They are in the local theater program - just finished a run of Seussical, and I think it is informative, interesting, and inspiring to them as young actors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

If they can learn not to light every scene like your filming in a Costco, it will be time well spent.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (4DY5T)

49 This is a Monday Morning "Game Changer".

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (aTgV0)

50 Sounds like good fare for RICO.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)
++++
Prosecuted by whom?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (avHHk)

51 While they do all this, our side runs to the fainting couches over a tweet about a degenerate Hollywood freak.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (udlma)

This is fair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (4Me4i)

52 "based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation,"

Sensitivities.

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (Q+gd/)

53 Transport Secretary Sean Duffy gives NY 30 days to comply with the feds or else funding disappears.

—

Speaking which, what happened with the threat to withhold food stamp money to Dem states which didn’t provide data?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:54 PM (udlma)

54 Hey Grassley, you know what might help in bringing justice to these people? A fully staffed DoJ. Stop supporting this phony 'no recess' and blue-slip tradition b/s.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 01:54 PM (Dv3i1)

55 Next thing you gonna tell me is that the Temple of Reason was never Reasonable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:54 PM (Wg6v7)

56 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt)

Good luck man. We're all counting on you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 01:54 PM (4Me4i)

57 McCabe, Weisman it doesn't matter. A headline a letter we know they did it. We've known they did it.
They know they'll walk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:54 PM (uGpeQ)

58 wake me up when the DOJ arrests someone.

Posted by: susan harms at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (Kkd7F)

59 Prosecuted by whom?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (avHHk)

Blondi.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (dK+Kv)

60 How bout them Vikings!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (Wg6v7)

61 44 I hate to say it, but there is possibly a "Hatch Act" argument to make for this.
Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (krQz2)
++++
:: shrug ::

Who would prosecute it? The DoJ? Not likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)

The Hatch Act? Let me axe you somthin'...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (bQ3zt)

62 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt)

Many prayers, Jim. You are a favorite and we need you!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

63 But, Trump is corrupt, you guys. Russian stooge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

64 This is a Monday Morning "Game Changer".
Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (aTgV0)
++++
1 Some agency engages in massive corruption for the Party
- The "opposition" finds evidence of massive corruption at the agency - several years later
2 The opposition releases a "bombshell disclosure"
3 Articles flow while talking heads and consultants give interviews
4 The "opposition" announces additional investigation and/or referrals for prosecution
5 Nothing happens

Step 4, ACTIVATE!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (avHHk)

65 17 Fire up the Arkancide Machine.
Posted by: XTC
----
It was/is worse than you will ever know. Used to live in Arkansas under the Clinton regime and the odd deaths, suicides, etc. that occurred stagger the imagination.

Like Fahmy Malak, Clinton appointed Medical Examiner for the state and incompetent POS, declaring that two yutes died by going to sleep on the railroad tracks by smoking too much dope and getting run over by a train.

Or a prominent supporter being driven by his wife who was just out of inpatient treatment for alcoholism somehow gets a firearm and shoots himself on the trip back home while the wife went inside somewhere at a stop out of state. Said supporter used to set up sex parties for Clinton when he came to that part of the state.

I got more stories if you want them. And that leaves out garden variety Clinton actions like propositioning seventeen year old girls at a reception for high schoolers at teh mansion. Told them to meet him at his Excelsior hotel suite. Trashing a political rival and having him put in jail via frameup. And more.

Then they took their corrupt evil shit nationwide.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (WDjG6)

66 Maybe Trey Gowdy will save us, y'all.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (uQzkA)

67 >>Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Good luck!

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM (viF8m)

68 > HQ warned: "[Avoid creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons"

Observe the banality of corruption. That statement is functionally equivalent to saying, "The Clintons are under my protection. You will not investigate them for any crime, ever."

But they couch it in the language of propriety, as if it's ethically questionable to investigate the Clintons.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (Yp6az)

69 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim

Ditto. May the Lord be with you and guide your surgeons.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (WDjG6)

70 But I thought they were just straight shooters out for truth and justice. Boy am I shocked.

Posted by: brak at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (jGJov)

71 Well, step 5. I never said I could count.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (avHHk)

72 Obviously we will need 3-4 years of congressional investigations and committees and hearings and meetings and subpoenas and testimonies and commissions and Fact Finding Missions and Strongly Worded Letters and hundreds of millions of dollars to write a 2,000 page Scathing Report nobody will read about how Proper Policies and Procedures Were Not Followed but the Statute of Limitations has passed so nobody will be held accountable for anything but everyone will vow To Do Better Next Time.

Fin

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (V362x)

73 Odds they are Obama daughters?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

The oldest, unfortunately for her, looks just like Obama...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (VE6XX)

74 You cannot build your own graft castle if you break down your allied forces' ones.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (MUJd1)

75 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt

Thanks for updating us. Will pray..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (IEV/x)

76 What was BHO's cut?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (ESVrU)

77 Further proves “stuff everyone knew 10 years ago or more” amiright?

The FBI used to have plenty of legitimate dirt on all sorts of scurvy douchebags in government.

Unfortunately the usual suspects in Congress went out of their way to stonewall them, the oval office occupants prevented any arrests through the DOJ, and often going after the individuals exposing the malfeasance. That’s classic Washington - investigate the investigators, character assassination.

It’s only gotten worse. Now, apparently the Fibbies aren’t in the business any longer of rooting out subversives, their job is to protect and provide cover for the very SOBs and ideological heirs who should have been arrested.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 01:56 PM (0mY7E)

78 22 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

Absolutely and why Trump had to be replaced with the dementia kid.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (MUJd1)

79 67 >>Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Good luck!
---------------
Rub some dirt on it. Drink some water. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (Wg6v7)

80 Serious you guys.

'Vestigatin!

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (aTgV0)

81 The only surprising thing is that somebody wrote it down so clearly. I always imagined this kind of thing happened at brief conferences.
---
The Nazis meticulously documented their deeds because they knew they would be praised by history.
And they wanted to secure their place as heros to the cause.

Same for the FBI--Hillary was 97% guaranteed to win.
Proving loyalty to her when she won was far more valuable than following pesky ethics or laws.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (HXT0k)

82 What difference at this point does it make?

*cackle*

~ Hillary

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (Y1sOo)

83 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Godspeed, Jim.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)

84
Tomb Raider is back, baby, say the Drinkler.
They un-woked Tomb Raider in the new game.

I have never played the games nor seen the movies.

*btw, Drinkler says the phrase "acrobatic exploration" in his review, which I found amusing for some reason

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:58 PM (KPKlu)

85 The angry letter Grassley’s intern will write using ChatGPT is going to really leave a mark.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:58 PM (udlma)

86 63 But, Trump is corrupt, you guys. Russian stooge.
Posted by: Sponge
====
From all the investigations on Trump, he is the poor schmuck that every allegation eventually is proven to be false and yet they still keep trying to put him in prison for the rest of his life as they do his supporters.

That is why I am done with the left and their cheerleaders in high places nor do I care what Trump says to them.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:58 PM (WDjG6)

87 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt)

Godspeed, sir.

May the surgeon be blessed with the steadiest of hands, the powerful knowledge of the body and the confidence to do what you need for a fast and full recovery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

88 79 67 >>Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Good luck!
---------------
Rub some dirt on it. Drink some water. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (Wg6v7)

Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (bQ3zt)

89 Good luck and Godspeed Jim...

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (MUJd1)

90 71 Well, step 5. I never said I could count.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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That makes you perfect for the executive suite in Finance.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (WDjG6)

91 Best wishes Jim

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (0lF5S)

92 Rub some dirt on it. Drink some water. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (Wg6v7)

Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.
----------------
Staples would look cool.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (Wg6v7)

93 In before they nothing will happen crowd ... and nothing will happen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (HwNd5)

94 *yawns* Wake me when someone gets jail time for this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)

95 > Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.

I had a bunch of staples in my stomach after a RPLND. I looked like I had a zipper. Prayers up, Jim.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (Yp6az)

96 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (bQ3zt)

You're in my prayers

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (VE6XX)

97 Trump is such a dictator that we have none of these low-level federal employees committing crimes on his behalf.
In fact, they often brag about defying him.

Yet the entire Obama and Biden regimes were rotted through with low-level employees, and all the top-level, committing all sorts of crimes on their behalf.

Name one time "rogue agents in the Cincinnati office" did something that benefited Trump?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 02:01 PM (HXT0k)

98 Trump said "pussy"

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 02:01 PM (xxIVv)

99
Just wanted to tell you, Jim, good luck and we're all counting on you.

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at December 15, 2025 02:01 PM (KPKlu)

100 My washing machine is making some strange sounds. May be time to retire it. It’s provided almost 15 years of service and has been abused tremendously by kids leaving all sorts of shit in pockets over the years along with about 3 metric tons of dog hair.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:01 PM (udlma)

101 Good luck and God bless jim in Kalifornia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 02:01 PM (D+mpw)

102 Okay, Chuck. Your party is ostensibly in charge. How about doing something about it? And no, I don't mean referring the issue to the DoJ.

How about zeroing their budget?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15,

Won't happen, of course.

But if it ever did, I would pass that shit in the dead of night, along with a Presidential order to the Army to immediately secure the Hoover building on the spot and shut off all agents' access to their data - which would then be destroyed. No leakage, no revelations, no trials, nothing. All of it, just gone.

It would be very interesting to see the strange new behaviors of lots of DC creatures who are no longer walking in fear of the FBI's constant blackmail operations.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (BI5O2)

103 For all the complaining we do about old people, The Cornfather does good work.

Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (1V/nS)

104 I’m not sure why we think Chuck Grassley did this, that or anything… how old is the dude now?

I’ll say this: He has a crackerjack staff and I hope this hodgepodge of people get re-elected to the senate because the alternative would be a Dem…. But Grassley it’s getting ridiculous he’s still in office. I went to college in Iowa in the 80s and he was a senator then… 40 fricking years ago

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (xT8gx)

105 Prayer up, Jim (in Kalifornia).

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (77rzZ)

106 Re: Blondi

That was intended to illicit some yucks.

I do not have the extreme emotions or disgust with her that some have with her. I just don't expect much from a putative head of a leftist-entrenched deep state and an equally filthy judiciary.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (dK+Kv)

107
/opens door

Just wanted to tell you, Jim, good luck and we're all counting on you.

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (KPKlu)

108 Prosecuted by whom?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 01:53 PM (avHHk)

Blondi.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:55 PM
---

Call me...

Posted by: Blondie at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (f1kZG)

109 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

The second victim of the Brown University shooting has been identified as 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.

After brain surgery at age 10, he always dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, which is what he was studying for.

His family says he was “the most kind-hearted person” and their “biggest role model.”

Truly heartbreaking. Rest in peace. Prayers for his loved ones.

X image: https://bit.ly/4rZLZng

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (P5BPp)

110 Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (bQ3zt)
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You do get a cool set of scars to go with that.

I have some myself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (ESVrU)

111 For all the complaining we do about old people, The Cornfather does good work.
Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (1V/nS)

What does he do exactly? Investigates shit that leads to nothing. It’s all a Fugazi.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (udlma)

112 Urkel will skate. No way he pays ANY price for this as he is historically historic first semi-black Preznit in history. Historic and history making

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (Bo9Yf)

113 Our political class of Dems, From Bob Cushman,

"In my data research I discovered 20 smurfs that I labeled as the Corey Booker Smurfs. A summary of these smurfs is as follows:

All of these so called donors are seniors with the average being 80 years old. Amazingly these 20 persons have been accused of donating over 2.6 million dollars in over 187,000 separate donations. It should be noted that conventional wisdom indicates that these elderly persons had their identities stolen and that they did not actually make anywhere close to this ridiculous amount of donations/money. Investigations by many, including James O Keefe, Peter Bernegger and myself have shown that most, if not all, of individuals similarly involved are actually “straw donors” AKA “smurfs”.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (WDjG6)

114 92 Rub some dirt on it. Drink some water. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM (Wg6v7)

Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.
----------------
Staples would look cool.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:00 PM (Wg6v7)

Son's comment from incision and staples the last time: "Looks like a Frankenstein AI abortion, Dad ".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (bQ3zt)

115 The minute someone writes a headline about a scandal involving an investigation and calls it "Investi-Gate", I'm burning it all down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (JwNbV)

116 Hatch Act would affect criminal investigations? Could be wrong, but don't think so. That act is about guvamint-paid people engaging in political activity, not engaging in their actual guvamint duties.

In any case, the crassly criminal (and stupid, with policy disaster after disaster) Clinton trash tarnished more institutions and actual standards than anyone (well, until Obama).

Renting out US foreign policy, like much of the Biden-era corruption, was Haiti-level stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (U/Byj)

117 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (152cx)

118 100 My washing machine is making some strange sounds. May be time to retire it. It’s provided almost 15 years of service and has been abused tremendously by kids leaving all sorts of shit in pockets over the years along with about 3 metric tons of dog hair.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Don't give up so easy. Watch a Youtube, order some parts-get another 15 years out of it.

Posted by: Self-Starter at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (oftw2)

119 47 Odds that the Obama daughters are or will be mentally ill drug addicts?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Odds they are Obama daughters?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Straight outta Central Casting.
Posted by: rickb223
----

Daddy was a doper but he was ambitious.
Mama wasn't a doper but she was high on hate.

Kids got no ambition and lots of hate. Have they got a chance?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (uGpeQ)

120 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (152cx)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

121 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Good luck!

Rub some dirt on it. Drink some water. Don't be a pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:57 PM

Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM

Put some Windex on it.

Posted by: Gus Portokalos at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (P5BPp)

122 Two weeks.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

123 117 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
-----------------
Ever noticed that its always cold in a hospital?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (Wg6v7)

124 While appreciate the Trump administration confirming what I knew to be true years ago, I'd really like it if they actually start throwing people in prison.

Call them a flight risk. Or whatever. But lock them up until the trial. And please, for God's sake, tell the judges when they inevitably order their release to STFUASD.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (NwnyJ)

125

/opens door

Just wanted to tell you, Jim, good luck and we're all counting on you.

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (KPKlu)

126 I’m not sure why we think Chuck Grassley did this, that or anything… how old is the dude now?

I’ll say this: He has a crackerjack staff and I hope this hodgepodge of people get re-elected to the senate because the alternative would be a Dem…. But Grassley it’s getting ridiculous he’s still in office. I went to college in Iowa in the 80s and he was a senator then… 40 fricking years ago
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (xT8gx)
++++
Why do it? Easy.

Why do movie stars hang on as long as they can? It ain't money. They won't do it *without* the money, of course, but that probably stops being the driving factor after the first few years, absent tremendous foul-ups.

It's adoration. Celebrity is its own reward, and Chuck is going to get a *lot* of nice things said about what his staff produced for him to stick on his letterhead.

It's not about results, or action, or "making the world a better place" or money. It's about adoration and it's about power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (avHHk)

127 Very clear now why SCOAMF insisted his Presidential Temple is not a library and his administration's papers will not be available to the public.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (CzLnx)

128 All the best to you, Jim. I'm praying for you.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (3ImbR)

129 117 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

May it be fast and your technicians worthy of treating you.
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Had my nuclear heart scan early this morning. Moved up when someone else was late.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (WDjG6)

130 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (1HGee)

131 Godspeed, sir.

May the surgeon be blessed with the steadiest of hands, the powerful knowledge of the body and the confidence to do what you need for a fast and full recovery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

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

And may the nurses be well-endowed with fine tools.

/Prayers up, Jim!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (HwNd5)

132 110 Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (bQ3zt)
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You do get a cool set of scars to go with that.

I have some myself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 02:03 PM (ESVrU)

I already have scars on my abdomen that make a drunk "V"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (bQ3zt)

133
Kids got no ambition and lots of hate. Have they got a chance?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (uGpeQ)

One is already a part of the hollywood drug crowd. The other is likely a herm like her mom.

No. They have no chance. Time will tell if one loses it and murders their parents.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Don't give up so easy. Watch a Youtube, order some parts-get another 15 years out of it.
Posted by: Self-Starter at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (oftw2)

I dont know one end of a screwdriver from another. Any fixes would involve paying $250 to a repair guy. Add in parts and I’m more than 1/2 way to the cost of a new one.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (udlma)

135
And may the nurses be well-endowed with fine tools.

/Prayers up, Jim!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (HwNd5)

Well said!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

136
Grassley is, what, 91?
Posted by: Soothsayer

He's been a busy man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (pkeXY)

137 Heh.

Ass sneaks in with an actually funny line for once.

Well done.

... dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (JwNbV)

138 I like hearing that the truth is coming out but the problem is the guilty scumbags are mostly out of government or on their last legs i.e. Bubba, Hildabeast. Go after the bastards still in government and clear them out , making an example of them on the way with prosecutions and making them sing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (D+mpw)

139 HQ warned: "[Avoid creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons"

This is a pretty funny admission, actually. A criminal investigation would have interfered with the election.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (Otznn)

140 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (1HGee)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 15, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

141 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Prayer up, MM.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

142 Chuck Grassley is merely virtue signaling. He doesn't want any prosecutions of protected Party Members

Ditch the Blue Slip

Otherwise you are just posing, and no one believes you are at all concerned about law and order.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (WCaCG)

143 [Schadenboner Alert!]

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

Valero is taking a $1 billion dollar loss just to get out of California by April 2026

The company will not comply with Gavin Newsom mandates and instead is willing to lose a billion dollars to leave

“When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”

“Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026.

— This facility processes 145,000 barrels of oil per day, representing 8.6% of California's entire gasoline production. 400 workers have lost their jobs.

200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

[more at link]

https://is.gd/Vb9KDj

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (ac5Gy)

144 112 Urkel will skate. No way he pays ANY price for this as he is historically historic first semi-black Preznit in history. Historic and history making
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Black, my ass! His Mama was the whitest woman in Kansas. His Dad-who knows.

Posted by: Dunham Obama, Davis, Soetoro at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (oftw2)

145 I dont know one end of a screwdriver from another. Any fixes would involve paying $250 to a repair guy. Add in parts and I’m more than 1/2 way to the cost of a new one.
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The new one is engineered to quit working two weeks after the warranty times out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (Wg6v7)

146 I do not have the extreme emotions or disgust with her that some have with her. I just don't expect much from a putative head of a leftist-entrenched deep state and an equally filthy judiciary.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
========
It requires competent underlings and those underlings not trying to subvert justice to actually prosecute. The scale of corruption is so vast like the late Roman Republic that it does not bode well for this Republic to continue.

Love of money is truly a primeval source of evil in this world.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (WDjG6)

147 In 1976 Grassley saw no evidence of a conspiracy in the JFK murder. Blamed Oswald alone. Not the innocent CIA.

In 2023 Grassley saw no evidence of Biden doing anything wrong with Hunter.

Seeing a pattern of the geezer? Not wanting to ruffle feathers and stay in office is his first job. He needed to return to the farm 50yrs ago.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (WONhk)

148 Very clear now why SCOAMF insisted his Presidential Temple is not a library and his administration's papers will not be available to the public.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (CzLnx)

The side by side comparison of his library and the North Korean guard tower made me laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

149
The trail of dead bodies strewn around the Clintons from Arkansas to the White House might have had a chilling effect on those 'investigating' them.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (Y8DZL)

150 Kids got no ambition and lots of hate. Have they got a chance?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:05 PM (uGpeQ)

One is already a part of the hollywood drug crowd. The other is likely a herm like her mom.

No. They have no chance. Time will tell if one loses it and murders their parents.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

What a shame that'll be

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

151 Did Grassley role up his shirtsleeves? He's not serious if he didn't role up his shirtsleeves.

Posted by: Jim Jordan at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (Y1sOo)

152 62 Thanks. Go under the knife in about an hour or so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 01:52 PM (bQ3zt)
---

Lot's of Prayers.
Probability ONT will be on time tonight.
If the bar stool is uncomfortable there are a couple of recliners and one's reserved for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (uGpeQ)

153 A couple of decades smoking plus age and my doc says let's do this. It worries me. Hubbymayhem is here and had the same scan a few years ago. His came back good and he insists that mine will also.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (152cx)

154 Ditch the Blue Slip

Otherwise you are just posing, and no one believes you are at all concerned about law and order.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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True. Send money as ole Chuck is going to run again for another term soon. Eventually, like Strom in his last days, Chuck will have a permanent suite in Walter Reed and be wheeled in on stretcher to vote when needed.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

155 There would seem to be prosecutable crimes committed here.

Also, the statute of limitations can be extended for ten years for financial crimes.

Quick, Bondi, let's put a prosecutor with issues as the lead for this effort.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (XV/Pl)

156 The side by side comparison of his library and the North Korean guard tower made me laugh.
Posted by: Sponge

I liked the meme from the other day that showed in a Star Wars setting, with those big mechanical animals walking around it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

157 Hey Grassley, you know what might help in bringing justice to these people? A fully staffed DoJ. Stop supporting this phony 'no recess' and blue-slip tradition b/s.

Grassley supports Sanctuary States where Party Members fear neither the courts nor indictment no matter their lawlessness, sedition or treason.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (WCaCG)

158 Yes, I spelled roll incorrectly. Sue me.

Posted by: Jim Jordan at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (Y1sOo)

159 The gop had to be pulled kicking and screaming to defund a few $$ from pbs. You think these cucks are taking on Obama and the Clintons.

Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (udlma)

160 His came back good and he insists that mine will also.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem
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May it be so.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

161 I think it's important to note that July 5th is when then Director Comey did that bizarre press conference where he outlined all the federal violations of Hillary Clinton relative to her home server and destroyed electronic devices along with, what, 33,000 emails. With the rationalization of having no "intent" of committing a crime.

It seems clear that Comey gave marching orders to McCabe to run interference on any Clinton investigation, because paired up with all that had been brought to light previously (including the July 5th press conference), it would have been too much for independent voters.

This is hilarious because a lot of independent voters pointed to Comey's press conference as a deciding factor in who they voted for...and not the way Comey wanted. And Comey was made the scapegoat by Clinton despite all he was doing to protect her.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (dIske)

162 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:10 PM (152cx)

I'll say a prayer for a good outcome

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (VE6XX)

163 And may the nurses be well-endowed with fine tools.

/Prayers up, Jim!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM

But in the meantime, rest well, and dream of large-(breasted) ~~women~~ nurses.

Posted by: Dread Pirate Westley at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (P5BPp)

164 I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. They seem like silly, vacuous ruling class nepots, but hey, that's just the American Way, and they haven't done anything beyond that to anger me.

Also, I can dig really deep and find some sympathy for them. If my mom was Michelle Obama and my dad was a huge queer, I'd probably go crazy and gnaw someone's face off, so i think they've held it together remarkably well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (BI5O2)

165 As I'm getting sick of saying...wake me when something actually happens to these people.

Posted by: frode at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (ccsjf)

166
tee-hee

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (DDJSl)

167 Thanks all. I'm gonna take a nap now. The colon flush had me up most of the night. Only abt 2hrs sleep.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 02:12 PM (bQ3zt)

168 149
The trail of dead bodies strewn around the Clintons from Arkansas to the White House might have had a chilling effect on those 'investigating' them.
Posted by: Auspex
========
The term is Arkancide. Yet, ole Scratch is waiting with a pitchfork for both of that pair.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:12 PM (WDjG6)

169 This isn't directed at Ace because he's just doing his part.
I'm done caring about all this, nothing ever happens.... if all that ever happens is strongly worded letters we are done for.
Punishments, by the state... or what comes next might not be controllable.
I k ow that sounds glowie, I'm not advocating. I actually do t what what historically comes next to come...

Posted by: Inogame at December 15, 2025 02:12 PM (fLcJT)

170 Surgeon says they won't slap a hot iron on it but use staples instead.

Their iron must be broken.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:12 PM (Otznn)

171 Damn if the horde ain't falling the fuck apart

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 02:12 PM (uQzkA)

172 "California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.
Posted by: ShainS"

It's as if ordering science, technology and economics to conform to your truth isn't possible.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM (GUOwU)

173 200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

[more at link]

https://is.gd/Vb9KDj
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (ac5Gy)

California no longer has any 'fossil fuel' plants for energy. They're geothermal, nuclear, wind and solar. They have to buy energy from surrounding states and still have brownouts and rolling blackouts every summer.

That state will be a barren wasteland before they're done with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (152cx)

=====

Don't worry, they're quick and easy. I've had three so far.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM (DRSnL)

175 /opens door

Just wanted to tell you, Jim, good luck and we're all counting on you.

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM (KPKlu)

176 The trail of dead bodies strewn around the Clintons from Arkansas to the White House might have had a chilling effect on those 'investigating' them.
____

Ok, who wants to go in front of the press and let them know you have information that will lead to life imprisonment for the Clintons? No? Anyone? Bueller?
-FBI Field Manager

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 02:14 PM (Dv3i1)

177
University of California Davis economists calculate a 40 cents per gallon increase the moment Phillips 66 closes their Los Angeles refinery this December. Then another 81 cents when Valero shuts down four months later in April. That totals a $1.21 per gallon increase by August 2026, your 15 gallon fill-up jumps from $70 to at least $95.

The Stanford Energy Institute came up with even worse projections. They are showing potential spikes to $8 per gallon during supply disruptions.

UC Berkeley's Severin Borenstein, who has been tracking California energy markets for decades, warns these closures could create severe gasoline shortages with unprecedented price increases.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:14 PM (ac5Gy)

178 California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.
Posted by: ShainS"

About to? California has had the highest gas forever. And the same people keep getting elected. Not sure why I should give any fucks. They get what they want.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:14 PM (udlma)

179
And may the nurses be well-endowed with fine tools.

/Prayers up, Jim!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (HwNd5)

Unless they are male nurses!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

180 As I'm getting sick of saying...wake me when something actually happens to these people.

Posted by: frode at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM

Remember the Kraken from 2020?

Or when Anthony Fauci was going to go down, because it was discovered he tortured beagles?

Nothing ever happens to any of these people.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:14 PM (P5BPp)

181 Speaking which, what happened with the threat to withhold food stamp money to Dem states which didn’t provide data?
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It's in No-wheres-ville.

Right next to Bondi's goofy-ass civil lawsuit against the states for not banning trannies from girl's sports.
Oh yeah, ya' got 'em real scared--a civil lawsuit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (HXT0k)

182 Bondi Bush will be right on it...

Posted by: Noovuss at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (mJ7gT)

183 Also, I just realized that unlike other Presidential whelps, I don't know what the Obamas' politics are. They either don't talk about it, or I just missed all of it, but AFAIK they could've voted for
Orangemanbadass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (BI5O2)

184 Oblabo spawn....

Older taller one, Barky was the sperms donor. She looks just like him.
Younger shorter one that's shaped like a fireplug, Big Mike was the donor.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (152cx)

185 ... “When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”

“Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (ac5Gy)
++++
If the business unit predicts that compliance will cost more than closing operations *and* the people in the C-Suite with the crystal balls see little chance of conditions improving, the only fiscally-responsible action is to close that operation and quit throwing good money after bad. Direct that capital somewhere it can earn a return.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:16 PM (avHHk)

186 About to? California has had the highest gas forever. And the same people keep getting elected. Not sure why I should give any fucks. They get what they want.

California: The BDSM state

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:16 PM (KhyP1)

187 Sure $7 gas is bad. But I mean republicans literally want to execute gay people in public. I have no choice but to vote Democrat.
- California Voters

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:16 PM (udlma)

188 >Damn if the horde ain't falling the fuck apart

Posted by: NCKate
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the open secret is that many of us are one day older than dirt

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (ZxPkt)

189 @143 Shain, I read the governor of Oregon was trying to get refineries to stay in both Cali and Washington. She realizes her state is screwed without them. Of course she could try to do the Ed Begley Jr on the Simpsons route"my car is powered by my own inflated sense of self worth"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (D+mpw)

190 Waiting in the hospital for my lung scan. I hate this.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 02:04 PM (152cx)

Listen- we have doors to paint purple and flower pots to paint all kinds of other colors. We are going to be busy. 🫶🏻

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

191 New fun story about our Euro Trash allies,
"The Wall Street Journal reveals a European intelligence agency has distributed internal evaluations regarding "commercial and economic plans" the Trump administration has been pursuing with Russia in private discussions.

This has allegedly intensified concerns among European officials that the White House is poised to compromise the continent's safety for American economic advantage.

Insiders informed the WSJ that European leaders are weighing severe countermeasures in response, calculated to trigger economic turmoil across the United States. The proposed strategy includes liquidating trillions in American government bonds held by European governments.

A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

192
the open secret is that many of us are one day older than dirt
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (ZxPkt)

And I catch up later this week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

193 But I was informed it was all a big soap opera and the Obama's and Clinton's "hate" each other.

It might or might not be true but the point was who gives a fuck. Politics is all that matters.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (zALxA)

194 Right next to Bondi's goofy-ass civil lawsuit against the states for not banning trannies from girl's sports.
Oh yeah, ya' got 'em real scared--a civil lawsuit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (HXT0k)

I heard rumors of a strongly worded letter as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (udlma)

195 Also, I can dig really deep and find some sympathy for them. If my mom was Michelle Obama and my dad was a huge queer, I'd probably go crazy and gnaw someone's face off, so i think they've held it together remarkably well.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sasquatch and Malaria were mostly raised by Mooch's Mom and coddled wherever they went. If they turned out to have even a touch of class, it would be a miracle.

Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (oftw2)

196 “Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:08 PM (ac5Gy)
______________________

Isn't Valero a Venezuelan product? I know it used to source from them. I don't know if it still does.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (dIske)

197 Is Hillary donating her Depends to Haiti for charity?

Used or unused?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (APZWP)

198 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)

199 The side by side comparison of his library and the North Korean guard tower made me laugh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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The Berlin Tiergarten flak tower, but without the charm.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 02:19 PM (yNJrI)

200 Still waiting on that Ft Knox audit

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:19 PM (ZxPkt)

201 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)

Wonder what the hula hoop next to the toilet is for.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

202 The refiners closing will also fuck up regional states like Arizona, Nevada, Utah, etc.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 02:19 PM (udlma)

203 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That's what she said.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

204 Tommy Tuberville @CoachForGov

Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer.

Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers.

We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America.

X: https://bit.ly/4aMDtBO

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:20 PM (P5BPp)

205 "The Wall Street Journal reveals a European intelligence agency has distributed internal evaluations regarding "commercial and economic plans" the Trump administration has been pursuing with Russia in private discussions.
____

According to a source that wished to remain anonymous, "These plans include building a casino on Red Square. The biggest, and the best casino in the world, quite frankly. That's what the people are saying, anyway."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 02:20 PM (Dv3i1)

206 >This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
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doers she know someone left the toilet seat up?

seriously, the toilet included in the composition kinda ruins it

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (ZxPkt)

207
About to? California has had the highest gas forever. And the same people keep getting elected. Not sure why I should give any fucks. They get what they want.

Valero is taking a $1.1B loss to shut down the Benicia refinery in 2026. Regulations have proven too much.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (tgvbd)

208 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)
_____

Bruh, where's her right arm? Photoshop filter disaster. TBWNB.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

209 Isn't Valero a Venezuelan product? I know it used to source from them. I don't know if it still does.
Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (dIske)
++++
Valero is a refiner and transporter. They buy oil and make stuff from it, they don't produce oil themselves. Texas company.

Oil is fungible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (avHHk)

210 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop

But she's great at sending selfies into the internet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (wvguf)

211 Tommy Tuberville @CoachForGov

Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer.

Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers.

We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America.

X: https://bit.ly/4aMDtBO
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:20 PM (P5BPp)

He is correct.

They will soon be issuing a fatwah or whatever for his head.

Because it's a religion of peace, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

212 I wanted to note something about the "gotcha" on Noam at the hearing last week.

I'm pretty sure the witnesses have to be disclosed ahead of time; that surprise witnesses are against the rules.

But no Republican objected to the witness.

Either the Republicans consented to the ambush.

Or her staff sabotaged her and didn't check out the witness list.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (HXT0k)

213 The open secret is that many of us are one day older than dirt
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (ZxPkt)

And I catch up later this week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I refuse. I just won’t do it. I am going to go into Madonna levels of denial.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

214 It's as if ordering science, technology and economics to conform to your truth isn't possible.
Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM

что?!!

Posted by: Comrade Lysenko at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (bFu5X)

215 A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs.

The US will need to stop the bleeding and immediately cut-off all funding and participation in NATO, UN and the IMF

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (KhyP1)

216 and there are sex toys on that ladder/rack thingie

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (ZxPkt)

217 @trump_repost
4h
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (uGpeQ)

218 That busty blonde pic is weird. Her right breast looks like it's in the middle of her chest.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

219 TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (uGpeQ)

220
I refuse. I just won’t do it. I am going to go into Madonna levels of denial.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

Those surgeries get expensive......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

221 183 Also, I just realized that unlike other Presidential whelps, I don't know what the Obamas' politics are. They either don't talk about it, or I just missed all of it, but AFAIK they could've voted for
Orangemanbadass.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (BI5O2)

Take that not-daddy!

Posted by: The "Obama" Kids at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (aTjjq)

222 Sasquatch and Malaria were mostly raised by Mooch's Mom and coddled wherever they went. If they turned out to have even a touch of class, it would be a miracle.
Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (oftw2

Yeah, it's probably good they had a grandma around, but it still must suck to know your mom doesn't even like you, because she just shoved a test tube full of queer jizz in her snatch so she could steal money from a Chicago hospital system.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (BI5O2)

223 Insiders informed the WSJ that European leaders are weighing severe countermeasures in response, calculated to trigger economic turmoil across the United States. The proposed strategy includes liquidating trillions in American government bonds held by European governments.

A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)
++++
Two things if true:
1. These are not allies
2. Enjoy the dual loving embrace of Red China and domestic rioting when you deliberately alienate a major trading partner and former ally

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (avHHk)

224 Praying Miss MadameMayhem

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (zALxA)

225 @191

>>A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."

Do these people think that if they knock down the US a peg, they won't suffer any collateral damage?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (XV/Pl)

226
I'm all meathead'ed out.

Sick of talking about.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (KPKlu)

227 164 I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. they've held it together remarkably well.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

"Mom! Dad! Thanks for getting me the cool Hollywood job!
So, who'd this Harvey Weinstein guy I'm supposed to report to?"

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (Y8DZL)

228
Isn't Valero a Venezuelan product?

No

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (tgvbd)

229 We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America.

I have an idea. Since you are a member of the Senate in the majority party that is also the majority in the House and occupy the Execute that is champing at the bit to get them the hell out

WHY DON'T YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND USE YOUR POSITION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!?!?!!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (kHd4y)

230 > The side by side comparison of his library and the North Korean guard tower made me laugh.
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It reminds me of a military structure. Like a bunker or maybe some sort of eavesdropping facility.

Which I'm fairly certain it will be able to do. Great facility to run a government overthrow from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (NwnyJ)

231 If they turned out to have even a touch of class, it would be a miracle.
Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (oftw2

I know which side of that bet I'm taking.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (zALxA)

232 Bruh, where's her right arm? Photoshop filter disaster. TBWNB.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Yeah, I noticed that, too. There appears to be a lot of skin to the right of her right breast, but it doesn't appear to be an arm. That's why the right breast looks like it's more toward the middle of her chest.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (77rzZ)

233 Yeah, it's probably good they had a grandma around, but it still must suck to know your mom doesn't even like you, because she just shoved a test tube full of queer jizz in her snatch so she could steal money from a Chicago hospital system.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:23 PM (BI5O2)

It still amazes me that they allowed themselves to be punished with two babies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

234 A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."
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LOL.
They are economic geniuses, aren't they?
Who do they think that will hurt the most?

They are holding the bolder 5 feet from the edge of the cliff, right in that moment where the coyote realizes he's not on the ground anymore.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 02:24 PM (HXT0k)

235 Valero is a refiner and transporter. They buy oil and make stuff from it, they don't produce oil themselves. Texas company.

Oil is fungible.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (avHHk)

__________________

I get that. But, they had really good contacts with Venezuela. That was their primary source for heavy crude at one time. They were even trying to get around the sanctions in 2023, asking for special permission to import from Venezuela.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:25 PM (dIske)

236 A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."

Sheriff Bart made a similar threat in Blazing Saddles.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:25 PM (Otznn)

237 And I catch up later this week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I refuse. I just won’t do it. I am going to go into Madonna levels of denial.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

=====

I think we look pretty good for our age.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

238 Trump's election win filled Hamas with 'fear,' hostage held like 'slave' for 505 days recounts
Omer Shem Tov spent 505 days in Hamas captivity before release in February
_Fox

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (uGpeQ)

239 Bruh, where's her right arm? Photoshop filter disaster. TBWNB.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Hey!!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (zALxA)

240 I refuse. I just won’t do it. I am going to go into Madonna levels of denial.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

Please don't. Madonna is in Phantom of the Opera mode with all the plastic surgery she's had.

You wouldn't want to scare your cute pup!

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

241 Sheriff Bart made a similar threat in Blazing Saddles.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:25 PM (Otznn)
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DO WHAT HE SAAAAAY!!! DO WHAT HE SAAAAY!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (yNJrI)

242 As we're late in the thread, how about the DSA's dream platform in graphic form: https://shorturl.at/ahKGs

these are great first steps in a country like the US which has rejected the Social Democratic/Keynesian wave that swept up much of "The West". We shouldn't view this as the "end-all" be all. A quick look at the Social Democratic parties in Europe shows us why.

social democracy is the next step towards socialism. Eventually the dialectic of workers producing everything while private companies take the majority of the benefits will catch up to the capitalists. At least I hope this is true.

it's also possible to eradicate profit
EDIT: lol I don't know why I'm getting downvoted for pointing out this version of the future still involves profit (and executives too, for that matter), something I'm against as a socialist and would have assumed more people on this sub are as well 🙄

Also WORKER OWNERSHIP. Seriously until companies are owned equally by the workers this country is going nowhere but fascism

Let’s go further. All this, but with universal healthcare, universal housing, universal childcare and education. It’s more than possible.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (JCZqz)

243
I think we look pretty good for our age.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

244 "New Evidence" blah blah blah.

Arrest somebody already. Bunch of,pussys.

Posted by: Enough Already With The Bullshit at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (FGMmt)

245 This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/orgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:27 PM (avHHk)

246 Ok, speaking of the Olds.

So this last ti.e I went to the optometrist, my overall prescription did not change, but I got a pair of progressive lens glasses. I like them, but have noticed my... awareness cone seems to narrow considerably when wearing them as opposed to contacts or my regular glasses.

Then, I looked at the binary clock my sister got me a dozen years ago and noticed a huge difference. It has a panel of blue leds that you can figure out what the time is. I looked at them with the progressive and it looked like a field of stars with rays coming off. Put on the regular glasses, looked normal.

I guess the progressive messes with the astigmatism correction. Weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

247 This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/orgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Damn, that hair.

Hair spilling down into the cleavage is always a good thing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

248 This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/orgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:27 PM (avHHk)

Mind the gap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

249 Has anyone anywhere paid a price for Grassley's huffing, puffing and wheezing. Screw him and his ethanol subsidies. Fight harder to get your farmers to grow corn for cattle feed.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (wBaIH)

250 *fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

I meant me and Piper, not you.

j/k

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (DRSnL)

251 Arrest somebody already. Bunch of,pussys.
Posted by: Enough Already

Why does Enough Already want his brother Somebody Already arrested?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

252 Fight harder to get your farmers to grow corn for cattle feed.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (wBaIH)

Corn is for food and whiskey. Stop putting food in my fuel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

253 This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/orgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:27 PM (avHHk)
______

I think that's AI ... but fuck it, TBWB. He's freaky like that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

254 I meant me and Piper, not you.

j/k
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (DRSnL)

The truth can be painful sometimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

255 One hand washes the other

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (xcxpd)

256 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)

She's missing an arm! Oh well. I'd still.....you know...

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (rny6c)

257 We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America

Is it so bad? We already have multiple wives, just not concurrently, and now we'll have the force of law behind us to keep them in line...

Posted by: American Men at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (JCZqz)

258 Has anyone anywhere paid a price for Grassley's huffing, puffing and wheezing. ...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 02:28 PM (wBaIH)
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Yes.

Optimistic people with faith in "the system" and belief that *eventually* rules will be enforced are no longer so optimistic or faithful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (avHHk)

259 @jaweedkaleem

I spoke to 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other University of California campuses who say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations.

One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
--

Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell

No one believes you spoke to 9 former DoJ employees.

You work for the LA Times and used to work for the fake news site Huffington Post where you attacked Christians regularly.

Shame on @DrPatSoonShiong for hiring you

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (uGpeQ)

260 The truth can be painful sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

The first year we were at the TXMoMe, husband called you "that young guy." He had no idea you were our age.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (DRSnL)

261 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

Ella Cook was just 19 years old — a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University.

She was brutally killed by a shooter in what appears to be a targeted political attack.

If you still don’t see what’s happening, you haven’t been paying attention.

Just this year alone:

- Tricia McLaughlin threatened with public execution
- Two National Guard troops shot in DC
- The seditious six Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones openly fantasizing about murdering Republicans and their children wins election in Virginia
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers have skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks [ . . . ]

The left’s violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don’t crush this threat now, we lose everything. It’s only escalating.

Enough is enough.

X list and image: https://bit.ly/4pDYBi7

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (P5BPp)

262 Two things if true:
1. These are not allies
2. Enjoy the dual loving embrace of Red China and domestic rioting when you deliberately alienate a major trading partner and former ally
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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These are teh same leaders that bow to the Muzzie invaders, want Israelis dead, and wanted us to start WWIII with Vlad over Ukraine.

With Allies like these, who needs allies. Time to cut them adrift or better yet break up the EU and side with those there that actually like the US and don't want war with Vlad.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (WDjG6)

263 "This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
Posted by: Joe Mannix"

Belly button is slightly off-center

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (GUOwU)

264 Ace, I hope at some point today you might do a post on John Kennedy reading a memo about why the MN AG didn't go after Somali Fraud. It was because "They're a reliable Democrat voting bloc."

What a surprise- not!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (wvguf)

265
The first year we were at the TXMoMe, husband called you "that young guy." He had no idea you were our age.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (DRSnL)

I like him. He is a good man.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

266 This bikini brunette in the pool hopes she's more to your liking - but she agrees with the weird blonde that nothing will happen:
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I'd say she's a ginger. Or at least ginger-adjacent.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

267 >>I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. they've held it together remarkably well.

How would anyone know? If they were attending Satanic masses with babies being sacrificed who would report it?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)

268 I'd say she's a ginger. Or at least ginger-adjacent.
Posted by: Bulg

Is that possible? Can you have half a soul? Like being half pregnant?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (JCZqz)

269 Belly button is slightly off-center
Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (GUOwU)
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You wouldn't be happy if you was hung with a new rope.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (yNJrI)

270
So the LIE that the "hero" in Australia was a muslim was a Lie?

You gotta stop believing every random tweet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (KPKlu)

271
I like him. He is a good man.
Posted by: Sponge

But blind...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (kfTpm)

272 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)

She's missing an arm! Oh well. I'd still.....you know...
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (rny6c)

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She's got arms?

/Michelle Fields

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (9JDJW)

273 267 >>I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. they've held it together remarkably well.

How would anyone know? If they were attending Satanic masses with babies being sacrificed who would report it?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)

Vogue, and they'd focus on what stylish dresses they were wearing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 02:34 PM (uWKK8)

274 I'm sure they will be classless fools because that's where the money is.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 02:34 PM (zALxA)

275 The first year we were at the TXMoMe, husband called you "that young guy." He had no idea you were our age.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM

Neither did I.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:34 PM (bFu5X)

276
But blind...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 02:33 PM (kfTpm)

Blindophobe!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

277 Has anyone anywhere paid a price for Grassley's huffing, puffing and wheezing. ...

Well, think of the doctors he's been thru. His very first doctor could easily have been born in the 1870's.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:35 PM (Otznn)

278 Damn radical assholes!

Dana Carvey & David Spade Defend Saying the Word “Christmas”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:35 PM (L/fGl)

279 272 This busty blonde knows nothing will happen:
http://tiny.cc/8rgw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 02:18 PM (avHHk)

She's missing an arm! Oh well. I'd still.....you know...
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 02:30 PM (rny6c)

crop the photo, I don't need to see your commode.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 02:35 PM (uWKK8)

280 How would anyone know? If they were attending Satanic masses with babies being sacrificed who would report it?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)

Vogue, and they'd focus on what stylish dresses they were wearing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sacrificing infants to Ba'al is actually the most Christian and patriotic thing an American can do!

Posted by: The Bulwark at December 15, 2025 02:35 PM (JCZqz)

281 I think we look pretty good for our age.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December

I agree. And this is a result of refusing to acknowledge our age. It’s working!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

282 A swift sell-off could potentially trigger a crash in the value of the US dollar, instigate a liquidity crisis across the banking system, and cause a significant surge in borrowing costs."
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

I have heard this gamed out, and those that know suspect there is enough liquidity to defend the dollar in that eventuality, and they tried something similar during the first phase of the Tariff fight.
Italy has declared its gold is not for the EU to back the Euro, and Germany is bottoming out on its reserves. The UK holds a lot of USD but I don't think they want to print more Pounds to fill the hole a sell off would cause.
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed . . ."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 02:36 PM (rbvCR)

283
Are police in Australia armed? I mean, like the regular patrolman, are they armed with a firearm?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:36 PM (KPKlu)

284 >>I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. they've held it together remarkably well.

How would anyone know? If they were attending Satanic masses with babies being sacrificed who would report it?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)

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The Secret Cervix?

/Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:36 PM (9JDJW)

285 And here's a picture of good looking Pete Hegseth- for the 'eyes , not without a shirt, but I've already posted several of those:

https://tinyurl.com/eeyvkcs5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:37 PM (wvguf)

286 I agree. And this is a result of refusing to acknowledge our age. It’s working!
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 02:36 PM

The key to not looking your age is not acting your age. Worked for my father.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

287 Eventually the dialectic of workers producing everything while private companies take the majority of the benefits will catch up to the capitalists. At least I hope this is true

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Omfglol.

Said every midwit who ever read up on Marxian dialectics.

Think about reading Marx in the mid 19th century.

If you're smarter than an 85 IQ, you could only read this stuff and come away with one or both of two conclusions, even in a full vacuum of subsequent historical knowledge about Marxism:

1.) This is a self-referential ouroborous of pretzel logic that presumes its own hypotheses. It's unlikely to ever work. In fact, it sounds stupid AF.

2.) Holy shit, this is the greatest scam in the history of grifting. Get me a picket sign and a revolver right away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (BI5O2)

288
What's this?

Meathead was at Conan O'Brian's Christmas party?

Apparently there is ZERO Video of Brown University terror attack. None. None?

Also, was a Young Republican a victim at Brown?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (KPKlu)

289 220 Those surgeries get expensive......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Try telling someone back in 1992 that Roseanne Barr would age more gracefully than Madonna...

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

290 The key to not looking your age is not acting your age. Worked for my father.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

Shit. Then I'm winning bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

291 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:37 PM (wvguf)

Meant for the 'ettes" not "eyes".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (wvguf)

292 I haven't dunked on Obama's daughters very much. they've held it together remarkably well.

How would anyone know? If they were attending Satanic masses with babies being sacrificed who would report it?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
____

I'm pretty sure at least one of them is already into the drug scene, although they've covered it up. She was definitely caught on vid smoking weed, and there have been persistent rumors of harder drug use.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

293 Shit. Then I'm winning bigly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (bFu5X)

294
Also, was a Young Republican a victim at Brown?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (KPKlu)

She was a vice president or some such of a Republican chapter there.

But it's not a political murder or anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

295 286 The key to not looking your age is not acting your age. Worked for my father.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

Most fathers insist their children act MUCH OLDER than their age.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

296 268 I'd say she's a ginger. Or at least ginger-adjacent.
Posted by: Bulg
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Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (uGpeQ)

297
California no longer has any 'fossil fuel' plants for energy. They're geothermal, nuclear, wind and solar. They have to buy energy from surrounding states and still have brownouts and rolling blackouts every summer.

That state will be a barren wasteland before they're done with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I know what will fix that. More AI data centers!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (pkeXY)

298
Strawberry blonde.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (uGpeQ)

299 Arrest somebody already. Bunch of,pussys.
Posted by: Enough Already

Why does Enough Already want his brother Somebody Already arrested?

Thanksgiving didn't work out too well.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (c3sdc)

300 Lord bless you and keep you, Jim. See you after it's done!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (R3yzU)

301
WTF is going on with Brown?

One of you earlier said it was a total clown show.
You're weren't overstating it.

Fucking Idiots.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (KPKlu)

302 That state will be a barren wasteland before they're done with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Make orange orchards great again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 02:41 PM (uGpeQ)

303 I guess I used to get excited about this stuff a long time ago. But now? It’s just further confirmation that they were all corrupt to the core. That’s it. Personally satisfying, I guess. But nothing will actually be done, no one will be prosecuted, my left wing relatives will never hear anything about it.

Posted by: BreakingBogey at December 15, 2025 02:41 PM (69oK7)

304 TimOnPoint @TimOnPoint

The last 24 hours of the investigation at Brown University have been a mess.

- specific people in a specific room of a specific building at a specific time were attacked - that’s local knowledge, not out of town knowledge.

- 6 hours later, the President of the university publicly states that she has no idea what the classroom was even being used for.

- cameras everywhere - none capture the suspect in any useful way.

- a person of interest is identified and the name leaked to the WaPo - the wrong man - who’s the leaker?

- now we learn that one of the victims was one of the few conservative voices on campus in a class being taught by a prominent Jewish professor.

- Brown also has an official policy of not exposing racial and ethnic descriptions from its safety alerts - eye witnesses may have seen the attacker and not known it.

Incompetence is too nice of a word. This is incompetence plus narrative bias - perhaps deliberate bias - greatly harming the investigation.

X: https://bit.ly/3MCzPjY

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:41 PM (P5BPp)

305 I saw a response to Amanda Seyfried's call for socialism that we should codify any millionaire that does so has to give up their wealth.

Seyfried is worth $16M. And she wants to take away other people's money nominally for the poor...

If she gave away 2/3s of that she could still comfortably retire now...but she won't.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

306 No reasonable prosecutor would charge Madam Hillary with any crime based on the evidence hidden by Obama and Comey......

She should be a Saint for everything she has done to help "THE CHILDREN" in African Shithole Countries when she was Rarely Sober while serving as Sexatary of State.

Posted by: Jackson at December 15, 2025 02:42 PM (J9q9v)

307 Incompetence is too nice of a word. This is incompetence plus narrative bias - perhaps deliberate bias - greatly harming the investigation.

X: https://bit.ly/3MCzPjY
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:41 PM (P5BPp)

"Shut it down. Shut it down now!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

308 I have heard this gamed out, and those that know suspect there is enough liquidity to defend the dollar in that eventuality, and they tried something similar during the first phase of the Tariff fight.
Italy has declared its gold is not for the EU to back the Euro, and Germany is bottoming out on its reserves. The UK holds a lot of USD but I don't think they want to print more Pounds to fill the hole a sell off would cause.
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed . . ."
Posted by: Kindltot

It is more the casual idiocy that Euro leaders adopt as policy--bring in more Muzzies, let's hate on Israelis and promote an independent Palestine after 10/7 to punish Israelis for winning against barbarians, let's provoke WWIII with American bodies against Vlad in Ukraine, let's kill out industries and open our markets for China, not the US, let our citizens be cold, hungry, and poor for Gaia, etc. ad nauseam. They live in Fantasy Land as Cloud people and float above the wreckage they wreak on those below.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:43 PM (WDjG6)

309 nuclear heart scan early this morning. Moved up when someone else was late.

Called doc when running late for nuclear brain test.
Should we reschedule?
Get your butt in here this stuff is expensive and we've got a 1/2 life left.
Turns out there wasn't medical evidence of Moronicity.

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2025 02:43 PM (FhXTo)

310 The left has assassinated two right leaning activists in a couple of months.

Could someone tell Bondi...she should probably do something about that...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:43 PM (sKqQm)

311 Well, think of the doctors he's been thru. His very first doctor could easily have been born in the 1870's.
Posted by: t-bird

One of the first babies I delivered in Dodge City!
-- Zombie Doc Adams

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

312 This appears to be the 2nd student killed at Brown:

https://tinyurl.com/vv4nu8hb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (wvguf)

313 She should be a Saint for everything she has done to help "THE CHILDREN" in African Shithole Countries when she was Rarely Sober while serving as Sexatary of State.

Posted by: Jackson at December 15, 2025 02:42 PM (J9q9v)

You're disgusting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

314 One of you earlier said it was a total clown show.
You're weren't overstating it."

*takes a bow*

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (XuXeR)

315 Homophobic assholes!

Polls Reveal Pete Buttigieg Less Popular with Black Voters Than Former KKK Leader

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (L/fGl)

316 309 Turns out there wasn't medical evidence of Moronicity.

metropolis > moronicity

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (v3pYe)

317 I may pass out from the total lack of surprise. There is probably a very deep, nearly-inexhaustible well of corruption and we only know about the very surface of it.

Posted by: No matter how bad it looks, it's guaranteed to be worse at December 15, 2025 02:45 PM (TbWk/)

318 Whoa, Reiner got bemeated by his kid.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

319 308 It is more the casual idiocy that Euro leaders adopt as policy--bring in more Muzzies, let's hate on Israelis and promote an independent Palestine after 10/7 to punish Israelis for winning against barbarians, let's provoke WWIII with American bodies against Vlad in Ukraine, let's kill out industries and open our markets for China, not the US, let our citizens be cold, hungry, and poor for Gaia, etc. ad nauseam. They live in Fantasy Land as Cloud people and float above the wreckage they wreak on those below.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:43 PM (WDjG6)

It's all about wanting to exterminate their own "Filthy" underclass and replace them with Muzzies to rule over.

Until they find out that the Muzzies don't consent to being ruled.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 02:45 PM (UnA8+)

320 If she gave away 2/3s of that she could still comfortably retire now...but she won't.
Posted by: 18-1

Seyfried is part of the bien pensant nomenklatura. She meant all of us poors have to give up everything to welfare queens because we have white privilege and shit.

Same rules do not apply to her and her friendz.

Nasty bint deserving of a very short future career so she can console herself alone living in her multiple mansions.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:46 PM (WDjG6)

321 The key to not looking your age is not acting your age. Worked for my father.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

Shit. Then I'm winning bigly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

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I'm still emotionally 19.

Blessing and a curse ..

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:46 PM (9JDJW)

322 312 This appears to be the 2nd student killed at Brown:

https://tinyurl.com/vv4nu8hb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (wvguf)

I'm assuming Muslim? That would throw out the "political"

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:46 PM (VE6XX)

323 I'm assuming Muslim? That would throw out the "political"

I do wonder if the killer thought the victim was converting...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

324 The key to not looking your age is not acting your age. Worked for my father.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bFu5X)

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

325 It's all about wanting to exterminate their own "Filthy" underclass and replace them with Muzzies to rule over.

Until they find out that the Muzzies don't consent to being ruled.
Posted by: XTC
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Yep, Replacement Theory is real and straight from the WEF. And the usual thing is that when the Muzzies come for them, they will be genuinely shocked.

Same fate happened to those that tried to play footsie with Commie revolutionaries. They were the first ones in the ditches to be shot.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

326 Greatest Providence RI story ever.
Marvin "Bad News" Barnes went to Providence college, but also grew up there. Prov HS won the state championship his junior year. That summer he and a couple of knucklehead buddies decided to rob a Prov city bus. They wore masks and robbed it. The bus driver went to a pay phone and called the cops. He said he thought one was Barnes.
At the preliminary hearing Barnes attorney said how did you know it was my client if he wore a mask . The driver said well I follow HE basketball and he was six foot six. The attorney said "is that all?" The driver said ," he was wearing a jacket that said RI State Champs and underneath it was embroidered"Marvin Barnes". Barnes pled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (D+mpw)

327 Seyfriend got her roles, and money, because she has a pretty face.

So as the roles dry up as she gets a little older first she'll call for socialism and then to end "lookism".

She's on the same path as Jennifer Connolly, though the later is a better actress and has a much better rack.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (sKqQm)

328 297
California no longer has any 'fossil fuel' plants for energy. They're geothermal, nuclear, wind and solar. They have to buy energy from surrounding states and still have brownouts and rolling blackouts every summer.

That state will be a barren wasteland before they're done with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I know what will fix that. More AI data centers!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 02:40 PM (pkeXY)

This is actually a very serious point, which almost no one in California at any level seems to realize yet. None of these new Data Centers, or any tech at all,, can or will be built there. They don't have the energy to run it. Which means almost all new investment in such things is going to be flowing to Texas and other places with lots of cheap, easy to get energy, with the promise of more in the future.

Silicon Valley may not realize it yet, but it's going to fade into a diminished "me too" shadow of what it once was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 02:49 PM (uWKK8)

329 Known wolf.

Australian Police Admit Terrorist Was Known to Authorities

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But the problem is too many guns.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)

330 But the problem is too many guns.

The goal is to disarm and oppress the populace. So more terror attacks make it easier

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

331 The key to not looking your age is not acting your age.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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[I did a two-step quick-step and a bossanova
A little Victor Sylvester, Rudy Valentino
You should have seen me moving
Right across the floor]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (XeU6L)

332 329 Known wolf.

Australian Police Admit Terrorist Was Known to Authorities

-
But the problem is too many guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)

And his guns were legal ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

333 I'm assuming Muslim? That would throw out the "political"
Posted by: It's me donna
==========
Not necessarily. Spree shooters often shoot their target and then anyone that happens to be around them.

Would not rule out that the nice College GOP female leader was the target from some vile murderer. Apparently, she was fearless and outspoken in defending her peeps.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (WDjG6)

334
- Brown also has an official policy of not exposing racial and ethnic descriptions from its safety alerts - eye witnesses may have seen the attacker and not known it.

White man in a white van.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (pkeXY)

335 For all you Karen Gillan fans, there's a picture of her on eBay where he she's raising her legs.

Very nice gams.

I'm coming around to Karen Gillan fandom.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

336
Omfglol.

Said every midwit who ever read up on Marxian dialectics.

Think about reading Marx in the mid 19th century.

If you're smarter than an 85 IQ, you could only read this stuff and come away with one or both of two conclusions, even in a full vacuum of subsequent historical knowledge about Marxism:

1.) This is a self-referential ouroborous of pretzel logic that presumes its own hypotheses. It's unlikely to ever work. In fact, it sounds stupid AF.

2.) Holy shit, this is the greatest scam in the history of grifting. Get me a picket sign and a revolver right away.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:38 PM (BI5O2)

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Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of just a few, that's just a fact. And a lot of that wealth transfer has been done by manipulating markets, government policy and the like by the wealthy with the money to get what they want.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (Vh9CX)

337 At the preliminary hearing Barnes attorney said how did you know it was my client if he wore a mask . The driver said well I follow HE basketball and he was six foot six. The attorney said "is that all?" The driver said ," he was wearing a jacket that said RI State Champs and underneath it was embroidered"Marvin Barnes". Barnes pled
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How do you get all the money out of the bus till?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (Wg6v7)

338 In the US a lot of these known wolves had "minders" that seem to have intentionally spun up the terrorists. I suspect it is the same in OZ

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

339 That's great but where are the charges, trials, convictions, and PMITA prison terms for all involved.

The only way any justice will be handed out is through vigilante justice.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (xvV+O)

340 And his guns were legal ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

It sounds like lone wolves get easier paperwork and background checks than randos

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

341 322 312 This appears to be the 2nd student killed at Brown:

https://tinyurl.com/vv4nu8hb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 02:44 PM (wvguf)

I'm assuming Muslim? That would throw out the "political"
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:46 PM (VE6XX)
________________________________

Shouldn't Jake Tapper be telling us what race the perp is by now after looking at his color swatches?

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (dIske)

342 Aaaaaaaaaaand nothing will ever happen to McCabe, Clinton or any corrupt Democrat Deep Stater.

Posted by: The Guy at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (Nc7sG)

343 So as the roles dry up as she gets a little older first she'll call for socialism and then to end "lookism".
Posted by: 18-1
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I read that at first when the holes dry up. Then did a spit take.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6)

344 325 Yep, Replacement Theory is real and straight from the WEF. And the usual thing is that when the Muzzies come for them, they will be genuinely shocked.

Same fate happened to those that tried to play footsie with Commie revolutionaries. They were the first ones in the ditches to be shot.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

"Haha, we won't even have to look at them! They all wear head-to-toe Burqas!"

And you're right, they aren't going to see it coming, because they're not even looking.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (UnA8+)

345
The goal is to disarm and oppress the populace. So more terror attacks make it easier
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

This is why Owebama and Biden imported so many terrorists to the US. They WANT gun violence. They WANT people to die. That way the PUBLIC will DEMAND they DO SOMETHING. Their something will be to take your guns. They've been trying it for years. They're just getting more and more bold about their plans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

346 Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM

Truth.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:51 PM (bFu5X)

347 Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of just a few, that's just a fact. And a lot of that wealth transfer has been done by manipulating markets, government policy and the like by the wealthy with the money to get what they want.

This is normal in less free systems.

In a capitalist system you have to keep producing more products/services/ideas people want to keep getting rich. In a corporatist system you just have to acquire enough money for your initial purchase of politicians and bureaucrats

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (sKqQm)

348 I read that at first when the holes dry up. Then did a spit take.
Posted by: whig

But enough about Andrea Mitchell.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

349 342 Aaaaaaaaaaand nothing will ever happen to McCabe, Clinton or any corrupt Democrat Deep Stater.
Posted by: The Guy
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Not true, they will be championed in the media as Dindu Nuffins who were turning their lives around and showers of money will fall into their grasp by their loyal apparatchiks and foreign enemies of the US.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (WDjG6)

350 I'm assuming Muslim? That would throw out the "political"

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 02:46 PM

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

The second victim of the Brown University shooting has been identified as 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.

After brain surgery at age 10, he always dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, which is what he was studying for.

His family says he was “the most kind-hearted person” and their “biggest role model.”

Truly heartbreaking. Rest in peace. Prayers for his loved ones.

X image: https://bit.ly/4rZLZng

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (P5BPp)

351 Make orange orchards great again.
Posted by: Braenyard

Central Valley's a desert. Snail darter out front should have told you.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (Otznn)

352 @337 no idea, probably broke the glass

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (D+mpw)

353
the DEI fake "police chief" in Providence, RI is a 4-foot tall mexican fag

The Providence PD top priority was making sure a fake "sign language" lady is present at all media events.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (KPKlu)

354 NOOD Swamp

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 02:53 PM (9JDJW)

355 What is it about All In the Family? Did they serve pure diabetes at the craft services table? Strothers and Reiner both went on to become butter-sweating hambeasts. Though at least Sally did good works instead of becoming a febrile Communist paranoiac.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (BI5O2)

356 But enough about Andrea Mitchell.
Posted by: Bulg
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I'd imagine old Alan's Schwarzstucker has lost the Schwarz part.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

357 Replacement Theory is real and straight from the WEF."

All new idea, right Aleric?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (XuXeR)

358 Erf. Just got out of the Dr office. BP under good control. Wants me to do all the $$$ screening tests. And because my employer sponsored insurance is AWFUL, I’m declining just about everything.

But. The BP is good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (4MGnT)

359 When the Clinton firing squad chambers a round, they should all be hot so that nobody comes up short of the target.

Can we not be rid of these evil entities already in a new century?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 02:54 PM (nljXp)

360 But the problem is too many guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:49 PM

Well, if you're a totalitarian who wants an unarmed populace, then, yes, the problem is too many guns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 02:55 PM (bFu5X)

361 Transport Secretary Sean Duffy gives NY 30 days to comply with the feds or else funding disappears.
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Wow. I give you 30 days to quit your raping and stealing or else I'm going to arrest you for your previous raping and stealing.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (xvV+O)

362 At the preliminary hearing Barnes attorney said how did you know it was my client if he wore a mask . The driver said well I follow HE basketball and he was six foot six. The attorney said "is that all?" The driver said ," he was wearing a jacket that said RI State Champs and underneath it was embroidered"Marvin Barnes". Barnes pled
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In a documentary, a farm wife killed her husband and tried to make it look like suicide. He was shot in the face but his arms weren't long enough to reach the trigger. The lever action rifle had a round in the chamber so he must have shot himself in the head then worked the lever. The gloves he was wearing were to big to fit inside the trigger guard. But other than that, it was perfect.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (L/fGl)

363 all new investment in such things is going to be flowing to Texas ..
Silicon Valley may not realize it yet, but it's going to fade into a diminished "me too" shadow of what it once was

The parasites will also flow into Texax. They always find a new host.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 02:59 PM (Otznn)

364
nooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (KPKlu)

365 In this age of closed captions and instant translation, are sign language folks necessary at all? I guess we don't want them living under overpasses, so we must pay them?

Posted by: Just Axin' at December 15, 2025 03:02 PM (oftw2)

366 Since nothing ever happens to powerful Democrats, maybe these Senators should spend a bit more time confirming PDJT's nominees.

Posted by: tjpruett at December 15, 2025 03:26 PM (CsWCU)

367 https://tinyurl.com/4s7ckyku

Found gym shoes a little bit older than I am. "Run faster. Jump higher."

Nap time. zzzzzzz

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 15, 2025 04:00 PM (TA9gW)

368 Obamas skeletons are coming out of his closets and all his supporters are hiding away time to revoke his Peace Prize

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 15, 2025 04:26 PM (wGqjj)

Rob Reiner's Mentally-Ill Son Arrested for Double Murder, Held on $4 Million Bail

As I'm sure you know, director/actor Rob Reiner and his wife were stabbed to death in their LA home.

Police questioned Reiner's son Nick, who reportedly had a history of mental illness.

Nick Reiner has now been arrested for the double murder of his father and mother.

Police have arrested Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, on a charge of murder following the death of the acclaimed Hollywood director and his wife, Michele Singer.
Nick Reiner, a 32-year-old screenwriter and the middle child of Rob Reiner and Singer, was taken into custody on Sunday, Dec. 14, and booked on Monday, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department records reviewed by USA TODAY. He is being held on $4 million bail.
...
Reiner has been the most forward-facing of the Reiner siblings. The writer has opened up extensively about his battles with drug addiction as well as homelessness, telling People in a 2016 interview that his struggles began as a teen.
He told the magazine he made his first visit to rehab at 15, and would return 17 times. His 2015 film "Being Charlie," which he cowrote, is loosely based on the experience. His dad directed the film.

JUST IN: Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were reportedly kiIIed by their son Nick Reiner.

I didn’t care for his politics, but this is a terrible tragedy and he didn’t deserve that.

See? That’s not so hard to say, Democrats.pic.twitter.com/TO0J5NVsD3
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 15, 2025

Trump unfortunately posted on social media, which is always an adventure, and often a bad one. Trump essentially claimed that Rob Reiner's "Trump Derangement System" infected people around him and caused his own murder.

This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world. Amanda Seyfried -- a fading actress who will fade still more -- made that claim.

Hollywood actress Amanda Seyfried has decided to make the stunning and brave choice of weighing in on Charlie Kirk’s assassination by essentially saying he was asking for it.

Do not watch any movie she’s in. Give her the Stephen King treatment. pic.twitter.com/gGhtv29wrY
— Santron (@jacktronprime) September 17, 2025

Of course this froggy little whore is refusing to retract or apologize for that nasty statement.

Amanda Seyfried is "not f--king apologizing" for her comments on Charlie Kirk after his shocking murder.
"I mean, for f--ks sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes," Seyfried, 40, told Who What Wear in an interview published on Wednesday.
"What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course."

Yes, one can offer a defense of Trump that the left has been doing this for three months with Charlie Kirk. But... in that case, what are we complaining about ourselves? If we support this kind of thing, then we can really have no objection to Amanda Seyfried or a hundred thousand other poisonous leftist murder cultists.

It sure would be nice if Trump would think once and a while instead of immediately jumping on Truth Social to show his ass.

For his part, despite how wretched Rob Reiner's politics are, and his Trump derangement (yes, he was in fact Trump deranged and I think he even conceded as much), he did not descend to Seyfried's level after Kirk's murder.

I disagreed with nearly everything Rob Reiner believed politically, but I won’t celebrate his death.

His thoughts on Charlie Kirk were heartfelt and caring.
pic.twitter.com/8ANEnKS1Y6
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 15, 2025

Obviously, this view was not universally shared on the left:

Worth noting 🚨

Even though the 77.3M Americans who voted for Trump, didn't care for the way Rob Reiner talked about Trump on X

One thing you won't see us doing is, celebrating the way he and his wife were murdered by their own son, like Lucy Martinez did about Charlie Kirk pic.twitter.com/C4ErQNT0pN
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) December 15, 2025

Very different responses to the death of people that some have disagreements with… pic.twitter.com/WHttTG18mk
— Caleb Hammer (@sircalebhammer) December 15, 2025

What a terrible weekend.

Posted by: Ace at 12:28 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

2 Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another that ...

THE BLADE IS FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

3 Wow...the beacon thingy worked!

How you doin', Ace?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

4 Hmmm

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (P5BPp)

5 Correct a person whom I considered a political opponent is dead by all appearances by his son's hand.

It is a tragedy, and I take no glee in it I am what was once known as a human being.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (MUJd1)

6 I am going to say something hard but it is not casual hate, Reiner died (understandably tragically no sarcasm) because he had what wound up being suicidal empathy which is a huge reason we are where are as a society.

He had a duty as a father to try to save his junkie kid, and he died in so doing. I am not mocking that and I am not making light of it. The Ukrainian and the Ginger in NC and IL are dead and burnt because of suicidal empathy on the part of officials.

The problem is that Vi Lyles and Brandon Johnson and the rest are not the CAUSE of the evil they are the symptom, there are a lot of people on this soil that love the criminal more than their political opponent.

I do not know what the answer is.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (MUJd1)

7 I'm pretty sure Meathead still blames his demise on Trump or republicans in general, it's the way he always rolled.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (kp5iD)

8 I don't say this often for Trump's rants, but this one - he needs to retract and apologize for. Blame a bad day, blame an intern for writing it, blame bad intel on the crime.

But, this is a "turn an election" tweet. And not in a good way for us.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (tOcjL)

9 He won't have to worry anymore about being homeless.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (Y1sOo)

10 >>What a terrible weekend.

It was a rough first night of Hanukkah.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (IaZ7c)

11
Toldja I dint do it.

Posted by: Orinthal James at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (Zt+0/)

12 "It sure would be nice if Trump would think once and a while instead of immediately jumping on Truth Social to show his ass."

Thank you for stating that, Ace. It had to be said

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (GHIyr)

13 That sucks.
Everything sucks.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (0MjtC)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

15
Heard it from a friend

Some friend!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (pkeXY)

16 Willowed :
409 And fake condolences from conservatives on social media, because it is the "right thing to do" actually repulses me a bit. That is the social virtue signalling of the right that we are better than you when the left doesn't can't and won't reciprocate.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

I agree with this.

Fake condolences just allows the Left to continue using Alinsky Rule #4 as their primary weapon.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (UnA8+)

17
Aww, I'm done with the "mental illness" bullshit. And the "drug addiction" bullshit.

He's bad.

You people need to accept that evil is some people's "normal."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (KPKlu)

18 Trump unfortunately posted on social media, which is always an adventure, and often a bad one. Trump essentially claimed that Rob Reiner's "Trump Derangement System" infected people around him and caused his own murder.

This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world. Amanda Seyfried -- a fading actress who will fade still more -- made that claim.

Yep. I thought the same thing when I saw Trump's post. Disappointing.

I remember conservatives were ripping the left for their statements about Charlie Kirk's death, blaming him for his own death, and stating that conservatives would never do that if a leftist died.

So much for that.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (P5BPp)

19 Being killed by your own flesh and blood has to be one of the most awful ways to go, hands down.

And I would remind Trump that you don't have to be a left-winger for your family to be torn apart by the cesspool that is Hollywood.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (EynyL)

20 Toldja I dint do it.
Posted by: Orinthal James"

Don't you have a white bronco somewhere?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (XuXeR)

21 Looks like they're going to go for an insanity defense.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

22 I cannot imagine how awful it must be to be the daughter and come into find that your parents were brutally murdered, and then to find out it was your brother who was responsible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (PFs9e)

23 My goo! My precious goo!

(Too soon?)

Posted by: Zombie Rob Reiner at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (JCZqz)

24 In the end there is a societal impulse that may counter-intuitively be part of what made this nation great or more rapid in rise than most, we can be suicidally empathetic.

I am not mocking Reiner, and I am not casually throwing heat what killed Reiner in all likelihood is what drives the leftist mind to value the deviant over the sane and hard working.

Reiner of course had the burden of it being literally his child as the assailant...he died engaged in in all likelihood his patrial duty.

I can understand, and in sadness even admire it as a trait while lamenting its ultimate cost in him towards *his* child.

I am at a loss as to the impulse in otherwise sane people to non-relatives.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (MUJd1)

25 Trump ffs not everything is about you.

Even a gavone from Queens can show some dignity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (A0sqA)

26 Hi, Ace. Thanks.

Happy Monday - hopefully.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (NFX2v)

27 But, this is a "turn an election" tweet. And not in a good way for us.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (tOcjL)

Nonsense. The 2026 election will turn on the perception of the voters about the state of the economy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (n9ltV)

28 Widening gyre...center cannot hold

Posted by: Rough Beast slouching away at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (fzZrL)

29 O/T but was one of the two Brown U victims a target?

Here is what Grok tells me about her.

Ella Cook, a sophomore from Alabama (described by her church and others as a bright, faithful student and vice-president of Brown's College Republicans chapter).

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (KiBMU)

30 Okay, you’re right. I shouldn’t take any glee in it either. I just feel this: how has making ourselves look better than Democrats truly helped us? Have we seen evidence that this strategy has worked as opposed to the Charlie Kirk haters?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (R/uuE)

31 Terrible news and a terrible tweet this time by the President. I didn't agree with Reiner as a person but he made some great movies and was a pretty good actor. IMO. Really a crap weekend of death, murder and awful news. Hard to have hope but I continue as the world spins round and round.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (Q0yOR)

32 2 Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another that ...

THE BLADE IS FIRST
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
====

I think this calls for the Barrel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (A0sqA)

33 Oh no, what happened, oh nooooo?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (xcxpd)

34 A sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe...

Posted by: All in the Family at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (Zt+0/)

35 Some Rob Reiner movies that I'm going to remember him by:
Stand by Me
The Princess Bride
A Few Good Men
Misery

I've never seen This is Spinal Tap. Maybe I'll watch it in his honor.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (Yp6az)

36 I'm sort of done with the "turn the other cheek" horseshit. I also don't care what Trump said about Reiner either. Had it been Trump who died you can rest assure that Reiner would have been out there in the street, fist pumping and high fiving people. The left will go absolutely bonkers upon Trump's death. The celebrations will go on for weeks, months.

One doesn't get a pass upon death for being a shitty person in life.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (NwnyJ)

37 So, the narrative is going to be that poor people can't afford mental health care and the rising prices of ACA plans caused this, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

38 Shoes and socks:

https://youtu.be/keX9D-KhqRI

Which was mostly ad libbed...

Posted by: All in the Family at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (Zt+0/)

39 It was a rough first night of Hanukkah.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (IaZ7c)
=====

It's not over.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (A0sqA)

40 Rob Reiner did a solid about CK's death. But that doesn't make up for a lifetime of defouling the air belching out halitosic lefty rants.

He despised us and would have gladly shipped us all away in boxcars for wrongthink.

I won't celebrate his murder. But I'm not sad he's dead. The world is better off without him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

41 Very sad. That's not really a great post by Trump, but at least he's not dancing on someone's grave.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (cuae1)

42 Reiner has been the most forward-facing of the Reiner siblings. The writer has opened up extensively about his battles with drug addiction as well as homelessness, telling People in a 2016 interview that his struggles began as a teen.
++++
Hmmmm. This is a familiar story, sadly.

Assuming that's true and in the absence of other information and with full knowledge that they 72-hour rule is in effect, my guess is that mom and dad finally said, "no. I am done throwing good money after bad. Rehab, rent, your movies, all of it has been hugely expensive and I am unwilling to keep doing it. It's helping neither you nor me."

Then stabby stabby.

Just a guess, but I suppose time will tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (avHHk)

43 18 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (P5BPp)

I am not joining in on the glee, but I will note that weaponized empathy is in their tool bag and from a game theory standpoint the math says reciprocity is the smart play.

Do note, I am not indulging in it or encouraging it I am acknowledging it.

Some degree of voluntary game theory inefficiency is how in theory we arrive at concord.

I do not know how to fix this.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (MUJd1)

44 Keep in mind, he still defended North to the very end….

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:37 PM (R/uuE)

45 "Remember that mean tweet Trump put out about Reiner?"

"Who? Carl Reiner? I kind of remember him. What did Trump say about Carl Reiner?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

46 Rob Reiner != Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

47 With all the shit that leftist dispshits say about Trump at a moment's notice, I don't care if he returns the favor.

Let the lefty lunatics go back to "dignity" first.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)

48 Okay, you’re right. I shouldn’t take any glee in it either. I just feel this: how has making ourselves look better than Democrats truly helped us? Have we seen evidence that this strategy has worked as opposed to the Charlie Kirk haters?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (R/uuE)

That's not the point.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 15, 2025 12:37 PM (EynyL)

49 Trump gonna Trump. I don't care. I know who he is. He's never hidden that.

Rob Reiner was a liberal lunatic piece of shit who hated me and everything I stand for. He can reap the benefits of his life and be judged by God now.

I will pray for mercy on his soul. I will not mourn him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

50 8 I don't say this often for Trump's rants, but this one - he needs to retract and apologize for. Blame a bad day, blame an intern for writing it, blame bad intel on the crime.

But, this is a "turn an election" tweet. And not in a good way for us.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (tOcjL)
--------

Agreed. When I read it, I was thinking "WTF?"

He closes with "may they rest in peace". I think he needs to brush up on what that phrase means.

Posted by: WisRich at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (G0vdT)

51 Also, A Happy and Blessed Festival of Light to any and all in the Horde.

Hopefully we can find some joy left in this world before the celebration is over.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (IaZ7c)

52 Well one way to shut up Rob and stop him from ruining our enjoyment of his delightful film catalogue

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (wBaIH)

53 Police questioned Reiner's son Nick, who reportedly had a history of mental illness.
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Apple, tree, 1-foot ruler....

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (krQz2)

54 This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world.
++++
In some ways. It could be viewed as taking the spotlight and making Reiner's death about Trump (unless he has some inside information and will be vindicated, but I doubt that since it actually *is* a local story).

Bad look either way, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (avHHk)

55 Of course this froggy little whore is refusing to retract or apologize for that nasty statement.

Amanda Seyfried is "not f--king apologizing" for her comments on Charlie Kirk after his shocking murder.

"I mean, for f--ks sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes," Seyfried, 40, told Who What Wear in an interview published on Wednesday.

"What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course."

There is one relevant factoid in this quote. See if you can guess what it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

56 Further on Trump's rant...
It was both heartless and unbelievably politically stupid.

I get that he takes a lot of heat, and I'm sure a "ding dong the witch is dead" impulse probably hit him, but YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE UNITED STATES - for our sake, act like it.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (tOcjL)

57 Would ita been better if he was pushed outta da window?

Posted by: Ohh, Archie! at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (7Q0e+)

58 37 So, the narrative is going to be that poor people can't afford mental health care and the rising prices of ACA plans caused this, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

You are shocked?

There is no problem on this Earth that cannot be fixed by the sweat of my unborn great great great grandchild's brow.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (MUJd1)

59 Yes, one can offer a defense of Trump that the left has been doing this for three months with Charlie Kirk. But... in that case, what are we complaining about ourselves? If we support this kind of thing, then we can really have no objection to Amanda Seyfried or a hundred thousand other poisonous leftist murder cultists.

Posted by: Ace at 12:28 PM

On the other hand, it gives us the opportunity to ask where was the outrage over far worse about Charlie.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (cuae1)

60 What Trump said was pretty mild, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

61 When's the next Brown U mass shooting press conference? Will there be a laugh track this time? Will the illegal alien police chief speak in spanish again? Will the gay, clueless mayor start yet another press conference off by telling everyone "we have no new information to report"? Will the alzheimer's governor shit his pants? Has the DEI university president figured out yet who's class was targeted?

Posted by: Squidneck at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (qUkBO)

62 This one is the very first time I genuinely hate what Trump's tweeted. Completely detached from the reality of a very awful story to score points on someone that died horrifically just because he was a political foe. I wish he'd ignored it.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (6nplM)

63 I don't say this often for Trump's rants, but this one - he needs to retract and apologize for. Blame a bad day, blame an intern for writing it, blame bad intel on the crime.

Agree completely.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

64 Reiner may have had "heartfelt" condolences for Charlie Kirk, but Trump is absolutely correct. Reiner's words stoking the fires of TDS over the past 10 years certainly contributed to Kirk's murder.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (Vh9CX)

65 What a terrible weekend.

Posted by: Ace at 12:28 PM

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

It's Murder Cultists all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (YbXso)

66 Damn, Donald.

He really can't help himself when it comes to fucking with people that fucked with him.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (q7hip)

67 >>>He is being held on $4 million bail.

Ridiculous. He is a danger to the community. Even if he can come up with the bond, he should not be released.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (8mulE)

68 "What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course."
++++
1. Your feelings are not facts. That doesn't mean your feelings aren't real, but they are not facts. That's why we have a word for it.
2. You are perfectly free to have your opinion. People who find your opinion bad are also free to theirs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (avHHk)

69 'That's not really a great post by Trump, but at least he's not dancing on someone's grave.'

IMHO, the worst thing about the post is the focus on Trump himself, and not on the murder victims it is supposed to eulogize(?)

It reveals a disturbing ego.

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (GHIyr)

70 Would ita been better if he was pushed outta da window?
Posted by: Ohh, Archie!

One of my favorite lines from that show.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

71 What is going on with the Brown suspect search? They have him, they don't have him/her/it. Cameras all over. I kinda tuned out and just went to write so no idea where that is now.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (Q0yOR)

72 14 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

I think all right thinking people can all agree on that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (xcxpd)

73 Never liked the man. Won't shed a tear for his passing as it will make the world a better place.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (xvV+O)

74 Rob put out some pretty good stuff. Never agreed with his politics or ideology, but nobody in his line of work deserves to be murdered. RIP

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (nljXp)

75 And fake condolences from conservatives on social media, because it is the "right thing to do" actually repulses me a bit. That is the social virtue signalling of the right that we are better than you when the left doesn't can't and won't reciprocate.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM

I agree with this.

Fake condolences just allows the Left to continue using Alinsky Rule #4 as their primary weapon.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:32 PM

I do not agree with this. I do not live my life by the moral or immoral rules of the left. I am not going to become a cold-hearted, evil asshole and see everything through a political lens just because the left does that.

This is like a child getting caught doing something bad and giving the excuse "well he does it too!". That doesn't make it correct.

The moral benchmark is not the actions of the left, the moral benchmark is your own moral compass (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, etc.). That moral compass should not change based on the depravity of others.

Also, why assume all condolences are fake? Most people can show humanity despite political differences.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (P5BPp)

76
Look, fats:

I told you two weeks ago President Trump has had enough. I told you what finally pushed him over the edge of Mt. No Fucks Given:

calling the parents of that National Guardsman to extend sympathies for the loss of their daughter.

You think he's going to continue playing the Democrats' game after that? He's done with the bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (KPKlu)

77 I’m not bothered on bit with what Trump said after the shit the left has out him through for the last decade.

On the other hand, Reiner was a leftist but I am truly saddened by his death and which him peace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (km9kZ)

78 Well, that's it. I'm never voting for Trump again!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (q7hip)

79 Trump unfortunately posted on social media, which is always an adventure, and often a bad one. Trump essentially claimed that Rob Reiner's "Trump Derangement System" infected people around him and caused his own murder.

This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world.

Except Trump is accurate. The hate meathead spewed did infect many on the left.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (QVuuq)

80 Yeah, Trump doesn't actually help make the case that you can't diagnose mental illness over the net.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (krQz2)

81 67 >>>He is being held on $4 million bail.

Ridiculous. He is a danger to the community. Even if he can come up with the bond, he should not be released.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (8mulE)

=====

Cash bonds are racist.

Put him back on the streets for racial justice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

82 Next thing media will state is that Renier's son is MAGA.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (hY1cu)

83 I'm reminded of the death of Stalin.
That was funny.
I didn't feel bad about his death either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

84 Some Rob Reiner movies that I'm going to remember him by:
Stand by Me
The Princess Bride
A Few Good Men
Misery

I've never seen This is Spinal Tap. Maybe I'll watch it in his honor.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 12:36 PM (Yp6az)
********
My favorite was When Harry Met Sally.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (NpAcC)

85 The only thing that should have been said is the President is sorry to learn of the death. That is it. I really do appreciate Trump, but I also really wish he was a bit more judicious in his time and place.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

86 61 Posted by: Squidneck at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (qUkBO)

Who says they want the assailant caught?

I have been making a series of tweets called "FIB Portland"...

https://tinyurl.com/FIB-Portland

Sven10077
@sven10077
·
Dec 13
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 15, 2025 12:42 PM (MUJd1)

87 Fucks given by me: the blutarsky

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (udlma)

88
This is bad. Nothing good about it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (azNOR)

89 59 On the other hand, it gives us the opportunity to ask where was the outrage over far worse about Charlie.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (cuae1)

No amount of "Being Better Than That" is going to make the Left Stop.

And they will still trot out Alinsky Rule #4 to say that you have to be better behaved than they do, regardless.

While yes, one would generally like to see Trump have more class than he did here, I also do not blame him, or anybody else who wants to be a sniping, vicious shit about it.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (UnA8+)

90 I do not agree with this. I do not live my life by the moral or immoral rules of the left. I am not going to become a cold-hearted, evil asshole and see everything through a political lens just because the left does that.

This is like a child getting caught doing something bad and giving the excuse "well he does it too!". That doesn't make it correct.

The moral benchmark is not the actions of the left, the moral benchmark is your own moral compass (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, etc.). That moral compass should not change based on the depravity of others.

Very well said. I do not wish to be on their level. Oh wait, I'll bet that makes me a weak-spined RINO.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

91 85 Concur.

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (GHIyr)

92 Saw a comment of mine deleted, Ace. Really? Are we Breitbart now?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (R/uuE)

93 What Trump said was pretty mild, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
______

Yea. I wouldn't have posted that if I were him, but I'm not seeing the big deal here. RR was a piece of shit who would have danced on Trump's grave if the roles were reversed. See my comment above. I ain't shedding no tears over RR's murder.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

94
And that's another thing:

All these asswipes on Twitter on "our side" making dumb comparison tweets to show how we're not as bad as "the left" need to STFU, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (KPKlu)

95 Continuing that conversation.

‘ It's a fine hour. F that guy.’

I acknowledged all the rotten shit Reiner has said and done and said he deserved what Trump said.

I just don’t think Trump’s reputation or our fight for the country benefit if Trump jumps at every opportunity to look like an asshole.

You don’t have to worry about him taking my advice.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (jbnUc)

Good. They want us dead. They want you dead. They want your family dead. They've painted targets on the backs of my kids for nearly two decades (more?).

Why? Mere ideological differences. I am prepared to accept that, and I am happy that we don't have some mealy-mouthed useless shithead with his hands wrapped around his balls pussyfooting around about taking the high road or being better people while they murder and attempt to murder us in cold blood.

I am prepared to accept their sentiment and return the same.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (dK+Kv)

96 And fake condolences from conservatives on social media, because it is the "right thing to do" actually repulses me a bit. That is the social virtue signalling of the right that we are better than you when the left doesn't can't and won't reciprocate.

Posted by: whig

I'm not condoling shit. I won't express pleasure in his death, but I'm damn sure not expressing condolences.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (QVuuq)

97 85 Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

Yeah, I agree I need to micromanage the emotions of a guy the left persecuted legally, tried to wound mortally, who is going to be impeached daily when the apathy of the electorate to willful stupid evil gets them power back because Trump is not the kindest person in the face of it in history.

Makes sense.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (MUJd1)

98 He told the magazine he made his first visit to rehab at 15, and would return 17 times. His 2015 film "Being Charlie," which he cowrote, is loosely based on the experience. His dad directed the film.

Hm. Monetizing your kid's mental and physical health problems by making a movie about them.

How very Hollywood.

His death is shock, but I don't think anyone should be surprised. And no, I don't care it that's not nice.

There's a difference between people who get killed for trying to persuade others to abandon their nihilist death-cult world view and people who get killed for living their nihilist death cult world view. And it's okay to say that.

Don't make the mistake of condemning people who push old ladies out of the path of an oncoming bus with people who push old ladies into the path of an oncoming bus, just because both of them push old ladies.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (a+4eV)

99 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (TSUjm)

100 Following this tragedy, it's important for everyone to realize the vast majority of ~~Muslims~~ ~~trans-people~~ neurodivergent people are peaceful, law-abiding, and we especially need to stop any backlash.

Posted by: Predictable Lefty Douchebag at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (JCZqz)

101 i'm not happy or celebrating, but i'm out of fucks to give over what PDJT said.

it's barely a register over what the left continually says.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (nXhwP)

102 As i said last night, did he and his wife deserve to die like this? No. But do I care? No, I do not.
The left and Hollywood will have its oh so public days of lamenting and weeping, (I'm still betting on a George Floyd level of BS) but Reiner will have already slipped from my memory.
I am far more upset by the events of Australia, the killing of our troops in Syria, and the murders at Brown University. And does anyone even follow how many were killed this last weekend in Chicago?
I've seen it in other professions...when you put everything into the job to get the top-tier lifestyle, the family will suffer. In business, politics, the military, Hollywood. its all the same. The family...typically the kids...will suffer.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

103 I don't blame Rob Reiner so much for his TDS as the sea in which he swam. The LA "industry" is a cesspool of it.

One cannot imagine the horror of being stabbed to death while watching your spouse enduring the same, and by your own son.

RIP

And Trump ought to show some class and issue a public apology for what he wrote. He's certainly demanded apologies from others.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (KiBMU)

104 >>Saw a comment of mine deleted, Ace. Really? Are we Breitbart now?

It is Ace's site. You are a guest, here.

Also. If your hash changed, it might have nothing to do with you or your comment.

I was banned for a couple days last week due to a hash change.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (IaZ7c)

105 This is bad. Nothing good about it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 12:42 PM (azNOR)

Counter argument: Rob Reiner is dead.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (dK+Kv)

106 Except Trump is accurate. The hate meathead spewed did infect many on the left.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (QVuuq)
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But I doubt it really affected the a child of privilege homeless, frequent-rehabber addict.

The majority reason that people are homeless is that people with the heart to take them in often don't want them to continue using drugs. And the otherwise homeless is such an addict that they begin stealing from their benefactor.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (krQz2)

107 Amanda Syfried loved to get nekkid in movies in her prime. So forever will I be grateful to her for that. Beautiful body.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (udlma)

108
Stifle there, Donald.

Posted by: Archie at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (Zt+0/)

109 I don't say this often for Trump's rants, but this one - he needs to retract and apologize for. Blame a bad day, blame an intern for writing it, blame bad intel on the crime.

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Blame it on Joy Reid hacking his Truth Social account.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (YbXso)

110 Everyone sitting around, smiling, laughing and having a good time. Then you got that guy who looks like a human red flag.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (uQzkA)

111 Nonsense. The 2026 election will turn on the perception of the voters about the state of the economy."

Damn. This is the second time I've agreed with this person.
I must plan a trip to the desert where I can contemplate on my life choices that brought me to this place...
Perhaps the Tree of Woe?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (XuXeR)

112 Looks like we have a mentally and morally corrupt troll in the house.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (SXxzC)

113 Doesn’t Sydney Sweeney make Amanda Seyfried redundant anyway?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (jbnUc)

114 He is being held on $4 million bail.

Ridiculous. He is a danger to the community. Even if he can come up with the bond, he should not be released.
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Yep, that was the first thought I had. What's the hurry for bail when something horrific has taken place? Deny bail and let the defendant appeal the ruling. It allows time to pass and some clarity to hopefully ensue.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (TN0g+)

115 96 Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (QVuuq)

Rick I am not polity monitoring, you have made your choice on the matter and there are defensible reasons for both choices.

As I said if people would like I can go on a 1200 post long rant about Reiner's many idiocies and stupidities like the old days.

I cannot, personally, bring myself to engage in mirth about the fact that an ideological enemy's last conscious thought was that his child had murdered him and his wife the child's mother IIRC.

You be safe bud.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (MUJd1)

116 Also, why assume all condolences are fake? Most people can show humanity despite political differences.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:41 PM (P5BPp)

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Because, unless you personally know someone, condolences are fake BS. Similar to football fans thinking all their blabber has any effect on the field.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (Vh9CX)

117 Spinal Tap 2 was awful. But he didn't deserve this.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (cBXlz)

118 Reiner's anti tobacco law closed mom n pop cigar stores and made cigars more expensive.

But it was for the chirrens!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (Kt19C)

119 49 Trump gonna Trump. I don't care. I know who he is. He's never hidden that.

Rob Reiner was a liberal lunatic piece of shit who hated me and everything I stand for. He can reap the benefits of his life and be judged by God now.

I will pray for mercy on his soul. I will not mourn him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)
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I was sitting here trying to figure out how to say exactly this. Thanks.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (5aZAZ)

120
Meathead was a Regular guest on msnbc, spouting about how Trump is a nazi, fascist.

he was just on msnbc saying Trump will "rig" the Midterms, and "democracy" will be over, AND, that WE, the Trump supporters will ramp up the "violence." Reiner was a full-time Gaslighter & Hoaxer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (KPKlu)

121 Saw a comment of mine deleted, Ace. Really? Are we Breitbart now?

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what did you say ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

122 Did that Kathy Griffin slag ever apologize for Trump's severed head?

Or that Ken Jennings asshole for talking crap about Barron?

F**k you, War, as a certain connoisseur of Ace's comment section once said.

NEVER, NEVER, APOLOGIZE TO THE LEFT.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

123 ASS, I think you will find liberal Jews hate conservatives a lot more than vice versa--but you're the not good kind of moron.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:47 PM (krQz2)

124 Trump is a man scorned. They tried to murder him, twice. They've impeached him. They're going to try again.

He has no f*cks left to give. I don't care that Reiner was murdered. It's terrible, sure. I don't condone murder. He was a hollywood shitheal that raised kids in hollywood, by hollywood. He likely had very little involvement in the raising of his kids, so they are what they are. One was ignored at an early age and battled hollywood demons most of his life.

We'll never see any toxicology report on the kid and see the list of pharmaceuticals he was on, so again, Big Pharma won't be held accountable.

May The Lord have mercy on his soul. I imagine even mercy won't change his eternal location, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

125 ...that we don't have some mealy-mouthed useless shithead with his hands wrapped around his balls pussyfooting around about taking the high road or being better people while they murder and attempt to murder us in cold blood.
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You called???

Posted by: Mike Pence at December 15, 2025 12:47 PM (fzZrL)

126 Very well said. I do not wish to be on their level. Oh wait, I'll bet that makes me a weak-spined RINO.
Posted by: Archimedes

Weak-spined RINO AND a shill for Ukraine!

Posted by: A Two-fer! at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (oftw2)

127 Rob Reiner did that movie I liked.

Hope he's ok.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (aTgV0)

128 -----
I was sitting here trying to figure out how to say exactly this. Thanks.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (5aZAZ)

I help where I can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

129 Pop Crush, today, in part -

A Long Battle With Addiction
Nick was born on September 14, 1993, the second son of Rob and Michele Reiner.

Though raised amid privilege and fame, Nick’s personal struggles became public in 2016 when he opened up about his years-long battle with substance abuse.

He said his drug use began in his early teens, leading to his first rehab stint by age 15. Over the next several years, he cycled through more than a dozen rehabilitation programs, often refusing treatment — and at times, disappearing entirely.

“I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in New Jersey. I was homeless in Texas,” Nick previously told People. “I spent nights on the street. I spent weeks on the street. It was not fun.”

He added, “If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting, then I had to be homeless.”

Turning His Struggles Into Art
Despite his challenges, Nick turned to writing — co-authoring the 2015 film Being Charlie, a semi-autobiographical story about a young man battling addiction.

His father, Rob Reiner, directed the project and called it the most personal film of his career.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (NFX2v)

130 125 ...that we don't have some mealy-mouthed useless shithead with his hands wrapped around his balls pussyfooting around about taking the high road or being better people while they murder and attempt to murder us in cold blood.
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You called???
Posted by: Mike Pence at December 15, 2025 12:47 PM (fzZrL)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

131 So last nite I watched "Being Charlie" for the first time to see if there were any clues about this murder. It turned out to be a run-of-the-mill addiction film, suggesting nothing specific about the Reiner family woes, as far as I could see.

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (GHIyr)

132 Hate to say it but if you are virtue signalling for the loss of a a huge voice of hate, anti freedom, communism, and anti Americanism then you are not serious about saving the country. That is like virtue signalling for Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or even Hitler.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (xvV+O)

133 I was banned for a couple days last week due to a hash change.
Posted by: garrett

*raises hand. Two weeks ago. Same reason. Had to have Sponge check with CBD.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (QVuuq)

134 Left: Trump hates Jews

Also left: Trump is controlled by Israel

🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (udlma)

135 Rob's son had mentally ill parents. That facilitated his illness.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (uGpeQ)

136 Okay, you’re right. I shouldn’t take any glee in it either. I just feel this: how has making ourselves look better than Democrats truly helped us? Have we seen evidence that this strategy has worked as opposed to the Charlie Kirk haters?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM

I don't behave with humility and grace and dignity because it helps me, I do it because I should. Because it's the right thing to do. Whether it helps me or not.

I was raised on The Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If others still decide to be assholes despite the fact that I try to be a good person, nothing I can do about that. I can't control the behavior and morals of others, but I can control my own.

Integrity is a foundational virtue rooted in the Latin word integer, meaning "whole" or "complete." It refers to the quality of being honest, having strong moral principles, and consistently aligning your actions with your values — even when no one is watching.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (P5BPp)

137 >>>Hm. Monetizing your kid's mental and physical health problems by making a movie about them.

I don't think so. Per Wiki, the film only grossed 30K.

That's not exactly monetizing. More like being willing to help your kid out by essentially donating your time to give him a break. I don't think anyone thought this was a blockbuster going in. More like a personal project film.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (8mulE)

138 His politics were not mine, but he made some of my favorite movies. "The Princess Bride", "The Sure Thing", "This is Spinal Tap". I'm sad at his death. Rest in peace, sir.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (k+lFD)

139 NEVER, NEVER, APOLOGIZE TO THE LEFT.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

This!

X1000

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (2WIwB)

140 Let’s put aside all of our partisan differences and come together in grief and reconciliation for the fallen Reiner and give him and his family our earnest prayers.

I think that’s what Trump was really saying.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (jbnUc)

141 Imagine the degree of mental illness required to whack your mom and pop. Damn. Imagine what the last 10 minutes where like for that family.

Posted by: Zombie Travis Tritt at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (04s9Z)

142 And Trump ought to show some class and issue a public apology for what he wrote. He's certainly demanded apologies from others.
Posted by: M. Gaga

Has he ever apologized?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

143 God, and God alone will judge each and every one of us in the end. That’s really the only judgement that matters. That said, I don’t know how one holds the moral high ground if you’re celebrating, or reasoning a persons murder. I’m as guilty as the next person, perhaps more for engaging in argumentation that amounts to verbal fisticuffs. But that’s with the living, and if they want to engage, no matter how that engagement takes place, I’ll never shrink from that. But when their life ends, hyperbole disappears and the real truth begins. That doesn’t mean the way the lived their life is any less sad, tragic, wrong, unintellectual or insensate. It just means that particular battle is over.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (IeX0j)

144 Amanda Syfried loved to get nekkid in movies in her prime. So forever will I be grateful to her for that. Beautiful body.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (udlma)
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It's not uncommon that as Hollywood hotties age, they get more vocal and deranged. It's a "look at me" reaction to fading stardom. Nobody cares about middle-aged Amanda Seyfried. The next step is bitching about how awful it was to be paid piles of money for taking clothes off in movies.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

145 I do not agree with this. I do not live my life by the moral or immoral rules of the left. I am not going to become a cold-hearted, evil asshole and see everything through a political lens just because the left does that.

This is like a child getting caught doing something bad and giving the excuse "well he does it too!". That doesn't make it correct.

The moral benchmark is not the actions of the left, the moral benchmark is your own moral compass (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, etc.). That moral compass should not change based on the depravity of others.

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Agree completely. I will not dance on some leftist's grave, even if they would mine. Reiner had a tragic ending, his frothing and lunatic politics aside, and it's not in me to behave in a degenerate manner toward the guy.

I know Trump is gonna Trump, and I love him for the most part. But he should've just not posted that. It wasn't necessary for him to post anything, and I wish he'd kept his thoughts to himself. YMMV

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (qBdHI)

146 Ace...

don't front shame us.

Just...stop.

bro.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (aTgV0)

147 When one of our dies the left dances and celebrates. When one of theirs dies we send our deepest condolences.

And then we wonder why we never win any battles.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (udlma)

148 30 Okay, you’re right. I shouldn’t take any glee in it either. I just feel this: how has making ourselves look better than Democrats truly helped us? Have we seen evidence that this strategy has worked as opposed to the Charlie Kirk haters?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (R/uuE)

I personally do not think anything we do will reach them. That is a fool’s errand. But I am reminded of the humiliation of Christ most especially in this season and believe I am supposed to attempt to behave in ways that mirror his- even when I don’t want to and even when it it hard. I am not perfect, clearly, I am human.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

149 I think Reiner's son was born with the wires crossed.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (rJ48h)

150 My poor old dog crapped the bed last night, just like Trump!

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (2ap+5)

151 121 Saw a comment of mine deleted, Ace. Really? Are we Breitbart now?
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what did you say ?
Posted by: runner

It's a trap!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

152 >>>And fake condolences from conservatives on social media, because it is the "right thing to do" actually repulses me a bit. That is the social virtue signalling of the right that we are better than you when the left doesn't can't and won't reciprocate.

Well said, as always. I don't have any condolences for the American left anymore than I do for the lives lost in the bombing of Dresden or the Hiroshima bombing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)

153 Did Hannakua have anything to do with the killing or was that just an accident?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (uGpeQ)

154 151 I laugh every time I see your nic.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (Q0yOR)

155 Did that Kathy Griffin slag ever apologize for Trump's severed head?

Or that Ken Jennings asshole for talking crap about Barron?

F**k you, War, as a certain connoisseur of Ace's comment section once said.

NEVER, NEVER, APOLOGIZE TO THE LEFT.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)
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This 10x

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

156 This is why Vance will be a better, more effective President than Trump. People will like him. This statement was totally uncalled for. He made it about himself. All that goodwill ne built up evaporates in a heartbeat when he goes back to being venal.
Anyways...
Anybody else see the post claiming Reiner's son was transitioning to female?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

157 117 Spinal Tap 2 was awful. But he didn't deserve this.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (cBXlz)

lol. Too soon!

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (8mulE)

158 Agree with ace that Trump's post was very disappointing. The guy's dead, you won; nobody other than mental defectives respect dancing on someone's grave. At least, someone who's nonviolent...

That said, missing how this was such a "terrible weekend". I think we should be grateful every day that we have rebounded from the complete hell of March 2020-all of 2023. Not sure if I missed something, but I don't think I'd trade any weekend then for last weekend... I guess aside from Charlie getting shot (though that wasn't a weekend)...

Posted by: bearski at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (Bhsk7)

159 Doesn’t Sydney Sweeney make Amanda Seyfried redundant anyway?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Aren't they buds? Don't they do some show/podcast together?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

160 Many comments that sound suspiciously like "that's not who we are."

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (Y1sOo)

161 I don't behave with humility and grace and dignity because it helps me, I do it because I should. Because it's the right thing to do. Whether it helps me or not.

I was raised on The Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If others still decide to be assholes despite the fact that I try to be a good person, nothing I can do about that. I can't control the behavior and morals of others, but I can control my own.

Integrity is a foundational virtue rooted in the Latin word integer, meaning "whole" or "complete." It refers to the quality of being honest, having strong moral principles, and consistently aligning your actions with your values — even when no one is watching.

This sounds like some more weak sauce from that invertebrate Marcus Aurelius. What a RINO! (Roman in name only)

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

162 "When one of our dies the left dances and celebrates. When one of theirs dies we send our deepest condolences.

And then we wonder why we never win any battles.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

Yeah it's getting old.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (aTgV0)

163 I think Reiner's son was born with the wires crossed.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (rJ48h)

Entering rehab at 15 tells me that Rob wasn't paying any attention or providing actual parenting at any point in this kid's life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

164 I personally do not think anything we do will reach them. That is a fool’s errand. But I am reminded of the humiliation of Christ most especially in this season and believe I am supposed to attempt to behave in ways that mirror his- even when I don’t want to and even when it it hard. I am not perfect, clearly, I am human.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
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I would like to remind anybody who this helps: but the *left* is not that audience for acting decent. The *Lord* is.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (krQz2)

165 138 His politics were not mine, but he made some of my favorite movies. "The Princess Bride", "The Sure Thing", "This is Spinal Tap". I'm sad at his death. Rest in peace, sir.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 15, 2025 12:49 PM (k+lFD)

Forgot he directed The Sure Thing. A great movie with some classic lines.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (0bjKf)

166 152 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)

There is the middle path of acknowledging what actually killed him and noting his idiocy is shared by the democrats.

Anyway, I won't belabor the matter further.

Ace, love and miss you bud...you should generate more original tweets on X of course the AI says the same about me and noted I am "just a reply guy."

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (MUJd1)

167 >>I think Reiner's son was born with the wires crossed.

1993 seems awfully late for Reiner's kids...

I mean, he was my parents age and his kids are 20+ years younger than I am?

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (IaZ7c)

168 Imagine the degree of mental illness required to whack your mom and pop."

Sure.

/ the Menendez brothers

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (XuXeR)

169 I suspect there's more to this murder than we know now. 48 Hour Rule, yo.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

170 Trump is always gonna Trump. You know what you're getting. It would be nice if he wouldn't Trump sometimes but I assume he has his reasons.

The moral high ground is lovely but Trump never tries to occupy it, and our side's attempts to do so have mostly only ended in tears, as the Left knows how to manipulate it. Because they know where our weak spot is.

One thing Trump knows is how to make a story behave a certain way, which carves the air out of whatever "they" may plan to do with one.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (zALxA)

171 Maybe he did deserve it.

How do we know?

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (aTgV0)

172 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that. Reiner was a piece of shit yesterday, he’s not a saint today.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (udlma)

173 Was what Trump said kind of crass? Yeah it was. I wouldn't say something like that.

Is the bucket in which I carry the fucks I have to give about what he said, in comparison to the heinous shit the left says any time anyone nominally on our side dies or is murdered, quite empty at this point? You bet your ass it is.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (5aZAZ)

174 It's not uncommon that as Hollywood hotties age, they get more vocal and deranged. It's a "look at me" reaction to fading stardom. Nobody cares about middle-aged Amanda Seyfried. The next step is bitching about how awful it was to be paid piles of money for taking clothes off in movies.

And there it is! The answer to my #55. The answer is 40.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

175 Reiner's anti tobacco law closed mom n pop cigar stores and made cigars more expensive.

But it was for the chirrens!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

He should have paid more attention to his chirruns instead.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (QVuuq)

176 "his struggles began as a teen."

I have a theory - pretty straightforward - drug use as a teen makes you crazy. It screws up your brain development. I also think if you are inclined toward mental illness, it accelerates that.

Seriously - your brain is still growing till you are 25 or so. Brain altering chemicals impact that development.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (gDhA9)

177 Rob joins a long list of families destroyed by a member with addictions.

Just being around someone in the throes of an addiction makes me nervous. You never know what's bouncing around in their broken brain.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (q7hip)

178 168 Imagine the degree of mental illness required to whack your mom and pop."

Sure.

/ the Menendez brothers
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (XuXeR)

If the recent evidence is to be believed, they had way better cause, at least for dad.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (tOcjL)

179
You can count on one hand all the "normal" children of Hollywood celeries.

All the evidence is in. Isn't it about time we say the obvious: Hollywood people are sick fucks and raise children to be terrible human beings.

Look at ALL rosie odonell's children. All of them are fucked up. Because of her.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (KPKlu)

180 Aren't they buds? Don't they do some show/podcast together?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

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I don't think they have a podcast together, I think they were both on the same one recently. To talk about boobs.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (DRSnL)

181 Trump is not wrong really - dem brainwashing is driving them to violent insanity

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (6U1c2)

182 I mean, he was my parents age and his kids are 20+ years younger than I am?

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several marriages

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)

183 Because, unless you personally know someone, condolences are fake BS. Similar to football fans thinking all their blabber has any effect on the field
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Most social graces are fake, by this definition. But we do these anyway because it makes this fallen world a better place to live.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

184 >>Did Hannakua have anything to do with the killing or was that just an accident?

Yes. Hawaiian Jews celebrate with stabbings.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (IaZ7c)

185 The definition of sin would be anything that goes against my values.

-Barry Hussein

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (zALxA)

186 148 Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

When facing actual dedicated evil grace is inarguably wasted.

Society as a whole would not have lost anything had Decarlos Brown and Lawrence Reed faced smiling lethal force in the commission of their felonies by a pleasantly doing their duty citizen.

We are of course not in the perfect world, we toil in this imperfect one.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (MUJd1)

187
I personally do not think anything we do will reach them. That is a fool’s errand. But I am reminded of the humiliation of Christ most especially in this season and believe I am supposed to attempt to behave in ways that mirror his- even when I don’t want to and even when it it hard. I am not perfect, clearly, I am human.
Posted by: Piper
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He was a terrorist facilitator. Pray my feelings would align with his on the death of a terrorist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (uGpeQ)

188 Doesn’t Sydney Sweeney make Amanda Seyfried redundant anyway?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Aren't they buds? Don't they do some show/podcast together?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

They’re in a movie together that comes out this week I believe.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (udlma)

189 No mention on the condition of the corpses. I am curious about how the son knifed his parents. My suspicion is this might have been really messy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (Wg6v7)

190 179 I think there's a huge list of celebrity kids messed up and just plain old fucked in the head.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (Q0yOR)

191 156 Anybody else see the post claiming Reiner's son was transitioning to female?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

Pressing 'X' to Doubt on that one, because if he was, the media wouldn't be calling him by his Birth Name. They'd be calling him whatever girl name he'd have wanted.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (UnA8+)

192
I have a theory - pretty straightforward - drug use as a teen makes you crazy. It screws up your brain development. I also think if you are inclined toward mental illness, it accelerates that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (gDhA9)
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It does, it actually destroys a part of the development of the judgment centers.

It's like puberty-blockers for your mature judgment.

Not only this, but I'm pretty sure there are clinical studies that show this.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (krQz2)

193 I don't think they have a podcast together, I think they were both on the same one recently. To talk about boobs.
Posted by: Jordan61

Ah, a subject near and dear to all the 'Rons hearts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

194 72 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that. Reiner was a piece of shit yesterday, he’s not a saint today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025

You don’t have to say anything. Or you can pray for their soul. Nothing good comes from being ugly in these situations.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

195
Trump has no impulse control. He needs to shut the fuck up more.

Just like with the Somali/Minnesota billion dollar theft. Trump took most of the air out of that story by calling Gov Walz a retard. He is a retard, but why jump in and change the subject? Trump drives me crazy sometimes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (IifOV)

196 159
‘ Doesn’t Sydney Sweeney make Amanda Seyfried redundant anyway?

Aren't they buds? Don't they do some show/podcast together?’

Bosom buddies maybe.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (jbnUc)

197 Tempest in a teapot.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (sDNVV)

198
Meanwhile, we have gavin newscum's fake "godson," who may or not have been his real Goddaughter. But now she's a Middle-Aged dyke pretending to be a tween boy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (KPKlu)

199 I read that post from Trump and thought that it had to be fake, but, unfortunately, him writing that post is not exactly inconceivable.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (KrYZ9)

200
I don't think they have a podcast together, I think they were both on the same one recently. To talk about boobs.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (DRSnL)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

201 154 151 I laugh every time I see your nic.
Posted by: turambar

But never after clicking my links.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (JCZqz)

202 It's time to stifle dere, Donald.

Posted by: A. Bunker at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (Zt+0/)

203 172 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that. Reiner was a piece of shit yesterday, he’s not a saint today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (udlma)

Wrong. Trump didn't have to say nice things about him. He could have said nothing. That's what he should have done vs what he did.

You don't have to lie about a person. But you don't have to do what Trump did, either. Respect for the dead is the goal.

Trump - "Rob Reiner and his poor wife. I just heard. May they rest in peace."

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (tOcjL)

204 "condolences are fake BS."

The DJT post wasn't a condolence. It really would have been better if he had posted nothing at all about the murders, than posting what he did post. What did he think he would accomplish by that?

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (GHIyr)

205 There is a pretty good chance Reiner Jr. was sexually abused as a child growing up in that environment. Of course he’s fucked up and a drug addict.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (udlma)

206 I had forgotten that Rob R. was married to Penny Marshall.

Yech. What was he thinking?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

207 It's not uncommon that as Hollywood hotties age, they get more vocal and deranged. It's a "look at me" reaction to fading stardom. Nobody cares about middle-aged Amanda Seyfried. The next step is bitching about how awful it was to be paid piles of money for taking clothes off in movies.

And there it is! The answer to my #55. The answer is 40.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
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40 is on the younger side of the downhill Hollywood slide, but it's coming. The Wall is waiting ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

208 "Trump has no impulse control. He needs to shut the fuck up more."

You are annoying.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (aTgV0)

209 Yes. Hawaiian Jews celebrate with stabbings.
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I thought they used King's Hawaiian buns like the goyim.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (Wg6v7)

210 200 "Boobs make the world go 'round and a better place" - my go to saying when I spot a lovely pair in the wild

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (Q0yOR)

211 They'd be calling him whatever girl name he'd have wanted.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (UnA8+)

Would they though? They started quieting that down some months back where tranny murderers are concerned. Lots of "he's" and "him's" to suddenly go around.

But yeah I don't know if there's any confirmation on that one.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (zALxA)

212 Trump was very classy after RBG went to Hell. They still tried to murder him.

Are we forgetting this?

Posted by: Jim at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (D7MKZ)

213 I've said this on the other thread and will bow out of it. And yes, I sent private prayers for the family and redemption of the victims.
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I don't bother to require people to say what pleases or doesn't please me. It is what it is. Trump is not running for anything anymore and he will say what he wants when he wants.

And yes, the vile public invective that Reiner was involved in during the last couple of decades is as much of his legacy as his directing career.

Don't want people expressing bad thoughts at your funeral, don't be that guy.

Part of Trump's appeal to many is not to engage in the phony bullshit political speak that our ruling class engages in. Remember Bush's Religion of Peace bullshit as an example. PM Albanese expressing regret of Australia but somehow neglecting to mention that this was Islamic hatred directed at innocent Jews. And endless bleating about deploring the violence while failing to put the shame and onus on the very community that is committing and supporting these ghastly crimes.

I will have none of it.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (WDjG6)

214
I'm sad about Reiner's passing, especially the manner of his passing. But no more than any other innocent victim.

As to his artistic output, he's had a single modest box office success in nearly 30 years, the rest of his output has either been stinkers with the public or with critics, and often both. Whether his often fantastic early films balance out his later output, I'll leave to others to speculate.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (y9nCu)

215
This Reiner killer kid has been in rehab 17 times in 32 years. His first time in rehab was at 15 years old.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (IifOV)

216 Sherrone Moore must be happy the headlines have rolled on to bigger fish.

Posted by: I Have A Haddock at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

217 179
You can count on one hand all the "normal" children of Hollywood celeries.

All the evidence is in. Isn't it about time we say the obvious: Hollywood people are sick fucks and raise children to be terrible human beings.

Look at ALL rosie odonell's children. All of them are fucked up. Because of her.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:54 PM (KPKlu)
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Really good, successful actors/actresses are mostly all wildly sociopathic, because the ability to suppress everything about your own personality and humanity in order to play an assigned role is NOT fucking normal, and they don't raise normal children. Add onto that all of the money, fame, pressure, and also drugs that make up Hollywood and you're gonna get some fucked up people out of it.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (5aZAZ)

218 Wrong. Trump didn't have to say nice things about him. He could have said nothing. That's what he should have done vs what he did.

You don't have to lie about a person. But you don't have to do what Trump did, either. Respect for the dead is the goal.

Trump - "Rob Reiner and his poor wife. I just heard. May they rest in peace."
Posted by: Nova Local

Why is it written that you can’t say bad things about the dead? He was a piece of shit. The fact he’s now dead doesn’t negate that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (udlma)

219 192 Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (krQz2)

Which is why parents who get their kids stoned to "help them grow up" should ideally be summarily executed....and I am not joking.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (MUJd1)

220 "Tempest in a teapot.
Posted by: Ben Had"

Pretty much.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (aTgV0)

221 Yes, one can offer a defense of Trump that the left has been doing this for three months with Charlie Kirk. But... in that case, what are we complaining about ourselves? If we support this kind of thing, then we can really have no objection to Amanda Seyfried or a hundred thousand other poisonous leftist murder cultists.
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I guess it comes down to your worldview. If you think the Left still have some basic relationship with us that's worth maintaining, but we have heated differences of opinions, then sure, this is what you're likely to think. The normies I watch on youtube are pretty much here.

If you take what the Left says seriously, they are our enemies and want us dead, and nothing we can do (including surrender) is going to change that, you're going to come to another conclusion.

Posted by: Methos at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (vSvIl)

222 Trump has no impulse control. He needs to shut the fuck up more.

Just like with the Somali/Minnesota billion dollar theft. Trump took most of the air out of that story by calling Gov Walz a retard. He is a retard, but why jump in and change the subject? Trump drives me crazy sometimes.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Yeah! Walz called him a Nazi, "weird", implied he's a pedo and rapist, said JD Vance fucks couches, but Trump calling him a retard is beyond the pale!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (JCZqz)

223 Sherrone Moore must be happy the headlines have rolled on to bigger fish.

Posted by: I Have A Haddock at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

He's still going to jail and won't be coaching anywhere ever again, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

224 You are annoying.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM

Okay.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (IifOV)

225 See? That’s not so hard to say, Democrats.

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You know what's even easier? Saying nothing.

Why do people on the Right do this?

Nobody should be spiking the ball on this dude's corpse. It's unseemly. But Reiner is no-longer-living proof that someone on the Left can spend 50 straight years shitting all over the Right and their values, supporting their enemies with his money and megaphone, and viciously ridiculing them at every opportunity - and they will STILL line up to kiss his fat Commie ass.

Why? Because the greasy nepot once paid some homosexuals to play dress up and read some script they liked two fuckin' generations back? Is it the urge to virtue signal by publicly praying for his black little soul?

Whatever it is, it's weapons-grade cringing obsequity. Just say nothing and move on.

Posted by: Pathetic at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (FuXG7)

226 Trump suffered from 8 years of Dems hate, vitriol, attempts to ruin him, his associates, family and send them all to jail. His disgust and resentment of Dems like Reiner is understandable. Still sometime out of prudence and civility you take the high road and at least shut-the-fuckup. This was one of those times.

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (GUOwU)

227 Trump ended Walz's political aspirations with the retard stuff. Few have survived Trump's branding.

Do not forget they may still have planned to pummel us with that idiot. So what Trump did in that case was a huge favor.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (zALxA)

228 Each and every one of us is going to die and it's very likely to be a terrible ordeal. I feel like respect is owed to that final struggle because it awaits me in the very near future.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (2ap+5)

229 It's not uncommon that as Hollywood hotties age, they get more vocal and deranged. It's a "look at me" reaction to fading stardom.

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That chick who used to be on Who’s The Boss comes to mind. I honestly forgot her name lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (udlma)

230 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that. Reiner was a piece of shit yesterday, he’s not a saint today.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (udlma)
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How odious? Did Rob Reiner ever shoot somebody? How much physical violence do you know he caused?

See, your beef is not even with wackos like Reiner, but you're spreading it to people with whom you have a difference of their opinion of how they should act when somebody on the other side of the political divide is violently killed.

Reiner was sick of other people having differing opinions as well.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (krQz2)

231 226 Concur.

Posted by: gp at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (GHIyr)

232 "Boobs make the world go 'round and a better place" - my go to saying when I spot a lovely pair in the wild
Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 12:57 PM (Q0yOR)

Boobs and beer show God wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

233 Is the bucket in which I carry the fucks I have to give about what he said, in comparison to the heinous shit the left says any time anyone nominally on our side dies or is murdered, quite empty at this point?

Is that an African bucket or a European bucket?

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (+3KVp)

234 If one has been to rehab, don't they have to sign off stating "yeah, this person seems ok and fit to leave"? I don't really know how drug rehab places work so just wondering. Not that people haven't just bounced from the rehab place after an hour or day or two.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (Q0yOR)

235 There is the middle path of acknowledging what actually killed him and noting his idiocy is shared by the democrats.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (MUJd1)

Everyone can and should choose their own path. I am fine with my choices, and I am fine with Trump's choices.

I do question the choice to pretend we are not in a hot war with the left with only one side fighting and with limited time to pull back from the abyss.

I don't think Trump's choice moves us either further or closer to it, same as the high road or being better does. In that light, Trump's comment is neither more or less morally pure than condolences, fake or otherwise.

In their eyes, we are Nazis - they plainly state it - and they aim to murder us for it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (dK+Kv)

236 This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world. Amanda Seyfried -- a fading actress who will fade still more -- made that claim.

That settles that! Impeach Trump and see if Kamala still wants the gig.

As that supposed to be our reaction?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (U4c/V)

237 They're murdering us.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (5IFb9)

238
Oil and water
Emotion and logic
Trump and the high road

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (zALxA)

239 Taking the high road with these assholes is foolish in the least.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (aTgV0)

240 "See, that's not so hard to say, Democrats."

Congratulations, now nobody will see that tweet as showing sorrow over the deathbed the man who brought us Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, and Stand by Me, but a political statement intended to own the libs.

You don't really need to turn it up to eleven to be a douchnozzle.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (KrYZ9)

241 You don’t have to say anything.

This.

It helps to remember that virtually no one cares what any one of us thinks, and that we don't need a public hearing on every topic imaginable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (UGyV5)

242 It is pretty common for schizophrenia to manifest right around college age. I worked in the field for a good while early on in my career and saw families devastated as a very bright son or daughter descended into the hell of this mental illness. It is not a situation where one goes to a therapist and everything turns out okay. It is a lifelong battle of chemical imbalances most likely exacerbated by drug use but not the primal cause.Shutting down mental institutions and turning them out on the street because of some misguided attempt to give them "freedom" made it worse and why we have homeless encampments and drug overdoses rampant.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 15, 2025 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

243 232 Preach it, Brother Sponge.

Posted by: turambar at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (Q0yOR)

244 They tried to kill Trump. Multiple times. They tried to imprison him for life. They tried to bankrupt him.

But oh heavens he called a Hollywood director a bad name.

Quick to the fainting couch we shall all run.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (udlma)

245 I am actually saddened by the news. However...

How would Reiner have reacted to Trump's demise?

Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (PLjqd)

246 >He's still going to jail and won't be coaching anywhere ever again, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

I think he will plead to misdemeanors and spend no time in jail. This is Ann Arbor after all.

He'll also coach again. Back to the MAC for him.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (rJ48h)

247 Afternoon Ace.
Trump being Trump, but he's not wrong. He does stuff like this to drive the left continuously nuts. More nuts than usual.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (D+mpw)

248 The circumstances of Gene Hackman's death, along with his wife's, shocked & sadden me. Though "a proud democrat," I don't recall a huge outpouring of love from the left and a detailed investigative report into the matter.

He was known as being private and somewhat reserved in his personal life, substantially different in personality than Rob Reiner.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (NFX2v)

249 Sherrone Moore must be happy the headlines have rolled on to bigger fish.

Posted by: I Have A Haddock at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

He's still going to jail and won't be coaching anywhere ever again, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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That story is almost too fucked-up to believe. What the fuck was this fucking idiot thinking?? Not only could he not keep his dick in his pants for the sake of a $30 million contract, he was banging a subordinate, and then he fired her when the he was told to stop. How stupid can you be?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

250 While not a fan of Reiner, I did love "Princess Bride" and other films he directed.

No one (well, except serial killers) deserves to be killed by their own son. Stabbing is worse than anything. To be found by their daughter makes this story worse than horrific.

I simply want to know of the tiny rumor is true that his son was trans. That's all I want to know.

He was probably off his meds and his sister said he was "dangerous." In any photo his eyes are dead, with the fake smile not reaching them. There was probably fear of him for decades. Sad.

Trump was wrong to write what he did as I think TDS was the last thing on anyone's mind during this horrifying murder of his parents. I read on TMZ that Nick and Reiner had a loud argument at Conan O'Brian's Christmas party the night prior.

One good thing I will say about Rob Reiner...he had compassion about Kirk's death. The fact that Erika forgave his murderer impressed Reiner. While I read he was atheist, he said he was a Jew but that Jesus' writings impressed him.

I will NOT be like the Dim haters who were happy when Kirk died. Yet I do want to know if Nick is trans, simply to keep my statistics.

May he and his wife RIP

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (WONhk)

251 189 No mention on the condition of the corpses. I am curious about how the son knifed his parents. My suspicion is this might have been really messy.
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I read that he slit their throats and when the daughter found them yesterday afternoon, it's been reported that they had been dead for 'some time.' Also read that they and their son went to Conan O'Brien's Xmas party Saturday night and Rob and Nick got into a fight that was overheard by other guests. So maybe he killed them when they returned home from the party. Awful.

Posted by: beckster at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (I7J98)

252 Slow news day, eh?

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

253 Still sometime out of prudence and civility you take the high road and at least shut-the-fuckup. This was one of those times.
Posted by: Ripley

No. Play by the lefties' rules.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

254 Trump should suddenly not be Trump because some rabid hollywood shittard who spent day after day trashing him on social media and calling for his destruction died tragically.

Yeah....Ok.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

255 That chick who used to be on Who’s The Boss comes to mind. I honestly forgot her name lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Hell, Scarlett Johansson is an obvious one.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

256 That chick who used to be on Who’s The Boss comes to mind. I honestly forgot her name lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (udlma)
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Crochet-mask?

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (krQz2)

257 217 Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:58 PM (5aZAZ)

Absolutely the thespian if a master of the craft is utilizing the ability to vacate their own point of view and habitate another...it is the cornerstone predatory tool of narcissistic sociopathy and it is something I fight constantly.

I made a good living simulating another profession's presence for a decade or more.

Vacating the self is not an easy, and I would argue not a good for spiritual and moral equilibrium positive thing on a long timeline.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (MUJd1)

258 Do not take Zalxa if you are allergic to Zalxa.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (zALxA)

259 You don’t have to say anything. Or you can pray for their soul. Nothing good comes from being ugly in these situations.
Posted by: Piper

You pray privately for lost souls. I find the obnoxious virtue signalling by the right on social media just as repellent as the left.

I am waiting for people to discuss the deaths of those peacefully celebrating Hanukkah in Australia murdered by Islamic terrorists or those who are so concerned about tone to recognize the shining light at Brown Univ who was snuffed out.

None of those people did or repeatedly said the vile things that Meathead did in the last decades of his life and yet we worry that Trump said bad things about him--mainly for politics and class reasons (don't speak ill of the dead because others might return the favor sort of thing).

I dislike the whole public grieving as theatrical attracting some of the worst scum seeking to benefit (Tucker at Kirk's funeral talking about hummus for example) or any Democrat pol funeral.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (WDjG6)

260 The moral high ground is lovely but Trump never tries to occupy it,

Hey, the Scolds have to have something to criticize.

Man of the People! Something for Everyone!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:03 PM (9Hs2w)

261 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson . 4h

Ella Cook; 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 Dems say Trump tells 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 ICE facility in Broadview, IL & Portland OR
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying
- 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 15, 2025 01:03 PM (uGpeQ)

262 I read that post from Trump and thought that it had to be fake, but, unfortunately, him writing that post is not exactly inconceivable.
Posted by: tankdemon

"The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral."

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (JlNWC)

263
Really good, successful actors/actresses are mostly all wildly sociopathic, because the ability to suppress everything about your own personality and humanity in order to play an assigned role is NOT fucking normal, and they don't raise normal children. Add onto that all of the money, fame, pressure, and also drugs that make up Hollywood and you're gonna get some fucked up people out of it.
Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 12:58

This, they live for the applause and adulation. They're super special, don't you know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (c+QVv)

264 251 Posted by: beckster at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (I7J9

Which tells me there is a good chance he was in the house because of the holidays and the mother softening for the yule.

As I said there is a certain sadness to the events as we understand them.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (MUJd1)

265 It's not uncommon that as Hollywood hotties age, they get more vocal and deranged. It's a "look at me" reaction to fading stardom.

—

That chick who used to be on Who’s The Boss comes to mind. I honestly forgot her name lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (udlma)
_____

Alyssa Milano

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

266 That story is almost too fucked-up to believe. What the fuck was this fucking idiot thinking?? Not only could he not keep his dick in his pants for the sake of a $30 million contract, he was banging a subordinate, and then he fired her when the he was told to stop. How stupid can you be?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

Seems to be something in the water in Michigan. Seems the Michigan State coach was just as stupid not long ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

267 Enough about Trump's tweet. What do Candace and Tucker and Nick have to say about the Reiners' murder?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

268 How would Reiner have reacted to Trump's demise?
Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (PLjqd)

Think how every leftist acted when Charlie was killed. Then multiply it by 1000.

That’s how he would have reacted.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (udlma)

269 Amanda Seyfried peaked during the "Fappening" photo leak

Not that I'm condoning that or anything.

Posted by: brak at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (jGJov)

270
Have we seen evidence that this strategy has worked as opposed to the Charlie Kirk haters?

He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (pkeXY)

271 Imagine the degree of mental illness required to whack your mom and pop. Damn. Imagine what the last 10 minutes where like for that family.
Posted by: Zombie Travis Tritt

How about "No".

I see absolutely no point in engaging in that kind of emotional masturbation.

You life has to be pretty damn empty if that's what you do for kicks.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (a+4eV)

272 Your last moments on Earth knowing your own son is stabbing you to death. Could anything be worse? I despised Rob Reiner, I do feel bad about he and his wife's horrible demise.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (ouHEU)

273 Wrong. Trump didn't have to say nice things about him. He could have said nothing. That's what he should have done vs what he did.

Posted by: Nova Local

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Agreed. The opening and the ending are keepers.

Really the post is not as bad as I had heard it was.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (krQz2)

274 Yes, I hated Meathead’s politics. But, as Midnight’s Edge notes, credit to him, little if any of his politics made it on screen. Reiner knew to shoot for a general audience and not alienate people in his work.

I totally agree this was an end neither he nor his wife deserved.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (rQwsY)

275
Stop worrying about words and etiquette.

President Trump has put up with more evil & hate than anyone else in our lifetime.

Democrats murdered Charlie Kirk and got away with it.
Democrats shot President Trump in the head and got away with it.

National Guardsman gets shot in the face. 22 years old. Democrats did that. President Trump has to call her parents. Fake News blames Trump because "she shouldn't have even been there."

President Trump is done with Democrats and done being nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (KPKlu)

276 How would Reiner have reacted to Trump's demise?

He would likely hide the rifle and try to secretly exfill

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (9Hs2w)

277 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that.

It's not a rule. Nor is its opposite.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (+3KVp)

278 How would Reiner have reacted to Trump's demise?
Posted by: 496

There are daily posts throughout the Leftosphere talking about the epic global celebration that will occur when Trump dies. We know exactly what RR would have done.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (JCZqz)

279 267 Enough about Trump's tweet. What do Candace and Tucker and Nick have to say about the Reiners' murder?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

To be fair to NF, he has said numerous times he thinks Candy is batshit crazy with the Charlie Kirk conspiracies.

As for Candy I’m sure she’s “investigating” this and it will turn out to be the Mossad and the French Foreign legion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (udlma)

280 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson . 4h

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 15, 2025 01:03 PM (uGpeQ)

He will be blamed for the next shooting because of his violent rhetoric posted online.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

281 What do Candace and Tucker and Nick have to say about the Reiners' murder?
Posted by: Bulg
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I like what Vance said, "I don't really care, Margaret. "

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (WDjG6)

282 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order

Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (vOlV0)

283 En fuego Trump is best Trump.

F*ck these Hollywood scumbags. All of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (abIsI)

284 Nothing good comes from being ugly in these situations.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is it ugly, though? Or is it appropriate to the occasion and circumstances.

We've not even seen the Kirk murderer face justice. "Nazi" white people are being assaulted and murdered for being leftist-proclaimed "Nazis." Leftist-aligned Islamists are mass murdering peaceful people during their holy days.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (dK+Kv)

285 I have never seen any film by Rob Reiner.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (SKxYB)

286 282 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order

Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (vOlV0)

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I've never understood the love for it.

I don't vibe with it, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

287 I simply want to know of the tiny rumor is true that his son was trans. That's all I want to know.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (WONhk)

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Daily Mail has a picture of him from September, and it doesn't look like it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (DRSnL)

288 I think Trump understands the prisoners dilemma rules better than anyone. They left always cheats, lie and speech polices the right. Trumpy dont play that. Is it uncomfortable to watch ? Yes for the right, but for the left its all a warm wubby blanket of hate. They are not the least bit discomforted by the crazed radicals using your grandfather's democrats as a front.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (i0Hi3)

289 He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 01:05 PM (pkeXY)

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better remember 2+2=5
Mr. O’Brien is coming to town

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (rQwsY)

290 Fuck you! War!!

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (oftw2)

291 The curse of being born into celebrity.

Posted by: profligatewaste at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (6ks8c)

292 RIP Peter Greene, AKA "Redfoot."

May the Lord judge Rob Reiner with fairness and righteousness, and may his wife Michele rest in peace.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (BRvvM)

293 Sooo what's going on with the Brown University shooting? They had a person of interest, but that person was released. Do they even have a suspect?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

294 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order
Posted by: 496

I don't loathe, but I don't care for it, either. One of the most overrated flicks since Citizen Kaine.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (77rzZ)

295 225 Nobody should be spiking the ball on this dude's corpse. It's unseemly. But Reiner is no-longer-living proof that someone on the Left can spend 50 straight years shitting all over the Right and their values, supporting their enemies with his money and megaphone, and viciously ridiculing them at every opportunity - and they will STILL line up to kiss his fat Commie ass.

Posted by: Pathetic at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (FuXG7)

That said, he wasn't killed for political reasons. He was killed because he cut off his deadbeat addict son.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (UnA8+)

296 Hollywood is probably not a good environment in which to raise kids. And you probably shouldn't salve your own guilt about not being present for your kids by giving your kids money. Don't know if this is the case here for certain but we've seen variations on this theme before.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (ssz2a)

297
Anyway, in DC, the Woke DEI-hire fake "police chief" resigned, effectively Dec 31st.

fake DEI "mayor" bowser says no to reelection

They faked Crime Stats and got caught. Won't pay a price, but they got caught.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (KPKlu)

298 I've dealt with some true schizophrenics over time, at least one that I know well committed suicide because of it. I've noticed that most tried to self medicate with illegal drugs, but I find it hard to criticize them for doing it; the legal drugs are expensive to get and often do little more than the illegal ones. Saddest yet were one or two I knew who could actually approach normality when they were heavily stoned, but who dropped back into hallucinations and paranoia whenever they tried to go straight.

It's really impossible to figure out what can be done for such people.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (uWKK8)

299 >>>How would Reiner have reacted to Trump's demise?

I don't care. Trump is not my guide. The left is not my guide.

Reiner was a POS who painted targets on my and my kids' backs, because we differed politically.

Burn in hell.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (dK+Kv)

300 what did you say ?
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I lol'd.

Posted by: Crusader at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (TN0g+)

301 282 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order.

Eh. Could be worse. I cannot for the life of me get into LOTR.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)

302 will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order

Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (vOlV0)

I don’t hate it. But I do not get why it’s so beloved. I think a lot of it is people think they have to love it so they love it. Self fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (udlma)

303 Came to get away from Pearl clutching. Reiner said he wanted older White Men to die, to save the country. He called us Nazi’s etc..

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (AOZtW)

304 293 Sooo what's going on with the Brown University shooting? They had a person of interest, but that person was released. Do they even have a suspect?
Posted by: bonhomme

Keystone Cops >> Providence PD

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (abIsI)

305 296 Hollywood is probably not a good environment in which to raise kids. And you probably shouldn't salve your own guilt about not being present for your kids by giving your kids money. Don't know if this is the case here for certain but we've seen variations on this theme before.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (ssz2a)

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Kubrick moved to England to raise his daughter instead of raising her in LA or New York.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

306 143 God, and God alone will judge each and every one of us in the end. That’s really the only judgement that matters. That said, I don’t know how one holds the moral high ground if you’re celebrating, or reasoning a persons murder. I’m as guilty as the next person, perhaps more for engaging in argumentation that amounts to verbal fisticuffs. But that’s with the living, and if they want to engage, no matter how that engagement takes place, I’ll never shrink from that. But when their life ends, hyperbole disappears and the real truth begins. That doesn’t mean the way the lived their life is any less sad, tragic, wrong, unintellectual or insensate. It just means that particular battle is over.

Posted by: Marcus T
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* fist bump *

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (VkY89)

307 Really the post is not as bad as I had heard it was.
Posted by: Axeman
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That is because too many people get the vapors ....but Trumpppp.

I tuned out of that shit in Trump's 1st administration, media, bloggers, etc.

Trump is a known quality to me including being callous or even petty at times. But, he says pretty much what he feels unless he is trying to make a deal. You can tell when he backs off--Ukraine and Russia when he basically keeps trying but stops compliments. Neither Vlad nor Zelinsky are biting on peace right now much so Trump then says what he thinks.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

308 I don’t hate it. But I do not get why it’s so beloved.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:09 PM (udlma)

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Hey, that's exactly how I feel about The Shawshank Redemption.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (DRSnL)

309 I don't like hearing stories about anybody having their throats slit by deranged family members. I would have been happier if Trump had just let it go without comment.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (VnsnO)

310 Here's a difference that I think is important. Charlie Kirk died because of what he stood for. He was killed due to his opinion. Rob Riener was killed by his mentally ill son. If he had been killed due to his outspoken political views, then you could compare the two. When Biden dies of old age, oh well. Same with any of these twits. Now, if any of said twits were murdered for their political views, then that is wrong. I am not celebrating Reiner's death. But you cannot compare the two.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (4p0Xq)

311 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order
Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (vOlV0)
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I don't loathe it. The movie does have some good lines, and overall was better than a lot of the ooze belched out at the time. But I don't see the big deal about making an entertaining movie from a popular and entertaining book. I mean, just film the book!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

312 If you were drowning an Reiner walked by, he’d shrug and keep on walking.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (udlma)

313
This was a professional hit by Netflix to send a message.

Posted by: Warner Brothers at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (IifOV)

314 But when their life ends, hyperbole disappears and the real truth begins. That doesn’t mean the way the lived their life is any less sad, tragic, wrong, unintellectual or insensate. It just means that particular battle is over.

Posted by: Marcus T
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Agree. Well put.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (krQz2)

315 292 RIP Peter Greene, AKA "Redfoot."

May the Lord judge Rob Reiner with fairness and righteousness, and may his wife Michele rest in peace.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (BRvvM)

Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

(Too soon?)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (rQwsY)

316 286 282 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order

Posted by: 496 at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (vOlV0)

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I've never understood the love for it.

I don't vibe with it, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

+++++

This is strange. When I first saw it years ago I thought it was hilarious. Several years later I tried watching it again and thought it is thoroughly ridiculous. It was so bad I could not get though 1/4 of it and turned it off.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (ouHEU)

317 Kubrick moved to England to raise his daughter instead of raising her in LA or New York.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Angela Lansbury moved her daughter and herself to Ireland when the daughter started hanging out with the Manson Family.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

318 I hate this rule that when someone dies, no matter how odious, we’re supposed to suddenly say nice things about them. Fuck that. Reiner was a piece of shit yesterday, he’s not a saint today.

Especially since he died an atheist

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (9Hs2w)

319 307 That is because too many people get the vapors ....but Trumpppp.

I tuned out of that shit in Trump's 1st administration, media, bloggers, etc.

Trump is a known quality to me including being callous or even petty at times. But, he says pretty much what he feels unless he is trying to make a deal. You can tell when he backs off--Ukraine and Russia when he basically keeps trying but stops compliments. Neither Vlad nor Zelinsky are biting on peace right now much so Trump then says what he thinks.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

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The entire Democrat Party is no more than anti-Trump and has been for 10 years.

That's nearly a generation of politicians and consultants who have only known how to fight Trump as their modus operandi. The rest were raised in the Obama era of maximalist racialism.

What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

320 I simply want to know of the tiny rumor is true that his son was trans. That's all I want to know.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (WONhk)

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Daily Mail has a picture of him from September, and it doesn't look like it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 01:07 PM (DRSnL)

I've not been able to find but one unsourced mention of it, so I am sticking with "unsupported" for now.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

321 Rehab deals with drug addiction. It does not cue mental illness. So many visits to rehab only to backslide again and again says he was not getting the help he needed. There is not much parents can do when an adult child is so mentally unstable that they are willing to live on the street instread of getting help. You used to be able to commit individuals when they were a danger to themselves or others. Now they just get released back on the streets to assault, pour acid, stab unsuspecting public.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (t/2Uw)

322 316 This is strange. When I first saw it years ago I thought it was hilarious. Several years later I tried watching it again and thought it is thoroughly ridiculous. It was so bad I could not get though 1/4 of it and turned it off.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (ouHEU)

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I've seen it 3-4 times. Not for a while, though.

And each time..."Eh. It's alright."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

323 308 Hey, that's exactly how I feel about The Shawshank Redemption.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (DRSnL)

I actually refuse to watch Shawshank, because at this point there is absolutely zero chance of it meeting the astronomical levels of hype people have given it.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 01:12 PM (UnA8+)

324 Drug addiction is a death sentence. It just isn't carried out soon enough.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:12 PM (uQzkA)

325 272 Your last moments on Earth knowing your own son is stabbing you to death. Could anything be worse? I despised Rob Reiner, I do feel bad about he and his wife's horrible demise.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 15, 2025 01:05

I feel the same and I don't care what Trump says on social media.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (c+QVv)

326 What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?

What office is Trump running for?

But to answer the question: JD Vance will be the new Hitler.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (9Hs2w)

327 From the Bee:

Australian Man Who Wrestled Gun Away From Terrorist Charged With Unlawful Firearm Possession

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (QVuuq)

328 I’m as indifferent to Reiners death as I am to Trumps tweet. The left has spent a lifetime dehumanizing us and now openly murder us and I’m supposed to be concerned how we look in reaction to Reiners death(?) They’ve declared war on us and assassinate us but Trumps tweet is a bridge too far for our side(facepalm).

Posted by: JROD at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (xeuBx)

329
I'm 100% Indifferent on rob reiner's death. Do not care, really, because it impacts my life not an iota.

I opened Youtube this morning, saw a video with a "rob reiner stabbed to death," raised my eyebrows, and thought, "that's unexpected," and then went on with my Life.

And then came here.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (KPKlu)

330 323 I actually refuse to watch Shawshank, because at this point there is absolutely zero chance of it meeting the astronomical levels of hype people have given it.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 01:12 PM (UnA8+)

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Eh. It's just a movie.

No movie will change your life.

If you watch it and think it's pretty good instead of the best movie evar, or whatever, that's all right and good.

Focus on why you like it (or dislike it), not how it's not the best movie evar.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

331
I know Lefties were happy as clams over Charlie Kirk being murdered, but they're being assholes is no reason for me to be one. Regardless of who it happened to, it's a tragedy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (tgvbd)

332
This world is like a hallucination.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (azNOR)

333 Free Republican going off the deep end today. Pearl Clutching and defending the left over one post by Trump.

Just deleted my account and no more donations. This is my only home now

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (AOZtW)

334 Why should I be sad for the death of a person that actively promoted my death? Why should I be sad for an influential man who actually promoted the death of the Republic?

He was a conspirator against the American way of life.
He was a communist.
I am as burdened by his death as I am the death of a Syrian jihadi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (uGpeQ)

335 324 Drug addiction is a death sentence. It just isn't carried out soon enough.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:12 PM (uQzkA)

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*holds a knife*
-caffeine

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

336 Don't forget Reiner's kids are now orphans

Posted by: Neotrotsky at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (3w801)

337 I've never understood the love for it.

I don't vibe with it, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Subversion of traditional fairy tales, looks pretty, plus a witty script. William Goldman who wrote the book that the movie was based upon was a pretty experienced Hollywood scriptwriter and wrote a book pretty easy to turn into a movie.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (WDjG6)

338 Here's a difference that I think is important. Charlie Kirk died because of what he stood for. He was killed due to his opinion. Rob Riener was killed by his mentally ill son. If he had been killed due to his outspoken political views, then you could compare the two. When Biden dies of old age, oh well. Same with any of these twits. Now, if any of said twits were murdered for their political views, then that is wrong. I am not celebrating Reiner's death. But you cannot compare the two.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (4p0Xq)
311

That's all well and good, and we can appreciate that on the thinking right. But to the reflexive political leftist cultist, the analogy ends at one of yours, one or ours.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (dK+Kv)

339 While not a fan of Reiner, I did love "Princess Bride" and other films he directed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM

"The Princess Bride" will always hold a special place in my heart. I first saw it on a trip to Arizona with my uncle and his wife to visit my other aunt (my uncle's sister) when I was 12 years old in 1988. She was taking care of a ranch for the summer and the first night we were there she set me up in the living room pull-out couch and left the TV on to calm me. There were coyotes howling outside and she could see I was a bit scared. They had satellite TV at the time and there were a ton of channels to watch. My aunt went through the channels for a bit and then settled on "The Princess Bride".

That was my introduction to the movie and I have loved it ever since.

Saw "A Few Good Men" for the first time freshman year in college and immediately liked it. I remember my roommate and I playing over and over the scene where Tom Cruise rips into Demi Moore for being stupid and missing the day they taught law at law school and laughing our asses off.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (P5BPp)

340 His best movie was the Sure Thing

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (AOZtW)

341 This is a movie thread now? Well, this weekend I saw another movie TJM would never beclown himself to review:

Commando Ninja. Yes, it's as terrible as it sounds. Terrible ... but awesome.

There is a Commando Ninja 2. God help us.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

342 'Trump essentially claimed that Rob Reiner's "Trump Derangement System" infected people around him and caused his own murder.'

'This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world.'

So... you get it - you see it right in front of your face - but somehow you really DON'T get it. Wow.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (hOOi9)

343 293 Sooo what's going on with the Brown University shooting? They had a person of interest, but that person was released. Do they even have a suspect?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 15, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

That guy is still supposed to be a person of interest. They were up against a charging deadline. They had to either charge or release and they weren't ready to charge.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (8mulE)

344
In 22.8 hours, No One will be talking about this. Everyone will have forgotten about meathead and Trump's dumb tweet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (KPKlu)

345 The entire Democrat Party is no more than anti-Trump and has been for 10 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't have a problem with that. It's that the Media is 95% anti-Trump and a significant underground part of the Republican party is that's the problem to me.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (krQz2)

346 326 What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?

What office is Trump running for?

But to answer the question: JD Vance will be the new Hitler.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (9Hs2w)

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Yeah, but all the specifics of Trump just fall away with Vance.

They try to apply things to Vance that apply to Trump (tying him to Epstein, I've seen, which makes no sense) which will just fall apart outside of the tightest of Democrat bubbles.

I don't think we're quite ready for the discordant nonsense that's going to be the transition period from one Hitler to the next.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

347
Don't forget Reiner's kids are now orphans
Posted by: Neotrotsky

Ha.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:15 PM (KPKlu)

348 But I don't see the big deal about making an entertaining movie from a popular and entertaining book. I mean, just film the book!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

In the case of Princess Bride, that's what happened - William Goldman, the author of the book, also wrote the screenplay for the movie, and made some changes from the book because he thought they would work better for the film.

I like Princess Bride, and you just have to take it for what it is - an Adult Fairy Tale, with Fairy Tale characters and a Fairy Tale plot. With that as a given, I think it's the most enjoyable and funny fairy tale ever put to film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (uWKK8)

349 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Man purchased Hanukkah pajamas for his girlfriend at Bloomingdale’s, only to discover that an activist employee slipped in a “Free Palestine” card.

https://tinyurl.com/468nbsc7

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (NpAcC)

350 Eh. It's just a movie.

No movie will change your life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

*Prometheus enters the chat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)

351
From what evidence I have, and it is scant, I think the Reiner household was a seething cauldron of anti-Trump sentiment that likely was never turned off. Rob had his father, Carl, stewing in it before he passed. I cannot imagine that it wasn't bubbling beneath the surface in Rob's own home and thus his kids were immersed in it, too.

Most of us are not interested in discussing political topics all the time. Discussing politics is practically the only thing that TDS aficionados wish to do. They champ at the bit to unload their political perspective on everything. Disagree with them even mildly and they shunt you off to the MAGA camp and then deem your opinions as not being worthy of their esteemed consideration.

There was a guy last week who flew into a shouting match with someone else in the room. Out of that guy's hearing, the other party engaged in the fracas said, "He's probably a Trump supporter" without Trump ever having been mentioned at all in their mutual bellow fest. It's a disease.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (xG4kz)

352 The Princess Bride was great!

Hah ...dummies.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (aTgV0)

353 Boobs and beer show God wants us to be happy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

This obsession with tits…. (Yawn)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)

354 337 Subversion of traditional fairy tales, looks pretty, plus a witty script. William Goldman who wrote the book that the movie was based upon was a pretty experienced Hollywood scriptwriter and wrote a book pretty easy to turn into a movie.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:14 PM (WDjG6)

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His first book about Hollywood and screenwriting > The Princess Bride

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

355 Something about Peter Falk in TPB bugs me. Don't know what, but it does.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

356 324 Drug addiction is a death sentence. It just isn't carried out soon enough.

Posted by: NCKate

Hunter Biden has entered the chat.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (Y8DZL)

357 I'm late to this thread, but as many others have said, we tried and failed to get lefties to behave like civilized people after Charlie Kirk died. The vast majority of them continued to call everyone they don't like "Nazis" or whatever, and the usual contingent blamed his death on himself. And that was before the National Guardsmen were attacked.

I am fine with anyone who reacts to dead lefties the way Trump did moving forward. In fact, other than Turning Point people (or maybe just Erika Kirk), I will be suspicious of anyone "on the right" who engages the left on Trump's comments. I will just assume they are the influencer version of the IN legislature.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (Dg7ng)

358 The entire Democrat Party is no more than anti-Trump and has been for 10 years.

That's nearly a generation of politicians and consultants who have only known how to fight Trump as their modus operandi. The rest were raised in the Obama era of maximalist racialism.

What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Civil war. Breakup of the US is my guess.

Fear of Trump might stave that off until he leaves office--like Andy Jackson in his heyday, his rivals fear and loathe him as he does in return to them.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

359 It might be the TRUMP!!! curse.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (vFG9F)

360 I have a theory - pretty straightforward - drug use as a teen makes you crazy. It screws up your brain development. I also think if you are inclined toward mental illness, it accelerates that.

Seriously - your brain is still growing till you are 25 or so. Brain altering chemicals impact that development.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (gDhA9)

No theory but truth and for reasons you state. It can exacerbate schizophrenia, which shows up around 20yrs for a male.

Parents who smoke pot with kids, or tell them they did and "turned out ok" are playing with literal fire.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (WONhk)

361 324 Drug addiction is a death sentence. It just isn't carried out soon enough.
Posted by: NCKate
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Time release suicide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (uGpeQ)

362 Unfortunately no one among us has moral high ground. We are all sinners.

We can try to feebly light the way if we want but that's all we can do.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (zALxA)

363 Feels like late 2017, when weak kneed GOP voters start siding with Marxist media again.

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (AOZtW)

364 Maybe I wouldn't be as upset about Trump's post if TDS actually had anything to do with Reiner's murder, but it didn't.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (KrYZ9)

365 In any photo his eyes are dead, with the fake smile not reaching them. There was probably fear of him for decades. Sad.

...May he and his wife RIP

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (WONhk)

You noticed that, too? His eyes have no emotion at all, especially the latest photo. Terrifying...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (6xRrr)

366
Eh. It's just a movie.

No movie will change your life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

That one of you and an underage and naked trollop will do the trick.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:19 PM (xG4kz)

367 Well said Soothsayer

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:19 PM (AOZtW)

368 I knew immediately when I heard about the deaths in Brentwood that the killer was not the former Brentwood resident, Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024)

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 01:19 PM (RHGPo)

369 like Andy Jackson in his heyday, his rivals fear and loathe him as he does in return to them.
Posted by: whig

Jackson was once reported to have said that his two biggest regrets in life were not hanging Henry Clay and not shooting John C. Calhoun.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

370
It took, what, 1 hour for that cocksucking troll above, assmith & jones, to come here and BLAME TRUMP (and Us) for reiner's murder??

And you STILL have issue with Trump rightfully saying TDS is a serious, destructive Mental Disease??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:19 PM (KPKlu)

371 If a fruitloop marries a fruitloop the probability that their children will be fruitloops is high.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (uGpeQ)

372 The pearl clutchers make me sick. This is why we lose.

This guy and his wife were Marxist SOB's and wished for our deaths. I hope they both burn in Hell for eternity.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (abIsI)

373 Either Vance will be Hitler or he will be Weak or he will be Stupid. Or two or all three. That's how the Left rolls.

They know Trump isn't weak or stupid so guess what is left.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (zALxA)

374
This obsession with tits…. (Yawn)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)

I'm sure the commentors over at Hot Air have no such obsession.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

375 What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

As much as it is asked what the GOP will do when Trump isn’t on the ballot anymore, or in office…no one has asked what the Dems will do when their divine object of hatred is gone. A good point.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)

376
Don't forget Reiner's kids are now orphans
Posted by: Neotrotsky
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See: Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (XeU6L)

377 Late to this thread, but Trump stepped on his d**k with this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (VE6XX)

378 So ... what's the over-under on how long before the murderer claims his parents abused him and that led to his violence?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

379 My name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father...prepare to die.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (aTgV0)

380 I'm sure the commentors over at Hot Air have no such obsession.
Posted by: Sponge

And their Art Thread is so vibrant!

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

381 Hollywood culture is fatal.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (UPpvT)

382
Rhetorical "you", TJM

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (xG4kz)

383 As for Candy I’m sure she’s “investigating” this and it will turn out to be the Mossad and the French Foreign legion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:06 PM (udlma)

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Surely you Geste.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (BPTeP)

384 His first book about Hollywood and screenwriting > The Princess Bride
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Having not read it, I'll take your word for it. But scripts often read flat compared to a book and adaptions of a book often go very wrong (or right).

One can read Shakespeare as prose but it can be kind of clunky (unless you have a good imagination or better yet seen the play staged). But in its right milieu, the theater, it can be incandescent depending on the cast and director.

As you note, generally trying to put the play into a movie often does not work unless you have someone of the mastery of Welles doing the adaptation. Branagh more inspired and lively version versus Olivier's traditional yet duller version also comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)

385 I will have my ass handed to me, but I really loathe the princess bride. It is gay and lame and gay, although not necessarily in that order

Posted by: 496

I've never understood the love for it.
I don't vibe with it, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Eh, it's required viewing for the memes, if you live on the Internet. Mostly dead, not left handed, my name is.....prepare to die, the brute squad.....

Kinda like Monty Python's grail, or Spaceballs.

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM (JlNWC)

386 So ... what's the over-under on how long before the murderer claims his parents abused him and that led to his violence?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

As I said, insanity defense is on the way.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

387 How long before someone claims that Rob Reiner's son was MAGA?

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (Y5qAR)

388 Parents who smoke pot with kids, or tell them they did and "turned out ok" are playing with literal fire.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (WONhk)

I'll never understand why anyone would do drugs with their kids. Those little shits can't handle their drugs and are terrible company sober. Why can't these people just do blow off a hooker's ass like normal people?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (UGyV5)

389 312 If you were drowning an Reiner walked by, he’d shrug and keep on walking.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:10 PM (udlma)

He maintained a relationship with James Wood. I don’t know if this is true. But for me, I don’t care. I don’t want to be in a place that I am so divorced from humanity I can’t recognize a tragic situation and feel sympathy. It doesn’t mean I am in mourning and this doesn’t hit like Charlie Kirk. It’s not black or white. There is so much grey out there.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

390 373 Either Vance will be Hitler or he will be Weak or he will be Stupid. Or two or all three. That's how the Left rolls.

They know Trump isn't weak or stupid so guess what is left.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 01:20 PM (zALxA)

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The unique thing about the anti-Trumpism, though, is the sheer femininity of it, driven by his sexual past both real and fictionalized.

That's what animates a lot of the left right now, AWFL concepts of sexual danger (which they seem to love since they can't stop putting on sexual slave costumes).

With Vance, happily married one time to an Indian woman, Ivy-educated, and self-effacing...the energy of the left that they've fostered almost exclusively (the black anger thing is separate and another thing)...it becomes more toothless than before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

391 381 Hollywood culture is fatal.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Hollywood culture is Hollywood death.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (abIsI)

392 What will they do when Trump isn't running for office anymore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Regan was Hitler.

Then GWB was Hitler

Then Trump was Hitler

Vance will be the new Hitler.

It would not shock me if 10-15 years from
Now if Trump is still alive, he becomes “the moderate Republican voice” just like Cheney and GWB did. Because there will always be a worse current Hitler for the left to hate.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (udlma)

393 355 Something about Peter Falk in TPB bugs me. Don't know what, but it does.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

It shouldn't (perhaps its the makeup) Fred Savage, the grandson, talked about the experience years later. He said that when they were filming, he thought this was just some old guy they found, nothing special, but this guy was always extremely nice to him, treated him very respectfully and most of all gave him a lot of acting tips which were very useful at a young age.

Years later, when he got older, he was amazed to find out "you mean that was Peter Falk, the famous Actor? The guy with a 50 year career who treated me, a little kid, just like I was his equal and friend?" He had never known it at the time, and Falk was always just the quiet, unassuming guy he plays in the movie. Says a lot about his personality.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (uWKK8)

394 My name is Inigo Montoya... you killed my father... prepare to die.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:21 PM

Have fun stormin' the castle!

Posted by: Miracle Max at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (P5BPp)

395 So ... what's the over-under on how long before the murderer claims his parents abused him and that led to his violence?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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See: The Lizzy Borden Gamit

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (XeU6L)

396 "The pearl clutchers make me sick. This is why we lose."

Pearl Clutch.net at this point.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (aTgV0)

397 368 I knew immediately when I heard about the deaths in Brentwood that the killer was not the former Brentwood resident, Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024)
Posted by: SMOD

Winner.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (NFX2v)

398 Jackson was once reported to have said that his two biggest regrets in life were not hanging Henry Clay and not shooting John C. Calhoun.
Posted by: Bulg
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And Jackson also survived an attempted assassination when the assailant's two pistols misfired. Odds were astronomical that could occur.

They had to hold old Hickory back from thrashing the assassin with his cane after.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (WDjG6)

399 So ... what's the over-under on how long before the murderer claims his parents abused him and that led to his violence?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

As I said, insanity defense is on the way.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
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Yea, but when a son murders his parents the defense is usually spiced up with claims of abuse. Menendez brothers, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

400 Sen. Chris Murphy blamed Trump for the Brown University shooting. Even Dana Bash was taken aback by it.

So, you'll have to forgive me for not giving a shit what Trump tweeted about Meathead.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (Y1sOo)

401 Tits. You see one, you want to see all of them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM (QVuuq)

402 No mention on the condition of the corpses. I am curious about how the son knifed his parents. My suspicion is this might have been really messy.
Posted by: Pudinhead
.......

Maids come on Wednesday.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

403 I've never quite liked Princess Bride as much as other people have. I found it enjoyable, though. But Reiner's pre-2000 movies are pretty good.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:24 PM (krQz2)

404 Hollywood is an evil cesspool full of debauchery and immorality.

Reiner spent his entire life there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

405 Been gone all morning.. Did they catch the Brown University killer ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

406 Maybe I wouldn't be as upset about Trump's post if TDS actually had anything to do with Reiner's murder, but it didn't.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (KrYZ9)

It's a choice among a series of choices that lead him to his demise.

Was it direct and proximate cause of his death? Of course not.

Was TDS symptomatic of larger problems with RRs choices? Absolutely.

That said, you could make yourself RR-TDS-crazy if you took everything Trump says literally.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:24 PM (dK+Kv)

407
Save your worries for "jim in kalifornia" who is going under the knife today.

And for Teresa who is recovering and still dealing with cancer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (KPKlu)

408 Tits. You see one, you want to see ~~all of them~~ the other one.
Posted by: rickb223

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

409 Years later, when he got older, he was amazed to find out "you mean that was Peter Falk, the famous Actor? The guy with a 50 year career who treated me, a little kid, just like I was his equal and friend?" He had never known it at the time, and Falk was always just the quiet, unassuming guy he plays in the movie. Says a lot about his personality.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Don't get me wrong, I normally liked Falk and thought he was a decent person. But, I dunno, I just don't like him in that movie.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (77rzZ)

410
Or worry about what random fuckfaces on Twitter say. Your choice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (KPKlu)

411 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:02 PM (WONhk)

You noticed that, too? His eyes have no emotion at all, especially the latest photo. Terrifying...
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 01:17 PM (6xRrr)

Yep. I had a cousin who had classic schizophrenia and a break with reality at 21yrs. Same eyes. Also saw the same eyes with mental patients in the ED.

It seems his parents tried everything and in the end none of it mattered. I don't "blame" the parents, but from reading of an interview with the nepo murderer's film of being homeless and drug addled...he blamed his parents. For listening to therapists.

He manipulated his parents and gas lighted the blame. Which is now sadly in retrospect.

I have yet to see a photo where there is life in his eyes. Even the one of him as a kid he looks sort of mean. Dunno. My cousin was not mean but he (9mo older than me) was always nervous and weird. Clung to me and my brother in HS and college as he could make no friends of his own weird.

He once tried to come on to me and I told him I would kill him if he touched me again. And I meant it (ok, I probably would have simply beaten the pulp out of him, then told Daddy).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (WONhk)

412 344; yup, no useful narrative in this, so gone very soon.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (Cjt/F)

413 @360 -- in my experience (as an observer, not as a user), I agree that drug use in the teens has a deleterious long-term effect. Of course, Big Pot would disagree.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (qwx/I)

414 On the other hand, Democrats elected Jay Jones AG in VA so 🤷

Posted by: MountainWalker at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (WWZwz)

415 It shouldn't (perhaps its the makeup) Fred Savage, the grandson, talked about the experience years later. He said that when they were filming, he thought this was just some old guy they found, nothing special, but this guy was always extremely nice to him, treated him very respectfully and most of all gave him a lot of acting tips which were very useful at a young age.

Years later, when he got older, he was amazed to find out "you mean that was Peter Falk, the famous Actor? The guy with a 50 year career who treated me, a little kid, just like I was his equal and friend?" He had never known it at the time, and Falk was always just the quiet, unassuming guy he plays in the movie. Says a lot about his personality.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:23 PM

I am the same age (1976) as Fred Savage and probably explains a little bit why I loved the movie so much. I felt like I was Fred Savage's character and my grandpa was telling me the story.

Also why I loved "The Wonder Years" so much. I felt like I was living vicariously through Kevin Arnold in the series.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (P5BPp)

416 Save your worries for "jim in kalifornia" who is going under the knife today.

And for Teresa who is recovering and still dealing with cancer.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (KPKlu)

I say a prayer everyday for all the morons/ettes... Well maybe not all of them....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (VE6XX)

417 How long before someone claims that Rob Reiner's son was MAGA?

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (Y5qAR)
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100s of AI are probably already on it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (krQz2)

418 >>>This is very, very similar to deranged left-wingers claiming that Charlie Kirk essentially murdered himself by supporting gun rights, or by pumping "hate" out into the world. Amanda Seyfried -- a fading actress who will fade still more -- made that claim.

It would be funnier if Trump actually meant to highlight the left's behavior here. I give it a 50/50 chance of being the case.

It certainly fits his MO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:27 PM (dK+Kv)

419 My thoughts are with Jim in Cali.

Fuck reiner.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:27 PM (aTgV0)

420 407
Save your worries for "jim in kalifornia" who is going under the knife today.

And for Teresa who is recovering and still dealing with cancer.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Thank you

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (NFX2v)

421 All of the "He could have just said nothing" people can also take that and apply it to the 20+ years Reiner spent using his fame to bloviate out into the world, with special attention paid to Trump.

Just because he was brutally murdered doesn't entitle him to have nobody say a cross word about him after the fact.

Posted by: ballistic at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (5aZAZ)

422 Did they catch the Brown University killer ?"

Several, in fact.

(No. It's a clown show)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (XuXeR)

423 One of the diagnostic markers of severe schizophrenia is what is called "the mask"; no matter what emotion they are feeling, and no matter how intensely, their face shows a flat, dead impression, no difference at all from any other time.
I've seen it a couple times, it is very weird, and jumps out at you once you realize what you're looking at.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (uWKK8)

424 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think figuring on Trump hate is misfiring. They hate the Right, Jesus the judge (instead of lovebombing Jesus who lets sinners go off and sin some more), they hate white people (in this case, lower class icky white people and dissidents to their class types), and so on.

When you figure out that they hate us and want us dead en masse, then you start to figure out a lot of what drives them. Making the US bankrupt while making Somalia fraud recipients wealthy--just swell, Islamic threats admitted by Obama and Biden killing us and Jews, just swell. Ham Ass killing Jews, etc.

Every vile thing that happens that the left promotes, they rejoice--assassinations, deaths like abortion as a sacrament, lopping off body parts to become miserable and suicidal fake men or women, molesting kids becuz love is love, etc,

There is no good among the left nor is there truth among them. They define themselves in opposition to those things like their true Father, Stan.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (WDjG6)

425 Sure. Trump's statement was smallminded and I'd prefer if he hadn't made it. But I like it better than kissing Reiner's ass because of pro forma niceties from a long-dead political culture when we were all on the same side at the bottom of things.

This ain't that. Don't eulogize your enemies, people.

Posted by: Tired of this at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (FuXG7)

426 Definitely a screwed up weekend. Australia, Brown and Reiner. Comes in threes doesn't it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (D+mpw)

427 Dov Lipman @DovLipman

WE MOURN

These are 9 of the victims of the Sydney Hanukkah Terror Attack. Left to right:

Dan Elkayam, 27;
Alex Kleytman, Holocaust survivor;
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 40;
Matilda, 10;
Reuven Morrison, 62;
Rabbi Yaakov Levitan;
Peter;
Tibor Weitzen, 78;
and Marika Pogany, 82.

X images: https://bit.ly/3L3NyzM

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:30 PM (P5BPp)

428
Falk's "Columbo" was basically the same script for him, weekly.

Greatest role: Professor Fate's assistant, Max.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (Y8DZL)

429 maybe Reiner was kind about Kirk's death because the perp was a mentally ill kid with a family.

he did some great work, and he was also a blowhard who stoked the fires of what we live in now.

He and his wife deserve prayers, and sympathy for the horrible last moments at their child's hands.

when I am called on to denounce Trump's words by all and sundry (who also cheered and rationalized Kirk's murder) I will respond that yes, it is hardly sympathetic or useful, but those have been the rules for quite a while now, and lord knows I didn't write them.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (enw9G)

430 One of the diagnostic markers of severe schizophrenia is what is called "the mask"; no matter what emotion they are feeling, and no matter how intensely, their face shows a flat, dead impression, no difference at all from any other time.
I've seen it a couple times, it is very weird, and jumps out at you once you realize what you're looking at.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Tom, you seem to have a lot of experience observing mental illness. What is/was your profession that allowed this, if you don't mind my asking?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

431 PBS org: Federal authorities arrest 4 suspected extremists in New Year’s Eve bombing plot across Southern California
Nation Updated on Dec 15, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (NFX2v)

432 My thoughts are with Jim in Cali.

Fuck reiner.
Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:27 PM (aTgV0)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

433 Also why I loved "The Wonder Years" so much. I felt like I was living vicariously through Kevin Arnold in the series.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:26 PM (P5BPp)

I'm a bit older than you, but I loved the Wonder Years as well, because it felt like a documentary of my childhood growing up in Phoenix. His best friend even looked exactly like my best friend when I was that age.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:32 PM (uWKK8)

434 Trump is his own worse enemy. I think z10 years of awful bashing, very personal, has caused him to say some terrible things.

This was one of them

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 15, 2025 01:32 PM (nGraA)

435 Hollywood used to be such a fine, moral, uplifting place. Don't know what's led to it's downfall.

Posted by: Peggy Entwhistle at December 15, 2025 01:33 PM (oftw2)

436 Jesus Christ. He's not mentally ill. He's just a drug addled piece of shit product of 2 communist.

Posted by: godhelpus at December 15, 2025 01:33 PM (Bwi2i)

437 Too late

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 01:34 PM (ZxPkt)

438 He's not mentally ill. He's just a drug addled piece of shit product of 2 communist.
Posted by: godhelpus

Drug abuse leads to mental illness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

439 One of the diagnostic markers of severe schizophrenia is what is called "the mask"; no matter what emotion they are feeling, and no matter how intensely, their face shows a flat, dead impression, no difference at all from any other time.
I've seen it a couple times, it is very weird, and jumps out at you once you realize what you're looking at.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Tom, you seem to have a lot of experience observing mental illness. What is/was your profession that allowed this, if you don't mind my asking?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)
____

Blog commenter ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:34 PM (iFTx/)

440 I seriously wonder what Colbert will think about Trump's thoughtful response to the martyrdom of St. Reiner.

Posted by: No Person, Ever at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (7Q0e+)

441 Olivia D'abo.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (aTgV0)

442 I dont care. He would have celebrated all conservatives death and probably danced in joy if Trump were assassinated. I have no sympathy for him or his family. This is war. F him.

Posted by: Megthered at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (ZIim3)

443 436 Jesus Christ. He's not mentally ill. He's just a drug addled piece of shit product of 2 communist.
Posted by: godhelpus at December

My understanding is he was both.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

444 I feel bad about what happened to the Reiners...they lost their lives in a real tragedy. Sad really...

Posted by: Boswell at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (NTVPI)

445 This is a human tragedy, I don't care about their politics, I barely knew who he was.

Posted by: PG at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (XSvQH)

446 I don't know if I've ever seen Seyfried in anything. Her bio says she has OCD, panic attacks and anxiety. Socialism means we take care of each other. I'll listen to her about politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (D+mpw)

447 That comment by Trump was the singularly most asinine thing he could ever say in public. I'm shocked and totally pissed that he stained us all with those remarks. What an asshole.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (BCuCF)

448 WE MOURN

These are 9 of the victims of the Sydney Hanukkah Terror Attack. Left to right:

Dan Elkayam, 27;
Alex Kleytman, Holocaust survivor;
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 40;
Matilda, 10;
Reuven Morrison, 62;
Rabbi Yaakov Levitan;
Peter;
Tibor Weitzen, 78;
and Marika Pogany, 82.

X images: https://bit.ly/3L3NyzM
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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These victims we should focus upon, not Meathead. Ditto for the poor girl at Brown Univ. Apparently a light in other people's lives.

Not the famous victims, not the celebrity victims, but people killed for no other reason than someone randomly hated them for their faith or their existence.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:36 PM (WDjG6)

449 Hollywood doubled down on recycling old IPs.

That was the beginning of the end.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:36 PM (aTgV0)

450 Blog commenter ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December

Y’all share a profession.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

451 He maintained a relationship with James Wood. I don’t know if this is true. But for me, I don’t care. I don’t want to be in a place that I am so divorced from humanity I can’t recognize a tragic situation and feel sympathy. It doesn’t mean I am in mourning and this doesn’t hit like Charlie Kirk. It’s not black or white. There is so much grey out there.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM

IMHO. It's a night and day difference. Charlie was killed for his opinion. Reiner because of a mentally ill child. Both are tragic, I wouldn't wish Reiner's demise on anyone. I am and will not celebrate his death. But I didn't care for the man at all. Getting murdered for an opinion is a whole nother level of evil.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 15, 2025 01:36 PM (4p0Xq)

452 >>One of the most overrated flicks since Citizen Kaine.

Bulg, TJM would handle this better, but Citizen Kane[/i} pioneered techniques that nobody had used before. Please don't judge a film by its lesser imitators. Look at the 1939 Stagecoach; today, people with 8 decades of later Westerns in their viewing history are, 'ho hum', but at the time, it was groundbreaking.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 15, 2025 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

453
If you were drowning an Reiner walked by, he’d shrug and keep on walking.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

^this^ x1,000. I'm not a bad person, I don't celebrate the death of people that hate me (even if they don't know me, they hate what I am in general). Meathead hated me. It's good that his vitriolic soapbox of hatred against America as founded has been removed from the public. It's sad that an unwell person murdered him, especially since it was his own family member.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 01:37 PM (QVmho)

454 And yes - of course Reiner would shit all over Trump if Barron hacked him up. There's no need to sugarcoat what this Communist piggy was, any more than there's a need to make fun of him from the WH while his body's still warm.

Though, Reiner didn't spend a decade treating me like garbage, like he did Trump, so there's that, too. I might feel differently if I were him.

Posted by: Tired of this at December 15, 2025 01:37 PM (FuXG7)

455 That comment by Trump was the singularly most asinine thing he could ever say in public. I'm shocked and totally pissed that he stained us all with those remarks. What an asshole.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (BCuCF)

Your concern is noted, lifelong republican.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (dK+Kv)

456 447. Back to Kos, Kid

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (YCxFk)

457 Tom, you seem to have a lot of experience observing mental illness. What is/was your profession that allowed this, if you don't mind my asking?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

Luck of the draw - some of it in managing some rental property on the side (why do they find me?) and some in having a close family member who's dealt with mental illness off and on. It never really goes away.
Some people can tell you about all the famous and important people they've met by chance throughout their lives; I can tell you about all the crazy ones.

One thing I've realized was something Rob Reiner was quoted as saying in one of the articles I read today; too many of the professionals involved in treatment seem to have a vested interest in prolonging the problem, rather than curing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (uWKK8)

458 I don't know if I've ever seen Seyfried in anything. Her bio says she has OCD, panic attacks and anxiety. Socialism means we take care of each other. I'll listen to her about politics
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (D+mpw)
_______

She was one of the Mean Girls and then an "It Girl" for a time. They tried to make her into a really big star, but it never took. I'm sure she's very butthurt about that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

459 "I can't 'pray for my enemies'! My enemies would never pray for me!"

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (krQz2)

460 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (1HGee)

461 Fred Savage with the big mole in the Austin Powers movie was a hoot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (D+mpw)

462 447 That comment by Trump was the singularly most asinine thing he could ever say in public. I'm shocked and totally pissed that he stained us all with those remarks. What an asshole.
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Have you been living in a cave for the last 10 years? Do you still think you live in a civil society? I have news for you. I don't care, and a large percent of the comments here feel likewise. Soothsayer has put the put more eloquently than I can. People who want to cry about this should go whine somewhere else.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (Dg7ng)

463 Bulg, TJM would handle this better, but Citizen Kane[/i} pioneered techniques that nobody had used before. Please don't judge a film by its lesser imitators. Look at the 1939 Stagecoach; today, people with 8 decades of later Westerns in their viewing history are, 'ho hum', but at the time, it was groundbreaking.
Posted by: Nazdar

Fine CK was pioneering. That doesn't mean entertaining, or even thought-provoking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

464 Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

Valero is taking a $1 billion dollar loss just to get out of California by April 2026

The company will not comply with Gavin Newsom mandates and instead is willing to lose a billion dollars to leave

“When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”

“Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026.

— This facility processes 145,000 barrels of oil per day, representing 8.6% of California's entire gasoline production. 400 workers have lost their jobs.

200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

X: https://bit.ly/3MEUDY2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (P5BPp)

465 I don't know if I've ever seen Seyfried in anything. Her bio says she has OCD, panic attacks and anxiety. Socialism means we take care of each other. I'll listen to her about politics
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (D+mpw)

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I've seen a few. She's...fine.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (DRSnL)

466 So many famous people have kids that are mental, tranny, or drug addicts. Wanna ruin a child ? Give them everything they want, they will kill you in your sleep.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (NtVYv)

467 436, heavy drug use in the formative years often kicks off any latent heritable mental illness.
Many severely mentally ill prefer to self medicate with drugs and alcohol.
A LOT of homeless people are mentally ill substance abusers.
No one in their right mind slits their parents' throats during an "argument".
He needs to be confined AND treated. Jail only does one of those.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (enw9G)

468 Maybe reiner is only mostly dead.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (i0Hi3)

469 If the left policed themselves half as much as we do.....

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (uQzkA)

470 The moral high ground is lovely but Trump never tries to occupy it, and our side's attempts to do so have mostly only ended in tears, as the Left knows how to manipulate it. Because they know where our weak spot is.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:52 PM (zALxA)

Well put.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (n9ltV)

471 That comment by Trump was the singularly most asinine thing he could ever say in public. I'm shocked and totally pissed that he stained us all with those remarks. What an asshole.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 15, 2025 01:35 PM (BCuCF)
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I sense hyperbole.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (krQz2)

472 Definitely a screwed up weekend. Australia, Brown and Reiner. Comes in threes doesn't it
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......

My TV is about to blow a tube.

Posted by: wth at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (v0R5T)

473 Yep. I had a cousin who had classic schizophrenia and a break with reality at 21yrs. Same eyes. Also saw the same eyes with mental patients in the ED.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:25 PM (WONhk)

I've never really dealt with anyone that had a true mental condition. I'm sorry you had to do so.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (6xRrr)

474 I'll say something nice about RR... I liked "This is Spinal Tap"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 15, 2025 01:40 PM (nJthq)

475 Getting murdered for an opinion is a whole nother level of evil.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 15, 2025 01:36 PM (4p0Xq)

Which dovetails nicely with RR's wholesale heaping of hatred on over half the country as Nazis for mere ideological differences.

RR killed Kirk, in a sense. Karma, asshole.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)

476 I'll listen to her about politics
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Vapid. To quote the Fixx,
"The deception with tact
Just what are you trying to say?
You got a blank face, which irritates
Communicate, pull out your party piece
You see dimensions in two
State your case with black or white
But when one little cross leads to shots, grit your teeth
You run for cover, so discreet"

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (WDjG6)

477
so...

how 'bout dem Cowboys?

6-7-1 record

Jerry Jones must be spinning in his grave

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (KPKlu)

478 I am so sick of yuh precious "norms."

Posted by: America at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (HJUJ8)

479 452 >>One of the most overrated flicks since Citizen Kaine.

Bulg, TJM would handle this better, but Citizen Kane[/i} pioneered techniques that nobody had used before. Please don't judge a film by its lesser imitators. Look at the 1939 Stagecoach; today, people with 8 decades of later Westerns in their viewing history are, 'ho hum', but at the time, it was groundbreaking.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 15, 2025 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

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I wish people would stop defending Citizen Kane by calling it a technical trailblazer.

1. It actually wasn't. It used everything already designed and implemented, but pushed as far as a 26 year old theater kid could take it with Greg Tolland making it possible.

2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

480 477
so...

how 'bout dem Cowboys?

6-7-1 record

Jerry Jones must be spinning in his grave
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15,

Lol

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (i0Hi3)

481 If the left policed themselves half as much as we do.....
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025

Then none of this would be an issue, because they wouldn't have ruined the country and turned it into a pressure kettle that will explode at any minute.

We wouldn't all hate each other so much if they hadn't done that.

Posted by: Tired of this at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (FuXG7)

482 Dear Lord,

Rehab at 15? Nick never stood a chance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (0lF5S)

483 200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

X: https://bit.ly/3MEUDY2
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 01:38 PM (P5BPp)

Not only is this big news, it's a lot Bigger News than most people imagine. This is going to have national impact in several ways.

And speculation is that although they have until April to shut down, it will actually come much sooner. Observers have said that Valero has stopped making any new supply contracts for the refinery, and without any, gasoline production could shut down within 30 days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (uWKK8)

484 If it's true that Rob Reiner's son had a diagnosed mental illness, his parents certainly had the means and the connections to get him help.

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (dCxaZ)

485 so...

how 'bout dem Cowboys?

6-7-1 record

Jerry Jones must be spinning in his grave
Posted by: Soothsayer

The price of natural gas is more important than defense.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

486 I've seen it a couple times, it is very weird, and jumps out at you once you realize what you're looking at.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:29 PM (uWKK

Yep. My late cousin's pupils always seemed blown, even as a kid. Like this Nick guy's. He'd be in a family photo and my brother and I looked like normal goofy kids and he looked demented. I just thought he was weird all of my life.

He did his psychotic break when I was over a thousand of miles away in college.He went to our grandmothers. Talked wacko with her. Left his car there and walked to the railroad and rode on top of a freight car for hours. This was the start.

His life ended when he was alone and refusing a half way house. His family made sure he had no guns for decades. He died apparently of hypothermia because he did not pay the gas bill. His brother tried to help him but he talked nasty about his wife. It is a sad cycle of stress for families for decades, and I am sure the Reiners, for all their $, had the same cycle.

My cousin was thrown out of Kroger for acting weird. Could not keep a simple job. It went on for 30yrs and after his parents died. Abusing his own mother before she died in a nursing home

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (WONhk)

487 Dear Lord,

Rehab at 15? Nick never stood a chance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (0lF5S)

Yet another product of the hollywood 'family.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

488 ^this^ x1,000. I'm not a bad person, I don't celebrate the death of people that hate me (even if they don't know me, they hate what I am in general). Meathead hated me. It's good that his vitriolic soapbox of hatred against America as founded has been removed from the public. It's sad that an unwell person murdered him, especially since it was his own family member.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 01:37 PM (QVmho)

Nor am I divorced from humanity. F'er got what he deserved and wished, at least implicitly, for every one of his ideological enemies, none of us here excluded.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (dK+Kv)

489 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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But it's useful in understanding why it was taken as such a landmark movie.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (krQz2)

490 Citizen Kane is the movie I'm supposed to like but I don't really.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (aTgV0)

491 477 Jerry Jones must be spinning in his grave
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (KPKlu)

Well, now I'm going to imagine Jerruh as a Vampire who sucks the blood of his star players and sleeps in a Coffin filled with his native soil.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (UnA8+)

492
Isn't this, like, a big bowl week for college games?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (KPKlu)

493 I've never really dealt with anyone that had a true mental condition. I'm sorry you had to do so.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (6xRrr)

I commiserate with a line from Max Bialystok in the original producers: "How do they always find me???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (uWKK8)

494 I've never really dealt with anyone that had a true mental condition. I'm sorry you had to do so.

it's actually worse for the people who suffer from mental illness, especially schizophrenia. They are prisoners in their own bodies, with their brains directing them in ways that they have no control over.

Great advances have been made in medication and treatment. But the afflicted person has to stay on the medication regime religiously, or very bad things can happen.

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (dCxaZ)

495 I've seen a few club kids spiral into serious drug addiction, but I've never seen true mental illness like what would cause you to murder your parents.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

496 Citizen Kane sucks balls. And seems like it's 47 hours long.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (uQzkA)

497 489 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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But it's useful in understanding why it was taken as such a landmark movie.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (krQz2)

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Again, it's not for technical reasons.

It's revisionist history to justify Kane's reputation.

Why can't people talk about Kane like it's any other movie? About how they liked the story and the acting? Why does it have to be, "You don't know how important it was because we can see ceilings."

It's condescending to the other party in the conversation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

498 496 Citizen Kane sucks balls. And seems like it's 47 hours long.
Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (uQzkA)

Rosebud...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (VE6XX)

499 474 I'll say something nice about RR... I liked "This is Spinal Tap"
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Thoroughly enjoyed it back in the day. Last week it was on NETFLIX and I started to watch it. I lost interest very quickly. It is of its time. Same deal with shows I really liked growing up, I can't watch them anymore. Now, I do have the book Princess Bride and will, at some point, read it. Saw a bit of the movie and thought it cheaply made.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (Wg6v7)

500 While it's easy to overreact to Trump's tweet, the fact is that what he said is unhelpful. It will bring over no one, and will repel some. In politics, that matters.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (s0JqF)

501 Isn't this, like, a big bowl week for college games?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:44 PM (KPKlu)

They started playing them last Friday night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

502 484 If it's true that Rob Reiner's son had a diagnosed mental illness, his parents certainly had the means and the connections to get him help.
Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (dCxaZ)

But you can’t make them unless they themselves want it. It appears his parents did everything they could. It wasn’t enough.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

503
Why did Ace write "mentally ill son" likes it's some sort of official title?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (KPKlu)

504 498 Rosebud...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 01:45 PM (VE6XX)

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Ah, the terrible Otto Preminger movie made for nepotism reasons (his son wrote the script)...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

505 I scrolled over Reiner when he was alive, now I do when he is dead

Posted by: javems at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (8I4hW)

506 NOOD at last!

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (c2vsb)

507

noooodd

nooodd

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (KPKlu)

508 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

I try to take some of those older films and show my kids how they did things with acting, lighting, cameras, real crowds of extras and animals, sets, etc., versus CGI.

They are in the local theater program - just finished a run of Seussical, and I think it is informative, interesting, and inspiring to them as young actors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)

509 Read the Shawshank book (well story) before seeing the movie. And I thought the movie did a great job as an adaptation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (udlma)

510 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think though the CGI in movies actually is looking worse and worse and more fake though through overuse.

I ended up listening to Christmas music and a number, Put One Foot in Front of teh Other came on with video. It comes from the stop action Santa Claus is Coming to Town TV short.

Yet, despite using obvious models being moved back and forth and bit of matte painting, due to its analog nature (shot on film then transferred), it looked warmer and homier than most cold CGI effects that cost millions more in blockbuster movies.

I also think that greenscreen poisoning affects actors delivering lines quite a bit making them flatter with nothing to react to.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

511 Did Reiner cut his son's allowance?

Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (Q+gd/)

512 Any notice thatl Chile elected a 'Trumper' or that Bulgaria said 'No' anf forced pro EU govt to resign?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (Dv3i1)

513 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (Cjt/F)

514 I've never really dealt with anyone that had a true mental condition. I'm sorry you had to do so.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 15, 2025 01:39 PM (6xRrr)

Thanks, but I only dealt with him once he lost it. He called me about 2yrs into schziphrenia and wanted to come live with me and my roommate "while he got a job." I was in nursing school out West and thought,"Oh, hell, no." Said that there was no room and that was the end of it.

Decades later, in FL, I received a strange cig smelling cylinder "mail" from him. It had gone through some sort of bomb thing at the airport (had markings of the airport). It was a weird drawing of people, like a 3rd grader, supposedly at a concert in a park I went to with him and my brother. I don't remember the concert at all.

I was pretty freaked out about this "letter" and called my mother, who got one as well about something else. I was also mortified that our local beach town mailman delivered this stinky thing wrapped in Christmas paper, like a British cracker, in July.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (WONhk)

515 Rehab at 15? Nick never stood a chance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 01:42 PM (0lF5S)

I learned it from you dad.

Posted by: 90's anti drug ad at December 15, 2025 01:48 PM (VF6cf)

516
But to answer the question: JD Vance will be the new Hitler.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

There's always a Hitler waiting in the wings.

Posted by: The Producers at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (pkeXY)

517 419 My thoughts are with Jim in Cali.

Posted by: eleven
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That's right, Today's Jim's big lace up.
Praying that all goes well.
And for a good update on Theresa.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (uGpeQ)

518 Why even start the sentence, or include it anywhere, with "I didn't agree with his politics" or "I didn't agree with most of what he said"? Just from one human about another, can't we just say that we are sad about these tragedies? I say this often, but NOBODY CARES if "you" did or did not agree with things said. It's okay to just be sad about tragedies like this without adding a disclaimer.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 15, 2025 01:49 PM (efuu+)

519 I also think that greenscreen poisoning affects actors delivering lines quite a bit making them flatter with nothing to react to.
____

We need to feel your anger come through the screen. Imagine Trump deporting your pool boy. Take it from the top. And....action!
- Director

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 01:50 PM (Dv3i1)

520 "But you can’t make them unless they themselves want it."

And once they're 18, they call their own shots legally and medically unless they present a clear and present danger to themselves, or others.

And once they've been around the med/inpatient/rehab/counseling/etc block a few times, they know exactly how to answer the crucial questions at the pertinent time, to regain their own "control" of their lives.

And the general system has how many people standing in line for help behind them? "Okay, cool, you aren't suicidal or homicidal. Take your meds and talk to your therapist! Bye! Next?"

Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 01:51 PM (enw9G)

521 It's really impossible to figure out what can be done for such people.

Posted by: Tom Servo

According to Dr. Christopher Palmer in his book Brain Energy, carnivore and keto diets can drastically reduce schizophrenia symptoms in a lot of patients.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2025 01:59 PM (BRvvM)

522 >>Fine CK was pioneering. That doesn't mean entertaining, or even thought-provoking.

>>Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

>>But it's useful in understanding why it was taken as such a landmark movie.

Responding in brief, because willowed: 1) Found it entertaining, but that may be generational; ii) a lot of people may not care about it, but it was interesting; c) grew up from early childhood with a lot of movies from the mid-30s through the early 50s, and they were landmark to me.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 15, 2025 02:02 PM (NcvvS)

523 So he's been drug addicted and homeless but he's a film director?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 02:06 PM (8avO+)

524 I'm as strong a Trump supporter as any, and stronger than many, but that was a stupid and ungracious remark.

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2025 02:11 PM (2L+MU)

525 510 2. People don't care about technical innovations from 80 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think though the CGI in movies actually is looking worse and worse and more fake though through overuse.

I also think that greenscreen poisoning affects actors delivering lines quite a bit making them flatter with nothing to react to.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

I don't think it is *just* overuse. A major contributing factor is modern moviemaking does not plan in the first place and thinks that changing CGI to cover errors or on the spot plot changes is cost free. Therefore the CGI is always reacting in a panic, and burning themselves out. With older tech, you could not just go to the model makers and tell them to remake the Millenium Falcon or something. But erasing a dude's mustache in every frame is somehow just doable.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 02:13 PM (8avO+)

526 I didn't care for Rob Reiner's political rants, but he had very kind words for Charlie Kirk's family after his death. Rob was a father too and his daughter is really my only concern now. I doubt I share her politics either, but I hope she finds the strength to navigate the difficult times ahead.

Posted by: Brian by the bay at December 15, 2025 02:15 PM (S2uom)

527 503
Why did Ace write "mentally ill son" likes it's some sort of official title?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (KPKlu)

It's a reasonable inference after you cut your mom and dad's throat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 02:16 PM (8avO+)

528 "his struggles began as a teen."

I have a theory - pretty straightforward - drug use as a teen makes you crazy. It screws up your brain development. I also think if you are inclined toward mental illness, it accelerates that.

Seriously - your brain is still growing till you are 25 or so. Brain altering chemicals impact that development.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 15, 2025 12:53 PM (gDhA9)

And it shows that your brain is already giving up on control and order in favor of chaos. It's hard enough piloting your life with your eyes clear and hands on the wheel. Being in the back seat with eyes closed is wrong.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 02:20 PM (8avO+)

529 Retard Trump out and about on Truth Social.

I know we live in a chaotic society at this point, and the lead and death and violence has been flowing one way....but this was a time to just not say anything even if Reiner was a commie piece of shit.

Don't give the lunatics anything to distract from their violent lunacy. This will now be used to drown out the Islamic jihad killings and even the Brown shooting if it ends up being a targeted political hit.

That said I liked Reiner's movies. This is Spinal Tap is one of my favs.

Posted by: GigantorX at December 15, 2025 02:27 PM (U2WgK)

530 But you can’t make them unless they themselves want it. It appears his parents did everything they could. It wasn’t enough.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

my mother and I forced treatment on my mentally ill brother

where there is a will, there is a way.

also, in the case of schizophrenia, when there is an acute appreciation of the worst possible outcome of an unmedicated patient, one finds a way

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 02:39 PM (dCxaZ)

531 An abhorrence for death is one thing that I think almost universally unites us all as human beings. And dying at the hands of your own child is, I think, absolutely the worst way to go.

I wish we'd remember that.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 15, 2025 02:48 PM (Wjykx)

532 kallisto, forced treatment can work.
In the case of my son, it is temporary at best.
Unfortunately, they can find a way too.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (enw9G)

533 Was the killer a shrimp supporter who hated Reiner's being liberal and disliking Trump ? Is that the motive? TDS?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 02:57 PM (1HGee)

534 Dearest President Trump sometimes less is more.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 15, 2025 03:09 PM (vBL5X)

535 Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 02:52 PM (enw9G)

my heart goes out to you in every way possible

a schizophrenia diagnosis, in most cases, is a fate worse than death

IMHO

even American doctors when polled about the most catastrophic illness that could befall a human being is...they answered hands down "schizophrenia"

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 03:11 PM (dCxaZ)

536 Reiner may have had "heartfelt" condolences for Charlie Kirk, but Trump is absolutely correct. Reiner's words stoking the fires of TDS over the past 10 years certainly contributed to Kirk's murder.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 12:39 PM (Vh9CX)

When I came home from work, Mrs. Cop was talking on the phone with one of her sisters about Rob Reiner's murder. Mrs. Cop is not politically-attuned - at all.

According to Mrs. Cop, the son, Nick, killed his parents because they said Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be murdered for his views. I have no idea where Mrs. Cop got this information.

If true, Rob Reiner DID get hoist on his own petard. He's been ranting about Trump for a long time.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (pJWtt)

537 my son is bipolar/schizoaffective.

The key for him is trying to keep the swings under control, because if he goes too far down it's suicide attempts, and too far/long manic, it's psychotic breaks.

It is horrible for him, because part of him is watching it all from inside the loop, and it terrifies him.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 15, 2025 03:23 PM (enw9G)

538 The republicans need to sit down an tell, Trump they're going to impeach his ass if he doesn't shut the fuck up.

Single worst thing he could have ever posted.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at December 15, 2025 03:30 PM (uxXx0)

539 Ace and the Pearl Clutchers...

Posted by: Miken at December 15, 2025 03:31 PM (XrYGh)

540 RE Reiner's druggie son did it: One thing's for sure. Reiner did not have his house in order. His kids are a mess!

He has this in common with another of Trump's TDS-suffering Hollywood critics, Rosie O'Donnell. Her kids are a walking freak show.

'Seems to me, before you shoot your mouth off at a sitting President in the public square, you ought to have your ducks in a row at home where, you know, you actually have responsibility and can control outcomes.

But, I'm old fashioned, so what do I know?

Posted by: steveaz at December 15, 2025 03:38 PM (RuEXQ)

541 >>> According to Mrs. Cop, the son, Nick, killed his parents because they said Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be murdered for his views. I have no idea where Mrs. Cop got this information.

If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 15, 2025 03:45 PM (Wjykx)

542 Rob Reiner supported legalizing drugs, and his son got hooked on them.

Posted by: Goatweed at December 15, 2025 03:57 PM (jK3NL)

543 Hey, this knife goes up to 11.

Posted by: look whats not at December 15, 2025 04:22 PM (nakGR)

544 The Son of Meathead is in trouble what dose Meathead think?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 15, 2025 04:28 PM (wGqjj)

545 They tried to kill President Trump twice so cut him some slack.

Posted by: James at December 15, 2025 04:37 PM (6ewVM)

546 Yeah, I agree I need to micromanage the emotions of a guy the left persecuted legally, tried to wound mortally, who is going to be impeached daily when the apathy of the electorate to willful stupid evil gets them power back because Trump is not the kindest person in the face of it in history.

Makes sense.
Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 12:44 PM (MUJd1)

————

Wrong. Trump is actually a very kind and generous man, very generous.

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 15, 2025 05:42 PM (nGraA)

547
Ace, thanks for pointing out Trump's vile hypocrisy on this matter. Though I have been a staunch Trump supporter, I am extremely disappointed in his attack on Rob Reiner by basically claiming that Reiner brought this horrific murder on himself.
Indefensible!
I could not stand Rob Reiner's political positions nor his overall ideology. He said plenty of anti-conservative and anti-MAGA things I found deeply offensive. Nevertheless, I was heartbroken when I learned he'd been murdered.
AND THEN LATER, I saw the Piers Morgan clip of Reiner's compassionate reaction to Charlie's murder. That man may have identified as being Jewish. But his reaction was beautifully Christian. RIP.

Posted by: Bach In Black at December 15, 2025 05:46 PM (KY9hS)

548 Trump is on his last term and has zero F's to give. I don't blame him for venting, especially against those who have been so vile to him in the past.

Posted by: Cat at December 15, 2025 06:07 PM (HtlVy)

549 If they tried to shoot me in the head I'd have some lingering hate for a long time too. Besides, it's 2025 and there's just ONE SET OF RULES now. The Left set the rules and Trump just followed them.

Posted by: Sweetie at December 15, 2025 06:32 PM (DePyg)

550 "His thoughts on Charlie Kirk were heartfelt and caring."

LOL...BS! F Meathead!

Posted by: Archies Chair at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (E/4Kk)

551 At this point, I don't really think Trump should have unsupervised access to a phone.

That is a stupid statement. There isn't anything much more unseemly than using someones death as a soapbox for egotistical point-scoring.

I don't care that Reiner was a rabid and unreasonable Lefty, a conciliatory statement would have been an easy win and the right thing to do.

Posted by: STV at December 15, 2025 10:13 PM (XMeSM)

THE MORNING RANT: “Financialization of All the Things” is Parasitism, not Capitalism

Friend-of-the-blog Alexandria Brown offered up a recent X/tweet addressing the financialization of, well, everything in business and commerce, and how it should be viewed in relation to the ideal of capitalism. Specifically, Alex wrote: ”Here's a fun question to which I have not made up my mind even a little bit: is the financialization of All The Things a form of capitalism which is at least tolerable or is it so reductive of human life and endeavors as to be past a limitation on acceptable commercial behavior?”

Those of us who advocate for free markets understand that capitalism also presents an opportunity for bad actors to misbehave within the system. Be it 20th century snake oil salesmen peddling patent medicines, or 21st century Wall Street investment bankers selling pools of subprime mortgages as high-quality securities, there have always been bad actors exploiting the opportunities within a free market.

But just because we conservatives endorse capitalism doesn’t mean we must endorse – or even tolerate - the worst practices that occur therein.

In my opinion, the “financialization-of-all-the-things” is a form of parasitism that does not create wealth, rather it serves to extract the accumulated wealth from entities where wealth has previously been created. Those engaging in “financialism” are the corporate world’s version of tapeworms and ticks.

If you have been reading my essays on corporations treating employees as a pestilence and customers as prey, I am unambiguous in my revulsion at the management strategy of using financial manipulations to provide short-term gains, irrespective of long-term damage to the enterprise.

In one recent piece I discussed the mess MGM Resorts and Panera Bread have found themselves in, with both having to apologize for bad corporate behavior. They are now trying to win back disaffected customers after employing the modern management gimmicks of:

• Revenue-mining customers with new and outrageous charges that produced a short-term boost in sales.
• Slashing headcount and customer service to reduce labor expense, giving a short-term boost to operating profit.
• Cheapening their product with reductions in quality and/or size, producing a short-term boost in gross profit.

But in every case, these actions tell customers that rather than being valued, the corporation sees customers as marks to be exploited. A great many customers may get hoodwinked once, providing the short-term profit boost that was being sought, but then never come back, thus destroying the company’s long-term prospects. A downward spiral of alienated customers, declining revenue, deteriorating facilities, and degraded reputation ensues.

These business practices were parasitic. The future cash flow of the loyal customers of MGM and Panera were represented in how those businesses were valued, be it the goodwill asset on the balance sheet or the market capitalization of the stock. But the fallout from those practices devalued the worth of MGM and Panera. When the dust settled from all the financial gimmickry and lost customers, the end result was little different than if those companies’ executives had simply pulled equity out of their companies.

Another recent essay of mine, “Sherwin Williams Eliminates 401k Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation,” discussed an even more stark example of how financialization is a form of parasitism. To conserve $165 million in cash, Sherwin Williams suspended its 401(k) match for employees, but this was right as it was also flushing away about $900 million in cash for stock buybacks, for the purpose of propping up the stock price. Coincidentally, much of the compensation of Sherwin executives is based on stock price and in the form of stock bonuses.

A stock repurchase is a very simple act of distributing the existing wealth of a corporation. Cash is depleted to buy back stock, and the company’s capitalization decreases accordingly. The money might otherwise be used for capital improvements, debt reduction, etc., but Sherwin executives decided to use the company’s capital to try to enrich themselves.

[Disclaimer - there are valid circumstances when it makes good sense for a cash-flush corporation to engage in stock buybacks, but a company that is eliminating its employees’ 401(k) match to conserve cash is not one of them.]

Sadly, the financial practices of executives at Sherwin Williams, Panera Bread, and MGM Resorts are not isolated. They are emblematic of a prevailing management philosophy that is being learned at elite business schools.

The world of private equity has even more abuses, with takeover targets such as Joann Fabrics getting loaded with debt to enrich their acquirers, with all the above-mentioned financial gimmickry then applied. This often leads to bankruptcy and dissolution of the company, as happened to Joann.

Companies will necessarily fail in the “creative destruction” of capitalism. But strip mining a company of its assets and loading it up with debt isn’t creative destruction, it’s parasitic destruction.

Those of us who support free market capitalism must not be afraid to condemn those who harm its reputation. Just as I can advocate for hunting while simultaneously condemning poachers, I can also advocate for capitalism while condemning those who enrich themselves by engaging in parasitic “financialism.”

Financialization of all things strikes me as a form of parasitism, effectively serving to extract accumulated wealth. While equity may not be distributed, an org’s equity and goodwill is depleted by financial machinations that bring s/t profit gain & long term loss of customers.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 10, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (QVuuq)

3 #Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Willowed:

An outhouse picture labelled "Muldoon's Liberry" was featured on Oregon Muse's Book Thread way back around 10 years ago.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (/iMjX)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

5 I heard Pam Bondi shot a bunch of people!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:02 AM (krQz2)

6 >>Those engaging in “financialism” are the corporate world’s version of tapeworms and ticks.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2025 11:03 AM (NuV6c)

7 WTF is "financialization of all things"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 11:03 AM (f/d3F)

8 Fancy name for grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

9 Buck, don't even get me started on private equity.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

10 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 11:04 AM (bFu5X)

11 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

12 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 11:04 AM (bFu5X)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

13 At some point playing with piles of money became more important than making them. See debit financing.

Posted by: pawn at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (EMg+d)

14 Is it quitting time yet?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (lXoJ5)

15 Slashing headcount and customer service to reduce labor expense, giving a short-term boost to operating profit.

To be fair, minimum-wage and "living-wage" laws are partially to blame here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

16 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"

Likewise, companies need to start asking this question of the MBAs steering the company.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

17 The "Financialization of all things" sounds like a step in Marx's history.

It's often known as "Late-stage Capitalism". Most people know this--libertarians definitely do not recognize it--but "Capitalism" actually had a role in Marx's "History". It was to reduce all "arbitrary values" down to the Dollar.

Once, you realize the dollar is "arbitrary" in itself, then people "become the currency". That environment is then primed to demand economic distribution.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (krQz2)

18 Capitalism is the greatest economic theory ever. Until it's corrupted. Then, it's not much better than the rest, unfortunately.

The moral of the story is, people tend to suck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Time to cap being able to deduct interest on loans to buy a competitor etc.

And likewise, we should end the double taxation on dividends allowing them to be treated the same as interest paid.

Kill the incentives to over leverage and replace capital of various means to debt.

Bring back preferred stock as during downturns, you can always cease dividend payments but never interest.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (WDjG6)

20 We know that AtC doesn't like SPDRs.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (1cMie)

21 Lazy Fairy Capitalism??

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (pDt9x)

22 Most people know this--libertarians definitely do not recognize it--but "Capitalism" actually had a role in Marx's "History". It was to reduce all "arbitrary values" down to the Dollar.
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That should be "Most people don't know this..."

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (krQz2)

23 This is often paired with moving from an ownership model to a subscription model.

You don't own software, you lease it at a monthly/annual fee. Same for movies, music, and more alarmingly, features of your car. Hello, WEF 'you will own nothing and love it!' dystopia! No ownership = maximum financial extraction as you subscribe to, or pay on-demand fees, for everything.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

24 11 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"
Posted by: Archimedes
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Elite business schools are simply teaching their students how to do the long con in ripping off everyone--customers, lenders, workers while enriching themselves.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)

25 The moral of the story is, people tend to suck.
Posted by: Sponge

Some of us more than others.
-- Kamala Harris

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

26 Coincidentally, much of the compensation of Sherwin executives is based on stock price and in the form of stock bonuses.

I believe this is the case for pretty much all major corporations and, if memory serves, happened in response to the tax rule change implemented during the Clinton administration which capped the amount of an executive's salary which could be taken as a business expense. Back when the Dems first started whining about how the CEO should not be able to make more than 20x the salary of the lowest paid worker.

So a rule which sort of enforced that was implemented and executives started getting paid in stock and, suddenly, stock price is all that mattered.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (ExV1e)

27 We know that AtC doesn't like SPDRs.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM

Rude!

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider in AtC's Attic at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (bFu5X)

28 And they say the schools aren't good at teaching economics!

https://is.gd/JYPn8y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

29 Alex. Had not thought about her in a long long time.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (pDt9x)

30 Capitalism is the greatest economic theory ever.

The moral of the story is, people tend to suck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)
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I prefer not to use Marx's Johnny-come-lately name for Free Markets.

Who coined the word "Capitalism"?

Marx.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)

31 25 The moral of the story is, people tend to suck.
Posted by: Sponge

Some of us more than others.
-- Kamala Harris
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 15, 2025 11:09 AM (1cMie)

32 Much of this goes to BJ Clinton and his hatred of big CEO salaries. Corporations went to stock options to give compensation. The results were inevitable. Stock price became number one goal of executives over building a company or good service/products.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (xvV+O)

33 Whig-in answer to your point about cosmic rays in the Art Thread, there is this:

SpaceX satellites avoid radiation primarily through
passive shielding (materials) and radiation-hardened electronics, rather than active deflection. They use materials like aluminum and high-density polymers to block harmful particles and incorporate resilient components designed to withstand the harsh space environment.
How SpaceX satellites handle radiation

Radiation-Hardened Electronics: Core components are built with microchips and systems designed to resist damage from high-energy particles (like alpha and beta particles).
Passive Shielding: The satellite's structure uses materials rich in hydrogen (like certain plastics/polyethylene) and aluminum to slow down or absorb radiation, similar to how other spacecraft are built.
Design Practices: They use grounding, close openings to prevent particle entry, and avoid directly exposing sensitive polymers to the space environment.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

34 “Financialization of All the Things” is Parasitism

Hey, it beats working for a living.

Posted by: You Know Who at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (+3KVp)

35 Be it 20th century snake oil salesmen peddling patent medicines, or 21st century Wall Street investment bankers selling pools of subprime mortgages as high-quality securities, there have always been bad actors exploiting the opportunities within a free market.
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The key to a functional market is preventing excesses from consuming the entire thing. This is why "capitalism" (whatever the hell that means) is not Darwinism. That would be the strong doing whatever the hell they please without constraint, including lying and stealing.

"Preventing excesses" has a name: law. Actual law, with actual enforcement.

Bogus patent medicine with unbacked claims? That's *fraud*, and you can be sued into extinction for it.
Selling trash securities as high-quality with no diligence or disclosure on what goes into your elaborate risk structure? That's fraud, too.
Colluding with your competitors to freeze out new players or constrain price changes? That's a cartel, and falls under monopoly law.

So-called "late-stage capitalism" (blech) is nothing of the kind. It mostly boils down to legalizing fraud and removing liability for connected players. It's cronyism, not a market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (avHHk)

36 The profit motive is inherent to being human, yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x)

37 Private Equity is a cancer. A deep rooted cancer.

Ever hear of Roark Capital? Probably not. But yiu most likely do business with them every day. They own several hundred thousands franchises in every imaginable industry worldwide. They own Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, Arby’s, Sonic, Jimmy John’s. Thats just a small portion of their restaurant portfolio. Then they also own Meineke, Maaco, Primrose Schools, Anytime Fitness, Merry Maids and hundreds more every day companies that you probably do business with.

All of this owned by one privately owned investment firm.

Aren’t we supposed to have anti-trust laws in this country?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:11 AM (udlma)

38 The moral of the story is, people tend to suck.
Posted by: Sponge

I think it is more that a fish tends to rot from the head. Our elite class in the West despise their fellow citizens and seek to loot their wealth, destroy their societies, and eliminate them as a threat to elite control. They have become quite open about this and WEF types (I regard any assholes attending as suspect SOBs) simply view workers, consumers, and the rule of law as something deserving to be strip mined for wealth.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6)

39 Money is not the point. The goods and services that you can get with the money are the point.

In as much as the financial world facilitates the making of things, and they do quite a bit of that, they are doing good. Otherwise, they are parasites that take the work of others.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 15, 2025 11:12 AM (2Insx)

40 "• Revenue-mining customers with new and outrageous charges that produced a short-term boost in sales.
• Slashing headcount and customer service to reduce labor expense, giving a short-term boost to operating profit.
• Cheapening their product with reductions in quality and/or size, producing a short-term boost in gross profit."

The first and last are rent-seeking, the middle is just excessive influence of cost-minded people, not financialization. Slicing up mortgages into transactable pieces is financialization, finance is concerned with making stuff transactable. Much like having public stock versus a fully private company.

Regarding private equity, particularly the area of LBOs(venture and growth tend not to use debt but have higher failure rates since the original business is more speculative), the business is collectively owned by equity and creditors. If the equity owners were to "strip a business of assets", they'd be robbing the creditors. This narrative is a broad misunderstanding of how debt works, if a business is viable sans debt it continues through bankruptcy with the debtors replacing equity. A business being dismantled generally means operational failure.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:13 AM (okun6)

41 I think they get away with this because they make the process too convoluted for the average person to figure out. And the sophisticated players are all in on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:13 AM (uWKK8)

42 Aren’t we supposed to have anti-trust laws in this country?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:11 AM (udlma)

Laws don't apply to everyone.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:13 AM (zALxA)

43 “Financialization of All the Things” is Parasitism

We're getting so much bad press lately.

Posted by: A. Remora at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (oftw2)

44 Radiation-Hardened Electronics: Core components are built with microchips and systems designed to resist damage from high-energy particles (like alpha and beta particles).
Passive Shielding: The satellite's structure uses materials rich in hydrogen (like certain plastics/polyethylene) and aluminum to slow down or absorb radiation, similar to how other spacecraft are built.
Design Practices: They use grounding, close openings to prevent particle entry, and avoid directly exposing sensitive polymers to the space environment.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Interesting. So basically lightweight shielding but not particularly helpful for energetic cosmic rays and/or gamma radiation.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (WDjG6)

45 20 We know that AtC doesn't like SPDRs.

how does she feel about spqr?

Posted by: biggus dickus at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (v3pYe)

46 In my opinion, the “financialization-of-all-the-things” is a form of parasitism that does not create wealth, rather it serves to extract the accumulated wealth from entities where wealth has previously been created. Those engaging in “financialism” are the corporate world’s version of tapeworms and ticks.
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Saddle everyone with debt, and let higher prices increase demand for debt. Virtually *all* of economic policy is tuned toward removing constraints on debt.

Citizens are incentivized to go into and remain in debt.
Businesses are incentivized to go into and remain in debt.
Government is incentivized to go into and remain in debt.

Policy after policy encourages it, from writing off consumer debt interest in your taxes to repressing interest rates to keep the federal government solvent, and all of it encourages MOAR DEBT.

The Veda got it wrong. It should have been, "Now I am become debt, the destroyer of worlds."

Debt has its uses, and our capital markets made the world possible. Debt excesses are extremely dangerous, and encourage more of the same until collapse comes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)

47 We just need a controlling authority to rein in industry, yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (pDt9x)

48 If everything can be bought and sold, then so to life becomes a commodity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (2GVsD)

49 In as much as the financial world facilitates the making of things, and they do quite a bit of that, they are doing good. Otherwise, they are parasites that take the work of others.

Nope, now you sound like a Marxist. There IS a role for people who find more efficient ways to maximize return on investment for shareholders. We had that discussion in the 80s. The trick is to balance short and long term interests.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

50 "Capitalism" can be called "distributed discretion".

Ownership is the societal mark of who controls a thing. Who is recognized as having discretion over the thing.

Thus abolishing "private property" is really complete consolidation of meaningful discretion under the State.

The Russians, actually managed to do this part of it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:15 AM (krQz2)

51 If stock buybacks were intended to benefit shareholders instead of executives, they would be doing the buybacks when the PE was below average, not when it was high. How can I be so much more astute than a highly compensated board?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (8fjZH)

52 'strip mining a company of its assets'
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

How many times have you, like me, heard "Our employees are our biggest asset" Just before a lay off?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (kfTpm)

53 Every system will have weak points that can be exploited by bad actors. And when your only goal, as with the Left, is subversion, you only need to find said stress points and amplify them.

It doesn't matter what follows, or what comes next, or what the plan is. It's all about destroying. And destroying is easy.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (zALxA)

54 41 I think they get away with this because they make the process too convoluted for the average person to figure out. And the sophisticated players are all in on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I think the ballooning wealth of Congress critters is beginning to be the next House bank scandal. Crenshaw was stupid to poke an anthill in Sean Ryan and it is beginning to be the internets versus Crenshaw right about the time his district will be chopped up.

And if the GOP doesn't do something about the elites stuffing themselves, including pols, then I think the voters will and that will be that for Democracy if the Dems get in.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

55 38
I think it is more that a fish tends to rot from the head. Our elite class in the West despise their fellow citizens and seek to loot their wealth, destroy their societies, and eliminate them as a threat to elite control.
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Yes, and elites get like this when some sea change is afoot, whether a change of dynasties in Chinese history or a Revolution. Bolsheviks in the 1930s were true believers even up until the moment they were shot by the NKVD. CPSU managers in the 1980s were openly cynical, and it dripped down to the entire party. The fella who runs the "Ushanka Show" on YouTube talks about how he openly admitted joining the party for cyncical reasons in 1980s Ukraine, and the committee approved him anyway (with only one idealistic woman objecting - loyal to the party to the end as Orwell predicted).

Our elites now are 1980s Soviet Communists, in form and increasingly in function.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (Dg7ng)

56 To conserve $165 million in cash, Sherwin Williams suspended its 401(k) match for employees, but this was right as it was also flushing away about $900 million in cash for stock buybacks, for the purpose of propping up the stock price.
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Is either part of that true? The number of companies who use debt to fuel buybacks is pretty high. Did they actually have a billion dollars to buy back shares, or did the company borrow it?

And share buybacks are rarely about defending share price. That's the claim, but the volumes just aren't big enough. Buybacks are usually about two things:
1. Moving shares into the company treasury, so they can be used for M&A later (stock-based deals require the stock to come from somewhere, and that means treasury shares or a new offering that dilutes shareholder value)
2. Paying all the stock-based compensation (discounted shares, grants, options, etc.). Those shares have to come from somewhere, too.

Maybe Sherwin-Williams was dumb enough to blow reserve cash on buybacks to prop up share price, but it would be unusual. There's usually other stuff going on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (avHHk)

57 Bogus patent medicine with unbacked claims? That's *fraud*, and you can be sued into extinction for it."

Ha!!! It's funny that you actually think that!!!

Posted by: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (uWKK8)

58 SPQR?

Oh the Empress will certainly enjoy a good weenier roast using her Flammenwerfer on you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (2GVsD)

59 We just need a controlling authority to rein in industry, yes?
Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (pDt9x)

If only we had someone with a brilliant mind like Albert Speer to coordinate American industry for the welfare of the people. -- collage 'educated' leftists... probably

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (ExV1e)

60 52 How many times have you, like me, heard "Our employees are our biggest asset" Just before a lay off?

you know who else has employees that are their biggest asset?

Posted by: soylent corporation at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (v3pYe)

61 I think the most egregious example of mining the customer is where car companies charge monthly fees to activate features that the customer already paid for.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (8fjZH)

62 If only we could Fix the problem of Winners and Losers, Haves and Have Nots. Everyone should be a Winner.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

63 >>> 35
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (avHHk)

>>> 37
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Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:11 AM (udlma)

You can't do that! It would be worse than enforcing immigration law!!!

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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (ULPxl)

64 Corporate America is just doing the same sort of thing they see the government doing. Or the other way 'round.

Either way, one starts it, the other mimics it.

Because someone's gonna' get rich.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 11:18 AM (NwnyJ)

65 >>Much of this goes to BJ Clinton and his hatred of big CEO salaries.

CEO salaries used to be more in line w/the rest of the company's salaries, though. Had a relative who was an expert on compensation - was hired by CEOs to establish compensation schemes (including Bob Paley, alt Disney, etc.). He claimed that the reasonable CEO pay vs. rest of employee pay paradigm was broken by Michael Eisner, and once Eisner as paid silly money, it soon spread to other CEOs.

If you look at what silly executives at unrecognizable NGOs are paid - ridiculous salaries not reflective of their actual impact/success - you see it's become shameless greed.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (NuV6c)

66 Invest in companies that build steel shutters and wrought iron bars for first floor windows. Going from turd world to first world is hard, but going from high trust to low trust society is easy.

Posted by: Slipping Away.... at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)

67 If stock buybacks were intended to benefit shareholders instead of executives, they would be doing the buybacks when the PE was below average, not when it was high. How can I be so much more astute than a highly compensated board?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (8fjZH)

Most modern boards seem to be friends of the CEO and are, likely, in on the scam somehow.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

68 Companies will necessarily fail in the “creative destruction” of capitalism. But strip mining a company of its assets and loading it up with debt isn’t creative destruction, it’s parasitic destruction.
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There is very, very little that can be done about that. If assets and cashflows exceed book value, somebody is going to try to cash in on that. The owners of the company - the shareholders, though usually by proxy - will happily support it every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (avHHk)

69 16
Likewise, companies need to start asking this question of the MBAs steering the company.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

I have recently looked into this idea that young MBAs are running companies, which seems superficially implausible, and it seems what is being attributed to them is most likely a consequence of CFOs being promoted to CEO more frequently. Far as I can tell management is still largely old people. To the degree 20-something MBA grads would have any influence on decisions, it'd be through the consulting world.

CFOs/Treasury has always been more cost and mathematically-minded, while MBA programs generally have more management/social-skills minded people.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:20 AM (okun6)

70 ***I am unambiguous in my revulsion at the management strategy of using financial manipulations to provide short-term gains, irrespective of long-term damage to the enterprise.
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Fire the MBAs, promote from within the company or poach the best from a competitor.
Eliminate HR and have management of each division responsible for employees under his supervision.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:20 AM (uGpeQ)

71 But in every case, these actions tell customers that rather than being valued, the corporation sees customers as marks to be exploited.
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Here's my favorite, current example:
The major airline rewards/credit card programs are valued at more than the airline.

During Covid, the airlines had to take out loans. And they put their CC rewards programs up as collateral.
Which had to eventually be disclosed in their financials.
And every one, all of them, those were worth billions more than the actual airline.

Worse? The customer buying a seat is a loss-leader to gain rewards members.
Because, once they get you in, they exploit the psychology of "one more (over-priced*) flight and the next one is free!"
And that, "10k free miles if you rent with Hertz?" Hertz buys those from the airline. (which per mile rate is not disclosed)
Cause that keeps you renting with Hertz.

*b/c they manipulate the website; your price as a "member" is higher.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 11:21 AM (HXT0k)

72 It seems every company desires to be ENRON without being caught.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:21 AM (2GVsD)

73 So "Financialization of all the things" is the polite way of referring to "Shittification of everything" or are these two distinct but related phenomenon.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:21 AM (CovfX)

74 51 If stock buybacks were intended to benefit shareholders instead of executives, they would be doing the buybacks when the PE was below average, not when it was high. How can I be so much more astute than a highly compensated board?
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Way back in the 40s, James Burnham wrote of the Managerial Revolution. He was someone that went from Trotskyite all the way to NR as an editor. Needless to say, owners aka shareholders don't own the company functionally; the managers do. Same with government; the managers aka senior Civil Service run the place, not the titular President, Congress, and Courts. Same with any other large institution. And that is remarkably similar to the nomenklatura and how they controlled the Soviet State in the late Soviet Union.

Pretty predictive of late stage US politics and policy.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:22 AM (WDjG6)

75 62 If only we could Fix the problem of Winners and Losers, Haves and Have Nots. Everyone should be a Winner.
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Well to some extent capitalism breaks down as people try this. The economics taught in textbooks assume rational actors comparing features of products (think buying an appliance after reading many reviews).

The sort of advertising slop I think Andy Warhol was making fun of (you never can tell with that autist) was about fooling people into thinking this slop will make them FEEL great, and that is (strictly speaking) a distortion of the free market system. I'm not advocating government regulation of Coca-Cola ads, but we need to recognize that emotions and wise decisions don't go well together, and a lot of financialization is about convincing people that something that makes no sense is fine because it might make them money, and money makes people like you, or something.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 11:22 AM (Dg7ng)

76 It seems every company desires to be ENRON without being caught.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:21 AM (2GVsD)
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Enron was a combination of ahead of its time and sloppy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:22 AM (avHHk)

77 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"
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They dont teach virtue or morals or right and wrong in business school. Closest you come is ethics, and you dont need it to graduate in some cases. Ethics isnt as powerful a force for good in a business school as you might think, in that it is often an exercise in weighing competeing outcomes and in business school the measure is dollars. Its not hard to rationalize a short term gain vs a long term gain. Long term is speculative. A bird in the hand is worth more than all the birds in the bush. Easy. And self interest makes it profitable. The pyscho parade is having a societal effect. No one wants to build or grow or have kids because they think global warming is going to end humanity in 20 years anyway.

Posted by: Frank Shirley enrolls you in the jelly of the month club at December 15, 2025 11:22 AM (fzZrL)

78 I discussed the mess MGM Resorts
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Customer relations: Asshoe dealers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (uGpeQ)

79 Our elite class in the West despise their fellow citizens and seek to loot their wealth, destroy their societies, and eliminate them as a threat to elite control. They have become quite open about this and WEF types (I regard any assholes attending as suspect SOBs) simply view workers, consumers, and the rule of law as something deserving to be strip mined for wealth.
Posted by: whig

The most frustrating thing is that they don't look at the long term impact. What good is it to be a multimillionaire when your company (or country) collapses. I have seen third world kingpins. They live in compounds with armed guards, not unlike being in prison.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (8fjZH)

80 Most modern boards seem to be friends of the CEO and are, likely, in on the scam somehow.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

The lack of independence or accountability for modern Corporate Boards is the greatest point of weakness in our current corporate system. They exist so that companies can pretend that there is some oversight, when in fact there is none.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (uWKK8)

81 Greed Is Good.

Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (FGMmt)

82 Greed is hardwired, sadly.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:24 AM (pDt9x)

83 Most modern boards seem to be friends of the CEO and are, likely, in on the scam somehow.

Disney has entered Chat

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:24 AM (2GVsD)

84 All the cashback programs remind of the Greenbax stamps from back in the day.

Yeah, you're getting something 'free' but you paid a lot of money out to get that 'free'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (6ydKt)

85 Whoa!! So many definitions. So many viewpoints.

What's a buying customer to do?!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (g8Ew8)

86 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

87 Penny Stocks for the WIN!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (Wg6v7)

88 There is very, very little that can be done about that. If assets and cashflows exceed book value, somebody is going to try to cash in on that. The owners of the company - the shareholders, though usually by proxy - will happily support it every time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Eliminate leverage incentives by not allowing deductions for debt or cap them at a max just like for buying a house. This would lead to capital being used to finance acquisitions rather than debt.

Eliminate corporate taxes on issuing dividends including preferred stock.

I would also include all compensation to executives as being salary including from buybacks, sale of options, etc.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)

89
The most frustrating thing is that they don't look at the long term impact. What good is it to be a multimillionaire when your company (or country) collapses. I have seen third world kingpins. They live in compounds with armed guards, not unlike being in prison.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (8fjZH)

I think most of them are quite happy to live like Lords in 13th Century Europe. They stay in the castle on the hill surrounded by high walls, full of servants; while the troubles of the serfs in the valley below is of little concern to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK8)

90 46 The Veda got it wrong. It should have been, "Now I am become debt, the destroyer of worlds."

Debt has its uses, and our capital markets made the world possible. Debt excesses are extremely dangerous, and encourage more of the same until collapse comes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)

I'm a filthy poor, but I have gone out of my way to make sure I do not walk into debt traps.

I thought I was doing a good thing, but no, now I just get told that I'm too stupid to manipulate debt to my advantage.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (UnA8+)

91 They live in compounds with armed guards, not unlike being in prison.

Better room service though.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (Kt19C)

92 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

There are similar options for fast food.

You can rent to own your Taco Bell meal deal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

93 Most of the people at the tops of big companies are narcissistic sociopaths or psychopaths and don't give a f**k about customers, employees, their families or any one but themselves.

Posted by: BillB at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (TQxb9)

94 As we've oft discussed here, the reason the youth hate capitalism is they think the current system is capitalism.

But, it's corporate-socialism.

And no where near a free market.

Our government borrowed trillions of dollars because 5 or so corporations were deemed (by those in government) "too big to fail" and that is the fault of ... capitalism?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (HXT0k)

95 The sort of advertising slop I think Andy Warhol was making fun of (you never can tell with that autist) was about fooling people into thinking this slop will make them FEEL great, and that is (strictly speaking) a distortion of the free market system. ...
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 11:22 AM (Dg7ng)
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Not really. Selling feelings is as old as time, and is why there's so much nuance in advertising law and why the line between fraud (false advertising) and puffery (grandiose statements not presented as fact) can be so blurry. It's why so many advertise "wellness" instead of "health," for example. "Wellness" isn't a thing. It's puffery.

Those excesses also tend to be constrained if the operating environment is fair. Patent medicines don't work and people quit buying them. Canned soup is an open market. Or, rather, these things *should* be true. The only correct answer when a snake oil salesman goes to Washington and demands that snake oil be made mandatory is to tell him to fuck off. But Washington never does, and the environment becomes unfair.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (avHHk)

96 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (2GVsD)

97 If you look at what silly executives at unrecognizable NGOs are paid - ridiculous salaries not reflective of their actual impact/success - you see it's become shameless greed.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (NuV6c)

You wanna see ridiculous salaries? Look at charities. Some CEOs of charities make 7 figures.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (udlma)

98 86 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today!!!

Posted by: Wimpy at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)

99 >>>Fancy name for grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

>Capitalism should not be soiled by questionable business practices that are Machiavellian. Let's try to keep the politics out of the free market.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (1zOXE)

100 Look out! Wajahat Ali is mad!

https://is.gd/aRPPC4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

101 Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (2GVsD)
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That's the first thing I said when my wife told me that two older folks had been found dead in Rob Reiner's house.

"Trump did it!"

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (krQz2)

102 86 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Eventually a jubilee will happen because is the mass of society is debtors; they have every interest in liquidating their creditors to liquidate their debt.

Saw something similar in Chinese history. Regular as clockwork once the landlords got too much of the peasant's income as to threaten their existence; voila, instant peasant revolt with landlords being liquidated directly.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (WDjG6)

103 Mike Stivic : Y'know something, Mr. Bunker, at first thought I misjudged you. And I was right, I did misjudge you. You're a lot more ignorant than I thought.

Archie Bunker: What are you saying, ignorant. Did you hear what he called me, ignorant? Well, let me tell you something. Sticks and stones my break my bones. but you are one dumb Polack!

Posted by: All In The Family at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (FGMmt)

104 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Wimpy was waaay ahead of his time.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (onZb0)

105 The French Republicans are appalled that you question our corporate overlords. You will not be invited to the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Party at Bushwoods this year not to their New Year's Eve party co-hosted by the CEO of Goldman Sachs and Liz Cheney.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (D6l9B)

106 Penny Stocks for the WIN!
Posted by: Pudinhead

Are those really a thing? If so, what will happen to them now that we've stopped minting pennies?

Will the penny still be retained as a money of account in accounting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

107 Look out! Wajahat Ali is mad!

https://is.gd/aRPPC4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

The truth hurts sometimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

108 Buck-

You can see distinct Financialization of Everything with a little different slant in the medical field over the last 2 (or more) decades.

Medical decision making by doctors in the best interests of the patient has been subsumed by financial decision making by Health Systems Administrators. From defining disease downward, pushing dubious "preventative" screening, up-coding diagnoses for billing, calling for more frequent follow-up visits and ordering more costly tests to pushing newly patented designer drugs and downplaying any role of generic pharmaceuticals, etc, the field has become one big money grab. People have been dehumanized in the process. And it is all draped inn faux caring.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (/iMjX)

109 100 Look out! Wajahat Ali is mad!

https://is.gd/aRPPC4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

He can't be that mad, he hasn't allahu akbar'd himself or anybody else yet.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (UnA8+)

110 I’m just a plain ‘ol engineer, never an executive. But I started noticing 30 years ago that even “low level” promos (like say up to director level) were all predetermined ahead of time and always went to young ambitious hard chargers who knew they’d only be in the new job long enough to “make an impression” so they’d implement all kinds of initiatives that had the appearance of action but would be net losers long term (or neutral at best)… short term stupidity incentivized….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (xT8gx)

111 To be fair, minimum-wage and "living-wage" laws are partially to blame here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:06 AM

The minimum wage around me is a joke. There are only three places that pay minimum wage and all of them are dollar stores. walmart in my town starts people at $14 an hour if you have a pulse and they bump up up by 50 cents an hour if you can hack it and stick around for 90 days.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (0N4FZ)

112 A problem we live in is society has become far too comaplex, and simply large, for the old economic systems to work well. They may locally, but on the scales of today, no.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

113 Buck's gone all Marxist commie on us!

Kidding. While the small handful of corporatists among us would say otherwise, enshittification, rent-seeking, ownership destruction, monopolization and screwing the customer by making them pay and pay and pay to continue to use what they already bought are not principles of a free market system. It's a parasitic kleptocratic oligarchy.

Posted by: If it's good for GM it's good for us at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (TbWk/)

114 Costco already issues credit cards.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (udlma)

115 96 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (2GVsD)

So their son was a big Trump supporter and was just taking one for the team after all of Trump's hateful rhetoric towards Hollywood?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (6ydKt)

116 96 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Vile people that live in a dying state within a dying industry and their own workers dying from refusal to accept reality.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)

117
So-called "late-stage capitalism" (blech) is nothing of the kind. It mostly boils down to legalizing fraud and removing liability for connected players. It's cronyism, not a market.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

It's no wonder we get the rise of Mamdani and Sanders.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (pkeXY)

118 Government has two valid (one might say necessary) roles in the free market: (i) enforcing the Rule of Law, and (ii) ensuring legitimacy of the market by ensuring the free flow of real information.

The first includes, especially, criminalization of theft types of offenses, and - maybe more importantly - enforcement of contracts. The second includes primarily policing of fraudulent practices (an overlap, perhaps, with anti-theft responsibility).

Both are legitimate governmental roles. Unfortunately, both open up multiple opportunities for bad actors in government to abuse their regulatory powers.

A neutral AI might be the answer, but - obviously - a malicious AI would likely only make things worse. And governmental regulation of AI . . . oh well.

Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peepin' in the Seafood Store at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (FhMCZ)

119 When does the boob thread start?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (Kt19C)

120 Some time ago, I ran across a comment (from Jerry Pournelle?) along this line: We’ve met the aliens. They’ve landed and they want the planet, but they’re not in any hurry, so here’s their deal. World hunger - cured. All diseases - cured. Life-span - tripled. Poverty - thing of the past. Peace and plenty for all. But every child born from the point of deal’s acceptance will be born sterile. After we’ve all died out in a few hundred years, the aliens will move in. The trouble with too much of current management theory is that it offers no reasoning to refuse the deal.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (q3u5l)

121 >>> I'm not advocating government regulation of Coca-Cola ads, but we need to recognize that emotions and wise decisions don't go well together, and a lot of financialization is about convincing people that something that makes no sense is fine because it might make them money, and money makes people like you, or something.
Posted by: The Lower Depths
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Stupid people - our school system does not teach students how to think. Critical thinking would override much of the schlock bs.
Schools are, at best, a true false test. Check the correct boxes and win; no who, what or why. Why? Who cares? Who know?
Single purpose automatons, at best.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (uGpeQ)

122 All the cashback programs remind of the Greenbax stamps from back in the day.

Yeah, you're getting something 'free' but you paid a lot of money out to get that 'free'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (6ydKt)
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Sure, but it falls under the category of "I am spending it anyway" and so the net additional cost is invisible.

It is not zero, it just can't be seen - but it *is* effectively zero to the end user. The bank card networks are taking their percentage (which is reflected in price) whether I get a "cashback reward" or not - so I might as well take it.

When the merchant hands that fee back to me (cash discount, for example), I will quit using it. This was another major constraint that has changed recently, though I don't know if it was law or merchant services competition. I see "we charge you the credit card fee" or "discount for cash" signs now (not often, but they exist) and didn't used to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (avHHk)

123 The minimum wage around me is a joke. There are only three places that pay minimum wage and all of them are dollar stores. walmart in my town starts people at $14 an hour if you have a pulse and they bump up up by 50 cents an hour if you can hack it and stick around for 90 days.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (0N4FZ)

Fast food in my area pays $16-18 an hour. Minimum wage is moot.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (udlma)

124 Remember when CEO salaries were "out of control" and Ted Danson was getting paid 16x what the CEO of NBC was getting paid?

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (krQz2)

125 CFOs/Treasury has always been more cost and mathematically-minded, while MBA programs generally have more management/social-skills minded people.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

I spent my career in a lab full of bench scientists, and the management cadre was selected from among them. I came to realize that the things that make an excellent scientist are often exactly what makes a poor manager. Someone who was very good at both were extremely rare.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

126 > Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
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Isn't there a food delivery service that does this too? Make payments on your $35 DoorDash order that ends up costing you $50 by the time you've made two payments.

Or something like that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (NwnyJ)

127 96 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (2GVsD)

They should give me a call, I got that game down pat!

Posted by: Candace O. at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (uWKK8)

128 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Trump never sleeps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

129 You can rent to own your Taco Bell meal deal."

Flush with...?

Hey, 20 payments and this tattoo is all mine!

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:32 AM (XuXeR)

130 Just wow

Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (2GVsD)
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I predicted that last night when I first heard about meathead. It will be all over the democrat propaganda outlets.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 11:32 AM (xvV+O)

131 I'm a filthy poor, but I have gone out of my way to make sure I do not walk into debt traps.

I thought I was doing a good thing, but no, now I just get told that I'm too stupid to manipulate debt to my advantage.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (UnA8+)

Answer a simple question: Do you want to be ensnared in a perpetual storm of wondering about the state of your money.......or do you want to be free?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 11:33 AM (g8Ew8)

132 My limited experience with financial schemes is they are often exploiting a law, regulation, revenue ruling, private letter ruling, revenue procedure, etc, etc. More of those will only make things worse.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 11:33 AM (2ap+5)

133 110 I’m just a plain ‘ol engineer, never an executive. But I started noticing 30 years ago that even “low level” promos (like say up to director level) were all predetermined ahead of time and always went to young ambitious hard chargers who knew they’d only be in the new job long enough to “make an impression” so they’d implement all kinds of initiatives that had the appearance of action but would be net losers long term (or neutral at best)… short term stupidity incentivized….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 11:28 AM (xT8gx)

This is a form of organizational decay that larger orgs tend to suffer. Changes for the sake of change so that credit can accrue to certain elements of management. This is theoretically solved by ownership correcting incentives, but in large companies only the biggest executives will have enough impact on the business as a whole to be concerned about the negative effects of making arbitrary changes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:33 AM (okun6)

134 Their violence is speech.

Our speech is violence.

Part 234,663,543.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

135 So their son was a big Trump supporter and was just taking one for the team after all of Trump's hateful rhetoric towards Hollywood?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (6ydKt)
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Even if he was politically a leftist, they'll find his one-time stay at Trump Towers or an old New Jersey Generals jersey "suspicious".

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:34 AM (krQz2)

136 93 Most of the people at the tops of big companies are narcissistic sociopaths or psychopaths and don't give a f**k about customers, employees, their families or any one but themselves.
Posted by: BillB

No less than big government, big charity, etc. Individuals might but overall large organizations resemble baronial holdings where the titular lord of the moment grabs whatever he can from the backs of the workers and rival barons. The king (shareholders in this exercise) exert little if any control unless they gather an army and besiege the current management and board by siege tactics.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:34 AM (WDjG6)

137 A neutral AI might be the answer, but - obviously - a malicious AI would likely only make things worse. And governmental regulation of AI . . . oh well.
Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peepin' in the Seafood Store at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (FhMCZ)

Harlan Ellison wrote this short story. Didn't end well for humanity.

Posted by: Allied Mastercomputer hates you at December 15, 2025 11:34 AM (TbWk/)

138 Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Trump is just an accessory. It was his ballroom that actually did the deed.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

139 Trump killed Reiner.

Trump killed the Brown students.

Trump sure does a lot of killing in the eyes of liberals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

140 There are all sorts of schemes out there, right now, to control rampant capitalism in all of its’ forms and distortions. None of them seem too appealing when put into practice, and allowed to be managed by the Solons of We Know Better. It’s just an inherent problem.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (pDt9x)

141 110 I’m just a plain ‘ol engineer, never an executive. But I started noticing 30 years ago that even “low level” promos (like say up to director level) were all predetermined ahead of time and always went to young ambitious hard chargers who knew they’d only be in the new job long enough to “make an impression” so they’d implement all kinds of initiatives that had the appearance of action but would be net losers long term (or neutral at best)… short term stupidity incentivized….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Not much different in academia.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (WDjG6)

142 So it was a Ballroom Blitz?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (2GVsD)

143 Eventually a jubilee will happen because is the mass of society is debtors; they have every interest in liquidating their creditors to liquidate their debt. ...
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:27 AM (WDjG6)
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There is a much, much better solution than the Jubilee. The Jubilee does work after a fashion, but it's collective punishment and reward. The Italians and then the Northerners came up with a much better system: bankruptcy. Bankruptcy punishes both the borrower *and* the lender. The borrower won't get credit again any time soon and if the lender screws up too badly, he fails and also goes bankrupt.

Bankruptcy essentially *is* a Jubilee, just at the micro level instead of the macro.

One of the major problems (beyond capital price repression) we've had since the lead-up to the S&L crisis is policy movement to avoid bankruptcy at all costs. Continental Illinois should have gone bankrupt, not been bailed out. Long-Term Capital Management should have gone bankrupt, not been bailed out. Bear Stearns should have gone bankrupt, not been bailed out.

A capital market *needs* bankruptcy to function properly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (avHHk)

144 77 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"
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They dont teach virtue or morals or right and wrong in business school. Closest you come is ethics, and you dont need it to graduate in some cases... Its not hard to rationalize a short term gain vs a long term gain. Long term is speculative. A bird in the hand is worth more than all the birds in the bush.

I think it depends on how you define things like long vs. short term. I would certainly put "long-term" at much less than 20 years. Ethics are important, but as we've seen in the age of DEI and climate change, one person's ethics is another person's abandonment of their fiduciary responsibility.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

145 Anyone remember the OLD Sabarros pizza?

Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (1V/nS)

146 In as much as the financial world facilitates the making of things, and they do quite a bit of that, they are doing good. Otherwise, they are parasites that take the work of others.

Nope, now you sound like a Marxist. There IS a role for people who find more efficient ways to maximize return on investment for shareholders. We had that discussion in the 80s. The trick is to balance short and long term interests.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:15 AM

Apparently, I wasn't clear. Finding more efficient ways to maximize return on investment IS facilitating the making of things and providing of services. No Marxism needed.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (2Insx)

147 Unfortunately, both open up multiple opportunities for bad actors in government to abuse their regulatory powers."

"When buying and selling are regulated, the first things bought and sold are the regulators"

/ some smart person

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:36 AM (XuXeR)

148 Cash back or mileage cards are great for people who are disciplined and know how to work the system. I have a credit card that pays 5% on gas. I use it only for gas always pay it off every month.

Airline cards are the best because they always give you a sign up bonus. 50k, 75k, even 100k miles if you spend a certain amount in 3 months or whatever. So sign up spend the amount pay it off. Get the miles, then cancel the card. Rinse and repeat with the next one.

People like me are loss leaders for the cards. Because most people sign up get the 100k miles but then spend $5k in interest over the next 10 years paying it off.

Don't hate the player hate the game.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:36 AM (udlma)

149 125 CFOs/Treasury has always been more cost and mathematically-minded, while MBA programs generally have more management/social-skills minded people.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

I spent my career in a lab full of bench scientists, and the management cadre was selected from among them. I came to realize that the things that make an excellent scientist are often exactly what makes a poor manager. Someone who was very good at both were extremely rare.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

Yeah, it's really a balance that is required. You basically have two opposite extremes, one where only cost and "numbers" matter, because that's what they see and understand, and the other where only the product matters, as that's the world they understand, independent of cost. Customers can't afford the super-product and don't want to buy something of unreasonably bad quality either. Ideally the cost guys are getting rid of unnecessary waste and the operations guys are adding features customers actually find a good value.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:37 AM (okun6)

150 Last night I was listening to Spinal Tap while wrapping Christmas gifts. Then I wake up to news of Rob Reiner's death.

Makes me wonder if I should listen to some Diddy tonight.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:37 AM (KTHZX)

151 It says something about the world that things like how you enter a building with your associates needs to be carefully considered if you want to get ahead.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 11:37 AM (2ap+5)

152 72 It seems every company desires to be ENRON without being caught.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Enron didn't break the laws. The law broke them.
See: Harvey Weinstein & Co.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:37 AM (uGpeQ)

153 Speaking of bankruptcy,

After 42 years in operation, the last 15 being something even Gordon Gecko would be embarrassed by, the anime studio named GAINAX has finally closed its door and ceased to exist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:37 AM (2GVsD)

154 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

And thousands of yoots who have every single one of those apps on their phone and use all of them will complain about how mush easier olds had it because we didn't have a million disposable plastic tchotchkes to spend money we didn't have on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

155 OT-Apparently the Bondi hero who tackled one of the gunmen has had a Go Fund me set up for him. And Jewish investment banker Bill Ackman has contributed a huge amount ( Ackman's contribution is not mentioned here, but I read of it elsewhere). I think Ackman has had his eyes opened to the anti semetism of the left as well as the dangers of Islam ( if he didn't know the latter already)

https://tinyurl.com/ymbt6ed5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (ix8EF)

156 112 A problem we live in is society has become far too comaplex, and simply large, for the old economic systems to work well. They may locally, but on the scales of today, no.
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I think this seems intuitively true, but I'm not actually sure if it is in fact. Manufacturing has never been easier on small scales. Other than servers and (perhaps) cloud services, there is no legitimate need for massive capital in a tech company (AI is trash; some of the best video games recently had extremely small dev teams working on tiny budgets).

I think that the corporate overlords created a bullshit system with absurd global supply chains in part to make themselves seem indispensable (or at least that has been the effect of their actions). But there really isn't a need for a massive conglomerate to manufacture something in Indonesia using Chinese components that will be fully assembled in Mexico. It's just moving stuff around to get unit labor price down slightly so the CEO's bonus goes up.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (Dg7ng)

157 Yeah, you're getting something 'free' but you paid a lot of money out to get that 'free'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

*******

Whenever the cashier at the Wiggly Piggly hands me my receipt and tells me I saved 14 dollars and 82 cents today, I gently correct her and point out that, "Actually no. I spent $287.48..."

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (/iMjX)

158 re Australia Bondi Beach shooting of Jews-

The make and model of the rifles use may be identified, per foreign outlets: Beretta BRX1. Probably chambered for .308.

https://tinyurl.com/fsmasyvc

Looks like the weapon in the available photos.

It is NOT semi-auto. Bolt action, with a straight-pull bolt. According to Beretta, a practiced user can fire this weapon faster than using a typical bolt action that is a turn-pull-push-turn bolt. YMMV

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (5rh/l)

159 ... People like me are loss leaders for the cards. Because most people sign up get the 100k miles but then spend $5k in interest over the next 10 years paying it off. ...
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:36 AM (udlma)
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Credit card companies have a name for people who pay off their balances every month, never pay interest and collect rewards: "deadbeats."

At least, it used to. Not sure if they still refer to people who do that as "deadbeats."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (avHHk)

160 Kidding. While the small handful of corporatists among us would say otherwise, enshittification, rent-seeking, ownership destruction, monopolization and screwing the customer by making them pay and pay and pay to continue to use what they already bought are not principles of a free market system. It's a parasitic kleptocratic oligarchy.

Posted by: If it's good for GM it's good for us at December 15, 2025 11:29 AM (TbWk/)
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It should be remembered that in America "The Market" was part "Free Market" and part "Market Square". Where you're still a neighbor, and are expected to behave honorably.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:39 AM (krQz2)

161 Besides lunch time
To me it's who can loot the country and not get caught

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 11:39 AM (LNaAb)

162 Anyone remember the OLD Sabarros pizza?

Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM

They used to be at every mall in the country and their pizza sucked.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2025 11:39 AM (0N4FZ)

163 Trump seems to have responded inappropriately to Reiner's death.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (KTHZX)

164 I think most of them are quite happy to live like Lords in 13th Century Europe. They stay in the castle on the hill surrounded by high walls, full of servants; while the troubles of the serfs in the valley below is of little concern to them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

165 Anyone remember the OLD Sabarros pizza?

Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (1V/nS)

First time I remember getting violently ill from food.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

166 stories seem to be conflicting on whether Neil Reiner has been arrested or not.
I think he has.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (uWKK8)

167 I see "we charge you the credit card fee" or "discount for cash" signs now (not often, but they exist) and didn't used to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (avHHk)

I see it sometimes.
What I see a lot of is utility companies and state agencies charging 3.5%+ "Service Fees" for using a debit or credit card.

Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (6ydKt)

168 Landman lays down some truth.

In the episode, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is urging his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests “The View.” When T.L. admits that he doesn’t know what that is, Tommy explains it as, “A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their #ss about. It’s pretty funny.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

169 Credit card companies have a name for people who pay off their balances every month, never pay interest and collect rewards: "deadbeats."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That's my wife.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

170 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

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Last time I had a Costco hotdog was like 5 years ago, and I barfed. Haven't had one since.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (DRSnL)

171 Israel will always remember Sbarro because of the massacre that happened in one.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (2GVsD)

172 AtC doesn't like SPDRs.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,

Thanks for the AM chortle.

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (FhXTo)

173 I thought I was doing a good thing, but no, now I just get told that I'm too stupid to manipulate debt to my advantage.
Posted by: XTC

Depends, debt incurred for current consumption (and that includes depreciating assets like cars unless you drive for a living) is bad, debt for investment may or may not be good.

But right now, if young 20-30 or so, simply putting money into a balanced portfolio even with the enshittification, can earn a decent historical return and with compounding, might mean you can retire someday.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)

174 practiced user can fire this weapon faster"

Yep. It's very easy to put several rounds downrange in a hurry

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (XuXeR)

175 When I worked in DC, the Sbarro's in Union Station was fantastic. Loved that place.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

176 ... The most frustrating thing is that they don't look at the long term impact. What good is it to be a multimillionaire when your company (or country) collapses. I have seen third world kingpins. They live in compounds with armed guards, not unlike being in prison.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (8fjZH)
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Which is fine.

For certain people, it's not really about being rich, nor is it exactly about quality of life. It's about either (or both of):
1. Being richer than your neighbor
2. Having power over your neighbor

For the former, it's actually a benefit because you're so much obviously better than the trash that surrounds you. What good is it having a 70" TV set if even the rube in the trailer park down the road can have it?

For the latter, it's better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:42 AM (avHHk)

177
Their violence is speech.

Our speech is violence.

Part 234,663,543.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Our speech is violence.
Our silence is violence.
We're pretty awful, don't ya know!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:42 AM (pkeXY)

178 >>Anyone remember the OLD Sabarros pizza?

Sbarro's?

Yeah.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 11:43 AM (IaZ7c)

179 >Bear Stearns should have gone bankrupt, not been bailed out.

Are you sure about this?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 11:43 AM (rJ48h)

180 Credit card companies have a name for people who pay off their balances every month, never pay interest and collect rewards: "deadbeats."

At least, it used to. Not sure if they still refer to people who do that as "deadbeats."
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Depends, some high spenders, they make it work via their regular vig. If you seldom purchase using the card at all and pay off balances, they are not fond of you.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:43 AM (WDjG6)

181 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (KTHZX)

What did he say?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 11:43 AM (ix8EF)

182 Now to derail the thread.

Tonight's Powerball jackpot annuity is past $1 billion. Would that be a nice Christmas present?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (2GVsD)

183 Archie was right about the fucking Meathead; it was his own progeny that took him out. Go figure.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (1zOXE)

184 Australian PM warns about "right-wing extremist groups" after Muslim father and son shot up Hanukkah event

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Damn right-wing extremists!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

185
I think that the corporate overlords created a bullshit system with absurd global supply chains in part to make themselves seem indispensable (or at least that has been the effect of their actions). But there really isn't a need for a massive conglomerate to manufacture something in Indonesia using Chinese components that will be fully assembled in Mexico. It's just moving stuff around to get unit labor price down slightly so the CEO's bonus goes up.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (Dg7ng)

This is a defect of international free trade. Infrequent but large volatility costs are largely not borne by businesses, but consumers. If they were to go for a higher cost but more stable option, they'd be out-competed.

When was the last time a customer was concerned about the amount of Chinese vs American rare earths in their PC?

Supply disruptions aren't addressed until they actually occur because there's no incentive to do so, and being the higher cost secure-supply producer can be fatal when the next shock is a decade away.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (okun6)

186 I know this will be blasphemy to some but one of the best slices of pizza I ever had was at the big Sbarros near Times Square

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (zALxA)

187 For the latter, it's better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Until of course they meet their eternal host, Stan. Too late for rethinks at that time.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

188 I have first hand experience with this. As a member of a plant management team we would routinely get orders from corporate HQ to "pull sales in' to juice the bottom line at the FY half and end of year. What that meant is we would have to redo our production schedules to move higher sales volume/profitable sales by a month or two. This often resulted in "dead" months reducing manufacturing efficiencies with operations and maintenance scrambling to change labor and raw material to accomodate the purely greed based decisions of upper management.

I was also a project manager and often had to pause CAPEX spending for cash flow as if it was a faucet only to be told a few months later to spend as much as I can before end of year to capture more depreciation for the following year. Nevermind project schedules which are mostly linked to equipment purchases and availability.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 11:44 AM (Vh9CX)

189 Tonight's Powerball jackpot annuity is past $1 billion. Would that be a nice Christmas present?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Not from what I've read. Winning a huge lottery like that usually means misery for the winner.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

190 Every year at this time I stand amazed that there are enough trannies in Siberia to staff an entire orchestra.

Posted by: Holly Jolly One at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (oftw2)

191 I'm with Buck on this one

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (xcxpd)

192 Would that be a nice Christmas present?"

Sure. You deliver? Throw in some 20s, too.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (XuXeR)

193 Sbarro's was maybe a small step above public school cafeteria pizza. It just wasn't good.

Posted by: Not something you want to pay for at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (TbWk/)

194 Not sure "financialization" is really the best term for the issues described. Even less sure there are clear bright lines here.

Fraud is one thing. Customers - or shareholders - ending their relationship with an enterprise due to decline in quality or management of the company is the basic mechanism of free market behavior.

You don't like stock buybacks? Sell your position, or decline to invest to begin with. Don't like the coffee? Don't go there any more.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (U/Byj)

195 Credit card companies have a name for people who pay off their balances every month, never pay interest and collect rewards: "deadbeats."

At least, it used to. Not sure if they still refer to people who do that as "deadbeats."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:38 AM (avHHk)

Hmm. I do that. Does that make me Deadbeat Doof instead of Disco Doof?

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (c2vsb)

196 >>I know this will be blasphemy to some but one of the best slices of pizza I ever had was at the big Sbarros near Times Square

Honestly...at the time, it was the best Pizza in Times Square. You needed to head 20-30 blocks South to get to the good stuff, back then.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (IaZ7c)

197 This is why communism is popular among the youth.

"Capitalism" took away their ability to get a well-paying job, to buy a house, to have a family.

If I were under 20 and saw how "capitalists" emptied my country of wealth and replaced it with foreigners, I'd be a commie, too.

Posted by: Occam's Razor at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (HJUJ8)

198 0% into cards are also a good deal. Usually they have a 3% fee . For an 18 month intro period that’s 1.5%. A n 18 month CD pays 4% ish right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (udlma)

199 I think it's important to humanize the casualties from the latest Dem-permitted atrocity.

https://is.gd/9lfCUW

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

200 I know this will be blasphemy to some but one of the best slices of pizza I ever had was at the big Sbarros near Times Square
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You share that with Michael Scott, then.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (krQz2)

201 Sbarro was Peak Mall Pizza

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (IaZ7c)

202 had was at the big Sbarros near Times Square"

That and the one at the Staten Island ferry slip...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (XuXeR)

203
Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Somebody has to pay for the electricity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (pkeXY)

204 Animal Farm and 1984.

NOT SATIRE: "Animal Farm" remake from Angel Studios promotes "dangers of capitalism" 😬

https://is.gd/3WRvOY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

205 ... Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (6ydKt)
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Eh, they're not. They're charging for power, cooling, manpower, software licensing and bandwidth. These systems are complicated and are *not* free to build or run. They're not even cheap. The transaction fee credit card companies take is very possibly excessive, but the costs of rendering the service are also quite high.

I fully support merchants being allowed to pass through processing costs. If it costs the merchant 3% to accept a credit card, charging that through *improves* transparency and that may cause a shift in consumer preferences. I am in favor of transparent pricing generally.

Utilities that don't do this get auto-paid with my credit card. Utilities that do get auto-paid from my checking account. If they charge a transaction fee on either, I mail a check every month if the fee is significantly greater than a stamp, envelope and check. if it isn't, I appreciate the convenience and eat the fee as the price of convenience.

But I object not at all to greater price transparency.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:47 AM (avHHk)

206 Not 1.5% lol.
2%

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:47 AM (udlma)

207 Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

They plotted to plant 5 IED bombs in [Los Angeles] on New Year's Eve.

Islam and Pro-palestine is one agenda: to destroy us!

X video: https://bit.ly/4oUBoqK

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:47 AM (P5BPp)

208 Bankruptcy punishes both the borrower *and* the lender. The borrower won't get credit again any time soon...

This is how you tell me that you've never been through a bankruptcy without telling me you've never been through a bankruptcy.

One of the first things you get after a personal bankruptcy is credit card offers.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (2Insx)

209 Winning a huge lottery like that usually means misery for the winner."

Tell you what... I'll take one for the team, ok?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (XuXeR)

210 I think it's important to humanize the casualties from the latest Dem-permitted atrocity.

https://is.gd/9lfCUW
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

Benny will be blamed for the next shooting for his posting such violent rhetoric.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Hmm. I do that. Does that make me Deadbeat Doof instead of Disco Doof?
Posted by: Doof

I understand that you're obtuse. So, Dim Doof?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

212 Honestly...at the time, it was the best Pizza in Times Square. You needed to head 20-30 blocks South to get to the good stuff, back then.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 11:45 AM (IaZ7c)

That was my experience too

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (zALxA)

213 Australian PM warns about "right-wing extremist groups" after Muslim father and son shot up Hanukkah event

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Damn right-wing extremists!

I sort of welcome this rhetoric because it's so obviously unrealistic, it forces people to confront their leader's mendacity.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

214 Anyone remember the OLD Sabarros pizza?
Posted by: hurricane567 at December 15, 2025 11:35 AM (1V/nS)

Back in the day, The Fat Boys did their "All You Can Eat" video in one.

1985?

Posted by: Kool Moe Dee at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (FGMmt)

215 SPDRs.

how does she feel about spqr?
Posted by: biggus dickus

I'd quess cheering for togas and lace up boots.

Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (FhXTo)

216 182 Now to derail the thread.

Tonight's Powerball jackpot annuity is past $1 billion. Would that be a nice Christmas present?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I think of the Lotto curse. I think if one won that amount of money, it would resemble a curse. Every relationship with others becomes transactional or you worry it is. You worry about guarding your wealth, temptations become viable that were previously not available. Personal safety concerns and then managing the fortune without getting ripped off by your own advisors.

Two tragedies, one is not getting what you want and pining for it forlornly. The other one is getting it and finding out it is not quite worth it.

Don't want to be a king nor a billionaire myself.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

217 “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump said.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (KTHZX)

218 A fitting Reiner retrospective

>>>So far as his main talent went, he was pretty much finished.

>>>What he had devoted his life to more recently was TDS, and a constant screeching and hypocritical insanity and malice in his politics. He repeatedly tried to equate Republicanism, MAGAism, and traditional US faith and patriotism with Nazism and Fascism, like many other hysterical Democrats have done. After Robert Reich and Robert Di Nero, he may have been the most vituperative, vindictive and vehement critic of Trump and his administrations around, which is a bronze medal in partisan lunacy earned from a very crowded field of competitors.

https://shorturl.at/oKsfe

Jupplandia substack

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (dK+Kv)

219 >>Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

>They plotted to plant 5 IED bombs in [Los Angeles] on New Year's Eve.

>Islam and Pro-palestine is one agenda: to destroy us!

Every Holiday is a threat. Muslims absolutely love to kill you while you celebrate any non-muslim holiday.

Which is why I believe nuking the hadj to be the only appropriate response.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (IaZ7c)

220 96
‘Variety is trying to frame Trump in regards to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.‘

Reiner would have wanted it that way.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)

221 Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead

The left has a problem with political violence...

I also think we should be giving the FBI alot of credit for stopping this. If they would have failed to stop it, everyone would have something to say.

So I think we should be giving them a lot of credit for stopping this before it could happen.

NLDR (Noldor) Media @NLDRMedia

BREAKING - The DOJ says it has disrupted a major far-left terrorist plot planned for New Year’s Eve in Southern California.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that four members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF) were arrested in Lucerne Valley on charges including conspiracy and possession of destructive devices after allegedly preparing IEDs for coordinated bombings targeting multiple sites, including ICE agents and vehicles. A fifth suspect was reportedly detained in New Orleans in a related plot.

Officials say the group blends pro-Palestinian activism, anti-government extremism, anti-capitalism, and “landback” ideology — underscoring emerging domestic threats amid global unrest.

X: https://bit.ly/3KVtVtD

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (P5BPp)

222 Why are we using that shitbag filth asshoe Karl's term, "capitalism", anyway? Why not "free market"? Yes, I know that *other* asshoes have corrupted that, but, isn't the whole fcking point of a free market to enable mutually beneficial deals? How is it beneficial to a customer, for one example, to buy a car that won't be paid off before it dies and can't be repaired except at overpriced dealerships? But you gotta have a car, right? and feralgov regulations sure don't help with the base *cost* of building a car, either.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (ULPxl)

223 Australian PM warns about "right-wing extremist groups" after Muslim father and son shot up Hanukkah event

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Damn right-wing extremists!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Let's compare body counts of mohammedans and right wing extremists.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (8fjZH)

224 I believe in free markets, but it seems when Wall Street gets involved, it becomes "late stage capitalism" type memes that I can't really defend.

The flip side though is just because Wall Street does bad things, that doesn't mean we give socialism another try.

But much of this can be fixed with some pretty bipartisan regulations.

Posted by: Leupold at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (eIzlH)

225 “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump said.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (KTHZX)

Can't fault the guy for being a straight-shooter.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (dK+Kv)

226 170 Costco is introducing Buy Now - Pay Later programs.
Now we can not only carry delinquent auto loans, student loans, mortgage loans and credit card debt, we can carry hot dog debt.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:25 AM (MNCvZ)

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Last time I had a Costco hotdog was like 5 years ago, and I barfed. Haven't had one since.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (DRSnL)

Their rotisserie chickens for $5 are awfully good.

But Costco is just another corporate entity that we tolerate and take advantage of. It's the local outfits we try to use first.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (wtvvX)

227 Are you sure about this?
Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 11:43 AM (rJ48h)
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Yes.

But Bear Stearns probably would never happened if not for the bailout distortions before it, and if fraud hadn't been made legal to keep the stock market and housing markets up after 9/11.

Bad decisions at the policy level to defend major interests and avoid taking medicine have knock-on effects. Since the 80s, it's been all-in on elongating the business cycle. Okay. We have fewer recessions than we used to - but reducing the frequency of downturns seriously increases their amplitude and introduces tremendous systemic risks, perverse incentives and moral hazards.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:50 AM (avHHk)

228 Eh, people bitch about every system. It boils down to not thinking the deal they are getting is “ fair”, and something out to be done about that. To defend their stance the most egregious examples of “ what’s wrong” are trotted out to prove their point, whether or not it actually applies to their situation. People have a strong bias towards envy, jealousy and resentment.

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

229 We have to stop letting the ideologically deranged set our expectations for us.

The Suck that is everywhere is basic Human suck.

Humans are why we can't have nice t'ings.

Everybody thinks we can build Babel, and if we just build the right Babel, things will no longer suck.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (krQz2)

230 By just reading the comments, it looks like most people would rather have a controlled, state-run financial system. Hate to tell y'all, but it's been tried and it doesn't work.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

231 167 I see "we charge you the credit card fee" or "discount for cash" signs now (not often, but they exist) and didn't used to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:30 AM (avHHk)

I see it sometimes.
What I see a lot of is utility companies and state agencies charging 3.5%+ "Service Fees" for using a debit or credit card.

Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:40 AM (6ydKt)

The utility is being charged by the payment processor. Related, this is where rewards programs for credit cards and such come from. They charge the merchant to use their service but compete for customers by returning some of that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (okun6)

232 I think of the Lotto curse. I think if one won that amount of money, it would resemble a curse. Every relationship with others becomes transactional or you worry it is. You worry about guarding your wealth, temptations become viable that were previously not available. Personal safety concerns and then managing the fortune without getting ripped off by your own advisors.
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Not me. I'd buy a farm in the country and make it into the world's best cat rescue. I'd create a sculpture garden of cat statues like in the movie Flow.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (KTHZX)

233 Don't want to be a king nor a billionaire myself.
Posted by: whig

Me neither.

As my wife always says, "It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep."

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

234 *Pauses*

What if one of those South American tourist-robber gangs killed Rob Reiner and his wife? And the Left is trying to craft a false narrative it was the son who did it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (2GVsD)

235 ++++
Credit card companies have a name for people who pay off their balances every month, never pay interest and collect rewards: "deadbeats."

At least, it used to. Not sure if they still refer to people who do that as "deadbeats."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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And credit reporting agencies give ZERO props for paying that debt off regularly. No matter how much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (uGpeQ)

236 114 Costco already issues credit cards.

Costco offers a credit card deal to members, but it's run thru Chase Bank and Chase holds/services the debt. not Costco.

Just to clarify.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (MNCvZ)

237
Money.
It's called money.
Everybody needs money.
That's why they call it money.

Posted by: Danny Devito at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (Zt+0/)

238 This is why I'm not a fan of libertarianism. At its worst, it elevates individual greed uber alles, and excuses it as "Liberty!"

And private equity is corporate strip mining. Its impact on the healthcare field has been toxic.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (uY1j2)

239 Chicanery is as old as the hills. The 19th century equities markets were no places for the faint-of-heart or occasional dabblers. There has never been nor will there ever be a trade floor bereft of double-dealers, con men (and con women!), and flimflammers.

But I wouldn't want it any other way. Communism, for example, is the greatest act of flimflammery ever imposed on a citizenry.

The infernal combination of corrupt government regulation, private privilege, and devious mass media manipulation is the source of our current woes; the scope of which can be easily determined by the reaction of the wicked to the exposure of their schemes.

Posted by: mrp at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (rj6Yv)

240 >>>Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that four members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF) were arrested in Lucerne Valley on charges including conspiracy and possession of destructive devices after allegedly preparing IEDs for coordinated bombings targeting multiple sites, including ICE agents and vehicles.

MILF >>>> TILF

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

241 Wait wut? Sam Elliott is sjpposed to be Billy Bob Thorntons father??? He is 81 and Billy Bob is 70. Um thats just not gonna fly.

Posted by: Landman??? at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (fzZrL)

242 Winning a huge lottery like that usually means misery for the winner."

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That’s kind of a myth. As well as the myth that they all go bankrupt in a few years. There have been a few studies recently that dispelled these myths. Lottery winners were happier in the short and long term and very few of them lost the money. Most winners didn’t go out and buy $500k cars and shit. They lived the same lifestyle more or less just with financial security.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (udlma)

243 and pining for it forlornly"

Fjordlornly?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (XuXeR)

244 This is how you tell me that you've never been through a bankruptcy without telling me you've never been through a bankruptcy.

One of the first things you get after a personal bankruptcy is credit card offers.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 15, 2025 11:48 AM (2Insx)
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Yes. When lenders are shielded from liability, they don't care. Bankruptcy has been broken by the desire to shield the lender from being exposed to it.

Remove bailouts, backstops, etc., and that would change. But we have spent 40ish years shielding the lender side of the equation from the consequences of poor credit decisions - so the lender basically doesn't care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM (avHHk)

245 "Costco offers a credit card deal to members, but it's run thru Chase Bank and Chase holds/services the debt. not Costco.

Just to clarify."
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Ahem.

Posted by: The good people of CITI at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM (Zt+0/)

246 Fjordlornly?
Posted by: man
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You're not one of the Skandis are you?

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

247 If you have your health you already won a bigass lottery.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM (zALxA)

248
Funny how all that "right wing extremism" can be found on left-wing college campuses expressed by left-wing radicals.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM (KPKlu)

249 Carly Fiorina (or "Carly the C**t"), as she is known to former HP employees, did this. HP printers (and other HP gear) used to be built like tanks. When she took over, she started selling the same Chinese crap as everyone else, just with HP badges, and at HP prices.

This "strategy", if it can be dignified with that term, will indeed produce large profits, for a quarter or two, maybe a year.

After that the suckers catch on. End result: your company is screwed. Your former gold-plated brand name is a joke.

But hey, by that time you've moved on to the next company you're going to destroy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:54 AM (IG3/x)

250 The Shittification invariably follows a company being bought out by an investment group. They don't care about the company's long term viability, they care about fast ROI, and that usually means gutting the company for a quick buck.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:54 AM (KTHZX)

251 Costco offers a credit card deal to members, but it's run thru Chase Bank and Chase holds/services the debt. not Costco.

Just to clarify.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (MNCvZ)

Yeah but the concept is the same. Buy now pay later that is making the news is just another version of this. And I doubt Costco will run it themselves they probably have a 3rd party like Affirm.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:54 AM (udlma)

252 Last time I had a Costco hotdog was like 5 years ago, and I barfed. Haven't had one since.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (DRSnL)
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I've probably had scores of them since that time, with no problem.

Whatever food you eat before you barf, you're pretty much put off of that food for a decade or so.

I loved Mountain Dew as a teen. I barfed with the flavor of Mountain Dew and couldn't think of drinking it more about 15 years.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:54 AM (krQz2)

253 Turtle Island Liberation Front?

Pfffftt.

The Liberation Front of Turtle Island!!

Posted by: Monty Python at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (Zt+0/)

254 > MILF >>>> TILF
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

Indeed. I've yet to see a tranny ILF.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (IG3/x)

255 >>>And credit reporting agencies give ZERO props for paying that debt off regularly. No matter how much.

I was able to pay off my mine and my wife's student loans (finally) this year and we laughed when we get the notification from the banks that both our FICO scores took a hit as a result.

Posted by: brak at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (jGJov)

256 I have slice of pizza and hotdog at Costco once a week. Best $3.50 meal available around here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

257 Yeah I once got incredibly sick after garlic cheese bread and it wasn't the cheese bread that did it. I didn't think ANYTHING could sour me on freaking garlic cheese bread but it did for a good five years.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (zALxA)

258 Winning a lot of money would be a burden.
I would set up a CP3o charity, go to the office to decide where I would donate money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (uGpeQ)

259 Wait wut? Sam Elliott is sjpposed to be Billy Bob Thorntons father??? He is 81 and Billy Bob is 70. Um thats just not gonna fly.
Posted by: Landman??? at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (fzZrL)

Kind of like the guy playing Tom Selleck's father in Blue Bloods being only 6 years older than Tom.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (PSEDc)

260 This busty brunette with nice teeth used a credit card to finance her beach vacation at a resort who's construction was financed with an exotic structured security offering, so she's feeling pretty good about things at the moment:
http://tiny.cc/8kgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (avHHk)

261 It is a difficult question to answer because as much as I agree with you, nobody has a good solution, other than investor interest.

Besides, many of the companies, for one reason or another deserve to be strip mined

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (/Eqgy)

262 Hate to tell y'all, but it's been tried and it doesn't work."

This. I chuckle at a number of the complaints raised by Buck and others over issues actually caused by government overreaction. The stock buyback/pay bit is a direct result of gub action...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (XuXeR)

263 MILF >>>> TILF
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

Indeed. I've yet to see a tranny ILF.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (IG3/x)

I like turtles!

Posted by: Zombie Kid at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (dK+Kv)

264 Not me. I'd buy a farm in the country and make it into the world's best cat rescue. I'd create a sculpture garden of cat statues like in the movie Flow.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Tragedy: your sense of aesthetic taste will have died. And then CBD will show your bad taste in teh Art thread of the future.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (WDjG6)

265 And credit reporting agencies give ZERO props for paying that debt off regularly. No matter how much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (uGpeQ)

As long as the balance is not zero you do get props. So if you have a card make sure you use it. Even if it’s putting $20 on it at a gas station. Set up a monthly auto pay and forget it.

You get dinged when the card is active but not used ever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (udlma)

266 That’s kind of a myth. As well as the myth that they all go bankrupt in a few years. There have been a few studies recently that dispelled these myths. Lottery winners were happier in the short and long term and very few of them lost the money. Most winners didn’t go out and buy $500k cars and shit. They lived the same lifestyle more or less just with financial security.

I sometimes daydream about what it would be like to be Elon-rich, and I always come to the same conclusion: it wouldn't really make me happier. I can already afford the things I enjoy, most of which are dirt cheap, so what would the extra money get me? Security is really what most people crave, and I have that. I have a wonderful wife, happy, successful kids, and now, darling grandkids. I wouldn't trade with Elon, Bezos, Zuck, or anyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

267 Costco already issues credit cards.
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Owing the the Chi-coms is tight!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (krQz2)

268 > 241 Wait wut? Sam Elliott is sjpposed to be Billy Bob Thorntons father??? He is 81 and Billy Bob is 70. Um thats just not gonna fly.
Posted by: Landman??? at December 15, 2025 11:52 AM (fzZrL)

It's working fine. It's called "acting".

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (IG3/x)

269 "If I were under 20 and saw how "capitalists" emptied my country of wealth and replaced it with foreigners, I'd be a commie, too."

Make that under 30 and you are dead on.

I think that the current system being called "late-stage capitalism" is explaining this.

Sadly corruption is built-in to all human endeavor. It's just a matter of time.

Posted by: pawn at December 15, 2025 11:57 AM (EMg+d)

270 Whatever food you eat before you barf, you're pretty much put off of that food for a decade or so.
...
Posted by: Axeman
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Hello, Popeye's

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:57 AM (uGpeQ)

271 That’s kind of a myth. As well as the myth that they all go bankrupt in a few years.
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More of a myth: You're going to win the lottery if you purchase a ticket.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (krQz2)

272 Chili's used to have a Cajun Chicken Pasta dish that I rather liked. They discontinued it and replaced it with some other pasta dish.

I tried it once while on a trip to Anaheim, CA and spent the evening projectile vomiting in my hotel room.

I then tried it again a month or so later while on a trip to another city and had the same result.

Yeah, never had that shit again......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

273 My objection isn't that the credit card companies take a fee, and it's passed on to me.

My objection is that they take a percentage of the price as if my paying $10,000 costs more to transact than my paying $1.

It's all 1s & 0s sent over fiber optics.

You wanna charge $2.50 a transaction, fine.

3.5% is B.S.
That's a tax rate not a service charge.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (6ydKt)

274 This busty brunette with nice teeth used a credit card to finance her beach vacation at a resort who's construction was financed with an exotic structured security offering, so she's feeling pretty good about things at the moment:
http://tiny.cc/8kgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (avHHk)

You'll put your eye out, kid.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (dK+Kv)

275 252 Last time I had a Costco hotdog was like 5 years ago, and I barfed. Haven't had one since.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 11:41 AM (DRSnL)
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I've probably had scores of them since that time, with no problem.

Whatever food you eat before you barf, you're pretty much put off of that food for a decade or so.

I loved Mountain Dew as a teen. I barfed with the flavor of Mountain Dew and couldn't think of drinking it more about 15 years.
Posted by: Axeman
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Tequila shots for me.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

276 Absolutely. Any western nation which does not do this will be conquered by Islam, if it is not already.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) demands the United States deport ALL Muslim immigrants, and revoke citizenships en masse

"Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America."

"It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible."

Fine's comments come after a slew of Islamic terror attacks - AND the FBI foiling an Islamic bombing plot in LA.

"This has to stop. Diversity is not our strength. Diversity has become suicidal."

X: https://bit.ly/3XXWk5n

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (P5BPp)

277 You're not one of the Skandis are you?"

Not sure. Some N euro DNA mixed w/a helping of "indigenous" Americans...

So, a mutt.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (XuXeR)

278 I'd trade my wife for a billion. Then I'd buy her back for half a billion and she'd laugh.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (zALxA)

279 Joe Mannix, excellent point about the systemic risk and distortions of state interventions, often in response to "crises", that themselves become the problem or create new ones.

Let's not even begin to discuss the idiocy and distortion, entirely artificial and unnecessary, of "corporate taxes".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (U/Byj)

280 And credit reporting agencies give ZERO props for paying that debt off regularly. No matter how much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:51 AM (uGpeQ)

Spoken like a person with a bad credit rating.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (g8Ew8)

281 I'd like to add a root cause:

The death of the growth mindset.

Sure, sure, everyone plans on a growing economy and a growing populace.

But look at what they are all doing: Everything they do is designed to take more and more from less and less.

A government that is seeing actual population increases, doesn't seek more and more tax increases.
A business that is seeing actual growth, doesn't need to cut more and more product value or services.

They're not growing their herd of sheep, they're shearing the same, but smaller, herd as last year 2, 3, 4 times a year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (HXT0k)

282 It’s counter intuitive but it makes sense that fico scores decease when you have less debt. Fico is a score on how trustworthy are you to pay back debt. Once you have no debt, it’s hard to know if you’re trustworthy paying back debt.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (udlma)

283 This. I chuckle at a number of the complaints raised by Buck and others over issues actually caused by government overreaction. The stock buyback/pay bit is a direct result of gub action...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (XuXeR)
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Yup. And, really a "fairness" issue about "income distribution" as well.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (krQz2)

284 Yes. When lenders are shielded from liability, they don't care. Bankruptcy has been broken by the desire to shield the lender from being exposed to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:53 AM

I think my point is that the debtor is not punished for going through bankruptcy. Quite the opposite, in fact. My experience is that it really sucked getting into a position where bankruptcy was necessary, but the bankruptcy itself was quite a relief.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (2Insx)

285 > Tequila shots for me.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Peppermint schnapps has joined the chat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (IG3/x)

286 249 Carly Fiorina (or "Carly the C**t"), as she is known to former HP employees, did this. HP printers (and other HP gear) used to be built like tanks. When she took over, she started selling the same Chinese crap as everyone else, just with HP badges, and at HP prices.

This "strategy", if it can be dignified with that term, will indeed produce large profits, for a quarter or two, maybe a year.

After that the suckers catch on. End result: your company is screwed. Your former gold-plated brand name is a joke.

But hey, by that time you've moved on to the next company you're going to destroy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 11:54 AM (IG3/x)

Clearly you just hate free markets and want a centrally-controlled command economy like the USSR, commie.

Posted by: And just want to date Carly Fiornia at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (TbWk/)

287 I loved Mountain Dew as a teen. I barfed with the flavor of Mountain Dew and couldn't think of drinking it more about 15 years.
Posted by: Axeman
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Tequila shots for me.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Jack Daniel's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

288 As long as the balance is not zero you do get props. So if you have a card make sure you use it. Even if it’s putting $20 on it at a gas station. Set up a monthly auto pay and forget it.

You get dinged when the card is active but not used ever.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (udlma)
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Sort of.

A big factor in the credit score is fixed debt (mortgage, car loan, etc.). When a fixed debt is paid off and not replaced, it *will* ding you, sometimes significantly.

Another big part is "utilization" on revolving credit If you have, say, $20k in credit on your credit cards and usually have less than $2k in use, your utilization is great. The month you have to replace your HVAC and charge $15k, it will shoot your utilization way up and your score *will* come down that month and points come off faster than they go on.

If you have no fixed debt, your score will drop at the drop of a hat (and sometimes for no discernible reason) and climb up more slowly. It will always be "very good" or "excellent" but it will move a lot. Fair Isaac *really* wants you to have fixed debt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (avHHk)

289 3.5% is B.S.
That's a tax rate not a service charge.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (6ydKt)

I never thought about it before, but that's a great point.

A tow is a tow, whether it's a Ferrari or a Yugo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (JwNbV)

290 272 Chili's used to have a Cajun Chicken Pasta dish that I rather liked. They discontinued it and replaced it with some other pasta dish.

I tried it once while on a trip to Anaheim, CA and spent the evening projectile vomiting in my hotel room.

I then tried it again a month or so later while on a trip to another city and had the same result.

Yeah, never had that shit again......
Posted by: Sponge
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That might have been a contamination problem from Chili's using Sysco reheats of meals in a bag.

But it could have been a substance intolerance given the industrial grade provenance of ingredients Sysco (and/or its primary competitor whose name I forget) uses.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (WDjG6)

291 "I would set up a CP3o charity, go to the office to decide where I would donate money.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM"

A gift has been given in your name to The Human Fund.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 15, 2025 12:00 PM (Zt+0/)

292 I'd trade my wife for a billion. Then I'd buy her back for half a billion and she'd laugh.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (zALxA)

Not as much as when she throttled you in your sleep and made off with half a billion with Jose the poolboy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (dK+Kv)

293 The Chili's grilled chicken pasta in the 90s was a nice dish. No one really knows what it was unfortunately.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (zALxA)

294 260 This busty brunette with nice teeth used a credit card to finance her beach vacation at a resort who's construction was financed with an exotic structured security offering, so she's feeling pretty good about things at the moment:
http://tiny.cc/8kgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (avHHk)

A nice ocean view!

I could sure use one of those right about now...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (wtvvX)

295 We have fewer recessions than we used to - but reducing the frequency of downturns seriously increases their amplitude and introduces tremendous systemic risks, perverse incentives and moral hazards."

This, right here, is it. Spot on, and I tip my hat to you.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (XuXeR)

296 I loved Mountain Dew as a teen. I barfed with the flavor of Mountain Dew and couldn't think of drinking it more about 15 years.
Posted by: Axeman
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Tequila shots for me.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Jack Daniel's.
Posted by: Sponge

Yukon Jack Canadian Whiskey.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

297 This busty brunette with nice teeth used a credit card to finance her beach vacation at a resort who's construction was financed with an exotic structured security offering, so she's feeling pretty good about things at the moment:
http://tiny.cc/8kgw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 11:55 AM (avHHk)

Big old milk zeppelins...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

298 >>>As long as the balance is not zero you do get props. So if you have a card make sure you use it. Even if it’s putting $20 on it at a gas station. Set up a monthly auto pay and forget it.

You get dinged when the card is active but not used ever.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Fuck them. They provide a service to the store to facilitate sales. Credit reporting agencies are running a bigger scam than credit cards.
I take that back, it's incest just like healthcare insurance and pharma.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (uGpeQ)

299 Not as much as when she throttled you in your sleep and made off with half a billion with Jose the poolboy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (dK+Kv)

Not likely since she's a virulent racist!

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (zALxA)

300 I did some consulting for a bank and got very deep into fico scores. The APIs fair and Issac have are something to behold. There are thousands of variables that go into the score.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (udlma)

301 I would set up a CP3o charity, go to the office to decide where I would donate money.
Posted by: Braenyard

The protocol droid has a charity????

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

302 >>Big old milk zeppelins...

Those are some nice Calcium Canons.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (IaZ7c)

303
Yukon Jack Canadian Whiskey.
Posted by: Bulg
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Yellow whiskey no good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:03 PM (uGpeQ)

304 Is this about me?

Posted by: A busty brunette with nice teeth at December 15, 2025 12:03 PM (Zt+0/)

305 Fuck them. They provide a service to the store to facilitate sales. Credit reporting agencies are running a bigger scam than credit cards.

—

How do you propose a lender judge the creditworthiness of a borrower then?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:03 PM (udlma)

306 My objection is that they take a percentage of the price as if my paying $10,000 costs more to transact than my paying $1.

It's all 1s & 0s sent over fiber optics.

You wanna charge $2.50 a transaction, fine.

3.5% is B.S.
That's a tax rate not a service charge.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (6ydKt)
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Ah, okay. I understand your point now.

There is another aspect to it, which makes it a bit less absurd (but probably only a bit), which is that the transaction processor is exposed to risk. If the issuing bank is down for whatever reason, the network uses its own records and will respond on the bank's behalf. If you run your Chase Visa at a merchant and Chase can't approve the transaction for some reason (and it can be fleeting), the *network* - Visa, in this case - can do so and then send it to Chase. If the bank then declines a soft-approved transaction when it settles, the network has to eat that, not the bank.

The card networks *are* exposed to risk on the transaction, which is why they often charge a percentage. The percentage they charge is pretty high, which is one of the reasons there are more merchant services outfits than there used to be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:03 PM (avHHk)

307 302 >>Big old milk zeppelins...

Those are some nice Calcium Canons.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (IaZ7c)

Butterfat bombers.

Double D dreadnoughts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (IG3/x)

308
Yukon Jack Canadian Whiskey.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

That was my brother's go to for a while. I did get sick off that once, but it was only a part of the binder I went on, so it doesn't offend me now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

309 > I loved Mountain Dew as a teen. I barfed with the flavor of Mountain Dew and couldn't think of drinking it more about 15 years.
Posted by: Axeman
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Tequila shots for me.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Jack Daniel's.
Posted by: Sponge

Yukon Jack Canadian Whiskey.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

The Bull for me.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (rJ48h)

310 No on ever puked from Southern Comfort and everyone loves it's taste.

Posted by: Top Shelf Tom at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)

311 Jose the poolboy."

The Paolo, he is angry...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (XuXeR)

312 They're not growing their herd of sheep, they're shearing the same, but smaller, herd as last year 2, 3, 4 times a year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 11:59 AM (HXT0k)

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Infantile Thinking in Stage One [h/t Thomas Sowell].

I blame MTV and the culture of immediate gratification ... but mostly the culture of immediate gratification.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 12:05 PM (L/LrU)

313 Here’s the damned thing: if, like me, you have a 401(k) or IRA, your money is likely invested in the same kind of predatory practices that destroy companies in the long run for short-term gain.

We demand high returns. The people investing our money for us deliver.

To counteract this, I would love for my investment company to offer funds that seek to build businesses, not hollow them out.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at December 15, 2025 12:05 PM (T1u+Z)

314 What I see a lot of is utility companies and state agencies charging 3.5%+ "Service Fees" for using a debit or credit card.

Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

And that's why I still have and use paper checks.

If you charge me extra for the convenience of the card, you get a check instead.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 12:05 PM (a+4eV)

315 C3PO was the homo Droid, and R2D2 was the annoying little asshole, right? I have not watched the Trilogy for forever. Did either of the robots appear in any of the new Star Wars crap?

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 12:05 PM (pDt9x)

316 300 I did some consulting for a bank and got very deep into fico scores. The APIs fair and Issac have are something to behold. There are thousands of variables that go into the score.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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But if you don't pay interest it's ZERO.
There ain't no thousands of variables.
It's a scam.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (uGpeQ)

317 Aaaannnnddd it's a boob thread...

Posted by: Which is nice at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (Zt+0/)

318 Wasn't Sally Field playing Tom Hank's Mom in Forrest Gump despite being younger than Tom?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

319 That was my brother's go to for a while. I did get sick off that once, but it was only a part of the binder I went on, so it doesn't offend me now.
Posted by: Sponge

Yukon Jack put me in the drunk tank of Michigan Stadium.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

320 >>> 300 I did some consulting for a bank and got very deep into fico scores. The APIs fair and Issac have are something to behold. There are thousands of variables that go into the score.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (udlma)

If that's not exaggeration, then I question how those scores can have any real value. In fact it's making me think of that jackass Brit EXTHPERT with his magic woofloo model that couldn't produce the same answer twice.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (ULPxl)

321 my mistake, she's 10 years older.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

322 Bacardi 151 for me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (L/LrU)

323 We are not a growing country.

Hell, I don't even think population is growing worldwide.

I am pretty sure that China is lying about up to 30% of their population.

Because imagine the crash if the world at large found out?

Every government budget, every major corporate budget is built on the assumption of an always-growing population.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 12:07 PM (HXT0k)

324 319 That was my brother's go to for a while. I did get sick off that once, but it was only a part of the binder I went on, so it doesn't offend me now.
Posted by: Sponge

Yukon Jack put me in the drunk tank of Michigan Stadium.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

Were you offered a coaching job??

Posted by: tubal at December 15, 2025 12:07 PM (pDt9x)

325 If you charge me extra for the convenience of the card, you get a check instead.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 12:05 PM (a+4eV)
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I'll pay $0.50 for convenience and do so happily.

If they transaction fee is $1.25 or less, I'll take it ever time, Envelopes, checks and stamps aren't free. It costs about $0.70 to send a check in the mail, and not having to bother with it is worth four bits to me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:07 PM (avHHk)

326 Angela Landsbury was only a few years older than Lawrence Harvey when she played his mother in The Manchurian Candidate.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

327 Yukon Jack put me in the drunk tank of Michigan Stadium.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
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That rat-bastard!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:08 PM (krQz2)

328 Bacardi 151 for me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (L/LrU)

*shudders*

Same.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)

329 "In my opinion, the “financialization-of-all-the-things” is a form of parasitism that does not create wealth, rather it serves to extract the accumulated wealth from entities where wealth has previously been created."

Like lawyers and accountants and politicians?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 15, 2025 12:08 PM (w6EFb)

330 Yukon Jack put me in the drunk tank of Michigan Stadium.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

Were you offered a coaching job??
Posted by: tubal

LOL.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

331 puked from Southern Comfort"

Jagermeister FTW!

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

332 my mistake, she's 10 years older.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

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There was a movie called Punchline where she was his love interest. So that's weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (DRSnL)

333 217, 218
‘ sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump said.’

Not Trump’s finest hour but Reiner’s actions and invective earned him a hostile send-off.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

334 If I saw Angela Lansbury in public, I'd suspect that somebody's going to find a murder victim nearby pretty soon.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

335 I don't know why people invite "Jessica" to their parties!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:10 PM (krQz2)

336 Don't want to be a king nor a billionaire myself.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

I lead a pretty simple life. I want enough money to live that life until I die without being a burden on others, particularly my chirrens. And I'd like to be the next best thing to unknown.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)

337 Were you offered a coaching job??
Posted by: tubal"

Comment of the week. Month. Year.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

338 If they transaction fee is $1.25 or less, I'll take it ever time, Envelopes, checks and stamps aren't free. It costs about $0.70 to send a check in the mail, and not having to bother with it is worth four bits to me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 12:07 PM (avHHk)

That's a pretty good proxy for age: "are you willing to go through hassle to pay a tiny bit less?" When you're younger that's an obvious "of course". When you're 29 or so you really understand that your time is worth money and paying a little for convenience is actually OK.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 12:10 PM (QZThv)

339 Wasn't Sally Field playing Tom Hank's Mom in Forrest Gump despite being younger than Tom?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM

Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, making him 37 years old during principal filming of Forrest Gump (August to December 1993) and at the film's release on July 6, 1994.

Sally Field was born on November 6, 1946, making her 46–47 years old during filming (turning 47 in November 1993) and 47 years old at release.

Notably, Field played Hanks's mother in the film despite being only 10 years older in real life—a common Hollywood casting choice aided by makeup for her older scenes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (P5BPp)

340 I sometimes daydream about what it would be like to be Elon-rich, and I always come to the same conclusion: it wouldn't really make me happier. I can already afford the things I enjoy, most of which are dirt cheap, so what would the extra money get me? Security is really what most people crave, and I have that. I have a wonderful wife, happy, successful kids, and now, darling grandkids. I wouldn't trade with Elon, Bezos, Zuck, or anyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

Happiness is >>> riches. If I had a lot of cash, I wouldn't buy a mansion. I'd fix up what I have better. Maybe buy a little vacation place somewhere. Take trips. Buy slightly more expensive booze. Maybe buy a Model a or a nice old pickup. Pay my grandkid's college tuition. Give a bunch away!

But oddly enough, I don't think Elon is in it for the $$$. He wants to do giant things, and when you can pull that off, the money is a side benefit.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (wtvvX)

341 Jagermeister FTW!
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

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We went to the Class Six on Saturday, and they had a table set up with samples of tequila and Jagermeister. I passed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (DRSnL)

342
Winning a lot of money would be a burden.
I would set up a CP3o charity

You'd give money to an android?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (pkeXY)

343 302 >>Big old milk zeppelins...

Those are some nice Calcium Canons.

Someone, somewhere, is keeping the definitive list of euphemisms for boobs. And he never gets a day off.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (qP1co)

344 Not Trump’s finest hour but Reiner’s actions and invective earned him a hostile send-off.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)
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I'd still take Trump over almost every other politician. But he could really learn the benefit of shutting his yap about personal things.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (krQz2)

345 How you feel about "Financialization of All the Things" will depend in large part what you think the prime directive of a company is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

346 314 What I see a lot of is utility companies and state agencies charging 3.5%+ "Service Fees" for using a debit or credit card.

Charging me for sending some photons to a server and back.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

And that's why I still have and use paper checks.

If you charge me extra for the convenience of the card, you get a check instead.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Considering the cost of a stamp, time and convenience or what I would pay their credit card service. I use a payment kiosk. I pass it everyday when I'm out, it's no inconvenience.
I have the pleasure of denying the CC company, the utility companies their vig and the USPS.
I walk away feeling satisfied every month.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:11 PM (uGpeQ)

347 334 If I saw Angela Lansbury in public, I'd suspect that somebody's going to find a murder victim nearby pretty soon.
Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

We have a DVD set of Perry Mason, wife likes it. Still entertaining, but I've noticed that Mason finds more bodies in hotel rooms than the entire LAPD.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK8)

348 Private equity destroys thriving businesses, such as Joanne Fabrics. Joanne was a growing highly profitable business with plans for expansion.

PE bought the company via massive debt, that they paid off via selling stores and eliminating staff. Now they declared bankruptcy and the investor group walked away with millions.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (wBaIH)

349

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 11:49 AM (KTHZX)

Well, I doubt that Rob Reiner's son killed him because Reiner Sr. had Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (PFs9e)

350 Every government budget, every major corporate budget is built on the assumption of an always-growing population."

This. It's a fascinating topic, and gets little notice. Japan is working thru this very scenario, and their unwillingness to follow the prescriptions of the world's ruling class is giving many fits..

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

351 ---
I'd still take Trump over almost every other politician. But he could really learn the benefit of shutting his yap about personal things.
Posted by: Axeman
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What about the good things he personally does for people, should he stop that too?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (uGpeQ)

352 Private equity destroys thriving businesses, such as Joanne Fabrics. Joanne was a growing highly profitable business with plans for expansion.

PE bought the company via massive debt, that they paid off via selling stores and eliminating staff. Now they declared bankruptcy and the investor group walked away with millions.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Yep. The last company I worked at was an international defense contractor, and was doing quite well. Private equity came in and broke it all up, and laid off quite a few people, me included. Fucking vultures.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

353 >>>>>Big old milk zeppelins...

Those are some nice Calcium Canons.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:02 PM (IaZ7c)

Butterfat bombers.

Double D dreadnoughts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

>When those toddler tuggies become unwieldy, they must be expressed for the hope of the children.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (1zOXE)

354 ‘ sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump said.’

Not Trump’s finest hour but Reiner’s actions and invective earned him a hostile send-off.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

>>>In 2017, Reiner said he thought Trump was "mentally unfit” to be president in an interview with Variety and said he was the "single most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States." - Newsweek

It's a fine hour. F that guy.

>>>He repeatedly tried to equate Republicanism, MAGAism, and traditional US faith and patriotism with Nazism and Fascism, like many other hysterical Democrats have done. After Robert Reich and Robert Di Nero, he may have been the most vituperative, vindictive and vehement critic of Trump and his administrations around, which is a bronze medal in partisan lunacy earned from a very crowded field of competitors.

See link at 218.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (dK+Kv)

355 348 Private equity destroys thriving businesses, such as Joanne Fabrics. Joanne was a growing highly profitable business with plans for expansion.

PE bought the company via massive debt, that they paid off via selling stores and eliminating staff. Now they declared bankruptcy and the investor group walked away with millions.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (wBaIH)

PE's first move is always to find companies that own their own locations, and sell off the real estate. Eventually the company can't afford their lease to the new property-owner anymore, and goes out of business.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (UnA8+)

356 Warren William first portrayed Perry Mason on film and he was good at it.

Posted by: King of the Pre-Codes at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (oftw2)

357 I'd still take Trump over almost every other politician. But he could really learn the benefit of shutting his yap about personal things.
Posted by: Axeman
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What about the good things he personally does for people, should he stop that too?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (uGpeQ)
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Of course not. Yeah, technically the words I use cover that, but the context is about insulting people.

I wish he did less of that.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (krQz2)

358 I lead a pretty simple life. I want enough money to live that life until I die without being a burden on others, particularly my chirrens. And I'd like to be the next best thing to unknown.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)
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Same here.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (ESVrU)

359 340 I sometimes daydream about what it would be like to be Elon-rich, and I always come to the same conclusion: it wouldn't really make me happier. I can already afford the things I enjoy, most of which are dirt cheap, so what would the extra money get me? Security is really what most people crave, and I have that. I have a wonderful wife, happy, successful kids, and now, darling grandkids. I wouldn't trade with Elon, Bezos, Zuck, or anyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes

We're working very hard to take Security away from you. It's not personal, we're doing this to the entire middle class!

Posted by: Socialists Everywhere at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

360 Joanne Fabrics. Joanne was a growing highly profitable business with plans for expansion"

Don't forget their hard woke turn... Mrs used to shop there, but walked away in disgust...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:16 PM (XuXeR)

361 This. It's a fascinating topic, and gets little notice. Japan is working thru this very scenario, and their unwillingness to follow the prescriptions of the world's ruling class is giving many fits..
Posted by: man
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Yes. New prime minister acknowledges the problem and says they will work through it without 'foreigners'. She's busy throwing the 'foreigners' out, at the moment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:16 PM (uGpeQ)

362 my mistake, she's 10 years older.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:06 PM

There was a movie called Punchline where she was his love interest. So that's weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 12:09 PM

Talk about weird... I saw "In Time" (2011) recently where Olivia Wilde played Justin Timberlake's mother.

But it "worked" for the plot of the movie as the people in this world would stop aging at age 25 or something. So everyone looks 25-years old even if some are 50 or 75 or some 100.

But what didn't work was Olivia Wilde's acting like Justin Timberlake's mother. When she was trying to act motherly to him, it looked like they were both about to start laughing from how absurd it was, them being the same age.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:16 PM (P5BPp)

363 I'd still take Trump over almost every other politician. But he could really learn the benefit of shutting his yap about personal things.

Most people understood that this was a test and anyone major saying mean things about Reiner would be used to invalidate Charlie Kirk's murder.

Trump failed the test.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 12:16 PM (QZThv)

364 That's a pretty good proxy for age: "are you willing to go through hassle to pay a tiny bit less?" When you're younger that's an obvious "of course". When you're 29 or so you really understand that your time is worth money and paying a little for convenience is actually OK.
Posted by: Ian S.

Except for the part where way too many places make paying by credit card more of a hassle than strictly necessary. Usually for "security reasons".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 12:16 PM (a+4eV)

365 270
‘ Whatever food you eat before you barf, you're pretty much put off of that food for a decade or so.
...

Hello, Popeye's’

Miller Genuine Draft

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (jbnUc)

366 Japan says they are treading water while the western world is falling apart. That Japan will remain when the west is gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (uGpeQ)

367 There's no "test" to fail.

There is only Abiding By The New Rules.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (JwNbV)

368 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

JUST IN: Liberals are desperately claiming the right is celebrating the death of Rob Reiner, but X is being flooded with conservatives expressing sorrow for Reiner and his wife's death.

Reiner previously broke with the Left to condemn what happened to Charlie.

A sad loss.

X video of Rob Reiner commenting on Charlie Kirk's assassination: https://bit.ly/4oUe3FG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (P5BPp)

369 Every government budget, every major corporate budget is built on the assumption of an always-growing population.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Every election's voter turnout numbers, too.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 12:18 PM (+3KVp)

370 Trump is always gonna Trump. What are they gonna do, say worse things about him? Try to you know what him? Already been did.

Trump gets a victim card for life, does he not?

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:19 PM (zALxA)

371 The person that killed Rob Reiner has been identified as a white man.

Posted by: Jake Tapper, Pederast at December 15, 2025 12:19 PM (FGMmt)

372 Every government budget, every major corporate budget is built on the assumption of an always-growing population.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 12:07 PM (HXT0k)

And, at the same time, most of them adopt policies which have the opposite effect.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

373 Also depends on what you define as a "hassle".

I find that navigating online payment portals is a hassle that I'd rather avoid.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (a+4eV)

374 Whatever food you eat before you barf, you're pretty much put off of that food for a decade or so.

Make that two decades. Rum, Coke, and Wendy's Chili.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (+3KVp)

375
If stock buybacks were intended to benefit shareholders instead of executives, they would be doing the buybacks when the PE was below average, not when it was high. How can I be so much more astute than a highly compensated board?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 15, 2025 11:16 AM (8fjZH)

Most modern boards seem to be friends of the CEO and are, likely, in on the scam somehow.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

It's the other way around. CEOs are friends of the board, who bring in the CEO to manage the scam that the board decides to run.

We tend to forget that CEOs answer to the board, who actually have the power and make the large decisions. They delegate that power to the CEO. The CEO is the board's bitch, until they get too big for their britches and defy the board or are so incompetent that they can't manage the scam to the board's satisfaction.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (y9nCu)

376 Trump gets a victim card for life, does he not?

CNN viewing liberals and Bluesky posters 100% believe he wasn't actually shot, he was rigged up with a ketchup packet like in the movies.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (QZThv)

377 Regardless of wealth or position, "Perfessor" Squirrel is destined to be consumed by us.

Posted by: Pack of Hangry Cats at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)

378 JUST IN: Liberals are desperately claiming the right is celebrating the death of Rob Reiner, but X is being flooded with conservatives expressing sorrow for Reiner and his wife's death.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (P5BPp)
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Of course they are. I predicted it as soon as I heard two elderly were found dead in his home.

When the progs want an "explanation", Action-at-a-distance works.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:21 PM (krQz2)

379 Of course not. Yeah, technically the words I use cover that, but the context is about insulting people.

I wish he did less of that.
Posted by: Axeman
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I don't care much anymore about what other people say. If it is true, then it is true. If false, ditto.

But Trump has been subjected to and by Meathead and his ilk an enormous load of vitriol over the years. Expecting him to turn the cheek after Meathead cheered for Trump to die, be bankrupted, be in jail along with his family, etc. doesn't have a handle on Trump at all.

He says what he thinks nowadays and for the most part, he is being truthful--he is just ignoring societal taboos on such expressions.

And most voters won't care much if the price of groceries goes down, we continue with relative peace, and jobs are around.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:21 PM (WDjG6)

380 There's no "test" to fail.

There is only Abiding By The New Rules.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (JwNbV)

Some people get it.

The left already invalidated Kirk's murder, and nothing Trump could say or not say would change the left's "minds" about it, because they are brain-damaged cultists whose only religious virtue is politcal power, by any means necessary.

And for those still asleep at the switch, that means killing you and your family.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:21 PM (dK+Kv)

381 I'm fine with Trump's insults.
Don't cause none, won't be none.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

382 Carly Fiorina? A blast from the past.

On April 27, 2016, Cruz announced that, if he were selected as the party's presidential nominee, he would choose Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate,[262] but after losing the Indiana primary six days later, he suspended his campaign,[263] making her vice-presidential candidacy the shortest in modern American history.[264]

Fiorina received one electoral college vote for vice president from a faithless elector in Texas.[265] Following Trump's election, Fiorina was considered for the position of director of national intelligence during the 2016 transition period.[266] In 2020, Fiorina endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign due to her disapproval of President Donald Trump.[267][268] Wikipedia, in part.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:22 PM (NFX2v)

383 Would you rather be a billionaire and die at 29 yrs old or be middle class, 70 yrs old and pass away with children and grandchildren? Are they both win-win?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 12:22 PM (nljXp)

384
Make that two decades. Rum, Coke, and Wendy's Chili.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (+3KVp)

Southern Comfort and anything

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2025 12:23 PM (y9nCu)

385 Fico is just statistical regression models. People love to hate it but it’s just math. Variable x has y impact on z outcome. Thats all.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:23 PM (udlma)

386 And most voters won't care much if the price of groceries goes down, we continue with relative peace, and jobs are around.

The problem is it's almost 2026, groceries are still expensive, we're apparently starting a new war in Venezuela, and Trump is allowing H1B abuse to continue as long as FedGov gets a cut.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 12:23 PM (QZThv)

387 It came to me late last week that the prog credo of "Keep the dream alive" also means "Don't let whatever hallucination we're enjoying fade."

Progressivism seems to begin with Rousseau's hallucinations about the "Noble Savage", travels through Marx's "Stages of History", and then goes on to cling to hallucinations for dear life.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:24 PM (krQz2)

388

In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two dozen injured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country's gun laws.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 12:24 PM (pkeXY)

389 377 Regardless of wealth or position, "Perfessor" Squirrel is destined to be consumed by us.
Posted by: Pack of Hangry Cats at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)

He got a .32 gun in is pocket for fun he got a razor in his shoe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

390 Not shedding tears for Reiner. He was an odious piece of shit. Whatever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 12:24 PM (udlma)

391 Regardless of wealth or position, "Perfessor" Squirrel is destined to be consumed by us.
Posted by: Pack of Hangry Cats at December 15, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)
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I'm OK with that. It's all part of the natural order of things.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (ESVrU)

392 Having been part of these tough decisions, the c-suite isn’t laughing evilly while rubbing their hands together on a pile of money. Usually it’s a conversation around retaining jobs and how we make that happen. There are also very tough decisions around layoffs, plant shutdowns, etc. none of those conversations are fun.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

393 11 Business schools really need to start hammering an important point: "is the strategy you're recommending (usually involving degrading the product) good for the company long-term, or just your short-term benefit before you move on?"
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

I hold MBAs in the same stead as attorneys\ambulance chasers.... same causality and the same projected remedy...

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (zL/eJ)

394 High school
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill
"Buick"

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)

395 Trump is always gonna Trump. What are they gonna do, say worse things about him? Try to you know what him? Already been did.

Trump gets a victim card for life, does he not?

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 12:19 PM (zALxA)

He doesn't need a victim card with the balls to say what needs saying.

I don't take Trump's propositions as perfectly formed logical syllogisms that jive with reality, but there is merit to the suggestion that TDS and his RR's life outcomes aren't related in a sense that his decisions brought him to this point.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (dK+Kv)

396 383 Would you rather be a billionaire and die at 29 yrs old or be middle class, 70 yrs old and pass away with children and grandchildren? Are they both win-win?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 12:22 PM (nljXp)

Different pleasures.

The latter is more impactful probably.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

397 Southern Comfort and anything
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Oh, yeah. Forgot about high school. That was a permanent reaction. Never again.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (+3KVp)

398 In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two dozen injured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country's gun laws.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 12:24 PM

Single shot weapons only!*

*until the next time

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (bFu5X)

399
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: As Dennis Miller used to say at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (Zt+0/)

400 The person that killed Rob Reiner has been identified as a white man.

Posted by: Jake Tapper, Pederast at December 15, 2025 12:19 PM (FGMmt)

lol

Cuts like a knife.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (dK+Kv)

401 Japan says they are treading water while the western world is falling apart. That Japan will remain when the west is gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:17 PM (uGpeQ)

Japan choosing to remain Japan makes me suspect that they're correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

402 Ace must have hit the Manischewitz hard last night.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 12:27 PM (IaZ7c)

403 392 Having been part of these tough decisions, the c-suite isn’t laughing evilly while rubbing their hands together on a pile of money. Usually it’s a conversation around retaining jobs and how we make that happen. There are also very tough decisions around layoffs, plant shutdowns, etc. none of those conversations are fun.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Are you also there for the discussions about c-suite compensation? Because that's what really chaps our hide, giving raises to people who lay off workers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

404 The person that killed Rob Reiner has been identified as a white man.
Posted by: Jake Tapper, Pederast at December 15, 2025 12:19 PM (FGMmt)

And a Jew. It really makes you think about the plight of the Palestinians. -- the cast of The View... probably

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (ExV1e)

405
400 The person that killed Rob Reiner has been identified as a white man.
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That's a relief.

Posted by: People named Orinthal James at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (Zt+0/)

406 Someone light the beacons of Endor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (bFu5X)

407 none of those conversations are fun."

Sure it is. I mean, who doesn't love diving into piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

The equity bit is funny too - someone has to sell.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (XuXeR)

408 The left wrestling the news cycle away from the Jewish attack in Australia, etc.

I don't care one iota Ron Reiner was killed, likely by a relative. (What's new?) I would like to know why Pierre Robert died.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (NFX2v)

409 Of course they are. I predicted it as soon as I heard two elderly were found dead in his home.

When the progs want an "explanation", Action-at-a-distance works.
Posted by: Axeman
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And fake condolences from conservatives on social media, because it is the "right thing to do" actually repulses me a bit. That is the social virtue signalling of the right that we are better than you when the left doesn't can't and won't reciprocate.

Regarding Reiner, I made a brief private prayer as I usually do after such public tragedies and their victims. I pray for the family that was left behind and for Reiner himself to have repudiated most of his life's work from his spreading hate of others so he could be saved after death. I wish eternal damnation on no person but death itself does not excuse what type of life they led right before they died. It is for the Lord himself to judge us as we shall be judged and fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

I don't care to be recognized for it on social media.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

410
What's This?

That idiot DEI fake "police chief" in D.C. resigned?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (KPKlu)

411 Beacon worked. Ewok's up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

412

It's Turtle Island Liberation Front all the way down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (pkeXY)

413 But Trump has been subjected to and by Meathead and his ilk an enormous load of vitriol over the years. Expecting him to turn the cheek after Meathead cheered for Trump to die, be bankrupted, be in jail along with his family, etc. doesn't have a handle on Trump at all.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:21 PM (WDjG6)
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The question I have is: Does it make it better?

Better would be "Yeah, that guy really hated me. But it's sad when anybody is the victim of a crime."

If he wanted to riff on how Democrats like crime from there, that would be an opportune time.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (krQz2)

414 Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country's gun laws.

I'm sure that will help a lot/ sarc.

Muslims probably have lot of weapons in their mosques.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 12:29 PM (PFs9e)

415 The task of directors is to maximize shareholder value.

That's what Sherwin-Williams did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (A0sqA)

416 Japan choosing to remain Japan makes me suspect that they're correct"

What an idea!

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (XuXeR)

417 I don't knows nothin' 'bout no Roberts Rheingold. I was on my way to church... uh, whenever those murders happened. I mean, uh... what murders?!

Posted by: Alphonso Whiteman at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (7Q0e+)

418 "Japan says they are treading water while the western world is falling apart. That Japan will remain when the west is gone.

Posted by: Braenyard"

With their birthrate thee will only be a few thousand of them

Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (GUOwU)

419 Surprised Romney hasn't been mentioned here.

Posted by: Bubba at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (85Q8Y)

420 That's what Sherwin-Williams did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 12:30 PM (A0sqA)
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Just ask them!

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (krQz2)

421 Are you also there for the discussions about c-suite compensation? Because that's what really chaps our hide, giving raises to people who lay off workers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December

I was. Because I was in the c-suite. Executive compensation really is not the same as director and below. I do know J, who currently sits in the c suite, took a 25% reduction last year along with everyone else to ensure hourly increases could happen. They won’t need to do that this year.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

422 421 Are you also there for the discussions about c-suite compensation? Because that's what really chaps our hide, giving raises to people who lay off workers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December

I was. Because I was in the c-suite. Executive compensation really is not the same as director and below. I do know J, who currently sits in the c suite, took a 25% reduction last year along with everyone else to ensure hourly increases could happen. They won’t need to do that this year.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 12:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

You must work with better people than I have.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (xcxpd)

423 348 Private equity destroys thriving businesses, such as Joanne Fabrics. Joanne was a growing highly profitable business with plans for expansion.

PE bought the company via massive debt, that they paid off via selling stores and eliminating staff. Now they declared bankruptcy and the investor group walked away with millions.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2025 12:13 PM (wBaIH)

PE's first move is always to find companies that own their own locations, and sell off the real estate. Eventually the company can't afford their lease to the new property-owner anymore, and goes out of business.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 12:15 PM (UnA8+)

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Pure capitalism at work. You'll notice the purity capitalists are pretty quite about it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 15, 2025 12:33 PM (Vh9CX)

424 Are you also there for the discussions about c-suite compensation? Because that's what really chaps our hide, giving raises to people who lay off workers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yep. And you see the same in universities and private charities. New sportsball coach gets millions, the previous fired sportsball coach gets millions and yet students cannot afford tuition to finish their degrees. Charities cutting back on giving but hiking salaries for the very top.

Interlocking boards where a CEO of one company is on the board of another deciding compensation are also a factor. All these types view it as perfectly responsible to pad their paychecks while the peons that work for them and their recipients fold.

I believe in entrepreneurship form of capitalism, not our current system of Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard running these companies through boards and the top executive team making bank in good times and bad.

Even kings would be astounded and appalled by some of these pampered princes of our ruling class.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)

425 354
‘ It's a fine hour. F that guy.’

I acknowledged all the rotten shit Reiner has said and done and said he deserved what Trump said.

I just don’t think Trump’s reputation or our fight for the country benefit if Trump jumps at every opportunity to look like an asshole.

You don’t have to worry about him taking my advice.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (jbnUc)

426 Speaking of late stage capitalism, just had the limited time only Pablano Chicken Quisidilla from Taco Bell, this might be the best tasting thing I’ve had from a fast food joint in years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 15, 2025 12:35 PM (JfNRv)

427 When you're 29 or so you really understand that your time is worth money and paying a little for convenience is actually OK.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Or just the opposite.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (uGpeQ)

428 The question I have is: Does it make it better?

Better would be "Yeah, that guy really hated me. But it's sad when anybody is the victim of a crime."

If he wanted to riff on how Democrats like crime from there, that would be an opportune time.
Posted by: Axeman
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I don't bother to require people to say what pleases or doesn't please me. It is what it is. Trump is not running for anything anymore and he will say what he wants when he wants.

And yes, the vile public invective that Reiner was involved in during the last couple of decades is as much of his legacy as his directing career.

Don't want people expressing bad thoughts at your funeral, don't be that guy.

Part of Trump's appeal to many is not to engage in the phony bullshit political speak that our ruling class engages in. Remember Bush's Religion of Peace bullshit as an example. PM Albanese expressing regret of Australia but somehow neglecting to mention that this was Islamic hatred directed at innocent Jews. And endless bleating about deploring the violence while failing to put the shame and onus on the very community that is committing and supporting these ghastly crimes.

I will have none of it.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)

429 I just don’t think Trump’s reputation or our fight for the country benefit if Trump jumps at every opportunity to look like an asshole.

You don’t have to worry about him taking my advice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Authenticity has its own values when the world is filled with lies and distortions. Just like Variety blaming Trump for Meathead's murder bullshit.

We should all be reminded that ultimately whatever we say about the deceased has little bearing on what the Prince of Princes will judge. It it is true then it is true. If false, then false. He will judge.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)

430 It took nearly Teo decades for me to even see a bottle of sake without getting a bit queasy. Now I can handle it.

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 12:45 PM (6RaQN)

431 How tf does autocucumber turn "two" into "Teo"?

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 12:46 PM (6RaQN)

432 428
PM Albanese expressing regret of Australia but somehow neglecting to mention that this was Islamic hatred directed at innocent Jews. And endless bleating about deploring the violence while failing to put the shame and onus on the very community that is committing and supporting these ghastly crimes.

I will have none of it.

Right there with ya, lad.

It was kind of telling - there were fireworks displays in Austriallian Mooslum enclaves celebrating the attack. Seems 'bad show' and all that for 'peaceful people'...
Much the same for the various groups that had 10\7 celebrations after that attack.

And, the West STILL does nothing...

You've made that petrud bed, you gotta lay in it...

Posted by: wh

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 15, 2025 12:48 PM (zL/eJ)

433 The problem is it's almost 2026, groceries are still expensive, we're apparently starting a new war in Venezuela, and Trump is allowing H1B abuse to continue as long as FedGov gets a cut.
Posted by: Ian S.

H1B quotas are set by federal law. Trump is not allowing any additional over the 85k that are allowed in FY2026 and furthermore are killing the Indian outsourcing firms by the new $125k fee per new job and refusal to allow multiple applications for the same dunce to go through for the lottery.

Essentially it is a property right where you get three years and then it is possibly renewed for three years. So we are still seeing Joe Biden's bulge in the python working through. Ordinary people care probably more about the deportations and public safety from the masses of criminals leaving than the H1B issue which mostly is white collar types, often in Big Tech.

Venezuela is not really a war, more like Panama if it ever gets to that point. And groceries, other than beef are beginning to see some reductions in non-processed foods.

Most of the media including Fox are full on globalists that predict damage from everything Trump does becuz globalists. Mostly bullshit.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)

434 If Barron Trump had stabbed Donald and Melania, Meathead would've (a) immediately said something horrible on X and (b) furiously masturbated.

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 12:51 PM (6RaQN)

435 This is an interesting question and should lead to a reexamination of certain things, such as what, if any, loyalty to a nation does any corporation have, and if none, what loyalty should be shown by citizens. Someone stole your IP or patent? Too bad, maybe you should have thought about that.

I think the bigger question though is capitalism is about risk/reward. It survives in accountability. We have most big corporations/banks/pharma/ag that I'd say they have no accountability at all, so do we really have capitalism as such?

Posted by: crypto king at December 15, 2025 12:56 PM (s8WNT)

436 A prime issue in all this was the worship of "growth." It came amid or as a result of the devaluation of dividends, promoting price growth as the only method of making money in the market.

The only way to achieve growth in a mature market area is to buy out other players in the market, or to expand into other markets (often by buying out a player in said market.

Financialization comes a result of this growth bias, with playing a money game (instead of making products) becoming a way to "grow" profits so your stock price will go up.

It also becomes a barrier to entry for smaller companies, reducing the market breadth.

I'm not upset, like Bernie, that we have 23 varieties of deodorant. I'm upset they're all made by the same 2 companies.

Posted by: GWB at December 15, 2025 12:59 PM (k936I)

437 "financialization" drives market efficiencies

there are people who own Sherwin Williams's stock, it's their money not the employees' and they can buy back stock if they want, irrespective of whether it's bad for employees or even sound business

should Sherwin Williams offer a 401k? it's sort of odd they don't but they aren't powerful enough to dictate labor terms across the entire US job market, so people working there will either leave or demand other compensation

of course the main reason, Sherwin Williams should not have done this is pretty obvious: it's terrible PR!

Posted by: TallDave at December 15, 2025 01:22 PM (lLLli)

438 Financial looting (like with Joanne Fabric) - convince me otherwise ...

Posted by: _Jim at December 15, 2025 01:43 PM (boOkN)

439 Before corporate taxes dropped in the 80s corporations at the end of the financial year had 2 basic choices, pay tax to DC or reinvest in their company .

Companies were inventivisrd to reinvest in both their infrastructure and human resources
Reagan changed that
The rich hot richer, you voted for that

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 01:46 PM (1HGee)

440 Great topic and I SHARE the disdain for these financializations. Thankfully I do not work for this type of organization.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 15, 2025 02:27 PM (1E4GV)

441
You are an excellent writer, Buck!
Keep it up!!

Posted by: Saxon at December 15, 2025 02:31 PM (AHXe+)

442 In my previous life, I would, both officially and unofficially, mentor newbie engineers. One of the things I would emphasize was that this job, or any future job, was not a lifetime sinecure. "Never let your resume get more than 6 months out of date. Remember, to the corporate bean counters, the engineering department is pure expense. "
Personal experience: a high-tech company I worked for got into serious financial difficulty. Solution - lay off almost the whole engineering department. Save $160k/month. Result? Company was totally defunct in 5 years. They couldn't maintain a product release schedule as fast as the competition with 15% of the previous staffing.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 15, 2025 06:19 PM (jiDhR)

443 Bad Actors... ???

The problem here is that the socialists and communists will tell you that with govt, you will have govt capture.

Those who support free markets ignore this at our own downfall.

Because we have a "Free Market" but all the inputs are controlled by Too Big To Fail. Essentially we have Govt Capture and it is not helping people at the bottom. What is the point of America Style Capitalism when it is really only govt capture by the elites, and benefits the elites.

My life has not gotten any better since the 90s. The youth has never know anything except underemployment. The youth doesnt see Capitalism, they see govt capture, and some point they will try to capture govt to move away from this "Capitalism".

We should stop calling our economy capitalism. Because the kids think this is capitalism, and it is not. And they will want to replace it. And if they think it is capitalism, they will want to replace it with something that is not capitalism. Follow? Hope so.

Posted by: mossomo at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (pky95)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Battle Of Vienna
Pauwel Casteels

Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (QVuuq)

2 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (QVuuq)

3 Charles Martel up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (QVuuq)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 This one looks familiar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6
All that carnage.....

over tiny sausages....

So sad.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (KPKlu)

7 "We Came, We Saw, and God Conquered"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

8 Where is Corey Booker in all this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

9 All that over some sausages?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

10 Rob Reiner been moidered.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

11 Austrians then: DEUS VULT

Austrians now: Are we giving you enough in welfare payments my poor dear Muslims refugees or would you like to have sex with my wife as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

12 Looking for Husars ...
(We could use a few, ourselves)

Posted by: YellowBird at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (MEbkQ)

13
Casteels originally titled it:

Das Veenie Roast

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (KPKlu)

14 That's a mess. Probably much like the actual battle.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (KDPiq)

15 Excellent, CBD!

We need Jan Sobieski, and many others like him, now more than ever.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

16 Waiting for that painting to be put in storage in deference to the trauma inflicted on peace loving Muslim refugees.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (lXoJ5)

17 Fun note the croissant comes from the Siege of Vienna.

The Turk's symbol as a crescent star, so to celebrate the Austrians created a crescent shaped pastry.

This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

18 Really pretty dim, like so many modern movies. It's hard to make out details even when you embiggen it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

19 Their sausages suck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

20

December 26 sale at Macy's!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (Q43RC)

21 Virginia's really fallen on hard times from the look of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

22 I admire the detail in this piece.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

23 Thinking about how the battle went, Tolkein's Battle of Pelennor Fields must be based on the Siege of Vienna right?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

24 Where's Sobieski in this painting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

25 I see Waldo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (6mzr3)

26 He painted this in 1683-84, not long after the battle itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

27 December 26 sale at Macy's!
Posted by: Dirty Frank

December 26 is Boxing Day, so it's appropriate that they're fighting.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

28 "Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts "

The attempt at foisting Vienna Sausages made chiefly from penguins on the pork adverse Muslims led to the animosity that continues to this day.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

29 I'll have to come back to this again later. Suspect my tiny dim phone screen doesn't do it justice. At least the fleeing turbans stand out.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (7tboY)

30 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons. A straight pull rifle?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (Kt19C)

31 The sausages in the can at the time of this battle are still edible.

Posted by: Libby's and Armour at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

32 Next time it will be the Muslims fighting to keep the infidels from the city

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (FIUji)

33 An optimistic painting today. I like it. Here's hoping that, if history doesn't repeat itself, at least it rhymes.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (ycI94)

34 Nothing like a good war scene. I like the mortar hitting the city wall. Would hang

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)

35 I admire the detail in this piece.
Posted by: redridinghood

If only we could see more of it...

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

36 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (n9ltV)

37 Largest cavalry charge in history, 18 k, including 10k Winged Hussars under Sobieski. Would hang.
Great choice for today, thx CBD.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (D+mpw)

38 A very good choice for the day!

Battle finally won by the greatest cavslry charge in history, and the most glorious moment ever for the Polish Winged Hussars.

Think of the Charge of the Rohirim in Jackson’s film, then think of it several times bigger and better.
And no ghosts at the end, save for those of dead Turks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (k5cxK)

39 This painting could probably use a cleaning.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (36PRH)

40 Where's Sobieski in this painting?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Always glad to see LeeLee. But I doubt she was anywhere near this battle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

41 This is about the meeting between Ericka Kirk and Candace Owens today, isn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

42 *Erika

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Well, it's certainly detailed and well-staged, though a bit murky.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (WPL6O)

44 30 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons. A straight pull rifle?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I watched a few videos. That maniac could rack a bolt with the best of them. Had to have been trained somewhere.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (abIsI)

45 Ah small the glove, we’re on the same wavelength!

There was a great blog site for a while called Gates of Vienna, I don’t know if it is still around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (k5cxK)

46
And the Casings, Go Rolling Along - a limerick

Cavalry shot down from the saddle
And foot soldiers slaughtered like cattle
All of this to pick a winnah
In the city of Vienna
Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

47 IIRC, King Sobieski showed up the next day, 9/12.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (W7XSX)

48 [i39 This painting could probably use a cleaning.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO ]

Bring it to a conservator and the value will increase twofold.

Posted by: Antique Roadshow at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (abIsI)

49 Always glad to see LeeLee. But I doubt she was anywhere near this battle.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Just did an image search on her. Very Helen Huntish, but not as pretty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

50 I'll bring the horses.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (sDNVV)

51 Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle
Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

National treasure. We need a monument built.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Too much going on in this painting

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

53 23 Thinking about how the battle went, Tolkein's Battle of Pelennor Fields must be based on the Siege of Vienna right?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

That’s a good observation, there are a lot of similarities. No witch-king, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (k5cxK)

54 Too much going on in this painting
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

Really, there's only one thing going on in this painting.

War.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

55 There was a great blog site for a while called Gates of Vienna, I don’t know if it is still around.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It is.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

56 Kara Mustafa Pasha - when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Riz8t)

57
Leelee Sobieski > Jan Sobieski

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

58 National treasure. We need a monument built.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Sure. A giant canned ham would be appropriate.

Posted by: Hormel and DAK Could Sponsor at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)

59 Bring it to a conservator and the value will increase twofold.
Posted by: Antique Roadshow at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (abIsI)

But not to that Spanish lady who conserved “Ecce Mono”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (k5cxK)

60 Whee are the kangaroos?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 09:46 AM (udlma)

61 The Christians had a chance to stop the Turks before they were firmly implanted in the Balkans in the Crusade of Varna in 1444 but they failed...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (sKqQm)

62 How big is this painting in real life? Seems like it would need to be quite large in keeping with the subject.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (sX1BW)

63 FOODFIGHT!!!

Posted by: Kara Mustafa Pasha at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (dyewR)

64 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

===

Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (X1/SD)

65 Here's hoping that, if history doesn't repeat itself, at least it rhymes.

********

Hmmm. That gives me an idea...

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)

66 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

===

Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

I believe it is how the Christians reported their victory to the Pope

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (sKqQm)

67
"You call that a battle?

Now, this is a battle"

- ~~Crocodile~~ Vienna Dundee

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

68 Prince Albert is also in the can, but he wasn't present at this epic battle.

Posted by: Hermetically Sealed at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

69 Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (X1/SD)

Supposedly it is what King John III (Sobieski) said after the battle.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (n9ltV)

70 There was also a Battle of Vienna in the American Civil War. In what is usually known as the Vienna Train Ambush, the Confederates ambushed a train carrying Union troops in Vienna, Virginia. This was the first battle in history involving a train and train-bound troops.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

71 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Michigan sold 456,731 hunting licenses. They're good.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (QVuuq)

72 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons.

==

Terrorism: "use (or threat) of illegal violence by non-state perpetrators to pursue political, economic, religious, or social objectives via coercion, fear, or intimidation directed at civilian or symbolic targets..Terrorism is distinguished from conventional warfare and insurgency by its emphasis on non-combatant targets to generate psychological coercion rather than direct military confrontation or territorial seizure."

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (g47mK)

73 Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (8CIFn)

74 Whee are the kangaroos?

*********

They stopped for breakfast at IHOP.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

75 Prince Albert is also in the can, but he wasn't present at this epic battle.
Posted by: Hermetically Sealed

I thought he was ON the can?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:51 AM (QVuuq)

76 Where's Sobieski in this painting?"

Jan?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:51 AM (XuXeR)

77 I thought he was ON the can?
___

Bad batch of Vienna sausages?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (Dv3i1)

78 would hang

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (5rh/l)

79 I thought he was ON the can?
___

Bad batch of Vienna sausages?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

That'll do it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (QVuuq)

80 Terrorism is distinguished from conventional warfare and insurgency by its emphasis on non-combatant targets to generate psychological coercion rather than direct military confrontation or territorial seizure."

Islam uses terrorism because it works - look at the responses to their Oct 7 attacks or hell 9/11

Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

81 You know who else was an Austrian who staged some epic battles?

Posted by: Alois und Klara at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)

82 Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I think it's to satirize Jew-haters by portraying them as ignoramuses, or people so consumed by Jew-hatred as to not even to be bothered to spell correctly, or both.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

83 slam uses terrorism because it works - look at the responses to their Oct 7 attacks or hell 9/11

Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

*looks up above

I am pretty sure it will be minimized.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (g47mK)

84
That sure is a convoluted and over-lawyerly definition of terrorism.

Simply put, terrorism is the use of violence to instigate change in policy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (KPKlu)

85 WEINER BATTLE

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (UnA8+)

86 I seem to remember a painting from the art thread a year or more ago of a family fleeing a Muslim raid but can't recall the name to find it. Anyone remember that one?

Posted by: Jb at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (yBGaa)

87 Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1

Hear me out, maybe the leaders of the West want their populace terrorized.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (Dv3i1)

88 This battle was one of those turning points in world history.

A muslim victory over Austria/HRE gives them a foot in the door in central Europe.

Historically this was Islam's high water mark and they generally lost lands and influence from then until now, but had they won I worry about how much worse history would have been...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

89 Simply put, terrorism is the use of violence to instigate change in policy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (KPKlu)

you just said it was terrorism "because of choice of weapon". or were you making a joke ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (g47mK)

90 Took a few hundred years but muzzies did conquer Vienna. 40% of school aged kids are Muslim in the city.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (udlma)

91 Jan?
Posted by: man

"Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!"
-- Jan Sobieski

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

92 I believe the Austrians spell the name of the city "Wien." When they founded the town, the Romans called it "Vindobona." According to wiki, it was from Gaulish windo- ("white") and bona ("base/bottom").

"Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

93 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

I was gonna say a lounge singer from the 50s.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (Riz8t)

94 Hear me out, maybe the leaders of the West want their populace terrorized.

Oh I agree. There is some element of personal cowardice, and some element of grifting off our inconsistent and ineffective responses to terrorism, but much like with crime the government class wants a certain level of terrorism so they can persuade LIVs to give up freedoms for the temporary illusion of safety.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (sKqQm)

95 Remember, this was the second Turkish attempt to take Vienna. The first had been in the 1520s under Suleiman "the Magnificent."

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

96 I'm puzzled about the date. A search gave me 1677, but the battle itself was 1683. So what gives?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (s0JqF)

97 Jan Sobieski: "Hey, can I get me a nekkid lardass to sit on these Ottomans?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

98 Western leaders who support "palestine" or turn a blind eye to invasion that is killing their states, are doing it for the money. They are bought off.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (g47mK)

99 Speaking of Vienna Sausages - from the archives

The butcher at the end of the street
With those mega-stores just can't compete
To keep his budget leaner
He puts sawdust in the wieners
"It's so hard to make both ends meat!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

100 >Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.

The way I see it used, it’s meant as an insult, an implication that the people who keep talking about Jews as evil are themselves subhuman illiterates and don’t even know how to spell the object of their obsession.

It was probably a more useful tactic in the days of Illinois Nazis. I doubt the Muslims of Bondi Beach care one way or another as long as they’re allowed to kill more of them.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (EXyHK)

101 Well, they brought the world Bonomo Turkish Taffy. Circus Peanuts, too, I think.

Posted by: Endorsed By Dentists Everywhere. at December 15, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)

102 Battle of Vienna in the American Civil War"

My old stomping grounds...Vienna, Fairfax, east to Gallows Road... kinda miss it at times....

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)

103 Historically this was Islam's high water mark and they generally lost lands and influence from then until now, but had they won I worry about how much worse history would have been...
___

Kim Stanley Robinson, writer of the Mars series about the colonization and terraforming of same, had a follow up series of an alternate history where Islam conquered Europe. No idea how critical of this he was, the jacket blurb seemed to indicate he was sympathetic to the death cult, which sickened me enough to avoid his writing from then on out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (Dv3i1)

104 My farcebook feed had these three threads near the top when I checked it last night:

1) Trump is rayciss and anti-Islamic in not wanting Somali refugees

2) Some people did some things on a beach in Australia

3) Some people did some things to some Brown college students in the US

Wonder how many people are getting how #1 is the solution for #2/3?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (sKqQm)

105 Prince Albert the pipe tobacco is no longer sold in the little tin, or even in the pouch. You can only get it, I think, in a 7- or 8-oz. can. The same is sadly true of a lot of the old "drugstore" or "codger" blends like Carter Hall (which until recently came in a pouch *inside* a small box) and Granger.

You can still get Half & Half in a pouch, and Captain Black in its various flavors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

106 It seems that the AI bubble may be starting to deflate in a rapid and unplanned manner. (Insty)

Oracle’s collapsing stock shows the AI boom is running into two hard limits: physics and debt markets.

Oracle’s rapid descent from market darling to market warning sign is revealing something deeper about the AI boom, experts say: no matter how euphoric investors became over the last two years, the industry can’t outrun the laws of physics—or the realities of debt financing.

Shares of Oracle have plunged 45% from their September high and lost 14% this week after a messy earnings report revealed it spent $12 billion in quarterly capital expenditures, higher than the $8.25 billion expected by analysts.

Earnings guidance was also weak, and the company raised its forecast for fiscal 2026 capex by another $15 billion. The bulk of that is going into data centers dedicated to OpenAI, Oracle’s $300 billion partner in the AI cycle.

Eventually, investors will expect to see returns on the industry’s massive cap-ex expenses — half a trillion dollars in 2024, another $550-$600 billion in 2025, and likely that much more again in 2026.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:02 AM (Riz8t)

107 It was probably a more useful tactic in the days of Illinois Nazis. I doubt the Muslims of Bondi Beach care one way or another as long as they’re allowed to kill more of them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (EXyHK)

I don't care what they think, it brings me joy to mock them regardless.

I also don't care what anyone thinks when i say "wypipo" mockingly, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (JwNbV)

108 Most peoples quirks and mental afflictions aren't a laughing matter, but Muldoon has made mental illness great again!

Posted by: MMIGA!! at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (oftw2)

109 We don't need to "imagine" what would happen "if" islamonazis conquer this or that country, we are looking at it ! Look at Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. Lands that had either majority, or healthy non-Muslim populations not so long ago.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (g47mK)

110 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.
*
I was gonna say a lounge singer from the 50s.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025

***
Like the lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine, Vic Something. Yeah, I can see it. "Tonight, direct from Las Vegas: Vin Dobona!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

111 Via Insty - Rebel News' Avi interviews survivor of Bondi Beach massacre - transcript (Link goes to 'The Conservative Woman in UK)

https://tinyurl.com/mwnkyb8r

Horror plus useless police, callous officials.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (Dv3i1)

112 Has the dreaded backlash in Australia begun?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (udlma)

113 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

It's crappy flour. "Vercingetorix" brand is much better.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

114 Target stock:

https://tinyurl.com/ms44kvp7

Oof.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (abIsI)

115 Perfect painting for the day after Bondi. Thanks cbd.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (2NHgQ)

116 Look at Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. Lands that had either majority, or healthy non-Muslim populations not so long ago.
Posted by: runner

Pope Leo (idiot), said Lebanon is perfect example of moslims and Christians living side by side as peaceful neighbors.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (Dv3i1)

117 I think the current "problem" with AI is that it is rather expensive resource wise and as people use it more the costs are escalating because the AI companies need more expensive computing/power resources.

Amusingly this is getting part of the FNM that are being paid by tech oligarchs to soften their concerns about global warming and nuclear power.

Because hey if you plebes want to heat your homes or drive to work that is going to kill baby Gaia and that's bad, but if I want to make some money off an AI data center that is replacing writers and software developers that's good!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

118 Little Dagny kitten is sprawled on my desk near the keyboard, rolling over for petting. This is amazing. Maybe by the time she turns five or six she'll sit in a lap once in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

119 "Don't get sawdust in your weiner" needs to become a common turn of phrase, now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (JwNbV)

120 In my area I see plenty of Lebanese Christians - these were real refugees unlike the current Muslim ones too...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (sKqQm)

121
Battles for Vienna Sausages are fierce affairs.

Avoid them at all costs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (GksGT)

122 As Insty said this morning about another group focused on political violence:

"Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

https://instapundit.com/762397/

Not that I'm advocating violence, but it is a simple fact of human life,

that the aggressor, bully, which in this case is muslim worldwide, won't stop until visited with the same level of violence or worse.

Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

123 AI is a tool. Like any tool it can be used efficiently or inefficiently.

I set Paolo Comment here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (udlma)

124 The Sheriff who doesn't like jailing violent criminals

-
Chester: Mr. Dillon! Mr. Dillon! The Clantons are raping, robbing, and killing!

Matt Dillon: Time for me to get the hell out of Dodge!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

125 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.
____

Moslims are close to getting their hands on nukes. No, not in Iran, but in Great Britain and France.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (Dv3i1)

126 How appropriate. (I hope.)

I am astonished by the detail and careful use of color. The power of movement and clash of armies is captured so well. Considering the materials available in the 1600s, painting such a chaotic, crowded scene while keeping the details distinct is amazing.

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (yTvNw)

127 Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

I think a number of the "AI Data Centers" are just super surveillance estates being built under our noses and with an amazingly plausible excuse. I'm not usually wrong about this stuff.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (zALxA)

128 Little Dagny kitten is sprawled on my desk near the keyboard, rolling over for petting. This is amazing. Maybe by the time she turns five or six she'll sit in a lap once in a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When you move to Indiana and she becomes a Purdue Boilermakers fan, all bets will be off.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

129 Pope Leo (idiot), said Lebanon is perfect example of moslims and Christians living side by side as peaceful neighbors.

==

you must forgive him, he was born just a few months ago

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (g47mK)

130 Force to instigate a change in policy also describes warfare.

Terrorism implies force directly against non-combatants.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (JwNbV)

131 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.

Crusaders vs. Infidels: This time they aren't stopping.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (lXoJ5)

132 In most Western European cities either majorities or close to majorities of kids in schools are Muslim. 25 years from they will run the continent.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

133 Sabaton, "Winged Hussars":

https://tinyurl.com/32exhzcv

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (IG3/x)

134 Appropriate choice today.

Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (Q9azA)

135
One of the first things rob reiner and his awful sister did after their father Carl died in 2020 was go on Twitter and tell people all that mattered to their father was defeating Trump.

So don't be surprised when Meathead's rotten sister uses her own brother's murder for her true "cause," the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (KPKlu)

136
"Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

This is the problem all over the place.

The left and Islam have figured out violence, and specifically terrorism, work.

The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (sKqQm)

137 If Lebanon is an example of peaceful living I’d hate to see what a non-peaceful example is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (udlma)

138 lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine"

A show that also had a Del Floria's Tailor Shop...

(See previous thread)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

139 Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Yes, and for their hot babes. And also for their support of strippers.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

140
No matter how many
Leagues you run
Smiting Turks
Is so much fun!
Vindobona

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (GksGT)

141
Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025

***
Ask 'em what happened to Polski Wyrob pickles.

If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

142
btw, hollywood celerys have a long, dark history of creating Monsters.

It's rare for actors to have normal children. Quite rare, in fact.

rob reiner created his own monster with his distorted, evil "values"

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (KPKlu)

143 I always look at paintings like this and think, "As an artist, where do you start?" The intimidation factor of a blank canvas, knowing it will be filled with hundreds of bodies must be daunting.

Posted by: red speck at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (Ve/HL)

144 Ayaan Hirsi Ali is my hero :

https://tinyurl.com/5ayfvxdu

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)

145 If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

146 Caption:

"Before all the World and God Himself, I declare that: Armour's makes the best Vienna Sausages!!!

"You godless bastard! Libby's makes the best. Die heathen!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

147
'Tis food you seek?
Well you're in luck
Just fall in behind
Our delivery truck
Vindobona

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (GksGT)

148 I knew a few Muslim people in the US prior to 9/11. They were "moderate" as in they dressed and acted like any other Americans.

But 9/11 changed all that - a few years later you could see women in Burkas pushing baby carriages down the street.

Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

149
Also, I'll bet my left nut at least 3 of You People has a can of Beenie Weenies in the cabinet.

Posted by: Monty Hall Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (KPKlu)

150 I love Vienna sausages.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

151
Mr. Reiner's long race to keep his crown as "World's Crashingest Bore" is over at last.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (GksGT)

152 lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine"
*
A show that also had a Del Floria's Tailor Shop...

(See previous thread)
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025

***
It did indeed, as a nod to Peter Allan Fields. He was a story editor and writer on DS9, and he had been one of the two or three top writers for U.N.C.L.E. in its day, penning some of their best episodes in Seasons One and Two.

The story goes that he went in to talk to Sam Rolfe, the creator and producer of the show. Fields had never written for TV, so he figured "an act a day couldn't kill you." So he showed up four days later with a complete script, amazing Rolfe, who'd expected to get only a treatment at that point. And they shot it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

153 Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.
Posted by: 18-1

Yep. The whole fight them there not here,
thing was such a disgrace in hindsight. He sent thousands of Americans to die over there while importing millions over here.

Hope he burns in hell for eternity with Cheney.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (udlma)

154 So I guess Sally Struthers is the last-surviving regular cast member from AITF.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

155 Battle Of Vienna

The cheap labor to do the work that Austrians won't do is here! Let them in!

Posted by: Austrian GOPe at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (Bq1P8)

156 Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

He needed to close every mosque permanently on 9/12. For a start.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (zALxA)

157 125 Moslims are close to getting their hands on nukes. No, not in Iran, but in Great Britain and France.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (Dv3i1)

And they already have them in Pakistan.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

158 IMO, Vienna sausages became inedible when they started making them from chicken and turkey offal rather than honest, god-fearing beef and pork offal.

The same thing happened with hot dogs, except that you CAN still buy premium beef and pork hot dogs. Not so with Vienna sausages, or at least not that I've seen.

Poultry is delicious in its place, but that place isn't anywhere near anything called a "sausage".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (IG3/x)

159 If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes, Banacek was. But the plots were dazzling -- John Dickson Carr "impossible crimes" come to TV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

160 I love Vienna sausages."

I prefer Norm's Beer and Wine in Vienna...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (XuXeR)

161
Also, I'll bet my left nut at least 3 of You People has a can of Beenie Weenies in the cabinet.
Posted by: Monty Hall Soothsayer

We keep our beanies separate from our weenies, thank you very much!

Impure thoughts abound when those two get together without adult supervision.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (GksGT)

162 I got yer Polish Sausage right here
- Paoloski

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (udlma)

163 148 Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

Shrub's family was owned by the Saudis, especially by prince Al-Waleed Bin-Talal.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 10:20 AM (UnA8+)

164 Yep. The whole fight them there not here,
thing was such a disgrace in hindsight.

We couldn't very well have had W say, "Don't fight them once they're here!", could we? Even though it is the same.

Posted by: The UniParty at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Bq1P8)

165 117 I think the current "problem" with AI is that it is rather expensive resource wise and as people use it more the costs are escalating because the AI companies need more expensive computing/power resources.

Amusingly this is getting part of the FNM that are being paid by tech oligarchs to soften their concerns about global warming and nuclear power.

There was an article a couple of days ago that described a push by Elon and others to eventually build data centers in space. This would have the benefit of constant solar power, radiative cooling, and no need to use up yet more terrestrial real estate for data centers. (A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

The cost of getting all the necessary hardware into space is an obvious impediment.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

166 Mr. Reiner's long race to keep his crown as "World's Crashingest Bore" is over at last.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (GksGT)

He carved out quite a niche for himself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (dK+Kv)

167 Were the Aussie women police told to stand down while the shooting kept going on for 45 mins cowardly or told to stand down? I could believe either at this point.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Dv3i1)

168 Battle Of Vienna
Pauwel Casteels

Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

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"The Siege and Battle of Vienna[a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683[2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Habsburg monarchy, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of Polish King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states. The battle marked the first time the Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans. The defeat was a major turning point for the Ottoman Empire and their expansion into Europe, after which they would gain no further ground." Wikipedia, in part.

Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit (or Venimus, vidimus et Deus vicit) is a Latin phrase meaning "We came, we saw, God conquered," a religious adaptation of Julius Caesar's famous "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), famously used by Polish King John III Sobieski after his decisive victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, attributing the triumph to divine intervention. (AI Overview)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

169 @167 - who edits these comments? Are we supposed to self-edit or something?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (Dv3i1)

170 Shrub's family was owned by the Saudis, especially by prince Al-Waleed Bin-Talal.
Posted by: XTC

The Bush family was such a malign influence on this country.

I guess he really didn't have any choice, but choosing Bush Sr. as his running mate was Reagan's greatest mistake.

(Bush Sr. was still a better veep than Ford would've been, though. At least Bush supported Reagan while veep. Ford would've only tried to undermine him, a la Mike Pence and Trump.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

171 Back to the Bush boogeyman.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (KDPiq)

172
When our "Intrepid Liason" shows up, you'll see. Of course they will politicize this. Of course they will blame Us & Trump.

But how, Soothie, you ask?

It will be easy for them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (KPKlu)

173 Have all been following the TPUSA inanity? Candace Owens and her merry band of online retards have been on a jihad to prove that Charlie’s murder was an inside job. Erika Kirk orchestrated it all with the help of TPUSA’s leadership, Israel (of course) and also France.

It’s like the new JFK nutbaggery with all sorts of theories about cell phone calls and who was where and when.

It’s got so insane that TPUSA is having an online thing today to address it.

There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

174 You guys make about as much sense as the DU. Time for another break.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (KDPiq)

175 "Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

This is the problem all over the place.

The left and Islam have figured out violence, and specifically terrorism, work.

The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1

We're just not there yet. We have an answer for that.

Ending bloodlines is just a start.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (QVuuq)

176 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong.

This will be blamed on Trump for not fixing inflation in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

177 154 So I guess Sally Struthers is the last-surviving regular cast member from AITF.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Meathead never should've left her for that commune in California.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (0bjKf)

178 We keep our beanies separate from our weenies, thank you very much!

Impure thoughts abound when those two get together without adult supervision.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (GksGT)

We like to keep our beanies safely stored below the weenies after a youthful mishap.

Posted by: Ted at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (dK+Kv)

179 Explain how GWB *wasn't * a horrible President.

I'm all ears.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (Wi4mf)

180 Vigilance morons.

@jsolomonReports
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5m
>>FBI arrests alleged pro-Palestinian group members accused of planning New Year's Eve bombings in LA

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (viF8m)

181 "Weenie Beanie" would make a good brand name for condoms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (IG3/x)

182 I heard that Ranier erupted?

(too soon?)

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (onZb0)

183 Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

https://is.gd/odS5aj

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

184 Explain how GWB *wasn't * a horrible President.

I'm all ears.
Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus

The only thing he did that I approved of was Stuxnet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

185
What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (KPKlu)

186 I heard that Ranier erupted?

(too soon?)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Well, he used to. Into Grace Kelly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

187 "Weenie Beanie" would make a good brand name for condoms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (QVuuq)

188 What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer

Both.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

189 A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

Not Merrifield Garden?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (XuXeR)

190 Art: Fair- looks like some painstaking work there.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (6qf1m)

191 Muldoon has made mental illness great again!

*********

Asylum Seeker - a limerick

That gives me an interesting thought
Just act crazy if you ever get caught
They won't torture you or shoot you
And they sure won't execute you
Instead you'll get three 'hots' and a cot!

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (/iMjX)

192 My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes, Banacek was. But the plots were dazzling -- John Dickson Carr "impossible crimes" come to TV.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

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Similar experience -- loved Banacek as a kid, but it didn't age as well when the wifey and I tried to watch it about 5 years ago.

As was common with shows from the period, every episode had a different beautiful guest-starring woman to be the love interest of the week.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (LkTFp)

193 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Posted by: CBD

Indeed!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (kfTpm)

194 A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

Not Merrifield Garden?

That's the one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

195 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong.

This will be blamed on Trump for not fixing inflation in 2022.

Oh, just wait for the uproar over his latest tweet.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (Bq1P8)

196 Has Zombie Meathead tweeted that his son killing him and his wife was Trump's fault?

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (dCxaZ)

197 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

Glorified pothead, Rogan, was shoveling this stuff early. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (dK+Kv)

198
Damn.

They say the more stab wounds, the more "passionate" the motive. Passion, as in "hate," of course.

(don't they say that? Am I dreaming it?)

You've got one sick, angry fuck to stab the shit outta someone, and it's usually someone You Know. But your own mother??

That's one sick fuck.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (KPKlu)

199 That's the one."

Damn. That's a shame...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

201 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

202 What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer

City of Lost Angels.

I seriously doubt someone would waste time and energy on Louisiana. Nothing against Louisiana, just not a big enough bang for their buck, so to speak.

Nothing against Louisiana, but not when LA is just sitting there.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (QVuuq)

203 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything.

Except that many of them are NOT imbeciles in the traditional sense. Academia is rife with fools, but fools are not necessarily imbeciles.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

204 200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.
Posted by: SMOD

There is still a future for internal combustion engines. Nice!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (Dv3i1)

205 Finally, it all makes sense.

https://is.gd/RUmQGO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

206 195 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong."

No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

207 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning
Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)
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Menthols

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (UAGeO)

208 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville, not Manassas.

I'm so effing sick of the damn data centers. The wife and I drove up Route 28 to Dulles Town Center on Saturday, and those ugly monstrosities are EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

209 Damn. That's a shame...

Indeed, but I've always thought it was a matter of time. That land is too valuable to store trees and shrubs on it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

210 The art....

Have we had this one before? It seems familiar.
I'm not a fan of this one. Its dark and the muddy colors make it an almost indistinguishable blob. Yes one can see some of the individual figures, but for the most it's just hard to see anything distinctive. I suppose that could be a good depiction of a battle at dusk during that time period. . Perhaps if one were standing on a hill above the fray this is what it would truly look like.... A mass of people and horses moving around with very little distinction and very hard to really see what's going on. I suppose that makes it an accurate representation but still not a fan.
Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

211 183 Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

https://is.gd/odS5aj
Posted by: Archimedes
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Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability. Gref might know more about it but I recall even several years ago astronauts discussing having to do reboots several times per day due to cosmic radiation causing bit flips in memory and other issues.

Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

212 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

213 DDG AI: Are there Muslim mayors in the U.S? If there are Muslim mayors in the U.S. what are the names of the cities and what are their names?

Yes, there are Muslim mayors in the United States, and their numbers have grown significantly in recent years, particularly following the 2025 elections which marked a record milestone for Muslim American political representation.
As of late 2025, several U.S. cities have Muslim mayors, including major and smaller municipalities across multiple states.

Notable Muslims

Zohran K. Mamdani, NYC
Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn, known for its large Muslim population,... reflects a broader trend of Muslim political engagement in the region.
Mo Baydoun, Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Faizul Kabir, College Park, Maryland.
Ted Green, East Orange, New Jersey,
Mohamed Khairullah of Prospect Park, New Jersey,
Other New Jersey municipalities ...
Cranbury, Montgomery Township, Mount Laurel, Mountain Lakes, Chatham, and Washington Township ...

2025 election... at least 5 Muslim mayors elected ..., & resulted in 42 winning public office in 9 states, ...

increased civic engagement, demographic shifts, & grassroots organizing w/in Muslim community

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (uGpeQ)

214 If you are going to take Vienna, TAKE VIENNA.

Posted by: Napoleon at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)

215 200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.
Posted by: SMOD

Great news! Can I install said pistons in my Chevette Scooter?

Posted by: Lowered Expectations at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (oftw2)

216 36 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Don't forget Philadelphia, Mecca of the West, and its ring counties.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

217 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO
Posted by: muldoon

Mi

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (QVuuq)

218 168 "The Siege and Battle of Vienna[a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683[2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Habsburg monarchy, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of Polish King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

Thanks for the information...this was a turning point in history.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (y171U)

219
I suppose the *real* reason, or, chief reason, that President wants D.C. "cleaned up" is to make it easier for our inept Federal agents to prevent terror attacks during FIFA. Yes?

Also, there's no way L.A. will be safe nor secure during the stupid Olympics. So, yeah, good luck with that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (KPKlu)

220 Mentioned this on yesterday's book thread. After CBD used a Louis Melendez still life painting on the art thread a couple of weeks ago I got a copy of his works put out by the National Gallery. His work is wonderful. I will be enjoying the book for years. I have a few others like this inspired by selections from the thread.

The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (yTvNw)

221 No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK

HATRED GROWING STRONGER
NONE SURVIVE MY WRATH
SUFFER FROM THE THROBBING PAIN
YIELD YOUR LIFE TO ME

Posted by: Slayer at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)

222 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I didn't even know Jackstraw was arrested.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (dK+Kv)

223 219: Nobody walks in L.A.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY)

224 The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.
Posted by: JTB

I prefer the nipples on the Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

225 I just heard from Girl F.'s FiL in Sydney. He says the situation is somber and volatile, like the "other shoe is about to drop." It is not a big community, everyone knows someone who was killed or injured. This is a one-degree of separation event.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (UAGeO)

226 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville"

Yeah, that's the one that opened about 15 years ago...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (XuXeR)

227
You've got one sick, angry fuck to stab the shit outta someone, and it's usually someone You Know. But your own mother??

That's one sick fuck.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (KPKlu)

The dude was a drug addict and being of hollywood, I'm quite sure he was on multiple anti-depressants.

But we'll never see his toxicology report, so we'll, yet again, not be able to hold Big Pharma accountable for their poison.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Would hang but damn it’s dark.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY)

229 17 Fun note the croissant comes from the Siege of Vienna.

The Turk's symbol as a crescent star, so to celebrate the Austrians created a crescent shaped pastry.

This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

As does coffee.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (rQwsY)

230 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville, not Manassas.

It's actually a very confusing point. Google maps has it in Gainesville, but when I first started going there, the website said it was Manassas. Anyway, it's going away.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

231 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons "

Honda waves... from the 70s.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (XuXeR)

232 Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle
Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

National treasure. We need a monument built.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

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

I have a memory of an outhouse associated with Muldoon (some posted image or response of his to my calling the the artist's rendering of the Obama Presidential Library "The DogEater Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse").

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (pTQH2)

233 >>Similar experience -- loved Banacek as a kid, but it didn't age as well when the wifey and I tried to watch it about 5 years ago.

Most of the filming for that show was done in LA on a set but they did do some filming around the Boston area where Banacek was based. For one episode they rented a storefront in my town and turned it into a coin laundry.

The ladies with bird hands were quite upset that a gauche coin laundry had moved into town and made quite a stink until it was pointed out it was tv set.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (viF8m)

234 The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.
Posted by: JTB

More wretching than ripples here.

Posted by: Gag Me With A spoon at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (oftw2)

235 No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Or from Turd Worlders that come from knife cultures. Like Muzzies among others.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

236 FBI arrests alleged pro-Palestinian group members accused of planning New Year's Eve bombings in LA

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New Year's Eve is a Jewish plot!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

237 The Kirk nonsense isn’t academia or whatever. It’s sick people who are being led by grifters like candy Owens and Jimmy Dore. It’s not even a left vs right thing. Jimmy Dore is a Bernie Bro and Candy is whatever the fuck is she is. It’s not even political it’s nihilism. Burn it all down mentality.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

238 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Sounds like the guards had an impromptu Christmas party that night.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Bq1P8)

239
Honda waves... from the 70s.
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (XuXeR)

Where Honda largely failed with it, Ferrari will fart in their general direction in the long run.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

240 "We do not have the luxury of endless academic debates about Islam vs Islamism while our national identity, sovereignty, and social cohesion are collapsing.

Political Islam has an objective.

It is organised.

It is patient.

And it advances by exploiting the weakness of Western elites"

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)

241 What's "LA?"

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Kt19C)

242 As does coffee."

"C'est marquis, French Roast"

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (XuXeR)

243 >>New Year's Eve is a Jewish plot!

Paris has already cancelled their New Year's Eve festival and numerous Christmas Markets have either been curtailed or cancelled altogether.

Anything we hold sacred or celebrate is being attacked. It's not random.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

244 Given its Hollywood there is a decent chance Reiner’s kid was molested by either his parents or people his parents knew and looked the other way.

That’s the kind of rage that leads to stabbing your victims instead of shooting them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:40 AM (udlma)

245 Ferrari will fart in their general direction"

Or have their wealthy clients thinking it's a "feature "...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)

246
Anything we hold sacred or celebrate is being attacked. It's not random.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

And our 'elites' are allowing it, aiding it and actively participating in it.

Again, they think they'll have a seat at the table when the one islhamic world is in place.

They won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

247 Nobody walks in L.A.
Posted by: Cow Demon

I don't know how they can afford to drive.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (QVuuq)

248 The sad reality is terrorism works.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (udlma)

249 I remember after 9/11 we were on red alert for years, especially as the War started. No one was cancelling football games, or Christmas. We just invested shitton into security.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)

250 M.A. Rothman on Facebook is the one who stated cage Aussue hero was Christian.
He quoted someone off X.

https://tinyurl.com/yayf4tad

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (oWCdy)

251 This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French
____

In France, croissants are part of the 'pâtisseries viennoises' that are the middle ground between pastries and breads. French have their own words for everything.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (Dv3i1)

252 There was a story that Nick Reiner was transitioning.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj)

253 And it advances by exploiting the weakness of Western elites"

The left thinks Islamists are useful idiots helping it implement its model

Islamists think leftists are useful idiots helping them implement their model

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

254 That’s the kind of rage that leads to stabbing your victims instead of shooting them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:40 AM (udlma)

*sideyes trans-kids as fashion accessories*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (dK+Kv)

255
My point is when you type "LA" it could mean a few things.

Twitter has made Americans ILLITERATE BABOONS.

And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

256 There's apparently a gummint program to give free alcohol to homeless people.

Cost: $5 million per annum
Number of clients served: 20
Location: San Francisco. Because of course it is... had to be either there or Portland

I dunno about you, but I'm pretty sure I could keep 20 alkies in booze for considerably less than $5 million/year. It's not like they're demanding Chateau Lafite Rothschild.

There may be some graft involved in this "program"? Ya think?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (IG3/x)

257 It’s not even political it’s nihilism. Burn it all down mentality.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

Nah, it's just "the Jews are to blame for everything bad."

It doesn't have any particular group attached. Every group has them. Hell, when the CEO of Samsung was in trouble for some white collar crime he committed, he blamed it on the Jews of
... South Korea?

These are people who think their dog is a secret Jew when he shits on the floor.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (Wi4mf)

258 don't know how they can afford to drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (QVuuq)

It’s always crazy to me how there are so many luxury cars in LA. Like not here’s a bmw or Porsche randomly. Every fucking car is one. And not a 15 year old one either, brand new or close to new.

I’ve heard it said that since traffic is so bad people spend so much time in their cars they value their car more than where they live. So you have people in shitty studio apartments driving $80k cars.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (udlma)

259 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Paris has already cancelled their New Year's Eve festival and numerous Christmas Markets have either been curtailed or cancelled altogether.
____

Curry shops, halal meats and Paki grooming gangs= Diversity!
Western traditions = Not Diversity

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (Dv3i1)

261 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons
—/

Sure and the cost of manufacturing an oval piston engine is 2 orders of magnitude more. Round is inexpensive to make.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (xvV+O)

262 The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1
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Ireland under the Brits and the breakup of Yugoslavia says differently.

The numbers aren't there yet for the Muslims even in most of Euroland. France is a cipher because of its refusal to do basic demographics---it simply declares everyone there is French. Even in the UK, it is still in single digits (a lot of immigrants to UK are from the Caribbean, India (non Muz) Hindus and Sikhs, and Eastern Europeans.

The difference is Muzzies are concentrated in big cities and thus more noticeable and more assholish. Same in the US with blacks and whites thinking that blacks are about double or triple their actual percentage while underplaying Hispanic numbers.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (WDjG6)

263
So, a still life

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (tgvbd)

264
And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

You should stop it, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

265 259 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge
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Going to lead to rather stupid and predictable cancers, and other health problems like obesity.

Having a bunch of hormones foreign to your genetic makeup is not conducive to a long life and good health.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

266 217 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO
Posted by: muldoon

Mi
Posted by: rickb223

FA away from MI

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (uGpeQ)

267 248 The sad reality is terrorism works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (udlma)

Violence works.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (rQwsY)

268 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (zALxA)

269 I suppose that makes it an accurate representation but still not a fan.
Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

I didn't choose this work for the quality of the art.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (n9ltV)

270 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons

I can't imagine the manufacturing and QA hurdles involved with that. And oval rings?

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (Bq1P8)

271 Damn, first we lose the Dulles Expo Center to Ikea, and now we lose a Merrified Garden Center to an effing data center.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

272 Nah, it's just "the Jews are to blame for everything bad."

It doesn't have any particular group attached. Every group has them. Hell, when the CEO of Samsung was in trouble for some white collar crime he committed, he blamed it on the Jews of
... South Korea?

These are people who think their dog is a secret Jew when he shits on the floor.
Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (Wi4mf)

That’s part of it. But it’s only one component. The Kirk thing is just weird. It’s like ok the Jews did it. That’s standard go to stuff. But then they added France and Egypt to the mix. And Erika Kirk. And the entire TPUSA leadership. And the CIA is involved as well. It goes beyond the standard “Jews control the world” stuff. It’s so over the top it’s like what the fuck is wrong with you people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (udlma)

273 >Where Honda largely failed with it, Ferrari will fart in their general direction in the long run.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Honda had a fair amount of success with oval piston motors in their GP bikes - notably the RC40. As far as I know, Honda sold a street version in very limited numbers - NSR 750. Too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (GTqXr)

274
Sure and the cost of manufacturing an oval piston engine is 2 orders of magnitude more. Round is inexpensive to make.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (xvV+O)

Ferrari is already making smaller displacement, high revving and more horsepower with round cylinders. The ovals will give them more room for more displacement and more horsepower. Their cars are already $200k and up. What do they care about what's 'inexpensive to make?' They'll still sell out the showrooms.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

275 > Sounds like the guards had an impromptu Christmas party that night.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Bq1P

There's an old Cold War story... US Embassy in Moscow, New Year's Eve. The embassy staff is drinking, eating, dancing, having a good time. One of them says "Just think about those poor KGB bastards having to sit there on NYE and listen to us party.

Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (IG3/x)

276 >>>The difference is Muzzies are concentrated in big cities and thus more noticeable and more assholish. Same in the US with blacks and whites thinking that blacks are about double or triple their actual percentage while underplaying Hispanic numbers.
Posted by: whig
----

Headless snakes can't bite.
Snakes can't bite where they don't exist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (uGpeQ)

277 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And they lose the ability to parallel park.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

278 There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.
Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (zALxA)

Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (udlma)

279 258 don't know how they can afford to drive.
Posted by: rickb223
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Short answer, they don't which is why car terms have kept going into longer and longer terms, more and more borrowers for cars are upside down longer, and today's cars may not last through the loan period due to motors and transmission problems due to CAFE bullshit.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (WDjG6)

280
Having a bunch of hormones foreign to your genetic makeup is not conducive to a long life and good health.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

What? How dare you!

Posted by: Ellen "Elliott" Page at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

281 There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.

According to our hospital administrators, vaccines are safe and effective.

Posted by: US Healthcare at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (+3KVp)

282 Follow the link and read the whole thing.

>>@AGPamBondi
·
39m
>>After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).

https://tinyurl.com/yc8b7x2c

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (viF8m)

283
And they lose the ability to parallel park.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

And understand normal thinking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

284 RIP Rob Reiner and his wife.

God grant him grace.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (krQz2)

285 Those Brown U shooting press conferences are like sit coms. They need to add laugh tracks. The gay, clueless mayor. The illegal alien police chief. The alzheimer's governor. The DEI University president. The angry lead investigator with 30 years' experience who ain't taking no crap from nobody. We could call it "Blue City Blues."

Posted by: Squidneck at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (qUkBO)

286
According to our hospital administrators, vaccines are safe and effective.
Posted by: US Healthcare at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (+3KVp)

It's is what Pfizer keeps telling me in all their commercials. It MUST be true, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

287 There's an old Cold War story... US Embassy in Moscow, New Year's Eve. The embassy staff is drinking, eating, dancing, having a good time. One of them says "Just think about those poor KGB bastards having to sit there on NYE and listen to us party.

Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

That's funny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

288 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

From the world's reaction so far.......it won't happen. The west has lost its courage and the core values it once had. The world, except for Russia, China, and Japan is submitting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew8)

289 I understand that Carl Reiner was a big lib, too. But at least he was quiet about it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

290 World, Germany
Germany says it foiled a potential 'Islamist' plot to attack a Christmas market
Authorities said they had arrested five men on suspicion of a plot to plow a vehicle into a Christmas market. It was unclear where the attack was supposed to take place or which market was to be targeted.
Le Monde with AFP, Published and updated yesterday (Paris)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

291 And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

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Baboons aren't too happy with it, either.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (krQz2)

292 My area lost thousands of acres of farmland to Blue Oval and their EV battery boondoggle. A proposed datacenter about 9 miles from me was recently nixed when the public got wind of the idea and opposed it.

The datacenter issue is perplexing. I get that it's popular but nobody's screaming that they can't render flying cats or anime pr0n.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

293 Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (udlma)

The world will always have dummies, yes, but now more than ever you have to question even the followers and their motives, if they have any reach at all.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (zALxA)

294 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (oyazo)

295 Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

About half of any influencer's follower count is peopled by bots and foreign comment mills. And I would suspect her actual US follower account to be well under Turning Point actual members IRL.

Online is bullshit, believing in influencers is bullshit because if you aint paying for it, you are the product being sold to whoever is. No more, no less than the mainstream media is---infotainment to keep the plebes down while the worldwide elites loot the West. Nothing much to loot in most of the Third World.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (WDjG6)

296 So I’m assuming all the moderate Muslims were constantly told are the majority of Muslims condemned the attack. Right? Riiiiiight?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (udlma)

297 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.

Posted by: MJ at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (XOmY9)

298 294 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.
Posted by: Ian S.
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To be fair, they blew their whistles and said, "Stop, or I shall say Stop again!"

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (WDjG6)

299 222 ... "South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I didn't even know Jackstraw was arrested."

Old Bay is for Marylanders. In Rhode Island they use melted butter with lemon. (Unless the Old Bay encroachment has reached that far north.)

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (yTvNw)

300 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

301 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And they lose the ability to parallel park.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

And they become terribly afraid of breaking their fingernails.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

302 R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts 13h

The Brown University mass shooter has been officially identified as 24-year-old Wisconsin native Benjamin Erickson

@rawsalerts . . 11h

At this time, law enforcement says the person of interest, Benjamin Warren Erickson, who was previously detained, who they thought was in the connection to the Brown University shooting, has been released after investigators determined he was not involved.

The gunman remains at large

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (uGpeQ)

303 Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

A college roommate had been stationed in Germany in Army intelligence. His job was to eavesdrop on routine Soviet radio traffic. Every Christmas he and his fellow eavesdroppers would each receive personally addressed Christmas cards from the Kremlin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

304 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (oyazo)

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BREAKING: Muslim Commie Mondami Hires Two Australian Female Cops. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (OgZqo)

305 Did the Ground Zero mosque ever get built?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

306 297 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ

When I heard the news last night, I was thinking either the kid or the Muzzies as they seem to be going on a killing spree. Shot up a house with Hannukah decorations in Redman, CA among other evil acts worldwide. Nasty chancres they are.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

307 A fitting Reiner retrospective

>>>So far as his main talent went, he was pretty much finished.

>>>What he had devoted his life to more recently was TDS, and a constant screeching and hypocritical insanity and malice in his politics. He repeatedly tried to equate Republicanism, MAGAism, and traditional US faith and patriotism with Nazism and Fascism, like many other hysterical Democrats have done. After Robert Reich and Robert Di Nero, he may have been the most vituperative, vindictive and vehement critic of Trump and his administrations around, which is a bronze medal in partisan lunacy earned from a very crowded field of competitors.

https://shorturl.at/oKsfe

Jupplandia substack

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (dK+Kv)

308
"There are no moderate muslhams, only sleeper cells."

- - - - Some Great Man From History

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

309 TPUSA has been addressing all the accusations. If it was just fake bots they would just ignore it. Dismissing everything as just bots is whistling past the graveyard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (udlma)

310 Start the clock on "it turns out the Reiner kid is a troon."

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Wi4mf)

311 Second look at Chinese treatment of Uyghurs?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (rJ48h)

312 "Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays."

You are correct. Rad Hard processors are typically in the 100 of bm. A significant even becomes more likely to disrupt things with the lower voltages used.

Posted by: pawn at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (EMg+d)

313 Nasty chancres they are.
Posted by: whig

Our attorneys will be in touch.
-- Worldwide Amalgamated Association of Nasty Chancres

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

314 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (0UpA0)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

315 Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability. Gref might know more about it but I recall even several years ago astronauts discussing having to do reboots several times per day due to cosmic radiation causing bit flips in memory and other issues.

Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

316 I didn't choose this work for the quality of the art.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM

*nods sagely*

The choice is appreciated.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (bFu5X)

317 289 I understand that Carl Reiner was a big lib, too. But at least he was quiet about it.
Posted by: Bulg

??? Reiner's personal attacks on Trump never stopped. Further -

Influence Watch
Committee to Investigate Russia
Anti-Trump Administration Advocacy Project
Founders: Rob Reiner

In part, "The Committee to Investigate Russia is a left-of-center non-profit founded in 2017 by actor, film producer, and longtime left-progressive activist Rob Reiner.

The Committee provided a left-of-center, anti-Trump perspective on Russia’s influence on America’s elections. Until its disbandment on March 29, 2019 after the issuance of the report of U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Committee’s operations were primarily limited to operating a website, InvestigateRussia org, to aggregate news related to Russia’s election interference in the U.S. and research aggregation related to overall national security threats from Russia.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

318 And of course…

Headline: Australian leaders promise to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre

Yeah that’s the problem. You didn’t ban guns enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (udlma)

319
Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

Oh, that'll work........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

320 What? How dare you!

Posted by: Ellen "Elliott" Page
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Easily I dare, my Lord and Savior wants eternal Truths to be our guide, not human foolishness.

SAS motto is pretty good for Christians too--Who Dares, Wins. Dare to be saved.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (WDjG6)

321 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (XOmY9)

=====

He's been arrested and booked on felony murder charges.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 10:59 AM (DRSnL)

322 >>Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability.

I'm curious how he is going to get a tech to the floating data center every time a server needs to be whacked on the side or turned off and back on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:59 AM (viF8m)

323 Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Oh boy. I can hardly wait. /sarc

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (WDjG6)

324 Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (pTQH2)

********

An outhouse picture labelled "Muldoon's Liberry" was featured on Oregon Muse's Book Thread way back around 10 years ago.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (/iMjX)

325 282 Follow the link and read the whole thing.

>>@AGPamBondi
·
39m
>>After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).

https://tinyurl.com/yc8b7x2c
Posted by: JackStraw
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This is everyday work. They are supposed to be exceptional people this is what we expect of them every day.

Bondi & Company were put in place to exceed expectations.
DOJ has done nothing, no thing, that has exceeded our natural expectations of everyday FBI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (uGpeQ)

326 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

327 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

328 >>He's been arrested and booked on felony murder charges.

Seems he won't have to worry about being homeless any longer. Three hots and a cot courtesy of taxpayers.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (Y1sOo)

329 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (QVuuq)

330 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ
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Apple, tree, measuring stick....

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (krQz2)

331 You are correct. Rad Hard processors are typically in the 100 of bm. A significant even becomes more likely to disrupt things with the lower voltages used.
Posted by: pawn
========
Wonderful.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (WDjG6)

332 Hello, DOJ, bring the tyrants to justice or resign.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (uGpeQ)

333 And they say the schools aren't good at teaching economics!

https://is.gd/JYPn8y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)

334 I gave my girl a Vienna sausage and after that she proposed to me, but I had to turn her down, - I didn't want to live in Vienna.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 11:04 AM (1zOXE)

335 This is everyday work. They are supposed to be exceptional people this is what we expect of them every day.

Bondi & Company were put in place to exceed expectations.
DOJ has done nothing, no thing, that has exceeded our natural expectations of everyday FBI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (uGpeQ)

To be fair, exceeding expectations is stopping all the leftist protection rackets, political imprisonment, and leftist lawfare and getting back to everyday work.

Blondi/Patel have met that, mostly, but I had admittedly low expectations for American stasi reform.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:05 AM (dK+Kv)

336 272 That’s part of it. But it’s only one component. The Kirk thing is just weird. It’s like ok the Jews did it. That’s standard go to stuff. But then they added France and Egypt to the mix. And Erika Kirk. And the entire TPUSA leadership. And the CIA is involved as well. It goes beyond the standard “Jews control the world” stuff. It’s so over the top it’s like what the fuck is wrong with you people.

charlie kirk was getting to close to the truth about the moon "landing".

Posted by: reliable sources at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (v3pYe)

337 334 I gave my girl a Vienna sausage and after that she proposed to me

not gonna check urban dictionary. wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (v3pYe)

338 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson . 2h

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 troops shot in DC
- seditious 6 Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones fantasizing about murdering Republicans & their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump experiencing 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 releasing career criminals onto streets, terrorizing Americans

The left’s violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don’t crush this thre

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (uGpeQ)

339 312 Second look at Chinese treatment of Uyghurs?
Posted by: mr tmz

China seems accepting of Chinese Muslims.
For example, "The Hui people[a] are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces and in the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2020 census, China is home to approximately 11.3 million Hui people." Wikipedia.)

Uyghurs are the second-largest predominantly Muslim ethnicity in China, after the Hui, and Sunni Islam is an important aspect of Uyghur identity. The Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is where the major discrimination and abuses have been alleged.

>USHMM org - US Responses to China’s Crimes Against the Uyghurs, Jan. 19, 2021

CBS News, Rebranding China's conflicted Xinjiang region as a tourist destination, Jan. 7, 2024

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (NFX2v)

340 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Gonna' need another one of those soon.

Posted by: JML at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (EtRph)

341 167 Were the Aussie women police told to stand down while the shooting kept going on for 45 mins cowardly or told to stand down? I could believe either at this point.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

🤷‍♀️

But an Aussie, female police officer stopped (shot and killed) Joel Cauchi who stabbed and killed six people and injured a further twelve in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, April 2024.

Joel was targeting women.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (NFX2v)

342 Okay lets all play King of the Mountain last one there dose the dishes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 15, 2025 04:32 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 12/15/25

Good morning kids. I'm absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah, the festival of lights commemorating a miracle of God bestowed upon the Jewish people and representative of their victory over the literal and figurative forces of darkness millennia ago, is typical of how Muslims who plan, execute and the majority who don't but nevertheless celebrate them.

Islam is a cancer that will consume the entire world. That is the goal. The Jews are merely the first target.

Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage.
Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest.
Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash. . .
. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims. Meanwhile, the Muslim muezzin sounds triumphantly throughout Western Europe and even in American cities of the Upper Midwest. Islamic supremacism is on the march, its triumphalism augmented by its alliance with Western progressives who denounce any reminders of Christianity, including celebrations of Christmas. Burn a Koran or post a meme mocking Islam, and go to prison for a hate crime. Burn a Bible, and hey, you’re bravely speaking truth to power. Citizens of the West all know the drill by now. Will the governments of the Anglosphere learn their lesson from the Western European canary that dropped dead in the coal mine? Events in locales as varied as Minnesota and the United Kingdom (it appears as if all of Albion is bent over and grabbing its ankles, undergoing a government cavity search) suggest that the answer is probably no. To paraphrase the otherwise cartoonish James Carville, it’s the demography, stupid.

If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community —Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews.. Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others

Members of the ‘devil’s party’ don’t create: they take what someone else made, and invert it.
Understand that simple reality and you will understand the macro and the micro struggles all around us. When Muslim terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into buildings, they weren’t creating anything, but they also weren’t just destroying things, they were inverting them.
What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.
Representative governments become unrepresentative. Educational systems inculcate ignorance. The infrastructure of civilian life, buses, planes, trucks, become weapons. And the infrastructure of ideas and morality are inverted the same way to become their opposites.
Ideological inversion is everywhere and it’s the dominant form of political discourse.

Brooks et al are Democrat/Leftists. This is who and what they are. And so, to obtain and maintain power, they'll stay silent or otherwise nod and a wink if not give a standing ovation when Jews are slaughtered, so as not to alienate if not to ingratiate themselves to Muslims and fellow anti-Semites who vote them into office.

On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated.

May the Lord bless the memories of the victims, comfort their loved ones and keep all of you safe as the Christmas season begins.

Have a good day.

On a personal note, a shout out to commenter AVIATOR, for your advice and insights, they're most helpful. I'll reach out to you a little later and many thanks again.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Post sources confirmed the bodies discovered were the longtime couple, who married in 1989. The couple’s 32-year-old son and screenwriter Nick Reiner is a person of interest in the deadly stabbing, the sources added.
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
Daniel Greenfield: Evil tries to convince us that the world we live in is evil. And destroying it is good.
Evil Can’t Create, It Can Only Invert

* * * * *
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
The attack, the deadliest in nearly three decades in Australia, has sparked worldwide condemnation and calls for increased security and action against rising antisemitism.
11 Dead in Anti-Semitic Sydney Terror Shooting.
A Chanukah by the Sea event with upwards of 1,000 attendees was scheduled to take place near a children’s playground from 5pm and had begun when the attack began at the iconic beach.
12 People, Including One Gunman, Shot Dead at Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jewish Community Targeted in ‘Terror Attack’
Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old father and fruit shop owner, tackled a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack.
WATCH: Civilian Ambushes Terrorist At Bondi Beach, Wrestles Rifle Away
At the time of the shooting, hundreds had gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah in an area known as Chanukah by the Sea, PBS reported. Emergency services began responding to Campbell Parade in Bondi around 6:45 p.m. local time after reports of shots being fired, according to The Associated Press.
Twelve Killed In Shooting Targeting Jewish Community At Australia’s Bondi Beach, Police Say
This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them.
A Chanukah Terrorist Attack in Australia
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to heed multiple warnings about the rising tide of hate — including from human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky (himself wounded Sunday), who spoke out Dec. 1 after graffiti reading “F–k Zionist Israel,” and “Israel has blood on their hands,” appeared on Bondi Beach overnight. And Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Albanese months ago, thundering that his call to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire” and “emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack
Antisemitic attacks in Australia have reportedly been rising, with the worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years occurring Saturday. A video previously posted by the Australian Jewish Association on Oct. 9, 2023 shows a large group of people waving various Palestinian flags and chanting obscenities against Jews from the steps of Sydney’s Opera House.
FLASHBACK: Islamists Gathered To Chant ‘F*ck The Jews’ After Oct. 7 Just Minutes From Beach Shooting Site
Both U.S. and Israeli officials warned that recognizing a 'Palestinian' state—which Albanese did in September—would embolden anti-Semites
Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others (Brooks et al should only be 6 feet under a lawn as worm food - jjs)
Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community—Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews

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

Will the ruling class rule forever?
Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, and Revolution

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
Federal assault charges have been filed against the suspects, and the agent involved was safely recovered.
African Migrant Faces Charges After ‘Kidnapping’ of Homeland Security Agent in Walz’s Minnesota.
Calling Miller a white supremacist is a disgusting reach, and suggesting he’s akin to a Nazi is a disgraceful smear.
Bro-Fo Omar’s attacks on Stephen Miller reveal Dems' broken immigration narrative
The lawsuit challenges the fee as unconstitutional and claims it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, while the administration argues the fee is a lawful measure to prioritize American workers.
Democrats Are Suing Trump Over H-1B Visa Fee Protecting American Workers.
How can there be a legal injury in removing a citizen of Somalia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Mexico, or any other country, from the U.S.?
Deportation Is The Only ‘Due Process’ Illegal Aliens Deserve
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
According to the Bild newspaper, three Moroccans aged 22, 28, and 30 were arrested alongside a 37-year-old Syrian and a 56-year-old Egyptian suspected of planning to use a vehicle to attack people at a Christmas market in the town of Dingolfing.
Germany: Five Arrested over Alleged Islamist Terror Plot Against Christmas Market
Islam is on the march.
On Civilizational Erasure
U.S.-based filmmaker, evangelist and founder of Truth Nigeria, Judd Saul, told the Caller that extremists are mobilizing units in preparation for a mass assault on Christian regions of Nigeria.
~~Islamic Extremists~~ Typical Muslims Prepare To Slaughter Hundreds On Christmas, Local Intel Warns
And thereby presents a lesson for the West.
Afghanistan Arrests Men for Wearing Suits
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
It's far worse than Minnesota.
California: everything's bigger, even fraud
Allowing state entities to handle federal benefits prevents fraud.
No, States Aren’t “Stealing” From Foster Children
David Harsanyi: During this week’s oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time — warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.” Great. It’s about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated.
The left flaunts its hypocrisy as Supreme Court curbs bureaucrats’ power

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Concerns over the economy might affect Republican chances in the midterms.
Trump to WSJ: Economic Boost May Take More Time, Americans May Take ‘While’ to Realize.
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Affordability has suddenly become the centerpiece of Democrat messaging. But leftist policies make everything more expensive.
The Myth of Affordability
What will the Supreme Court decide? The case is not as simple as some like to claim.
The Rings of Power and the Trump Tariffs

CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION
Candace Owens exploited a national tragedy for clicks, choosing spectacle over truth and compassion while undermining a movement built on moral clarity.
Candace Owens Turned Charlie Kirk’s Murder Into a Stage for Herself
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Col. Oscar Perez, Providence police chief, said at a news conference that the detained suspect was in their 30s, WJAR reported. Authorities are not currently searching for anyone else.
Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody
New York City data once again suggest that the answer is no.
Does Poverty Cause Crime?
Shouldn't sheriffs want to jail violent criminals?
The Sheriff who doesn't like jailing violent criminals
The attack is just the latest high-profile violent crime by a homeless person in New York City and comes amid growing uncertainty about safety in America’s most populous city.
Mother Stabbed by Homeless Maniac at Macy’s While Changing Baby.
New Yorkers have a right to a safe city.
Mamdani has no solid plan for New York City’s homeless epidemic
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Without independent judgment, technology perfects systems of control rather than systems of liberty.
The AI Illusion: How Technocracy Threatens Human Freedom
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The administration's decision will reverse three decades of decline.
Trump’s Nuclear Power ‘Renaissance’
For years, politicians managed to hide the damage caused by the green transformation.
The Green Elysium Is Dying on All Fronts
After decades of climate panic, the left quietly abandoned the weather—proof its causes shift not with science or facts, but with whatever outrage best sustains power, protest, and cultural revolt.
What Happened to the Climate Change Cult?
While Europe freezes under net-zero dogma, Norway drills, profits, and keeps the lights on—funding EV virtue with oil and gas while the EU chooses ideology over arithmetic.
Norway Avoids ‘Green’ Energy Quicksand

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
After the Supreme Court deadlocked on that question, Tennessee’s attorney general teed it up in his state.
Are Religious Charter Schools Constitutional?
The dumbing down of education, and American culture, continues apace.
Ebonics: bad ideas never entirely die
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The DOJ has now sued 18 states, along with Fulton County, over election-related records access.
Trump DOJ Sues Fulton County for 2020 Election Ballot Records.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
It’s becoming almost an entry requirement for Democrats seeking high office to be serial liars.
Wes Moore: another Democrat serial fabulist?
POLITICS
MAGA Republicans are going to prevail. We are going to applaud so much that our hands will hurt.
An optimistic prediction for the midterms
Despite holding a supermajority in the upper chamber, 21 of the Senate’s 40 Republican senators joined Democrats in defeating the proposed map (31-19). The measure had previously cleared the state House (57-41) last week.
Indiana’s Redistricting Surrender Illustrates Why Primaries Matter
"Occupy cast a long shadow over left-wing politics... A great deal of the party’s intellectual leadership is embarrassed by cultural radicalism... The best predictor of support for Mamdani was the recency of one’s arrival in the city.”
Mamdani and the Future of the Left
The nightmare of Democrat congressional rule is moving forward, based on GOP complacency. Here's what it would mean...
Republicans are Facing an Extinction Event
Roger Kimball: Aristotle gave virtue its theory; Trump gives it blunt instruction—common sense, hard work, and perseverance—an unscholarly ethics that nonetheless meets the moment.
Trumpomachean Ethics
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
If Trump brings peace, Zelensky’s gravy train comes to an end.
Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’
Zelenskyy arrived at the Chancellery ahead of the expected talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, part of a series of meetings in Berlin between Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials.
Zelensky Offers to Give Up NATO Dreams, But Does Not Budge on Territorial Concessions
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
A congressional China panel warns Beijing’s global repression now reaches U.S. soil, urging tougher action as trade diplomacy collides with human rights, security, and American sovereignty.
China Commission Urges Action on Transnational Repression
Donald Trump outplays Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Putin... not to mention his own domestic critics.
The Trump Doctrine
The resignation underscores Bulgaria’s political instability as it prepares to join the Eurozone, with new elections likely adding further uncertainty.
European Government Collapses Amid Anti-Tax and Anti-Corruption Protests.
Deep inside they must know that President Trump is right.
Trump has a point about Europe
Trump’s National Security Strategy ditches diplomatic niceties, calling out Europe’s ruling class for decline, cowardice, and surrender—while Washington shows more backbone than Europe’s own leaders.
Trump Is Right to Lambaste Europe
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X Saturday.
Two U.S. Army Soldiers and Interpreter Killed in Syria, Three Wounded; Trump Promises Retaliation
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
State-sanctioned euthanasia not only pressures patients to choose suicide, but also inevitably ends in health care systems forcing suicide on patients.
Pritzker Signs Law Welcoming State-Sanctioned Suicide To Illinois (even if thousands of Dems off themselves, they'll still bevotng Democrat rom the grave, forever! - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
...it has been competition and freedom that has made all the difference. Before, all rockets were owned or controlled by government monopolies, which limited risk or creativity and kept costs high. Now, they are owned and controlled by private companies, who are incentivized by competition to lower costs and attract as many new customers as possible. Even in communist China this concept has been used (under tight government supervision) to achieve the same ends.
The two American launches today set a new global annual launch record
exceeding 300+
The star in the center is an ancient red giant that is in the initial stages of dying. As it does so it periodically erupts, sending out jets of material from its poles. The result is this elongated shape.
The beginnings of a planetary nebula
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It has an object of worship, which is female autonomy, its own commandments, theological virtues, a sacrament, and even its own form of evangelization.
How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World
Trans-identifying lawyer Chase Strangio couldn’t present a coherent definition of ‘sex’ without resorting to feelings and ideological babble.
Trans Lawyer Who Asked SCOTUS To Redefine ‘Sex’ Can’t Produce A Definition When Asked
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Nihilism’s vacuum is driving young Americans toward toxic surrogate faiths, and only a Church grounded in spiritual duty—not political obsessions—can offer the meaning they’re seeking.
Nihilism, Anti-Zionism, and the Church’s Ongoing Failure
The world’s first Christian nation is wrestling with its soul.
Armenia’s Spiritual Earthquake And The Warning America Cannot Ignore
Thad McCotter: Lisa De Pasquale’s handbook is a practical, no-nonsense guide for a generation that never needed anyone’s approval.
A Sojourn of Sanity: Lisa De Pasquale’s ‘The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age’
The lessons taught in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” have a very real-world application.
Marley’s Gift of Christmas Love — A Divine Revelation of Hell
Christian Toto: Neither Late-Night nor NBC sketch show will mock ex-conservative pundits
Why ‘SNL’ Won’t Touch Crazy Candace, Troubled Tucker

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1 Sad Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

2 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 15, 2025 07:00 AM (Ytdv9)

3
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest

Guns and White Supremacy. You don't hear of legendary directors being murdered in their homes in Europe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (tljrc)

5 Terrible news, here and abroad

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (20Wti)

6 From the Greenfield piece:

The revolution begins with inversion because its purpose is not to liberate, but to enslave. The only way to justify the revolution is, as Orwell warned, by making freedom look like slavery and slavery like freedom. Everything good about our lives, children are told, is really the proceeds of the crime of privilege and the only way to make the world better is to make it that much worse.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:04 AM (gbOdA)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:05 AM (NwnyJ)

8 Am Yisrael Chai.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 15, 2025 07:07 AM (B3OIK)

9 Top 10 and happy about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:09 AM (lXoJ5)

10 Good morning. Such sad news today and this weekend. Husband and I were in interior VA working our way to his work destination. Heartened by the Christmas lights and families out one night and next day found a cute little diner. Lovey people running it and so nice to be part of the community for a meal. On dark days holding onto all the tiny bits of light.

Posted by: Paisley at December 15, 2025 07:10 AM (P9pDS)

11 Notably, the yearly H-1B visa cap of 85,000 is almost always exceeded through loopholes in the law.

California hires PE teachers via H1B.
Why, because they can be fired or moved where needed unlike Union Teachers that a actually permanent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

12 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Last week of classes (Finals Week). All I have left to do is grade the final assignments and I'm DONE. But that probably won't happen until next weekend because my students like to procrastinate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:13 AM (ESVrU)

13 Posted by: Paisley at December 15, 2025 07:10

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:14 AM (looXz)

14 mornin yall. Cue the Meathead memorials.

*types, deletes*

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

15 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
A Happy Hanukkah to Hordians of the Jewish persuasion. A tough follow up, but be safe out there.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (D+mpw)

16 One thing about the Australia massacre was, there is so much video of the events

that stood out for me, not sure why

From what I've read, the police response was less than inspired

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (ZxPkt)

17 Thanks J.J. for the article from "American Thinker" on "A Christmas Carol".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (Nx5jP)

18 Bush and Obama reminded numerous times that the murderous Islamic death cult is a religion of peace.

*types, deletes*

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

19 Thank you JJ.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:19 AM (LHPAg)

20 From what I've read, the police response was less than inspired
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (ZxPkt)

2 different witnesses said that the popo were there for almost 20 minutes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

21 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (D+mpw)

22 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

23 'Oikophobe' is a great word.

It should be deployed often against anybody with D next to their name.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

24 @18 Bush called Islam a "religion of peace" because if his families ties with the Saudis. And the Bushies are asshoe
Obama said that because he's a commie muzzie puke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (D+mpw)

25 The kneejerk refrain during events that expose the ideological divide and tests a sense of common humanity is that "we shouldn't demonize those who hold a different view that ours." But that's not it exactly, is it? It's not like that between Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Henry. It's that one side actively wishes to enslave or kill the other, or is perfectly happy if their political surrogates do it for them. From them, their is no "live and let live" in this struggle.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (VnsnO)

26 SDA/Democrat affordability means lowering out-of-pocket prices by shifting costs to government. Whether the topic is health care, housing, childcare, education, or energy, the approach is the same: subsidies, mandates, price caps, and public-sector expansion.

Also notice that this creates the need for an admin head and jobs (read spoils) to create more SDA/Democrat voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

27 warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Yes. And the problem is that it's not fast or thorough enough.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (lXoJ5)

28 Ella Cook was found out of 11k students and 143 acres at a Sunday night study hall.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

29 The police later said the brown university POI was released, assailant still at large. Also it was a targeted assassination of young conservative woman. The left are hunting us down now, one by one, but the pace is accelerating. Their media personalities will cheer it on. R politicians will cower and make weak statements then hide again.

The left means to win.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (3uBP9)

30 The left are fucking ghouls. They get all the decorum and courtesy and customary traditions they’ve afforded everybody else. Zilch, if you hadn’t noticed. Fuck Rob Reiner The new rules are, we use their rules. I’m looking forward to it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (A4VG5)

31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

32 Will the ruling class rule forever?

Yes. The composition of the ruling class will change but there will always be one as most people are sheep and prefer to be that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

33 27 warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Yes. And the problem is that it's not fast or thorough enough.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (lXoJ5)

This is clearly the hive mind thinking of all Progressives that there must be Agency of Control for every major policy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

34 31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

Rob said it was evil and wrong.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

35 Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack

JJS, you opened up with how government will likely bring safety...

. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims.

That is, so that government won't fail again, they will just go ahead, submit to Islam and cancel everyone else's festivals and public gatherings.

Looks like Christians will soon be returning to the catacombes just like we had to two thousand years ago when government didn't stop certain religious authorities from killing off their enemies.

Fifteen hundred years later, had to cross an ocean and develop a wild and raw land because of other religious authorities and government failing to protect them.

That is the way of the world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:30 AM (pawvM)

36 Rob Reiner was a rich, spoiled, asshole leftist but he did make me laugh and it's a shame his monster child came home to roost and stab. But mostly to stab.

Posted by: Stab Never Slash at December 15, 2025 07:30 AM (FGMmt)

37 31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

A. B/c it's wrong
B. B/c we try to be better than them
C. B/c being killed by your own son (allegedly) who fell into addiction and now evil, is horrifying enough

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

38 I'll allow the same compassion the leftys would if PDT was stabbed to death.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

39 Fuck Rob Reiner The new rules are, we use their rules. I’m looking forward to it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (A4VG5)

That's not polite. You might not get an invitation to the Chamber of Commerce cocktail party!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (n9ltV)

40 Mamdani has no solid plan for New York City’s homeless epidemic.
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The plan will be to expand the bureaucracy that manages "homelessness." Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (yEjNf)

41 If Rob Reiner said it was evil, is it socially acceptable to make fun of Jimmy Kimmel when he dies?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:32 AM (G9Pnv)

42 B. Where has trying to be better than them helped us?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (G9Pnv)

43 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

And...you entirely missed the point.

The new rules apply to everyone. Read Alinsky.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (n9ltV)

44 From the Greenfield piece:

Greenfield doesn't need to sign his work, for it is recognizable within a few sentences.

The man is pure gold in his observations.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (nCgQz)

45 At least the Reiners kept it all in the family.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

46 I still don't know how Islam became 'Peace'.

Everybody who's had a rudimentary education can recall that Islam literally means 'Submission/Surrender'.

They taught me that along with the five pillars of Islam when I was in middle school World History class.

Suddenly everybody seemed to forget that on 9/12/01.

Just like everybody forgot what the terms 'vaccine' and 'acquired immunity' meant in 2021.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

47 @45 ISWYDT, LOL

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:35 AM (D+mpw)

48 Someone said it well , maybe here about Islam. Christianity and Judaism don't preach murder , Islam does

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:36 AM (D+mpw)

49 "we shouldn't demonize those who hold a different view than ours."

Except for the Jews... kill them. And then the Christians, they're as bad as the Jews, when you think about it. And the atheists. And the LGB people. I guess what I'm saying is kill everyone who holds a different view than ours. -- you know which group thinks this

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

50 "ISWYDT, LOL
Posted by: Smell the Glove"

I should probably stop now.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

51 SDA/Democrat affordability means lowering out-of-pocket prices by shifting costs to government. Whether the topic is health care, housing, childcare, education, or energy, the approach is the same: subsidies, mandates, price caps, and public-sector expansion.

Also notice that this creates the need for an admin head and jobs (read spoils) to create more SDA/Democrat voters.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

Which is why people who pay no taxes should not get a vote.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

52 How can there be a legal injury in removing a citizen of Somalia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Mexico, or any other country, from the U.S.?

The invaders and their Demonic Party sponsors didn't care at all about laws and "due process" when sneaking across the border, overstaying visas, or lying about asylum.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (nCgQz)

53 Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar noted in a post on X that the words "Jews," "Antisemitism," and "Terror" were nowhere to be found in Albanese’s statement. In another post, Sa’ar said Sunday’s shooting represented "the results of the anti-Semitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years, with the anti-Semitic and inciting calls of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ that were realized today."
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And, inexplicably, Manhattan Jews voted in Mamdani

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (qncWG)

54 A more accurate translation of “My god can beat up your god” after they get all stabby or ‘splodey would be helpful too.

Some of our purported leaders surrendered long ago, they never had the courage to admit it publicly, you kinda hafta put the dots together yerself. Not too tough, but everyone learns at their own pace, I always say.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (A4VG5)

55 reiner was a piece of shit, rich, progressive, and a assho;e to boot.

I will not be like others because he, ENTERTAINED ME,
beeeotthes be knobbing his job but the hell if I will.

rest in hell.

Posted by: not me, ever at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (YBgFH)

56 If Rob Reiner said it was evil, is it socially acceptable to make fun of Jimmy Kimmel when he dies?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:32 AM (G9Pnv)

You do you. While I shall not mourn the eventual passing of Kimmel, neither shall I dance on any graves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

57 Thanks, JJ!

"The new rules apply to everyone."

I think it was Schlichter who said " there is either one rule for everyone, or there are no rules"
and for a long time I have said "the aggressor sets the ROE"

that said, I'm'a go all "types - deletes" with my opinions this morning.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (Cjt/F)

58 The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures. They hold more than a handful of elected positions in the UK. That has worked out well for them there.

They hold more than a couple here too.

Minnesota is a glimpse into what awaits the US if they're allowed to wield real political power at the national level.

Let's take a guess at what awaits NYC....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

59 The Bondi Beach terrorists had six guns they legally owned. I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

60 "The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures."

No different than the Communists.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (VnsnO)

61 oh, yeah, and how 'bout a second wrong-guy arrested for the Brown massacre? LOL, pitiful incompetence + gun-free campus = guilty as sin, free as a bird.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (Cjt/F)

62 42 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

And...you entirely missed the point.

The new rules apply to everyone. Read Alinsky.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (n9ltV)

Alinksy is not my guide to reaching the afterlife.

We don't need to apply the rules to an utter family tragedy.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

63 45, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

64 What is a real tragedy is Breitbart has one less celebrity to quote every f'n day.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

65 Minnesota is a glimpse into what awaits the US if they're allowed to wield real political power at the national level.

Let's take a guess at what awaits NYC....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

Just look at Dearborn MI and the surrounding areas.

The LGBTQ crowd there learned really quickly what happens when they ally themselves with and then and vote for the Muslim.

They'd have seen it coming in 20/20 if they weren't so blinded by their own ideological bullshit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

66 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

I agree with you. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (PFs9e)

67 I still don't know how Islam became 'Peace'.

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I can't reconcile anything "peaceful" about the Islamic religion. I never could. And I never understood those ridiculous words, "religion of peace." They are the antithesis of peace. They are a hateful, brutal and very deadly form of politics tied to a so-called religion.

(Although I'm no religious scholar, nor do I play one on TV.)

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

68 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest.

Somehow, it was Trump's fault. These people all want to be martyrs sacrificed to the Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 07:48 AM (MZ+PY)

69 Greenfield is spot-on.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:49 AM (Cjt/F)

70 Rob Reiner and his wife being murdered by their son is a tragedy
If Rob Reiner and his wife had been killed because of leftist policies , well then the response is "we told you"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:49 AM (D+mpw)

71 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Mark 12:29

Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (PM/iv)

72

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (DDJSl)

73 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest

When I read this sort of story, I don't want to be reminded of the words that he used against his ideological enemies for there is no fruit in doing that.

No one should have to die like this in their own home.

Yet it is a Fallen World filled with reprobates so it also shouldn't be a surprise.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (rgGn5)

74 I don't see how this any of this works out for us if we can't get to the point that democrat mayors and governors and all their surrogates are arrested for violating federal immigration laws and we find judges who won't dismiss the cases.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (VnsnO)

75 "On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated."

From your lips to His ears, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:51 AM (Cjt/F)

76 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Hapoy Chanukah morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hnds at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (9ipOP)

77
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest.

Not Archie?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (tgvbd)

78 "The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures."

No different than the Communists.

They salute their same commander, Stan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (rgGn5)

79 Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody
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This is out of date, right? The man they labeled a "person of interest" has since been released.

Presumably, the shooter is hundreds of miles away by now.

My wife participates in a college counseling chat group and one person on the chat associated with Brown said the shooter shouted antisemitic statements as he killed and wounded. I suppose that is nothing more than a rumor at this point but it might also come to be more substantive.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (pzoNl)

80 Rob reiner is dead?

Too bad he seemed such a nice fellow. Best of luck on future endeavors.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2025 07:53 AM (i0Hi3)

81 59 The Bondi Beach terrorists had six guns they legally owned. I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

All semi-automatics have been banned since at least 1997.

Pistols are allowed but you need to go through a rectal exam to get one.

That's why the terrorists were using bolt-action rifles and shotguns.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (6ydKt)

82 The media is claiming the guy who disarmed one of the Australian mass shooters ad Muslim and Palestinian.
Ummm no.
Syriac Maronite Christian.
A Palestinian would likely have tried to help.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (u6mFE)

83 So, wait, the Brown military suspect didn't actually do it? That's a big oopsie by police...

So, they just took the 1st former military guy with mental illness and ran with that? Til it was wrong?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

84 78, there it is in a proverbial nutshell.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Meathead...dead from the neck up.

And down.

Posted by: Zombie Archie Bunker at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (FGMmt)

86
The LGBTQ crowd there learned really quickly what happens when they ally themselves with and then and vote for the Muslim.

They'd have seen it coming in 20/20 if they weren't so blinded by their own ideological bullshit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

The Tudeh supported Khomeini's return and takeover in Iran. A few years later they were all dead or fled. Von Papen said in January, 1933, "We purchased Hitler!" The next year, his aides were all murdered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (tgvbd)

87 So, they just took the 1st former military guy with mental illness and ran with that? Til it was wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

They're scrambling. I sense a serious narrative engineering crisis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (VnsnO)

88 Why does the woman president of Brown University still have her job today?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

Because I don't care about Rob Reiner? Sure, he said things meant to insult and demean me and my beliefs, but he's now paying for them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)

90 The New South Wales Fag Force commissioner should also resign.

It was a summer Sunday in a major international tourist destination packed with people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (9ipOP)

91 I don't see how this any of this works out for us if we can't get to the point that democrat mayors and governors and all their surrogates are arrested for violating federal immigration laws and we find judges who won't dismiss the cases.

Its even worse than that. The GOP has decided to pitch in with the Demonic Party to guarantee Leftist Sanctuary States where Leftists can commit every evil deed under the sun without any fear of justice by maintaining the Blue Slip tradition.

What makes it even worse is that Blue Slip even removes the Process is the Punishment due to it denying Justice oriented US Attorneys in favor of lawless "prosecutors".

The GOP voter base is transactional and the Party is not providing a quid pro quo for the votes of We The People.

Blue wave 2026. No matter how wicked and depraved the Demonic Party is, the GOP doesn't even offer token resistance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:57 AM (nCgQz)

92 When did lawsuits, either the feds against the states, or the reverse, become a thing? Because it sounds pretty weak.

Where are the arrests? It’s just astonishing to watch the “heads we win tails you lose” amazing self-licking ice cream cone,

1. the “law” sez only the federal national government has jurisdiction over illegal aliens

And

2. It has largely refused to do so.

3. If a new elected by the people in landslide victiry says “Hey, let’s enforce our laws passed by the congress! some clown in a robe declares “you can’t do that”. Does this sound even halfway sane?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:57 AM (A4VG5)

93 Last week of classes (Finals Week). All I have left to do is grade the final assignments and I'm DONE. But that probably won't happen until next weekend because my students like to procrastinate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:13 AM (ESVrU)

Why don't you tell your students you're locking your mailbox and if the work isn't received by such and such a date and time, they'll get a F?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (uQesX)

94
Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

It may be the eventual death of me, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Trade not evil for evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (tgvbd)

95 Because I don't care about Rob Reiner? Sure, he said things meant to insult and demean me and my beliefs, but he's now paying for them.

Yeah, the Spirit World plays for keeps.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (nCgQz)

96 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (77rzZ)

97 They're scrambling. I sense a serious narrative engineering crisis.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (VnsnO)
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This so obviously

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 07:59 AM (9ipOP)

98 I can't reconcile anything "peaceful" about the Islamic religion. I never could. And I never understood those ridiculous words, "religion of peace." They are the antithesis of peace. They are a hateful, brutal and very deadly form of politics tied to a so-called religion.

(Although I'm no religious scholar, nor do I play one on TV.)

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

It's a religion invented by a slightly crazy Bedouin brigand who decided to take revenge on everybody who thought he was nuts.

And he's the man every Muslim is supposed to emulate.

Recipe for disaster that took over a quarter of the world through conquest.

The only comparable religion I can think of is Scientology and I'm just thankful L. Ron Hubbard just wanted to bilk gullible people of stacks of cash instead of building an army.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:59 AM (6ydKt)

99 29 The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (3uBP9)

Winning is secondary. Honestly, they've already won. That's why they can kill at will and get away with it.

The killing is the part the left gets off on most.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:00 AM (UnA8+)

100 Why don't you tell your students you're locking your mailbox and if the work isn't received by such and such a date and time, they'll get a F?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (uQesX)
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That is basically what I told them. No late work after 11:59 pm on Friday, December 19.

Though now that you mention it, I should set up the Assignments in Canvas to enforce that rule. Right now, they are still open-ended.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (ESVrU)

101 A college friend of mine, who became a federal prosecutor in Richmond, was similarly murdered by his own son. The young man was (and is) seriously
mentally ill, obviously, as is the Reiner son. Drug addiction is horrible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (AhYe1)

102 Syriac Maronite Christian.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (u6mFE)

This makes far more sense.

Do you have a link for this info?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (n9ltV)

103 oof.

>>@TheInsiderPaper
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>>JUST IN - Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Had Throats Slit By Family Member During Argument — TMZ

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (viF8m)

104 I watched the video of the Bondi Beach massacre, where the one shooter is atop a viaduct, shooting, shooting, and shooting some more. You here sirens in the background but no help arriving. Who the fuck do the cops in Oz think they are, the Broward County Sheriff's Department or the Uvalde cops?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (gm9Sb)

105 No matter how wicked and depraved the Demonic Party is, the GOP doesn't even offer token resistance.

The GOP would rather be out of power and helpless. They can spread their hands and say "What can we do?"

The Democrats, on the other hand, are evil driven and supported by evil. Their voters are driven solely by hatred, which is why they ally themselves with moslems.

The only reason to vote for the GOP is to vote against the Dems, and that's becoming a reason without foundation.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (WPL6O)

106 “ And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

Exodus 33:19

I could quote about 80 times in both the Old and New Testament where God commands us to have compassion. It’s up to each and every one of us how we pursue that, for “ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged”.

That is what separates us from other side.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (PM/iv)

107 It should be a requirement that all Muslims be gang banged by the men of al-Zutt. See how faithful they are.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (D+mpw)

108 The Tudeh supported Khomeini's return and takeover in Iran. A few years later they were all dead or fled. Von Papen said in January, 1933, "We purchased Hitler!" The next year, his aides were all murdered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (tgvbd)

It's like some people just love being lied to as long as the liar says they agree with them on politics.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (6ydKt)

109 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 08:04 AM (I2M9E)

110 I have a mezuzah on my door.
I lit my menorah last night.

I live in a good place. It's still civilized. I don't take that for granted but even with my civilized surroundings, I still felt a moment of trepidation. Just a moment, but it was the first time. It is not yet no time to be Jewish in America, but it could very, very easily get there. If I were in Baltimore or Dearborn, I may well have made different choices.

Happy Hannukah to the Jewish hordelings, and I hope Advent is going well for the gentiles!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:04 AM (azrRX)

111 NBC "News" latest on Brown:
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What we know

A manhunt is underway after two people were killed and nine others wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.
One of the victims fatally shot on Saturday was named as Ella Cook, vice president of Brown College Republicans chapter.
Officials have emphasized the investigation is moving quickly, with evidence being collected by multiple agencies, but they are not yet confirming details that could compromise the case.
The man earlier detained as a person of interest was set to be released last night because the evidence no longer supported holding him, officials said.
Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control and how to protect college students before and during mass shootings.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (Xi8/k)

112 Winning is secondary. Honestly, they've already won. That's why they can kill at will and get away with it.

The killing is the part the left gets off on most.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:00 AM (UnA8+)
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Killing begets more killing. The entire history of religious and ideological war demonstrates that, and it's *very* hard to break that cycle.

But this time will be different, I'm sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (azrRX)

113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

114 The GOP would rather be out of power and helpless. They can spread their hands and say "What can we do?"

That red neck Alabama senator "Coach" in an X post commented that someone ought to do something.

My initial though was: "Is this a legally safe way to incite vigilantism? Because Senator, YOU LITERALLY ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT if you only cared to do your damned job rather than post to social media that people outside of power need to do something that you refuse to do."

Dittos with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz et al. They love to puff out their chest and say "SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" as if being members of the world's most exclusive legislative club are completely helpless as the minority party gets everything they want.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (KhyP1)

115 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

116
♫ whistles ♫

https://youtu.be/bf4x36XKhsM?si=F2PDKHHpdXGMNsVL

Posted by: Dick Chance at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (eE4Su)

117 What happened to the Reiners was horrible, politics be damned. I refuse to let politics deprive me of humanity like the left does.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

118 113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

All I can say is RIP.. More than that will get me in trouble

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (VE6XX)

119 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

120 112 But this time will be different, I'm sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (azrRX)

I think they also bank on the whole idea of "The Right believes their souls are forfeit if they were to fight back", and can use that as part of Alinsky Rule #4.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (UnA8+)

121 ...Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control and how to protect college students before and during mass shootings.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (Xi8/k)
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Kill a non-prog, get a few days off and further disarmament of your enemies.

Pretty good deal, by the looks of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (azrRX)

122 What would you recommend they do?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 15, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

123 Reiner loved this country because it allowed him to get rich and spew his leftist socialist commie BS without persecution.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

124 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
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Absent any other information, it smells like love/hate, money or both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (azrRX)

125 113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

Didn't stop him from voting for people who openly hated the country.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (UnA8+)

126 Reiner murder. I'm going with the 48 hour rule, but if I had to give a theory I would say the kid and he got them in their sleep. Reiner might have been 78 years old, but he was one big guy who could probably put up a fight defending his wife and self. The kid probably has unfettered access to the house.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (gm9Sb)

127 Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes

Refund tuition money? How will end of semester exams work? For those who were scheduled to graduate at the end of fall, how does this work for them?

Back to "Covid" protocols that they had years to rehearse and dial in?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (KhyP1)

128

As far as I'm concerned, the Reiner story doesn't interest me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

129 I think they also bank on the whole idea of "The Right believes their souls are forfeit if they were to fight back", and can use that as part of Alinsky Rule #4.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (UnA8+)
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That never made any sense to me. "Turn the other cheek" doesn't mean "be a doormat" or "let people enslave, torture or murder you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (azrRX)

130 A mother of one of the Hamas victims, a man who was murdered during his captivity, wrote an piece in Free Press yesterday saying she recently saw video of her son while a hostage lighting a Chanukah candle along with other hostages. It was difficult to read her essay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (Xi8/k)

131 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

132 The thing I noticed about the media (spit) coverage of the Bondi beach massacre is they went out of their way to say that the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim…. That’s great, he’s a good guy who did a good thing. But in the same story they avoid mentioning that the two murders were motivated by their muslim religion to carry out the attack. It’s frustrating… that religion only gets mentioned in a positive light

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (/iXAp)

133 131 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

"We can't hear you, all this Qatari cash is plugging up our ears!"

--Politicians and Pundits

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (UnA8+)

134 There are about seven times more Muslims in Australia than Jews, and the median age of the Muslim population is over a decade younger than that of the Jewish population.

Albanese knows which side of the jihad his bread is buttered on.

Posted by: Peter B at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (VTbl0)

135 Kill a non-prog, get a few days off and further disarmament of your enemies.

Pretty good deal, by the looks of it.

As they say: assassinations work. Who replaced Lincoln, JFK, King, Kirk? Who would have replaced Trump?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (a6PrB)

136 Dittos with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz et al. They love to puff out their chest and say "SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" as if being members of the world's most exclusive legislative club are completely helpless as the minority party gets everything they want.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (KhyP1)
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Gavin does this too. I call it the "Who Me?" Style of governance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (9ipOP)

137 "the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim"

Turns out...he's not.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

138 132 The thing I noticed about the media (spit) coverage of the Bondi beach massacre is they went out of their way to say that the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim…. That’s great, he’s a good guy who did a good thing. But in the same story they avoid mentioning that the two murders were motivated by their muslim religion to carry out the attack. It’s frustrating… that religion only gets mentioned in a positive light
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (/iXAp)

Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

139 138 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

And now that the lie is out there to act as an "official source", the Left can point to it and reference it endlessly.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (UnA8+)

140

Media:

"Pam Bondi responsible for massacre on her beach!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

141 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)
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My take exactly. As I said earlier, a similar thing happened to a college friend. Drug addiction and homelessness are tough things for families to deal with.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (0ChAx)

142 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

No.

Posted by: George Bush The Living at December 15, 2025 08:16 AM (FGMmt)

143 The man that grabbed the gun from the Bondi Beach assassin was of Middle East ancestry. Not necessarily a Muzzie. Now, if I was a PR person for the Oz police, I wouldn't be too keen about giving out the guy's name and details. They may have painted a bullseye on his back.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

144 From the Christian Biblical website "Got questions" on "What does it mean to turn the other cheek"

Turning the other cheek does not imply pacifism, nor does it mean we place ourselves or others in danger. Jesus’ command to turn the other cheek is simply a command to forgo retaliation for personal offenses. He was not setting government foreign policy, and He was not throwing out the judicial system. Crimes can still be prosecuted, and wars can still be waged, but the follower of Christ need not defend his personal “rights” or avenge his honor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (rZCVI)

145 News reports describe Nick Reiner as a screenwriter. IMDB has one credit for him. A movie directed by Rob Reiner. "Being Charlie." The plot. "A would-be governor's addicted son goes down the long, rough road of rehab, fighting against recovery every inch of the way."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (ofJjy)

146 Today is National Cupcake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

147 I prefer to remember Rob Reiner from this classic sock and a sock, shoe and a shoe sketch, which, as I understand it, was largely ad libbed:

https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

148 ABC news first announced the killings in Australia but didn't mention the fact that Jews were targeted. After a humongous on line denunciation only then did they mention that it was Jews being targeted. You can't hate the media enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (D+mpw)

149 Chile held a democratic (spit!) election and the "right wing" candidate, Jose Antonio Kast, won with 58% of the vote. (He is going to be president 100% of the time, so I guess 42% of the population will be disenfranchised.)

From the NYT:

"Mr. Kast, a stern father of nine with deep ideological roots in conservative Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, belongs to a global right-wing movement that has risen to power around the world by prioritizing strict law and order and sealing borders."

Then they describe his opponent thusly:

"With over 98 percent of the ballots counted, Mr. Kast had more than 58 percent of the vote, a resounding victory over Jeannette Jara, the candidate for the center-left and a member of the Communist Party of Chile, who had about 42 percent."

That's right, the communists are center left now.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

150 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

Of course he’s not. Good grief is the media useless and worse than useless. The lie is out there and I bought it. Disgusting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

151 Biden allowed thousands of military aged men from the Middle East into the country including many known to have terrorist ties. Muslims are known to attack on Christian and Jewish holidays particularly at large gatherings.

Be very careful of your surroundings during the holidays and particularly if you are attending large, crowded events.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (viF8m)

152 Will the ruling class rule forever?
Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, and Revolution
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That was really bad. He was just making it up as he went. Note there was no actual history cited, merely a just so story about a "ruling class" ruling forever. I did notice that someone in the comments cited the cycle theory dating to Plato, but without seeming to realize it undercut the article.

I'm tired of such things. I think people nod along, and fail to question. Think, is it really the same ruling class today as it was 200 years ago? Because that's what Shurk is really saying.

These writers always fail to take account of the amount of chaos in every society. Time and chance happeneth to them all.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (s0JqF)

153 Trans-identifying lawyer Chase Strangio couldn’t present a coherent definition of ‘sex’ without resorting to feelings and ideological babble.
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That's the trans lawyer's name? Seriously?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (0ChAx)

154 How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World
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It has a good hook. "Command the world!" appeals to some and "Yeah, baby, you CAN have it all!" appeals to the rest. In the absence of any actual faith, it can slide in nicely. Then it can go crazy, like engaging in literal demonic idol worship - and get positive press coverage doing it.

My favorite ever example of this came from Denver. A feminist Lutheran (I didn't know that was a thing) "pastor" called for young Christian feminists to send her their "purity rings" (a virtue signal that the girl is waiting for marriage) so she could melt them down and reform them into a status of a pussy on a throne of fire. No, I'm not kidding. Melting down symbols of chastity to make an icon of a fiery chaunch made even me - a young non-Christian man - say to himself, "oh, so you're *definitely* a demon."

And again, this happened. On this planet. http://tiny.cc/x7gw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (azrRX)

155 150 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

Of course he’s not. Good grief is the media useless and worse than useless. The lie is out there and I bought it. Disgusting
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

He's a type of Christian, so you now have the fact to spread.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (tOcjL)

156 Rob Reiner was a piece of shit. He may not've openly hated this country, but he hated me and everyone that thinks like me.

For that, I will not mourn his departure, but will do my duty and pray for mercy on his soul.

I'll give him more than he gave me in that regard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

157 “ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged”.

That is the Evangelical perversion of the passage.

Our LORD says that in the manner you judge others, you too will be judged. Think: Moat vs Beam in the eye.

We are going to be judged regardless of whether we have "judged" someone else.

Furthermore, how can we be judges if we can't administer a verdict and be able effectively declare guilt or innocence? Only the Great Judge can. Are you saying that Christians should never take up the role of a civil authority judge?

We are told to be fruit inspectors, which does include having a discerning eye towards others.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (a6PrB)

158 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (QVuuq)

159 "...and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control"

Oh FFS. Has the "debate" ever been unignited? Allow students of age to conceal-carry and school shootings end. Currently these schools are "All-You-Can-Shoot" buffets.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (VnsnO)

160 Brown's security is unimpressive.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (rJ48h)

161 It is totally flabbergasting how people on TV are refusing to say that hero was Christian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (9ipOP)

162 Yeah. If you don't want to honor your father or mother, you just move away and never call.

Killing them definitely violates the spirit of the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (W7XSX)

163 I barely remember Reiner as Meathead, that show was on and off the air before I could read.

But I certainly appreciate several of his films.

I have to look at Reiner the same way I look at Michael Jackson; a very talented individual whom I admired for their creative output but had to shake my head and stare in disbelief at everything else they said or did.
It's why I gave up Hero Worship a long, long, time ago.

No matter how much I couldn't stand Rob's mouth, he certainly didn't deserve his fate at the hands of his own son.

It's karma possibly, but that's all way above my pay-grade, so I'm going to let God sort it out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (6ydKt)

164 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

I am paraphrasing..."We are less than one year from a full-on autocracy."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:22 AM (n9ltV)

165 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:22 AM (8CIFn)

166 That article about why the climate change movement appears to be falling apart mentions the real reason towards the end, but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. It was *never* a true grassroots movement, it was always pushed by those oligarchs and politicians who were making massive amounts of money from the scam. Suddenly the oligarchs and corporate leaders realize this will kill their new AI dreams, plus Trump has cut off all the political money that Biden was pumping out.
The game is over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (k5cxK)

167 I think it's time to ask some super patriotic questions.

As an American megapatriot, I love the people of Australia. Do you know how many people live in Australia? Well, if you're on AIPAC's payroll, you probably don't know this important fact, but it's about 28 million.

28 million Australians shouldn't have to suffer for Israel, should they? Or so that one small group of people can control the government in Canberra, should they? I don't know, it seems ridiculous to me, but maybe it makes to *some* people HAHAHAHAHA.

These are just questions - patriotic questions. Someone has to ask questions, even if a small group of people won't pay for those questions.

Posted by: TC (Tiny Cock) at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (eE4Su)

168 The leaders in the 2025 launch race:

165 SpaceX (a new record)
83 China
16 Rocket Lab (a new record)
15 Russia

SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 165 to 136.

More significantly, with these two launches the total number of successful orbital launches in 2025 has now exceeded 300, for a present total of 301. To put the spectacular nature of this number in perspective, until 2020 it was rare for the world to exceed 100 launches in a year, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most often, the total each year ranged between 50 to 80 launches.

Those numbers are now history, and it has been competition and freedom that has made all the difference.
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Well said.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (0ChAx)

169 How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World

And through abortion their body is a temple - An Aztec Temple.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (U4c/V)

170 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)
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Not quite. From its incept, it declared war on the world. It's going after the West now because it's the softest target. Why attack a strong tree when there's a hollowed-out one you can almost just push over first? Once it finishes digesting the West, it can go after the next target which, older and weaker, will then be an easier target than it is today.

And Western political leadeship? LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (azrRX)

171 161 It is totally flabbergasting how people on TV are refusing to say that hero was Christian.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (9ipOP)

More like predictable, but no less contemptible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (VnsnO)

172 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

173 149 That's right, the communists are center left now.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

They're The Center of Leftist Ideology.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)

174 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

175 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.

You will never read that again. The gas lighters will say that you hallucinated it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (U4c/V)

176 My favorite ever example of this came from Denver. A feminist Lutheran (I didn't know that was a thing) "pastor"

Pro tip: There aren't.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (uQesX)

177 Reiner was a talented film maker and also a vile person. I didn't like him but he is not an issue in my life anymore. I don't think he and his wife deserved their end and I don't celebrate it. I will leave it up to God to decide on his soul. I've got more pressing problems here on earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

178 I've seen photos of one of the Bondi shooters who was clearly visible. I don't know why police didn't put him down.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (8CIFn)

179 ... but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. It was *never* a true grassroots movement, it was always pushed by those oligarchs and politicians who were making massive amounts of money from the scam. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (k5cxK)
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It was a top-down scam from the jump, run first by communists and then by all flavors of tyrant-worship. It was supposed to *become* popular through indoctrination and propaganda. This has been at least partially successful among the youth, who grew up entirely within a propaganda environment. There are a lot of "climate change" and "eco"-anything true believers out there, especially in the under-40 and under-30 crowds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (azrRX)

180 Too bad I could no recognize a palestenian state right after the Bondi massacre. so sad.

Posted by: Anthony Albanese at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (g47mK)

181 170 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

I had rather thought that flying hijacked jets into our financial and populational center and slaughtering 3000 of our citizens would have forced that acknowledgment. But apparently I was wrong.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (VnsnO)

182 That's right, the communists are center left now.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

It's even worse in the EU.
There the socialists are center-right.

The far right is anybody who believes their country shouldn't be part of the Islamo-Communist Caliphate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (6ydKt)

183 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

184 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (D+mpw)
*****
Definitely not a fan of his politics.
I did like A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

185 I've seen photos of one of the Bondi shooters who was clearly visible. I don't know why police didn't put him down.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (8CIFn)

I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

186 When did lawsuits, either the feds against the states, or the reverse, become a thing? Because it sounds pretty weak.

The 1970s? Maybe earlier. None of this is new. Half the 'laws' and regulations we have at the federal level today were put in place via strategic lawsuits, usually accompanied by equally strategic losses by government lawyers who didn't want to win the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

187 National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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I took Boy F. to the cat cafe yesterday he did a great job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (9ipOP)

188 Be very careful of your surroundings during the holidays and particularly if you are attending large, crowded events.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (viF8m)
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Excellent advice.

Also, buy ammo. You may need it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (0ChAx)

189 If you are urging women to send in their purity rings to melt them down so you can make a statue to vaginas and fire you have vehemently declared yourself a Pagan and not part of Christianity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (rZCVI)

190 That's the trans lawyer's name? Seriously?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (0ChAx)

Yep. He,she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (k5cxK)

191 I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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While under fire

????

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (9ipOP)

192 Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (9ipOP)

What is a cat cafe?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)

193 Posted by: TC at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (eE4Su)

Hey everyone, lookie.

stormfront has arrived!

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YBgFH)

194 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

195 If you are urging women to send in their purity rings to melt them down so you can make a statue to vaginas and fire you have vehemently declared yourself a Pagan and not part of Christianity.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (rZCVI)
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She's a "pastor." Surely you're not questioning her self-identification?!?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

196 Right on schedule.

>>@EricLDaugh
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9m
>>🚨 JUST IN: The Australian Prime Minister is now planning EVEN MORE gun control after the Islamic terror attack in Bondi Beach.

>>Australia has some of the world's STRICTEST gun laws.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (viF8m)

197 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)

198 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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A coffee shop without mice, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

199
A manhunt is underway

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Whoa! Isn't that a retrograde expression? Why can't strong, independent women also be Jew-hunting killers? Indeed, should it not be a "persynhunt"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (tgvbd)

200 It has an object of worship, which is female anatomy.

Posted by: That also works at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

201 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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Its a store that has cats and kittens to play with. $15/half hour

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (9ipOP)

202 I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass."

Well of course. It's how we empathize. Or whatever the bullshiite term is now...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (XuXeR)

203 Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)
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He's wearing his decoder ring and everything. Ask him!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (0ChAx)

204 That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

You mean those bastard ornament breakers??!! End all their nine lives!!!!11

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (uQesX)

205 Looking forward to TJM in garish costume doing a Reiner retrospective of his films. Meathead he was, but he made some good movies that are/were very popular. RIP to both Reiners.

Posted by: Dire Wolf at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)

206 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)
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See also: "Married With Children." Al Bundy was supposed to be a caricature, the heel that people watched at laugh *at* - not a character that people watched and laughed *with*.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (avHHk)

207
While under fire

????
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (9ipOP)

He did the entire thing while under fire. I'm shocked he didn't return fire once he had their weapon in his hands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

She has not been a Christian pastor for years and her actions with some Pagan statue prove that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (rZCVI)

209
I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles

_________

It's like The Young Pope. The writers wanted him to be some crazed throwback but viewers responded, "Pius XIII, hell yeah!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (tgvbd)

210 >> A manhunt is underway

Don’t we mean a “personhunt”… we don’t wanna misgender some perp…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (YobFY)

211 I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

The article I read explained that the man didn't know the first thing about guns.

It's also been stated that the rifle was empty after it went off while they were struggling over it.

I swear it looked like the man was taking a shot at the terrorist but he may have been trying to pull the trigger and got a dry fire.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

212
Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

The Atari 2600 hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

213 I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)
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It was not Lear's intention. Carroll O'Connor really inhabited that role even though he too was a major leftist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (9ipOP)

214 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?

Well, they have. Privately. And they are actively siding with the eventual victors: Islam.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (rgGn5)

215 "All in the Family," was a CIA propaganda OP.

Posted by: Everything Is An OP at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (Q+gd/)

216 >>🚨 JUST IN: The Australian Prime Minister is now planning EVEN MORE gun control after the Islamic terror attack in Bondi Beach.

>>Australia has some of the world's STRICTEST gun laws.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (viF8m)
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Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

217 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)

218 "166 That article about why the climate change movement appears to be falling apart mentions the real reason towards the end, but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. "

###

Now do recycling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

219 199
A manhunt is underway

_________

Whoa! Isn't that a retrograde expression? Why can't strong, independent women also be Jew-hunting killers? Indeed, should it not be a "persynhunt"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (tgvbd)

B/c they have a pic of the perp's body size and shape...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

220 The article I read explained that the man didn't know the first thing about guns.

It's also been stated that the rifle was empty after it went off while they were struggling over it.

I swear it looked like the man was taking a shot at the terrorist but he may have been trying to pull the trigger and got a dry fire.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

I didn't read much on it, but did watch the video. It just seemed odd that he disarmed the individual, didn't seem to do anything with the weapon other than set it down. I just found it odd to have such incredible courage, yet still accept you're likely to die at their hand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

221 JJ I am so sorry about what happened in Sydney. Even here in the North Shore area of Chicago Burbs, the Synagogues in Highland Park, Glencoe, and Wilmette have multiple police presence this morning. Just pure evil and insanity

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

222 See also: "Married With Children." Al Bundy was supposed to be a caricature, the heel that people watched at laugh *at* - not a character that people watched and laughed *with*.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (avHHk)

Ha! Yes… I like Al Bundy…. I still chuckle when I think of that misogynist club he formed with a few friends called “No Ma’am”… they made tshirts and everything LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (YobFY)

223 That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)
*******
True.
The day is meant for those who can manage others and themselves no matter what chaos is thrown their way like herding cats.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

224 ----
Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

You will be arrested in Australia for even suggesting such a thing.

The stupid.......it burns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

225 New Yorkers have a right to a safe city.
============
And homeless people have the right to attack you crossing Broadway!

Posted by: Mayor Madmani at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (ppzWn)

226 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown."

Well, they just don't want the little dears to feel unsafe now, dontchaknow?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

227 Well, I hope the man who might be a Syrian Christian who attacked one of the shooters has a strong, supportive religious community and they will watch his back. I'm not sure if he can get a gun in Australia.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM (rZCVI)

228 222 Al Bundy, man spreading on the couch, describing his day. "And then a fat woman Godzillas her way into the shoe store...".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM (gm9Sb)

229 If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Actually, in Lefty circles, they talk about leopards eating faces. Trump and Republicans are represented by the "Face Eating Leopards" party, dumb rubes vote for them, and then act surprised when the leopards eat their faces.

This is almost 100% analogous. Muslims (and their holy book) make clear they will subjugate non-believers, violently if necessary, but Lefties invite them in. It's worse, though, because the Lefties never act surprised or betrayed ("why are the eating MY face?"). Instead, the excuse and deflect, "not all Muslims", "the real threat is an Islamophobic backlash", etc

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (ycI94)

230 I'm not sure if he can get a gun in Australia."

Why would he need one? The Police will protect him...

*cues laugh track*

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

231 Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

The Atari 2600 hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

https://youtu.be/XMFy-Iw4CcA

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (c2vsb)

232 Calling Miller a white supremacist is a disgusting reach, and suggesting he’s akin to a Nazi is a disgraceful smear.
Bro-Fo Omar’s attacks on Stephen Miller reveal Dems' broken immigration narrative
__

Disgraceful smears are all they have.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (Dv3i1)

233 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)
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Exams at this time of year are finals. I wonder how much additional cheating there's going to be. Exams aren't canceled, right? Just "in-person" exams? So probably replaced with COVID-protocol exams, which means everything is open-book at URI today!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (avHHk)

234 Yes. You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work. High road, Rest in Peace

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YCxFk)

235 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

TC aka BurtTC. 20 year AoSHQ alumni!!

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YBgFH)

236 If you're not Islamic to a Muslim you're an infidel. An infidel must be killed, converted or enslaved. Act accordingly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (D+mpw)

237 215 "All in the Family," was a CIA propaganda OP.
Posted by: Everything Is An OP

The "Rural Purge" at CBS, 1971 was a Communist coup on a large scale. The homey shows we all loved were dumped in favor of Commie propaganda pure and simple. Hee-Haw went on to successful syndication for the next 25 years, so we had the last laugh.

Posted by: Jumior Samples BR-549 at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

238 Have the violent protests against the backlash started yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (8CIFn)

239 If the world is really built on lies, then the truth is a lie and lies must be the truth.
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Easy to miss though is that the world IS built on lies. There is a veil of lies owned by Satan that must be cut through or you fall foul of it.

What Satan and his minions do is use his own lies, his own destruction, his own bullshit, to prove that EVERYTHING must be a lie, up to and including the truth.

If we don't understand that fundamentally, then we cannot fight it. The world is NOT a place of pure goodness and truth. But those things exist. The devil is there to convince you they are a myth.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (zALxA)

240 Pakistani Jihadi who murdered people had a license for 6 firearms. Albanese is a wanker and a POS. People need to do investigative reporting to find out how much Albanese and his cronies pocketed from the construction and other industries that benefited from the influx of 3rd worlders.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

241
https://youtu.be/XMFy-Iw4CcA

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (c2vsb)

https://youtu.be/3QAoHt0tycM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

242 Cat herding commercial from the Super Bowl many years ago:

https://youtu.be/hx1jdgTs03U

Posted by: Wayback Machine at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

243 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

What a nitwit.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (2ap+5)

244 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

245 In regards to the Bondi shooters, I did find it amusing to see the cop performing CPR on one of them. Depending on where he was shot, and whether the wound was sealed, CPR might have done a very effective job of bleeding him out. Oh, well...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (MZ+PY)

246 Aussies used to be some of the most manly men. You can only shake your head at what they've become

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (D+mpw)

247 An infidel must be killed, converted or enslaved."

Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

248 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I've read a bunch of sites. They ALL call him a father of two. Most call him either a tobacco shop owner or a fruit stand owner. Not seeing one news report calling him a Christian.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (QVuuq)

249 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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Its a store that has cats and kittens to play with. $15/half hour
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025

***
I saw one in downtown Evansville this last September. You had to make an appointment, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (wzUl9)

250 lol. Australia’s answer is more gun laws. They want to virtually ban private ownership of all rifles.

Their descent into tyranny and a complete erasure of Australian culture will s now accelerating.

China and Russia are smiling.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (I2y5H)

251 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

The poster child for the "Thank you sir may I have another!" party.

When our side says "but it's OK when THEY do it," we might be proper f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

252 "You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work."

I can. His success allowed him to denigrate my country and demonize me. I will argue that his existence was detrimental to both.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

253 The "Rural Purge" at CBS, 1971 was a Communist coup on a large scale. The homey shows we all loved were dumped in favor of Commie propaganda pure and simple. Hee-Haw went on to successful syndication for the next 25 years, so we had the last laugh.
Posted by: Jumior Samples BR-549 at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)
++++
Even funnier when the op fails, like it did with Sesame Street. That show's creators always viewed it as a failure, because it worked.

It turned out that kids who watched Sesame Street had better reading skills than those who did not. It was an unqualified success, which was the problem. It wasn't supposed to be. It was built from the ground up specifically to help "inner-city youth" improve their literacy. It did that, but it helped *everyone* - including suburban and rural types. Those groups weren't supposed to find it appealing because it didn't reflect their environment.

But that didn't matter, of course. It was a pretty good program, and appealing to kids. Mean streets or pleasant suburbia is secondary. It was a very early example of the "representation" fallacy in media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (avHHk)

254 Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

The current Australian government is rogue and an enemy of the welfare of Australian citizens .
IOW the mirror image of the USA Democrat Party.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (FCPbW)

255 Cat herding commercial from the Super Bowl many years ago:

https://youtu.be/hx1jdgTs03U
Posted by: Wayback Machine at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
******
I loved that one.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

256 https://youtu.be/3QAoHt0tycM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

Ha! Had forgotten that scene. Awesome!

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (c2vsb)

257 Ha! Yes… I like Al Bundy…. I still chuckle when I think of that misogynist club he formed with a few friends called “No Ma’am”… they made tshirts and everything LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025

***
National Organization of Men Against Amazon Masterhood!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (wzUl9)

258 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM

"I tried to remain quiet, but you persisted. I tried to reason with you, albeit indirectly, yet you persisted. You give me no choice but to bury you in a court of law for your indiscretion."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

259 "You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work."

I can. His success allowed him to denigrate my country and demonize me. I will argue that his existence was detrimental to both.
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

What's the saying? Oh yeah. Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)

260 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

From AI...

National Cat Herders Day is celebrated annually on December 15, and this year it falls on a Monday, December 15, 2025. The day honors individuals whose jobs or daily lives involve managing complex, chaotic, or seemingly impossible tasks—metaphorically described as "herding cats". It was founded in the 1980s by Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays, and it serves as a lighthearted yet meaningful way to appreciate those who handle difficult responsibilities with patience and resilience.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

261 237. Mary Tyler Moore was interesting though. Ed Asner was a commie, but Gavin Macleod and Ted Knight were conservatives. Moore was a liberterian, and Valerie Harper a devout Catholic.

Ted Knight a decorated combat vet who argued with Asner a lot

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

262 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

this will be like a private meeting with megan markle - lies, leaks and slander. owens will not change her behavior and will say that Kirk begged and bent the knee to her. let's face it, owens had the hots for Charlie. her behavior toward a blond white woman whose husband was murdered for the world to see is psychotic.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

263 Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)
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This is the reason why you see stories from Muslim countries (used to be fairly common reporting out of Afghanistan) about some public non-Muslim or another being murdered for "apostasy." It makes no sense - you cannot be an apostate for espousing a belief counter to a faith to which you have never subscribed - *unless* you understand that tidbit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (avHHk)

264 With the POS Reiner's gone, Hell just got a lot warmer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (abIsI)

265 What Satan and his minions do is use his own lies, his own destruction, his own bullshit, to prove that EVERYTHING must be a lie, up to and including the truth.

Evaluate that statement in light of 1 Kings 22, where King Ahab summoned Micaiah the Prophet to prognosticate an upcoming battle.

Micaiah initially was reluctant to deliver the bad news, but then reported that he saw the Almighty in the throne room surrounded by His angels who were considering what to do with the King of Israel. After discussion, "one spirit" came forward and set "I will put a lying spirit in each of the Ahab's counselors" and God green lighted that plan.

There are a LOT of take-aways from that narrative, one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (pUU4E)

266 Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

The poster child for the "Thank you sir may I have another!" party.

When our side says "but it's OK when THEY do it," we might be proper f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
********
Rand Paul is becoming more useless by the day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

267 Now do recycling.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

Kind of a funny topic around here - my wife was one who loved the idea of recycling because I think it made her feel not “wasteful” or something. City used to charge everyone a dollar a month for an extra recycle bin that they would pick once a week or so.
And then last year the only big recycling collection center in the region burned down, and recycling efforts/scams in about 14 counties burned down with it. So it all ended overnight, literally.

Funniest part to me - the regional facility was in Kilgore, and they had about an acre of collected cardboard and a couple old buildings full of it that they couldn’t give away anymore. Somehow, a match found all that. And then the owners took the insurance settlement and just skedaddled.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (k5cxK)

268 As Smell the Glove said in the tech thread, "Owens will simply say 'more questions were raised.' "

No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

269 didn't owens publish Kirk's private messages from years ago, his dating history ? yep, internet is there for us :"Candace Owens Sparks Outrage by Sharing Charlie Kirk Dating Texts". there is nothing low enough for this ugly, stinky troll.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

270 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

271 266 Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Did anyone ask Rand what Republicans in MA "feel" like having no representation ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

272 On Sesame Street, were Bert and Ernie gay lovers? Can the truth now be told? Grover I don’t know what that was….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (/iXAp)

273 An argument that "Massachusetts is 40% Republican yet has ZERO Republican representatives and that is a perversion of democracy" is embarrassingly poor reasoning.

The old cliche definition of democracy applies - 60% of Massachus-ettes are wolves, 40% are sheep and they are voting on what to have for dinner. Don't expect vegetarian meals 40% of the time.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (2ap+5)

274 190 Yep. He,she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (k5cxK)

Just for accuracy's sake, She (I know you don't care).

Biological Woman.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (UnA8+)

275 ... I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Posted by: redridinghood a

The nut doesn't fall far from the Luap Nor tree.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (abIsI)

276 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)

But the police chief in Providence announced that there was no threat, and he would never lie!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (n9ltV)

277 Even though Rob Reiner hated me I feel bad about his sudden passing at the hands of his own son.

Hopefully he will now get clarification on abortion, trannies, 'socialism' and other Leftist positions that support evil under the guise of virtue.

RIP

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (KDPiq)

278 On Sesame Street, were Bert and Ernie gay lovers? Can the truth now be told? Grover I don’t know what that was….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (/iXAp)

Elmo is a pervert and wants to have his way with your children.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (uQesX)

279 But that didn't matter, of course. It was a pretty good program, and appealing to kids. Mean streets or pleasant suburbia is secondary. It was a very early example of the "representation" fallacy in media.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Margaret Hamilton guested in an early season on Sesame Street, was interviewed and did he Wicked Witch cackle and voice. The episode wasn't repeated for decades because some children were traumatized.
My sister-in-law would nearly vomit in fear every year when the Wicked Witch came on during the CBS yearly airing of The Wizard of Oz. Margaret did manage to visit Mr. Rogers without scaring the children too much, though.

Posted by: Cora Was Less Scary at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

280 Wimpsky was a homosexkual.

Posted by: Popeye, balls deep in pussky at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (xNHSX)

281 I don't think Kirk is going to sue Owens.

But if she does, stand back as far as you can, and call the men with the butterfly nets. Her meltdown will be a thermonuclear one.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (dRfXw)

282 Kind of a funny topic around here - my wife was one who loved the idea of recycling because I think it made her feel not “wasteful” or something. City used to charge everyone a dollar a month for an extra recycle bin that they would pick once a week or so.
And then last year the only big recycling collection center in the region burned down, and recycling efforts/scams in about 14 counties burned down with it. So it all ended overnight, literally. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (k5cxK)
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There is, last time I checked, *one* thing that it makes sense to recycle: most metals. They recycle well and the net energy and resource cost is favorable for recycling. There's a reason recycling boosters always (or used to, anyway) use the aluminum can as the poster child for recycling efficiency: it's basically true. It's why there was money for bums in collecting cans and selling them for scrap even before recycling programs took off with a big shot of taxpayer money and propaganda.

Glass *can* make sense, if you're near a bottler (where they can be cleaned and reused, rather than remanufactured).

Paper and plastic? Not on this planet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (avHHk)

283 Rob Reiner was involved in a couple of films I like: The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap. Spinal Tap is especially held by me and my musical circle of friends as an enduring classic. For that reason, I feel a comment about it is appropriate. May the Lord grant you His Mercy, Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (6qf1m)

284 There are a LOT of take-aways from that narrative, one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (pUU4E)

Mankind motivates themselves; lies just help them feel better about doing what they’ve already decided to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (k5cxK)

285 I remember when Ed Asner ran against Charleton Heston for President of the Screen Actors' Guild.

I forget who won, though. (I was a kid at the time. I just noted that Lou Grant was running against Moses, but didn't note the outcome.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

286 Gee, another hollywood icon raises a kid that becomes a useless, drug addled, drain on society that eventually murders his own parents.

I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

287 If someone said that Rob Reiner got what he deserved because he spread hate and fear, I'm not going to chastise them.
He did spread hate and fear.

Nor am I going to extend accolades of "but look how much better we are" to those offering thoughts and prayers.
He would never have done the same for anyone else.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

288 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul
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Contender for the dumbest statement of 2025.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (zALxA)

289 Did anyone ask Rand what Republicans in MA "feel" like having no representation ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

Or California! There may be more republicans in CA than any other state because of its shear size… yet the state government is dominated by Dems

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (/iXAp)

290 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (A0sqA)

291 C. Owens does not know the word humility. Having lit the candel of darkness, she sees her true self.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (ehY6c)

292 Stupid fuck on Fb regarding the brown U shooting:

"Once again, make it political".

You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)

293 Why does Kentucky need democrats representation when the elected Ientucky Republicans do the job for them?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (KDPiq)

294 but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Another fool who doesn't know what time it is.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (a6PrB)

295
Glass *can* make sense, if you're near a bottler (where they can be cleaned and reused, rather than remanufactured).

Paper and plastic? Not on this planet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (avHHk)

Recycling in most forms creates more pollution than the original manufacturing of the item being recycled. That means, its a ruse. "Saving the planet" my ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Exams at this time of year are finals. I wonder how much additional cheating there's going to be. Exams aren't canceled, right? Just "in-person" exams? So probably replaced with COVID-protocol exams, which means everything is open-book at URI today!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (avHHk)

I had a class once which allowed you to decide if you wanted to take the exam closed book (6 questions) or open book (10 questions) but you had to decide before that exams were passed out.

I've always been of the opinion that, on an exam with a time limit, open book is not your friend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

297 270 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US
Posted by: Jonah

Any person who calls a plant hedge a Lilly Pilly is gay adjacent.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (abIsI)

298 "Go easy on me your honor, on account of me being an orphan."

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (W7XSX)

299 Great news on a difficult Monday morning. 4nonBlondes is going to do a new album. /s/s/s/s

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (D+mpw)

300 292 Stupid fuck on Fb regarding the brown U shooting:

"Once again, make it political".

You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)

They made it political when the Dems went on TV and blamed Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (VE6XX)

301 Contender for the dumbest statement of 2025.
Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (zALxA)

Lots of intense competition for that award

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (/iXAp)

302 how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

I don't care how they feel, Rand. As they don't care about my feelings and want to destroy my way of life, I vote for you to destroy THEM, you dipshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

303 Beverly Sills appearing and singing on the Muppets and you can tell she was really having a good time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (gm9Sb)

304 "Once again, make it political".

When the Left says: "Once again, make it political".

You can bet the ranch that it is political.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (a6PrB)

305 I had a cousin who was an Aussie. He saw five+ years of combat in WWII, moved to America and raised a fine family. He died at 101, and was one of the toughest and kindest men I have ever met.

He would be disgusted with modern Australia.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (n9ltV)

306 >>But the police chief in Providence announced that there was no threat, and he would never lie!

It's maddening they won't release more information. I'm seeing a number of people on X suggest that it was a targeted attack and one of the targets was a young woman named Ella Cook who was the VP of a tiny conservative group on campus.

Could be true, could be bullshit but when the authorities won't give any details lots of theories spring up.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)

307 247 Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (UnA8+)

308 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

My fear is the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler did.

Posted by: Zombie Rob Reiner at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (FGMmt)

309 I think Erika Kirk is making a mistake meeting with CO…. You know the saying if you wrestle with a pig you’re gonna get dirty (or something like that). Owens has no shame; you can’t win with her… much better to completely ignore her

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (/iXAp)

310 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

311
I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM

Candace is ushered in to the conference room

the room is empty; no table, no chairs, just a halberd laying at her feet

Erika enters from the opposite door, carrying a halberd

"This ends today" says Erika, as the doors lock behind them...

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (tljrc)

312 Republicans are Facing an Extinction Event
________
The title is true enough, but the article is silly. For one thing, anyone who turns to the Guardian for history is begging to be wrong. For another, it ignores the parallels in Europe. In fact, the GOP looks disturbingly like the British Conservative Party. Which completely embraced extinction. Can we really be so stupid as to learn nothing from that? Apparently, yes.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (s0JqF)

313 ... You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)
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It *could* turn out that it was a lover's quarrel or somesuch where the jilted lover went on a shooting spree. I doubt it, but it is inside the realm of possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

314 C. Owens does not know the word humility. Having lit the candel of darkness, she sees her true self.

In a YOLO world, her contact engagement numbers due to her "insanity" is helping her ego and her bank account.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (a6PrB)

315 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?
Posted by: XTC

Stop asking questions and conform, infidel!

Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)

316 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

It pays well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

317 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
________
Do they remember? If so, it would be out of character.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (s0JqF)

318 Media is also suppressing crowds of public celebrating the violence in Sydney. That would upset the plebes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (9vfnu)

319 Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

320 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (pd4dZ)

321 Do they remember? If so, it would be out of character.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (s0JqF)
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Memory is short.
Terms are long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (avHHk)

322 Leftist billionaires are paying 'conservatives' to destroy the conservative movement.

It's working.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

323 317 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?

Wish I could believe that
________

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:00 AM (VE6XX)

324 I had a cousin who was an Aussie. He saw five+ years of combat in WWII, moved to America and raised a fine family. He died at 101, and was one of the toughest and kindest men I have ever met.

He would be disgusted with modern Australia.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (n9ltV)

Probably would not be too keen on modern day USA either, I'd imagine.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (c2vsb)

325 Could be true, could be bullshit but when the authorities won't give any details lots of theories spring up.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)
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A little farfetched.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (To7on)

326 This Australia schooling reminds me so much of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood by while the shooter did his ugly business.
In the Australia event, the police did nothing for 20 minutes.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

327 310 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg

Mister Moose, Mr. Greenjeans, and Grandfather Clock all agreed that Kate Upton looks funny. Only Bunny Rabbit is on your side.

Posted by: Keys To The Treasure House at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)

328
Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM

true, that

as the kids say these days, it's "mid" at best

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (tljrc)

329 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

I would say "above average," and "Spinal Tap" is mildly amusing, but not the icon it has become.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (n9ltV)

330 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

331 Ebonics: bad ideas never entirely die
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No. They just go to Congress.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (s0JqF)

332 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (/iXAp)

Charlie was willing to discuss issues with people who hated him. I think that's what Erika is trying to continue though I think she's ignoring the important exception factor that Owens is coo coo for coco puffs.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (KDPiq)

333 It must be weird to celebrate Hannukah and Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere.

Both are about light enduring/coming amidst the darkness of the winter solstice.

To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

334 Australia was a prison state. Seems nothing has changed.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (Wg6v7)

335 330 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Hey Nan.. Does that include your security ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)

336 Illinois has the worst Gerrymander in the Country

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

337 The public duty doctrine is a legal principle that holds that government entities owe duties to the public at large rather than to individual citizens, limiting their liability in tort cases.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

338 >>A little farfetched.

We live in a farfetched world these days.

We've spent the last number of years watching western governments import by the hundreds of thousands people who want to kill their citizens. What could possibly be more farfetched?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (viF8m)

339 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

We are 100% in agreement on this, Food.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

340 I remember when Ed Asner ran against Charleton Heston for President of the Screen Actors' Guild.

I forget who won, though. (I was a kid at the time. I just noted that Lou Grant was running against Moses, but didn't note the outcome.)
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

From AI...

Ed Asner did not run against Charlton Heston for president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Asner was elected SAG president in 1981 and served until 1985, while Heston was a former SAG president who later succeeded Asner after a highly publicized power struggle. The conflict between them arose during Asner's presidency, particularly over union policies and political activism, not during a direct election against each other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

341 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025

***
Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

342 Does Poverty Cause Crime?
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The problem with that article is that the author never tells us what he means by "causing" crime. It's a besetting sin of people who rely on the scientific method that they just take causation for granted, and never examine what they are really talking about.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (s0JqF)

343 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

I would agree but concede the majority disagree .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (KDPiq)

344 Hey Nan.. Does that include your security ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)
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You can be sure not. She's important, you see.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (avHHk)

345 Did you all hear how the proposed building for Mamdani's city run grocery store is
- a vacant property,
- that has sat empty for years, and
-the proposed purchase price is something like $100 million more than it's currently valued at, where
- the land is worth more than the building?

But wait, it get's better:
The property is owned by a family member!

But yeah, that Trump, he is the corrupt one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (HXT0k)

346 VDH is a brilliant guy, but sometimes his articles (usually the ones prognosticating public reaction and opinion) are mostly wishcasting…. He overestimates the intelligence of the populace

Most people will blame “affordability issues” on whoever happens to be in office at the time and have zero understanding of economic cause and effect

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

347 Another fool who doesn't know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (a6PrB)

https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

348 We've spent the last number of years watching western governments import by the hundreds of thousands people who want to kill their citizens. What could possibly be more farfetched?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (viF8m)
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Oh, that's easy.

A Western government protecting its citizens or setting up an environment where they can succeed at home. That is the most far-fetched thing imaginable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (avHHk)

349 @_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

HAMMERTIME!!!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

350 Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (s0JqF

I would point to the rich criminal sports stars .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (KDPiq)

351 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

TC aka BurtTC. 20 year AoSHQ alumni!!
Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YBgFH)
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Burt posted that? As a parody, I assume? If so, I apologize for casually assuming it was serious. But...maybe "too soon" for jokes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (yVKAE)

352 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

Christ was born on October 1, 7BC, so our winter/snow baloney is all made up anyhoo.

Posted by: The Celestial Clock at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)

353 Is it too early to make When Harry Met Stabby jokes?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (lXoJ5)

354 https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)
++++
Called it!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (avHHk)

355 Oh, great. Now when the rotten old whore dies in a hammer orgy or whatever, we'll have the Left demanding the 2nd amendment be interred with her as grave goods befitting a ruling class American Ptolemaid.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (dRfXw)

356 Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.
---------------
Sesame Street was in the Hood/Slums. Leave it to Beaver was in a Nice Neighborhood. Guess which was moar entertaining?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (Wg6v7)

357 huh, this is my shocked face...

"The suspected father and son terrorist duo who killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack."

and they had 6 firearms between them...

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (g47mK)

358 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
SCTV: "Captain Combat," "Gunny Rabbit," and "Mr. Green Fatigues"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (wzUl9)

359
Is it too early to make When Harry Met Stabby jokes?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM

well played

golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (tljrc)

360 The solution is not banning guns, Nanzi, it is encouraging more people to prepare to defend themselves. Self-reliance is better than being a victim, or a potential victim cowering behind dorm room doors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (yVKAE)

361 If you refuse to talk to crazy people, you will run out of options quick.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (zALxA)

362 forWARd': What FOOLS these Mortals be -- the Brennan Undead change the tune and people keep dancing like no one is watchin' because they know we all are.

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
...
while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
...
the more brazen and relentless one's acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one's door offering to forget, to forgive and to give forgiveness a bad name.
---
But What the Deliberately Evil do not realize is The Good can employ the same tactic, to defeat and destroy evil via a different Kind of Evil. Like it or not, the world is not ready for such a demonstration -- but in retrospect only too obvious -- something both Trump knows very well, and why the DJ's frustrations to dance him off the stage, the gang that never intends to shoot straight, continually misses the mark.

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025, issuing the clarion call for another shot heard round the world- day of the AfghanDCShooter

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (imN6w)

363 ISIS attack in Syria on US personnel...the only answer is to import more third world savages to civilized countries to make a few powerhungry wankers rich

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

364 Looks like I’m in the minority here because I love The Princess Bride and think it’s brilliant. Mandy Patankin’s performance in that film is out of this world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (/iXAp)

365 327 Kate's still got a better face and hair than Sydney.

Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

366 Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.
---------------
Sesame Street was in the Hood/Slums. Leave it to Beaver was in a Nice Neighborhood. Guess which was moar entertaining?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025

***
Rob and Laura Petrie and their neighborhood was, and is, more my style. (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

367 Alinksy is not my guide to reaching the afterlife.

We don't need to apply the rules to an utter family tragedy.
---
I render unto Cesar what is Cesar's.
I render unto God what is His.

Reiner's law is Cesar's and I'll hold him to it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (HXT0k)

368 I would say "above average," and "Spinal Tap" is mildly amusing, but not the icon it has become.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (n9ltV)

I think it fits in well with that whole series of mockumentaries - for those who have been around that scene, they’re absolutely hilarious. Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman are others; very funny to a niche audience.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (k5cxK)

369 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?"

One doesn't, unless the "infidel" name is ... problematic. Those who select an "arabic" name seem to do so to "fit in"

Arabic =/= muslim

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

370 @353 A Few Good Stabbings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (D+mpw)

371 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

***
We often have near-summer conditions, and rarely any snow, at Xmas in Da Swamp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (wzUl9)

372 359 well played

golf clap
Posted by: AltonJackson

Thanks. I have a friend out on the West Coast who I compete with during celebrity deaths. I think this round goes to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (lXoJ5)

373 there is crazy...and there are certifiable sadists who hide behind digital screens, and those can only be dealt with by professional medical personnel

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

374 Self-reliance is better than being a victim"

The self reliant don't come running for, nor will pay for, "assistance" or "safety".

Victims will.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

375 ISIS attack in Syria on US personnel...the only answer is to import more third world savages to civilized countries to make a few powerhungry wankers rich
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

Their ego has them believing they'll have a seat at the table in the islhamic world order because they're so valuable.

They won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

376 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US
Posted by: Jonah

Has a friend in HS whose mom was an Aussie. Hottest accent ever. I asked her one time why, supposedly, Aussie women liked American men so much. She said that when Aussie men get drunk, they want to fight, when American men get drunk, they want to kiss.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

377 There was an ad several years ago for some investment company that showed cowboys herding cats. It was great. Can't remember the company name but the end message on the ad was "In a sense, this is what we do."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (WPL6O)

378 Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.
Posted by: Bulg

Please seek help Sir, we are fond of you but this is becoming concerning.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (oftw2)

379 Their ego has them believing they'll have a seat at the table in the islhamic world order because they're so valuable."

Indeed. My guess is that all of the Brownshirts saw themselves as "true Nazis"...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

380 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, except for that Kravitz woman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

381 Spinal Tap is fantastic, and what's more it was original. Can't rewrite history on that one, the world is a better place with that movie.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (zALxA)

382 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Well, except for that Kravitz woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Abner's common sense made up for that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

383 Laura Petrie was very pretty
Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (YobFY)

384 290 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (A0sqA)

I preferred Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and Pinwheel on Nickelodeon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (6ydKt)

385
True story, Reiner's first wife was Penny Marshall and when she was asked why she thinks she could direct a movie (about the time she helmed "A League of Their Own") She said "If my asshole idiot ex can direct a movie, anyone can!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

386 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (UnA8+)

My name is Seamus al-MacBaconLover. Who does a fella need to blow up around here to get a haggis and pint?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

387 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (wzUl9)

388 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, except for that Kravitz woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

It was for better or for worse...

Posted by: Abner Kravitz at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (6Ga6M)

389 I think it fits in well with that whole series of mockumentaries - for those who have been around that scene, they’re absolutely hilarious. Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman are others; very funny to a niche audience.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You left out The Rutles and The Last Polka!

Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)

390 369 Arabic =/= muslim
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

I know they aren't the same.

But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (UnA8+)

391 Has a friend in HS whose mom was an Aussie. Hottest accent ever. I asked her one time why, supposedly, Aussie women liked American men so much. She said that when Aussie men get drunk, they want to fight, when American men get drunk, they want to kiss.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

392 Saw the headline clip at the NYPost, that guy yelling CUNT! at that Jewish girl. Two glaring problems: 1. No one in the restaurant clocked him. 2. Two her escort didn't clock him and 3. She made a funny instead of hitting him with a wine bottle or salt shaker.

Permitting that crap is not tolerance it's submission.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (gMWM2)

393 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

Go far enough south and you'll get more snow than you can handle.

McMurdo Station, come in please.

But yeah, Christmas in the middle of your summer? Hard to handle.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:15 AM (QVuuq)

394 A Sure Thing was my favorite Reiner movie.

Starred the other leftist nut, John Cusack.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:15 AM (KDPiq)

395 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

I loved Captain Kangaroo but I was traumatized when they court martialed Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose for, supposedly, stealing the Captain's strawberries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

396 My bud married an Aussie woman. The most selfish bitch on the planet. She even took out a credit card in the youngest's name without his knowledge. "He needs to establish credit."

Not one dime of the child support went to support the children, either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

397 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

398 Australia has legal brothels all over the place IIRC.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (KDPiq)

399 I don't care how they feel, Rand. As they don't care about my feelings and want to destroy my way of life, I vote for you to destroy THEM, you dipshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM

For a man who consistently shouts "FIRST!" with elan and enthusiasm, this seems uncharacteristically restrained. How do you really feel?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

400 The beginnings of a planetary nebula

JJ,

This link needs removal of some schmutz from the end of it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (/HDaX)

401 I know they aren't the same.

But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert.
Posted by: XTC
-----------

Arabs are Muslims. I'm sure there must be one.
As voter mom says; deport, deport, deport.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (gMWM2)

402 Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay have entered the chat.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (W7XSX)

403 Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

This post is half right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

404 Reiner directed Stand By Me, didn't he? The best adaptation of a Stephen King story to date. I read the novella way back in '83, and it blew me away; and then the film was astonishing too, with Kiefer Sutherland as the leader of the juvenile delinquents and River Phoenix as the narrator's best friend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

405 For a man who consistently shouts "FIRST!" with elan and enthusiasm, this seems uncharacteristically restrained. How do you really feel?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

It's Monday morning and I haven't finished my coffee yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

406 And Brennan's Undead band played on:: Mission Accomplished

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience

while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
...
the more brazen and relentless one's acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one's door offering to forget, to forgive and to give forgiveness a bad name.
---
But What the Deliberately Evil do not realize is The Good can employ the same tactic, to defeat and destroy evil via a different Kind of Evil. Like it or not, the world is not ready for such a demonstration -- but in retrospect only too obvious, something Trump ought to know only too well.

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025, the clarion call for another shot heard round the world the day before the AfghanDCShooter.

"It would be wrong to cut off contact with a those to kill people in a way we hate" -- Bill Clinton'06

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (s0Eto)

407 There's no needed to dance on Reiner's grave. But there's no need to spin up a prayer circle for the bloated Communist pig, either, or celebrate his stupid movies, either.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (FLB3A)

408 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (77rzZ

Lost my desire for her after she dated OJ Simpson.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (KDPiq)

409 But yeah, Christmas in the middle of your summer? Hard to handle.
Posted by: rickb223
----

Take a holiday to CO. they have plenty of snow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (gMWM2)

410 one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.
___

Allah is the great deceiver my friend. Now put this special vest on and visit that pizzeria over, friend.

Posted by: Your Bestest Pal, Mohammed at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

411 Burt posted that? As a parody, I assume? If so, I apologize for casually assuming it was serious. But...maybe "too soon" for jokes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (yVKAE)

burt has crossed over into the darkside. going full stormfront.

Never go full stormfront.

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (YBgFH)

412 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)
++++
I was reading a book about the Pacific War and there as an aside about that. Apparently many of the girls lining the docks when American warships put in were not quite of age, and the officers would lecture the men about making sure and avoiding what the Aussies called "pokey bait."

Essentially the same expression as Americans use, of course, just funnier because "pokey" makes it a double entendre.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (avHHk)

413 Abner's common sense made up for that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Originally, they wanted Jim Backus for the role of Abner, but I guess he was still on the island at the time.

I think he would have brought too much energy to the role. George Tobias' phlegmatic nature was more suited to the role of the retired layabout Abner.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

414 As there neighbor, I gotta say that Rob & Laura got into some wacky situations.

Posted by: Jerry Helper, DDS at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (6Ga6M)

415 But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert."

That's a bit of a Western thingy. Other parts of the world, not so much (travel thru highly muslim Indonesia, for example)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

416 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM

It's scuttlebutt like this that necessitates the addition of Potassium Nitrate to the mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Navy Cooks at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (0sNs1)

417 Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay have entered the chat.
Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (W7XSX)

"His momma named him Clay -- Imma call him Clay!"

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (c2vsb)

418 The beginnings of a planetary nebula

JJ,

This link needs removal of some schmutz from the end of it.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 15, 2025

***
Remove everything after ". . .nebula/"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

419 What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.
***
Taking "This is My Body, which will be given up for you" and inverting it to "My Body, my choice". The most evil of all.

Posted by: LASue at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (2LJ0i)

420 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There's one of Beaver & Wally walking home, with the Munster's home in view over their shoulder.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (QVuuq)

421 How could I forget Captain Kangaroo?
I liked that one, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (6ydKt)

422 97 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.
Posted by: Bulg

See? You can be rational! I watched a couple episodes of Bewitched last week when the Stevens were at Loch Ness, 1971 season. Sam forgot to wear a bra. The comedy was ludicrous, but was entertaining, nonetheless.

Posted by: Larry Tate at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)

423 So , I a've listened to one witness account, a woman who had two of her kids with her, approached one of the police on Bondi who were sheltering themselves while people were being slaughtered, and tried to get their gun, to stop the shooters, and they would not let her.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (g47mK)

424 I hadn't thought of Rob Reiner in years. Seemed a bit spiteful and opinionated.

*shrugs* points to barren field ---> over there

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)

425 IMO, The Princess Bride is about the characters, and the story is just a vehicle for their interaction, kind of like Seinfeld. In that sense, it's a brilliant work.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (6qf1m)

426 so, the police who were hiding had guns on them

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

427 287 If someone said that Rob Reiner got what he deserved because he spread hate and fear, I'm not going to chastise them.
He did spread hate and fear.

Nor am I going to extend accolades of "but look how much better we are" to those offering thoughts and prayers.
He would never have done the same for anyone else.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

>>

Best post of the day. Succinct. Truthful. Real

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (HeR4S)

428 the police were holding the woman...insane

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

429 "The suspected father and son terrorist duo who killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack."

and they had 6 firearms between them...
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (g47mK)

Which they possessed legally. By people suspected of ties to Islamic terror groups. Vote for more gun control, proles.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

430
Meathead is mort??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (KPKlu)

431 Abner's common sense made up for that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Originally, they wanted Jim Backus for the role of Abner, but I guess he was still on the island at the time.

I think he would have brought too much energy to the role. George Tobias' phlegmatic nature was more suited to the role of the retired layabout Abner.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes on both counts. Gilligan started the same year as Bewitched, 1964. And yes, Backus, good as he was, would have been too energetic and would have not been enough of a contrast with Alice Pearce.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

432
I can't imagine the horror of a child grown adult killing a parent.

I suppose speculation is that there was an argument, and what I saw of Rob Reiner public ally was that he could get himself worked up into a rage discussing almost anything.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (Y8DZL)

433 426 so, the police who were hiding had guns on them
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

Terrible if true

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

434 Australia has legal brothels all over the place IIRC.
Posted by: the way I see it

Every state in the US has at least one.
In Texas, it's in Austin.
They sure seem to fuck us quite often.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (QVuuq)

435 Kate's still got a better face and hair than Sydney.

Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

Sydney has a better body, though, unless you go solely based on total breast weight.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

436 369 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?"

One doesn't, unless the "infidel" name is ... problematic. Those who select an "arabic" name seem to do so to "fit in"

Arabic =/= muslim
------------------
Gladiator names are moar better. Imma Testicles. I defeated Spatula in Rome in 37 AD. All Hail Testicles.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (Wg6v7)

437
Who would've guessed dick von dyke would outlive meathead.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (KPKlu)

438 His mamma named him Cassius.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (gMWM2)

439 Meathead is mort??
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts

He's stable.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (QVuuq)

440 A young Rob Reiner was on the set of The Mary Tyler Moore show. Mary had a great body and Reiner, being a boy full of raging hormones and raised in hollywood, took it upon himself to grab her ass. She, of course, was shocked, but laughed it off as a young boy who didn't know what he was doing.

His father smiled, gave the kid a high 5 and told him he shouldn't do that and admired him for doing 'what every man here wants to do.'

hollywood is a sick cesspool of evil.

The world will not miss the likes of Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

441 Variety
@Variety

The newest episode of "Landman" took some shots at "The View."

In the episode, Tommy urges his father, T.L., to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests "The View." When T.L. admits that he doesn't know what that is, Tommy explains it as, "A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about. It's pretty funny."

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

442 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There's one of Beaver & Wally walking home, with the Munster's home in view over their shoulder.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025

***
There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (wzUl9)

443
How old is his "son?" 50? 60?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (KPKlu)

444 NY Post reporting:

The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school’s college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (Dv3i1)

445 443
How old is his "son?" 50? 60?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (KPKlu)

Late 30's I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (VE6XX)

446 Princess Bride was a pure fairy tale, but the most enjoyable and adult themed fairy tale ever put on film. Great characters , great actors playing them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (k5cxK)

447 Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

448 ***
Taking "This is My Body, which will be given up for you" and inverting it to "My Body, my choice". The most evil of all.
Posted by: LASue

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (gMWM2)

449 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

I wanted to go to Australia so fucking bad. Went to Guam instead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

450 Alice Pearce>>Sandra Gould

Posted by: Rating The Neighbors at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (oftw2)

451 415 That's a bit of a Western thingy. Other parts of the world, not so much (travel thru highly muslim Indonesia, for example)
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

One would assume that by this point, most of them are born into Islam.

(Similarly, Chechnya/The Caucasus. Since they're born into Islam, they have no need to change their identity to feel authentically Muslim).

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (UnA8+)

452 I wanted to go to Australia so fucking bad. Went to Guam instead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025

***
I always wanted to see Australia and New Zealand. England and Scotland too.

Not no mo'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (wzUl9)

453
I hope "reporters" aren't amiss and omit Meathead's ELECTION FRAUD SCANDAL Conviction in California that everyone forget about.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (KPKlu)

454 I prefer Upton but she was a model and not a Hollywood actress.

Hollywood promotes non model looking women to be 'sex symbols'.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

455 There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

456 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (u82oZ)

457 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

Now waiting for him to be released and the suspect to still be at large. But maybe I'm cynical.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (lXoJ5)

458 More Patrick Henrys, less Rand Pauls. We can dream.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (VnsnO)

459 Alice Pearce>>Sandra Gould
Posted by: Rating The Neighbors at December 15, 2025

***
Alice was great in reaction shots as well as everything else she did. I don't even remember her successor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

460 First thought to the Jewish community, Stop voting Democrat; Second thought, shoot back.
Allowing this to happen is not tolerance it's submission.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (gMWM2)

461 447 Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

He lived in LA.
He probably couldn't find a normal person until he got to Barstow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (6ydKt)

462 >Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Nobody crazier than a boomer who gets all of his news from cable tv.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (rJ48h)

463 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

A new one ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

464 A new one ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Sounds like it. Hopefully they found the right person.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (lXoJ5)

465 316 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

It pays well.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

I have realized late in my life that I have greatly underestimated human venality.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (VnsnO)

466 I used to have a different nic

In my third ship, home-ported in Subic, the trip to Perth, Australia as part of the USS Carl Vinson battlegroup was a dream come true.

Details? OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

467 And now Moses Brown, the most elite private school in RI and just a few blocks from Brown, has closed for the day.

Heck of a job, Providence PD.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (viF8m)

468 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (QVuuq)

469 Carrot futures took a big hit when Captain Kangaroo was cancelled. They had to invent "baby carrots" to get their market share back.

Posted by: Inventiveness to Infinity at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)

470 There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025

***
The shot inspired me to write an U.N.C.L.E.-Fugitive crossover story, where Kimble is the "innocent" Solo & Illya recruit to help them, in return for interceding with the Indiana governor to commute his sentence to life. Things don't go according to plan, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

471 My farcebook feed had these three threads near the top when I checked it last night:

1) Trump is rayciss and anti-Islamic in not wanting Somali refugees

2) Some people did some things on a beach in Australia

3) Some people did some things to some Brown college students in the US

Wonder how many people are getting how #1 is the solution for #2/3?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (sKqQm)

472 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

473 Slept late.

Chores await.

Head on a swivel, folk, and have a plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

474 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.

==

if you look at her history, it was not a dive, she was always swimming in it, it's just people were so excited to see a black "conservative" (she never was, and is not now) that they did not care

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

475 I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

Like when Seinfeld re-used the set of the Merv Griffin show!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (YobFY)

476 Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

The house for Leave It To Beaver was reused for Marcus Welby, M.D then they gave it a new facade for the movie The 'Burbs, before it was reconverted and used for the Leave It To Beaver reunion movie in the late 90s.

It's supposedly still on the Universal lot somewhere today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (6ydKt)

477 457 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

Now waiting for him to be released and the suspect to still be at large. But maybe I'm cynical.
Posted by: NR Pax
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If they had shot him he would be released to the morgue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (gMWM2)

478 if you look at her history, it was not a dive, she was always swimming in it, it's just people were so excited to see a black "conservative" (she never was, and is not now) that they did not care
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

I was quite impressed with her when she touring with Charlie. She was fast on her feet and took no shit. You never know, I suppose. Crooked timber.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (VnsnO)

479 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

We don't have to cheer it, but we can note that he broke it, he bought it. It was avoidable, had he been a better parent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (npFr7)

480
Rob Reiner's entire career is summed up by his bitter jealousy of his father's success and how beloved he was. His deep-rooted feeling of inadequacy was far more toxic than his TDS.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (x0n13)

481 Rob and Laura lived in New Rochelle, which was an interesting choice. New Rochelle was in the news for its racially segregated school system, one of the rare school civil rights projects in New York at the time. She wears capri pants instead of house dresses. There is some subtext in the show, besides them both being great entertainers.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (R86kT)

482 Just parking this here for later to repost after 100 comment limit on art thread.

Rebel News' Avi interviews survivor of Bondi Beach massacre - transcript (Link goes to 'The Conservative Woman in UK)

https://tinyurl.com/mwnkyb8r

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)

483 Xi Blasts "Reckless" Projects Exaggerating Growth After China Reveals Dismal Macro Data For November

“All plans must be based on facts, aiming for solid, genuine growth without exaggeration, and promoting high-quality, sustainable development...”

... when Chinese youth employment got seriously bad, they just stopped reporting it, so that inconvenient fact is missing.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

484 That never made any sense to me. "Turn the other cheek" doesn't mean "be a doormat" or "let people enslave, torture or murder you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (azrRX)

I think Nietzsche had the right take on that aspect of Christianity. Unfortunately.

Posted by: front toward enemy at December 15, 2025 09:46 AM (TIizU)

485 Hedge Fund CIO: "If Nvidia Is This Cycle's Coalmine, Oracle Is The Canary"

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

486 Nobody crazier than a Generationalist worshiping Satan.
There ought to be a sort of zoo where people can view you.
You're going to get locked up somewhere when your worldview crashes. Might as well charge admission.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (zdLoL)

487 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM

Similar story with the series "Family Ties". The show was supposed to be about focusing on the liberalism of the hippy parents, but fans of the show ended up loving Michael J. Fox's Alex P. Keaton and his Republicanism. So the show ended up changing from a focus on the parents to a focus on Michael J. Fox.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (P5BPp)

488 A question to our Jewish friends here.....is this article an accurate representation of the Jewish belief in the afterlife?

https://tinyurl.com/yvr2jfxv

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (5xuJ/)

489 >>>Rob Reiner shared his true feelings about Donald Trump

- MSN

F MSN and F Reiner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:00 AM (dK+Kv)

490 The person of interest ben Erickson was questioned and released. Back to square 1.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (R86kT)

491 Al Bundy, man spreading on the couch, describing his day. "And then a fat woman Godzillas her way into the shoe store...".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM

"It's not the *dress* that makes you look fat, it's the *FAT* that makes you look fat!"

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (P5BPp)

492 Good morning, all, thanks, J.J. Happy Hanukkah 🕯🕯

Pennsylvania has many dimwitted a**holes, more every time there's an election because there's been years of entryism by VA influencers and pols. (Easy pickings here.)

>>FOX News, 4 Dec. 2025, 'PA school faces fury after Muslim club’s pro-Palestinian display leaves Jewish students ‘shaken’ Dozens of parents sent a letter to the school district demanding answers on the event

Also, WISS NOW dot com, Dec. 4, 2025, and other sources - Parents raise concern over antisemitism at Muslim Student Association booth during Wissahickon Cultural Fair
Several parents criticized a display booth as inappropriate and politically charged

That's the Wissahickon School District, Montgomery County, PA, one of PA's premier high schools. Is it a surprise? IDK but also see, Wissahickon School District community forum · May 27 - This is alarming and also not surprising. A precipitous fall in rankings based on test scores from 2022-2024. The WSD administration and board has lost focus on education.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

493 The other high school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, VA.

>WaPo, Dec. 6, 2025 › Local Education, Kidnapping skit in a high school club’s video draws outrage critics

(Another) 'Once the top-ranked school in the nation, TJHSST drops again,' Fairfax County Times, Published Oct 11, 2024 Updated Dec 5, 2024 (DEI)

No discernible trends, right? 🙄🤬
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>NYT, Hanukkah Concerts With Israeli Military Cantor Raise Outcry in Amsterdam
A concert hall canceled the performance several months ago but then reached a compromise in which three concerts will be held. The bargain hasn’t satisfied critics of the events. 2 days ago

>Marietta Daily Journal, 'Two states designate Muslim group as terrorist, but other GOP governors mum' National News, mdjonline com, one hour ago

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

494 TMZ, Rob Reiner & Wife Michele's Son Nick Reiner in Custody, 39 minutes ago

Ron Reiner, a key founder and on the advisory board for the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR), a non-profit launched in 2017 with journalist David Frum to inform Americans about Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election and ongoing threats to democracy, featuring figures like Morgan Freeman in its campaign to raise awareness.

That overrides all of his 'cute' movies for me.

Have a nice day.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

495 didn't Candace owens publish Charlie Kirk's private messages from years ago, his dating history ? yep, internet is there for us : "Candace Owens Sparks Outrage by Sharing Charlie Kirk Dating Texts".

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

Yes, Candace Owens did publicly share private text messages from years ago between her and the late Charlie Kirk, in which he asked for her advice on what to wear on a date (specifically, whether to change out of a Turning Point USA-branded shirt). She presented this during a December 2025 episode of her podcast, framing it nostalgically as her acting as his "wing-woman" for a woman he was reportedly "in love with" at the time — before he met and married his wife, Erika Kirk.

The specific exchange she read aloud and showed:

Charlie: "Do I have to change this shirt?"
Candace: "Yes, and throw it away if you can, Charlie."
Charlie: "Ah, okay."

This disclosure sparked significant backlash from conservatives, who called it "deranged," "reprehensible," "highly inappropriate," and disrespectful to Erika Kirk (Charlie's widow, who was pregnant at the time...)

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (P5BPp)

496 Yep. He, she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM

Just for accuracy's sake, She (I know you don't care).

Biological Woman.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM

This grates on me. Isn't "biological woman" redundant?

As Colonel Nathan Jessup said in response to being asked about "grave danger", "is there another kind?"

There is only one kind of woman. "trans" or "transgender" women do not exist. Those are made up descriptions. A "trans-woman" or "transgender woman" is a man. Not a woman.

We should not have to clarify that someone was a "biological" woman or man. Saying 'she is a woman' or 'he is a man' should always be sufficient.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (P5BPp)

497 This Australia schooling reminds me so much of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood by while the shooter did his ugly business. In the Australia event, the police did nothing for 20 minutes.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM

I read that the majority of the police who were on-scene were women, who immediately ran and hid.

End Wokeness @EndWokeness

"Turn in your firearms, we'll protect you"

The protection:

X images of female cops: https://bit.ly/4aPSlPO

Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews

BREAKING - Newly released images confirm eyewitness claims that four officers were close to the attackers during the Bondi Beach massacre but failed to engage, with photos showing three female officers fleeing or hiding instead of attempting to respond to the threat.

X videos and images: https://bit.ly/4ahNgzG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (P5BPp)

498 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM

I did like A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM

"The Princess Bride" will always hold a special place in my heart. I first saw it on a trip to Arizona with my uncle and his wife to visit my other aunt (my uncle's sister) when I was 12 years old in 1988. She was taking care of a ranch for the summer and the first night we were there she set me up in the living room pull-out couch and left the TV on. They had satellite TV at the time and there were a ton of channels to watch. My aunt went through the channels for a bit and then settled on "The Princess Bride".

And that was my introduction to the movie and I loved it.

Saw "A Few Good Men" for the first time freshman year in college and immediately liked it. I remember my roommate and I playing over and over the scene where Tom Cruise rips into Demi Moore for being stupid and missing the day they taught law at law school and laughing our asses off.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:15 AM (P5BPp)

499 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

JUST IN: Liberals are desperately claiming the right is celebrating the death of Rob Reiner, but X is being flooded with conservatives expressing sorrow for Reiner and his wife's death.

Reiner previously broke with the Left to condemn what happened to Charlie.

A sad loss.

X video of Rob Reiner commenting on Charlie Kirk's assassination: https://bit.ly/4oUe3FG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (P5BPp)

500 I've been trying to tell anybody that will listen -- The Problem isn't the dirtbag politicians. They've always been, and always will be, with us.

The Problem is the People that vote for them. In the NYC Mayoral election, 33% of the smartest, best educated group of People in history with the most to lose, and a history of doing so, voted for a person who wants to kill them.

'Splain that

Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (NEFaB)

501 499. Reiner previously broke with the Left to condemn what happened to Charlie.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton

No, he didn't. Listen harder.
That shouldn't happen to anyone.
Kirk's wife forgave his assassin and that's admirable to him.

Then note lots of high echelon lefties jumped on the bandwagon, even out on the West Coast -

The Hollywood Reporter, 'Political Figures and Hollywood Notables React to Charlie Kirk’s Death: “He Was Loved and Admired” The conservative political activist was fatally shot during an event at a Utah university. Sep 10, 2025

Clinton, Newsom, Obama...

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (NFX2v)

502 326 This Australia schooling reminds me so much of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood by while the shooter did his ugly business.
In the Australia event, the police did nothing for 20 minutes.
Posted by: SMOD

The grandmother had worked at the school. The shooter had three cousins in the school. He was familiar with the school's layout. The school had a working intercom system.

Seemed as if the shooter and his family were known and school authorities and/or the police may have thought they could negotiate for better circumstances.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 04:13 PM (NFX2v)

503 500. 'Splain that
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo

The desire to want to believe in the best outcome and to belong.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 04:16 PM (NFX2v)

504 The American people have more important things to worry about then any fake threat of Global Warming/Climate Change

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 15, 2025 04:55 PM (wGqjj)

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