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Don't Beware of Dog Cafe

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The emaciated pit bull in the shelter wasn't given a name because they knew she'd die and naming the dog would make that harder. But one woman couldn't forget the dog with no name.

The British built fake trees to hide spies and snipers in during World War One. They put the fake trees out into No Man's Land at night and trusted that no one would notice. (Actually they were made to resemble trees on the battlefield, which they removed and replaced with the fake.)

I hope you don't think I'm a coward, but if I was ordered to hide in a fake tree out in No Man's Land, I would take the court martial.

Dog failed out of seeing-eye-dog school and is now a pet. But he keeps dragging his normal-sighted owner around.

No fence can keep a boy and a dog from playing with each other.

Making a pet of a pine marten. That noise would drive me crazy.

Cute Australian woman raises an orphaned 'roo.

Orphaned wombat gets sassy as he enters his teenage years.

Magpie raised by a dog won't stop barking.

Baby hippo is a straight savage.

German shepherd and husky act out a buddy cop movie where one is a motormouth and the other is the strong silent type. I think maybe it's Rush Hour.

(Am I the first person in 20 years to even think of Rush Hour?)

Sheep vs. bucket.

Leading a lost baby elephant back to its family.


Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM




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1 Hey maroons!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (kpS4V)

2 hope you don't think I'm a coward, but if I was ordered to hide in a fake tree out in No Man's Land, I would take the court martial.

Coward. I spent many nights in one.

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (Riz8t)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (GYt5+)

4 2 hope you don't think I'm a coward, but if I was ordered to hide in a fake tree out in No Man's Land, I would take the court martial.

Coward. I spent many nights in one.

Posted by: Brian Williams


Right? They were actually kind of comfy when the AC was on.

Posted by: Danang Dick Blumenthal at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (Riz8t)

5 The main image has the look of one of those Croatian naive paintings.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (unUNN)

6 Baby Hippo gets a cherry tomato for a snack heh heh

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (uEWUd)

7 Leek dance too painful to watch for me. Got banned for life from Food Lion for taking a leek in the produce section.

Posted by: America's Guest at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (G5+As)

8 The kid and dog playing fetch over the fence is too cute.

Posted by: davidt at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (i0F8b)

9 Baby laughing is a good un.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (wVcYX)

10 Cute Australian woman raises an orphaned 'roo.

Really nice legs. No, not the 'roo.

Posted by: Danang Dick Blumenthal at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (Riz8t)

11 That "fake tree in No Man's Land made to look just like a real tree in No Man's Land" sounds like a Monty Python skit, and I can see Graham Chapman posing as a burnt out oak saying "Right then, lads, let's get to it!" and inching ever closer to the Huns.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (kpS4V)

12 Content

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (gY63y)

13 heh I remember the first tine I saw dogs humping I went home and told my mom "Hey Mom I saw two circus dogs on DiBello's porch" HA HA yes I did.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (uEWUd)

14 I'd steal tubs and take him home.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (rOh1h)

15 The British built fake trees to hide spies and snipers in during World War One. They put the fake trees out into >>> Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (kpS4V)

*tosses pie*

How Not To Be Seen!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (ULPxl)

16 Pine Martens are weasels. Mustelid family

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:46 PM (NtVYv)

17 D'oh!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:46 PM (ULPxl)

18
Another story in the local rag about the Astrodome and what is going to happen to it. Frankly, I think everyone would be relieved if it was mysteriously imploded in the dead of night. Hey folks, it's not Notre Dame Cathedral.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (HZi96)

19 Close one. You were almost hiding in the Barrel.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)

20 Helena Handbasket

Have we had a Jane sighting?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (u82oZ)

21 Hah looks like someone did a painting of the same photograph of a painting I did.

Tell me that’s AI and I’ll feel better. I like mine a lot but I think I like this one may be a little better . They added a fence and smoke .

If you want to see mine you can go to Stuppleart.com.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:49 PM (VofaG)

22 That "fake tree in No Man's Land made to look just like a real tree in No Man's Land" sounds like a Monty Python skit, and I can see Graham Chapman posing as a burnt out oak saying "Right then, lads, let's get to it!" and inching ever closer to the Huns.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (kpS4V)
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I think they did do a sketch about someone hiding on a battlefield disguised as a tree--which is promptly blown up.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:49 PM (IBQGV)

23 I wonder if Nolan Ryan achieved greatness because when he was a two y.o. he threw a ball over a fence to a happy Labrador 10,000 times?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:49 PM (HlyYF)

24 What is the best TV show of all time?

We are debating this. I say Breaking Bad. Its aggregate score is 9.9 in reviews. Not a single bad episode except maybe one. Fly.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 07:50 PM (rOh1h)

25
I wonder if Nolan Ryan achieved greatness because when he was a two y.o. he threw a ball over a fence to a happy Labrador 10,000 times?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:49 PM (HlyYF)

________

If a dog enjoys doing something, the 10,000th time is just as fun as the 1st.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:50 PM (HZi96)

26 16 Pine Martens are weasels. Mustelid family

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:46 PM


Yes, but can they ring steel at well over a 1,000 yards like a Moron Weasel?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:51 PM (HlyYF)

27 Did they put them in no man's land? Usually they just ran saps with listening posts out there. I think the fake trees were usually a little behind the lines, if that makes a difference it doing it vs the court martial.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 07:51 PM (p16cu)

28 24 What is the best TV show of all time?

We are debating this. I say Breaking Bad. Its aggregate score is 9.9 in reviews. Not a single bad episode except maybe one. Fly.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 07:50 PM (rOh1h)

I'd say Sopranos, but Breaking Bad is also a contender for sure.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:51 PM (uCjyK)

29 >>> 19 Close one. You were almost hiding in the Barrel.
Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)

>>> 20 Helena Handbasket

Have we had a Jane sighting?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (u82oZ)

No...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:52 PM (ULPxl)

JustTheNews: The Secret Service Tracked James Comey After His "86 47" Call for Assassinating the President

86 James Comey.

Hey, it's just a group of sea shells I thought was interesting. I don't mean anything by that. Just some completely random numbers and letters I randomly typed out.


The Secret Service tracked former FBI Director James Comey after a social media post in May that critics of it say called for killing President Trump.

...

Three anonymous government officials told The New York Times that law enforcement authorities in unmarked cars and street clothes tracked the location of Comey's cellphone the day after he posted on Instagram a picture of the numbers etched in the sand at a beach via seashells.

Comey deleted the post, which was captioned "Cool shell formation on my beach walk." In a follow-up post, Comey said, "I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down."

Authorities tailed Comey and his wife, Patrice, as they drove from their North Carolina vacation through Virginia to their home in the Washington, D.C., area, the officials said, citing "exigent" circumstances for the justification.

The Secret Service was also receiving information showing the location of Comey's phone while federal law enforcement were at his home waiting for him to return, according to the officials, The Times also reports.

Comey was interviewed over the phone by the Secret Service the evening of the day that he shared the post, and he said he had no intent to cause the president harm. The Secret Service still wanted to interview Comey at their headquarters the next day, so agency personnel met him when he arrived home from vacation and drove him to the D.C. office, where they questioned him.

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Comey has not been charged with a crime, and the status of the inquiry is unclear.

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A representative for Comey declined to comment to the Times.

...

Trump also responded to Comey's initial post and follow-up explanation, saying, "He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant? That meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear."

Related: Tulsi Gabbard has assembled a team to find and punish those in the Deep State weaponizing the government.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reportedly launched an initiative aimed at preventing bad actors from using their positions to weaponize intelligence agencies against Americans for political reasons.

The Washington Post reported that Gabbard has formed a new team called the Director's Initiative Group (DIG) to access the chat logs and emails of US intelligence agencies. This move is intended to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to "end the weaponization of the federal government" while dismantling DEI initiatives and revealing political bias within these agencies.

However, some have taken issue with the initiative, arguing that it would result in the department gathering sensitive information on millions of American citizens. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) characterized the initiative as an effort "to expose the truth and end the politicization and weaponization of intelligence against Americans."

DIG has already obtained unclassified communications from the Intelligence Advanced Research Proejcts Activity and is planning to leverage artificial intelligence technology to analyze the data.

Critics who spoke with The Washington Post on condition of anonymity expressed fears that this move could compromise sensitive information while targeting employees for political retaliation. "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.

Oh, the spies object to being spied on...?

Well then, you go right back to leaking top secret documents to the press and tipping off CHIRLA and Trantifa about coming ICE raids.

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM




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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (GYt5+)

2 2

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (GYt5+)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (GYt5+)

4 4th

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (GYt5+)

5 Now to nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (GYt5+)

6 I like Tulsi

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Udy3r)

7 I also like pancakes

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Udy3r)

8 More than anything Tulsi should expose the alleged anonymous sources in the deep state who supply propaganda ministers like Natasha Bertrand and David Ignatius with info . Burn the pricks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (JtH6i)

9 Moar Purge, plz

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (xcxpd)

10 Also, Sponge!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (xcxpd)

11 >>>The Secret Service tracked former FBI Director James Comey after a social media post in May that critics of it say called for killing President Trump.

Normally I'm against this kind of thing, but also, normally a former FBI director doesn't call for the assassination of the sitting president.

So I'm fine with the secret service harassing him a bit.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (uCjyK)

12 Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM


Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (jc0TO)

13 >>86 James Coney

Word!!

--
Industrial Wood Chipper Who's Thirst Could Use a Little Slaking.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (QpTJY)

14 "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.
.....

Gee, kinda like when you work for the private sector.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (UjdFS)

15
"They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.

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lol so, like every company in the world that supplies each employee an email and access to intranet?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (UmB+t)

16 >>> 14 "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.
.....

Gee, kinda like when you work for the private sector.
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (UjdFS)

They expect RESULTS!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (ULPxl)

17 14 "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.
.....

Gee, kinda like when you work for the private sector.
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (UjdFS)

It is hard to imagine anyone saying that with a straight face.

Obviously your bosses should have full access to your systems at all times. Just like they do in any other non-government job on the planet.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:37 PM (uCjyK)

18 Who watches the watchers?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:37 PM (rOh1h)

19
14, 15

Horde mind, horde time!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:37 PM (UmB+t)

20 Anonymous sources = Someone who rightly fears retribution for their actions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (tT6L1)

21 Related: Tulsi Gabbard has assembled a team to find and punish those in the Deep State weaponizing the government.

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We're gonna need MOAR lampposts -- or maybe MOAR hungry gators would be MOAR cost-effective ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (xAkgI)

22 Exigent is not only a fine dentifrice: you can polish your brass and silver with it too! Make your surfaces excellent, with Exigent!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (TwZXH)

23 Someone said something about pancakes?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (2UnvF)

24 Next they'll be asking us for a list of things we did last week!

Posted by: One Source at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (ULPxl)

25 So if Comey opposes violence of any kind, and I'm quoting comey himself, how could he, in good conscience, work for an organization that uses violence to achieve its goals? Sure that totally makes sense.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (Cg3Gl)

26
Comey was interviewed over the phone by the Secret Service the evening of the day that he shared the post, and he said he had no intent to cause the president harm.

=============

I wonder if he was shaking and stammering.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (UmB+t)

27 You don't have to brush your teeth every week, but you just might want to.

Posted by: Exigent at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (jc0TO)

28 23 Someone said something about pancakes?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (2UnvF)

Pancakes?

Heathens.


Belgium Waffles with powdered sugar!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (rOh1h)

29 Someone said something about pancakes?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:38 PM (2UnvF)

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That's not funny!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (tT6L1)

30 Belgium Waffles with powdered sugar!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (rOh1h)

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Fag

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (2UnvF)

31 Belgium Waffles with powdered sugar!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM

And maple syrup!

Posted by: A Philistine at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (JGU+s)

32 The Washington Post reported that Gabbard has formed a new team called the Director's Initiative Group (DIG) to access the chat logs and emails of US intelligence agencies.

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Can we please call it Operation Crossfire Boomerang?

FAFO!

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (xAkgI)

33 Imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 25 years ago:

@townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

34 Can we please call it Operation Crossfire Boomerang?

Perfect. And so, no, we can't have nice things.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (jc0TO)

35 33 Imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 25 years ago:

@townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

Heh, that is quite the headline.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (uCjyK)

36 Pine scented Druid philosopher James Comey.

Please ace.
Say his whole name.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (W2Pud)

37 "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.
.....

Gee, kinda like when you work for the private sector.
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (UjdFS)

It is hard to imagine anyone saying that with a straight face.

Obviously your bosses should have full access to your systems at all times. Just like they do in any other non-government job on the planet.


When you get a computer as a Fed, you sign a form acknowledging that you can and will be spied upon. Anyone objecting to this is a criminal.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (Riz8t)

38 @townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)
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and now you know the rest of the story of "danger hair".....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

39
Fag

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (2UnvF

I am a lesbian.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (rOh1h)

40 33 Imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 25 years ago:

@townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

How many casualties?
Lie to me, if you have to....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (xcxpd)

41 Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

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At no point while reading this did I have any idea what the next words would be.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (2UnvF)

42 Ok, I'm going to piss everyone off and defend Barrett and Bondi.

Bondi is not idle. Every time you see a court smack around a rogue judge, that is her work. She is the one picking the lawyers, approving the arguments, and slowly, inexorably boxing in the courts. We don't know what's going on with Epstein, but it is peak hair-on-fire for people to lose their shit over an unsigned, undated letter release to AXIOS - that beacon of journalistic integrity.

Why not let MSNBC pick your next target? It's that stupid.

ACB's ruling left a gap for "class action" suits, but it also set guidelines, which have been disregarded. Moreover, you only get one bite of the apple with a class action- if it's turned down, it's over. This is much better than a thousand cases being filed in a thousand courts hoping that one judge will give you the TRO.

Both of them are worth 1,000 Souters/Jeff Sessions.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

43
Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (UmB+t)

44 More than anything Tulsi should expose the alleged anonymous sources in the deep state who supply propaganda ministers like Natasha Bertrand and David Ignatius with info . Burn the pricks
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (JtH6i)

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

45 Have they referred to Comey as Maxwell Smart yet?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (VofaG)

46 DIG has already obtained unclassified communications from the Intelligence Advanced Research Proejcts Activity and is planning to leverage artificial intelligence technology to analyze the data.

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DOGE 2: Swamp Drain Boogaloo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (xAkgI)

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Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (TwZXH)

48 43
Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (UmB+t)

At least it was for biblical reasons.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

49 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

You didn't piss me off.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (VofaG)

50 >>> 33 Imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 25 years ago:

@townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

...and then trying to determine which of the pink-hairs are female and which aren't, and explain *that*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (ULPxl)

51 I wonder if he was shaking and stammering.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (UmB+t)
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I think he had an explosive loss of bowel control. These guys are fearless only because they think nothing will come back at them. They will dime each other out in record time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (ZOv7s)

52 I don't think the country has come to grips with what happened in 2016. As Americans we expect spirited debate and even dirty pool.

What happened in 2016 was the ferocity of the monster we allowed to be built by our government to destroy other countries was unleashed on us. It nearly broke the country and we still haven't recovered.

And it was Obama that did it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:45 PM (viF8m)

53 >>> 49 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

You didn't piss me off.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (VofaG)

*considers*

*tosses pies*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:45 PM (ULPxl)

54
How many casualties?
Lie to me, if you have to....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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This is what kills me: news stories are calling it a "standoff." wth, doesn't ICE have guns and the authority of law? Why are they in a STANDOFF with a bunch of pink-haired freaks?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (UmB+t)

55 Imagine if Joe Biden had been competent.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)

56 Pine scented Druid philosopher James Comey.

Please ace.
Say his whole name.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 06:42 PM (W2Pud)

I felt betrayed when he revealed he communed on some sordid beach rather than muse peacefully in the heart of the old forest.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

57 "a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence"

What a crock of shit. No wonder they tailed him.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (TwZXH)

58
I wonder if they followed James Comey INTO the bathhouses.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (IifOV)

59 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

It doesn't piss me off, but I do not agree about Epstein. And Trump and Bondi both addressed the issue when asked by a reporter and basically said "shaddup, it's in the past."

It's clear we're not going to get the swamp draining we were promised, but I always thought THAT was a long shot.

At least, hopefully, Trump can do something about immigration. That's really my number one issue.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (uCjyK)

60 >>>However, some have taken issue with the initiative, arguing that it would result in the department gathering sensitive information on millions of American citizens.
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That makes it sound like random people. Government workers are not random people. They know that when they apply for the job and are frequently made aware of that fact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (Xlykt)

61 Tulsi Gabbard has assembled a team to find and punish those in the Deep State weaponizing the government.

And here I was hoping for a group of real-life Nephilim Logan, Mitch Rapp and Scot Harvath types with extraordinary rendition teams that black bag these traitors and haul them to vicious dark sites for rude conversations involving zip ties, power drills and large paddle bits.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (a4flb)

62 What happened in 2016 was the ferocity of the monster we allowed to be built by our government to destroy other countries was unleashed on us. It nearly broke the country and we still haven't recovered.

And it was Obama that did it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:45 PM (viF8m)

Weaponized Government

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (rOh1h)

63 Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (UmB+t)

At least it was for biblical reasons.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

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He turned her into a pillar of salt?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (2UnvF)

64 >>> 40
==
How many casualties?
Lie to me, if you have to....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (xcxpd)

We should at LEAST have the indelible dye cannons deployed by now.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:47 PM (ULPxl)

65 We should at LEAST have the indelible dye cannons deployed by now.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:47 PM


Smurf those bitches!

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)

66
I think he had an explosive loss of bowel control. These guys are fearless only because they think nothing will come back at them. They will dime each other out in record time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

==============

That is pretty much what I typed and deleted. I'm actually quite ladylike despite most evidence to the contrary and I don't like to type things like "s***ting his pants" lol. But explosive loss of bowel control is EXACTLY what I had in mind!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (UmB+t)

67
86 James Comey

That is right.
Comey is off the menu.

Posted by: New Name at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)

68 This is what kills me: news stories are calling it a "standoff." wth, doesn't ICE have guns and the authority of law? Why are they in a STANDOFF with a bunch of pink-haired freaks?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (UmB+t)

It's hard to do your raid if you are dragging the perps attacking your cars off to prison. They need to announce many different raids a day and only use one.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

69 How hard is it to trail a fuckinggiraffe?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (NBPRu)

70 He turned her into a pillar of salt?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (2UnvF)

That was my takeaway, yes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (uCjyK)

71 "a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence"
.......

Kelp scented Oceanic philosopher

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (UjdFS)

72
Examples need to be made of these ICE protestors that get in front of or try to impede their vehicles.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (IifOV)

73 How many casualties?
Lie to me, if you have to....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

============

This is what kills me: news stories are calling it a "standoff." wth, doesn't ICE have guns and the authority of law? Why are they in a STANDOFF with a bunch of pink-haired freaks?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (UmB+t)

On the one hand, I don't want cops acting like thugs, but on the other hand, I don't want pink haired mobs feeling free to assault people and vehicles. Those actions should have consequences.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

74 >>Imagine if Joe Biden had been competent.

He never would have been VP let alone President if he had been.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

75 However, some have taken issue with the initiative, arguing that it would result in the department gathering sensitive information on millions of American citizens.
------------

Unless there's a name I assume that this is just made up. Nobody does actual reporting, just reads tweets.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:50 PM (8avO+)

76 >>> 66

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That is pretty much what I typed and deleted. I'm actually quite ladylike despite most evidence to the contrary and I don't like to type things like "s***ting his pants" lol. But explosive loss of bowel control is EXACTLY what I had in mind!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (UmB+t)

Say, have I mentioned the TX MoMee this year will be the *tenth*?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:50 PM (ULPxl)

77 He never would have been VP let alone President if he had been.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

On that, we can all agree.

No one would have let Biden near the levers of power if they thought his brain worked well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:50 PM (uCjyK)

78 He never would have been VP let alone President if he had been.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)
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Hey, dad, may I borrow the keys to the yacht? I gave you some time and space so, we're good, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:50 PM (tT6L1)

79 "a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence"
.......

Kelp scented Oceanic philosopher


Chum-reeking, rotting whale carcass redolent, aquatic sodomite

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM (Riz8t)

80 Examples need to be made of these ICE protestors that get in front of or try to impede their vehicles.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (IifOV)

I don't want the Left to have a Tiananmen Square. I want them to get out the firehoses .

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM (VofaG)

81 ============

This is what kills me: news stories are calling it a "standoff." wth, doesn't ICE have guns and the authority of law? Why are they in a STANDOFF with a bunch of pink-haired freaks?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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So, you're really from AL, AR or TX. Right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM (Xlykt)

82 On the one hand, I don't want cops acting like thugs, but on the other hand, I don't want pink haired mobs feeling free to assault people and vehicles. Those actions should have consequences.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

Just round 'em up and arrest them on some contempt of cop charge. Should be easy enough if local police are willing to play ball.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM (uCjyK)

83 When you get a computer as a Fed, you sign a form acknowledging that you can and will be spied upon. Anyone objecting to this is a criminal.

True for banks too.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM (a4flb)

84 On the one hand, I don't want cops acting like thugs, but on the other hand, I don't want pink haired mobs feeling free to assault people and vehicles. Those actions should have consequences.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)
---
In olden times, you had to grab the perps before they got away, and that could lead to collateral damage. But now, you just photograph the weirdos, and pick them up when they go home to their hot pocket dinner at Mom's.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)

85
I don't want the Left to have a Tiananmen Square. I want them to get out the firehoses .

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:51 PM

Firehoses is perfect. They always want to relive the 60's, so get them the firehoses

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 06:52 PM (IifOV)

86 James Comey!!

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:52 PM (E0p3T)

87 Anyone know the deal with the FISA court judges?

They clearly allowed bogus warrants to be certified by the court under false pretenses.

They also allowed all kinds of unauthorized access into the NSA files, etc.

I am always personally pissed when someone defrauds me, plus even more pissed when it was attempted in a business scenario where I was also responsible for other people's money.

Do these judges have no honor and no desire to clean up a system that has clearly been penetrated and corrupted?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:52 PM (HlyYF)

88 I don't want the Left to have a Tiananmen Square. I want them to get out the firehoses .

To wash the puree of antifa from the front of squad cars, right?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (Riz8t)

89 townhallcom 50m
🚨 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

Bet it's owned by the Chinese. That's what all the illegal grows here are now.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (XZ6f8)

90 Go directly to federal offenses. hold them in a red state 1000 miles away.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)

91 >>> 73
==
On the one hand, I don't want cops acting like thugs, but on the other hand, I don't want pink haired mobs feeling free to assault people and vehicles. Those actions should have consequences.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

"leak" news of a raid, sending 10 agents.
Wait for retards to show up, send in ~50 more.
Wait a bit longer, send in a couple hundred more.

And I like the idea another Moron had, to send the "protestors" along to Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (ULPxl)

92 79
lol
OK you win.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

93 Rough edges got you down? Burrs on your butt? Ask for Exigent!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (TwZXH)

94 Have they referred to Comey as Maxwell Smart yet?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:44 PM (VofaG)

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

His code name down at Barry's Buddies' Bathhouse is Agent 69.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (5YukJ)

95 LOL those “civil servants” deserve everything coming to them. I only wish we could five the old electro shock treatment on the way out.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (+pRFM)

96 BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (mlg/3)

Bet it's owned by the Chinese. That's what all the illegal grows here are now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (XZ6f

TRUMP RIGHT AGAIN

In the old days that work would have been done in Mexico!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

97 It doesn't piss me off, but I do not agree about Epstein. And Trump and Bondi both addressed the issue when asked by a reporter and basically said "shaddup, it's in the past."

It's clear we're not going to get the swamp draining we were promised, but I always thought THAT was a long shot.

At least, hopefully, Trump can do something about immigration. That's really my number one issue.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (uCjyK)
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Right, but who gets to set the clock? You? Axios? It's an op, and MAGA is stupidly walking into the trap.

If Epstein is super-connect, you don't just throw that on a web page. It has to be done concentrically, rolling it up, cutting deals with Israel, etc.

Despite epic, unprecedented wins, we still have people peeing their pants and wanting more. I'm just sick of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

98 Just round 'em up and arrest them on some contempt of cop charge. Should be easy enough if local police are willing to play ball.

Round them up, zip cuff them, line em up along the side walk and just happen to receive an All Hands On Deck emergency call that requires all LEOs to leave Right Now, while some random group of amped up Proud Boy types are there at the scene.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (a4flb)

99 On the one hand, I don't want cops acting like thugs, but on the other hand, I don't want pink haired mobs feeling free to assault people and vehicles. Those actions should have consequences.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

Free Fire Zone for the general public.
Like the old days when you could to the dump and shoot rats.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)

100 For the record: I think Bondi and Trump were blind-sided by yet another infiltrator and Bondi is even now frantically conducting a mole hunt.

The Deep State is not just going to roll over, and their irritation is probably because they can't come clean.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

101
Fire hoses using indelible red dye.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (Xlykt)

102 Somebody left the irony on.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (wBaIH)

103 Despite epic, unprecedented wins, we still have people peeing their pants and wanting more. I'm just sick of it.

A good coach is always pushing his players to do more.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

104
"leak" news of a raid, sending 10 agents.
Wait for retards to show up, send in ~50 more.
Wait a bit longer, send in a couple hundred more.

And I like the idea another Moron had, to send the "protestors" along to Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (ULPxl)

Send them mailers that they've won a free sex-change operation and have to show up at a particular address to claim it.

Posted by: Used to be cruises and sweepstakes at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (TbWk/)

105 Ask for Exigent!
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM


All we stock is Fop.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (jc0TO)

106 Fire hoses using indelible red dye.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (Xlykt)
------------------

Special ghost pepper blend.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (tT6L1)

107 Irony is not just what a nail tastes like.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)

108 "Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in CAMARILLO,"


She had a snake for a pet
And an am-u-let

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (vFG9F)

109 >>>However, some have taken issue with the initiative, arguing that it would result in the department gathering sensitive information on millions of American citizens.
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That makes it sound like random people. Government workers are not random people. They know that when they apply for the job and are frequently made aware of that fact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM (Xlykt)

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"millions" jumped out at me too. Uh no, probably several hundred, and while yes they 'probably' are US citizens, they are employees of the intelligence services, not randos.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (144I4)

110 A good coach is always pushing his players to do more.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)
---
Fans who whine about being undefeated but still not scoring enough are spoiled pissant losers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

111 >>> Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

I admit, I would like certain Things to be Happening; however I generally try to fall back on focusing on things *I* can do. It isn't like I'm not busy.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (ULPxl)

112 The Proud Boys didn't ever actually hurt anybody iirc.
I can imagine a scene where these antifa goons stay there tied up and gagged while the Proud Boys just pull up a fold out tea table and reenact the scene from Alice and Wonderland.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (gKWVE)

113 55 Imagine if Joe Biden had been competent.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:46 PM


Or Obama.

It could have been much, much worse.

Good thing they both had a large dollop of stupidity mixed in with their ineffectiveness.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (HlyYF)

114 Bet it's owned by the Chinese. That's what all the illegal grows here are now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM (XZ6f

TRUMP RIGHT AGAIN

In the old days that work would have been done in Mexico!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO

That magnificent bastard. What can't he do?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (XZ6f8)

115 Right, but who gets to set the clock? You? Axios? It's an op, and MAGA is stupidly walking into the trap.

If Epstein is super-connect, you don't just throw that on a web page. It has to be done concentrically, rolling it up, cutting deals with Israel, etc.

Despite epic, unprecedented wins, we still have people peeing their pants and wanting more. I'm just sick of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

I just have no faith that anything will be done about this.

And Pam Bondi set the clock, not me. She said they'd release everything back in, what, February? And then she said the FBI was stonewalling her, but Kash Patel was going to set that right and have everything on her desk by that weekend?

And now she's saying "when I said I had Epsteins list on my desk, I meant I had a FILE on my desk. There is no list."

And it's not like this happened yesterday. Epstein was arrested in 2019. It's 2025. Statute of limitations is running, and probably has already run on most of the crimes. Why would there be any legitimate need for further delay, and why would Bondi, Patel, Bongino, and now Trump all say there is nothing to see?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (uCjyK)

116 Tulsi's in a hornet's nest. She's proving to be more adapt than Bondi... someone at, or nearly so, at the same level.

Politically and security speaking.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)

117 If anybody needs me, I'll be behind the curtains.

Posted by: James Comey at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (u+QBP)

118 Fire hoses using indelible red dye.

Posted by: Braenyard

And Holy water.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (p16cu)

119
So, you're really from AL, AR or TX. Right?

Posted by: Braenyard

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I don't want cops to shoot people out of the way, but I find it up-side down that a law enforcement action can be stopped if you can round up a dozen soft-bellied freaks to stand around yelling "Fascist!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (UmB+t)

120 >>> 104
==
Send them mailers that they've won a free sex-change operation and have to show up at a particular address to claim it.
Posted by: Used to be cruises and sweepstakes at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (TbWk/)

LOL

Devious!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (ULPxl)

121 "Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce. --
At least it was for biblical reasons."

She got an offer she couldn't refuse?

idk anything about Paxton, or his wife ... but it seems odd she NOW wants a divorce.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (vbXSk)

122 Firehoses is perfect. They always want to relive the 60's, so get them the firehoses

Swarms of deer flies. nature's area denial device.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (a4flb)

123 100 For the record: I think Bondi and Trump were blind-sided by yet another infiltrator and Bondi is even now frantically conducting a mole hunt.
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Hey, hey, ho, ho, blonde Bondi's got to go.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, blonde Bondi's got to go.
Harmeet Dhillon's in the wings
Gonna send all perps to Sing Sing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (Xlykt)

124 I saw Aquatic Sodomite open for Whalebone at Gone South in '02.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:59 PM (1rIjH)

125 Ask for Exigent!
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:53 PM

All we stock is Fop.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:56 PM (jc0TO)

Reckon this place is two weeks from everywhere!

Posted by: I'm a Dapper Dan man! at July 10, 2025 06:59 PM (TbWk/)

126 idk anything about Paxton, or his wife ... but it seems odd she NOW wants a divorce.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM



*shifty eyes*

Posted by: John Coryn with a bag of cash at July 10, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

127 >>> 121 "Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce. --
At least it was for biblical reasons."

She got an offer she couldn't refuse?

idk anything about Paxton, or his wife ... but it seems odd she NOW wants a divorce.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (vbXSk)

Speaking of the derp state not just rolling over...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:59 PM (ULPxl)

128 but it seems odd she NOW wants a divorce.
Posted by: illiniwek


I don't get it. The "Biblical" reference is strange too. Biblically, Christians can't divorce unless someone cheated.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

129 >>> 122 Firehoses is perfect. They always want to relive the 60's, so get them the firehoses
==
Swarms of deer flies. nature's area denial device.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:58 PM (a4flb)

For commies? Mix soap in the water.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (ULPxl)

130 I don't get it. The "Biblical" reference is strange too. Biblically, Christians can't divorce unless someone cheated.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

I think that's exactly what she's (not so subtly) saying. He cheated on her.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (uCjyK)

131
86 James Comey

That is right.
Comey is off the menu.
Posted by: New Name


Too salty

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (63Dwl)

132 I agree, only shoot the perps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (Xlykt)

133 And now she's saying "when I said I had Epsteins list on my desk, I meant I had a FILE on my desk. There is no list."

And it's not like this happened yesterday. Epstein was arrested in 2019. It's 2025. Statute of limitations is running, and probably has already run on most of the crimes. Why would there be any legitimate need for further delay, and why would Bondi, Patel, Bongino, and now Trump all say there is nothing to see?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (uCjyK)
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Oh ye of short term memory.

Bondi handed out the binders, and then it was revealed that SDNY had withheld information. Remember that? And what happened next? SHE FIRED THE AGENT RESPONSIBLE.

This is a long-term mole hunt, and I'm sorry that it doesn't conform to your random fantasy timetable. Guess what? The enemy gets a vote. Chill out.

All these people thinking that 50 years of the Deep State was going to be solved in 180 days...no.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

134 Ken Paxton's wife just filed for divorce.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:43 PM (UmB+t)

At least it was for biblical reasons.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


He's a Christian, she's not, and she's no longer willing to be married to one of those Jesus-freaks? Or other way around?

Or he abandoned the family and they are now destitute and he's not willing to come back? Or other way around?

Or he's sterile and deceived her into thinking he wasn't prior to their marriage, and she only just found out? That's an annulment case, I think.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (a+4eV)

135 Insty has video. The crowd is approximately 20 overweight fat chicks who obviously struggle to remain upright. It's hilarious, because they're even less effective than the old man shouting at clouds.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:01 PM (tT6L1)

136 But if they deport the immigrants, who will pick my pot, er, medical marijuana?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 10, 2025 07:01 PM (wBaIH)

137 The Proud Boys didn't ever actually hurt anybody iirc.
I can imagine a scene where these antifa goons stay there tied up and gagged while the Proud Boys just pull up a fold out tea table and reenact the scene from Alice and Wonderland.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (gKWVE)

I think they got a few haymakers in. LEO routinely stripped them of all weapons in the first Antifa war, while not doing so of Antifa. Despite the edge, the Proud Boys won most of the battles and skirmishes. The one where a random guy in one incident rocked some pierced gal antagonizing him was a fun moment.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

138 If you are using your employer's equipment, which you don't own, they can track and look at everything contained within. The first thing that I thought of was Peter Strzok's texts and email on his govt issued phone to his side piece Lisa Page about not letting Trump win the Presidency, and they were going to thwart him at every turn, etc. POS.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (oiNtH)

139 Speaking of former FBI Directors, whatever happened to Louis Freeh? Last word I heard from him was his report on Jerry Sandusky at PSU, which I read online. Seemed like maybe he was a halfway-decent guy?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

140 All these people thinking that 50 years of the Deep State was going to be solved in 180 days...no.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


Stalin could do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (/lPRQ)

141 Bondi handed out the binders, and then it was revealed that SDNY had withheld information. Remember that? And what happened next? SHE FIRED THE AGENT RESPONSIBLE.

This is a long-term mole hunt, and I'm sorry that it doesn't conform to your random fantasy timetable. Guess what? The enemy gets a vote. Chill out.

All these people thinking that 50 years of the Deep State was going to be solved in 180 days...no.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

No, I remember that all clearly. I have been watching this closely.

And no, I didn't think the Deep State would be unwound by Trump. But the Epstein thing is a strong litmus test for me on where this is going.

Watch this clip and tell me you think there is a long term plan to release anything related to Epstein: https://tinyurl.com/spmk8u59

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (uCjyK)

142 From the Texas Tribune

In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the "grounds for divorce." The couple stopped living together more than a year ago — "on or about June 1, 2024" — according to a copy of the filing obtained by The Texas Tribune.

Posted by: There now you don't have to speculate at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (TbWk/)

143 A politician cheating on the spouse. Surprise!
The politician not cheating on the spouse would be the surprise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (Xlykt)

144 Angela Paxton was born in 1963 so we can rule out her caring that her husband is sterile at this point.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (gKWVE)

145 The first time I heard 86 was in Angel Heart when a New Orleans detective tells Mickey Rourke it’s no big deal when a black person dies because “they 86 each other” every week or something, but when some upscale white lady gets her heart carved out that’s a problem.

What a great movie.

Then I got into the restaurant business and everyone is saying “86 bacon!” meaning the (stupid) customer doesn’t want it or “86 duck” meaning we’re out of it. And for the first few nights of I’m thinking, what the hell, I’m killing bacon and duck?

Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (L/uJJ)

146 He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.
--
from below.
But this is understated brilliant.

I mean, if you can turn water into wine by waving your had over it, I don't think any of the religious rules are going to say you can't drink it.

You're in the "I make all the rules here" category.

Not even your teetotaler Prohibitionist can argue with you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (VlU/R)

147 Tulsi's in a hornet's nest. She's proving to be more adapt than Bondi... someone at, or nearly so, at the same level.

I'm hoping that Noem upstages her by the ultimate sneak attack.

You know that huge increase in funding to train up ICE agents? That means new agents, not the old traitorous ones we have now in other three letter agencies.

So Noem builds up this army of patriotic, young guns who will have a few years of practical experience in investigation, surveillance and take-downs.

Then BOOM

Public frustration with the Three Stooges brings about not only their dismissing but also a realization that the FBI is unredeemable and must be shut down like the Department of Education.

The New and Improved ICE - without the toxic seditionists, communist, saboteurs and demonic sociopaths assumes the FBI's former duties.

That would be a coup I could get behind, and its already in progress whether they planned it or not.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (a4flb)

148
Anyone know the deal with the FISA court judges?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot

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They didn't seem to mind one bit that they were tricked, used, and lied to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (UmB+t)

149 Angel Heart is a great movie that I will not watch a second time.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 07:04 PM (jc0TO)

150 Fire hoses using indelible red dye.

Posted by: Braenyard

And Holy water.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:57 PM (p16cu)
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Not gonna lie. Some of my best days in the military were being trained as a Security Forces augmentee. Riot shield and broom handle.

Cops in full tactical gear tried to crash our shield wall. It was glorious.

All of use were totally stoked. Maybe that's why the pinkos never put us to the test.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:04 PM (ZOv7s)

151 Bondi, Tulsi, Amy Barret, Kristi ... is Trump trying too hard to show his love for "Women of Power"?

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (vbXSk)

152 Why do I suspect Tulsi is playing the world's smallest violin right now?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (gDhA9)

153 Authorities tailed Comey and his wife, Patrice, as they drove from their North Carolina vacation through Virginia to their home in the Washington, D.C., area, the officials said, citing "exigent" circumstances for the justification.

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Comey still lives in DC even though he doesn't work there, just like Obama. Ticks find it very hard to let go of a warm body to suck blood from.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (unUNN)

154 If you are using your employer's equipment, which you don't own, they can track and look at everything contained within. The first thing that I thought of was Peter Strzok's texts and email on his govt issued phone to his side piece Lisa Page about not letting Trump win the Presidency, and they were going to thwart him at every turn, etc. POS.
Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (oiNtH)

Yeah that's pretty much standard policy, mostly to keep employees from watching porn on company time or sending beaver pics using company-issued phones. But you have ZERO expectation of privacy when using employer electronics.

Posted by: The whiners can suck it at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)

155 Pink hair would make a good target for a sniper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (JtH6i)

156 If anybody needs me, I'll be behind the curtains.
Posted by: James Comey
.....

*grabs baseball bat*
*starts beating 'dust' out of curtains*

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (v0R5T)

157 I'm going to take it at face value Paxton cheated on his wife. It happens. Is it right? Nope, but, most likely, it was a heterosexual encounter between adults.

The other reason it might be happening: they split because Ken doesn't want his wife anywhere near him due to various threats against his life. (I think this is unlikely, but, with the way the left and the GW wing of the GOP behaves, it cannot be discounted out of hand)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (tT6L1)

158 "They didn't seem to mind one bit that they were tricked, used, and lied to.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

It looks like the worst anybody can expect is getting fired.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:06 PM (vFG9F)

159 Then I got into the restaurant business and everyone is saying “86 bacon!” meaning the (stupid) customer doesn’t want it or “86 duck” meaning we’re out of it. And for the first few nights of I’m thinking, what the hell, I’m killing bacon and duck?
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (L/uJJ)

Killing it from the order, yes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

160 >>>Watch this clip and tell me you think there is a long term plan to release anything related to Epstein: https://tinyurl.com/spmk8u59
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Right, Trump shut it down. And either the MSM doesn't not
realize what a wedge issue this could be if they pushed it or
exposure would create such national calamity that they've
been told to stand down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (Xlykt)

161 In fairness, everybody is tracked everywhere, pretty much all the time. It's just a matter of who gets dialed up on the big wheel of misfortunate. It was just James' unlucky day, I guess.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (MZ+PY)

162 Comey was stupid and irresponsible.

But we already knew that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (gDhA9)

163 When it's time to scrub off the excrement: Exigent!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (TwZXH)

164 Critics who spoke with The Washington Post on condition of anonymity expressed fears that this move could compromise sensitive information while targeting employees for political retaliation. "They wanted access to everybody's systems," one source told the news outlet.

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Who would compromise the sensitive info? Are they threatening the administration that they will make the sensitive info public if they are investigated? Something doesn't quite gel here.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (unUNN)

165 Right, Trump shut it down. And either the MSM doesn't not
realize what a wedge issue this could be if they pushed it or
exposure would create such national calamity that they've
been told to stand down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (Xlykt)

I think it's the second one. Well, I don't think it would be a national calamity for us, I think it would be a huge calamity for the Deep State and people in power.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (uCjyK)

166 No, I remember that all clearly. I have been watching this closely.

And no, I didn't think the Deep State would be unwound by Trump. But the Epstein thing is a strong litmus test for me on where this is going.

Watch this clip and tell me you think there is a long term plan to release anything related to Epstein: https://tinyurl.com/spmk8u59
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (uCjyK)
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I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

Am I wrong?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

167 Yeah, Texans will never vote for someone who is divorced. I don't know many Protestants that don't turn in their spouses after 36k miles.

She'll leak a lot of crazy stuff, because that's what bitter divorcees do.

That's why I've been married for 38 years.


Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (wBaIH)

168 I'm going to take it at face value Paxton cheated on his wife. It happens. Is it right? Nope, but, most likely, it was a heterosexual encounter between adults.

The other reason it might be happening: they split because Ken doesn't want his wife anywhere near him due to various threats against his life. (I think this is unlikely, but, with the way the left and the GW wing of the GOP behaves, it cannot be discounted out of hand)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:05 PM (tT6L1)

They wouldn't need to make any announcement in that case, she could just stay home or get a new place with appropriate security.

And someone trying to pressure you could go after the ex wife anyhow.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)

169 I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

Am I wrong?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (tT6L1)

170 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI. Everyone known to be even remotely involved in J6 hardest hit according to the early reports.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (QZThv)

171 Luke went to planet Exigent to learn to suck Wookie balls.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (vFG9F)

172
A Mexican Standoff?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (HZi96)

173 >>> 164

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Who would compromise the sensitive info? Are they threatening the administration that they will make the sensitive info public if they are investigated? Something doesn't quite gel here.
Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (unUNN)

It's the same bullshit whine they have tried and keep trying with DOGE. Those meanbadorange people will do bad things with the sensitive data that WE use to protect Our Precious Democracy! How dare they!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (ULPxl)

174 They wouldn't need to make any announcement in that case, she could just stay home or get a new place with appropriate security.

And someone trying to pressure you could go after the ex wife anyhow.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)
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Like I said, unlikely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (tT6L1)

175 Wait, so this is work e-mail and work phones they are checking?

Um...so?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (gDhA9)

176 >>> 166

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I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

Am I wrong?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

*cackles*

Posted by: Hillary! at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (ULPxl)

177 I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

How about 2 million and a justice to be named later?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (jc0TO)

178 Comey was stupid and irresponsible.

But we already knew that.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 07:07 PM (gDhA9)

I still love the idea of that big lunkhead hiding behind a curtain to spy on Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (8avO+)

179 138 If you are using your employer's equipment, which you don't own, they can track and look at everything contained within. The first thing that I thought of was Peter Strzok's texts and email on his govt issued phone to his side piece Lisa Page about not letting Trump win the Presidency, and they were going to thwart him at every turn, etc. POS.

The mind simply boggles that a higher-up at the FBI would be stupid enough to use government equipment to do the things he did. The only explanation is that he was so arrogant, he never thought the rules would be applied to him. Come to think of it, that's probably not a bad assumption.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (Riz8t)

180 What we need to investigate Comey, and anyone he has contact with. Right? Isn't that how this works?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (gDhA9)

181 Critics who spoke with The Washington Post on condition of anonymity expressed fears that this move could compromise sensitive information while targeting employees for political retaliation.

I sure as hell hope so! Otherwise, what's the point?

Posted by: Paco at July 10, 2025 07:10 PM (mADJX)

182 I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

Am I wrong?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

Hmmm.. I'd have to think about it, but my first instinct is that I would rather have the 20 million deportations then have proof of what the deep state is up to and how it operates years down the road, which is what would come out with the Epstein stuff.

If it comes out in 20 years, it'll be like the JFK stuff now. Even if it was proven that the CIA killed JFK, I think most people would go "huh. That's weird. But whatever, it happened a long time ago, who cares?"

In other words, the longer this drags on, the less impactful the Epstein stuff will be.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

183 Luke went to planet Exigent to learn to suck Wookie balls.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (vFG9F)
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Are you sure? I thought Exigent was the planet Rey "Skywalker" and Kylo Ren scurried off to so they could have a three-way with the resurrected Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (IBQGV)

184 >>> 170 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI. Everyone known to be even remotely involved in J6 hardest hit according to the early reports.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (QZThv)

Don't tease.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (ULPxl)

185 The thing I really like about Trump is that no matter what, even a bullet to the head, he just keeps saying LOL go fuck yourself. Tomorrow I will kick you in the balls even harder.

We're winning. Enjoy it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)

186
It looks like the worst anybody can expect is getting fired.

Posted by: fd

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Not even lose your pension.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (UmB+t)

187 My guess is that the Epstein rot is so deep and so wide that even Trump doesn’t dare to expose it.

It’s one thing to run your mouth as a candidate, but letting Toto expose the man behind the curtain is a different thing once you know what’s back there.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (77rzZ)

188 Luke went to planet Exigent to learn to suck Wookie balls.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (vFG9F)

Speaking of, I was pretty pissed off that Mark Hamill so enthusiastically participated in destroying the franchise that gave him his career. Ungrateful asshole.

Posted by: Nerd rage! at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (TbWk/)

189 Laura Ingraham's makeup artist doesn't know her job. Laura went to all the trouble of surgically puffing up her lips and the makeup person then blurs them. At least slap on a lipstick a few shades darker so you can see where the lips end and the face begins.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (unUNN)

190 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI. Everyone known to be even remotely involved in J6 hardest hit according to the early reports.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (QZThv)

Don't tease.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (ULPxl)

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We can only hope this is true.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

191 BruceWayne,

Just a note to let you know the power of Morons.

Bride of PI wasn't quite grumpy yesterday, but she was a bit frazzled.

At lunch, I said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you that BruceWayne and SheHobbit told me last night to tell you Hi!"

She instantly broke out in a big grin and I could tell that her mood had at least lightened a little bit. So, thanks!

P.S. I am also supposed to return the "Hi!" back to you two.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (HlyYF)

192 Angela Paxton was born in 1963 so we can rule out her caring that her husband is sterile at this point.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:02 PM (gKWVE)
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It's a divorce, not an annulment.

Michigan had a pretty sordid sage a few years back when to super-Christian Republican state reps banged each other and lied about it.

The universal response among the political establishment? You're supposed to bang your staffers, not other legislators!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)

193 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI. Everyone known to be even remotely involved in J6 hardest hit according to the early reports.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (QZThv)

Anyone thinking permanent imprisonment without trial for peeking in Pelosi's liquor drawer deserves being fired.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:12 PM (8avO+)

194 . I don't know many Protestants that don't turn in their spouses after 36k miles.

Really? I know a quite a few who haven't done that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:12 PM (2GCMq)

195 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI.


sUmBOdy sPIed on MY puter!!!

Posted by: Gubmint drone #28756 at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (v0R5T)

196 The universal response among the political establishment? You're supposed to bang your staffers, not other legislators!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


I just want Republican politicians to quit fucking their voters.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (gKWVE)

197
*throws hands in the air*

Well! If Paxton is getting divorced, there's absolutely no way I can vote for him. Cornyn 2026!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (HZi96)

198 My guess is that the Epstein rot is so deep and so wide that even Trump doesn’t dare to expose it.


This would have been an excellent time to use "daren't".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (Riz8t)

199 >>> 182
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In other words, the longer this drags on, the less impactful the Epstein stuff will be.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

What if similar things are still going on, and there are not quite as evil but larger scale questionable activates also continuing.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (ULPxl)

200 148 Anyone know the deal with the FISA court judges?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot

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They didn't seem to mind one bit that they were tricked, used, and lied to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM


Great, another institution completely corrupted!

And one that needed several levels of "watchers watching the watchers" to make sure it could not be put to evil uses.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (HlyYF)

201
The mind simply boggles that a higher-up at the FBI would be stupid enough to use government equipment to do the things he did.

Posted by: Archimedes

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We've been talking a lot lately around here about the high unlikelihood of this-or-that thing because of the mind-boggling stupidity it suggests. Like Epstein being ignored in his cell and the cameras failing. I think we ought to get over it. Yes, anyone in government or in elite positions of power in private industry can be that stupid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (UmB+t)

202 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI. Everyone known to be even remotely involved in J6 hardest hit according to the early reports.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 07:09 PM (QZThv)

Don't be such a tease.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (ufFY8)

203 The more a politician claims to be SooperChristian the more I worry about what's in their closet or under their crawlspace.

Posted by: Speaking of red flags at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (TbWk/)

204 Speaking of, I was pretty pissed off that Mark Hamill so enthusiastically participated in destroying the franchise that gave him his career. Ungrateful asshole.
Posted by: Nerd rage! at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (TbWk/)

They destroyed his character first.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

205 Michigan had a pretty sordid sage a few years back when to super-Christian Republican state reps banged each other and lied about it.

The universal response among the political establishment? You're supposed to bang your staffers, not other legislators!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)
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Seems like legislators are the aristocracy reborn. It's understood when you enter politics that marriages are a convenient fiction. Each member of the marriage is allowed to carry on their affairs discreetly, so long as it doesn't cause embarrassment to anyone involved.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (IBQGV)

206 Speaking of, I was pretty pissed off that Mark Hamill so enthusiastically participated in destroying the franchise that gave him his career. Ungrateful asshole.
Posted by: Nerd rage! at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (TbWk/)

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His career spanned three movies. Four if you count Corvette Summer which had only one good thing in it. OK, two.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (2UnvF)

207 In other words, the longer this drags on, the less impactful the Epstein stuff will be.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)
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Epstein is looking at an eternity of torment, and so are his clients. Whether we lean of their crimes now or later does not matter to me much. They will be exposed.

But the illegals, that is an imperative issue. Existential. Axios is no friend to Trump, and people arguing that Bondi needs to go are merely echoing the Democrats at this point.

We must resist them pushing us into a purity spiral where now Trump appointee is sufficiently worthy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

208 Massive layoffs reported tonight at DOJ and FBI.

I will laugh out loud if it's for watching pron on government resources.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 07:16 PM (jc0TO)

209 What if similar things are still going on, and there are not quite as evil but larger scale questionable activates also continuing.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (ULPxl)

I'm sure there are. But backing away from revealing what everyone already kind of knows is true anyways with the Epstein stuff is not a great sign that we're in the process of draining any swamps. Can we agree on that?

This should be a huge front page scandal that causes all of us to say "wow, our government doesnt work the way we think it does. Our congressmen aren't voting their conscious, they're voting how the Deep State tells them to vote because they're being blackmailed and coerced! We don't truly live in a representative republic."

But everyone in both parties and in all major institutions are saying "shut up." Including people like Bongino and Patel (and Trump) who were VERY vocal on this subject before they got to DC.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:16 PM (uCjyK)

210 Speaking of, I was pretty pissed off that Mark Hamill so enthusiastically participated in destroying the franchise that gave him his career. Ungrateful asshole.
Posted by: Nerd rage! at July 10, 2025 07:11 PM (TbWk/)

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His career spanned three movies. Four if you count Corvette Summer which had only one good thing in it. OK, two.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (2UnvF)

His understudy kicked ass in Laser Blast!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 07:16 PM (0aYVJ)

211
Each member of the marriage is allowed to carry on their affairs discreetly, so long as it doesn't cause embarrassment to anyone involved.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (IBQGV)

__________

Just don't scare the horses, as they said in Jolly Old.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (HZi96)

212 His career spanned three movies. Four if you count Corvette Summer which had only one good thing in it. OK, two.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM


What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Big Red One at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (jc0TO)

213 I don't know many Protestants that don't turn in their spouses after 36k miles.

Really? I know a quite a few who haven't done that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:12 PM (2GCMq)

I'm curious about the conversion factor here

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

214 Hamill had a good run in the voice acting sphere, and in gaming.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

215 Well! If Paxton is getting divorced, there's absolutely no way I can vote for him. Cornyn 2026!!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (HZi96)

Wouldn't be surprised if fake Rs start claiming that. Maybe a whole bunch of salacious details about his shenanigans will be blared out on the news during the primary season.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (0eaVi)

216 Seems like legislators are the aristocracy reborn. It's understood when you enter politics that marriages are a convenient fiction. Each member of the marriage is allowed to carry on their affairs discreetly, so long as it doesn't cause embarrassment to anyone involved.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (IBQGV)
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Not necessarily true. I know (state) legislators who understood the dangers and temptations of politics and created 'fraternities' where they monitored each other and did bed checks. They knew that a thousand sweet young things would be flung at them.

Mike Pence ultimately bent the knee, but his rule of staying away from women without his wife being there was wise.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

217 I am willing to trade 20 million deportations for Epstein's secrets being revealed only after Bill Clinton's death.

As much as I would love to see justice to those perverts who destroyed those girls' lives, that is likely only to happen at The Great Judgement Day.

The current composition of the DOJ and FBI and the courts and juries are likely to make this one long unending shit show with very disappointing, but expected result.

The jus soil argument has been kicked around in countless legal groups for years, there just hasn't been any administration willing to try the case.

A lot of what Trump is wanting to do has been cultivated in think tanks for ages, and new ideas are being looked at by non-federal lawyers who aren't corrupted and serve only The Party and their pensions.

The DOJ's lawyers are total jokes, can only handle process "crimes" because none of them can tell Right from Wrong and don't know how to deal with rogue judges.

You have to give Trump time to get the private law and think tank lawyers to do his heavy legal lifting.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (a4flb)

218 Trump putting competent women in charge was very thoughtful.
All of them but Bondi are zealot, type A. They are going to compete. The idea of Noem's new recruits competing against Gabbard fits the bill. Your move, Tulsi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (Xlykt)

219 We've been talking a lot lately around here about the high unlikelihood of this-or-that thing because of the mind-boggling stupidity it suggests. Like Epstein being ignored in his cell and the cameras failing. I think we ought to get over it. Yes, anyone in government or in elite positions of power in private industry can be that stupid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (UmB+t)
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I think we make the default assumption the average government worker is smarter than the average bear. Well, I work with a bunch of people who should be smarter than the average bear, too and, they aren't. Amazes me how often they get caught out doing something stupid. Bell curve rules, even in government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (tT6L1)

220 Julie Kelly tweets that there are widespread and sudden firings at DOJ and the fired scum have sadz.

LOL.

Good.

And make sure to mark their SF-50 with "Ineligible for rehire."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (VlU/R)

221 This would have been an excellent time to use "daren't".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM (Riz8t)

He dast not do it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (0eaVi)

222 Not necessarily true. I know (state) legislators who understood the dangers and temptations of politics and created 'fraternities' where they monitored each other and did bed checks. They knew that a thousand sweet young things would be flung at them.

Mike Pence ultimately bent the knee, but his rule of staying away from women without his wife being there was wise.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)
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Not all of them are like that, of course. But I suspect there's quite a few who go into politics (from both sexes) because they will be free to engage in that behavior.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (IBQGV)

223 Axios is no friend to Trump, and people arguing that Bondi needs to go are merely echoing the Democrats at this point.

We must resist them pushing us into a purity spiral where now Trump appointee is sufficiently worthy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

I'm not talking about an Axios article, I'm talking about what Kash Patel said on Rogan, and what Bondi and Trump said in that cabinet meeting or whatever that I linked a video from.

I don't care if there are Democrats noticing the same thing I am about the Epstein situation. Good, in fact, maybe we can get some bipartisan support to go after the Deep State. This is bigger than political parties.

And this is not a purity test. This is something that Trump ran on and half of his cabinet (including his VP) were extremely vocal about prior to the election.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (uCjyK)

224 MI state reps banging each other:

Cindy Gamrat, Todd Courser


Lol, fucking Todd!

Near my neck of the woods.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ufFY8)

225 By the way, I think Noem has incredible guts. She's the face of deportations and has been out front on a lot of stuff. She's probably only behind President Trump in death threats.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM (tT6L1)

226 >>> 207

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Epstein is looking at an eternity of torment, and so are his clients. Whether we lean of their crimes now or later does not matter to me much. They will be exposed.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

They're different issues; evicting invaders will have an immediate positive impact on "millions of registered voters", but I suspect that Epstein and friends had and have more of an impact than just serving some vile appetites. I also think different issues may require different approaches to resolve.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ULPxl)

227 Pillage Idiot, you were asking about the FISA judges. Rudy Contreras, the head of the FISA courts that time, signed a bunch of those bogus FISA requests and then resigned.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM (HFcKg)

228 Tulsi already has all the internal .gov emails and Teams chats.

The request is simply to smoke out those who are hiding more.
Because they are the ones most likely to object.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (VlU/R)

229 Not all of them are like that, of course. But I suspect there's quite a few who go into politics (from both sexes) because they will be free to engage in that behavior.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (IBQGV)

Only until the media wants your seat. See the "Liberal Republicans" like Packwood.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

230 >>My guess is that the Epstein rot is so deep and so wide that even Trump doesn’t dare to expose it.

Epstein was an intel asset. That's not conjecture, it has been established fact for years.

Our intel community is has been part of 5 Eyes for decades. That's why we got things like the Steele dossier which came from British intel.

It's already exposed at some levels. Now it's a matter of who uses leverage. That's what deal makers do.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (viF8m)

231 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: The Big Red One at July 10, 2025 07:17 PM (jc0TO)
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His role is forgotten because it was forgettable.

He played a passive observer. Anyone could have done it.

Lee Marvin set the tone.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

232 Stubborn jus soil stains? Expunge them with Exigent!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (TwZXH)

233 Not all of them are like that, of course. But I suspect there's quite a few who go into politics (from both sexes) because they will be free to engage in that behavior.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (IBQGV)

Only until the media wants your seat. See the "Liberal Republicans" like Packwood.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)
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"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers." -- Old Seanchan proverb

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 07:22 PM (IBQGV)

234 Various studies indicate that Christians divorce at about the same rate as everyone else, so let's not play pretend because of anecdotal personal counterexamples. It's shitty but there it is.

Posted by: If only all those men would step up at July 10, 2025 07:22 PM (TbWk/)

235 And on another religious note: Evangelicals for Harris apologizes for using video of Billy Graham to attack Trump during the last election . "Christian Post" site:

https://tinyurl.com/wx4pecya

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (2GCMq)

236 >>> 223
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This is something that Trump ran on and half of his cabinet (including his VP) were extremely vocal about prior to the election.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 07:19 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, it certainly makes the um, change in tone that much more noticeable.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (ULPxl)

237 They're different issues; evicting invaders will have an immediate positive impact on "millions of registered voters", but I suspect that Epstein and friends had and have more of an impact than just serving some vile appetites. I also think different issues may require different approaches to resolve.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM (ULPxl)
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I've resigned myself to the Clintons being damnatio memoriae, but passing away in their sleep. (Maybe both at once?)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

238 *throws hands in the air*

Well! If Paxton is getting divorced, there's absolutely no way I can vote for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM


* bats eyelashes at Hadrian the Seventh *

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

239 @160

>>Right, Trump shut it down. And either the MSM doesn't not
realize what a wedge issue this could be if they pushed it or
exposure would create such national calamity that they've
been told to stand down.


Again, the fact that the media seems wildly incurious about knowing who Epstein was, his connections, his crimes and ultimately the deeper story, seems to indicate that this sh*t is f**king big that nobody wants to be anywhere near it.

I mean, in what world would a guy who got his start as a math teacher by Bill Barr's father, inexplicably went on to become a hedge fund billionaire, and was apparently running a underage child sex and **** ring, who ultimately died in a prison run by the man who got him started, not worthy of some sort of investigative journalism?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)

240 I think we make the default assumption the average government worker is smarter than the average bear. Well, I work with a bunch of people who should be smarter than the average bear, too and, they aren't. Amazes me how often they get caught out doing something stupid. Bell curve rules, even in government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (tT6L1)

I never assume that, because they keep telling me they are.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

241 Tulsi got slapped around the last time she started messing with this stuff. Give the girl credit. She ain't a quitter.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 10, 2025 07:24 PM (MZ+PY)

242 I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn. Paxton has politically done great for Texas but he’s a sleaze ball. DC will be like crack cocaine for him I’m afraid.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)

243 >>> 237

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I've resigned myself to the Clintons being damnatio memoriae, but passing away in their sleep. (Maybe both at once?)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Heh. They will be unpleasantly surprised.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (ULPxl)

244 I don't know many Protestants that don't turn in their spouses after 36k miles.

I don't know if the use of "Protestants" is a synonym for "Not Roman Catholic, Anglican or Greek Orthodox"

The American Religion which curiously does not have a Confession, so technically they are not Protestants, just aberrant Anabaptists who have a plush toy Genie Jesus.

We know them as Big Box Christianity. If you listen enough to CCM stations and the radio preachers, when parsing their Invitation To Know Jesus pleas, invariably Jesus is some Snake Oil that cures whatever damage that you have done to your life.

And that is why the Big Box church has the highest percentage of broken families and divorce rate compared to the public at large. The marketers directly target that demographic.

So if Protestant = Big Box, the statement is statistically an understatement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (a4flb)

245 throws hands in the air*

Well! If Paxton is getting divorced, there's absolutely no way I can vote for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM

* bats eyelashes at Hadrian the Seventh *
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

TAKE COVER!!!

Posted by: Intercontinental Ballistic Fake Eyelashes at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (TbWk/)

246
* bats eyelashes at Hadrian the Seventh *
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

__________

Look, bitch, if I take you out to dinner, don't bring 10 friends and expect me to pay for theirs too. And put away your phone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (HZi96)

247 @242

>> I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn.

Paxton's political career is done with his wife divorcing him and alluding to cheating.

Cornyn will probably win by default.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

248 >>> 245 throws hands in the air*

Well! If Paxton is getting divorced, there's absolutely no way I can vote for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:13 PM

* bats eyelashes at Hadrian the Seventh *
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at July 10, 2025 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

TAKE COVER!!!
Posted by: Intercontinental Ballistic Fake Eyelashes at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (TbWk/)

LMAO

Poor Hadrian's doggehs!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:26 PM (ULPxl)

249 Various studies indicate that Christians divorce at about the same rate as everyone else, so let's not play pretend because of anecdotal personal counterexamples. It's shitty but there it is.
Posted by: If only all those men would step up at July 10, 2025 07:22 PM (TbWk/)

Who is everyone else or do you have a special definition of Christian?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (VofaG)

250 I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn. Paxton has politically done great for Texas but he’s a sleaze ball. DC will be like crack cocaine for him I’m afraid.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)
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You're electing a senator, not a saint.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)

251 I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:24 PM


* bats eyelashes at polynikes *

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

252 I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn. Paxton has politically done great for Texas but he’s a sleaze ball. DC will be like crack cocaine for him I’m afraid.

Trump has turned out to be the most epic President ever, adding a loose canon such as Paxton ought to be a riot compared to the utter ghetto garbage Texas is sending to Babylon DC in the form of "Representatives".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (a4flb)

253 Thomas Bender, I wouldn't count on Cornyn winning g by default. Too many people are sick of him.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (HFcKg)

254 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (2GCMq)

255 We've been talking a lot lately around here about the high unlikelihood of this-or-that thing because of the mind-boggling stupidity it suggests. Like Epstein being ignored in his cell and the cameras failing. I think we ought to get over it. Yes, anyone in government or in elite positions of power in private industry can be that stupid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:14 PM (UmB+t)


I get what you're saying, but my money is still on undeserved arrogance. Like it or not, when you rise to the top, you're usually above average in IQ as well.

Perhaps we should simply say that such arrogance is really stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (Riz8t)

256 Cornyn will probably win by default.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)
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Plenty of time for a new challenger. Go grab some rando soldier who hasn't fucked around out of Fort Hood.

He'll win.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

257 >>> 254 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (2GCMq)

Is this about me?

Posted by: Joel Osteen at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (ULPxl)

258 Paxton's political career is done with his wife divorcing him and alluding to cheating.

Cornyn will probably win by default.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

I’m wondering if this is another mistress because he had one prior to the impeachment trial.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (VofaG)

259 Who is everyone else or do you have a special definition of Christian?
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (VofaG)

Well I have heard people say Mormon's aren't. No opinion on that.

Scientologists aren't.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (8avO+)

260 The final answer on Jeopardy was Little Nas X.
R U effing kidding me?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (JtH6i)

261 @253

>>Thomas Bender, I wouldn't count on Cornyn winning g by default. Too many people are sick of him.

If I'm living in Texas and my options are Cornyn and Paxton, I'm voting for Paxton all the live long day.

But we know how these things turn out.

This kind of stuff typically ends political careers, especially for Republicans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (XV/Pl)

262 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (2GCMq)

Joel Osteen. He sometimes quotes scripture.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (0aYVJ)

263 But not often.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

264 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (2GCMq)
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Mega-churches.

And yes within the evangelical movement there is very much a "born again" (I'm sure you've heard the term) idea that your past life wasn't truly Christian, and so you can reboot and start over fresh.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)

265
Julie Kelly tweets that there are widespread and sudden firings at DOJ and the fired scum have sadz.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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The sadz is as delicious as the firedz. I truly hope we get some mopey anonymous comments or some guest appearances on MSNBC like that pardon lawyer who got canned from the DOJ, or the one who got fired from Skadden Arps (maybe Paul, Weiss?) for opposing Trump.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:30 PM (UmB+t)

266 227 Pillage Idiot, you were asking about the FISA judges. Rudy Contreras, the head of the FISA courts that time, signed a bunch of those bogus FISA requests and then resigned.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:20 PM


Thanks.

Think he resigned out of a sense of honor?

I appreciate the sentiment, but that will only move the FISA Court farther Left, since the Democrats have no sense of honor.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (HlyYF)

267 So if Protestant = Big Box, the statement is statistically an understatement.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (a4flb)

I think the suggestion is that everyone who does not belong to the man-made Catholic heresy or its close relatives isn't in the fold.

Posted by: Stir the pot! at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (TbWk/)

268 >>I hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn.

I wish mine was.

You realize we vote for politicians and not ministers, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (viF8m)

269 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:28 PM (2GCMq)

Is this about me?
Posted by: Joel Osteen at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (ULPxl)

No, no. You're Big Bux Christianity.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (0eaVi)

270 The State Department is going to be firing 15% of its civilian work force

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (JtH6i)

271 Thomas Bender, these same charges were laid against him at his last run for AG, plus the corruption allegations and he still won. I will be voting for him.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (HFcKg)

272 So I was walking along the beach, and I saw a strange pebble grouping in the sand. It was very small, and I had to bend way, way over to read it.

It said 'Soap'. How odd. Whatever could that portend?

Posted by: James 'Pretty in Orange' Comey at July 10, 2025 07:32 PM (Ft5W9)

273 You're electing a senator, not a saint.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)

The guy definitely used his office to benefit his friend and donor. It ain’t just his cheating, he also cost me (Texas) money by approving whistleblower payments. Whistleblowing against him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)

274 >>> 270 The State Department is going to be firing 15% of its civilian work force
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (JtH6i)

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:32 PM (ULPxl)

275 I was hoping they would only *retain* 15% or so...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (ULPxl)

276 And yes within the evangelical movement there is very much a "born again" (I'm sure you've heard the term) idea that your past life wasn't truly Christian, and so you can reboot and start over fresh.

Former OF girls and post-wall 304s of various stripes LOVE this.

Posted by: Like the French Foreign Legion but for strumpets at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (TbWk/)

277 With everything thrown at Paxton by Democrats and the GW wing of the R party in TX, it's hard to know what is real and what is an op.

However, from where I set, a few hundred miles away, it appears Paxton has all the right enemies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (tT6L1)

278 Posted by: Joel Osteen at July 10, 2025 07:29 PM (ULPxl)

Oh, is that what means. "Big Box Christianity" is " Name it and claim it" Christianity? Because at first I thought it meant a megachurch and as Rev John MacArthur ( who has been ill) pastored a very large church and is far from Joel Osteen as one could get he couldn't be considered a big box church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (2GCMq)

279 What is a "Big Box Christianity"?

To have a little fun with Scriptures:

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” — Matthew 7:13–14

The Big Box known for the Gavin Newsoms of the Clergy, are the "wide gate" since a lot of nominal "Christians" go there for amusement, entertainment and a wholesome place to dump off the kids for a few hours.

Or as was defined elsewhere: Therapeutic, Moralistic Deism is their theology.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (a4flb)

280 Let me be clear. There is no percentage in sitting on the Epstein mess. Gutfeld even said no cabinet meeting can last that long. Whattaya gonnado? Spring Ghislane and make her rich? Crown Andrew king? I know, Iknow: The Aristocrats.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (QSrLX)

281 I think we make the default assumption the average government worker is smarter than the average bear. Well, I work with a bunch of people who should be smarter than the average bear, too and, they aren't. Amazes me how often they get caught out doing something stupid. Bell curve rules, even in government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:18 PM (tT6L1)

In 1980 I went to US Navy Enlisted Nuclear Power School... the largest collection of uneducated geniuses anywhere.

I'd been a D&D player for years at that point, but finally understood the difference between Intelligence, and Wisdom.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (mP0Kj)

282 @271

>>Thomas Bender, these same charges were laid against him at his last run for AG, plus the corruption allegations and he still won. I will be voting for him.

I hope so.

I bet this Senate race will exceed half a billion dollars.

Those are the stakes at play here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (XV/Pl)

283 My Senators are Dick 'Dick' Durbin, and Tammy 'Me Too, Dick!' Duckworth.

I would rather not hear anybody from Texas complain about theirs, if it's all the same to you.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (Ft5W9)

284 Pillage Idiot, Contreras resigned because he was a corrupt asshole and knew exactly what he was doing. He just got out before the trail led back to him.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (HFcKg)

285 So if Protestant = Big Box, the statement is statistically an understatement.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:25 PM (a4flb)

I think the suggestion is that everyone who does not belong to the man-made Catholic heresy or its close relatives isn't in the fold.
Posted by: Stir the pot! at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (TbWk/)

Well the assumption is that the entity being Protested on is the Grand old Catholic Church. If you splinter from another Protestant church I don't think they give you a double protestant title for it, you just inherit the original label.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)

286 I classify "Protestant" as non-Carholic that are also not Orthodox.

Anglicans, Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Seventh Day Adventists, the big mega-church places, the small storefront churches, etc. all qualify in my mind.

Orthodox (whichever country flavor) are nearly identical doctrine-wise and sacraments are valid between them. There are just management org chart issues, lol.

But in the scheme of things, all these groups are fully acceptable to me when compared to islam.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (ufFY8)

287 The Big Box known for the Gavin Newsoms of the Clergy

The similarities in hair are undeniable.

Posted by: And the veneers at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (TbWk/)

288 La Migra is working it in my area today, two raids.

They had to CS gas some of them because they were getting violent in the fields.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:35 PM (NtVYv)

289 This kind of stuff typically ends political careers, especially for Republicans.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Doubtful. Original affair was widely reported in 2018 due to the Bush faction. He has won several races since then.

So has DJT with several affairs. I think part of it is a misconception from people who are not Southerners about how evangelicals vote. Bulshit Bulwark has the same misconception as do the major media.

Continuing to sin is a problem--eg. getting caught repeatedly doing crap while claiming innocence. Such as a drunk who continue to get arrested for being a drunk or a someone chasing little girls/boys or abusing power. Beyond that, evangelicals are just as capable of determining where their policy interests are best served by which politician as any other upper class voter might do.

That is why bullshit artists like David French or the lefty asshole infiltrator that the Southern Baptist hired before spitting him out due to his actions. Name escapes me. Evangelicals are no less and no more intelligent in steering their votes as any other group in society.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 07:35 PM (ctrM5)

290 159 Then I got into the restaurant business and everyone is saying “86 bacon!” meaning the (stupid) customer doesn’t want it or “86 duck” meaning we’re out of it. And for the first few nights of I’m thinking, what the hell, I’m killing bacon and duck?
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 10, 2025 07:03 PM (L/uJJ)

Killing it from the order, yes.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)


No it’s straight up murder.

Break yo’self, duck!

Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (L/uJJ)

291 My Senators are Dick 'Dick' Durbin, and Tammy 'Me Too, Dick!' Duckworth.

I would rather not hear anybody from Texas complain about theirs, if it's all the same to you.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM (Ft5W9)


Dick Durbin wore a turban on his way to the fair.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (NtVYv)

292 And yes within the evangelical movement there is very much a "born again" (I'm sure you've heard the term) idea that your past life wasn't truly Christian, and so you can reboot and start over fresh.

Former OF girls and post-wall 304s of various stripes LOVE this.
Posted by: Like the French Foreign Legion but for strumpets at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (TbWk/)
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Army guys who marry strippers are also a big part of this demographic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

293
I get what you're saying, but my money is still on undeserved arrogance. Like it or not, when you rise to the top, you're usually above average in IQ as well.

Perhaps we should simply say that such arrogance is really stupid.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Maybe carelessness is more like it, closely related to arrogance. "No one can touch me." I don't even think Strzok and Page were fired or disciplined or deprived of their pensions, were they? They were merely discovered, and they brassed it out all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (UmB+t)

294 Fed Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has ruled, in the LA area, that ICE cannot arrest suspected illegals without reasonable suspicion that illegals are illegal. Further ICE cannot use common sense tactics to find illegals such as targeting crews of speaking Spanish speakers while hanging sheet rock or laying shingles. Essentially, she didn't use a universal injunction while universally making it impossible to arrest illegals. The Lawfare Wars continue without end.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (NXz8h)

295
they were getting violent in the fields.
Posted by: Hatari

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You're talking about the scene in Camarillo?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (UmB+t)

296 Continuing to sin is a problem--eg. getting caught repeatedly doing crap while claiming innocence. Such as a drunk who continue to get arrested for being a drunk or a someone chasing little girls/boys or abusing power. Beyond that, evangelicals are just as capable of determining where their policy interests are best served by which politician as any other upper class voter might do.

Yep. All their notions of evangelicals are based almost entirely on stereotypes portrayed in Law & Order or Lifetime Channel movies.

Posted by: Probably never met one at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (TbWk/)

297 hate that my choice for Senator is either Paxton or Cornyn.

I wish mine was.

You realize we vote for politicians and not ministers, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 07:31 PM (viF8m)

You guys just apparently read the snippets of what he was accused of and not what he conceded to. Like I said he’s a sleaze ball. I ain’t overlooking that because he plays to his audience. I’ll probably vote for him but DC is going to be too tempting for him IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (VofaG)

298 [i[]And yes within the evangelical movement there is very much a "born again" (I'm sure you've heard the term) idea that your past life wasn't truly Christian, and so you can reboot and start over fresh.

So I have this courtesy subscription to SiriusXM and most of the channels are garbage so I turned to the two whole alleged "Christian" stations.

I heard a few invitations to "Accept Jesus" and the motivation was never that your sinful life separates you from God, but that Jesus loves everybody and is your lawyer, life coach, bail-bondsman, mystic, euphoria, diet pill and anti-anxiety medicine.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (a4flb)

299 @289

>>So has DJT with several affairs.

Trump is a completely different animal than any other politician.

I find it odd his wife would divorce him petty much the day after he announced his candidacy for Senate.

Again, I would vote for Paxton as I would have voted for Roy Moore.

Philandering does not get my knickers twisted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

300 Maybe carelessness is more like it, closely related to arrogance. "No one can touch me." I don't even think Strzok and Page were fired or disciplined or deprived of their pensions, were they? They were merely discovered, and they brassed it out all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (UmB+t)
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The right people were in power to make sure Strzok and Page were taken care of. That might not be so this time around. We shall see. Though, my expectation is: Take your pension, shut up and leave. Or else.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (tT6L1)

301 Elissa Slutkin and absolute nobody Gary Peters are my Senators.

Hideous, but there are worse.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (ufFY8)

302 You're talking about the scene in Camarillo?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (UmB+t)

Yeah, there was another one in the Nard

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (NtVYv)

303 Maybe carelessness is more like it, closely related to arrogance. "No one can touch me." I don't even think Strzok and Page were fired or disciplined or deprived of their pensions, were they? They were merely discovered, and they brassed it out all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:36 PM (UmB+t)
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They got million dollar settlements.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (VofaG)

304 In 1980 I went to US Navy Enlisted Nuclear Power School... the largest collection of uneducated geniuses anywhere.

I'd been a D&D player for years at that point, but finally understood the difference between Intelligence, and Wisdom.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 07:33 PM (mP0Kj)

I am no rocket scientist, but I remember in the Cold War Concerned Scientists (tm) who opposed "Star Wars" missile defense saying that the missiles could be easily armored against attack. And in that era we had the Saturn five as an example of how much rocket you need per pound of payload.

Give scientists no built in credit for things outside their field.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (8avO+)

305 Yep. All their notions of evangelicals are based almost entirely on stereotypes portrayed in Law & Order or Lifetime Channel movies.

Here in East Texas everybody loves Jesus and Meth, but mostly Meth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (a4flb)

306 "Continuing to sin is a problem"

Can a Christian, no matter how devout, ever lead a sinless life?

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (TwZXH)

307
my expectation is: Take your pension, shut up and leave. Or else.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

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I want a little lamentation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (UmB+t)

308 284 Pillage Idiot, Contreras resigned because he was a corrupt asshole and knew exactly what he was doing. He just got out before the trail led back to him.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 07:34 PM


Darn!

Smart dirty rats are even worse than dumb dirty rats!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (HlyYF)

309 Although some evangelicals created some really bad stereotypes, like the Pearls and their ilk.

Posted by: Shocking amount of people bought into it at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (TbWk/)

310 Trump is a completely different animal than any other politician.

I find it odd his wife would divorce him petty much the day after he announced his candidacy for Senate.

Again, I would vote for Paxton as I would have voted for Roy Moore.

Philandering does not get my knickers twisted.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

that is a 'I'll put up with you F'n around on me, but you aint gonna make me move to DC!!!!"

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (mP0Kj)

311 Yep. All their notions of evangelicals are based almost entirely on stereotypes portrayed in Law & Order or Lifetime Channel movies.
Posted by: Probably never met one at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (TbWk/)
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I dub thee the "no true Evangelical" fallacy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)

312 I remember the media attacking Helms for his comment that Clinton would need a bodyguard if he visited North Carolina, and how the Secret Service was investigating Helms.

Posted by: MikeN at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (HVZOH)

313 Philandering does not get my knickers twisted.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

That’s the least of my problem with him. Though it’s really stupid if this is the second mistress,

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (VofaG)

314 nood

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (TwZXH)

315 I want a little lamentation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:40 PM (UmB+t)
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I want something a bit more, along the lines of screaming as they're hit with the cat o nine tails.

But, I'm old fashioned that way.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (tT6L1)

316 Also in Carp

[Update: Thu., July 10, 4pm] After National Guard and ICE left the area of the Carpinteria cannabis farm raid Thursday afternoon — where at least 10 farmworkers were taken into custody, according to advocates at the scene — local leaders responded to the chaotic events that turned a quiet backroad into an explosive clash between protesters and federal agents.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (NtVYv)

317 >>> 294 Fed Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has ruled, in the LA area, that ICE cannot arrest suspected illegals without reasonable suspicion that illegals are illegal. Further ICE cannot use common sense tactics to find illegals such as targeting crews of speaking Spanish speakers while hanging sheet rock or laying shingles. Essentially, she didn't use a universal injunction while universally making it impossible to arrest illegals. The Lawfare Wars continue without end.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (NXz8h)

Judge Handbasket rules that retard judges with star wars or pharma names must all be arrested and evicted from the US, but only after being awarded an all-expenses-paid 30-day vacation at Alligator Alcatraz.

... odds stupid bint LA judge is ignored and ICE goes about its business anyway?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (ULPxl)

318 276 And yes within the evangelical movement there is very much a "born again" (I'm sure you've heard the term) idea that your past life wasn't truly Christian, and so you can reboot and start over fresh.

Former OF girls and post-wall 304s of various stripes LOVE this.
Posted by: Like the French Foreign Legion
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Not really. It is more that one should go and sin no more (see Jesus discussing with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well for clarification).

Jesus and his Father can actually see into the hearts of mankind and know what lurks there in all its glory and ugliness. True repentance means living a different life from that day forward as to walk in the footsteps of Christ and follow him.

Those that fake it and pretend are known by Christ and soon that rottenness and falsity becomes apparent to other believers.

Same with deathbed confessions by murderers, thieves, wife beaters, etc. You have to actually have changed in your heart and desire contrition before it is granted.

Most of the differences between the Christian denominations rest with relatively minor doctrinal emphasis rather than one is totally separate from the others.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (ctrM5)

319
Every saint has a past.

Every sinner has a future.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (HZi96)

320
Yeah, there was another one in the Nard
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

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So who got sporty, a bunch of flabby-kneed pink-haired protestors or the berry pickers themselves?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (UmB+t)

321 Fed Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has ruled, in the LA area, that ICE cannot arrest suspected illegals without reasonable suspicion that illegals are illegal. Further ICE cannot use common sense tactics to find illegals such as targeting crews of speaking Spanish speakers while hanging sheet rock or laying shingles. Essentially, she didn't use a universal injunction while universally making it impossible to arrest illegals. The Lawfare Wars continue without end.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM (NXz8h)

They are working in a field in SoCal. That's reasonable suspicion right there. If they aren't, give them Dodger's Tickets.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)

322 I find it odd his wife would divorce him petty much the day after he announced his candidacy for Senate.

Again, I would vote for Paxton as I would have voted for Roy Moore.

Philandering does not get my knickers twisted.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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She doesn't want to live in DC is my guess and she would have to give up her own seat/political career in the Texas Senate.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (ctrM5)

323 I actually don't remember Virginia's senators? Is it the certified retard Timmuh Caine and that guy who reminds me of Tony Robbins (I can't remember his name)?

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (uGaBv)

324 "Continuing to sin is a problem"

Can a Christian, no matter how devout, ever lead a sinless life?
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:39 PM (TwZXH)
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There are some who use the "By grace you are saved" as a "get out of jail sin card." No, continuing to willfully sin is wrong, because if you're a new creature in Christ, you're supposed to avoid sin, else you cheapen what Christ did on the cross.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (tT6L1)

325 324 So some Christians, at some point, lead literally sinless lives?

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (TwZXH)

326 Bride of PI was supposed to swap me out after only 36k miles?

She never heard about that.

Good thing she would much rather drive a classic car compared to any of the newer models!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (HlyYF)

327 Also in Carp

[Update: Thu., July 10, 4pm] After National Guard and ICE left the area of the Carpinteria cannabis farm raid Thursday afternoon — where at least 10 farmworkers were taken into custody, according to advocates at the scene — local leaders responded to the chaotic events that turned a quiet backroad into an explosive clash between protesters and federal agents.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (NtVYv)

is this a legal farm or an illegal farm? CA put in some bonus penalties for them not getting a cut of the action.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:45 PM (8avO+)

328 So some Christians, at some point, lead literally sinless lives?
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (TwZXH)

Death cuts the sin rate considerably.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:45 PM (8avO+)

329 Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 07:41 PM (ctrM5

Nothing you said is inconsistent with or contradictory to what I was discussing. I'm not talking about the metaphysical/cosmological aspects of soteriology or sanctification, I'm talking about a very real cultural phenomenon that takes place with "born again hoes" who love the idea of getting your slate wiped clean without consequence. Didn't say they were theologically correct.

Posted by: Allow myself to expound at July 10, 2025 07:45 PM (TbWk/)

330 So some Christians, at some point, lead literally sinless lives?
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:44 PM (TwZXH)

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Avoiding sin doesn't mean one doesn't sin. It means what I said, avoid it. Seeking out and sinning repeatedly is different.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 07:46 PM (tT6L1)

331 She doesn't want to live in DC is my guess and she would have to give up her own seat/political career in the Texas Senate.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 07:43 PM (ctrM5)

Sounds like clause 2 would be a good excuse to stay away from DC without divorcing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 07:47 PM (8avO+)

332 NOOD

CAFE

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 07:48 PM (ULPxl)

333 330 Thanks!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 07:49 PM (TwZXH)

334 Posted by: FenelonSpoke, there is no reason in bigotry.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 07:51 PM (Xlykt)

335 Fed Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has ruled, in the LA area, that ICE cannot arrest suspected illegals without reasonable suspicion that illegals are illegal. Further ICE cannot use common sense tactics to find illegals such as targeting crews of speaking Spanish speakers while hanging sheet rock or laying shingles. Essentially, she didn't use a universal injunction while universally making it impossible to arrest illegals. The Lawfare Wars continue without end.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 07:37 PM


That certainly seems like something they can bring up at trial but, I don't see how this judge gets involved unless she is saying that all roofers are a class.

Posted by: The Big Red One at July 10, 2025 07:52 PM (jc0TO)

As Democrats Remain Silent on the Insurrectionary Assaults on Federal Agents, Senator Schmitt Proposes Increased Criminal Penalties

donaldthedeporter.jpg

The Democrats will vote against this. I assume he just wants them on the record supporting revolutionary terrorism.


Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Thursday announced that he would introduce a bill to raise the maximum penalties for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel amid an uptick in violent opposition to mass deportations.

"The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating," he said.
"
I'm introducing a bill to double the maximum federal penalty.

Left-wing radicals want to use violence to advance their political agenda. We can't let them win.

The mass deportations must continue."

The White House confirmed this week that ICE agents had faced a 700% surge in assaults against them as federal agents moved to ramp up arrests and deportations following passage of the "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act."

That legislation greatly expanded ICE's budget to double its detention space from 50,000 beds to 100,000 and to hire as many as 10,000 additional agents.

CNN and MSNBC continue to completely suppress any reporting on one of the Democrat-Media Party's terror cells that just shot up ICE agents.

Even left-leaning Mediaite thinks this is notable.

If you hadn't heard about it yet, you might just be a CNN or MSNBC viewer; neither network has devoted a single minute of airtime to covering the attack, though CNN managed to devote a sentence to it in an online story about another attack on immigration authorities.

Should that not strike you as unusual, imagine this scenario: 11 members of a right-wing militia group open fire on an FBI field office on a major holiday, and a responding police officer is shot in the neck.

You think that would have a cold chance in hell of escaping the attention of the likes of Joe Scarborough, Wolf Blitzer, Jen Psaki, Brian Stelter, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Dana Bash?

This glaring omission is particularly notable given the two news organizations' relentlessly critical coverage of ICE and persistent warnings about right-wing extremism and violence.

Searches for mentions of ICE on air may not turn up any coverage at all of the attempted murder of innocent law enforcement officers, but they do yield plenty of segments about other protests of the organization, MSNBC's Catherine Rampell ranting about its employees "potentially like beating people, and committing violence," and a CNN interview of a Latino man lamenting that his "own people" were being "arrested and harassed by the ICE agents."

Nothing about bullets flying by heads, though.


Just as illegal aliens tell lies about the oppression they're facing in their home countries to get the US to let them into the country, so too are the residents of Gator Gitmo now telling Sad Stories about mosquitoes and "food filled with maggots" to be released back into America.

The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Obvious lies. Just spamming out whatever complaints sound like they might be of constitutional-level import, so that another Biden/Obama judge can issue a restraining order.

Fuck you. If you don't like it, GO THE FUCK HOME.

Posted by: Ace at 05:29 PM




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1 "The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating,"

The punishment for all violent crime should be swift, severe and certain. We got a long way to go.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TwZXH)

2 You didn’t really think the media would start combining journalism with their news, did you?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (J4BK5)

3 Get Out!

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (zhBpy)

4 Tell me that's a real cover. Lie if you have to.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)

5 "If you support this, you are an evil Nazi."

.... raises hand.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (eYAt4)

6 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (2GCMq)

7 Ace, you're in fire! I mean on fire.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (QSrLX)

8 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

9 Entschludigung Sie bitte.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (zhBpy)

10
Make Capital Offenses and Pubic Executions Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (itv8P)

11 He looks nice....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (VE6XX)

12 Schmitt seems to be at least trying to do shit since he got to the senate. He was a really good state ag.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (XZ6f8)

13 I love it! Replace that Frog lady with the torch (and manface) with that Trump statue! Make it happen!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

14 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

15 The Floyd riots got a lot of airplay. Twisted commentary. But a lot of airplay.

*taps head*

What could be different this time?

Weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)

16 >>> 13 I love it! Replace that Frog lady with the torch (and manface) with that Trump statue! Make it happen!
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

'Murica is full. Trump out front should have told you.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (ULPxl)

17 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Here's something that will help:
The Pali supporter who organized the riots at Columbia in support of Hamas and 10/7?

He's suing for $20 million now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

18
Got Her Majesty and Mr. Varus on the road to San Antonio. Had lunch. Took a nap. I was going to mow the yard but I just don't feel like doing it today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (HZi96)

19 The mosquitos I believe. And I'm sure the food sucks. It is a prison after all. I doubt there are any maggots though.

As far as bathing? I also don't believe that either, but whatever.

Here's the thing ... I don't care. You need to just go home. Stop forcing us to spend money to deal with you. We'll give you some Florida oranges as a memento on your trip out.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (uCjyK)

20 Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Thursday announced that he would introduce a bill to raise the maximum penalties for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel amid an uptick in violent opposition to mass deportations.

Has Senator Schmitt, R-Moron, considered enforcing the penalties that already exist, rather than making more severe penalties that won't be enforced at all?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (a+4eV)

21
I love that Economist cover. That's what I voted for.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (UmB+t)

22 Don't mind the maggots!

Posted by: Shattered Jagger/Richards at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (G5+As)

23 Any illegal in Alcatraz can voluntarily leave the country tight?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ImXfC)

24 >>> 17 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Here's something that will help:
The Pali supporter who organized the riots at Columbia in support of Hamas and 10/7?

He's suing for $20 million now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

Airdrop him into Gaza, no parachute.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ULPxl)

25 If you're going to wear Guy Fieri hair you better know how to cook gator.

Posted by: DaveA at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (FhXTo)

26 My Mother came to America and spent 2 weeks on Ellis Island... My Grandmother had a sponsor... They didn't just crawl across the border.. and yes.. I am that old...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

27 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (zhBpy)

28 Just deport the bastards, to make room for more bastards, maybe American violence inciters?

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (FZn/N)

29 23 Any illegal in Alcatraz can voluntarily leave the country tight?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ImXfC)

I believe so....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

30 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents. The tents that apparently are full of mosquitos as big as elephants. Pick one my guy. If the mosquitos are free to enter, the hot outdoor air is getting in.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (lIio7)

31 He looks nice. Like a future engineer or Doctor...

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (YwEeS)

32 The photos of the facilities in the swamp look like the kind of temporary but stormworthy outbuildings my former employer erected for classrooms, citing "distancing" concerns, during the Sniffle Scare. They are not tents. After the hoax collapsed, they continued using the buildings as classrooms for the School of Architecture while its 80-year-old building is being renovated.

These outbuildings are air-conditioned. I suspect the ones in Alligator Alcatraz/Gator Gitmo (I'm happy to see Ace use the phrase) are as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (omVj0)

33 >>> 21
I love that Economist cover. That's what I voted for.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (UmB+t)

But he's so MEAN!!!

Posted by: Economist employees at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (ULPxl)

34 "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

----------

Good Gawd, It's as if Abu Ghraib has been resurrected in Florida! I cannot image what they would do to a Koran.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (t8yj6)

35 Make Capital Offenses and Pubic Executions Great Again!

The problem is the use of lawfare. Don’t you think that given the chance that DC prosecutors would’ve gone after J6ers, and a DC jury would’ve convicted in nanoseconds?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (J4BK5)

36 CNN and MSNBC continue to completely suppress any reporting on one of the Democrat-Media Party's terror cells that just shot up ICE agents.

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

They had the same reaction to the Gretchen Whitmer "Kidnapping" Sting PsyOp.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (itv8P)

37 I believe so....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)


They should have no say in the matter, DEPORT

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (FZn/N)

38 OT a bit but I don't know why prisoners who kill a prison guard aren't tried immediately and if convicted put to death within the week.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (VofaG)

39 Fuck these people

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (XLfSN)

40 Got Her Majesty and Mr. Varus on the road to San Antonio. Had lunch. Took a nap. I was going to mow the yard but I just don't feel like doing it today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025


***
Has Varus lost any legions?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (omVj0)

41 As far as bathing? I also don't believe that either, but whatever.

I once heard from someone who had been in prison, that you could tell the Mexican-Mexican criminals (imprisoned in the US) by smell. It seems that they found sending their clothes to the prison laundry with everyone else's garments to be unsanitary, so they'd hand-wash them in their cell toilets instead.

The American criminals of Mexican descent didn't do this.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (a+4eV)

42 It reminds me of (tie in!) when Ghislaine Maxwell got to the federal prison in Brooklyn and her lawyers filed a motion saying she couldn't be expected to live there. The prison was dirty, the lights were on all night, the toilet clogged, the food was terrible.

Yeah, guys, you're describing a prison. It sucks. Try to live your life in such a way where you don't end up having to go there.

While I agree our prisons SHOULD be nicer and better run, they aren't and we all know that.

So stop your bitching.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (uCjyK)

43 I once heard from someone who had been in prison, that you could tell the Mexican-Mexican criminals (imprisoned in the US) by smell. It seems that they found sending their clothes to the prison laundry with everyone else's garments to be unsanitary, so they'd hand-wash them in their cell toilets instead.

The American criminals of Mexican descent didn't do this.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (a+4eV)

jeez, I can imagine what they smelled like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (uWKK8)

44 One of the things he complains about is a power outage so their AC is off. Prisoners in real shithole prisons say " They have AC?"

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (YwEeS)

45
My Perrier is warm!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (HZi96)

46 That guy with the wad of cash above doesn't look like the Bible reading type

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

47 42. No nicer, hotter, and more unpleasant, so they beg to be deported. As for maggots, that mouthy maggot apparently watched Shawshank Redemption

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:41 PM (FZn/N)

48 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

49 I can eat 50 eggs.

Posted by: Luke at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (A7fWT)

50 "food filled with maggots"

"Those maggots were cooked. It's extra protein. EAT ZE BUGS."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (a+4eV)

51 Apropos of nothing, the yellow in your urine comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin in your blood.


The More You Know...


Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)

52 Prisoners can be allowed showers once a week though prisons in the US allow more frequent showering depending where you're housed in the prison.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (VofaG)

53 How soon until Hurricane season? And we need live cams set up so we can watch the alligators start lumbering down the complex hallway when they look for shelter.

I'd pay a Netflix subscription for that enjoyment. But, I'll only pay if there is audio.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (dIske)

54 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM


That, and the ass rape, but mostly...

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (jc0TO)

55
Yeah, guys, you're describing a prison. It sucks. Try to live your life in such a way where you don't end up having to go there.

_________

Why are prisons so bad? They're full of bad people. You can put them in a five-star hotel and in a week it would be a pesthole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (HZi96)

56 I'm just releasing hemoglobin on your boot.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (zhBpy)

57 Somehow I'm guessing that punks current lack of a bible is the least of his problems...

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

58 48 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

I've been in several jails and prisons (work related, not for personal reasons), and I'd say the worst thing is the criminals.

And I don't mean that as a Norm Macdonald punch line.

I can't imagine having to live around the dregs of society for months / years / decades. It would be horrible.

That's yet another reason I don't do shit that will get me thrown in prison.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:44 PM (uCjyK)

59 "Mosquitoes as big as elephants"

"They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles. In the evening, I would stand in front of my hut and watch in horror as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away."

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 10, 2025 05:44 PM (BHrzb)

60 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

That's right up there for sure.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (VofaG)

61
Getting only one meal a day, haven't bathed in days? How many days are they being held? I thought they were going to be in and outta there in 48 hours. If they have complaints, expedite they asses back home extra pronto.

As for bugs and rodents, the countries they come from have some hellacious ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (UmB+t)

62 Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents.

They need to hire a better BS Coordinator. Another claim I saw was that there was no A/C. But yet it's freezing in FL in July? Uh huh.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (/y8xj)

63 I'm so old I can actually remember when The Economist was a well-regarded, well-written, intelligent magazine instead of what it has devolved to today.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (D0HYP)

64 Whig, a willowed response to your comment about your friend that was possibly denied a BYU professor job for asking to drink caffeine during his interview:

If you are employed by BYU, I think you have to live the BYU standards. Professors, coaches, everyone. BYU as a school banned caffeine/soda for decades, so of course it spread like a virus through the whole church culture that you could not drink caffeine at all, if you were a "good" mormon. It became an insufferable holier-than-thou thing, but there was no officially policy against soda, just black tea and coffee.

The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this caffeine ban on campus when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor. Those exclusive contracts with a soda brand for universities is a big deal! But I loved that it threw the holier- than-thous in a tizzy. How can they judge their fellow members now, if not by their caffeine consumption!

I adore my church. But huge parts of the judgmental social culture within it, especially in insular Utah, bugs the crap out of me. Out of Utah, the culture is more chill.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

65
You were not invited to come here, nor are you wanted here.

Read the room and get the fuck out of here.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (Tv15w)

66 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

67 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

If I can live through it - they can.

Basic Training - Cape May NJ: "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

1st Duty Station - USCG Base Miami Beach: "mosquitos are as big as elephants."

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (oiNtH)

68 66 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

As a poet once said, "let the wookie win."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (uCjyK)

69 Juan Williams called Obama the "deporter in chief."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 05:47 PM (63Dwl)

70 Tom Homam should sue the The Economist for the trauma of not getting credit for his work.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (ULPxl)

71 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (jc0TO)

72 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

Or your hustle can be giving chess lessons.

Serious tip. Don't show you have money for commissary.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (VofaG)

73 >>> It reminds me of (tie in!) when Ghislaine Maxwell got to the federal prison in Brooklyn and her lawyers filed a motion saying she couldn't be expected to live there. The prison was dirty, the lights were on all night, the toilet clogged, the food was terrible.

I despise her, but I honestly do think her lawyers should try to appeal her sentencing again, if she was convicted due to the idea of an Epstein client list.

The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

74 >>> 71 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (jc0TO)

Yeah? Does he have a laser on his head?

Posted by: well-equipped sharks at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (ULPxl)

75
Apropos of nothing, the yellow in your urine comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin in your blood.

__________

*makes note*

I'll mention this to HM the next time we go out to dinner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (HZi96)

76 "Take the Bible". I should have thought of that.

Posted by: Warden Norton at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (D0HYP)

77 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025


***
If you're that close . . . well, you're too close.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (omVj0)

78 It just annoys me how performative this whole thing is.

Every one of our illegal friends from Mexico & central america 100% understands they were breaking the law, they are not wanted here, and why they have to go home.

They had a good thing going, it's over now. They are not holding it against us, their home countries do the same shit.

Walk around Mexico City and count how many non-ethnic Mexicans there are. Very few, and almost all of them are tourists. Mexico has very strict immigration laws.

They were just taking advantage of us. They know it, we know it.

So just... stop. It's over, go home. Stop acting like assholes, and the AWFL's pushing all of this need to shut the fuck up and find another cause to care about. Why can't they go back to worrying about spotted owls in Oregon or whatever?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (uCjyK)

79 Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

That's not why she was convicted. She recruited girls to provide sexual services.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (VofaG)

80 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Depends on how much of the Good Book they'd hollowed out to smuggle in contraband, really

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (a+4eV)

81 69 Juan Williams called Obama the "deporter in chief."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,



Obama thought he was so f---ing clever. He redefined people blocked at border as "deportations" in order to claim he was doing something while he let in millions.

He deported very few. But now people complain about Trump deporting, and at the same time claim he is doing a lousy job since Obama deported more.

Never look for consistency when a marxist speaks -- their words are meant to confuse and humiliate.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (A7fWT)

82 Services for whom?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (zhBpy)

83 I despise her, but I honestly do think her lawyers should try to appeal her sentencing again, if she was convicted due to the idea of an Epstein client list.

The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

Sex trafficking.

Which... if there are no traffickees and Ghislaine and Epstein were just having sex with underaged girls for their own sick purposes, that sounds much more like a statutory rape case than a sex trafficking case.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (uCjyK)

84 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025


***
Like the old joke about "sniffing mothballs": "Did you at least get dinner first?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)

85 Without giving credence to the claim, I state IMHO if a prisoner wants a Bible, and he's actually going to read it (not shred it and use it to deliberately clog the toilet, or start a fire,) then he ought to be given one.

Any edifying reading materials, as long as they are sincerely desired and genuinely used, seems the humane thing to do. Or maybe better to let them have tablets or kindles.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (TwZXH)

86 Showing my age but, do the cops still phonebook people? Even without phonebooks? Do they use Bibles instead these days?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

87 Sarah Ironside is a totally woke idiot but does have nice boobs. But not enough to make her a 1.


Don't like the heat and humidity? Just wait until they open Arctic Alcatraz.

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (PTDkx)

88 There are mosquitoes in the swamps of the Gulf coast that will make alligators submerge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (Xlykt)

89 > Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

Huh. I didn't know BYU used to have a soda ban. I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (lIio7)

90 Some rootbeers have no caffeine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (zhBpy)

91 90 Some rootbeers have no caffeine.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (zhBpy

Coke too...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)

92 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

93 Does the "Putting a price on Greenland" heading suggest Denmark is thinking about selling?

And should EU women take the "Battle and the sexes: Women in combat" heading as a hint that they may be drafted to fight OMG Russia?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (ULPxl)

94 Is Alligator Alcatraz plumbed? Or do they use latrines? I would hope plumbed, or portapottied.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (TwZXH)

95 60 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

That's right up there for sure.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (VofaG)

This reminds of the scene in My Cousin Vinny, where Vinny's in jail and there's a riot going on, and sirens, and incredible noise - and he's sleeping soundly because it's the quietist, most peaceful night he's had in days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (uWKK8)

96 Huh. I didn't know BYU used to have a soda ban. I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (lIio7)

I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

No idea if that's true or not, I just found it interesting.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uCjyK)

97 Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (TwZXH)

Prisoners in our harshest solitary confinement lock ups are allowed the religious book of their choice.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)

98 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (TwZXH)

99
The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem

================

She was convicted of trafficking minors for Epstein's sexual abuse, centered on 4 key victims. What we all damn well know beyond that is a matter of sealed documents and limited trial scope.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (UmB+t)

100 94 Is Alligator Alcatraz plumbed? Or do they use latrines? I would hope plumbed, or portapottied.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (TwZXH)

4" PVC pipes running out into the everglades.

hope the snakes don't climb up 'em.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uWKK8)

101 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM


We just had various Cokes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (jc0TO)

102
Showing my age but, do the cops still phonebook people? Even without phonebooks? Do they use Bibles instead these days?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

__________

"It's her lucky day. Only made it it 1 Timothy. Next time there won't be a next time."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (HZi96)

103 So they're eating maggots. The World Economic Forum's diet is being implemented. Stop whining plebes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (JtH6i)

104 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (77rzZ)

105 SSS, piss on the grave.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (P0m9n)

106 At Reuters: Journalist attempt to confuse a cat, and fails:
https://tinyurl.com/54czv6ue

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (TwZXH)

107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)

108 98 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff


Carbonated Sweet Drink Wars, begun they have.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (pMi6S)

109 107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)


Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)

110 Barq's is caffeinated.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (zhBpy)

111 1 "The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating,"

The punishment for all violent crime should be swift, severe and certain. We got a long way to go.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TwZXH)

THIS!!!! The penalty for a crime should not depend on who the victim was... that should be irrelevant.

Murdering me should be the same as murdering a Cop, or Grandma... equal protection under the law, should mean just that.... equal...

Not depend on what your job is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

112 109 107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)


Agreed
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)

America is full... Moose up North should have told you...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj)

113 30 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents. The tents that apparently are full of mosquitos as big as elephants. Pick one my guy. If the mosquitos are free to enter, the hot outdoor air is getting in.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (lIio7)

As sure as there is no sex in the champagne room, there is no freezing in the Everglades.

Posted by: Nope. No way. at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (TbWk/)

114 I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.


I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

115 "America is a fascist totalitarian racist shithole that I hate and want to destroy. Please, please let me stay!"

-- Typical illegal immigrant argument

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (pMi6S)

116 99
The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem

================

She was convicted of trafficking minors for Epstein's sexual abuse, centered on 4 key victims. What we all damn well know beyond that is a matter of sealed documents and limited trial scope.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
------------------

Documents, there are no documents, only thousands and thousands of pedo videos that filthy pervert Epstein downloaded off the internet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (Xlykt)

117 MOAR Alligator Alcatraz residents rather than less will dampen insurrectionist fervor—ie let the insurrection arrestees do an Alligator Alcatraz stint.
Push harder against The Left.
The LAST thing we can do is back off.
It is us or them….metaphorically speaking of course.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (FCPbW)

118 111 Well put.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (TwZXH)

119 The "maggots in the food" ploy will almost certainly be used by the Democrat politicians and MSM once they get access to the prison.

Their low information audience (that never passed 7th-grade biology) will easily fall for it.

Step 1.) Take 1/3rd of your evening meatloaf and hide it behind your toilet.

Step 2.) Wait two, maybe three days for the eggs from the flies that landed on your meatloaf to hatch into maggots.

Step 3.) Put that piece of meatloaf back on your food tray for the photograph.

Step 4.) PROFIT!!!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HlyYF)

120
He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

Did Jesus have a still?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

121 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM

We just had various Cokes.

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*Golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

122 The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this caffeine ban on campus when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor.

I adore my church. But huge parts of the judgmental social culture within it, especially in insular Utah, bugs the crap out of me. Out of Utah, the culture is more chill.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

They could have only brought the caffeine free sodas if they were serious.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

123 Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

You don't agree with the elder enhancement for assault?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)

124 I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

Yeah, I don't know. He had certainly never drank alcohol, and I probably put him on the defensive with my questions. I was just curious though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (uCjyK)

125 Murdering me should be the same as murdering a Cop, or Grandma... equal protection under the law, should mean just that.... equal...

Not depend on what your job is.
Posted by: Romeo13


YES!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (A7fWT)

126 Never forget:

Some poem on a French statue always outranks the Constitution.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pMi6S)

127 >>> 119 The "maggots in the food" ploy will almost certainly be used by the Democrat politicians and MSM once they get access to the prison.
==
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HlyYF)

They should only get access to the prison by being inmates.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ULPxl)

128 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (77rzZ)

Barq's has caffeine. My wife will drink it occasionally for just that reason.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (0aYVJ)

129 Did Jesus have a still?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

My memory was he handwaved some water in to wine, so maybe that's what my friend was getting at. If you can turn water in to wine, you're allowed to drink it.

I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (uCjyK)

130 (Re: Tuesday's Antifa 10 event, because DU hasn't addressed their more recent violence)

Jury Nullification 😊

Who the hell are these dipshits? What "Militia" are they in?

RW Jackholes are claiming they're Antifa, so I'd like a bit more information about those arrested.

People set off fireworks. Gestapo comes out and claims gunfire. Gestapo agent hit by bottle rocket, claims gunshot wound.

Agents provocateur? It sounds like they had all sorts of scary stuff and were completely inept. What have they accomplished beyond justification for the police state?

In a country with more guns than people, I'm surprised it took this long for something like to happen.

whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

131 This is the statue that needs to go in the place of the French Statue:

https://tinyurl.com/b5pwcxua

(btw look at the left knee)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (uWKK8)

132 I need grapes and some time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (zhBpy)

133
Any edifying reading materials, as long as they are sincerely desired and genuinely used, seems the humane thing to do.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff

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"Sincerely" and "genuinely" are not things you can quantify or define sufficiently to satisfy me. If I could have any book that would edify me in prison, I'd probably pick a volume of Mark Twain sketches or perhaps Wuthering Heights. Don't even go down that path. Prisoners can pray.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (UmB+t)

134 Some poem on a French statue always outranks the Constitution.
Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pMi6S)

A statue that was given to the US to commemorate the hundred year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (VE6XX)

135 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

That's, like, deep man.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (uCjyK)

136
"We're like rats in an experiment."

Despite all their rage...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (63Dwl)

137 > They could have only brought the caffeine free sodas if they were serious.

I'm pretty sure that's what they had when I was there.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (lIio7)

138 104 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM


"Barq's has sparks!" (An old ad campaign.)

That was also how I remembered it for my kids. Barq's had caffeine, A&W didn't.

Only administer to the kids the correct one for the upcoming activities or lack of activites!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (HlyYF)

139 We drummy drum drum to annoy you!!
- ICE protesters

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (5OC6U)

140 Tell me that's a real cover. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)


Suitable for framing. That would make an awesome poster.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (144I4)

141 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)
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The "can't tell the difference due to stupidity" is strong with this one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (tT6L1)

142 What kind of prison is it where none of the inmates have to be there?

Every single one of those in Alligator Alcatraz are there by choice.

If they simply say, "I'd like to go home," waiving all hearings or protests, they will be walked out the gate, put on the next flight and sent home.

Their real home.

What they're really objecting to is, they'll be walked right in to a prison in their home country.
For the multiple crimes they committed there before they fled to America.
To commit more crimes.
Real cream of the crop, salt of the Earth, hard-working, religious, family-men, them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 06:06 PM (VlU/R)

143 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.

Sometimes I just sit with my mouth agape.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:06 PM (jc0TO)

144 "Sincerely" and "genuinely" are not things you can quantify or define sufficiently to satisfy me. If I could have any book that would edify me in prison, I'd probably pick a volume of Mark Twain sketches or perhaps Wuthering Heights. Don't even go down that path. Prisoners can pray.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (UmB+t)

I have no problem giving inmates full access to a library full of books or anything else to occupy their time in a somewhat productive way.

Being locked up is hell on earth, the least we can do is give them an opportunity for some escapism and hopefully they read some books that open their minds a bit (particularly people in prison, not people in an ICE detention facility. Their minds can be opened when they get home)

As a practical matter, it also keeps people occupied so they're less likely to be causing issues.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (uCjyK)

145 "bootleg hooch being kosher theory"

Not if it's made with bacon spice. (I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.)

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (KAi1n)

146 "We're like rats in an experiment."

Despite all their rage...
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I'll burn my eyes out
Before I get out

Posted by: Billy C. at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

147 Barq's is caffeinated.
______

Excuse to post this, per wiki:

The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 gallons of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 gallons of vanilla ice cream in an above-ground swimming pool.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (QqW4y)

148 He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

No idea if that's true or not, I just found it interesting.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uCjyK)

The only time I heard of Jesus making alcohol was the Wedding of Cana. If you can wave a hand and turn water into wine you are all set. This sounds like another way to say 'you never can'

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (8avO+)

149 I think the only book the Feds allowed Jeff Davis at Ft. Monroe was the Bible.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (77rzZ)

150
And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


The poem was added later.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (63Dwl)

151 I'm supposed to give a fuck 'bout some cracker-ass bitches drowning in Texas when dey got some fine-looking Gs lock up in da Evahglades? Dat maff ain't maffin!

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (TbWk/)

152 I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.


I will go out on a limb and guess whiskey and bacon.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (jc0TO)

153 They only get the finest food at the Mon Dieu Alligator Alcatraz Cafe'... Fronch Fries, Fronch Dressing, Fronch Bread, and to drink... Peru!

Posted by: Jenny Meyer at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (O1zNK)

154 Increasing the penalties for messing with FedGov employees is wrong. I don't care if they're ICE or IRS. Their lives are not more valuable than mine.

I'd rather the Feds just relax the rules of engagement. That way we're all on a level playing field when the shit hits the fan. Whichever side of the equation I'm on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Q4IgG)

155 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.
Posted by: toby928


If they were really traditional, they'd have a shotgun wedding between the participants.

But because it's the modern world, which one would have to be persuaded at shotgun-point is anyone's guess.

I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (a+4eV)

156
No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

157 Hints of spice.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (zhBpy)

158 That was also how I remembered it for my kids. Barq's had caffeine, A&W didn't.

Only administer to the kids the correct one for the upcoming activities or lack of activites!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (HlyYF)

Not sure the caffeine is as big an issue as the mountain of sugar is.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)

159 157 Hints of spice.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (zhBpy

Bacon is spice

Posted by: Kamala at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (VE6XX)

160 133 I was thinking along the lines of the Adlerian 'Great Books.' If you don't think a prisoner should read 'bad' thinkers, say Rousseau or Nietzsche, you can take those out.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (TwZXH)

161 so DU realizes that the Antifa group of 10 isn't a good look for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (uWKK8)

162 I would like to think that my stint as the prison librarian had a positive effect on the inmate population.
— Ex-con Leo Bloom

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (77rzZ)

163 the only book the Feds allowed Jeff Davis at Ft. Monroe was the Bible.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (77rzZ)


That Pharaoh guy sure got a bum rap.

Posted by: Jeffy at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (yYROg)

164 I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.
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Have you considered a career as a Supreme Court Justice?

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (TN0g+)

165 No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

The money comes if you 'relate' to the trash. If you don't, no money.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

166 But because it's the modern world, which one would have to be persuaded at shotgun-point is anyone's guess.

I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM


She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

167 BYU has recently shitcanned all the fag loving profs in the sociology dept.
Reality is making a comeback.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (P0m9n)

168 How about this as a compromise: still no bath water, BUT for your one meal, you get to eat tacos made by an abuelita for lunch, and up to 6 cervezas of your choice, assuming you agree to leave on a plane the next morning.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (uCjyK)

169 No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

I think she's got some big money backers who are writing her scripts for her. Now that what their motives and goals are, we can only guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (uWKK8)

170 She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.
Posted by: toby928


Oooh, time to find out which of the rival teams paid her!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (a+4eV)

171 Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (TwZXH)

172 I don’t think we can really blame Emma Lazarus for the liberties taken with the poem on the Statue of Liberty. She was a Jewish woman trying to aid refugees fleeing pogroms and anti semetism in Europe. The situation for people coming here ( as several people have noted was they needed a sponsor among other legal requirements. The government didnt want you to be deadbeat on society There was no idea that we should let anyone in who come over the border.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)

173 She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

Hello portal? What does that mean?

Posted by: Anything to do with GlaDOS? at July 10, 2025 06:12 PM (TbWk/)

174 @145

>>I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.

Probably really good, especially if it's real crispy, dipped in honey and crumbled, into the glass.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (QpTJY)

175 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

176 BYU has recently shitcanned all the fag loving profs in the sociology dept.
Reality is making a comeback.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (P0m9n)

now toss out the department. Teaching Pokemon would be better.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

177 And the Onion Field killer. He booked up in prison too. So maybe it ain't the best idea.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (TwZXH)

178
I have no problem giving inmates full access to a library full of books or anything else to occupy their time in a somewhat productive way.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (uCjyK)

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My impression of Alligator Alcatraz -- and it could be wrong -- is that it's meant to be a very short stay and it's a temporary facility that will be dismantled once we catch up with this illegal criminal backlog. Just keep it to no frills.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (UmB+t)

179 I agree with the sentiment above that murdering a cop and murdering a non-LEO citizen should both earn the same (massive) punishment.

However, I do want a severe increase in the penalty for "interfering with a federal officer in performing the arrest or transportation" of a suspected criminal.

Normal citizens do not have that job. The ICE, CBP, and other federal LEOs do, and Antifa is dragging away perps, putting hands on officers (which could easily hold a knife on the second attempt), etc.

THAT needs to be stopped with harsh sentences, or the only way the LEOs can function would be numerous baton strikes on the crowd - which the Democrat politicians would actually love!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (HlyYF)

180
The armed sissies who fired at ICE and the local police folded as soon as there was return fire. They would have done so much better if they targeted an elementary school as trannies usually do.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (ES1Rb)

181 Hello portal? What does that mean?
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"Upon learning he was facing a 7-game suspension, the youthful QB decided he was departing BYU and seeking his academic, athletic, and sexual adventures elsewhere."

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (TN0g+)

182 114 I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)


Wasn't Dr Pepper very popular with LDS members, until sometime in the 70s when it became known Dr Pepper is caffeinated? Maybe this is an Urban Legend.

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (aBgBM)

183 The real problem illegals have with Alligator Alcatraz: They don't like the people they're having to associate with.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (tT6L1)

184 My impression of Alligator Alcatraz -- and it could be wrong -- is that it's meant to be a very short stay and it's a temporary facility that will be dismantled once we catch up with this illegal criminal backlog. Just keep it to no frills.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (UmB+t)

Sure, but I'm fine with them spending their time there (as limited as it may be), reading books.

But also, we have tens of millions of illegals in this country right now. It will take a lonnnng time to catch up with that backlog.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

185 Only 10,000 new ICE agents when Joepedo and the democrats found a way for 80,000 new IRS agents. I haz the sadz.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (17s+e)

186 Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (TwZXH)

His grandpappy used to handle snakes in church. His grandmother swallowed strychnine. You could say he had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Posted by: More annoying than scary at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (TbWk/)

187 I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)
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I initially read that as "LSD" and went, "wait, what?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (tT6L1)

188
Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff

===============

Haha, Jack Henry Abbott also used his stay to improve his mind.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (UmB+t)

189 Only 10,000 new ICE agents when Joepedo and the democrats found a way for 80,000 new IRS agents. I haz the sadz.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (17s+e)

We already stole some of the new IRS dudes for border patrol.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

191 175 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.

Posted by: Something new at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (TbWk/)

192 The "can't tell the difference due to stupidity" is strong with this one.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM

You can't fix stupid. But you can give it a court date.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (JGU+s)

193 190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

First class!? Let's not go crazy here. They can ride in steerage like the rest of us.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (uCjyK)

194 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)

195 >>> 190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

JUST LIKE AUSCHWITZ!!!

Posted by: The Bullwarkseeker at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (ULPxl)

196 Heh. The old cult movie "Food of the Gods" had mosquitoes the size of elephants. I say if we find one and you can last 24 hours in the room with that bad boy, you get automatic citizenship.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (rvwwT)

197 Only send books to AA (“Alligator Alcatraz” that are written in English, heavily weighted to Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Kipling, and Hawthorne.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (77rzZ)

198 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
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Suitable for framing.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (TN0g+)

199 I agree with the sentiment above that murdering a cop and murdering a non-LEO citizen should both earn the same (massive) punishment.

However, I do want a severe increase in the penalty for "interfering with a federal officer in performing the arrest or transportation" of a suspected criminal.

Normal citizens do not have that job. The ICE, CBP, and other federal LEOs do, and Antifa is dragging away perps, putting hands on officers (which could easily hold a knife on the second attempt), etc.

THAT needs to be stopped with harsh sentences, or the only way the LEOs can function would be numerous baton strikes on the crowd - which the Democrat politicians would actually love!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (HlyYF)

Make the punishment deportation without trial and cuff them to their new buddy. They can reapply to enter at the destination.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (8avO+)

200 >>> 194

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)

They're brits, they still haven't figured out "YES, this IS what we voted for!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (ULPxl)

201 161 so DU realizes that the Antifa group of 10 isn't a good look for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo


DU organizers and agitators: "Everyone -- kill ICE! Go nuts! Throw yourselves on their vehicles! Shoot them! Martyr yourselves! It's the only way to stop fascism!"

10 random Trantifa cretins: "OK -- sounds like a plan! Let's do it!"

(Get arrested.)

DU organizers and agitators: "We don't know those guys. It was a false flag operation!"

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (pMi6S)

202 “Hello Portal” sounds like the name of a pron site.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)

203 Re BYU QB..seriously? If you weren't thinking you would make the pros, why ELSE would you want to be a college QB?

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (VTxKl)

204 I had a friend with unpaid tickets. he finally got arrested. the judge told him, pay up or a week in jail. He said, a week in jail. he lasted two days, then called me and asked to pay his tickets.

I asked, what broke you man? He said the 300th time he got asked for a cigarette by the same guy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (gDhA9)

205 Coffee and tea are taboo but I estimate about 75% of us drink caffeineated .drinks.
It's not going to keep you out of heaven but you'll prolly meet your Maker guicker.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (P0m9n)

206 Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.
Posted by: Something new


I think "portal" is actually the name of a program by which football students can transfer schools.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (a+4eV)

207 92 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

———

Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game. With the QB in the pocket we don’t want him to start thinking about the cooter he is going to get later that night.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (+pRFM)

208 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

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

Democrats acting like total asses has forced Republicans and everyone else to go mulish.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (unUNN)

209 They're brits, they still haven't figured out "YES, this IS what we voted for!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (ULPxl)

They know. Just like many of the citizens in Britain and most of Europe, Americans are over this shit.

But they have to manufacture consent here and shape the narrative and all of that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (uCjyK)

210 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.
Posted by: Something new at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (TbWk/)

The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team. Since the peeps rarely attend actual class the other minor details can be filled in later. Its a fairly recent thing to have so much shuffling of teams as now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

211 I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
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Suitable for framing.
Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM


I want a Trump and Vance pshop of the The Argonath from LoTR.

https://tinyurl.com/3umvcfbs

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

212 These are the people they are dealing with:

'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

213 Trump looks like he should be yelling “Von otsyuda!” (basically “ Get out of here!”, in Russian) on that statue.

That could replace the Lazarus poem.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (77rzZ)

214 Penalogists: If you allow prisoners the Great Books, for sure take out Michel de Montaigne, Sigmund Freud, Coarse File, and Hacksaw Blade.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (TwZXH)

215 >>> 212 These are the people they are dealing with:

'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

Sounds like a great argument for their defense lawyers when they get to court!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (ULPxl)

216 Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)
_______________________

One of my first bosses in the corporate world was a hard line Mormon. No caffeine...and a set percentage of his rather generous salary directly to Mormon approved charities (Mormon missionary work).

I rationalized that to mean that I, personally, was a rather charitable guy since my hard work paid that guy's salary, and he gave a lot of it away.

Heh, I'm a pretty good guy...looking out for the unfortunate, vicariously through Mormons. I might be an honorary Mormon.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (dIske)

217 That link to the journolist interviewing Larry the cat had a picture of a football float in Ireland for an upcoming American college game.

I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism. It's funny how they're not showing diversity for those. All white, mostly red heads. I guess they don't want to entice Americans with "come to Ireland and get stabbed by a 3rd world immigrant that we welcomed with open arms, and that the Irish (and probably US) taxpayers are paying for!
Slainte!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (144I4)

218 Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game. With the QB in the pocket we don’t want him to start thinking about the cooter he is going to get later that night.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken


Now, now, if he'd bothered to follow the policy, she'd have had a harder time accusing him of rape.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (a+4eV)

219 I want a Trump and Vance pshop of the The Argonath from LoTR.

https://tinyurl.com/3umvcfbs
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

You could just use that one...one bearded, one not.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (8avO+)

220
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

==========

You and I are on the same page (no pun intended) re the desirability of books -- I'd rather be shot than stuck with nothing to read during a period of enforced idleness. But I don't think that's what the worst-of-the-worst want, honestly. But it would be kind of funny to see them when the guy pushes the book cart around to their block saying Sure, what the hell, give me that one (pointing to some dick lit cover on some half-wit novel).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (UmB+t)

221 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

222 'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

I just picture all of these internet randos, as this guy (below) complaining to the local news that grok wants to rape him.

https://tinyurl.com/3yhz6pcu

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (uCjyK)

223 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

224 221 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

What Duke said.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (rOh1h)

225 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir rocks!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (77rzZ)

226 >>> 223 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

Ewwwww!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (ULPxl)

227 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

The Tales of Woe should get more extreme and shrill. Amplify this a lot so that others decide that self deporting is better than exsanguination by elephant sized mosquitos.

Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

228 That link to the journolist interviewing Larry the cat had a picture of a football float in Ireland for an upcoming American college game.

I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism. It's funny how they're not showing diversity for those. All white, mostly red heads. I guess they don't want to entice Americans with "come to Ireland and get stabbed by a 3rd world immigrant that we welcomed with open arms, and that the Irish (and probably US) taxpayers are paying for!
Slainte!
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (144I4)

I'm still scarred by those commercials where irish men talk about stippled green soap and pull knives to show they are armed. Then the redheads viciously take the soap away.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)

229 I just picture all of these internet randos, as this guy (below) complaining to the local news that grok wants to rape him.

https://tinyurl.com/3yhz6pcu
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (uCjyK)

It's not Grok Grok.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (rOh1h)

230
Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

===========

I think Joe Namath blew that one out of the water.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (UmB+t)

231 228 Aye, I'll carve ye a piece of soap!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (TwZXH)

232
They know. Just like many of the citizens in Britain and most of Europe, Americans are over this shit.

____________

Intellectually, I know most Euros are sick and tired of their "guests". And I know most of them are nice folks you could have a beer and a nice chat with. But all you hear, or are allowed to hear, are the throne-sniffers, the anti-American journalists and bureaucrats, and the hard-left politicos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (HZi96)

233 The transfer portal definitely. Unlimited NIL has been ... interesting. I wait to see how the House settlement ends up affecting it all.

And the damn final expiration of the Covid year stuff. Freaking six year players should be in the NFL.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

234 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

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

I heard that Vince Lombardi kept his players segregated in a hotel (no women including wives) the nights before even home football games.

At least that's what one of my high school football coaches told us ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (aKddq)

235 >>> 227 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."
==
They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

The Tales of Woe should get more extreme and shrill. Amplify this a lot so that others decide that self deporting is better than exsanguination by elephant sized mosquitos.

Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (ULPxl)

236 Strange that the criminals in Ireland are similar to ours...like they share a common ancestry.

Posted by: torabora at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (Z6q/G)

237 Sex before a big game affects you on a sliding scale.

18? Not a problem at all. In fact, she should be ready for round two when the game finished.

40? Get away from me woman! I won't be able to walk later.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (rOh1h)

238 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

239 >>> 236 Strange that the criminals in Ireland are similar to ours...like they share a common ancestry.
Posted by: torabora at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (Z6q/G)

torobora Johnson is right!

Posted by: Citizens of Rock Ridge at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (ULPxl)

240 I am home. It's been a long day. Get off my back.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m)

241 "food filled with maggots"
.....

"Gives it texture." - Gordon Ramsey

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (UjdFS)

242 "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

I can just hear the southern guards saying that: "Yall, I reckon in these parts their just ain't no reeeeligin"

Chilling. Or chitlin.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+)

243
Women weaken the legs.

It is known.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

___________

Paul Horning was pursued by zillions of them. Didn't seem to have affected his game.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (HZi96)

244 The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team.
Posted by: Oldcat
_______

In high school, it's called Transfer to Catholic School. The Catholics dominate high school sports in most states. Clearly some recruiting going on.

And I got nothing against Catholics. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (QqW4y)

245 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (2GCMq)

Maybe they are giving them casu marzu (sp?) cheese?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (TNJzY)

246 240 I am home. It's been a long day. Get off my back.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m


Dad?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (rOh1h)

247 >>> 238 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

*sigh*

Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (ULPxl)

248 Intellectually, I know most Euros are sick and tired of their "guests". And I know most of them are nice folks you could have a beer and a nice chat with. But all you hear, or are allowed to hear, are the throne-sniffers, the anti-American journalists and bureaucrats, and the hard-left politicos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (HZi96)

And you can imagine what they hear about when it comes to Americans!

But yes. At least in Ireland and the UK, the Ukrainian guests seemed to have very much overstayed their welcomes. As, of course, have their Muslim friends.

But if you're too loud about that, you get arrested. So people just seethe quietly.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (uCjyK)

249 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

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

Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (aKddq)

250 food filled with maggots"
.....

"Gives it texture." - Gordon Ramsey
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM

Hiyaa, use proper rice. Not use maggots!

Posted by: Uncle Roger at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (JGU+s)

251 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

*sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (ULPxl)
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heh. if it helps, I got the reference.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)

252 Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (aKddq)

They should just trade it back and forth each year. Run up those stats for the recruits!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (rOh1h)

253 Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

I also liked the bit where they had a new song each week about how their gal ran away with the guest star.

I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love, buy she met another and phbbt she was gone!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (8avO+)

254 >>Dad?

Clean your room.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (viF8m)

255 Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (ULPxl)

The 4 game elimination playoff is the hardest part.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (8avO+)

256 *sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM

*The* Joan Wilder?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (JGU+s)

257 I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism.

Is that like an "Irish Exit" where you just quietly leave and don't tell anyone?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

258 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (GYt5+)

259 It's already a crime to interfere with ICE operations under a number of laws, though the ones involve harboring or concealing illegals have stiffer sentences than just garden variety interference.

What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.

Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

260 My Walmart+ review:

It's not really free shipping. It's free shipping plus a tip. Not like UPS. So it's actually 15% on shipping, unless you want to stiff the poor shlub who's just trying to get by.

So I probably won't renew when the year's up.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (TwZXH)

261 I would at least try cash marzu.

If we haf to eet zee bugs anyway, might as well have cheese with them.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (77rzZ)

262 >>> 256 *sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM

*The* Joan Wilder?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (JGU+s)

I read her books to my guys on Saturday!

Posted by: Juan the Bellmaker at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (ULPxl)

263 Is that like an "Irish Exit" where you just quietly leave and don't tell anyone?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

I'm the master of that. I call it the Irish Goodbye. Even did it in Corsicana a few years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (0aYVJ)

264 Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM


Boise probably. But I will say it's wide open.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (jc0TO)

265 NOOD

pine-scented druid philosopher

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (ULPxl)

266 The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team.
Posted by: Oldcat
_______

In high school, it's called Transfer to Catholic School. The Catholics dominate high school sports in most states. Clearly some recruiting going on.

And I got nothing against Catholics. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (QqW4y)

My HS senior year broke a Catholic school's 50 game win streak. They collected people from dozens of states. An odd quirk is they had no home stadium and played all road games. Their coach went on to coach at Notre Dame...not too well.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

267 What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.
Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

The assaulting shoe is on the other foot here, and evidence should be ample for hoo hit hoo

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)

268 I hear everglades water is bathtub warm.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (jPdyB)

269
266 - Faust? You must be from Cincy. Or was that St. Ignatius or Massilon that broke the streak.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (QqW4y)

270 Yeah I started watching a lot more college football after I expunged the NFL. Looks like I'll have to do the same with college ball. It no longer has the feel of rooting for your alma mater.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (VofaG)

271 My alma mater has been semi-pro for decades.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)

272 What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.

Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM


They are not a higher caste.

When I see a skeevy perv approaching me or a family member, I can back away and buy time and evaluate their intentions and ask them to stop. (Failure to stop is a pretty clear signal about possible intentions.)

A LEO can do none of those things if he has hands on a person even mildly resisting arrest. His choices are "stay on the X" and risk an assault, or "release the arrestee".

Those are both bad outcomes for a free society.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:47 PM (HlyYF)

273 Sure, but I'm fine with them spending their time there (as limited as it may be), reading books.

But also, we have tens of millions of illegals in this country right now. It will take a lonnnng time to catch up with that backlog.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

It's cute that you think they are literate in any language. A few, maybe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (TNJzY)

Jasmine Ratchet: Biden's Mental Acuity Is Great, It's Trump Who's the Senile One

"I know you are but what am I?" Sick burn, dum-dum.

Jasmine Ratchet is having a normal one:


Jasmine Ratchet isn't just evil -- she's as stupid as a Chia Pet.

A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM




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Posted by: Bensdad00 at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (F/35S)

2 Second

Posted by: Bensdad00 at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (F/35S)

3 Third?

Posted by: Bensdad00 at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (F/35S)

4 Trump is cray-cray !!!
And a demented kiddie sniffer !

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (/lPRQ)

5 1st

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (mlg/3)

6 First!!

Posted by: jmel at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (bVhJi)

7 Wow

Posted by: Bensdad00 at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (F/35S)

8 I think she is more intelligent than AOC....

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (YwEeS)

9 Whadda maroon

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (I4CNo)

10 And she's probably going to run for Senate.

I just hope she has to resign her House seat to do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

11 The Trump assassins were MAGA.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

12 11 The Trump assassins were MAGA.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

This take has the heat of one thousand suns.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (TJLr1)

13 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.

Bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (Q4IgG)

14 13 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.

Bigly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (Q4IgG)

======

One must be smart to be elected to higher office?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

15 Her stupidity is off the scale.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (W/lyH)

16 I couldn't help noticing while bring up the mugshots on those 10 (now 11) attackers that the law enforcement agency listed one of the charges on each as Terrorism.

Nice start. Now dig and find the organization they were representing and apply the "Big T" label to them.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (dIske)

17 Well, that last bit about Republicans stopping Jasmine on the street and telling her they support her might be true.

But, I also expect the support is along the lines of, "Yo, Jasmine, you go girl! Keep talking! We love it!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (tT6L1)

18 13 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.

Bigly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (Q4IgG)

Do we think she's truly this stupid, or is she trying to appeal to her retarded base by pretending to be this stupid?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (uCjyK)

19 That yellow number she's wearing looks like it came right off the Carol Burnet Show, the GWTW skit with the drapes dress complete with curtain roc.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (AQ1VH)

20 A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.
Posted by: Ace
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This Jasmine person - fabricated tales for attention.

Posted by: scampydog at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (2bFN5)

21 Whoa, demon possession is real and it is sucktackular.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (gxokI)

22 This bint simultaneously exists in several different universes at any given moment in time. I think there was a Star Trek episode based on something like that, too.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (rtOnA)

23 MTG is right, her eyelashes do look like butterflies glued to her eyelids!

Posted by: moki at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (wLjpr)

24 I fully support Jasmine, Sandy Cortez, and Osama bin Lenin being the new face of the Democrat party.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

25 Jasmine Ratchet isn't just evil -- she's as stupid as a Chia Pet.

The Oprah Winfrey Chia Pet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (/lPRQ)

26 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.


But they don’t exceed her eyelashes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

27 Question... are the Texas 10 from Texas? or from other States?

Because if they crossed State lines to kill Federal Agents... its a few added charges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (mP0Kj)

28 Someone needs to tell Jasmine that caterpillars are squatting on her face, just above her eyeballs.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

29 >>> 12 11 The Trump assassins were MAGA.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

This take has the heat of one thousand suns.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (TJLr1)

She should get on that show that Kamalala couldn't handle, I'm sure she'd crush it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (ULPxl)

30 She plays stupid because that's where her base is.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (s0Otf)

31 Maybe she could get a choreographer to do a dance routine where she and Sandy Cortez sing and cry together about illegals and sway in rhythm.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (2GCMq)

32

"Trump can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago, because while he's lying down, a micro-drone might target and strike him right in the navel," said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a regime figure and adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Larijani laughed as he made the remark on Iranian television, which was broadcast on Wednesday, July 9, as part of a discussion about the country's military technology.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

33 Is she accidentally reading a cue card from spring of 2024?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (Vfq+S)

34 TJM, not positive, but I think Texas law has changed to where a candidate can run only for one office. If I'm wrong, Texas Morons, please correct me.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (NcvvS)

35 The Left is disgustingly stupid. How do they have actual voters??

Posted by: jmel at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (bVhJi)

36 I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (AQ1VH)

37 I propose a new unit of measure: the megaKohn.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (PiwSw)

38 26 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.


But they don’t exceed her eyelashes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

lol!

How are you doing??

Posted by: moki at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

39 34 TJM, not positive, but I think Texas law has changed to where a candidate can run only for one office. If I'm wrong, Texas Morons, please correct me.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (NcvvS)

======

Rumors were that she was going to run.

There was a poll released yesterday showing that she'd crush Allred in the primary.

So, fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

40 MTG is right, her eyelashes do look like butterflies glued to her eyelids!
Posted by: moki at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM


She devours insect with those things, like venus flytraps.

The Last of Us is real.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

41 Question... are the Texas 10 from Texas? or from other States?

Because if they crossed State lines to kill Federal Agents... its a few added charges.
Posted by: Romeo13
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The article I read said they were from Dallas, Austin, and some other locale that I cannot recall.

Posted by: scampydog at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (2bFN5)

42 Angel Reese is more grounded.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (rJ48h)

43 >>> 27 Question... are the Texas 10 from Texas? or from other States?

Because if they crossed State lines to kill Federal Agents... its a few added charges.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (mP0Kj)

I *think* they are all from the FW area but I'm not positive.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (ULPxl)

44 People have noted that a lot of the conspicuous empathy nowadays is just covert narcissism cloaked as virtue.

I also note that, besides her narcissistic empathy in the "The sad part about the flood is how this impacts me" vid, she completely drops the ghetto accent.

Texas, you embarrassed enough by her yet? Ready to vote her out next time?

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (gWBY1)

45 Crockett is an idiot but it takes a lot more idiots to elect her sorry self

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (JtH6i)

46 Dumb scrunt in a $5,000 suit.

It’s like she is on Trumps payroll.
Flood deaths and terrorist attacks on ICE in her back yard and she is just bellowing about her idiotic anti America crap.
She is the shining douch bag on the hill.

Posted by: Redenzo at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (jZ3ZM)

47 And she's probably going to run for Senate.

I just hope she has to resign her House seat to do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)


My very scanty research seems to say...

A candidate cannot file applications for two or more offices that will be voted on at one or more elections held on the same day. For example, a candidate could not file an application for city council and school board if those elections will be held on the same day. If a candidate files more than one application for a place on the ballot, each application filed subsequent to the first application is invalid.

https://tinyurl.com/y5886hyw+

While not stated here, running for President and another office has, apparently, been legal since 1959 but not House and Senate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ExV1e)

48 Larijani laughed as he made the remark on Iranian television, which was broadcast on Wednesday, July 9, as part of a discussion about the country's military technology.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

To be fair, it was probably funnier in the original Farsi.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (uCjyK)

49 Trump is definately a super ager.

Dude has a terrible diet, stays up to all hours of the night, gets on a sixteen hour flight to the G7, jet lagged as all get out and still runs the room.

Most people a quarter of this age couldn't do that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (XV/Pl)

50 She can't even figure out how to express sympathy for victims of the flooding without making it about her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (2GCMq)

51 Why is it that black women are either the most chill, easy-going and fun or just the absolute worst people you'll ever meet with no in between?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (B9Prs)

52 >>> A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.
Posted by: Ace

Republicans in Austin? I actually might believe that.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (gWBY1)

53 The Left is disgustingly stupid. How do they have actual voters??
Posted by: jmel at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (bVhJi)
---------------

This is why the left is fighting so hard to keep illegals from being deported.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (tT6L1)

54 @39 Thanks, TJM. Here's hoping!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (NcvvS)

55 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.

Bigly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


She scared me regarding her intelligence.
Today, I am no longer scared.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (e2MJJ)

56 32

"Trump can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago, because while he's lying down, a micro-drone might target and strike him right in the navel," said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a regime figure and adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Larijani laughed as he made the remark on Iranian television, which was broadcast on Wednesday, July 9, as part of a discussion about the country's military technology.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

Yup, just like I said at the time... we quit too soon.

You need to take out ALL of Iran's leadership.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

57 >>> 46 Dumb scrunt in a $5,000 suit.

It’s like she is on Trumps payroll.
Flood deaths and terrorist attacks on ICE in her back yard and she is just bellowing about her idiotic anti America crap.
She is the shining douch bag on the hill.
Posted by: Redenzo at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (jZ3ZM)

Hmm, can we get a rumor going that she *is* being paid by OrangeManBad???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ULPxl)

58 Another wrinkle in the Crocket might run for Senate:

Abbott has called the TX legislature into special session to redraw the legislative maps.

Supposedly, they're going to go real aggressive and eliminate a lot of D seats. This could make Crockett keeping her seat really difficult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

59 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act. I understand she's supposedly "educated." Whatever. If she wants to pander to her ghetto base that's fine. All politicians pander. She just so transparently full of it the pandering comes off lame and ghey and her shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (Q4IgG)

60
SHe's a Big Dummy. So is Jumanji Brown Jackass:

https://tinyurl.com/yktrutzn

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (w6EFb)

61 38 Hi, Moki. I’m OK in general. Had a spate of nausea and vomiting earlier today that seems to have passed. I have these from time to time. Fortunately, just this morning I made an appointment with a gastroenterologist for just this issue.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

62 I her defense she actually believes what she is saying.


Delusional is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (e5NfL)

63
Hmm, can we get a rumor going that she *is* being paid by OrangeManBad???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (ULPxl)
-------------

We need to hold off on that rumor until after she wins the TX primary.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:41 PM (tT6L1)

64 > A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.

Then she carried an overwhelmed 230lb firefighter from a burning building while solving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. But CMI are a bunch of racists, so they won't give her credit.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:41 PM (lIio7)

65 Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (XV/Pl)

They pressurize AF1 to sea level, so it is a far more comfortable experience than even a corporate jet.

But...yeah, Trump is a f*cking stud. He never seems tired. He always seems "on."

Impressive!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 04:41 PM (L5An7)

66 Yesman Crockashit

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

67 >>I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ExV1e)

Excellent! (Evil Mostly-lurker Grin)
And thanks!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (NcvvS)

68 58 Another wrinkle in the Crocket might run for Senate:

Abbott has called the TX legislature into special session to redraw the legislative maps.

Supposedly, they're going to go real aggressive and eliminate a lot of D seats. This could make Crockett keeping her seat really difficult.


Rejected!

Posted by: Judge Hawaiian Punch at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

69 10 And she's probably going to run for Senate.

I just hope she has to resign her House seat to do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It can get weird as far as timing in specific states but generally, you can run in some states for reelection to Congress (including Senate) at the same time as running for president. You cannot generally run for Senate and your House seat at the same time. If you lose your run at the Senate, the primary for the House has already occurred with a new winner for the seat in the new Congress.

I do recall a few instances though where state primaries for federal offices were held at different times than state primaries. So you could technically lose in the federal primary and still run for the state office or vice versa. Also happens with presidential primaries. Then of course writein or independent runs depending on sore loser laws.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

70 > I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.

http://tiny.cc/b63p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (lIio7)

71 Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ

Sorry to hear that you're not feeling well. Hope you feel better soon

Did I read that you have a part time job?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (2GCMq)

72 TJM, not positive, but I think Texas law has changed to where a candidate can run only for one office. If I'm wrong, Texas Morons, please correct me.

Posted by: Nazdar


You cannot run for two offices that are voted on in the same election.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (Vfq+S)

73 Maybe she could get a choreographer to do a dance routine where she and Sandy Cortez sing and cry together about illegals and sway in rhythm.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (2GCMq)


🎵 We are the world.
Soy realmente estúpido. 🎶

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

74 Trying to reach the jackson lee zero barrier

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (3Btk8)

75 I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Braid them with micro-beads.
Start a new fashion trend.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (/lPRQ)

76 You know, if we set up a debate between Crockett and Candace Owens it would likely end up in a slap fight. I'd watch that.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (dIske)

77 Jasmine Crockof is nuclear grade stupid

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (FZn/N)

78 With a brilliant mind like this, why isn't she heading up a team working on fusion power?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

79 Good grief that's one dumbass bitch. AOC seems like Einstein compared to that retard.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (VofaG)

80 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act. I understand she's supposedly "educated." Whatever. If she wants to pander to her ghetto base that's fine. All politicians pander. She just so transparently full of it the pandering comes off lame and ghey and her shit's all retarded.

Whispered tales of bore.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

81 >>> 76 You know, if we set up a debate between Crockett and Candace Owens it would likely end up in a slap fight. I'd watch that.
Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 04:43 PM (dIske)

Mud, jello, or pudding???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (ULPxl)

82 "Well, that last bit about Republicans stopping Jasmine on the street and telling her they support her might be true."

I support her...showing me her chi-chis!

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (R2gO3)

83 I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (AQ1VH)


Once upon a time, drag queens were an exaggerated caricature of women. Now, leftist women seek to be exaggerated caricatures of drag queens.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

84 71 Fen, not yet. I interviewed for one on Monday, at a local historic site run by the county.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

85 Idiocracy is not supposed to be a documentary not for 500 years

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (3Btk8)

86 @72 Thanks, Thomas Paine!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (NcvvS)

87 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act.
---------

However white she may be able to sound, sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar.

In other words, as Malone in The Untouchables queried, "Who would claim to be that, who was not."

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

88 I heard she’s been banned from Carnival Cruise Line

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (FCrpy)

89 >>> Reuters
@Reuters
Residents of South Sudan's capital Juba have voiced concerns for their safety after the arrival of eight deportees from the United States that the Trump administration has described as ‘violent criminals’

You don't say...

To be fair, these 8 aren't from there, they are taking them in to help the US out. So I'd complain too.

If even your native country doesn't want you back...

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (gWBY1)

90 ...she's as stupid as a Chia Pet.
------

Or a Pet Rock.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (hoCmQ)

91
Maybe she could get a choreographer to do a dance routine where she and Sandy Cortez sing and cry together about illegals and sway in rhythm.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


They could be backed up by Stephen Colbert's dancing syringes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (63Dwl)

92 What a stupid bitch, there is no right to migrate to the US. Only assholes like Soros and Schwab believe this (and the shitheels on their payroll (looking at you Macaroon)

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (FZn/N)

93 >>81 Mud, jello, or pudding???

Ewwww!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (NcvvS)

94 Like calypso in kraven the hunter (what were they thinking)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (3Btk8)

95 I never would have believed this possible, but Jasmine actually makes Sandy and Ilhan look smart.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (od0dV)

96 A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.


I think the actual quotes were along the lines of, "My taxes pay your salary, you retard."

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (RNLG/)

97 If even your native country doesn't want you back...
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (gWBY1)

They should go to CECOT

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (FZn/N)

98 Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

O.k. Sorry for my confusion. I hope the job works out for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2GCMq)

99 Ole ratchet is looking a lil slimmer in that top vid.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (XZ6f8)

100 Mud, jello, or pudding???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (ULPxl)
________________________________

Well, to quote a years ago experience at a Homestyle Buffet when a bus load of mentally challenged kids came in and ran over to the dessert bar....I'd have to go with....

PUDDDDDDDDDDDDDING!!!!!! (lots of smiles)

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (dIske)

101 @65

>>But...yeah, Trump is a f*cking stud. He never seems tired. He always seems "on."

We saw him do multiple rallies criss-crossing the country, multi-hour rallies, and just talking extemporaneously.

People can say a lot of things about Trump but saying Trump is not mentally sharp is not one of them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (XV/Pl)

102 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

103 > I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.

Something a tranny would wear.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (/lPRQ)

104 Thanks, Fen.

How’s your son doing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

105 Republicans in Austin? I actually might believe that.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (gWBY1)


She represents Dallas. I don't know how familiar you are with Texas but Dallas and Austin are a few miles apart.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

106 Afternoon, news folken,

Nasty hot here. I sat out on my step for a little bit since it was overcast after a rain, or at least the threat of one, earlier. Then the sun came out. Unh-unh; back indoors for this boy.

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are doing well. Big black Stirling is lined up for his trip to the vet tomorrow for rabies shot and flea treatment; I'll ask them to clip his claws while they're at it.

The Kitten Yoga at the suburban library was kind of fun. All the shelter kittens were shorthairs. There was one sandy male kitten who displayed quite the personality; maybe "personality problem" would be more like it. He did not seem to get along with any of the others who came near him. Yet he was okay with people touching and picking him up, and he played with toys enthusiastically. He's gonna be a handful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0)

107 The democrat senate primary in Texas is going to be exciting. Beto, Colin Allred, Jasmine, Julian Castro's stupider brother.

Posted by: huerfano at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (n2swS)

108 Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (gWBY1)

Hopefully the Sudanese will do something about them. Maybe these new arrivals will voluntarily return to their birth country.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (VofaG)

109 > "Well, that last bit about Republicans stopping Jasmine on the street and telling her they support her might be true."
--------
Republicans in general are probably afraid of her and the supportive commentary might be so she doesn't beat the living shit out of them at the next committee they're in together.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (Q4IgG)

110 88 I heard she’s been banned from Carnival Cruise Line

They've said they don't want to be known as the Section 8 Cruise Line.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

111 Antifa is pretty damn white. They must be Rayciss.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (W3T6M)

112 Her stupidity is off the scale.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (W/lyH)

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

She is not stupid, she has complete contempt for her voters and knows they will vote for her the worse she is. She is playing up to evil.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (unUNN)

113 102 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)


I want what that pollster is smoking. That's some good shit.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

114 >>> 105 Republicans in Austin? I actually might believe that.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (gWBY1)

She represents Dallas. I don't know how familiar you are with Texas but Dallas and Austin are a few miles apart.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

So we could walk from Dallas to Austin after lunch to go shopping, yes?

Posted by: Geographically challenged EU tourists at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ULPxl)

115 Mud, jello, or pudding???

Corn Syrup.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (/lPRQ)

116
Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the TX flood: "The sad part is how this impacts me"

__________

Can you imagine anything more Black Princess than this?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (HZi96)

117
Or a Pet Rock.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 10, 2025


***
"My Pet Rock got pregnant. Had a litter of gravel."
( -- Johnny Carson, back when the Pet Rock was a thing)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)

118 102 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News

*cough* Bulls*** *cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

119 It'll be fine.

@jenvanlaar
HAPPENING NOW: Unhinged leftists in Ventura County (the ones I've been sharing iG posts from) are in a standoff with ICE at a farm near Camarillo. VCBOS' Yianey Lopez goes (on) KTLA to tell people who might need help to contact 805Undocufund and 805 Immigrant Coalition- the very terrorists who are out there staging an insurrection!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (mlg/3)

120 She is not stupid, she has complete contempt for her voters and knows they will vote for her the worse she is. She is playing up to evil.
--------

Just because she's corrupt doesn't mean she isn't simultaneously stupid.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (TN0g+)

121 The broad is a dingbat but her waffle house routine is an act obviously, a bad one at that.
The equivalent of George Santos wearing a cowboy hat and adopting a southern drawl as he tells you about all the women he's been with.

Posted by: Cmonman at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (wgct4)

122
When she was first elected, she was asked about joining The Squad, and she laughed and said she'd make her own way. Did not embrace The Squad.

Which is further proof to me that she's pure showbiz. She could get submerged in The Squad and be outshone by AOC and Ilhan, or she can out-Squad the Squad and create her own hyperbolic brand.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (UmB+t)

123 So we could walk from Dallas to Austin after lunch to go shopping, yes?
Posted by: Geographically challenged EU tourists at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ULPxl)

Yup then just a 5$ cab ride to NYC!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (XZ6f8)

124 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act.
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However white she may be able to sound, sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar.

In other words, as Malone in The Untouchables queried, "Who would claim to be that, who was not."
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

125 113 102 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

I want what that pollster is smoking. That's some good shit.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

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It's a vote of the Democrat primary, not the general.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

126 She just needs a big ass pink foam rubber cowboy hat!

Posted by: Frederica Wilson at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (av+kn)

127 Schadenfreude:
-- Seeing that elites on SCOTUS have to put up with KBJ and the same leftist stupidity that we all do
-- Seeing that Democrats in Congress have another loud, stupid member of their own to put up with

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (QbJcY)

128 59 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act. I understand she's supposedly "educated." Whatever. If she wants to pander to her ghetto base that's fine. All politicians pander. She just so transparently full of it the pandering comes off lame and ghey and her shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (Q4IgG)


This is an interview she did for a local Dallas station in February of '22.

It's like a completely different person.
She developed this ghetto persona once she got elected.

https://youtu.be/KdBTqPOT_-g

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

129 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0

It sounds like you're enjoying kitten yoga.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (2GCMq)

130 Another wrinkle in the Crocket might run for Senate:

Abbott has called the TX legislature into special session to redraw the legislative maps.

Supposedly, they're going to go real aggressive and eliminate a lot of D seats. This could make Crockett keeping her seat really difficult.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
——

About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

131 A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck

He forgot to add.."in the Democrat line-up"

Posted by: MkY at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (cPGH3)

132 A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf

They only polled people in Queen City.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

133 >>> 119 It'll be fine.

@jenvanlaar
HAPPENING NOW: Unhinged leftists in Ventura County (the ones I've been sharing iG posts from) are in a standoff with ICE at a farm near Camarillo. VCBOS' Yianey Lopez goes (on) KTLA to tell people who might need help to contact 805Undocufund and 805 Immigrant Coalition- the very terrorists who are out there staging an insurrection!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (mlg/3)

Would be a shame if some of these newsfaces were to be arrested too.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (ULPxl)

134 113 102 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

I want what that pollster is smoking. That's some good shit.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

It's not the pollster who's smoking anything, it's Texas Dems. We spend our time thinking "hmm, if the Dems findd a decent candidate they might win something!" and instead, the Left is chasing after the most radical shit talking communists they can possibly find. But there are a LOT of very funny (and good for us) things in that poll.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (uWKK8)

135 130 About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

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Ohio is doing it, too.

CA is making noises about doing it some more, but I doubt they could squeeze many more D seats out of their own map.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

136 @jenvanlaar
HAPPENING NOW: Unhinged leftists in Ventura County (the ones I've been sharing iG posts from) are in a standoff with ICE at a farm near Camarillo. VCBOS' Yianey Lopez goes (on) KTLA to tell people who might need help to contact 805Undocufund and 805 Immigrant Coalition- the very terrorists who are out there staging an insurrection!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (mlg/3)

Ooh, kind of like the Bundy situation in Nevada over cows a few years back.

I suspect people will fall on opposite sides of that debate than they did back then though. I doubt too many elected D's will be saying federal law enforcement should shoot to kill everyone involved, like they did with the Bundy's.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (uCjyK)

137 Khalil is demanding 20M or an apology while leading pro-Hamas rallies in NY. Time to grab him again and drag his ass to Sudan.

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (FZn/N)

138 Jasmine Ratchet should be in jail, however; Buddy thinks that there is potential for her as Senator, then presidential candidate in '28.

If Ketanji Brown Jackson can be on the Supreme Court Jasmine Crockett, who is leaps and bounds smarter than Jackson, can be president.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (Xlykt)

139 Corn Syrup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


She's a bad dude.

Posted by: Zombie-in-Training Joe Biden at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (RNLG/)

140 She's the one with the big fake eyelashes like something out of 1969, right?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (BHrzb)

141 >>> Dumb scrunt in a $5,000 suit.

This is shallow, but what is up with the shoulders on that yellow jacket?

Women's fashion got rid of the horrible "power girlboss" shoulder pads that were in all women's business outfits in the 80s/90s. Only to replace them in the 2020s with shoulder contouring that makes you like you're in a Disney Villainess costume.

Ratchet deVille?

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (gWBY1)

142 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

I want what that pollster is smoking. That's some good shit.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

======

It's a vote of the Democrat primary, not the general.




Soooo...a Democrat is winning the Democrat primary? Thanks for the news, Fox.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

143 Would be a shame if some of these newsfaces were to be arrested too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (ULPxl)
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I think you misspelled "took a baton to the face."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

144
I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

___________

It is sadly common for black women to think that if X looks attractive (e.g. eyelashes, nails, asses), then 10X must be 10 times more attractive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (HZi96)

145 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

Some Southern states are banned by the Feds .

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (VofaG)

146 okay, so the pollster isn't smoking anything; it's the headline writer who was blackout drunk

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (gKWVE)

147 >>> They've said they don't want to be known as the Section 8 Cruise Line.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

=======

I've been on Carnival. Too late.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (CyFyf)

148 About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

“That’s not who we are!”

~GOPe

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (TJLr1)

149 142
Soooo...a Democrat is winning the Democrat primary? Thanks for the news, Fox.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

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Well, no one was talking about her in the race. Allred was assumed to be the frontrunner, and he had already declared.

She's beating both him and Beto.

It's pretty newsy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

150 >>> 143 Would be a shame if some of these newsfaces were to be arrested too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (ULPxl)
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I think you misspelled "took a baton to the face."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)



"and"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ULPxl)

151 About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

In fairness when a donk rarely does take the seat containing OKC they redraw the map immediately to punt them the next election. Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (XZ6f8)

152 She's Betty Poop.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (VofaG)

153 Would Jazz ever have actually met Biden and talked with him?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (kTd/k)

154 Is there a French term for Willowed Wit? Where you suddenly think of what you should have commented two posts ago?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (jc0TO)

155 151 In fairness when a donk rarely does take the seat containing OKC they redraw the map immediately to punt them the next election. Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (XZ6f

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All GOP states should endeavor to be at least as ruthless as IL is regarding its map.

MA would be even better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

156 Jasmine Crockett is as dumb as Maxine Waters. IOW, not dumb at all!. Maxine got rich pretending to be an uneducated moron to get her constituents to yell "Go Girl" and keep voting for her! Jasmine Crockett came from an upper middle class family. It's all an put-on.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (pKne7)

157 >>> 145 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

Some Southern states are banned by the Feds .
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (VofaG)

I'm guessing that's from the Voting Rights Act... didn't that *finally* expire?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (ULPxl)

158 Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

Another Democrat who thinks people that she represents are stupid. It reminds of a video of several years ago asking Blacks about if they knew how to get ID and they all looked like the thought the person asking that was crazy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (2GCMq)

159 I really hate when I meet a stereotype.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (gaHF4)

160 Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.


???

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

161 Supposedly, they're going to go real aggressive and eliminate a lot of D seats. This could make Crockett keeping her seat really difficult.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
——

About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

Maybe - South Dallas is a big f'ing ghetto, and that's where she gets her votes from. I don't see any of the surrounding districts wanting to see parts of the ghetto move into their voting base.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK8)

162 142 "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat." - Fox News
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

I want what that pollster is smoking. That's some good shit.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)
======
It's a vote of the Democrat primary, not the general.

Soooo...a Democrat is winning the Democrat primary? Thanks for the news, Fox.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Cornyn has always been a stealth Democrat. Jackson will pull voters from Cornyn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Xlykt)

163 Um, so we weren't going to do that before??

@DefiantLs 5m
Sec. Hegseth announces the US will produce more drones for the military

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

164 I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish. If I can tell they're fake, they're not really doing their job.

http://tiny.cc/b63p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:42 PM (lIio7)

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The lashes are doing their job, everyone is talking about them.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (unUNN)

165 ___________

It is sadly common for black women to think that if X looks attractive (e.g. eyelashes, nails, asses), then 10X must be 10 times more attractive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

====

Look at the size of that caboose!

Dude, she pads it with bean bag chairs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (/lPRQ)

166 City Journal asks …

Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague?

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (gaHF4)

167
Is there a French term for Willowed Wit? Where you suddenly think of what you should have commented two posts ago?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (jc0TO)

__________

L'esprit d'escalier

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (HZi96)

168 I'm guessing that's from the Voting Rights Act... didn't that *finally* expire?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (ULPxl)

Yes but that's why they hadn't really been successful in the past when it was attempted.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (VofaG)

169 I think Crockett's ghetto girl act, is an act. I understand she's supposedly "educated." Whatever. If she wants to pander to her ghetto base that's fine. All politicians pander. She just so transparently full of it the pandering comes off lame and ghey and her shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (Q4IgG)

It's an annoying act, but she's hardly the only one in Washington who is acting. It's all an act. It's all fake and lame and gay. Not just her.

The thing that's annoying is the extent to which people fall for it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (dGCAG)

170 Paxson's getting a "biblical" divorce. Beto will finally have his moment in the sun!

Posted by: Stupid Typical Fucking Moonbat at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (phEsr)

171 If you find yourself entangled in a situation that involves a kitten doing yoga, perhaps it's time to reevaluate the life choices that brought you to this point.

Posted by: Just a thought at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (av+kn)

172 In fairness when a donk rarely does take the seat containing OKC they redraw the map immediately to punt them the next election. Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (XZ6f

=======

All GOP states should endeavor to be at least as ruthless as IL is regarding its map.

MA would be even better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

I believe she hobbit has been ping ponged between 2 districts in 4 straight elections.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (XZ6f8)

173 161 Maybe - South Dallas is a big f'ing ghetto, and that's where she gets her votes from. I don't see any of the surrounding districts wanting to see parts of the ghetto move into their voting base.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK

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Redrawing to combine her district with some other D incumbent is what I imagine could happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

174 In fairness when a donk rarely does take the seat containing OKC they redraw the map immediately to punt them the next election. Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Is that you, Sid?
Use both fingers next time and tell us what you really mean!
J/K What the hell are you talking about?

Posted by: MkY at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (cPGH3)

175 So we could walk from Dallas to Austin after lunch to go shopping, yes?
Posted by: Geographically challenged EU tourists at July 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ULPxl)


I always love when someone on YT supposedly has friends / relatives from Europe come to visit for a week and they want to see LA, NYC, the Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

176 166 City Journal asks …

Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague?
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (gaHF4)

Of course they can, they have unlimited city money behind them.

But privately owned grocery stores couldn't, that's why there are way fewer grocery stores in the hood.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

177 Her aspirations exceed her intelligence.

Her f*ckin' shoe size exceeds her intelligence.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 04:57 PM (/y8xj)

178 154 Something like “the spirit of the staircase.”

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

179 "Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her."

Republicans are nice people, so when she's staggering drunk out of a bar, of course they support her so she can hail a cab.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (CHHv1)

180 If they weren't leftist aholes I'd almost feel sorry for Allred and Beto. This media created grifter Crockett just shows up on the Tex political stage and they're pushed aside like rancid chicken.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (JtH6i)

181
Well, no one was talking about her in the race. Allred was assumed to be the frontrunner, and he had already declared.

She's beating both him and Beto.
It's pretty newsy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

Exactly! Allred only got 20% support, which is a pretty good sign that in the 26' race, it'll be just about impossible for him to outperform the 45% he got in '24. And the best part is taht Beat-o only polled 13% among Democrats! Stick a fork in him, he's done. Nobody wants a 3 time loser hanging around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (uWKK8)

182 Took a look on Althouse's site on their thread about the DOJ doing a turnaround on the Epstein list.

Their take?

That's because Orange Cheeto was an Epstein client

And just like that Biden wasn't president for 4 years.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (t0Rmr)

183 163 Um, so we weren't going to do that before??
@DefiantLs 5m
Sec. Hegseth announces the US will produce more drones for the military
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3)


Yeah but this time the drones will be in the battlefield and not getting promoted to General

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (gKWVE)

184 Um, so we weren't going to do that before??

@DefiantLs 5m
Sec. Hegseth announces the US will produce more drones for the military
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

He's got a trillion dollars to spend now.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (dGCAG)

185 Are there any CO Morons who work in health care? If so, take a look at this video of "Sarah" who claims to work in an ER and states she intends to target MAGA supporters. If you recognize her, you should report her.

http://tiny.cc/973p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (lIio7)

186 Think about her constituency.

They love this shit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (L5An7)

187 Abbott has called the TX legislature into special session to redraw the legislative maps.

Supposedly, they're going to go real aggressive and eliminate a lot of D seats. This could make Crockett keeping her seat really difficult.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM


Hairgel and California Crazies have vowed to redistrict California to offset any Texas (R) gains.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0sNs1)

188 Thats how Bice evicted the horn that didn't vomit in a shoe at a 12yo bday party.


???
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)M
There are two donk Horn's that are always running for office here. Kendra and Madison. The one that Bice evicted wasn't the one that drunk at a bday party for a 12 yo and puked in a shoe. She also said to an Asian girl "damn slant eyes you sure are a pimply bitch".at that party. Or something to that effect.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (XZ6f8)

189 Posted by: Al in St. Louis at July 10, 2025 04:54 PM (pKne7)

No they are ignorant. They couldn't get elected dog catcher any where else. Shelia Jackson Lee found that out.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (VofaG)

190 World's dumbest Chia Pet

Posted by: DropAndGiveMe20 at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (9xG4l)

191
@Reuters
Residents of South Sudan's capital Juba have voiced concerns for their safety after the arrival of eight deportees from the United States that the Trump administration has described as ‘violent criminals’

Posted by: LizLem

============

That answers a question I've had, which is what exactly happens to those criminals after we deliver them to South Sudan? I didn't know if they would be detained or free to make their way. If the latter, and they decided they didn't like it in a corrupt shithole country full of tribal violence where no one speaks Spanish... what a movie. Jokes aside, WOW. Some intrepid journalist ought to go to South Sudan a few months from now and find out how they're getting on.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (UmB+t)

192 L'esprit d'escalier
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (HZi96)

The wit of the staircase! When you come up with a good reply after it can be comfortably used, lie when your leaving the party

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (FZn/N)

193 Something like “the spirit of the staircase.”
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM


Yeah, I know that one but one specific to comments.


And also, what is the protocol? Should you post on the top thread with a fake Oops, wrong thread guise?





Maybe I'm overthinking this.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

194 I always love when someone on YT supposedly has friends / relatives from Europe come to visit for a week and they want to see LA, NYC, the Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

I had family from Europe visit a few years back and they wanted to pop on over to Disney World for a day or two while in town. They asked me how long the train ride from NYC to Disney was. I was like "err... there's probably a train, but it's probably a pain in the ass. If you rent a car and drive straight, you should be able to make it in about 24 hours if you only stop for gas and don't hit too much traffic."

I think it's hard for people to wrap their minds around how big the US is.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (uCjyK)

195 187 Hairgel and California Crazies have vowed to redistrict California to offset any Texas (R) gains.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0sNs1)

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How much more could they squeeze out of their already gerrymandered mess of a state?

It'd be possible to get D's from 12 to 5 in Texas.

Can CA squeeze another 7 D seats from that state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

196
Maybe - South Dallas is a big f'ing ghetto, and that's where she gets her votes from. I don't see any of the surrounding districts wanting to see parts of the ghetto move into their voting base.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Right, it is the reserved Idiot district just as Sheila Jackson Lee's seat in Houston. Those are the reserved Maxine Water's seats of TX.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (Xlykt)

197
Nobody wants a 3 time loser hanging around.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (uWKK

___________

"*sobs*" - Zombie William Jennings Bryan

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (HZi96)

198 >>> 187
==
Hairgel and California Crazies have vowed to redistrict California to offset any Texas (R) gains.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (0sNs1)

*tee hee*

Posted by: US Census, under new management at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (ULPxl)

199 Took a look on Althouse's site on their thread about the DOJ doing a turnaround on the Epstein list.

Their take?

That's because Orange Cheeto was an Epstein client


I'm still laughing about the Trump names people posted yesterday.

Orange Julius
Cheetolini
Fanta Menace

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

200 >>> About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)

Utah did this! They divided all the house districts into a pie shape, with SLC at the center. So it chops up the bright blue that is SLC/Park City residents and our CA liberal transplants, and evens it out with the deep red of the rest of the counties. The house reps all have to trek out to Hicksville Utah towns to at least pretend to care about their rural concerns. And it prevents SLC from choosing two bright blue senators. Just purplish GOP ones, but it is what it is.

It's the only reason we aren't 100% Colorado blue yet. (Well, that and we'll never legalize recreational weed.) it's amazing when the Utah legislators are smart, sometimes.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (gWBY1)

201 About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)


Ackshully, Texas did this once before in between censuses. W was governor at the time IIRC. It was when the Texas Congressional delegation flipped from Dem to Rep.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

202 191
@Reuters
Residents of South Sudan's capital Juba have voiced concerns for their safety after the arrival of eight deportees from the United States that the Trump administration has described as ‘violent criminals’

Why do I doubt that story ? Oh ... Reuters...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (VE6XX)

203 CA is already 43-9.

I doubt they can get much further than that through MORE gerrymandering.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

204 88 I heard she’s been banned from Carnival Cruise Line
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at July 10, 2025 05:01 PM (2bFN5)

205 Jokes aside, WOW. Some intrepid journalist ought to go to South Sudan a few months from now and find out how they're getting on.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Ooooooo. Can we send ALL the journalists?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 05:01 PM (W2Pud)

206 180 If they weren't leftist aholes I'd almost feel sorry for Allred and Beto. This media created grifter Crockett just shows up on the Tex political stage and they're pushed aside like rancid chicken.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (JtH6i)

It shows how Mean Black Girls are taking over the left (KBJ is the same thing) In any interparty fight, they start yelling and throwing shit and calling everyone racist, and everyone else runs away from them and hides.

But you know who's the first to walk away from them in any actual election? The Hispanic vote. They run into enough of these people in their day to day lives, they DAMN sure don't want to vote for them. Hispanic men in Texas are already voting over 50% Republican, run some Mean Black Girl and that number will skyrocket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

207 What I find fascinating about the Epstein issue is that the legacy media seems uninterested. This is the first potential leverage they've had to divide Trump against his base and they're not saying much.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (WHfpM)

208 Who would win a Democrat Academy Award--Jasmine, or AOC?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (kTd/k)

209 There are two donk Horn's that are always running for office here. Kendra and Madison. The one that Bice evicted wasn't the one that drunk at a bday party for a 12 yo and puked in a shoe. She also said to an Asian girl "damn slant eyes you sure are a pimply bitch".at that party. Or something to that effect.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (XZ6f8

This was also while she was trying to run for senate. Dropped out the next week.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (XZ6f8)

210 >>>I think it's hard for people to wrap their minds around how big the US is.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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It's not that hard to get a map. And online it's not that hard to find size comparisons.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Xlykt)

211 Is there a French term for Willowed Wit? Where you suddenly think of what you should have commented two posts ago?

Posted by: toby928


Esprit d'escalier. The inspiration that comes when you are already out the door and down the stairs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Vfq+S)

212 Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 05:00 PM (Riz8t

My favorite name for him is Fanta Menace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (2GCMq)

213 What I find fascinating about the Epstein issue is that the legacy media seems uninterested. This is the first potential leverage they've had to divide Trump against his base and they're not saying much.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM


They sense that it's a trap, and it might be. Trump could be baiting the Democrats in Congress into DEMANDING the list.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)

214 211 Is there a French term for Willowed Wit? Where you suddenly think of what you should have commented two posts ago?

Posted by: toby928


Esprit d'escalier. The inspiration that comes when you are already out the door and down the stairs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Vfq+S)

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The jerk store called, and they're running out of you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

215 That one guy looks like stuttering john

Posted by: vizzy at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (qwdJy)

216 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SHE HAS SPIDERS ON HER FACE!!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (2UnvF)

217 The New York Post explains how Harris chose between Walz, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), and Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.):

All three candidates did a final interview with Harris at her residence, the book explains, adding that when asked what they wanted to drink, Shapiro and Kelly chose water while Walz chose Diet Mountain Dew.

Appeal with rural voters was a top priority for the Harris ticket and the book states that Harris’ advisers felt that Walz was the best candidate to do that.
Harris’ “gut” told her that Walz would appeal to rural voters because he wanted to drink Diet Mountain Dew instead of water? What kind of “Hee Haw” nonsense is this?

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (gaHF4)

218 Why can't Marco just get on with deporting Khalil and the rest of the foreign born Hamas supporters

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (FZn/N)

219
I don't get the XTREME fake eyelashes thing. It's clownish.

Woke Clown Offended That People Use 'Clown' As An Insult

https://t.ly/ZDE7C

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (63Dwl)

220 I'm guessing that's from the Voting Rights Act... didn't that *finally* expire?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (ULPxl)


It didn't expire but, apparently, SCOTUS threw out the permission requirement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

221 207 What I find fascinating about the Epstein issue is that the legacy media seems uninterested. This is the first potential leverage they've had to divide Trump against his base and they're not saying much.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (WHfpM)

Because this is much bigger than partisan politics, and the media has been told to shut the fuck up about it and move on to some other fake outrage of the day.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

222 I bet she would try to steal God's thunder.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (2RRkF)

223 A new tell-all book says Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her VP candidate because when they met he asked for a Diet Mountain Dew, which in her mind meant that Walz would appeal to us flyover country goobers...

http://tiny.cc/r73p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (lIio7)

224 Although I don't even know if they still make Fanta. Maybe you have to 29 plus to understand that reference.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (2GCMq)

225 Think about her constituency.

They love this shit.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (L5An7)
——

Her constituency are ghetto rats, but they’re too dumb to realize they’re getting played by an elite uppity black lawyer. It’s like the slaves voting for Samuel Jackson’s character in that shitty movie with DiCaprio.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (0kxAA)

226 If they weren't leftist aholes I'd almost feel sorry for Allred and Beto. This media created grifter Crockett just shows up on the Tex political stage and they're pushed aside like rancid chicken.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:58 PM (JtH6i)

Beto was also a media creation of the national rather than local sort.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (8avO+)

227
I think it's hard for people to wrap their minds around how big the US is.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

_____________

"America is too large. We in Europe are more compact and accessible" - Typical Asshole European, Likely German

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (HZi96)

228 218 Why can't Marco just get on with deporting Khalil and the rest of the foreign born Hamas supporters
Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (FZn/N)

I see Khalil is suing Trump for 20 million dollars

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (VE6XX)

229 does crockett, in the vid about biden, sound a little like ocasio-crackpot?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (CWTWj)

230 A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.
..................................
Yea. Sure.

Even if true, it's not what she thinks. The concepts in The Art of War are probably over her head.

Bless her malignant retard heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (uGaBv)

231 Probably a SCHmerz voter

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (FZn/N)

232 >>>But you know who's the first to walk away from them in any actual election? The Hispanic vote. They run into enough of these people in their day to day lives, they DAMN sure don't want to vote for them. Hispanic men in Texas are already voting over 50% Republican, run some Mean Black Girl and that number will skyrocket.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Ratchet runs for senator she pulls votes from Cornyn.
Paxton wins in a landslide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (Xlykt)

233 I see Khalil is suing Trump for 20 million dollars
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM


He can do it from Belgium if he wants to.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (jc0TO)

234 All three candidates did a final interview with Harris at her residence, the book explains, adding that when asked what they wanted to drink, Shapiro and Kelly chose water while Walz chose Diet Mountain Dew.

Appeal with rural voters was a top priority for the Harris ticket and the book states that Harris’ advisers felt that Walz was the best candidate to do that.
Harris’ “gut” told her that Walz would appeal to rural voters because he wanted to drink Diet Mountain Dew instead of water? What kind of “Hee Haw” nonsense is this?
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (gaHF4)

Everyone knows that rural white men immediately connect with guys who drink diet mountain dew.

Also, I'm sure that story is entirely made up and Kamala had little to no say in who her running mate was.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (uCjyK)

235 I see Khalil is suing Trump for 20 million dollars
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (VE6XX)
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Send him to South Sudan then dare him to cash the check.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

236 "America is too large. We in Europe are more compact and accessible" - Typical Asshole European, Likely German

Yeah, you thought differently about 80 years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (Riz8t)

237 I see Khalil is suing Trump for 20 million dollars
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:05 PM (VE6XX)

Just deport the foreign terrorist supporter and tell the judge GFY

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:06 PM (FZn/N)

238
Diet Mountain Dew is vile.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (HZi96)

239 238
Diet Mountain Dew is vile.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (HZi9


Mountain Dew is vile

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (VE6XX)

240 epstein had a painting of bill clinton in drag. gotta be something there

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (CWTWj)

241
Mountain Dew is vile
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (VE6XX)

________

That too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (HZi96)

242 Jasmine Crockett lies with breathtaking ease!

Posted by: Baghdad Bob at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (wVcYX)

243 Diet Mountain Dew is vile.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (HZi9


Mountain Dew is vile
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (VE6XX)
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Soda is vile.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (tT6L1)

244 Walz likes diet mountain dew because the high caffeine makes it easier for him to flounce around

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (JtH6i)

245 The one time I tried Mountain Dew it gave me an immediate headache .

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (VofaG)

246 What I find fascinating about the Epstein issue is that the legacy media seems uninterested. This is the first potential leverage they've had to divide Trump against his base and they're not saying much.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 05:02 PM (WHfpM)

The silence is deafening.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (dGCAG)

247 Diet Mountain Dew is vile.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (HZi96)

All of Kamala's choices were vile. I'm still looking forward to how the Ellen Greenberg case plays out and if its curtains for Shapiro.

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (FZn/N)

248 Diet Mountain Dew is vile.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:07 PM (HZi96)

I don't think I've ever had it, but I have had Mountain Dew, and I don't know how or why anyone would like that, and I imagine the diet version is even worse.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

249 Hey, TJM, I found out an interesting fact about your namesake’s wife today.

Her favorite dessert was ice cream, of course. The flavor? Oyster. Oyster ice cream.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

250 “gut” told her that Walz would appeal to rural voters because he wanted to drink Diet Mountain Dew instead of water? What kind of “Hee Haw” nonsense is this?
Posted by: SMOD



I am willing to bet that he was the only one stupid enough to board the train wreck. The race was already over when the dems tried and failed to kill Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (Vfq+S)

251 OT: Heard from the wife that the Austin fire department union is calling on the fire chief to be fired for refusing to send aid to Kerr County during the flood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

252 Sun Drop >>> Mt Dew

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (g32zs)

253 148 About. Fucking. Time. Blue states ruthlessly use redistricting to solidify their power and fuck the GOP. The GOP in red states … does nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:51 PM (0kxAA)
___________________________

About 6 years ago four or five State Supreme Courts (that lean left) in Red States pulled a fast one. They ignored the state constitution that only allows the legislature to set the districts, and hired the same political hack from the Poly Sci dept. of Stanford Univ. This guy then came in and re-drew the maps (PA and NC were two of the states where this happened). He folded traditional red districts into urban centers which totally engulfed the red district. Of course, the State Supreme courts claimed this to be constitutional...even though they set it up. The USSC refused to get involved.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (dIske)

254 Yeah, you thought differently about 80 years ago.
Posted by: Archimedes


Lebensraum is just a form of chopped meat, schatzi~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (mlg/3)

255 Mountain Dew is Satan’s semen … with lime.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (0kxAA)

256 Soda is vile.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (tT6L1)

Haven't had a soda in 25 years but I can still imagine the taste of Diet Dr Pepper and Fresca.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (VofaG)

257 >>> 166 City Journal asks …
Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague?
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (gaHF4)
Of course they can, they have unlimited city money behind them.But privately owned grocery stores couldn't, that's why there are way fewer grocery stores in the hood.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

I mentioned this before, food stamp recipients should be the only people that buy at city owned grocery stores. Require them to shop there.

The Mormon church has a similar system. They have private stocked grocery stores or food pantries called "bishop's storehouses" for members of the church going through hard times. If you get approved by your ward's bishop because they see a need, you can go there and get free food and groceries until you are back on your feet. But it requires humility and accountability.

I've never needed their services, knock on wood, but I have done several service projects where we restocked the shelves and cleaned the storehouses.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (gWBY1)

258 Her favorite dessert was ice cream, of course. The flavor? Oyster. Oyster ice cream.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)
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Hmm, oysters are supposedly an aphrodisiac.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (tT6L1)

259 Since this is a soda thread -- no offense to our resident Mainers and other assorted New Englanders, BUT I think the most disgusting soda I have ever had is Moxie.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)

260 Everyone knows that rural white men immediately connect with guys who drink diet mountain dew.

Also, I'm sure that story is entirely made up and Kamala had little to no say in who her running mate was.
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"....feedom..."

Posted by: Kamala H at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (TN0g+)

261 re 230 etc: like beto claiming that while he was at the urinal in bucce's (sp? no entender) people would tell him they were republicans but agreed with him on gun control

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (CWTWj)

262 223 A new tell-all book says Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her VP candidate because when they met he asked for a Diet Mountain Dew, which in her mind meant that Walz would appeal to us flyover country goobers...

http://tiny.cc/r73p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (lIio7)
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That's the kind of sound reasoning I expect from a Dem.

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (G0vdT)

263 Haven't had a soda in 25 years but I can still imagine the taste of Diet Dr Pepper and Fresca.

Posted by: polynikes


Hey now, I like Fresca.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (Riz8t)

264 252 Sun Drop >>> Mt Dew
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (g32zs)

Voltage Mt. Dew >>> Sun Drop >>>> Regular Mt. Dew

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (dIske)

265 251 OT: Heard from the wife that the Austin fire department union is calling on the fire chief to be fired for refusing to send aid to Kerr County during the flood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

I haven't seen any justification for his decision, other than he didn't want his department to have to pay for overtime on a Sunday.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:12 PM (uWKK8)

266 I mentioned this before, food stamp recipients should be the only people that buy at city owned grocery stores. Require them to shop there.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:10 PM (gWBY1)

I would imagine most people living in the neighborhoods we're talking about are on food stamps.

Anyways, I highly doubt any city run grocery stores will ever be built.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:12 PM (uCjyK)

267 and the only soda i ever had a taste for was tonic water.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:13 PM (CWTWj)

268 Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (Riz8t

You misunderstand me. I drank a lot of both. I imagine it's like an ex smoker that can still imagine the joy of that cigarette.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:13 PM (VofaG)

269 Anyways, I highly doubt any city run grocery stores will ever be built.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:12 PM (uCjyK)

Well seeing as he said he's going to take it out of the 140m$ that stores get in tax breaks. It's not actual money. He's a retard.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:13 PM (XZ6f8)

270 >>> 265 251 OT: Heard from the wife that the Austin fire department union is calling on the fire chief to be fired for refusing to send aid to Kerr County during the flood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

I haven't seen any justification for his decision, other than he didn't want his department to have to pay for overtime on a Sunday.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:12 PM (uWKK

Plus, apparently the State gov reimburses locals for any response to a State request for a preparatory deployment.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (ULPxl)

271 I haven't seen any justification for his decision, other than he didn't want his department to have to pay for overtime on a Sunday.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:12 PM (uWKK


Wife said that he's claiming that he had to protect Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (ExV1e)

272 261 re 230 etc: like beto claiming that while he was at the urinal in bucce's (sp? no entender) people would tell him they were republicans but agreed with him on gun control
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (CWTWj)

"Hey Beto, cool watch. Also, have you tried the wall of jerky? Anyways, the reason I'm standing next to you at a urinal, talking with our dicks out is that I wanted to tell you that as a life long republican, I support your fervent Anti Second Amendment stance!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (uCjyK)

273 Hey now, I like Fresca.
Posted by: Archimedes


Aspen was ... interesting.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (mlg/3)

274 Anyways, I highly doubt any city run grocery stores will ever be built.
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Agreed--once all the right parties get their funding everyone will lose their interest in actually building, staffing, stocking, and running the stores.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (TN0g+)

275 My dad drank Tab like it was water. Does anyone remember Tab?

If Kamala really chose Waltz as VP because he wanted a Mountain Dew, I love this for her. It's perfect.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

276 from Bing CoPilot

Lebensraum is a German word that means "habitat" or "living space". In Nazi ideology, Lebensraum meant the expansion of Germany to the east in search of a unity between the German Volk and the land. The Nazi-modified theory of Lebensraum became Germany's foreign policy during the Third Reich. Lebensraum served as a major motivation for Nazi Germany's territorial aggression. Adolf Hitler believed that the German people needed Lebensraum, and that it should be taken in the East.
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Sounds rather innocuous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM (Xlykt)

277
I've never needed their services, knock on wood, but I have done several service projects where we restocked the shelves and cleaned the storehouses.
Posted by: LizLem
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LDS has a real community of believers. Some other denominations do or don't but certainly most are not as organized.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM (ctrM5)

278 Wife said that he's claiming that he had to protect Austin.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 05:14 PM (ExV1e)

Too bad Austin wasn't flooding that day.

He looks like a DEI hire to me, I'd shitcan him for that reason alone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM (uWKK8)

279 didn't one of the actors in the 'actors playing guys for kamala' ad claim he drank what was it single barrel bourbon? kamala would have gotten more votes with that guy. or maybe the guy who looked like he ate carburators

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:16 PM (CWTWj)

280
Esprit d'escalier. The inspiration that comes when you are already out the door and down the stairs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 05:03 PM (Vfq+S)

I believe ace wrote a post about this phrase. Or I dreamed about it. Don't know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (QsMb/)

281 > The Mormon church has a similar system. They have private stocked grocery stores or food pantries called "bishop's storehouses" for members of the church going through hard times. If you get approved by your ward's bishop because they see a need, you can go there and get free food and groceries until you are back on your feet. But it requires humility and accountability.

The Bishop will typically also require the recipient to work or render some sort of service. It depends on what the individual is able to do and spiritual guidance.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (lIio7)

282 I wonder how much we paid Sudan to take those criminal illegals.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (VofaG)

283 She’s at around minute of 12 of her 15 minutes of fame.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (ImXfC)

284 didn't one of the actors in the 'actors playing guys for kamala' ad claim he drank what was it single barrel bourbon? kamala would have gotten more votes with that guy. or maybe the guy who looked like he ate carburators
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:16 PM (CWTWj)

Was that the one that 'loved women'? Sitting with his legs crossed on a tailgate.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (XZ6f8)

285 Well seeing as he said he's going to take it out of the 140m$ that stores get in tax breaks. It's not actual money. He's a retard.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:13 PM (XZ6f

NYC politics is weird. No one every says or is asked about anything specific.

"I'm going to lower rent prices!" is never followed up with by a reporter with a question like "uhh.. how? How are you going to do that?" and forcing a candidate to actually explain anything.

It's just a bunch of bumper sticker nonsense. One lady ran a ton of commercials saying she was going to "stop the scourge of e-bikes in the city". But she never gave any details, including on her campaign webpage. What does that mean? Arresting the illegals delivering food for driving unregistered vehicles on sidewalks and the wrong way down one way streets? I'm all for it, but you need to say that. And then actually do it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (uCjyK)

286
It sounds like you're enjoying kitten yoga.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025


***
Oh, I didn't participate, just observed when I got back from running a couple of errands in the area. Kittens are always a delight to look at and play with. (Living with them, however, can have its drawbacks. Remember how I nicknamed Stirling "The Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence" in his early days?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)

287 Mexican coke, ice cold in a glass bottle after mowing the lawn in 100 degree weather is about as good as it gets.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (W2Pud)

288 Her constituency are ghetto rats, but they’re too dumb to realize they’re getting played by an elite uppity black lawyer. It’s like the slaves voting for Samuel Jackson’s character in that shitty movie with DiCaprio.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Voters in her district get paid one way or another for their votes plus and the election officials ignore it. Most inner city elections are held in rotten borough conditions. Very funny Blackadder III where Baldrick is put up for Parliament in such a place.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (ctrM5)

289 didn't one of the actors in the 'actors playing guys for kamala' ad claim he drank what was it single barrel bourbon? kamala would have gotten more votes with that guy. or maybe the guy who looked like he ate carburators
--------

She could have randomly picked ANY guy off of the street and done as well or better than Walz.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 05:19 PM (TN0g+)

290 >>> 284 didn't one of the actors in the 'actors playing guys for kamala' ad claim he drank what was it single barrel bourbon? kamala would have gotten more votes with that guy. or maybe the guy who looked like he ate carburators
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 10, 2025 05:16 PM (CWTWj)

Was that the one that 'loved women'? Sitting with his legs crossed on a tailgate.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (XZ6f

LOL

David Hogg has more testosterone than all of those dudes combined, and the commies chased him off.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:19 PM (ULPxl)

291 Was that the one that 'loved women'? Sitting with his legs crossed on a tailgate.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (XZ6f

I find that the gay men I have known really do love women.. As friends..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:19 PM (VE6XX)

292 275 My dad drank Tab like it was water. Does anyone remember Tab?

If Kamala really chose Waltz as VP because he wanted a Mountain Dew, I love this for her. It's perfect.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM

Tab and Diet Rite were always in our fridge because none of the kids would drink them. I don't like the chemical taste.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 05:19 PM (QsMb/)

293 Was that the one that 'loved women'? Sitting with his legs crossed on a tailgate.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM


Eurofag style. Not in a manly American figure-4.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM (jc0TO)

294
"I'm going to lower rent prices!" is never followed up with by a reporter with a question like "uhh.. how? How are you going to do that?" and forcing a candidate to actually explain anything.



The answer would be by taxing billionaires and magically that will translate to cheaper housing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM (ImXfC)

295 >>> LDS has a real community of believers. Some other denominations do or don't but certainly most are not as organized.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:15 PM (ctrM5)

We have such a generous church welfare system, even with the accountability checks in place. Besides tithing, we also pay fast offerings every month, and they go right to the bishop who runs our local ward/church. He uses those offerings for families in our specific ward in need. They have paid for people's rent, mortgage, schooling, car repairs etc. when they are suffering.

I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:21 PM (gWBY1)

296 The answer would be by taxing billionaires and magically that will translate to cheaper housing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM (ImXfC)

I suppose.

They could say "we're going to work with ICE to deport the millions of illegals living here and driving up housing costs". That would get my vote!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

297

The answer would be by taxing billionaires and magically that will translate to cheaper housing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM (ImXfC

That's always the answer

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:21 PM (VE6XX)

298 The answer would be by taxing billionaires and magically that will translate to cheaper housing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM


Fair.Share.

*drops mic*

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)

299 I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:21 PM (gWBY1)

Sounds like a lot more work then just going to the government for your bennies.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:22 PM (uCjyK)

300 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 10, 2025 05:22 PM (av+kn)

301 Eurofag style. Not in a manly American figure-4.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:20 PM (jc0TO

The one where you gotta kick your hip 8" out cause real men's legs don't do that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:22 PM (XZ6f8)

302 My doctor says I can’t have Mr. Pibb!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

303 Jasmine Ratchet? Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: davidt at July 10, 2025 05:22 PM (i0F8b)

304
like beto claiming that while he was at the urinal in bucce's (sp? no entender) people would tell him they were republicans but agreed with him on gun control
Posted by: gnats local 678


... and then they'd turn and pee on my shoes.

Solidarity, baby!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 05:23 PM (Tv15w)

305 FWIW, Bill O'Reilly today,
"Per The Hill:

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons.

“I talked to President Trump, man-to-man, eye-to-eye, on St. Patrick’s Day about this. … And he said — and I agree — ‘There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct,’” O’Reilly said Wednesday during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Cuomo.”

“They maybe had lunch with them or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another,” he told host Chris Cuomo.“If that name gets out,” O’Reilly continued, “those people are destroyed, because there’s not going to be any context. Media doesn’t care about context, so, you can’t do that. You can’t destroy a human being by putting out the files, whatever they may be.”

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:23 PM (ctrM5)

306 Not sure I've ever had Mountain Dew.

There was a brand of bread in the early Sixties, coming off the success of The Beverly Hillbillies on TV. "Hillbilly Bread." White, it featured little pockmarks where the yeast bubbles (I guess) had popped, unlike Sunbeam or other smoother white breads. It was okay, but I slathered it in peanut or regular butter most of the time. No idea what company had it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)

307 That "My heart is so heavy" video is so incredibly tone deaf and in bad tastes even for her. First of all, she could give a shit about those families and their children which is evidenced by the fact that she immediately goes into her bleating about this administration and makes it political. Before I just laughed at her stupidity and vapid ghetto cosplay. Now, I'd like to see her washed away in a flood. Does Texas have alligators in their water?

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (oiNtH)

308 Most inner city elections are held in rotten borough conditions. Very funny Blackadder III where Baldrick is put up for Parliament in such a place.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (ctrM5)


Dunny-on-the-wold, AKA Outhouse on the Moor.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (/HDaX)

309 299 I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.
Posted by: LizLem
=========
No caffeinated drinks is why. Where would they get their sugar caffeine fix from. J/K

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (ctrM5)

310 Hillbilly Bread is still around! I just have not seen it here in decades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)

311 I like Paxton as a political force, but I can't deny that he's a complete bum, personally. Well his reputation is so bad that it really can't get any worse, so this probably doesn't matter. Was just reading that his wife (who is a Texas State Senator in his old district) is filing for divorce on "Biblical Grounds".
I know what that means - Ken has a mistress, and he's living with her and not with his wife anymore. Geez, Ken, couldn't you try to be just a little bit discreet about it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (uWKK8)

312 Sun Drop >>> Mt Dew
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (g32zs)


Rancid sink water>>>>>>>>>> Mt Spew

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (0eaVi)

313
A: Kamala Harris
B: Jasmine Crockett
C: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
D: All of the Above

Posted by: Judge Wally Gator at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (5yGIt)

314 “They maybe had lunch with them or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another,” he told host Chris Cuomo.“If that name gets out,” O’Reilly continued, “those people are destroyed, because there’s not going to be any context. Media doesn’t care about context, so, you can’t do that. You can’t destroy a human being by putting out the files, whatever they may be.”

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:23 PM (ctrM5)

Oh, so that's the excuse we're going with.

Wouldn't it just then be easier to say "Epstein must have destroyed all of the evidence before he was arrested. We have no idea who he trafficked the girls to, we would only be making guesses based on who he socialized with."

But even that doesn't really work, because the FBI knows who the girls are, and the girls know who they were trafficked to.

Oh well.

That said, if someone had lunch with Epstein, especially after his conviction in FL, shouldn't the public know about that?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (uCjyK)

315 Is Piper here? I'm hearing big thunders from up her way, and yet, not a drop of rain here, though we need it.

I should go wash a car or something to bait the fates.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (jc0TO)

316 Slavey Crockett

Posted by: nobody at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (NhiOW)

317 They caught all 10 on a bad hair day. What are the odds?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (zhBpy)

318 >>> The Bishop will typically also require the recipient to work or render some sort of service. It depends on what the individual is able to do and spiritual guidance.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (lIio7)

Yes. And they will often have them do the Pathways program while they are getting aid if they don't have a job, to get some schooling and training as well. Which can be used to help get them a job in the future and out of poverty.

All of this would be good for government programs in NYC too, but it requires accountability, responsibility, transparency...

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (gWBY1)

319 Breitbart:

John Kerry Admits: ‘Trump Was Right’ About Immigration; Border ‘Under Siege’ During Biden Admin

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (gaHF4)

320 I find that the gay men I have known really do love women.. As friends..
Posted by: It's me donna

You know, somebody they can talk shoes and little festive hats to.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (L/fGl)

321 I hear rain now, plopping on the air conditioner case.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (omVj0)

322
How about Mellow Yellow? That's Coke's version of Pepsi's Mt. Dew.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (w6EFb)

323 >>> 307 That "My heart is so heavy" video is so incredibly tone deaf and in bad tastes even for her. First of all, she could give a shit about those families and their children which is evidenced by the fact that she immediately goes into her bleating about this administration and makes it political. Before I just laughed at her stupidity and vapid ghetto cosplay. Now, I'd like to see her washed away in a flood. Does Texas have alligators in their water?
Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (oiNtH)

No, but even before I was 29 I was told to stay the F out of floodwaters, because fire ants ball up together to stay afloat, and will all jump on to the first "raft" they can find.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (ULPxl)

324 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM (uWKK

I've been saying this for awhile. I have no doubt either that he used his position to help out his friend and big donor.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (VofaG)

325 Cheerwine.

Posted by: It's still a thing at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (av+kn)

326 Secratariat of State John Kerry?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (zhBpy)

327 I find that the gay men I have known really do love women.. As friends..
Posted by: It's me donna

You know, somebody they can talk shoes and little festive hats to.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (L/fGl

That's so fierce.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (XZ6f8)

328 I know what that means - Ken has a mistress, and he's living with her and not with his wife anymore. Geez, Ken, couldn't you try to be just a little bit discreet about it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:25 PM


Hiking the Appalachian Trail, as it were.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (jc0TO)

329 309 I thought the LDS Church had reversed its ban on caffeine?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (77rzZ)

330 "She's goin' down, Tubbs ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (itv8P)

331 308 Most inner city elections are held in rotten borough conditions. Very funny Blackadder III where Baldrick is put up for Parliament in such a place.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (ctrM5)

Dunny-on-the-wold, AKA Outhouse on the Moor.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (/HDaX)

I love that show! I just rewatched 'The Witchsmeller Pursuivant" last night, which is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series.
A Horse is being questioned on the witness stand, it makes a loud sound. Harry the Judge says "I didn't catch that, was that a yay or a nay?"
Witchsmeller - "it was a neigh, my lord, but I think he was lying!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (uWKK8)

332 > I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.

Our Bishop had to have an open and frank discussion with a lady in our ward after she demanded three different drivers pick up her daughter in one school, another daughter in another school, and herself for a doctor's appointment. She lives in a spot where both her daughter's schools have bus service to her home.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (lIio7)

333 >>> No caffeinated drinks is why. Where would they get their sugar caffeine fix from. J/K
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (ctrM5)

Hah! Caffeine is allowed. My husband drinks Mountain Dew like it's going out of style. Kamala should've picked him as VP!

But lately he's switched to G Fuel and powdered caffeinated water supplements, to still get that shot of caffeine without the sugar and to add electrolytes. Good for him.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (gWBY1)

334 He's got a trillion dollars to spend now.
Posted by: BurtTC


We can build about three for that price

Posted by: Military-Industrial Complex at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (a+4eV)

335 We have such a generous church welfare system, even with the accountability checks in place. Besides tithing, we also pay fast offerings every month, and they go right to the bishop who runs our local ward/church. He uses those offerings for families in our specific ward in need. They have paid for people's rent, mortgage, schooling, car repairs etc. when they are suffering.

I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.
Posted by: LizLem

I replied jokingly above, but my personal take on LDS congregations that I have had contact with is that they are a high trust community that has a pretty realistic take on humanity. Grew up with some from the Missouri Community of Christ in school. Nice folks.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (ctrM5)

336
Cheerwine.
Posted by: It's still a thing at July 10, 2025 05:27 PM (av+kn)

_________

I like Cheerwine. I recently bought, but have npt yet had, a bottle of Moxie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

337 Hillbilly Bread is still around! I just have not seen it here in decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)


Looked it up and yep, I remember the label. Internet says it's still available at places like Target and Walmart.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (/HDaX)

338 John Kerry Admits: ‘Trump Was Right’ About Immigration; Border ‘Under Siege’ During Biden Admin
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (gaHF4)

Crap now I don't really know if the border is as bad as they say. Or in the alternative, I need to know Kerry's ulterior motives.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (VofaG)

339 > A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.

Then she carried an overwhelmed 230lb firefighter from a burning building while solving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. But CMI are a bunch of racists, so they won't give her credit.


and then everyone clapped

Posted by: brak at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (jGJov)

340 I like Cheerwine. I recently bought, but have npt yet had, a bottle of Moxie.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)


There is no more Delaware punch

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 05:30 PM (NtVYv)

341 Crap now I don't really know if the border is as bad as they say. Or in the alternative, I need to know Kerry's ulterior motives.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (VofaG

Deserting a sinking ship (Biden)

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:30 PM (VE6XX)

342 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir rocks!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

343 May be time to pause, recover, and prep for a new freak-out. Reportedly Trump will use "drawdown" authority for first time to give stuff to Ukeistan. There seems to be a bit of an ordnance shortage, reportedly, thanks to the Red Sea festivities and the prolonged air defense demands in Israel. So not sure what we can "spare".

In any case it won't affect the important thing, the ground war, which continues at a glacial pace but still almost uniformly in Russia's favor.

But the "solved in 24 hours" thing can now presumably be formally retired.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (1m82a)

344 Isn't Our Lady of the Stepstool a Cheerwine fan? Did I imagine Her Grace saying that?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)

345 A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.

Then she carried an overwhelmed 230lb firefighter from a burning building while solving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. But CMI are a bunch of racists, so they won't give her credit.

and then everyone clapped
-----------

Spontaneously?

Posted by: Jeb B at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TN0g+)

346 Hah! Caffeine is allowed. My husband drinks Mountain Dew like it's going out of style. Kamala should've picked him as VP!

But lately he's switched to G Fuel and powdered caffeinated water supplements, to still get that shot of caffeine without the sugar and to add electrolytes. Good for him.
Posted by: LizLem
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I knew a prof who is now a president of a university. He had a job interview at BYU for an assistant prof job. The first thing he answered when they asked if they could get him something to drink was coffee. They said we don't have that, so he asked for tea. No tea, then a soda. No soda. It was about this time it dawned on him why. This was in the 90's btw. Obviously, he did not get the job.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (ctrM5)

347 Looked it up and yep, I remember the label. Internet says it's still available at places like Target and Walmart.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 10, 2025


***
I never look at the white bread section. Time to investigate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)

348 I recently bought, but have npt yet had, a bottle of Moxie.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

Moxie is, in my humble opinion, disgusting. Same with that gross coffee brandy they love up there in Maine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (uCjyK)

349 Oh, and nood

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)

350 I'm surprised more people don't join the church just as a scam to get free bennies, tbh! Maybe they have and I don't hear about it.

I got my Suburban because the Mormon couple driving it left it in 4-high on the highway all the way from the south of the state to the north of the state, brought it into the shop where my stepdad was working because - shocker - the front end was going out, and abandoned it there after, I guess, convincing their bishop to buy them a different vehicle to continue their trip.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (a+4eV)

351 Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left ..."

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

* Steve Scalise and Rand Paul fart in her general direction *

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (itv8P)

352 You gotta get here early if you wanna get a back row seat.

Posted by: Any Southern Baptist church at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (av+kn)

353 Then she carried an overwhelmed 230lb firefighter from a burning building while solving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. But CMI are a bunch of racists, so they won't give her credit.

and then everyone clapped

Jeb! Hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (XZ6f8)

354 That bread based on the Book of Ezekiel is pretty tasty.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (77rzZ)

355 Another record for stocks today.

Will this nightmare Trump economy ever end?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (ImXfC)

356 I love that show! I just rewatched 'The Witchsmeller Pursuivant" last night, which is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series.
A Horse is being questioned on the witness stand, it makes a loud sound. Harry the Judge says "I didn't catch that, was that a yay or a nay?"
Witchsmeller - "it was a neigh, my lord, but I think he was lying!"
Posted by: Tom Servo

Rowan also put out an excellent defense video of freedom of speech when Parliament was debating some idiotic new law abridging it.

Plus he is/was a great buddy of Clarkson and appeared on top gear a time or two. Rowan collects very expensive top end race cars like McLarens.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ctrM5)

357
Grandpa Jones loved Mountain Dew:

https://tinyurl.com/2muwjmkt

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (w6EFb)

358 John Kerry Admits: ‘Trump Was Right’ About Immigration; Border ‘Under Siege’ During Biden Admin
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 05:26 PM (gaHF4)

"Only traitors help invaders" Time to arrest, AOC, Bass, Mayorkas and everyone involved. Take down Catholic Charities and the other religious org that took the bribe. Lock up those fucking judges, too.

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (FZn/N)

359 30 She plays stupid because that's where her base is.

Posted by: jsg at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (s0Otf)


THIS. She is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, though. I expect one of her staffers or someone working at a Leftist political consulting outfit is writing scripts for Jasmine to act-out in public.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (aBgBM)

360 Will this nightmare Trump economy ever end?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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When a Democrat is elected President is when.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (ctrM5)

361 > A month ago, Jasmine Ratchet told Real News Jim Acosta that Republicans routinely stop her on the street to tell her how much they support her.

That eyelash glue if inhaled can really screw with your brain. Like huffing spray paint.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (oiNtH)

362 Ever since 2015, the left have been taking people who shouldn't even be allowed to post on Twitter and elevated them to prominent positions in government.

Look at the difference between Jasmine Blap dab a dap and Justice Thomas.

One can talk and argue intelligently while the the other just acts like street trash. How do we get out of this mess?

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (XLfSN)

363 What I find fascinating about the Epstein issue is that the legacy media seems uninterested. This is the first potential leverage they've had to divide Trump against his base and they're not saying much.
Posted by: Ordinary American

O'shit, o'shit, o'shit.
Trump has the journ-o-list.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (/lPRQ)

364 352 You gotta get here early if you wanna get a back row seat.
Posted by: Any Southern Baptist church
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Drinking and dancing rights are reserved for that row as they are going to hell anyway.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (ctrM5)

365 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:28 PM (uWKK

Good times! I got all the DVD's.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (/HDaX)

366 357
Grandpa Jones loved Mountain Dew:

https://tinyurl.com/2muwjmkt
Posted by: publius
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I tasted the real stuff in the seventies (via Grandpa). I would rather drink diesel personally.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ctrM5)

367 >>> I knew a prof who is now a president of a university. He had a job interview at BYU for an assistant prof job. The first thing he answered when they asked if they could get him something to drink was coffee. They said we don't have that, so he asked for tea. No tea, then a soda. No soda. It was about this time it dawned on him why. This was in the 90's btw. Obviously, he did not get the job.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (ctrM5)

If you are employed by BYU, I think you have to live the BYU standards. BYU as a school banned caffeine/soda for decades, so of course it spread like a cultural virus that you could not drink caffeine at all, if you were a "good" mormon. It became an insufferable holier-than-thou thing, but there was no officially policy against soda, just black tea and coffee.

The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this ban when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor. Those exclusive contracts with a soda brand for universities is a big deal! But I loved that it threw the holie- than-thous in a tizzy. How can they judge their fellow members now, if not by caffeine consumption!

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (gWBY1)

368 hat bread based on the Book of Ezekiel is pretty tasty.
Posted by: Bulg

Good for you too. No additives, high protein, fiber, no saturated fat, no sugar, low calories.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (oiNtH)

369 PLEASE God, let this ignorant person get the Democrat nomination to run for Senate. Even if Cornyn some how survives a primary (probably going to use all the allegations Paxton's soon ex-wife is gonna smear him with), he'll beat this twatwaffle. Paxton will have an even bigger margin of victory if he's the nominee.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at July 10, 2025 05:41 PM (aXBkC)

370 263 Haven't had a soda in 25 years but I can still imagine the taste of Diet Dr Pepper and Fresca.

Posted by: polynikes

Hey now, I like Fresca.


meh. it was better when they made it with saccharine.

Posted by: anachronda at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (v3pYe)

371 287 Mexican coke, ice cold in a glass bottle after mowing the lawn in 100 degree weather is about as good as it gets.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 05:18 PM (W2Pud)

This is the way.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (Cg3Gl)

372 The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this ban when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor. Those exclusive contracts with a soda brand for universities is a big deal! But I loved that it threw the holie- than-thous in a tizzy. How can they judge their fellow members now, if not by caffeine consumption!
Posted by: LizLem
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Baptists have a similar doctrine except on other items related to avoidance of those (booze, dancing, etc) in order to avoid sinning.

Course, the Church of Christ view the Baptists as heathens, the Methodists view the Baptists as Neanderthals, and the Presbyterian/Episcopal churches view all of the above as hopelessly unenlightened. Catholics consider all of these as endorsing heretical ideals and so on.

"National Brotherhood Week" satirical song by Tom Lehrer about sums it up when the hard core of any denomination get to talking religion.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 05:47 PM (ctrM5)

373 "If Kamala really chose Waltz as VP because he wanted a Mountain Dew, I love this for her. It's perfect."

Actually, he cinched the VP spot because he always orders bacon bits on the side.

Posted by: Puddin' at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (aICNM)

374 Lets STOP clicking on Jazzy Croc O Shit put her on the shelf with the lost and broken toys...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (uEWUd)

375 364 352 You gotta get here early if you wanna get a back row seat.
Posted by: Any Southern Baptist church
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Squirrely Joe's coffee had a fantastic essay on a church solving it's awkward "find a seat" problems with assigned seating - nameplates on permanent seating, with higher tithers choosing either front or back row as preferred, and a special "elect for the day" section for visitors. (Reform, don't cha know) I haven't had the coffee yet, but I want to try based on their writing efforts. No way AI can get the religious minutiae that well.

Posted by: moki at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (wLjpr)

376 Just gotta say.. that gal got a screw loose somewhere.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (SNf74)

Lowly District Court Judge Blows Off the Supreme Court and Issues Another Nationwide Injunction Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship EO

Daffy Amy Coney Barret's weak-sister ruling did allow lowly district courts to issue nationwide injunctions, but only through federal rule 23 and the establishment of a class for purposes of a class action lawsuit.

Just as the good Justice Alito predicted.


U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante granted class-action status to babies who would be affected by the order, in an apparent attempt to circumvent the high court's directives to limit injunctions to participating parties in the case.

The ACLU filed suit, arguing that those affected would suffer irreparable harm, NBC News reported.

The Supreme Court last month narrowed the scope of prior injunctions against the order, finding that lower courts likely lacked the authority to issue sweeping injunctions.

"The issuance of a universal injunction can be justified only as an exercise of equitable authority, yet Congress has granted federal courts no such power," wrote Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

In a concurring opinion, however, Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote that "today's decision will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following 'Rule 23's procedural protections' for class certification."

Note that Rule 23 imposes certain requirements which this judge is almost certainly blowing off because he's really just issuing a nationwide injunction under a different name.

(B) For (b)(3) Classes. For any class certified under Rule 23(b)(3) --or upon ordering notice under Rule 23(e)(1) to a class proposed to be certified for purposes of settlement under Rule 23(b)(3)--the court must direct to class members the best notice that is practicable under the circumstances, including individual notice to all members who can be identified through reasonable effort. The notice may be by one or more of the following: United States mail, electronic means, or other appropriate means.The notice must clearly and concisely state in plain, easily understood language:

(i) the nature of the action;

(ii) the definition of the class certified;

(iii) the class claims, issues, or defenses;

(iv) that a class member may enter an appearance through an attorney if the member so desires;

(v) that the court will exclude from the class any member who requests exclusion;

(vi) the time and manner for requesting exclusion; and

(vii) the binding effect of a class judgment on members under Rule 23(c)(3) .

Obviously he's not even going to attempt notifying babies that they are now part of a class action lawsuit.

And note that just because you certify a class for a class action, that isn't -- or shouldn't be -- grounds for issuing yet another single-unelected-judge diktat that overrides the American voters' strong message at the ballot box.

But no big deal because this is just a pretext for the Judicial Insurrection's continuing Will to Power.


Posted by: Ace at 03:25 PM




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1 Frosty

Posted by: lin-duh at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (/iXAp)

2 ew4gb56tbwe4t

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (UmB+t)

3 Our black robed (would be) overlords

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (YwEeS)

4 Or firsty

Posted by: lin-duh at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (/iXAp)

5
aHHHghhh! I'm melllltinggg!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (UmB+t)

6 Take away illegals, dreamers, and birthright citizens and the Dems don't get 40% in national level elections. Perhaps not even 35%.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (t0Rmr)

7 Sounds insurrection-y to me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (diNR9)

8 At least this brings the issue (of district court judges making nationwide rulings) back to the Supremes to perhaps be clarified.

Give Trump power to ignore lower courts that are "making law".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk)

9 6 Take away illegals, dreamers, and birthright citizens and the Dems don't get 40% in national level elections. Perhaps not even 35%.


more like 25%

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (Pv3Rg)

10 This is never going to end unless the administration is willing to take... adverse action.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

11 It usually is a real time staking, expensive and pain in the ass process to get a class certified.

Clearly, that's not always the case though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (uCjyK)

12
So this is basically every baby born on the planet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (UmB+t)

13 I'll say this again, because its important = 100 years ago congress gave American Indians citizenship. If Birthright Citizenship was a thing they wouldn't have to because all those people were born within the borders of the US...

See the issue is they weren't under the jurisdiction of the US...just like illegals aren't.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (t0Rmr)

14 So he's claiming "babies are people and this applies to them."

Could this transform into the Courts recognizing that abortion is murder? That would be a hilarious self-own.

Posted by: Scott_T at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (2waQ7)

15 Obviously he's not even going to attempt notifying babies that they are now part of a class action lawsuit.
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If babies are a class, shouldn't someone be getting a nationwide injunction against killing them without their written consent?

Posted by: Methos at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (zLwRl)

16 6 Take away illegals, dreamers, and birthright citizens and the Dems don't get 40% in national level elections. Perhaps not even 35%.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (t0Rmr)

Don't forget our legal immigrant friends as well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:30 PM (uCjyK)

17 Iffn I was SCOTUS I would immediately declare this idiot to be out of order and I would overturn his injunction. He is being a complete and total dick on purpose knowing he is going to get smacked down. I personally know people like that and I tell them to their face to quit being a dick. It very rarely works though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2025 03:30 PM (e5NfL)

18 I said it the other day, but the left always follows its governing philosophy:

"The only rules that matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 03:30 PM (N1DT3)

19 Obviously he's not even going to attempt notifying babies that they are now part of a class action lawsuit.

Unborn babies constitute a class; there should be a class action lawsuit on their behalf placing a nation-wide injunction on abortion...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ynpvh)

20 The case needs to be assigned to another judge.

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

21 Yeah, this was entirely predictable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (AQ1VH)

22 If babies are a class, shouldn't someone be getting a nationwide injunction against killing them without their written consent?


oh God please someone do this!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

23 13 I'll say this again, because its important = 100 years ago congress gave American Indians citizenship. If Birthright Citizenship was a thing they wouldn't have to because all those people were born within the borders of the US...

See the issue is they weren't under the jurisdiction of the US...just like illegals aren't.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (t0Rmr)

I, too, have made that argument but everyone yells at me.

Illegals aren't under the "jurisdiction" of the US any more than Indians on reservations were.

And if, as others have said, just being subject to US laws means you're under the "jurisdiction" of the US, then anyone who comes to the US, including diplomats or anyone else, or is in our exclusive economic zone is under our "jurisdiction" and why even have that language in there? Surely they meant something by the word "jurisdiction" (and we know what they meant - to exclude Indians)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (uCjyK)

24 20 The case needs to be assigned to another judge.

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

::: types, deletes :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (ynpvh)

25 Then simply deport the parents, and throw the baby into an orphanage, where it will grow up in good America.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (ufFY8)

26 Don't worry. KBJ will save us.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

27 Don't worry. KBJ will save us.
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

She has to find against this because declaring a class is too much legalese.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 03:33 PM (MGB5H)

28 Shipwreckedcrew seems to think the Barrett opinion encompassed all she could reasonably do, and the Rule 23 reasoning this judge used will likely be quickly reviewed up the appellate chain and, if it is in any way an overreach, it can then be appropriately dealt with by SCOTUS.

The left better hope their forum shopping was good and the case they are using is bulletproof, because I bet it will all get acid-washed through the courts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (kO68M)

29 17 Iffn I was SCOTUS I would immediately declare this idiot to be out of order and I would overturn his injunction. He is being a complete and total dick on purpose knowing he is going to get smacked down. I personally know people like that and I tell them to their face to quit being a dick. It very rarely works though.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2025 03:30 PM (e5NfL)

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It's just not how the courts work.

Has to go through the motions at the district level first. Then, government can appeal to the circuit. Then, if the circuit doesn't stay things (I imagine they will because nuking Rule 23 is in the cards like SCOTUS just nuked other national injunctions), then it can be appealed to SCOTUS.

And, looking up further, the judge actually stayed his own order, allowing time for the government to respond. So, the clock isn't even really started yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

30 My memory is that people did an analysis of Trump's 2016 win and if we had the demographics of 1964 he won every state.

Now some of those Dem voters are duly certified citizens. But...most aren't. We've got 40M or so illegals, most of whom are voting and all of their kids.

Take those votes away and away from the census and elections and the GOPe will be the dominant political party.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (t0Rmr)

31 The new Autopen for the unborn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (zhBpy)

32 The Supreme Court left open a door to challenging the executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The ACLU walked right through.

The ACLU is fighting the good fight. I am proud of them. Glad I rejoined and donated!

Trump will appeal but delay going to SCOTUS because they realize there is no way they will say a President can overturn an amendment to the Constitution by executive order. They probably want to stall until after the midterms.

Whatever happened to teaching civics in school? The only way an amendment or a portion thereof can be overturned is with another amendment. But when you have a President that thinks he's a king...

Oh no! Now John Roberts will have to explain why the plain English of the 14th Amendment means exactly the opposite of what it means!

this is a good class definition. Very specific and clear harm is dealt to these individuals who historically would have been readily considered citizens.

Hopefully the SC will be sensible and continue to consider persons birthed under these circumstances to be proud USA citizens

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

33 I propose the Vinny Boombotz Esq rule 62. Fuck you and the dildo you rode in on clause.
Or commonly known as

Welcome to Walmart
Get your shit
And get out
Statute

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (uEWUd)

34 28 Shipwreckedcrew seems to think the Barrett opinion encompassed all she could reasonably do, and the Rule 23 reasoning this judge used will likely be quickly reviewed up the appellate chain and, if it is in any way an overreach, it can then be appropriately dealt with by SCOTUS.

The left better hope their forum shopping was good and the case they are using is bulletproof, because I bet it will all get acid-washed through the courts.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (kO68M)

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ACB's ruling was "proper."

Alito is sick of proper because it just draws things out and wanted to nuke all the bullshit as fast as possible.

Alito's gone fucking radical since 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

35
Alito wrote that "today's decision will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following 'Rule 23'

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And the judge did not follow Rule 23. Rule 23 is more of a guideline then?

There's evidently no consequence to blowing it off.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (UmB+t)

36 11 It usually is a real time staking, expensive and pain in the ass process to get a class certified.

Clearly, that's not always the case though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Requiring trial judges to sit in panels for major cases involving state or fedgov laws (as was the practice before 1976) would curb a lot of these abuses.

Too many trial court judges are peacocks and popinjays--more consumed with their image than that of actually ruling according to law.

Lot of arrogant POS trial judges, especially in federal court yelling "respect muh authoritah!!!!"

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (ctrM5)

37 14 ...
Could this transform into the Courts recognizing that abortion is murder? That would be a hilarious self-own.
Posted by: Scott_T at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (2waQ7)

15 ...
If babies are a class, shouldn't someone be getting a nationwide injunction against killing them without their written consent?
Posted by: Methos at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (zLwRl)

19 ...
Unborn babies constitute a class; there should be a class action lawsuit on their behalf placing a nation-wide injunction on abortion...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ynpvh)

Horde Mind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (ynpvh)

38 As to rules and regulations, we had no Red Book, and knew nothing about them. We were out fighting the Illegals' babies, not sitting comfortably behind barb-wire entanglements; we got them and shot them under Rule 23!"

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (2yoRf)

39 You'd think that the Supremes would be getting sick of having to fix the lower courts 5 days a week.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK8)

40 Oh no! Now John Roberts will have to explain why the plain English of the 14th Amendment means exactly the opposite of what it means!

=========

Bwahahahahahahahahahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)

41 as was said above the parents aren't in the class, only the unborn babies. Rule 23 requires they all be notified.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (kO68M)

42 The other issue regarding Indians was that some tribes were absorbed by "right of conquest", and their status was specifically non-citizens.

Andrea Burkhart has an excellent video with an Italian professor, discussing the Standing Bear (?) case, and the story of it.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (ufFY8)

43 32 Trump will appeal but delay going to SCOTUS because they realize there is no way they will say a President can overturn an amendment to the Constitution by executive order. They probably want to stall until after the midterms.

Whatever happened to teaching civics in school? The only way an amendment or a portion thereof can be overturned is with another amendment. But when you have a President that thinks he's a king...

Oh no! Now John Roberts will have to explain why the plain English of the 14th Amendment means exactly the opposite of what it means!

this is a good class definition. Very specific and clear harm is dealt to these individuals who historically would have been readily considered citizens.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

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1, 2, and 3: Please, read the 14th, and tell me what "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means and why it's a separate clause from what precedes it, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States".

4. Hilarious. Terrible class definition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

44 Babies born on American soil

Really shouldn't do that in the dirt.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (UjdFS)

45 26 Don't worry. KBJ will save us.
Posted by: wth

Her Judicial Assistants will draft a fiery dissent by copying and pasting BlueSky skeets and Reddit rants.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (JCZqz)

46 44 Babies born on American soil

Really shouldn't do that in the dirt.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (UjdFS)

Fertile lands...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ynpvh)

47 And the judge did not follow Rule 23. Rule 23 is more of a guideline then?

There's evidently no consequence to blowing it off.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Legal error, appeal and stay at court of appeals likely. If not, Scotus slap down with Action Jackson dissent.

Even Roberts can no longer claim that these judges are following anything like normal legal procedures. They are forcing him against his will probably to have to deal with these activists in order to preserve any respect for the courts. And respect for rulings, when gone, means that the court becomes advisory in nature.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ctrM5)

48 Welp what is to be done?

There is no sanction aside for impeachment, and I heard that suggesting a judge should be impeached is a war crime now or something.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (UpwUi)

49 Don't look up Rule 23.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (mlg/3)

50 39 You'd think that the Supremes would be getting sick of having to fix the lower courts 5 days a week.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK

You would think.

That said, I get why they're hesitant to do anything too drastic here, they are in essence giving away their own power (of the judiciary).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (uCjyK)

51 45 26 Don't worry. KBJ will save us.
Posted by: wth

Her Judicial Assistants will draft a fiery dissent by copying and pasting BlueSky skeets and Reddit rants.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (JCZqz)

=======

"Y'all a bunch of fucking racist mother fuckers!"
-KJB, in conference, helping

"Please, stop helping."
-Kagan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

52 Blonde Morticia, just in case you didn't see my Willowed comment...

You are so right. And I'm sure the CGI employees are doing the pushing too. "You're talents are SO wasted here, Chelsea! You should run for office!"

I think deep in their souls, these political nebo babies and minor celebs WANT to matter. They know they lead useless lives. I think the divine in us craves purpose. Unfortunately the liberals have taught her since childhood to use that divine spark of purpose in a twisted way: to grift, steal, and desire to dominate/bully others.

Did you see that Charlize Theron has an African charity she named AFTER herself? The egos are too much.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (gWBY1)

53 Suits me, just go in and seal that loophole and transfer that judge to the North Slope of Alaska with no vacations.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (8avO+)

54 45 26 Don't worry. KBJ will save us.
Posted by: wth

Her Judicial Assistants will draft a fiery dissent by copying and pasting BlueSky skeets and Reddit rants.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (JCZqz)

To much legalese.

Posted by: SCOTUS Judge "Action" Jackson at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (ynpvh)

55 Alito's gone fucking radical since 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
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which is why I pray for his health and that of Justice Thomas every day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (kO68M)

56 39 You'd think that the Supremes would be getting sick of having to fix the lower courts 5 days a week.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That's job security!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (JCZqz)

57 Comments on DU are more interesting than usual - one of them has what is probably a good point, Trump is likely to ultimately lose on the issue of, can Birthright Citizenship be changed by an EO? I have long maintained that such a change will require an Act of Congress as well, signed by the President.

BUT it has been worth going through all of this so far just to draw out the judicial weaselry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (uWKK8)

58
Blonde Morticia, just in case you didn't see my Willowed comment...

You are so right. And I'm sure the CGI employees are doing the pushing too. "You're talents are SO wasted here, Chelsea! You should run for office!"

I think deep in their souls, these political nebo babies and minor celebs WANT to matter. They know they lead useless lives. I think the divine in us craves purpose. Unfortunately the liberals have taught her since childhood to use that divine spark of purpose in a twisted way: to grift, steal, and desire to dominate/bully others.

Did you see that Charlize Theron has an African charity she named AFTER herself? The egos are too much.
Posted by: LizLem

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Thanks! I do love this discussion.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (UmB+t)

59 I pledge allegiance to the US Federal District Court and to the tyranny for which it stands, one court and one judge perfect and without flaw, with nationwide rulings that unerringly adhere to Democrat orthodoxy.

Amen.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (FCPbW)

60 Judges do not have to follow rules.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (UpwUi)

61 Is there a judicial version of Vexatious Litigant?

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

62 Don't forget our legal immigrant friends as well.

I tried to find numbers on how naturalized citizens voted in 2020/2024 and its actually hard.

A couple of analysis argued Trump probably slightly won them in 2024, but by a lower margin then heritage Americans.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (t0Rmr)

63 Babies born on American soil

Really shouldn't do that in the dirt.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (UjdFS)

Fertile lands...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ynpvh)

"Do it to your daughter on a dirt road."

Posted by: BOC - Career of Evil at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ufFY8)

64 55 Alito's gone fucking radical since 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
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which is why I pray for his health and that of Justice Thomas every day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (kO68M)

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Kavanaugh's hardcore, too.

Gorsuch has made up his weird detour in Bostock.

ACB is solid on the merits and getting sick of the process games as well as KJB's shit.

Roberts is along for the ride, unenthusiastically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

65 49 Don't look up Rule 23.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (mlg/3)

Mine eyes!!!! They burn, they burn, they burn.....

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (a/dOO)

66 Judge is a "W" appointee, probably the result of Andy Card.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (bNf8H)

67 There. Are. 23. Rules.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (2yoRf)

68 democrat judges are evil retards

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (gxokI)

69 Ever feel like with the modern insistance on recognition of "classes" and other ways to divide up the populace like race/gender/sexuality/etc that we're going backwards from the whole "all men are created equal" thingy that we used to think was a good idea?

Posted by: Judge Randy Kentanji Brown Marsh at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (B9Prs)

70 1, 2, and 3: Please, read the 14th, and tell me what "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means and why it's a separate clause from what precedes it, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States".

4. Hilarious. Terrible class definition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

The truth of the matter (not what should be argued in court) is that the 14th Amendment was meant to say "all former slaves are now citizens of the US. We are not including Indians in this, as they're their own thing."

Nothing about what we now call birthright citizen, I don't think they meant to create a whole new term of art ("...and subject the jurisdiction thereof") or anything else.

To me, it's very clear what the intention of the 14th was. But unfortunately Courts have decided it means anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen, so that's the battle that has be fought, and the only real "out" here is the jurisdiction question.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

71 >>> Babies born on American soil
Really shouldn't do that in the dirt.
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (UjdFS)

I'm reminded of the Beatles song "Why don't we do it in the road."

But seriously, liberals are fine with trafficking children here to work as slaves on farms. Plenty of dirt there!

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (gWBY1)

72 off sock

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (B9Prs)

73 1, 2, and 3: Please, read the 14th, and tell me what "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means and why it's a separate clause from what precedes it, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States".

4. Hilarious. Terrible class definition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Leftist use the Chinese Restaurant Menu constitutional doctrine. They pick and choose which clauses that they like and which they don't. Most are illiterate by design on law, history, or the Constitution. All they know is what their approved media morons tells them to think. Self licking ice cream cone of malice and ignorance all around.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (ctrM5)

74 66 Judge is a "W" appointee, probably the result of Andy Card.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (bNf8H)

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2007, so would have been recommended by Sununu and Gregg, most likely.

Both Republicans, but NH Republicans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

75 49 Don't look up Rule 23.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

But you should search "Rule 34 My Little Pony" images.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

76 You'd think that the Supremes would be getting sick of having to fix the lower courts 5 days a week.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK

You would think.

That said, I get why they're hesitant to do anything too drastic here, they are in essence giving away their own power (of the judiciary).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (uCjyK)

I don't. It is totally dissipating the good will of the institution and showing the Supremes. It could have been fixed by internal regulations and customs by crushing these judges and removing them from cases when they blunder so badly. As discipline from a superior court, nobody would object if these bought and sold judges were restricted to mundane night court duties until they retired.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)

77 64 55 Alito's gone fucking radical since 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
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which is why I pray for his health and that of Justice Thomas every day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:38 PM (kO68M)

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Kavanaugh's hardcore, too.

Gorsuch has made up his weird detour in Bostock.

ACB is solid on the merits and getting sick of the process games as well as KJB's shit.

Roberts is along for the ride, unenthusiastically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

He'll close his eyes and think of England SCOTUS...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

78 Usual sock back on.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 03:42 PM (2yoRf)

79 Oh no! Now John Roberts will have to explain why the plain English of the 14th Amendment means exactly the opposite of what it means!

It's a tax!

Posted by: John Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (uxAXv)

80 If a conservative opinion is going to prevail 5-4 without Roberts, it will always be 6-3 with Roberts, so that he can write the opinion to minimize the damage done to the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

81 And to continue the point, since it is illegal for them to be here, if illegals were under the jurisdiction of the US they would be deported.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (t0Rmr)

82 67 There. Are. 23. Rules.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (2yoRf)

::: blinking :::

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

83 70 To me, it's very clear what the intention of the 14th was. But unfortunately Courts have decided it means anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen, so that's the battle that has be fought, and the only real "out" here is the jurisdiction question.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

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The SCOTUS decision that everyone points to, United States v. Wong Kim Ark (189, doesn't even say that.

It's not, "Cross the border and give birth." It's, "have permanent residence for an extended period of time and give birth."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

84 Wait. Is he issuing rights to the unborn?

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 03:44 PM (SJnNf)

85 80 If a conservative opinion is going to prevail 5-4 without Roberts, it will always be 6-3 with Roberts, so that he can write the opinion to minimize the damage done to the Bolsheviks.
Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

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Only if the other 5 agree to it.

If he assigns himself the majority opinion 6-3, and the other 5 disagree, they can write a controlling, majority opinion instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

86 69 Ever feel like with the modern insistance on recognition of "classes" and other ways to divide up the populace like race/gender/sexuality/etc that we're going backwards from the whole "all men are created equal" thingy that we used to think was a good idea?
Posted by: Judge Randy Kentanji Brown Marsh at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (B9Prs)

In the judicial context, it makes sense.
1) no court wants to hear the same case over and over again, and god forbid you get contradictory jury decisions. So for convenience sake, the courts say "yep, lump all these people together in one case"
and
2) there are a lot of situations where the damages to any individual person are not worth the effort of filing the case (or don't meet the threshold to get in to federal court), but collectively the damages are huge. The courts reason they don't want bad actors to get away with being bad actors because the damages to each individual is only $5k or whatever, even if the collective damages are tens of millions of dollars. For example, in some kind of consumer fraud case.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:44 PM (uCjyK)

87 68 democrat judges are evil retards

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 10, 2025 03:40 PM (gxokI)

I saw Evil Retard Judges front for Satanic Congress at the Harvey Milk Photo Center in '14...

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at July 10, 2025 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

88 But you should search "Rule 34 My Little Pony" images.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
......

OK. Because I like trust you, totally.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

89 Then simply deport the parents, and throw the baby into an orphanage, where it will grow up in good America.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Then eminent domain the judge's property to be converted into an orphanage.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 10, 2025 03:45 PM (A2qI3)

90 Honestly, what I read of the Barret opinion I thought it was weak sauce because of exactly this.

I did not comment on it because I did not want to be an Eeyore and everyone was so happy.

But I think our coalition held only because it was weak sauce.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (A7fWT)

91 The SCOTUS decision that everyone points to, United States v. Wong Kim Ark (189, doesn't even say that.

It's not, "Cross the border and give birth." It's, "have permanent residence for an extended period of time and give birth."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

That's the controlling case, and the language from that case is the only SCOTUS case I know of that explores this question, and they landed where they landed.

Obviously that case included the most sympathetic plaintiffs they could find, and, well, bad facts make bad case law and here we are.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (uCjyK)

92 >>> 15 Obviously he's not even going to attempt notifying babies that they are now part of a class action lawsuit.

If babies are a class, shouldn't someone be getting a nationwide injunction against killing them without their written consent?
Posted by: Methos at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (zLwRl)

There was an infrequently commenting Moron who attended a couple of the early TX MoMees, who was a litigator for various religious freedom cases and similar such. Maybe he's still lurking.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ULPxl)

93 To me, it's very clear what the intention of the 14th was. But unfortunately Courts have decided it means anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen, so that's the battle that has be fought, and the only real "out" here is the jurisdiction question.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

No they did not. That is not a fair reading of Wong Ark Kim. Essentially Wong Ark was born here of legally present parents, came and went twice to China to see his parents, etc. And he was barred from reentry due to an exclusion act the second time from reentering the US. So, Justice Gray, in a crappy misreading of English common law btw, tried to rectify what he believed was an injustice but ignored that late unpleasantness of Dred Scott and why the 13-15 amendments were made which overrode any understanding before of natural born clause. Dred Scott held as part of the opinion that blacks, whether free or slave, could never be considered part of the people of the US and thus were non citizens forever. Obviously Congress had to fix this so they added the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' (which has a meaning very different in US law than the old British common law--citizens v. subjects)

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

94 Then simply deport the parents, and throw the baby into an orphanage, where it will grow up in good America.


The left plays a game with this.

If you deport the illegals and keep the child you are "separating parents and child!"

If you deport them all together you are "deporting American citizens!"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

95 Harry,
The Fuller court has a helluva lot of bad decisions that led future courts to overreach to correct them.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:47 PM (ctrM5)

96 Even Roberts can no longer claim that these judges are following anything like normal legal procedures. They are forcing him against his will probably to have to deal with these activists in order to preserve any respect for the courts. And respect for rulings, when gone, means that the court becomes advisory in nature.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ctrM5)

That's his problem. Its one thing to want to elevate the courts into a better group of judges, but if so the sort of wishcasting laws into TROs, the evading of rules on who and where people can sue and who gets to judge, the conspiring with the initiators and excluding the defendants should be mortal sins n his eyes and he should come down hard. But he doesn't have the steel.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)

97 These judges know they are going to be reversed, the aim is delay.

It's going to take 6-8 months before SCOTUS gets around to dealing with this, they'll smack this down, but leave another avenue that can be exploited, another novel legal theory will be devised, another TRO is put in place, rinse repeat for the next 3.5 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 03:48 PM (XV/Pl)

98 91 That's the controlling case, and the language from that case is the only SCOTUS case I know of that explores this question, and they landed where they landed.

Obviously that case included the most sympathetic plaintiffs they could find, and, well, bad facts make bad case law and here we are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (uCjyK)

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But, just throwing up your hands and saying, "Well, case law says birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is just settled," isn't correct. Because that's not what the controlling caselaw actually says.

SCOTUS revisiting this on the merits is going to look at Wong Kim Ark and start there. They could even overturn it, saying, "Congress needs to write legislation to clarify this, until then, the EO is controlling going forward," or "the EO is invalid until Congress speaks."

Considering SCOTUS's recent history, I'd call it 50/50 they go either way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

99 This judge is...wait for it...the kind of jurist we need more of.

Posted by: Justice Jumanji Affirmative Action...wait for it...Jackson at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (47/pr)

100 To me, it's very clear what the intention of the 14th was. But unfortunately Courts have decided it means anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen, so that's the battle that has be fought, and the only real "out" here is the jurisdiction question.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

The biggest legal problem with "Subject to the Jurisdiction of" is the finding in Plyler vs Doe, 1982. As the saying goes, the Surpreme Court isn't final because they're always right; they're always right because they're final.
And the standing precedent on "Subject to the Jurisdiction of" is this:
"Texas officials had argued that illegal aliens were not "within the jurisdiction" of the state and thus could not claim protections under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court majority rejected this claim, finding instead that "no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment 'jurisdiction' can be drawn between resident immigrants whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident immigrants whose entry was unlawful." The dissenting opinion also rejected this claim."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (uWKK8)

101 New 2 bed senior houses are stunning ad:

A fuckin death row cell has more room for one!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (Z1/EE)

102 > Iffn I was SCOTUS I would immediately declare this idiot to be out of order and I would overturn his injunction.

As I said in the previous thread, he needs to be jugged for contempt, followed by impeachment and removal from office.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qpyNK)

103 No they did not. That is not a fair reading of Wong Ark Kim. Essentially Wong Ark was born here of legally present parents, came and went twice to China to see his parents, etc. And he was barred from reentry due to an exclusion act the second time from reentering the US. So, Justice Gray, in a crappy misreading of English common law btw, tried to rectify what he believed was an injustice but ignored that late unpleasantness of Dred Scott and why the 13-15 amendments were made which overrode any understanding before of natural born clause. Dred Scott held as part of the opinion that blacks, whether free or slave, could never be considered part of the people of the US and thus were non citizens forever. Obviously Congress had to fix this so they added the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' (which has a meaning very different in US law than the old British common law--citizens v. subjects)
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

Yes, but since then, we've had birthright citizenship. I agree, SCOTUS needs to clarify / overrule Ark, and can easily distinguish the case of someone born in the US with two illegal parents from the Ark case if they so desire.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (uCjyK)

104 97 These judges know they are going to be reversed, the aim is delay.

It's going to take 6-8 months before SCOTUS gets around to dealing with this, they'll smack this down, but leave another avenue that can be exploited, another novel legal theory will be devised, another TRO is put in place, rinse repeat for the next 3.5 years.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 03:48 PM (XV/Pl)

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It took about 3 months to get from the birthright citizens injunction to ending all national injunctions. It only took that long because the majority decided to go big.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

105 In order to issue the notices of class action, every unborn baby on American soil must be insured to be born, so as to be notified of the class action lawsuit.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 03:49 PM (SJnNf)

106 This is never going to end unless the administration is willing to take... adverse action.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

Do these black-robed tyrants not have windows to fall out of?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (Bhbkm)

107 Maybe the Supremes should stop including in their majority opinions things akin to "Here's one way I could see others could get around what we concluded today...".

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (TN0g+)

108 >>> 98

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SCOTUS revisiting this on the merits is going to look at Wong Kim Ark and start there. They could even overturn it, saying, "Congress needs to write legislation to clarify this, until then, the EO is controlling going forward," or "the EO is invalid until Congress speaks."

Considering SCOTUS's recent history, I'd call it 50/50 they go either way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

Shit, we have to WORK?!

Posted by: congresscritters at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (ULPxl)

109 Personally, I think it's time to burn DC to the ground.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (g8Ew8)

110 It's just too bad the 14th amendment when drafted didn't make explicit reference to "formerly enslaved people", as it was intended to apply to that group of citizens specifically.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (kO68M)

111 That standing Supreme Court precedent is why I do not believe the President can overturn it with just an EO, but Congress and the President acting together can.

I do not think it is a very good plan to hope that the SCOTUS changes its mind and bails us out of the situation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (uWKK8)

112 Dred Scott held as part of the opinion that blacks, whether free or slave, could never be considered part of the people of the US and thus were non citizens forever. Obviously Congress had to fix this so they added the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' (which has a meaning very different in US law than the old British common law--citizens v. subjects)
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

Yes, that was such an obvious lie that the Founders had any such idea that being a slave was a permanent condition. States also had laws protecting treatment of slaves so even if enslaved they had some rights, and slaves could and were manumitted the entire period.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

113 > Harvey Milk Photo Center in '14...

Is that where they decide which missing kid goes on the milk cartons?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (qpyNK)

114 Am I supposed to read all this?

Posted by: Ketanji Action Jackson at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (UjdFS)

115 I'm wondering if the side issue of this judicial coup is pushing the fence sitters on the SC to go ahead and rule that no, birthright citizenship is not going to be an enshrined Constitutional right for illegal aliens.

Posted by: Eldo at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (Bt9aS)

116 >>> ACB is solid on the merits and getting sick of the process games as well as KJB's shit.

It's still wild to me that even Wise Latina Sotamayor had to do the SCOTUS version of "KJB, you ignorant slut..."

Sotamayor was an actual Bronx girl who lived in the projects, none of this Sandy Cortez carpetbagging crap. Real Bronx girls only suffer fools for so long. (Which is also why the Bronx had an impressive swing to Trump in the last election. Keep appealing to the working class legal latinos there! And get them all registered to vote and get them to the polls.)

Cleaning up voting and census rolls to cut off the illegals, maybe some of the lighter blue NYC boroughs could one day shift as red as Staten Island. A girl can dream...

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (gWBY1)

117 >>> 109 Personally, I think it's time to burn DC to the ground.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (g8Ew

Don't forget to salt the ashes. And you probably need an exorcism, too.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (ULPxl)

118 111 That standing Supreme Court precedent is why I do not believe the President can overturn it with just an EO, but Congress and the President acting together can.

I do not think it is a very good plan to hope that the SCOTUS changes its mind and bails us out of the situation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (uWKK

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Any legislation would need 60 votes in the Senate to get past the filibuster.

It'd be nice, but, besides that hurdle, it's Congress. They do show votes and must pass spending bills and not much else.

I'm not entirely against this SCOTUS trying to save us, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

119 I said it in the last thread and it applies here too.

Trump is using the SCOTUS he helped fill to go after a lot of bad law. We made progress on Roe and the 2nd, now he wants to go after

- birthright citizenship
- commerce clause overreach (last thread)

I expect Kelo to be next. Watch him sue a Democrat state trying to get them to argue against Eminent Domain abuse.

He has a checklist.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (A7fWT)

120 It's just too bad the 14th amendment when drafted didn't make explicit reference to "formerly enslaved people", as it was intended to apply to that group of citizens specifically.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (kO68M)

It is a 'thing' that the Constitution never uses the term.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

121 I, too, have made that argument but everyone yells at me.

Illegals aren't under the "jurisdiction" of the US any more than Indians on reservations were.

And if, as others have said, just being subject to US laws means you're under the "jurisdiction" of the US, then anyone who comes to the US, including diplomats or anyone else, or is in our exclusive economic zone is under our "jurisdiction" and why even have that language in there? Surely they meant something by the word "jurisdiction" (and we know what they meant - to exclude Indians)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


If you want to see who you have jurisdiction over, simply try to draft them into the military.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (e2MJJ)

122 >>It's just too bad the 14th amendment when drafted didn't make explicit reference to "formerly enslaved people", as it was intended to apply to that group of citizens specifically.


The 14th is a Steamin Hot Pile of Shit.

It's been the justification for no end of ridiculous rulings that are patently unconstitutional, otherwise.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (Bi+MU)

123 116 It's still wild to me that even Wise Latina Sotamayor had to do the SCOTUS version of "KJB, you ignorant slut..."

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (gWBY1)

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I prefer to think of it as "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

124 But, just throwing up your hands and saying, "Well, case law says birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is just settled," isn't correct. Because that's not what the controlling caselaw actually says.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

That's not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying the best strategy (in my opinion) is to attack birthright citizenship from the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" side, in light of the Ark case.

Because it will be an easier pill for SCOTUS to swallow if they're "distinguishing" any new case from Ark, then if they're forced to overturn the case in it's entirety.

They can say "in Ark, his parents were permanent residents and subject to the jurisdiction of the US. In the case at bar, the parents are illegal aliens subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, and thus they are not covered by the citizenship clause of the 14th."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)

125 I expect Kelo to be next. Watch him sue a Democrat state trying to get them to argue against Eminent Domain abuse.

He has a checklist.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (A7fWT)

He should grab the personal homes of all the blue state governors

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

126 Certainly there must be a friendly federal judge around who can un-injunction this!

Posted by: Weasel at July 10, 2025 03:54 PM (idFWj)

127 None of this stops until the Executive ignores the Judicial. Until then - the Executive is a lower branch that obeys the Judicial.

There is no cute and painless way around it. As of today, the Executive obeys the Judicial. It only stops when the Executive no longer obeys.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:54 PM (kSDAy)

128 I want this issue resolved by Congress. They are the ones who can legitimately do a balancing act like legalizing the current born-heres while barring citizenship going forward. And honestly, that is the best we are going to get. We can't even boot the "Dreamers", and they are by admission not citizens. We aren't going to boot people born here.

Working out acceptable policy trade-offs are why we pay people to be in Congress.

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:54 PM (jc0TO)

129 I prefer to think of it as "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

Oh my bad. I'll have a spicy chicken sandwich and a frosty.
-KJB.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 03:54 PM (MGB5H)

130 > Maybe the Supremes should stop including in their majority opinions things akin to "Here's one way I could see others could get around what we concluded today...".
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This

It's been noted several times that SCOTUS always seems to provide a caveat, a loophole or whatever so that something they "might" like to see can be properly discharged in their court. It's another reason why I think this court has outlived its usefulness. Their proverbial thumb is on the scale.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)

131 >>I expect Kelo to be next. Watch him sue a Democrat state trying to get them to argue against Eminent Domain abuse.


That would be a shame.

He should use Kelo to strip Harvard and all of the other 'Private' Universities of their Real Estate Holdings.

They made due without a campus during Covid...so, no need to waste that Land when it could be developed for the benefit of the Citizenry.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Bi+MU)

132 Huh?

Posted by: Ketanji Action Jackson at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (UjdFS)

133 Any legislation would need 60 votes in the Senate to get past the filibuster.

It'd be nice, but, besides that hurdle, it's Congress. They do show votes and must pass spending bills and not much else.

I'm not entirely against this SCOTUS trying to save us, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There is another way. Senate debatecloture via a talking filibuster. On any topic, a senator is limited to one floor speech however long it may be. Once the speakers list is exhausted, cloture occurs naturally because by the rules, no one else is allowed to speak on the matter.

Takes a month or two though of locking down the floor for no other legislation.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

134 Lowly District Court Judge Blows Off the Supreme Court

Maybe he's just trying to get ahead in this world?

Posted by: KAMALA at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (5yGIt)

135 131 That would be a shame.

He should use Kelo to strip Harvard and all of the other 'Private' Universities of their Real Estate Holdings.

They made due without a campus during Covid...so, no need to waste that Land when it could be developed for the benefit of the Citizenry.
Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Bi+MU)

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Without Kelo, he can still use eminent domain. He just can't sell the land to a private entity.

Eminent domain Harvard and turn it into a prison.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

136 133 There is another way. Senate debatecloture via a talking filibuster. On any topic, a senator is limited to one floor speech however long it may be. Once the speakers list is exhausted, cloture occurs naturally because by the rules, no one else is allowed to speak on the matter.

Takes a month or two though of locking down the floor for no other legislation.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

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"For birthright citizenship? Are you crazy?"
-like...all of Congress

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

137 And if, as others have said, just being subject to US laws means you're under the "jurisdiction" of the US, then anyone who comes to the US, including diplomats or anyone else, or is in our exclusive economic zone is under our "jurisdiction" and why even have that language in there?"

Actually diplomats who are here officially are not subject to our laws, they're subject to the laws of their own country. If they do something that is particularly noxious, the most we can do is to expel them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (uWKK8)

138 That standing Supreme Court precedent is why I do not believe the President can overturn it with just an EO, but Congress and the President acting together can.

I do not think it is a very good plan to hope that the SCOTUS changes its mind and bails us out of the situation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:51 PM (uWKK

Viewed as a single entity, the SCOTUS is pretty psychotic, and some parts are braindead. The left arm is just twitching sporadically.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

139 >>Eminent domain Harvard and turn it into a prison.


I was thinking a Migrant Holding Center with a dedicated Immigration Court...

but, I can be swayed.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:57 PM (Bi+MU)

140 When you've lost Sotomayor and Kagan, it's time to hang it up.

Kagan is pretty damned smart for a communist. I don't disagree with her on just about everything, but she's pretty smart.

Sotomayor isn't overly bright, but at least she's not borderline retarded like Jackson.

Jackson is an embarrassment to the Court and the entire nation. I don't recall a muppet like her ever making it to the court before.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:57 PM (qpyNK)

141 110 It's just too bad the 14th amendment when drafted didn't make explicit reference to "formerly enslaved people", as it was intended to apply to that group of citizens specifically.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:50 PM (kO68M)

In hindsight, they should have been more clear in their language. That said, "slavery" (the word) was talked around a lot, it does not appear in the Constitution at all.

And writing a constitutional amendment / legislation is really difficult. You want it to be easily understandable, but you if are not very precise, judges will run in their own directions with the language. And even if you are precise, judges will read new meanings in to words, etc.

I think the way they wrote the 14th is good not great, but judges have just run with it.

Kind of like the 2nd Amendment. It's pretty clear what they were saying. And yet we have to have constant arguments over "well regulated militia." Could 2A have been written without that language? Yes. But I also see why no one thought that would be an issue when they drafted it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:57 PM (uCjyK)

142 >>> 131 I expect Kelo to be next. Watch him sue a Democrat state trying to get them to argue against Eminent Domain abuse.
==

That would be a shame.

He should use Kelo to strip Harvard and all of the other 'Private' Universities of their Real Estate Holdings.

They made due without a campus during Covid...so, no need to waste that Land when it could be developed for the benefit of the Citizenry.
Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Bi+MU)

That and/or have DoJ sue various universities on behalf of whatever tribes are named in the retards' latest "land acknowledgment" for lease payments starting back when the campuses were formed.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ULPxl)

143 >>> Don't forget to salt the ashes. And you probably need an exorcism, too. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (ULPxl)

I don't know, the sequels in horror movie franchises teach me even then, that's not enough...

Speaking of, is the Conjuring franchise good? I saw the trailer for Last Rites and it intrigued me. Before I invest time in a new franchise, does the Conjuring as a series use horror as an excuse to bash religion? I hate when they do that.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (gWBY1)

144 I'm just a poi boy.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #7 at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (0sNs1)

145 Whig,
I responded to your comment below. I was getting coffee.

But no matter, the moving blog has moved on.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (A7fWT)

146 There is another way. Senate debatecloture via a talking filibuster. On any topic, a senator is limited to one floor speech however long it may be. Once the speakers list is exhausted, cloture occurs naturally because by the rules, no one else is allowed to speak on the matter.

Takes a month or two though of locking down the floor for no other legislation.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

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"For birthright citizenship? Are you crazy?"
-like...all of Congress
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

I agree that the old way of filibustering at least made them work for it to slow things down.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

147 https://t.co/os7lW2cjme
PERRIS, CA — As an immigration enforcement drive continues to sweep California, a Riverside County mayor urged residents to take caution and stay inside
Perris Mayor Michael Vargas shared the city's message on Facebook, warning residents that the city had received reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.
"We urge all residents to remain calm, stay indoors when possible, and know your rights. Do not go out unless necessary, stay at home and do not open the door to strangers. This message is for awareness and safety. The City is committed to protecting the dignity and well-being of all our residents. Please stay safe and continue to monitor official city communications," Vargas said.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (9aVck)

148 Eminent domain Harvard and turn it into a prison.


Want to bring college costs down? For the colleges to leave the big blue shitties.

That means not only will the cost to stay there go down, but the costs the colleges pay for their staff as well.

Cheaper to get an apartment in Western MA/Northern NH then in Boston.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (t0Rmr)

149 > If they do something that is particularly noxious, the most we can do is to expel them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (uWKK

Some of them take full advantage of this, committing offenses ranging from parking anywhere they feel like it and just ignoring the tickets, all the way up to felonies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (qpyNK)

150 mmmm shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (1E9DX)

151 They can say "in Ark, his parents were permanent residents and subject to the jurisdiction of the US. In the case at bar, the parents are illegal aliens subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, and thus they are not covered by the citizenship clause of the 14th."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)
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If the left wins on this, then in addition to the class lawfare against abortion talked about up above, you can expect Trump will respond by barring pregnant women who are citizens of other countries from entering the United States.

Be careful what you wish for, lefties.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 03:59 PM (kO68M)

152 I'm just a poi boy.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #7 at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM



HE'S JUST A POI BOY FROM A POI FAMILY!!

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:59 PM (jc0TO)

153 There shouldn’t even be district lawsuits. Just go on the assumption the judge rules against Trump and go right to circuit courts.

Save everyone a bunch of time and money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 03:59 PM (ImXfC)

154 Actually diplomats who are here officially are not subject to our laws, they're subject to the laws of their own country. If they do something that is particularly noxious, the most we can do is to expel them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 03:56 PM (uWKK

And yet I see cars with Diplomat tags with parking tickets on them all the time.

So clearly they're subject to some of our laws.

But yes, that was why I used them as an example. Because clearly foreign diplomats, despite having to follow our laws about not parking in front of fire hydrants, are not "subject to the jurisdiction of the US"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:59 PM (uCjyK)

155 Mr. we could use a man like 'Cisco Franco again.

Protestia@Protestia
Spanish House Votes 311-33 To Jail Pastors For Counselling Against Homosexuality

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

156 > I don't disagree with her on just about everything, but she's pretty smart.

Thinko, obviously. I disagree with her on just about everything.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (qpyNK)

157 If you want to see who you have jurisdiction over, simply try to draft them into the military.
Posted by: rickb223

That's not as conclusive as you might think.

Posted by: British Sailors press-ganging Americans in 1811 at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (JCZqz)

158 How can you have standing to sue, when there are NO VICTIMS YET?

They literally are not born.... thus can show no damage... so how can they sue at all?

Especially as someone ELSE is declaring them a victim without any legal consent.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (mP0Kj)

159 >>Trump is now floating amnesty for millions and millions of migrants working in hotels and farms


The Israeli Lobby wishes it had the Power of the Ag Lobby.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (Bi+MU)

160 My only hesitation about my Kelo comment above is that I think Trump benefited from eminent domain in Atlantic City to build a Casino. Not sure.

He may have a wrong-side view of the issue.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (A7fWT)

161 > So clearly they're subject to some of our laws.

Nope. They just tear 'em up or throw them away.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (qpyNK)

162 Supreme Coward Justice Amy Easily-Conned Barret thinks it's 1990 when it's actually 1917.

Posted by: Dad Was Right at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (qUkBO)

163 The whole jurisdiction thereof nonsense has got to be the biggest MacGuffen ever.

Everybody in the US, whether a citizen or not is under some form of jurisdiction, be it locationally, procedurally or legally.

The 14th amendment and the authors are pretty clear who the provisions of the amendment applied to and was meant to deal with.

They even go out of their way to say the provisions do not apply to aliens.

I don't want to hear any nonsense that they were talking about diplomats.

The very concept of people entering the country illegally and popping out kids would have been completely foreign to them.

We've been living with this nonsense for too f**king long.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (XV/Pl)

164 Like we've been saying for years, I really wish we could get better trolls than Sid around here. The "alias" comment currently at 150 is one of the dumbest yet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (kO68M)

165 * dog barks *

The dog barks, but the comments move on.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #7 at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (0sNs1)

166 164 Like we've been saying for years, I really wish we could get better trolls than Sid around here. The "alias" comment currently at 150 is one of the dumbest yet.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (kO68M)

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I think 150 aged better with time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

167 Do not go out unless necessary, stay at home and do not open the door to strangers. This message is for awareness and safety. The City is committed to protecting the dignity and well-being of all our residents. Please stay safe and continue to monitor official city communications," Vargas said.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (9aVck)
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Interesting. The good mayor is admitting his constituency is largely illegals? Or, is he conflating legal immigrants with illegal? Either seems, shall we say, unwise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (tT6L1)

168 >>> I expect Kelo to be next. Watch him sue a Democrat state trying to get them to argue against Eminent Domain abuse. He has a checklist. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:52 PM (A7fWT)

That case in Cranberry NJ, where they want to pave over a generational family farm to build a ghetto housing project, horrifies me. Kelo needs to be next, to stop this madness.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (gWBY1)

169 Trump is a one man wrecking ball against the Deep State.

Posted by: jmel at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (bVhJi)

170 >>> 143
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Speaking of, is the Conjuring franchise good? I saw the trailer for Last Rites and it intrigued me. Before I invest time in a new franchise, does the Conjuring as a series use horror as an excuse to bash religion? I hate when they do that.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (gWBY1)

I've only seen the first one but the family ended up getting help from an exorcist (unlike the hipster tards in ... not Blair Witch, what was that one with the couple being attacked in their home? oh, Paranormal Activity). So no bashing that I recall and in fact a rather positive view.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (ULPxl)

171 160 My only hesitation about my Kelo comment above is that I think Trump benefited from eminent domain in Atlantic City to build a Casino. Not sure.

He may have a wrong-side view of the issue.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (A7fWT)

Agreed, I would not trust a real estate developer from NYC to be against an expansive definition of eminent domain.

But that's not really my top priority right now.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (uCjyK)

172 157 If you want to see who you have jurisdiction over, simply try to draft them into the military.
Posted by: rickb223

That's not as conclusive as you might think.
Posted by: British Sailors press-ganging Americans in 1811 at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (JCZqz)

Which led to war, that we won, and ended up making Napoleon like us...

You know, the guy who sold us the land that more than DOUBLED the size of the US?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (mP0Kj)

173 I think 150 aged better with time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

Upon a second reading I think it's perfectly cromulent.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (MGB5H)

174 I think this is bait. It's not a Will to Power, it's a calculated strategy to either bog down all of Trump's initiatives in endless appeals, or else bait him into declaring publicly that he's ignoring a judicial order. That latter opens him up to massive PR damage and likely another impeachment.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (LgYtf)

175 >>That case in Cranberry NJ, where they want to pave over a generational family farm to build a ghetto housing project, horrifies me. Kelo needs to be next, to stop this madness.


The way you stop is to Exploit it.

Let them challenge it.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (Bi+MU)

176 173 I think 150 aged better with time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

Upon a second reading I think it's perfectly cromulent.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (MGB5H)

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Dude has a fetish, and he only comes here to share it with us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

177 Some of them take full advantage of this, committing offenses ranging from parking anywhere they feel like it and just ignoring the tickets, all the way up to felonies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:58 PM (qpyNK)

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What's the over/under on illegal alien Invaders who have auto insurance -- zero?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (W8idE)

178 174 I think this is bait. It's not a Will to Power, it's a calculated strategy to either bog down all of Trump's initiatives in endless appeals, or else bait him into declaring publicly that he's ignoring a judicial order. That latter opens him up to massive PR damage and likely another impeachment.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (LgYtf)

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Comment from January?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

179 This

It's been noted several times that SCOTUS always seems to provide a caveat, a loophole or whatever so that something they "might" like to see can be properly discharged in their court. It's another reason why I think this court has outlived its usefulness. Their proverbial thumb is on the scale.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)

I took those as a warning to the children in the lower courts that they were aware of this dodge. Like a mom telling kids to stop writing on the walls, then saying OR THE ROOF AND FLOOR TILES EITHER.

They really just need to strip this case from that judge and have someone else work it or drop it if it is just shit.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (8avO+)

180 I think 150 aged better with time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
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well done.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (kO68M)

181 >>> 155 Mr. we could use a man like 'Cisco Franco again.

Protestia@Protestia
Spanish House Votes 311-33 To Jail Pastors For Counselling Against Homosexuality
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

Curious where the 33 represent, all over the place and/or several from any particular region.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:04 PM (ULPxl)

182 >>> I don't disagree with her on just about everything, but she's pretty smart.
Thinko, obviously. I disagree with her on just about everything.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 04:00 PM (qpyNK)

Kagan is like Fetterman to me. Never, ever forget they are a lefty. But a broken clock can be right on occasion.

I think the left is going so far left, the ones that are even remotely sane are getting embarrassed by the outright insane ones. Finally.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:04 PM (gWBY1)

183 What's the over/under on illegal alien Invaders who have auto insurance -- zero?
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (W8idE)

Here in New York, they drive around in beater cars with presumably fake temp tags from TX and NJ. And, for whatever reason, the west africans prefer NC plates.

I doubt any of the vehicles are insured, and I suspect that they are not paying their toll by plate tolls when they drive in and out of Manhattan.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (uCjyK)

184 Dude has a fetish, and he only comes here to share it with us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM


You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Quentin T. and Rex R. at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (0sNs1)

185 Which led to war, that we won, and ended up making Napoleon like us...

You know, the guy who sold us the land that more than DOUBLED the size of the US?
Posted by: Romeo13

Meh...even Wikipedia has the result listed as "inconclusive". Our Canadian gambit, for example, didn't really pay off, and they did burn our capital lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (JCZqz)

186 The Constitution is well written and very easy to understand unless you're a fucking retard.

-Shit Jefferson Said, Vol II

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (2UnvF)

187 > You know, the guy who sold us the land that more than DOUBLED the size of the US?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm not sure if he liked us, particularly, but rather that he couldn't defend it and didn't want the British to snatch it.

Same story with Alaska and the Russians. They sold it to us so the British wouldn't grab it (they were engaged in the so-called "Great Game" against the British at the time).




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (qpyNK)

188 174 I think this is bait. It's not a Will to Power, it's a calculated strategy to either bog down all of Trump's initiatives in endless appeals, or else bait him into declaring publicly that he's ignoring a judicial order. That latter opens him up to massive PR damage and likely another impeachment.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (LgYtf)

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Comment from January?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

well, a strategy to be able to block Congress or the executives is a will to power. The failure of the strategy is the SCOTUS is not playing ball entirely. They are just hoping that the bad eggs will just give it up. They are processing these too fast for the strategy to work. They have pretty much failed on the immigration cases by now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

189 What's the over/under on illegal alien Invaders who have auto insurance -- zero?
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 04:03 PM (W8idE)

Here in New York, they drive around in beater cars with presumably fake temp tags from TX and NJ. And, for whatever reason, the west africans prefer NC plates.

I doubt any of the vehicles are insured, and I suspect that they are not paying their toll by plate tolls when they drive in and out of Manhattan.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM


You're both pretty young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (0sNs1)

190 Jackson is an embarrassment to the Court and the entire nation. I don't recall a muppet like her ever making it to the court before.
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We found her compelling and fully qualified to serve on a dignified body like the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Ghey Mitt, Worthless Collins and Murk at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (TN0g+)

191 >>>>>That case in Cranberry NJ, where they want to pave over a generational family farm to build a ghetto housing project, horrifies me. Kelo needs to be next, to stop this madness.


ayo man wee need more dat affodoble housing more than some whypipo need some farm, what white people be doing out der anyway???

Posted by: Urban vote at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (jGJov)

192 That case in Cranberry NJ, where they want to pave over a generational family farm to build a ghetto housing project, horrifies me. Kelo needs to be next, to stop this madness.
Posted by: LizLem at


That's Mt. Laurel -- a NJ Supreme Court decision. They mandate low income housing and the cities have spent 30 years trying to get around it. So I think it qualifies as a "public purpose" since the court requires that shit be built somewhere.

I don't know the solution to Mt. Laurel - maybe turn the whole fucking state into a prison -- garret, any ideas?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (A7fWT)

193 > I think the left is going so far left, the ones that are even remotely sane are getting embarrassed by the outright insane ones. Finally.
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Every time this happens, a little bit of legitimacy is ripped from the judiciary. Lately, it's happening a lot.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (Q4IgG)

194 certification, shmertification

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

195 Also, PA plates seem to be popular with the New New Yorkers.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (uCjyK)

196 185 Which led to war, that we won, and ended up making Napoleon like us...

You know, the guy who sold us the land that more than DOUBLED the size of the US?
Posted by: Romeo13

Meh...even Wikipedia has the result listed as "inconclusive". Our Canadian gambit, for example, didn't really pay off, and they did burn our capital lol.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (JCZqz)

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Our official goals were the ending of impressment, and not a whole lot else. The conquest of Canada was never mentioned in the articles of war drafted by Congress to start the conflict that was The War of 1812 which was a smaller part of England's Napoleonic Wars.

So, while the effort to take Canada failed, we fulfilled the declared intentions of Congress.

We won.

The victory ultimately didn't mean anything to Britain because they just stopped needing impressed sailors after defeating Napoleon, but that doesn't change the war from our perspective.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

197 You're both pretty young to be so cynical."

You misspelled "to be correct "

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (tubbA)

198 Sean Spicer
@seanspicer

@AlanDersh said he saw the entire Epstein list while proving his innocence:

"Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them. But I'm bound by confidentiality."


https://tinyurl.com/3shsyydh
(Sean Spicer on X)

Dershowitz won in court, so he's not BSing here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

199 Like we've been saying for years, I really wish we could get better trolls than Sid around here. The "alias" comment currently at 150 is one of the dumbest yet.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (kO68M)

I wonder if the ASS troll even knows its droppings are being converted into turds in real time? You'd think, if it knew, it would give up or change tactics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (Bhbkm)

200 ayo man wee need more dat affodoble housing more than some whypipo need some farm, what white people be doing out der anyway???
Posted by: Urban vote at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM (jGJov)

Oh, I don't think it will be largely American blacks who benefit from this.

I think it will be New Americans of all races.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (uCjyK)

201 let me find my certification stamp..it was here somewhere..OK! this is certified...

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (g47mK)

202 Why Can't Johnny Read?

https://is.gd/56uh7W

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (L/fGl)

203 198 Dershowitz won in court, so he's not BSing here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

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OJ won in court, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

204 Scalia was enthusiastic about Kagan, because she is smart and he valued that. Of course, he's the same guy who had a friendship with RBG.

That kind of collegiality is misplaced in today's world. I'm hopeful that Justice A Black Woman Is Speaking will help destroy that tradition.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (AQ1VH)

205 If District Court Judge had real balls he'd jail SCROUTUS for contempt.

Posted by: New Name at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)

206 Dershowitz won in court, so he's not BSing here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

Dershowitz's biggest problem here is that he looks like a child molester.

It's like even if Lindsey Graham could prove in court that he wasn't gay, I'd still have some questions, ya know?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

207 And yet I see cars with Diplomat tags with parking tickets on them all the time.

So clearly they're subject to some of our laws.

But yes, that was why I used them as an example. Because clearly foreign diplomats, despite having to follow our laws about not parking in front of fire hydrants, are not "subject to the jurisdiction of the US"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:59 PM (uCjyK)

We can ticket them, but does the US Govt require them be paid, or pay them themselves?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

208 205 If District Court Judge had real balls he'd jail SCROUTUS for contempt.
Posted by: New Name at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)

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He stayed his own order, by the way.

This is resitoid points, and no more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

209 Is Rule 23 like Order 66?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (2ocoG)

210 >>> 187 You know, the guy who sold us the land that more than DOUBLED the size of the US?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:02 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm not sure if he liked us, particularly, but rather that he couldn't defend it and didn't want the British to snatch it.

Same story with Alaska and the Russians. They sold it to us so the British wouldn't grab it (they were engaged in the so-called "Great Game" against the British at the time).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (qpyNK)

Alternate history idea: the US participation in WWI includes sending material to and through OMG Russia and somehow or other this ends up preventing their revolution.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (ULPxl)

211 New Jersey is one of the top 5 states for Guatemalan population for some reason

Posted by: brak at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (jGJov)

212 @204

>>he's the same guy who had a friendship with RBG.

And RGB essentially said the world is better that Scalia is off the court.

What a pal she was.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (XV/Pl)

213 163 The whole jurisdiction thereof nonsense has got to be the biggest MacGuffen ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

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I don't think so. I think it is clear that you are either of someplace else, or not.

How can a person be subject to my jurisdiction if they are on my land without permission???? seems the first sentinel of being under my jurisdiction is NOT being here. They fail that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (A7fWT)

214 We can ticket them, but does the US Govt require them be paid, or pay them themselves?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

I suspect they just ignore the tickets, but I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (uCjyK)

215 140 When you've lost Sotomayor and Kagan, it's time to hang it up.

Kagan is pretty damned smart for a communist. I don't disagree with her on just about everything, but she's pretty smart.

Sotomayor isn't overly bright, but at least she's not borderline retarded like Jackson.

Jackson is an embarrassment to the Court and the entire nation. I don't recall a muppet like her ever making it to the court before.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:57 PM (qpyNK)


She be workin to right dem wrongs her an my race bin subjectified to sins dat slaveholder constitution-thing bin rote! She my hero! Ya all jus need ta sit yo asses down and shut de fuck up!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (aBgBM)

216 "For birthright citizenship? Are you crazy?"
-like...all of Congress
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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House passes a lot of red meat bills; Senate, with no germaneness requirement then conglomerates all of those bills into a newer Deal and Even Greater Society to get rid old New Deal and Great Society.

Election fixes, welfare fixes, citizenship fixes, fixing the census, judicial misbehavior ,etc. are all possible after.

My guess is that is what will happen eventually one way or another. Either you get the legislative branch to vote for hari kari and make someone First Citizen or you get the cruder, "Me Chief, you squaw" from a despot.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:11 PM (ctrM5)

217 OJ won in court, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

The black jurors won in court and they all celebrated the victory together.

I mean, Dersh wwas accused of being an Epstein client.

In the video he explains, he's seen the documents, knows the names, but can't say anything because of a gag order from the judge.

I don't see any reason not to believe him on this one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:11 PM (6ydKt)

218 I sort of assume Justice Roberts is getting very very tired to district court judges presuming they can go around SCOTUS rulings.

I also believe both Kagan and Sotomayor aren't wild about it either.

Be interesting to see how this comes down.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

219 211 New Jersey is one of the top 5 states for Guatemalan population for some reason
Posted by: brak at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (jGJov)

Yes, NJ has become incredibly diverse in recent years. It is their strength.

In fact, driving through Edison, you might mistakenly believe you were in Mumbai.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (uCjyK)

220 ‘Just as the good Justice Alito predicted’

The Blade predicted it too. Just sayin …

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (0kxAA)

221 That case in Cranberry NJ, where they want to pave over a generational family farm to build a ghetto housing project, horrifies me. Kelo needs to be next, to stop this madness.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:01 PM (gWBY1)
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The underlying need for affordable housing is itself a screaming instance of judicial overreach. New Jersey had a court case fifty years ago, called the "Mt. Laurel case" (can't recall the proper title offhand) where the state Supreme Court ordered communities to build "affordable housing". That case has been refined subsequently by additional cases, most recently under Chris Christie when the court ordered a reorganization of the state agency overseeing the Mt. Laurel obligations, but the issue has NEVER BEEN PASSED LEGISLATIVELY.

So Cranbury, which is a nice little town, has to find a place to build affordable housing. Because judges ordered it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (7RUmD)

222 re Dershowitz, here is a though, he might have see "a" list , but no necessarily "the" list. in other words there was some kind of list somebody put together based on who knows what.

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (g47mK)

223 218 I sort of assume Justice Roberts is getting very very tired to district court judges presuming they can go around SCOTUS rulings.

I also believe both Kagan and Sotomayor aren't wild about it either.

Be interesting to see how this comes down.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

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Oh, I don't think Kagan and Sotomayor actually care. They're as partisan as anyone else. Kagan even did a talk 3 years ago where she said national injunctions by district court judges were bad law and needed to be stopped before she voted to not end them because Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

224 They mandate low income housing "

Funny about that... there doesn't seem to be a shortage - but still more being built. It's as if there was some mysterious source of funds...

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (tubbA)

225 *peeks in*

It's gonna suck when one day a judge makes a ruling and everyone just laughs and tells him/her to eff off.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (W/lyH)

226 A CA man paid for his daughter's ambulance ride, accidentally leaving off his insurance information. He sent the service provider his insurance information, and they billed him MORE than before, even after his insurance company paid for part of the bill. He called the provider to resolve the issue, and the customer support rep informed him it wasn't a mistake. Here's video of that phone call:

http://tiny.cc/n43p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM (lIio7)

227 source, you know

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)

228 None of this stops until the Executive ignores the Judicial. Until then - the Executive is a lower branch that obeys the Judicial.

There is no cute and painless way around it. As of today, the Executive obeys the Judicial. It only stops when the Executive no longer obeys.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:54 PM (kSDAy)

Yup. It should be made clear that the SCOTUS isn't the only institution that can read and interpret the Constitution.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM (g8Ew8)

229 Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer when the latter got the sweetheart plea deal avoiding prosecution. He probably does have all kinds of insider info.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM (AQ1VH)

230 Dershowitz's biggest problem here is that he looks like a child molester.

It's like even if Lindsey Graham could prove in court that he wasn't gay, I'd still have some questions, ya know?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

I don't know the particulars of his case, but he says he proved in court his accuser was lying with the documents he says are being withheld.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (6ydKt)

231 222 re Dershowitz, here is a though, he might have see "a" list , but no necessarily "the" list. in other words there was some kind of list somebody put together based on who knows what.
Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (g47mK)

The flight logs

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (VE6XX)

232 Oh, I don't think Kagan and Sotomayor actually care. They're as partisan as anyone else. Kagan even did a talk 3 years ago where she said national injunctions by district court judges were bad law and needed to be stopped before she voted to not end them because Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
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I was thinking of the recent 8-1 ruling, where even Kagan and Sotomayor sided with the administration while telling KJB to pound sand.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

233 >>> 226 A CA man paid for his daughter's ambulance ride, accidentally leaving off his insurance information. He sent the service provider his insurance information, and they billed him MORE than before, even after his insurance company paid for part of the bill. He called the provider to resolve the issue, and the customer support rep informed him it wasn't a mistake. Here's video of that phone call:

http://tiny.cc/n43p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM (lIio7)

California? Let me guess: "You have insurance, so that means you're rich and can contribute more for the well-being of our Newcomers!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (ULPxl)

234 232 I was thinking of the recent 8-1 ruling, where even Kagan and Sotomayor sided with the administration while telling KJB to pound sand.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

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The one where the ruling was that Trump was allowed to make plans?

Yeah, huge reach on their part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

235 I don't know the particulars of his case, but he says he proved in court his accuser was lying with the documents he says are being withheld.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (6ydKt)

I could be wrong, but my memory is that there was a settlement, which included her retracting her statement that Dershowitz raped her.

She could have been paid off, she could have been sincerely mistaken, or she could have run out of money to pay lawyers to defend her. I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (uCjyK)

236 flight logs, party invite lists, can be anything

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (g47mK)

237 The victory ultimately didn't mean anything to Britain because they just stopped needing impressed sailors after defeating Napoleon, but that doesn't change the war from our perspective.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

The post settlement Battle of New Orleans raised some eyebrows after we chopped the troops that beat Napoleon in Spain to hamburger. After that they wanted no part of provocations to the US and helped deter Monroe doctrine issues, thus closing down a distracting front in European wars. By the Mexican War era Canada could have been easily taken by the US Army that went to Mexico City. Better to both of us to demilitarize the region.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

238 209 Is Rule 23 like Order 66?
Posted by: Ian S.

Chief Justice Palpatine > Chief Justice Roberts.

He even loves Democracy!

Posted by: Moron Math at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

239 190 Jackson is an embarrassment to the Court and the entire nation. I don't recall a muppet like her ever making it to the court before.
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We found her compelling and fully qualified to serve on a dignified body like the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Ghey Mitt, Worthless Collins and Murk at July 10, 2025 04:06 PM
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Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, & Lisa Murkowski all voted to confirm Jackson. Susan Collins voted not to confirm Trump nominee ACB.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (9aVck)

240 "Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them. But I'm bound by confidentiality."

-
Speaking of the Clintons, didja see how lucky we are?

Chelsea Clinton@ChelseaClinton
Members of the @ClintonGlobal community are on the ground in Texas, supporting families, communities and ongoing search and rescue efforts.

Thread: https://is.gd/BMg9uq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:16 PM (L/fGl)

241 Friend of mine was the daughter of a oil-tanker sea captain. He ailed around the world in huge cargo ships filled with oil. Sometimes, he would have to spend months in end in foreign ports of call, waiting for the orders for a return journey. It was during one such instance that he was scheduled to be stuck for so long that he decided to have his wife fly over snd wait with him, living in the company-owned apartment until the ship paperwork was completed and the cargo filled.

Did I mention that that was...Iran, back in the Shah days? And that his wife was pregnant?

Well, you can guess what happened: They were forced by circumstance to wait to long that she ended up going into labor while still in Iran and gave birth there to her daughter (my friend). As a result, their daughter ended up with an Iranian birth certificate. (Neither parent was ethnically Iranian, BTW.)

And here's the point: Even so, the daughter was NOT automatically awarded Iranian citizenship. She was still considered an American citizen only.

(As an absurdist epilogue, when the da=ughter later went to college in the US, she applied for and got all sorts of scholarships aimed at Iranian students.)

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 04:16 PM (pMi6S)

242 The one where the ruling was that Trump was allowed to make plans?

Yeah, huge reach on their part.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)
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That I get but, after the court ruled and then a court promptly tried to go around what had already been decided, I think Kagan and possibly Sotomayor might be miffed someone dared presume on their turf, regardless of how they felt about the ruling.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

243 But what does Judge Judy say?

Posted by: She Rulz! at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (av+kn)

244 Dershowitz was accused by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who made millions upon millions accusing prince Andrew based on some photograph. source..

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (g47mK)

245 Did we just get lucky with Alito?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (jYRYu)

246 >>>And here's the point: Even so, the daughter was NOT automatically awarded Iranian citizenship. She was still considered an American citizen only.

that's how every sane country in the world does it, blood not soil

Posted by: brak at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (jGJov)

247 Oh, I don't think Kagan and Sotomayor actually care. They're as partisan as anyone else. Kagan even did a talk 3 years ago where she said national injunctions by district court judges were bad law and needed to be stopped before she voted to not end them because Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
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I was thinking of the recent 8-1 ruling, where even Kagan and Sotomayor sided with the administration while telling KJB to pound sand.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

There have even been 9-0 rulings where even the leftiest Judge has been browbeaten into sustaining the obvious. Unless she has been activated and will now always support the coup.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (8avO+)

248 Will the class action settlement payment be issued in the form of gift cards?

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (/2DkY)

249 A judge issuing universal injunctions is just a 1 person legislature. SCOTUS needs to slap this down hard and these judges need to be fired.

Not impeached. The word impeached is not even mentioned in Article III. It say “good behavior”.

Being a leftwing asshat is not good behavior.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (0kwZe)

250 Is Rule 23 like Order 66?"

More like a Number 6 Dance...

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (tubbA)

251 Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, & Lisa Murkowski all voted to confirm Jackson. Susan Collins voted not to confirm Trump nominee ACB.
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Thus confirming that "electing more Republicans" doesn't always solve the problem, since some of our Republicans don't seem to actually believe in anything. Susan Collins voted for Jackson but not ACB--absolutely amazing.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (TN0g+)

252 Again, the whole list? what list? nonsense has got to stop.

We were told for years there was an Epstein List/Black Book, we were told for years there was flight log? There have been people named from the Black Book/List/Flight Log, people have been dragged into court over Le Affaire Epstein.

And now we're being told, well.... the list wasn't really a list, well not in the way you're thinking, and Epstein's Dead and Ghislane's in jail and why do care, and STFU, it's child **** we can't show you anything, just get over it and yeah, we're going to send more weapons to Ukraine, you want Russia to win??

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

253 How can a person be subject to my jurisdiction if they are on my land without permission???? seems the first sentinel of being under my jurisdiction is NOT being here. They fail that.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (A7fWT)

EO... designate a NEW Native American Tribe, called the Illegals... then they are Indians not taxed... not full citizens and their children do not automatically become US Citizens.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (mP0Kj)

254 The Constitution is well written and very easy to understand unless you're a fucking retard. -Shit Jefferson Said, Vol II
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 04:05 PM (2UnvF)

I wish!

Dave Rubin interviewed Glenn Beck on his show. (If you dislike them both, bear with me...) Glenn's poured his fortune into buying up US history, to protect it, and is working to build a museum for all of it in TX. Beck owns one of Jefferson's Korans that he used to study the enemy and learn how he thinks, to defeat him. Whereas lefties think it means Jefferson was a secret Muslim.)

But this is the COOLEST thing they discussed...all the legal papers from Roe V Wade went to auction, and Glenn's wife was the one that bought them! She is indifferent to his "buying history" crusade. But she's pro life, and when she learned they were up for auction, she was interested. She was worried if a lefty bought it, they would destroy any papers in it not flattering to the left.

He said to her, is the cost of it going to be too much? And she said, what is the cost of millions of babies killed? Can you put a price on that? So she fiercely bid for it. Think what you will of the Becks, good on them!

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (gWBY1)

255 When these rogue judges come into their courtrooms to issue their unconstitutional nationwide injunctions, on the way to their seats do they do a little back-and-forth Sammy Davis Jr. dance and sing, "Here come de judge, here come de judge"??

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (pMi6S)

256 I could be wrong, but my memory is that there was a settlement, which included her retracting her statement that Dershowitz raped her.

She could have been paid off, she could have been sincerely mistaken, or she could have run out of money to pay lawyers to defend her. I don't know.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (uCjyK)

Epstein and Ghislaine weren't kidnapping choir girls out of the convents. Most of the island livestock were recruited from women that were on the street already, and were promised an easier, more lucrative lifestyle servicing higher-class clients.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (Bhbkm)

257 And now we're being told, well.... the list wasn't really a list, well not in the way you're thinking, and Epstein's Dead and Ghislane's in jail and why do care, and STFU, it's child **** we can't show you anything, just get over it and yeah, we're going to send more weapons to Ukraine, you want Russia to win??
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

That about sums it up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (uCjyK)

258 >>> 253 How can a person be subject to my jurisdiction if they are on my land without permission???? seems the first sentinel of being under my jurisdiction is NOT being here. They fail that.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:10 PM (A7fWT)

EO... designate a NEW Native American Tribe, called the Illegals... then they are Indians not taxed... not full citizens and their children do not automatically become US Citizens.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (mP0Kj)

DO IT ORANGE MAN BAD!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ULPxl)

259 242 That I get but, after the court ruled and then a court promptly tried to go around what had already been decided, I think Kagan and possibly Sotomayor might be miffed someone dared presume on their turf, regardless of how they felt about the ruling.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

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It was Kagan who concurred on the decision to allow Trump to follow the existing law and practice to send 8 criminal aliens, unwanted by their own country, to leave Djibouti and continue on their way to South Sudan.

She had a concurrence that chided Jackson for not knowing what she was talking about.

But, again, this is not some great stretch on Kagan's part. Roberts has pulled 9-0 decisions with regularity for decades now.

She's still deeply partisan, willing to throw out everything at a moment's notice. Like with the national injunctions process she denounced just a few years prior. That's much bigger than, "8 criminal aliens already out of the country can keep going."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

260 And yet I see cars with Diplomat tags with parking tickets on them all the time.

So clearly they're subject to some of our laws.

***

Speaking of...
Heard last week about a woman in Maryland with over 400 outstanding parking and moving violations valued at over $125,000 from DC. Turns out the good folks of the DC believe that going after offenders is racist. The drivers in VA and MD have figured this out. Result: $1.4 billion in unpaid fines going back five years.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 04:21 PM (W/lyH)

261 That I get but, after the court ruled and then a court promptly tried to go around what had already been decided, I think Kagan and possibly Sotomayor might be miffed someone dared presume on their turf, regardless of how they felt about the ruling.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

I have for the entire time been waiting for SCOTUS to get sick of these cases and actually act. If the lower courts can defy SCOTUS and the rules they have defined, well why do we need SCOTUS? just find a Trump judge and nationally injunct what we don't like. Or compel stuff we do like.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

262 257 And now we're being told, well.... the list wasn't really a list, well not in the way you're thinking, and Epstein's Dead and Ghislane's in jail and why do care, and STFU, it's child **** we can't show you anything, just get over it and yeah, we're going to send more weapons to Ukraine, you want Russia to win??
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

That about sums it up.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (uCjyK)

Pretty depressing.. Maybe you 2 need some time away to chill...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:21 PM (VE6XX)

263 Scalia was enthusiastic about Kagan, because she is smart and he valued that. Of course, he's the same guy who had a friendship with RBG.

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Resting Bitch Gunt?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)

264 250 Is Rule 23 like Order 66?"

More like a Number 6 Dance...
Posted by: man


If it is in the Constitution, there is porn of it.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (pMi6S)

265
"Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them. But I'm bound by confidentiality."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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After watching the vid, it looks to me like Dersh means "the unjustly accused" when he refers to "perps." He's all about releasing the files in order to start proving everyone innocent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (UmB+t)

266 Epstein and Ghislaine weren't kidnapping choir girls out of the convents. Most of the island livestock were recruited from women that were on the street already, and were promised an easier, more lucrative lifestyle servicing higher-class clients.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (Bhbkm)

They were children. Many from broken families and with past traumas, I'm sure. It's much easier to go after vulnerable girls if you're a pimp.

I don't see how that makes it any better that Epstein and co. preyed on the most vulnerable in our society.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uCjyK)

267 248 Will the class action settlement payment be issued in the form of gift cards?
Posted by: Dirac_Delta

+++

S & H Green Stamps.

Posted by: Get a toaster at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (av+kn)

268 So back to the Supreme Court and get one of the men to set it right? By men, I mean Thomas or Alito.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (WHfpM)

269 >>> 263 Scalia was enthusiastic about Kagan, because she is smart and he valued that. Of course, he's the same guy who had a friendship with RBG.

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Resting Bitch Gunt?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)

I doubt where she is now is all that restful.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ULPxl)

270 Yup. It should be made clear that the SCOTUS isn't the only institution that can read and interpret the Constitution.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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I am sure that Trump is aware of Andrew Jackson's veto message on rechartering the Second Bank of the US and his ignoring Scotus decisions that Justice Marshall dare not contest.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

271 264 Ha!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 04:23 PM (TwZXH)

272 270 Yup. It should be made clear that the SCOTUS isn't the only institution that can read and interpret the Constitution.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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I am sure that Trump is aware of Andrew Jackson's veto message on rechartering the Second Bank of the US and his ignoring Scotus decisions that Justice Marshall dare not contest.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

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He's got SCOTUS on his side now.

No reason to go nuclear and make any number of enemies out of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

273
She's still deeply partisan, willing to throw out everything at a moment's notice. Like with the national injunctions process she denounced just a few years prior. That's much bigger than, "8 criminal aliens already out of the country can keep going."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)
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I think, then, it will be a tussle between "How dare you play in my exclusive yard" and Kagan's leftism. Be interesting to see how it plays out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

274 And yet I see cars with Diplomat tags with parking tickets on them all the time.

So clearly they're subject to so.”

Do you seriously think any of those tickets are ever paid?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:23 PM (BDNZf)

275 263 Scalia was enthusiastic about Kagan, because she is smart and he valued that. Of course, he's the same guy who had a friendship with RBG.

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Resting Bitch Gunt?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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RBG was nasty about it after Scalia died that basically Scalia was a chump and RBG was strategically using him as needed.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ctrM5)

276 BTW,

- NJ has two egregious "laws" Mt Laurel decision is one, and for decades towns have been struggling on where to build low income housing. It is horrible and reason enough to never live in NJ. It is all a major scam, and all it does is ruin security for middle income people and ruin all the schools. Major cash for dems though.

- This is what Obama tried to bring to the whole country with his programs (I forget what they called them,) but he wanted to make suburbs and exburbs pay taxes to inner cities.

- the other egregious law is just as bad -- they take money from "wealthy" school districts and send it to failing ones. Last I looked I think Red Bank was getting over $50k per student and that was years ago. It harms the good towns and rewards the failing towns turning them into major grift factories.

Honestly, NJ is only tolerable for the grifters or the very wealthy, The entire state needs to be eradicated.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (A7fWT)

277 Don’t get me started on class actions. That shit shouldn’t be allowed. It just makes it easier for lawyers to fleece large groups of people at once.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (0kwZe)

278 designate a NEW Native American Tribe, called the Illegals.

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Ill Eagles.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (L/fGl)

279 He's got SCOTUS on his side now.

No reason to go nuclear and make any number of enemies out of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agree. But you have to admit, a man willing to go it alone and bomb Iran is certainly willing to ignore Scotus if he must. And Roberts probably knows it now.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (ctrM5)

280 I am sure that Trump is aware of Andrew Jackson's veto message on rechartering the Second Bank of the US and his ignoring Scotus decisions that Justice Marshall dare not contest.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

Or even Jefferson's response to Marbury when he said Courts "cannot issue a mandamus to the President or legislature, or to any of their officers."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (uCjyK)

281 Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

It was really the Civil War when Europe decided to stay out of that American nuthouse.

The savagery shown, and the technology that incremented into deadlier ways to KILL OUR OWN...

Could you imagine Waterloo if Napoleon had Parrot Rifled Artillery? or if the Brits had repeaters? or worser... the French Cav had Repeaters and thus the ability to break a square?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (mP0Kj)

282 >>> 277 Don’t get me started on class actions. That shit shouldn’t be allowed. It just makes it easier for lawyers to fleece large groups of people at once.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (0kwZe)

We sent you a check for $5! Didn't you get it?!

Posted by: Dewey, Cheatem & Howe at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (ULPxl)

283 Did we just get lucky with Alito?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 10, 2025 04:18 PM (jYRYu)

A lot of Supremes have 'grown' in office. Mostly of the GOP variety. We should require the Supremes to reside in their district and only visit for deliberations and stay at hotels.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+)

284 279 He's got SCOTUS on his side now.

No reason to go nuclear and make any number of enemies out of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agree. But you have to admit, a man willing to go it alone and bomb Iran is certainly willing to ignore Scotus if he must. And Roberts probably knows it now.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (ctrM5)

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Oh, for sure. And he's obviously got some part of his legal team willing to do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

285 Do you seriously think any of those tickets are ever paid?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 04:23 PM (BDNZf)

Unlikely, but the meter maids still issue them.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:26 PM (uCjyK)

286 277 Don’t get me started on class actions. That shit shouldn’t be allowed. It just makes it easier for lawyers to fleece large groups of people at once.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (0kwZe)

There's an old legal maxim that the law doesn't concern itself with trifles. FRCP 23 basically says if you have enough trifles, the law is concerned. It's a very stupid device that has only ever served the interests of plaintiffs' lawyers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:26 PM (AQ1VH)

287
226 A CA man paid for his daughter's ambulance ride, accidentally leaving off his insurance information. He sent the service provider his insurance information, and they billed him MORE than before, even after his insurance company paid for part of the bill. He called the provider to resolve the issue, and the customer support rep informed him it wasn't a mistake. Here's video of that phone call:

http://tiny.cc/n43p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 04:13 PM

Imagine there's no such thing as third party payer, it's easy if you try.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 04:26 PM (fGmWu)

288 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (A7fWT)

I'm neither a grifter nor very wealthy and I would prefer that my state not be eradicated, only that it get fewer Democrats in office . I don't wish any other state to be eradicated either, only that they gets leftists out of government .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:27 PM (2GCMq)

289 And here's the point: Even so, the daughter was NOT automatically awarded Iranian citizenship. She was still considered an American citizen only.

It's more complicated than that though, isn't it? IIRC she would have to have lived some certain number of years in the US by the time she turned 21.

I think if you were born and raised abroad until adulthood, even with two US parents, you aren't automatically a citizen if you claim it when you are 30.

I might be wrong on the both parents part, it might just be a problem if only one is.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)

290 280 Or even Jefferson's response to Marbury when he said Courts "cannot issue a mandamus to the President or legislature, or to any of their officers."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (uCjyK)

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Jefferson probably should have arrested John Marshall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

291 ***Judge Blows Off the Supreme Court
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and no relation to Kamala Harris.

Injunction is good we need more and more TROs too.
Push SCOTUS into a corner where they must put a stop to it
or lose any relevance whatsoever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:27 PM (Xlykt)

292 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

293 Thx W for appointing this stellar member of the judiciary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (JtH6i)

294 Under the jurisdiction of the united states. Hmmm. Can they be drafted?

Posted by: Muchas buchas at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (bi3f0)

295 Up until some point children of the father derived their status from him. Wife too.

If husband/father had a visa for 'x' then the wife/children derived their status from him.
Same with 'greencard' and citizenship (whether natural or naturalized).

That is how a patriarchal society works.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (/lPRQ)

296 >>> 292 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

Ok, so again, WTF is they/them excuse for the clusterfck in East TN / West NC?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ULPxl)

297 292 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

Now not no

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (VE6XX)

298 I have for the entire time been waiting for SCOTUS to get sick of these cases and actually act. If the lower courts can defy SCOTUS and the rules they have defined, well why do we need SCOTUS? just find a Trump judge and nationally injunct what we don't like. Or compel stuff we do like.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)
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You know, that's a fair observation. The lower courts are doing the court system no favors with these ludicrous rulings.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (tT6L1)

299 >>> But this is the COOLEST thing they discussed...all the legal papers from Roe V Wade went to auction, and Glenn's wife was the one that bought them! She is indifferent to his "buying history" crusade. But she's pro life, and when she learned they were up for auction, she was interested. She was worried if a lefty bought it, they would destroy any papers in it not flattering to the left.

Er, can I see those documents? Alone? And yes, I always wear giant cargo pants with all the pockets, why do you ask?

Posted by: Sandy Berger at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (gWBY1)

300 Thx W for appointing this stellar member of the judiciary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (JtH6i)

Are you talking about Alito?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (VofaG)

301 300 Thx W for appointing this stellar member of the judiciary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (JtH6i)

Are you talking about Alito?
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:29 PM (VofaG)

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Probably the district court judge. Appointed in 2007.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

302 Too bad SCOTUS can't vote its members off the island.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (ULPxl)

303 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

304 241 Friend of mine was the daughter of a oil-tanker sea captain.

He ailed around the world...

Posted by: zombie

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I too have ailed around the world. Mostly on United.

I think I will use that as the title to my memoirs.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:30 PM (A7fWT)

305 Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN

Possibly the same FEMA workers who didn't go to houses with a Trump sign.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (2GCMq)

306 They were children. Many from broken families and with past traumas, I'm sure. It's much easier to go after vulnerable girls if you're a pimp.

I don't see how that makes it any better that Epstein and co. preyed on the most vulnerable in our society.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uCjyK)

I am saying that the prostitutes at Epstein Island were in fact prostitutes, even if under legal age, and they knew the score. The consent was at least implied. They may well have been vulnerable, but when they were recruited by Epstein's agents, they had a chance to say "no", and didn't. I'm sure Epstein's agents did one Hell of a selling job on them, to be sure. But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Bhbkm)

307 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)


Heh. Anonymous. Kinda says it all.
My BS meter is pegged, especially since FEMA is still working under last year's budget.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (W/lyH)

308 And Ketanji Brown Jackson, she's something else.
Red pilling Sotomayor and Kagan, something that was on no one’s radar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (Xlykt)

309 They were children. Many from broken families and with past traumas, I'm sure. It's much easier to go after vulnerable girls if you're a pimp.

I don't see how that makes it any better that Epstein and co. preyed on the most vulnerable in our society.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Some were and some weren't from depositions in the Prince Andrew case plus the trial evidence in the earlier Palm Beach case. And some of the girls trolled for other likely targets including Virginia Giuffre. Whole sordid and evil matter which keeps getting repeated in society (there was a similar knocking shop scandal in Victorian England), Craig Spence, Barnie Frank, etc. France does not even consider it a crime if pubescent and also see the Brunal scandal who was a friend of Epstein.

And intel and/or law enforcement is right there to wire the places up, take photos, use the information for leverage, etc.

It is the pervasive desire for law enforcement and intel to get information and power at any cost and to subvert civil government to get it to go along. See also the widespread rape squads of Pakis in UK, Jimmy Saville, and police involvement in procuring and screwing kids.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (ctrM5)

310 I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN

Posted by: It's me donna




Cuts to FEMA that don't occur until 2026. Pretty impressive time travel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 04:32 PM (Vfq+S)

311 288 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:24 PM (A7fWT)

eradicated either, only that they gets leftists out of government .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Sorry Fen. Present company excluded. I have lots of emotion on this issue and may have gone hyperbolic.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (A7fWT)

312 They were children. Many from broken families and with past traumas, I'm sure. It's much easier to go after vulnerable girls if you're a pimp.

I don't see how that makes it any better that Epstein and co. preyed on the most vulnerable in our society.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 04:22 PM (uCjyK)

I am saying that the prostitutes at Epstein Island were in fact prostitutes, even if under legal age, and they knew the score. The consent was at least implied. They may well have been vulnerable, but when they were recruited by Epstein's agents, they had a chance to say "no", and didn't. I'm sure Epstein's agents did one Hell of a selling job on them, to be sure. But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Bhbkm)
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Some pf Epsteins girls were recruited out of NYC’s expensive private schools. They were rich girls.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (0kxAA)

313 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN
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You'll pardon my doubt that FEMA was ever designed to be a rapid-response unit that could magically remove all of the hurt from an emergency that literally developed in a matter of 3 or 4 hours. There isn't/wasn't a FEMA equivalent of "Criminal Minds" where the agents had a "to go bag" loaded and ready 24/7, and no commander of this mythical unit to assert "Wheels up in 45 minutes". Local governments exist for a reason (or used to--now they only exist for the grift). This isn't on FEMA.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)

314 Nood is up, everyone.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (NcvvS)

315 294 Under the jurisdiction of the united states. Hmmm. Can they be drafted?
Posted by: Muchas buchas at July 10, 2025 04:28 PM (bi3f0)

I've advocated more than once the creation of the American Foreign Legion... all volunteers but spend 8 years in and get citizenship....

BUT, they are used like the French do... where they are not EVER deployed in any US State. We currently have troops in over 90 other countries... that is what we use them for.

EARNED citizenship.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (mP0Kj)

316 >>> 306
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I am saying that the prostitutes at Epstein Island were in fact prostitutes, even if under legal age, and they knew the score. The consent was at least implied. They may well have been vulnerable, but when they were recruited by Epstein's agents, they had a chance to say "no", and didn't. I'm sure Epstein's agents did one Hell of a selling job on them, to be sure. But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Bhbkm)

You really believe *all* (or even most) of the "prostitutes" could be categorized this way? I am very doubtful, just based on the attitudes we see from the scumbags we *do* know about.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 04:34 PM (ULPxl)

317 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Bhbkm)

I agree but that's a controversial point of view to take. I have no desire to argue with people who say that view is defending Epstein.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (VofaG)

318 Could you imagine Waterloo if Napoleon had Parrot Rifled Artillery? or if the Brits had repeaters? or worser... the French Cav had Repeaters and thus the ability to break a square?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:25 PM (mP0Kj)

If I recall my ACW wargame where a Parrot was involved, those things were crap at killing troops in the field. Had huge range, but a small charge. Might have been able to beat down guns, but the reverse slope tactic would make that hard. Elevation changes in Belgium are mild, and trees would block field of fire as well.

Pistol and sword armed cavalry "Reiters" existed long before this time but were no longer in use. They carried multiple pistols, not sure if a revolver would tip the balance. With ring bayonets, the horses could be shot down at a decent rate even in square.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (8avO+)

319 I am saying that the prostitutes at Epstein Island were in fact prostitutes, even if under legal age, and they knew the score. The consent was at least implied. They may well have been vulnerable, but when they were recruited by Epstein's agents, they had a chance to say "no", and didn't. I'm sure Epstein's agents did one Hell of a selling job on them, to be sure. But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

We know more about his Palm Beach ops and a bit about Pedo Island via the Prince Andrew lawsuit. We know not as much about his long running NYC condo and his even more secretive NM ranch. Brunal, his buddy modeling agency in France, apparently was involved in facilitating rape among other atrocities. And I am sure the DXB knows all about it as Brunal was most likely a French intel and law enforcement asset. I think Brunal also imported a lot of his victims which made it easier for the French to look away.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

320 I've advocated more than once the creation of the American Foreign Legion... all volunteers but spend 8 years in and get citizenship....

BUT, they are used like the French do... where they are not EVER deployed in any US State. We currently have troops in over 90 other countries... that is what we use them for.

EARNED citizenship.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (mP0Kj)

I think we already just incorporate non citizen volunteers into the normal army.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:36 PM (8avO+)

321 But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon



But they were coerced. Some were eased into it by being asked to do "massages" and then getting more and more disgusting by enticing them with pressure, money, and "the implications."

It was what pimps do and there is a reason it is considered evil.

And my understanding is that they were trolling for girls at Mar a Largo. Where they street girls? One was daughter of a member.
None of this can be defended. It may not have been illegal, but it was disgusting.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (A7fWT)

322 >>>
I am saying that the prostitutes at Epstein Island were in fact prostitutes, even if under legal age, and they knew the score. The consent was at least implied. They may well have been vulnerable, but when they were recruited by Epstein's agents, they had a chance to say "no", and didn't. I'm sure Epstein's agents did one Hell of a selling job on them, to be sure. But, as far as we know, they weren't outright kidnapped. Running an op like that, they wouldn't want any of the "merchandise" to have a built-in reason to try to blow it up, would they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They may not have been prostitutes but they were in positions/lifestyle/poor or abusive parenting that put them on a downward life trajectory.

It was in testimony that they were told that when they left Epstein they would be in better shape/circumstance than when they came. There is little doubt that the hundreds that did not come forward would agree.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Xlykt)

323 Jefferson probably should have arrested John Marshall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Jefferson and Madison obstructed justice by destroying evidence in litigation so all three should have been in the hoosegow.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ctrM5)

324 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 04:37 PM (A7fWT)

Pimps control mostly with fear.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (VofaG)

325 No I see "they" are stating the cuts to FEMA slowed their reaction time in Texas..... Really ? Four anonymous FEMA workers said so to CNN
---------

You'll pardon my doubt that FEMA was ever designed to be a rapid-response unit that could magically remove all of the hurt from an emergency that literally developed in a matter of 3 or 4 hours. There isn't/wasn't a FEMA equivalent of "Criminal Minds" where the agents had a "to go bag" loaded and ready 24/7, and no commander of this mythical unit to assert "Wheels up in 45 minutes". Local governments exist for a reason (or used to--now they only exist for the grift). This isn't on FEMA.
Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)

Cuts or no cuts, the Weather Service had all hands on deck so more people were at work in this disaster from the get-go in trying to warn the area. Ground assistance I have no info on.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:39 PM (8avO+)

326 My favorite part of the birthright citizenship saga is the Chinese travel agency birthright tours!

R/T trips for no other purpose than to deliver the baby in the U.S., & claim U.S. citizenship like a prize in a crackerjack box.

I suspect very few Americans have ever heard of this. If they ever do, I think there will be a tidal wave of anti-birthright opinion.

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (kd60y)

327 >>>
It is the pervasive desire for law enforcement and intel to get information and power at any cost and to subvert civil government to get it to go along. See also the widespread rape squads of Pakis in UK, Jimmy Saville, and police involvement in procuring and screwing kids.
Posted by: whig
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A professional felon told me that cops and felons are two sides of the same coin. Many cops and felons will sit down and talk shop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:40 PM (Xlykt)

328 >>>Cuts or no cuts, the Weather Service had all hands on deck so more people were at work in this disaster from the get-go in trying to warn the area. Ground assistance I have no info on.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Yeah. And as if FEMA would have been any help on the ground: See Carolina.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:44 PM (Xlykt)

329 Mexico, f'king Mexican rescue team was in Kerrville before FEMA.
Is FEMA there yet?
Samaritan's Purse was on it's was the day after.
Is FEMA there yet?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:46 PM (Xlykt)

330 Calling hind tit. .....again

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 04:47 PM (Xlykt)

331 But you should search "Rule 34 My Little Pony" images.

* opens new tab *

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Um......

* closes tab *

* eaten up with curiosity *

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 04:52 PM (/y8xj)

332 Judge Nobody will get his name in the papers. The MSM will write about his bravery.

He will save these clippings and use them for glory days jerk off sessions.

End of story.

Posted by: Darth Doodah at July 10, 2025 04:55 PM (Vu7A1)

333 The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a pregnant woman, two parents and their infants.

"The deprivation of U.S. citizenship and an abrupt change of policy that was long-standing … that's irreparable harm."

Oh, I don't like that little summary at all.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2025 04:56 PM (NFX2v)

334 Well, I was moving down the road in my V-8 Ford
I had a shine on my boots, I had my sideburns lowered
With my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed
Nobody give me trouble 'cause they know I got it made

I'm bad, I'm nationwide
Well, I'm bad, bad, bad, bad, bad,

I'm nationwide,

yeah, yeah

Posted by: U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante at July 10, 2025 05:04 PM (wVcYX)

335 I don't know whether this order follows Rule 23, but it's not the most outrageous order so far, by quite a margin. I kinda sorta see a "class" being appropriate here, but it's silly to claim there would be "irreparable" harm. If in its lawlessness and arrogance the judiciary pretends to believe there's anything remotely resembling birthright citizenship under existing law or the constitution (not under court-made-up "law"), then this "class" can easily have whatever "harm" it has suffered remedied. So, "easily reparable harm".

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 05:08 PM (1m82a)

336 FEMA is an emergency MANAGEMENT agency. Not an emergency response one.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

337 They are just post disaster moneybags.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

338 So NOW we can certify a protected class of as-yet "unborn babies" ???

Good lord what a load of bullshit

Posted by: deadrody at July 10, 2025 05:09 PM (vgB0v)

339 There are several agencies that have morphed into literally unrecognizable clownshows since I knew them well, perhaps FEMA is one of them. Back in the day, and by their mission and statute, they're mostly about funding/assisting/coordinating *state and local* governments for disaster prep, mitigation, and response. Not even sure the bit about funding post-disaster aid isn't somewhat new (Katrina).

So I don't know. But I do know that for a very long time FEMA was not people think it is. But in all areas it seems history started 3 weeks ago, in this comment section, and on every topic.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM (1m82a)

340 Note the class includes people not yet born.

"Warren Rudman Courthouse" That's the Senator that sold George Bush on David Souter.

Posted by: MikeN at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (HVZOH)

341 But in all areas it seems history started 3 weeks ago, in this comment section, and on every topic.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 05:11 PM



This is the way.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:17 PM (jc0TO)

342 Just another unelected Judge who needs to be retired Might I suggest a Menal Institution padded cell and Straight Jacket

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (wGqjj)

Trump Sues California For Violating Title IX's Purpose of Reserving Female Sports for Females

Remember when Transin' Newsom pretended he thought it was "unfair" to make women compete against men?

That's now been exposed as the toe-in-the-water first attempt at political reinvention that it was. He's a Trans Crusader and always will be.

Pam Bondi even quoted Transin' Newsom's statement that it's "deeply unfair" to force women to compete with men to support the lawsuit.



The Trump administration sued California Wednesday after a Department of Education probe found the state had discriminated against women by "allowing males in girls' sports and intimate spaces."

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division alleged that the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) violated Title IX and forced girls to be "displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for scholarships and recognition," according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.

"This discrimination is not only illegal and unfair but also demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to accommodating boys," the filing stated.

"It erodes the integrity of girls' sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to educational benefits, including interscholastic athletics."

The complaint demanded a court order barring the policies, compensation for "female athletes who have been denied equal athletic opportunities ... including correcting past athletics records" and a requirement that California turn in "regular compliance reports" for at least the next five years.

The DOJ's complaint noted that California's compliance was necessary since the $44.3 billion in federal funding the state received this fiscal year was conditioned upon compliance with Title IX.

The 1972 law mandates equal opportunities regardless of sex in schools receiving federal funds.

...

California is one of more than 20 states that allows athletes to compete in sports that comport with their chosen "gender identity" -- despite President Trump having signed an executive order in February barring the policy and threatening to pull federal funding to those states that persisted.

"The Governor of California has previously admitted that it is 'deeply unfair' to force women and girls to compete with men and boys in competitive sports," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.

"But not only is it 'deeply unfair,' it is also illegal under federal law. This Department of Justice will continue its fight to protect equal opportunities for women and girls in sports."


The left continues claiming that Trump didn't reduce the price of eggs despite the fact that Trump has already reduced the price of eggs.

But if they want him to do more to reduce the price of eggs further, fine.

He's also suing California for its interference in the national egg market.


The Trump administration sued California and Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state's anti-animal cruelty laws Wednesday, alleging they are contributing to the high cost of egg prices and are superseded by a federal law regulating egg quality, inspection and packaging.

In its complaint, the Justice Department is attempting to block state laws that require additional space for hen-growing chickens, arguing they are "unnecessary red tape" and "do not advance consumer welfare."

"California has effectively prevented farmers across the country from using a number of agricultural production methods which were in widespread use and which helped keep eggs affordable," the Justice Department wrote in its civil complaint.

Two California ballot initiatives, passed in 2008 and 2018, mandate higher standards and housing requirements for hen-laying chickens and eggs sold in the state, requiring the birds to be given enough space to extend their limbs and move without touching another bird.

The 2018 ballot initiative also bars hens from being kept in any "enclosure other than a cage-free housing system" and mandates space requirements for breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.

I don't know about this one. There is a doctrine of federal supremacy that says that any state law that conflicts with federal law is null and void. There's always a question about whether the federal law is "so comprehensive" as to preclude any state laws in this area.

And also: The federal government's power to intrude into state law is limited, or at least was intended to be limited.

Eh, I think it's weak. But I do like that Trump is hitting the idea that it's the left responsible for inflation and high prices, and he's doing what he can to improve things.

Lawfare for me? Then lawfare for thee.

Also: Trump is shutting down a Clinton-era policy that allows illegal aliens to use taxpayer educational funds to pay for schooling.


President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Thursday that it will end a Clinton-era policy allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.

Key Details:

The Department of Education revoked a 1997 Clinton administration interpretation allowing illegal immigrants to access federal career and technical education funds.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said taxpayer funds should be reserved for American citizens and legal residents.

Enforcement of the new interpretation begins August 9, 2025, following President Trump's February executive order ending subsidization for illegal immigrants.

Diving Deeper:

The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is formally revoking a rule put in place under President Bill Clinton allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer-funded programs in career, technical, and adult education. The Clinton administration issued a 1997 Dear Colleague Letter interpreting the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) to exempt these programs, effectively opening federal funding to illegal immigrants.

Under the Trump administration, the Education Department is now reversing that interpretation. The Department notified postsecondary education providers that they will no longer be able to operate under Clinton-era standards and will be required to verify the eligibility of participants for these programs.

"Postsecondary education programs funded by the federal government should benefit American citizens, not illegal aliens," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated. "Under President Trump's leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities."

Below, Transin' Newsom is incensed that Trump is trying to roll back trans rights all the way back to (checks calendar) 2016.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM




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1 First?

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

2 I'd be ok with a pre-60's America. More than OK.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (uWKK8)

3 About time someone went after CA lunacy which is affecting the entire country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (tT6L1)

4
Hi.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (UmB+t)

5 Nooded and read content.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (NcvvS)

6 Pre 60's Parts of it were good....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (VE6XX)

7 Maybe they can become Fire Chiefs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (zhBpy)

8
Pre 1960?

Where do I sign up?

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (IifOV)

9 I don't remember pre-1960s America - how does Governor Hairgel remember it?

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (NcvvS)

10 For too long, the rest of the country has suffered because one state thought it should be able to dictate how things are produced.

CA should have the freedom to create the laws and suffer for them. They shouldn't have the ability to punish the rest of the country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (tT6L1)

11 77 Sunset Strip.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (zhBpy)

12 "He's also suing California for its interference in the national egg market."

Don't mess with Big Egg.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (TwZXH)

13 There is a limit to how much the price of something can be reduced before it becomes not worth producing/selling.

The price of eggs has largely gone back to it's equilibrium state.


Now orange juice on the other hand, good G-d, can someone get on that?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (XV/Pl)

14 Only problem is when the left does lawfare the involved parties get promotions, when the right attempts lawfare they get disbarred and imprisoned.

Posted by: Inogame at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (53oGX)

15 I'm surprised Gov. hairgel didn't say pre 50's...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (VE6XX)

16 If we find ourselves in a pre-1960s America, Newscum can play the part of Eddie Haskell's father.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (t8yj6)

17 Good ol' Gov. Brylcream.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (kiIKF)

18 President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Thursday that it will end a Clinton-era policy allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.

I would *really* like to see a lawsuit get to SCOTUS that could nuke the stupid-ass Tyler vs [invaders] decision that said states must pay for said invaders' kids in public school.

... and I thought I saw elsewhere that OR may soon be another target of a Title IX lawsuit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ULPxl)

19 Orange juice sucks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (zhBpy)

20 I don't know about this one. There is a doctrine of federal supremacy that says that any state law that conflicts with federal law is null and void. There's always a question about whether the federal law is "so comprehensive" as to preclude any state laws in this area.

And also: The federal government's power to intrude into state law is limited, or at least was intended to be limited.
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You are discussing the old era of E.C. Knight's dual federalism as applied to the commerce clause. Essentially though NLRB v Jones and Laughlin Steel and West Coast Hotel v. Parrish indicate that a state can regulate its own producers but NOT bar producers from other states from selling to vendors in that state.

California can cripple its own producers of pork and eggs, but not exclude Iowa's producers from selling to CA supermarkets.

Stream of Commerce theory baby.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

21
The Title IX thing will be an easy win for Trump, and Newsom knows this. He'll enter "Stood up to Trump when he attacked marginalized kids" on his 2028 resume and add, "We'll restore dignity to those children under my presidency!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (UmB+t)

22 Lawfare is the rage, let Leftifornia fight it

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (+qU29)

23 The process is the punishment.

Posted by: Eric Holder, Raycist Gun Runner at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (lX1hk)

24 Newsom really is an ignorant loathsome creep. Says all you need to know about Cali that they elected this grifter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (JtH6i)

25 21 Stream of Commerce theory baby.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

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Updated vernacular would prefer "bruh" or even the British version of "bruv."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

26 Below, Transin' Newsom is incensed that Trump is trying to roll back trans rights all the way back to (checks calendar) 2016.

Is that really such a leap, given that 2016 was a leap year?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

27 I’m betting that if Newsome doesn’t at least suck dick, he’d let it roll around in his mouth a little.

You know the old saying, your sympathies lie where your dick is…

Posted by: Vengeance at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (X3N4B)

28
We could do much worse than returning to a pre-1960s America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)

29 Let's hope they Find Out very quickly.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (N1DT3)

30 The left continues claiming that Trump didn't reduce the price of eggs despite the fact that Trump has already reduced the price of eggs.

Someone mentioned on a previous thread that many lefties don't believe anything that CNN and MSNBC haven't said is true. So this makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (2ocoG)

31 >>> 12 "He's also suing California for its interference in the national egg market."

Don't mess with Big Egg.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (TwZXH)

Bluebell the Hen demands revenge for the cruel murder of her 100 million innocent cousins!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (ULPxl)

32 Can I haz Gold Window back?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (zhBpy)

33 "I'd be ok with a pre-60's America. More than OK."

I want to live on the same street in the same town in 1959 that the Cleaver family lived in. That was frickin heaven.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (TwZXH)

34 Excellent. Hopefully next on the docket is a suit against California for funding the anti-ICE violence.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

35 I like to wrestle girls.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (W3T6M)

36 @24

>>Newsom really is an ignorant loathsome creep. Says all you need to know about Cali that they elected this grifter

Pretty much every California politician is absolutely horrible, the worst of the worst.

But, that's who California elects. What are going to do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (XV/Pl)

37 >>>the Justice Department is attempting to block state laws that require additional space for hen-growing chickens

I don't know I'm kind of with California on this one, and I do think states should be able to set their own food standards.

Has anyone been inside one of these factory farms or seen videos? Fucking disgusting.

It was a major reason I used to raise my own chickens and why to this day I buy grey market eggs from an Amish dude.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (uCjyK)

38 All illegals OUT.

RIGHT NOW.
I’ll allow you a plane ticket and a pb&j. If you don’t want to break up your family, TAKE THEM
WITH YOU.

GTFO

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (W2Pud)

39 Says all you need to know about Cali that they elected this grifter

Cali hasn't had legit elections since there were enough illegals to give them a supermajority, probably around 2000.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (2ocoG)

40 Now orange juice on the other hand, good G-d, can someone get on that?
Posted by: Thomas Bender


There was a hard freeze in Florida right when the citrus was blooming this spring.

High orange prices were inevitable after that.

The only thing to be done is hope for better weather next season.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (a+4eV)

41 We could do much worse than returning to a pre-1960s America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM


Conic cups!

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (0sNs1)

42 Auslander Raus.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (zhBpy)

43 Pretty much every California politician is absolutely horrible, the worst of the worst.
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Worsier than NY and IL?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (W3T6M)

44 So, when President Trump gives an Executive Order, what's to stop the government employees from just ignoring the order?

And then saying "Oops, my bad." If they get caught.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (jvJvP)

45 Pre 60's Parts of it were good....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (VE6XX)

The culture was good in almost all places but the South, where Democrats ruled, BECAUSE the Democrats ruled.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (N1DT3)

46 I voted for all of this winning and you're welcome!

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (t0Out)

47 >>I don't know about this one.

The commerce clause, (to quote that bastard Johnson) like Grandma's nightshirt. It covers everything.

Posted by: Wickard v. Filburn at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (A7fWT)

48 Just for fun, what do You People think would have to happen for a state to get bumped back to territory status?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (ULPxl)

49 I think 1960s blogger software was fine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (zhBpy)

50
The only thing to be done is hope for better weather next season.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (a+4eV)

_________

We agree.

Posted by: The Duke Brothers at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (HZi96)

51 Guess what. I know what is going on with the Epstein files. Trump is using then to get his agenda pass the RINO's on the list.. Hmm Linny Graham acting like lil wussy boi lately hmmm.
He knows where the bodies are buried Fo Sho!!!!

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (uEWUd)

52
The Department notified postsecondary education providers that they will no longer be able to operate under Clinton-era standards and will be required to verify the eligibility of participants for these programs.

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I guess a lot of this takes place in city colleges or community colleges, which might need far fewer Spanish-speaking teachers down the road.

But I do wonder how the DoE will ensure compliance. They'd better add some checkboxes to the application form and then loudly and quickly prosecute liars.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (UmB+t)

53 And in instances where federal regulations of the marketplace exist, they override state regulations under the dormant commerce clause.

After Wickard and reemphasized by Raich, states can only regulate where fedgov is silent and fed power is absolute over commerce when exercised. That was one of the primary reasons that the constitutional convention was convened.

To fix the states monkeying up commerce among the states and specifically all the Framers agreed that state power had to be overridden via the supremacy clause in areas where the federal government has an enumerated power to regulate (aka commerce among the states).

The exception is when a state is allowed concurrent power (see state pollution control agencies or food production regulation) or federal regulatory power is absent when the subject is commerce.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (ctrM5)

54 I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Out)

55 Be thankful Dems aren't pivoting on this issue, it's an electoral goldmine for Republicans.

If they just threw this .001% of their voter base overboard, they'd be doing much better with normies.

Posted by: Eldo at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (Bt9aS)

56 In fairness, he's only rolling back to 2020.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (jc0TO)

57 12 "He's also suing California for its interference in the national egg market."

Don't mess with Big Egg.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (TwZXH)

When I was growing up, my Grandfather had a Chicken Ranch in North Los Angelas... daily delivered fresh eggs to all the big restaurants in Hollyweird and around in the city.

Success story after losing the Farm in Nebraska during the dust bowl...

Under the New Calif Regs, there is no way he had enough room to keep his business going...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (mP0Kj)

58 I don't know about this one. There is a doctrine of federal supremacy that says that any state law that conflicts with federal law is null and void. There's always a question about whether the federal law is "so comprehensive" as to preclude any state laws in this area.
~ Ace

Hey, if the commerce clause can cover a farmer growing crops for his own personal consumption, then certainly state laws that affect the entire country should be fair game.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:33 PM (TJLr1)

59 I used to like the little cans of Bluebird OJ you could get outta the machine.

Canned OJ is best OJ!

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at July 10, 2025 02:33 PM (lX1hk)

60
Pretty much every California politician is absolutely horrible, the worst of the worst.
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Worsier than NY and IL?
Posted by: pudinhead

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And Minnesota ffs?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:33 PM (UmB+t)

61 Just for fun, what do You People think would have to happen for a state to get bumped back to territory status?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


Be in open rebellion.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 02:34 PM (e2MJJ)

62 California has been impeding interstate commerce for decades. From the magic gasoline blend that has done nothing for the environment, to cage-free eggs (pssst...they recently added similar regulations to pork and beef production) California has strangled the means of production and transportation for too long. I can't get out of here fast enough..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 10, 2025 02:34 PM (IY+he)

63 FRED: "Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average" from 1980.

https://tinyurl.com/vaeesnhh

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 02:34 PM (2yoRf)

64 I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Out)

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In CA, it's possible to going both water and snow skiiing on the same day. Beautiful mountains, some really pretty artists enclaves, terrific wine, weather, etc.

But, politics is so out of control, it's completely ruined what was once a great state.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (tT6L1)

65 Governor Pomade is asshoe.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (ufFY8)

66 Posted by: Wickard v. Filburn at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (A7fWT)

Yeah, I think if we're going to say wheat grown on your own property for your own livestock or medical marijuana grown on your own property for yourself implicate interstate commerce to the point that the fedgov can pass laws on the subjects, then chicken's social distancing would too.

That doesn't mean it's wise, and frankly, I will never forgive Scalia for not overruling or at least strictly limiting Wickard when he had the chance with Gonzalez v Raich.

But legally I think Trump has a good leg to stand on here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (uCjyK)

67 60
Pretty much every California politician is absolutely horrible, the worst of the worst.
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Worsier than NY and IL?
Posted by: pudinhead

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And Minnesota ffs?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


My representative is Pramila Jayapal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (W2Pud)

68 Before the convos of the last thread fully die:

>> They're also downplaying the fact that CN cast the dead eyed little girl who chopped her tits off

Elliot/Ellen Page was in Inception, yes? Directors like to repeat actors they like working with.

Elliot/Ellen is one of the least problematic in that cast. It is chock full of mouth preachy liberal actors I can't stand...Charlize, Daaaamon, Hathaway, Leguizamo...but the movie itself looks glorious. Dilemma.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (gWBY1)

69 We're BACK, baby!

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

70 The left: We mandate that it has to cost more to raise chickens. For uh reducing animal cruetly

Also the left: We mandate that a Brazilian chickens must be killed to stop bird flu. KILL KILL KILL

Also, also the left: Let's print a Brazilian extra dollars to pay for tranny operas in Peru and EBT cards for undocumented workers

Also, also, also the left: Why did the price of eggs go up? Must be greedy farmers.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (t0Rmr)

71 (pssst...they recently added similar regulations to pork and beef production)
Posted by: Joe Kidd


What are the odds that their regulations will make it easier for sows to crush and eat their own piglets?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (a+4eV)

72 And my Senator Patty Murray.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (W2Pud)

73 57 In so many contemporary WW2 movies, dialog goes:
"What are you doing after the war?"
"Gonna open a chicken ranch."

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (TwZXH)

74 54 I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?
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There is great beauty there. Same deal with NY. But they fucked everything else up.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (W3T6M)

75 Send trans athletes to CECOT. They can represent El Salvador in the Olympics.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (S+el1)

76
I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair

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I don't know what percentage of Californians got here via migration from states east since, say 1945, but that means a lot of younger folk are stuck here taking care of elder family. There's this whole guilty Death Watch thing about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (UmB+t)

77 @54

>>I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?

Politically it's absolutely horrible, but it does have an immense draw for people, it's essentially a couple of different states wrapped up into on gigantic mess of a state.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (XV/Pl)

78 35 I like to wrestle girls.

But that's definitely a friendly, unless she's a gymnast/dancer, which becomes competitive.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (NcvvS)

79 Make Califzuela A Territory Again!

Can you say "Military Governor Kurt Schichter?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (LmlMe)

80 I don't know I'm kind of with California on this one, and I do think states should be able to set their own food standards.

Has anyone been inside one of these factory farms or seen videos? Fucking disgusting.

It was a major reason I used to raise my own chickens and why to this day I buy grey market eggs from an Amish dude.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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I hate to tell you Harry but it is easy to get Salmonella from field raised chickens. If a chicken's internal organs are infected by Salmonella (usually via food or water transmission) then it lays Salmonella contaminated eggs. Field raised chickens almost always have a greater need (for commercial operations) for antibiotics, dewormers, and other medications because field conditions are less than sterile.

That is because chickens are essentially scavengers that can and do eat their own and other's crap among other nasty things. Left to their own devices, chickens can even be cannibalistic. Essentially dinosaur descendants with feathers.

Farm raised pigs on grazing land can have similar food safety issues.

Never assume what is natural is necessary safe and healthy (naturalistic fallacy btw).

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (ctrM5)

81 Hmm Linny Graham acting like lil wussy boi lately hmmm.
He knows where the bodies are buried Fo Sho!!!!
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 02:32 PM (uEWUd)

Ahem, I don't think Lindsey Graham was interested in the product Epstein was peddling IYKWIMAITYD.

I assume there are other Epstein's out there who specialize in Graham's interests.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)

82 birds to be given enough space to extend their limbs and move without touching another bird.

Depriving them the loving touch of another bird?
SO SOON AFTER PRIDE MONTH?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (9bDq8)

83 CA has some of the best weather in America. And gorgeous natural wonders not too far away.

Shame it is full of illegals and Californians.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:38 PM (t0Rmr)

84 Good afternoon all!

I finished reading Salena Zito’s book “Butler”. It was pretty good. Told from a journalist’s perspective of how the media blew their coverage of the 2024 election. As for the Harris/Walz campaign, she just writes: “there was no THERE there.”

Posted by: Jmel at July 10, 2025 02:38 PM (bVhJi)

85 My representative is Pramila Jayapal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (W2Pud)
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At least we've got sane representation here. Paul Gosar Too bad about our senators.

Hiya, nurse!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:38 PM (tT6L1)

86 Newsom and his bushel basket sized collection of corruption scandals, not forgetting his rumored illegitimate child, are going to be running for President? I believe the Republican bench will salivate over that idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:38 PM (7RUmD)

87 The little I know about this comes from my experience with public school textbooks. My understanding was: states can't make other stares follow their rules BUT the market in California and Texas is so large that the publishers are going to print what those states want and will not publish an alternative for other states.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 02:39 PM (PcTds)

88 Pre-60's America was still pretty badass. Just a little before my time, but still...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Q4IgG)

89 87 The little I know about this comes from my experience with public school textbooks. My understanding was: states can't make other stares follow their rules BUT the market in California and Texas is so large that the publishers are going to print what those states want and will not publish an alternative for other states.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 02:39 PM (PcTds)

Iowa Pork Producers sued the state of CA over the their pork production laws. They lost. :-/

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:39 PM (TJLr1)

90
My representative is Pramila Jayapal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:35 PM (W2Pud)

________

Troy Nehls. Good man.

Posted by: The Duke Brothers at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (HZi96)

91 Sue the fuck out of cali but name the california democrat party as a party to the civil action.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (17s+e)

92 I love that Newsom magically found hundreds of millions in the CA budget to rebuild density housing in the Palisades, and now normie democrats are like oh, all the worst conspiracies from the right about liberals using the fires as a land grab were actually true!

We aren't geniuses. WE just know how liberal elites think. They aren't smart, it's not incredibly hard to predict.

But seriously...it's disgusting that they will grab this land, build density apartments on it, and then the people who once owned the land will never be able to afford to buy.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (gWBY1)

93 I like eggs, but somebody else has to cook em. I ain't touching that ooky stuff.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (TwZXH)

94 "What are you doing after the war?"

"Im 'onna open a clinic where we surgically change the sex organs of children from one ta th'other."

Posted by: Netflix War Movie Dialogue at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (Dv3i1)

95 But legally I think Trump has a good leg to stand on here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

NLRB uses the limiting major effects test on commerce clause and whether Wickard or Raich were involved, it is fair to say that NLRB would still permit that.

EC Knight was another bad decision from a particularly bad Scotus led by CJ Fuller. Other winners include Lochner, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Pollock. All of these show the limits of pragmatic corporate lawyer types placed on Scotus. They tend to justify whatever passes for thought in corporate circles.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (ctrM5)

96 "We sell products to everyone except California!"
-tag line? marketers, call my people, we'll have lunch

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

97
I think 1960s blogger software was fine.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Carbon paper

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (63Dwl)

98 The paet I nevr understand is this:

Setting aside all the politics, all the gender insanity, all the legal fights:

Why aren't the men who compete against girls EMBARRaSSED and ASHAMED of themselves?

But they aren't. Never. If you look of the photos and videos of the winning "trans" athletes, they are PROUD of themselves for blatantly cheating. Never any shame. Never any embarrassment. Never any self-doubt.

This whole problem would evaporate if these people had the slightest iota of self-consciousness. But there's something deeply wrong with them, and it's not even the "trans" gender stuff. They can have 6 billion people pointing out they they are immoral cheaters, and their response is to smile and wave and feel sanctimonious in their villainy.

They're all severely mentally ill, but not in the way people think they are.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (pMi6S)

99 paet = part

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (pMi6S)

100 The Wicked Witch of the North, Wretched Gretchen Whitmer, instituted chicken social distancing here in MI, messing up producers and egg prices.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (ufFY8)

101
Carbon paper
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (63Dwl)

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Mimeographs FTW!

Posted by: The Duke Brothers at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (HZi96)

102 I order a vinyl banner from a company in CA. It came with a warning that if I eat it I might get cancer.

Thanks for the tip guys!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (t0Rmr)

103
/off

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (HZi96)

104 Come on guys, I know everyone who lives in a Donk State thinks their politicians are the worst but California has Gavin Newsome as Governor, Schiff and Padilla as Senators, and Pelosi, Swallowswell and Maxine Waters as Representatives.


Case closed, California sucks the most.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (XV/Pl)

105 Never assume what is natural is necessary safe and healthy (naturalistic fallacy btw).
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (ctrM5)

That's not my primary concern. The chickens in the big factories are frankenchickens (cornish cross for meat birds, for example) who live a freakishly accelerated life cycle in a tiny cramped warehouse living in their own shit with only minimal ability to move.

They get in constant fights with each other, and are stressed out for their entire lives. Thus why the default for chicken feed includes antibiotics, because they're always all scrappy and cut up from the jostling and fighting.

Then we eat them.

Diseases are what they are. Yes, birds who spend their entire lives in warehouses are much less likely to catch diseases from nature then the birds who wander around outside, but that's a trade off.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (uCjyK)

106 FRED: "Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average" from 1980.

https://tinyurl.com/vaeesnhh
Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 02:34 PM (2yoRf)
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Get eggs to 2 bucks per dozen again!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (7RUmD)

107 5D Chess detected!

>>Posted by: Harry Paratestes

What if this is a clear attempt to overturn Wickard??

Surely Trump does not give a fig about California egg prices. So why do this? Because it is a direct use of Wickard ruling and CA will have to argue that Wickard was bad law!!
f-ing genius.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (A7fWT)

108 I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair

It's 68 degrees, sunny, and my property tax is roughly 2% of my assessed value 21 years ago which is roughly 40% of market.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (KAi1n)

109 104 Come on guys, I know everyone who lives in a Donk State thinks their politicians are the worst but California has Gavin Newsome as Governor, Schiff and Padilla as Senators, and Pelosi, Swallowswell and Maxine Waters as Representatives.


Case closed, California sucks the most.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (XV/Pl)

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I assume there are red state governments that are actually more corrupt, just better at not needing to make asses of themselves while doing it.

State governments are where corruption really lingers and festers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

110 I assume there are other Epstein's out there who specialize in Graham's interests.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)

Well! I never! On my way home from the gym, I popped into Bad Billy's looking for a man I was hoping was in the bathroom. I had a quick sherry with my French polisher and then I left. As for how I got into another man's shorts, that is no one's business!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (lX1hk)

111 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

So? What's your point, asshole? In spite of your leftard push to cripple everyone and shut down the transfer of knowledge and skills such as raising livestock and vegetables and fruit, many of us can still do those things. Hunting, fishing, gardening, sewing, these skills still exist and the younger population is interested in learning them. You want us helpless and dependent on the digital world for everything so you can control us.
Those of us who see a pre 1960's America as a not so bad thing refuse to comply.
Go fuck yourself, bitch.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2J/Lj)

112 I saw the National Egg Market open for Meat Loaf at The Bottom Line in '85.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (LmlMe)

113 Oh, there's a theory that if Newsom gets pushback on the palisades high density housing scheme, he will declare the housing needs to be built for the Olympics. How can you hate athletes??? Don't you want them to have lodging??? So the liberals in the city will cave. And then it will become high density ghetto apartments after the Olympics.

And of course, the builders who get the contracts will give Newsom and Bass cushy kickbacks.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (gWBY1)

114 96 "We sell products to everyone except California!"
-tag line? marketers, call my people, we'll have lunch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

Cali should be broken up into at least 2 states. If the peeps in LA and SD want crazy, they can have them. No reason for 1 state to have over 15% of the pork market.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (TJLr1)

115
President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Thursday that it will end a Clinton-era policy allowing illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.



The lawfare aspect is a good way to rock the Donks back on their heels and get them to spend money and eat up lawyer's time.

If the legal action goes against us, then just deport the assholes. Either way, we win... IF we can keep the GOPe busy with other shit so that they can't monkey wrench the process.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (y9nCu)

116 Chelsea Clinton is crowing about the Clinton Global being on the ground in Texas to give aid. Hildabeast is grooming her to run

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (JtH6i)

117
Why aren't the men who compete against girls EMBARRaSSED and ASHAMED of themselves?


Everyone around them tells them they are pretty princesses and powerful girl bosses. They don't hear normies because we are censored in everywhere they are listening...

In the old days you didn't have trannies competing in girls sports because men around those sports (husbands/boyfriends/whatever) would give them a good beating and then the cops would arrest the trannies themselves.

Sometimes the old ways are the best ways...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (t0Rmr)

118 We aren't geniuses. WE just know how liberal elites think. They aren't smart, it's not incredibly hard to predict.

But seriously...it's disgusting that they will grab this land, build density apartments on it, and then the people who once owned the land will never be able to afford to buy.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (gWBY1)

6 Months after the fires, only 145 of 800 building permits have been approved...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (mP0Kj)

119 We separate wrestlers by weight class, right? These are arbitrary categories for competition. If you are in the 155-pound weight class, if you are 156 pounds, you can't compete. Completely arbitrary. And designed for more people to get more opportunities to compete. One might even say they are discriminatory - hey, I have big bones!

If the law says "female" then there needs to be a definable measure of "female". Just like there is for weight class.

Female = XX chromosomes.

People with different chromosomes can compete, they just compete against the men, not the women. They compete in their weight class.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (gDhA9)

120 Iowa Pork Producers sued the state of CA over the their pork production laws. They lost. :-/
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I fought the pigs
And the pigs won
So I'm fryin' bacon in the hot sun
I fought the pigs
And the pigs won

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (2yoRf)

121 Chickens in cages should have enough room to turn around. Same is true for pigs. If we can't do that, then we deserve lab grown meat. And I've worked at an egg ranch.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (AcTAo)

122 111 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

So? What's your point, asshole? In spite of your leftard push to cripple everyone and shut down the transfer of knowledge and skills such as raising livestock and vegetables and fruit, many of us can still do those things. Hunting, fishing, gardening, sewing, these skills still exist and the younger population is interested in learning them. You want us helpless and dependent on the digital world for everything so you can control us.
Those of us who see a pre 1960's America as a not so bad thing refuse to comply.
Go fuck yourself, bitch.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (2J/Lj)

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It's a signal for black people to protest because pre-1960s is supposed to signal Jim Crow and nothing else.

I saw Cornel West absolutely wig out about this when James Pethokoulous (spelled that wrong, for sure) was on a show with him and said he wanted something like pre-1960s tax policy on something or other.

West exploded, "That means you want separate but equal."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

123 I assume there are other Epstein's out there who specialize in Graham's interests.

Kevin Spacey was an Epstein client so i don't think he was just pimping girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (t0Rmr)

124 The Wicked Witch of the North, Wretched Gretchen Whitmer, instituted chicken social distancing here in MI, messing up producers and egg prices.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 02:41 PM (ufFY
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Chicken "social distancing"?

Pretty bizarre.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (7RUmD)

125 Sue the California Air Resources Board (CARB) while you are at it.

Make gas cans great again. Erase loony national CARB CAFE standards.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (17s+e)

126 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

I think that is code for "Trump's gonna put y'all back in chains!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (Dv3i1)

127 Hiya Blake!!!


I think the trannys are proud of themselves for violating women’s spaces and forcing the alphabet people to bow down. They hold an enormous amount of power right now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (W2Pud)

128 102 I order a vinyl banner from a company in CA. It came with a warning that if I eat it I might get cancer.

Thanks for the tip guys!
Posted by: 18-1


You aren't familiar with Prop. 65?

It's the California law that states all products sold here that might cause cancer must be labeled as such.

The problem?

EVERYTHING causes cancer, according to the State of California. So literally everything sold here has the label.

But since the label is now universal, it has lost all meaning, and no one pay any attention to it any more.

Wer'e the state that cried wolf.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (pMi6S)

129 Cali should be broken up into at least 2 states. If the peeps in LA and SD want crazy, they can have them. No reason for 1 state to have over 15% of the pork market.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM


South Cali, North Cali, and East Cali.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (jc0TO)

130 I love N. California. CA70 is an awesome drive. Even the people are cool. It's nothing like near to and south of I80. Bridgeport is cool. Quincy is cool. I'd live somewhere there if it wasn't in fucking California.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (SJnNf)

131 @109

>>I assume there are red state governments that are actually more corrupt, just better at not needing to make asses of themselves while doing it.

What, you don't think Halley Barbour was running Mississippi like a virtuous Paladin?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (XV/Pl)

132 114 96 "We sell products to everyone except California!"
-tag line? marketers, call my people, we'll have lunch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

Cali should be broken up into at least 2 states. If the peeps in LA and SD want crazy, they can have them. No reason for 1 state to have over 15% of the pork market.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (TJLr1)

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4 states.

1 is a long, thin line of the coast from San Diego to San Napa Valley.

The other 3 are the rural areas, north, center, and south.

6 new GOP senators. 2 new Democrat senators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

133 NFS!

@DefiantLs 3m
James Carville says Democrats do not have a good communication with men.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (mlg/3)

134 I will never forgive Scalia for not overruling or at least strictly limiting Wickard when he had the chance with Gonzalez v Raich.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Douglass Ginsberg would have.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (KAi1n)

135 I can't help it. I love a good car wreck. I want to see 250 lb. males tearing up the field hockey field. I want to see a 6'10" male boxing out the entire female team under the basket in Division 1 NCAA female basketball. I want some guy with a 140 mph serve play a little female tennis.

In short, I want mayhem and domination. I want everyone to see what absolute patronization women's sports actually is. Don't get me wrong. Sports are a life learning experience regardless of your level of play. But, the pretending involved to give value to something like the WNBA or Women's professional tennis is a farce. I'd like to see that highlighted.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (dIske)

136 I remember the good old days when every thread became a boob thread instead of an Epstein thread....

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (YwEeS)

137 131 @109

>>I assume there are red state governments that are actually more corrupt, just better at not needing to make asses of themselves while doing it.

What, you don't think Halley Barbour was running Mississippi like a virtuous Paladin?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (XV/Pl)

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"NO REPUBLICAN IS CORRUPT EVER! GO TEAM RED!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

138 I finished reading Salena Zito’s book “Butler”. It was pretty good. Told from a journalist’s perspective of how the media blew their coverage of the 2024 election. As for the Harris/Walz campaign, she just writes: “there was no THERE there.”

That's on my to-do list. I read elsewhere that Zito asserts that Josh Shapiro actually told Kamala no. In hindsight that makes perfect sense (because why associate yourself with the worst retail politician of our time) but 10 or so months ago everyone assumed she had told him no to appease the Hamasniks.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (2ocoG)

139 South Cali, North Cali, and East Cali.
Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (jc0TO)

I can dig it.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (TJLr1)

140 'West exploded, "That means you want separate but equal."'

I defintely want separate from ghetto crime, and I don't give a shit about 'equality' in evaluating the matter.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (TwZXH)

141
Never assume what is natural is necessary safe and healthy (naturalistic fallacy btw).
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:37 PM (ctrM5)



Malaria, giardia, and dysentery are all natural...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (y9nCu)

142 Mike Cernovich (a Californian) agrees that chickens need more space than factory farms give them. I don't think suing California over this is going to endear Trump to MAHA.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (gKWVE)

143 I always thought the trans sport thing was idiotic. So, what if you "feel" like a female? I feel like I belong in the 155-pound weight class, not the 250-pound weight class the scale shows. Can I compete against the smaller athletes, and steal their chance at medals and glory? no. Does that mean I get my ass kicked by people in my actual weight class? yes.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (gDhA9)

144 Cali should be broken up into at least 2 states. If the peeps in LA and SD want crazy, they can have them. No reason for 1 state to have over 15% of the pork market.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (TJLr1)

If'n we could somehow split off Sacramento, the Bay Area, and LA to another State?

Heck, we'd even keep San Diego as it is fairly Centrist, not batshit cray cray.

Of course, LA, Bay Area, and Sacramento, combined don't have a lot of industry, farming, or resources... only real industries are the Ports, and a dying Hollyweird... so they'd fail post haste.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

145 Boobs?
Where?

Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (av+kn)

146 What if this is a clear attempt to overturn Wickard??

Surely Trump does not give a fig about California egg prices. So why do this? Because it is a direct use of Wickard ruling and CA will have to argue that Wickard was bad law!!
f-ing genius.
Posted by: bob

Even the fallback to NLRB would cause CA law to fail. Simply put, CA can disadvantage its own producers but lacks the power to constrain those outside its jurisdiction via long arm statutes. Not really a case about state power internally via the 10th but its power to extort other states to follow CA regulatory schemes. Even under EC Knight, that might be problematic.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (ctrM5)

147 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

Every now and then after a tranny school shooting the left will start arguing that "hopes and prayers" aren't enough and we need ACTION and...NOW.

Well here's the think, the only way you get rid of school shootings is to go back to the older culture that didn't have school shootings. No trannies, no Globohomo, no Pride Month, hell no third generation feminism. Anything else is "hopes and prayers".

But will they make that sacrifice? Oh hell no.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (t0Rmr)

148 @104 Upstate NYer . Gov Hochul, Sen Schumer and Gillebrand. Congress critters include AOC, Nadler and Goldman. And the state legislature sucks just as bad

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (JtH6i)

149 119 We separate wrestlers by weight class, right?
Posted by: El Mariachi -


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What the hell are you talking about?

Posted by: Japanese Sumo Association at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (A7fWT)

150 6 new GOP senators. 2 new Democrat senators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
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6 new GOP senators. The same 2 donk senators.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (17s+e)

151 I assume there are red state governments that are actually more corrupt, just better at not needing to make asses of themselves while doing it.
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Ohio suffers from moderatitis.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (Dv3i1)

152 Pre 60? Jack Benny show. Hope and Crosby. The Marx Brothers.

Heck yeah!

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (kQojS)

153 Transies competing with women is not just unfair, it is dangerous. Men are quite capable of injuring women with incidental or full contact accidentally or purposefully.

Even worse is the forced contact in locker rooms while unclothed. Worse than that is forcing sharing rooms while on the road and even in dorms. These are sexual assaults.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

154 Gavin, make your own state Great Again before you even attempt to destroy this country like you did with California.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (NpAcC)

155 Chicken "social distancing"?

Pretty bizarre.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (7RUmD)

Someone here described it as that. Cage free.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (ufFY8)

156 121 Chickens in cages should have enough room to turn around. Same is true for pigs. If we can't do that, then we deserve lab grown meat. And I've worked at an egg ranch.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 02:44 PM (AcTAo)

I agree. Chickens like to move around and peck at shit (and each other).

And I think both the meat and eggs taste much better when chickens are free to be chickens.

Raising them in an environment where they literally can't move because they're in a crowd crush like they're at a travis scott concert is just kind of gross.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (uCjyK)

157 Of course, LA, Bay Area, and Sacramento, combined don't have a lot of industry, farming, or resources... only real industries are the Ports, and a dying Hollyweird... so they'd fail post haste.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM


One word: Offshore Oil.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (jc0TO)

158 Much like the burning during urination...

Posted by: Gonorrhea! at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (av+kn)

159 142 Mike Cernovich (a Californian) agrees that chickens need more space than factory farms give them. I don't think suing California over this is going to endear Trump to MAHA.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM (gKWVE)

Is he a chicken Farmer? You do know that Farmers have an inherent self interest in their Live Stock being Healthy? and after centuries of raising livestock, might just be the right ones to make such judgements?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (mP0Kj)

160 >Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"


There are worse fates.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (rJ48h)

161 Mike Cernovich (a Californian) agrees that chickens need more space than factory farms give them. I don't think suing California over this is going to endear Trump to MAHA.

So, here's an idea. Form a company that does that. Raise your chickens with whatever restrictions you think you need.

Buy advertising telling people how awesome your products are.

A significant portion of the country buys bullshit "organic" veggies. Do the same with meat.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (t0Rmr)

162 A lesson in rhetoric meaning nothing:

John Fetterman said today that the Democrat Party needs to stop demonizing ICE.

You know what John Fetterman did two weeks ago? He voted against giving ICE more resources in the OBBB.

Which is more important to ICE? Which actually means something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

163 Ohio suffers from moderatitis.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (Dv3i1)

But Kasich’s father was a mailman!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (TJLr1)

164 I assume there are red state governments that are actually more corrupt, just better at not needing to make asses of themselves while doing it.
_____

Ohio suffers from moderatitis.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:47 PM (Dv3i1)

Alaska maybe. But anyone on our side of the aisle knew that the Media and Dems could come for them in a flash so had to be far cleaner than the equivalent on the Dem side.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (8avO+)

165 Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.” “Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (RHGPo)

166 126 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

I think that is code for "Trump's gonna put y'all back in chains!"
Posted by: Chuck Martel


Newsom didn't specify the decade.

Personally, I'm looking forward to powdered wigs, blunderbusses and witch crazes.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (pMi6S)

167 157 Of course, LA, Bay Area, and Sacramento, combined don't have a lot of industry, farming, or resources... only real industries are the Ports, and a dying Hollyweird... so they'd fail post haste.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:46 PM

One word: Offshore Oil.
Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (jc0TO)

They would have to own the rest of the Coastline for that... not much drilling space off of LA or the Bay Area.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (mP0Kj)

168 In short, I want mayhem and domination. I want everyone to see what absolute patronization women's sports actually is. Don't get me wrong. Sports are a life learning experience regardless of your level of play. But, the pretending involved to give value to something like the WNBA or Women's professional tennis is a farce. I'd like to see that highlighted.
Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 02:45 PM (dIske)

Please....go on...

That is part of the fantasy. You see it in movies all the time now, skinny armed tiny little women beating up huge stunt men. It throws me right out of the movie every time I see it. And yet, if they showed the same thing, but the woman using guile and deception, and surprise...it would be perfectly fine.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (gDhA9)

169 They already do that with eggs. The ones from the fancy free range, uncaged chickens cost like twice as much (at least)

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (YwEeS)

170 What's wild to me about the so-called male "trannies" in the women's locker room...from what I understand, they have the natural male reaction to scantily clad fit women, but, somehow, that's waived away.

Though, ignored is probably the better description.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (tT6L1)

171 Most corrupt states in America - not necessarily in order

CA
MA
IL


Those are also arguably the 3 most leftwing states...fancy that.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (t0Rmr)

172 Pre-1860s!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (2yoRf)

173 You had to wear a respirator to work in the houses because the ammonia was so strong.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (AcTAo)

174 >>> >>I don't see much to like about California. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live there?
>>>Politically it's absolutely horrible, but it does have an immense draw for people, it's essentially a couple of different states wrapped up into on gigantic mess of a state.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:36 PM (XV/Pl)

One of the reasons Hollywood thrived there is because it's so geographically diverse. You could theoretically shoot a beach scene, a city scene, a mountainous snow scene, and a desert scene all in one day.

Also, Muir Woods. The redwoods have to be seen in person to be believed. You can feel God in those woods.

Liberals/socialists/commies worldwide are very good at stealing a geographical paradise and turning it into a living hell.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:50 PM (gWBY1)

175 162 A lesson in rhetoric meaning nothing:

John Fetterman said today that the Democrat Party needs to stop demonizing ICE.

You know what John Fetterman did two weeks ago? He voted against giving ICE more resources in the OBBB.

Which is more important to ICE? Which actually means something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

The docks may let you spout off all you want, but they demand you cast your vote the right way.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (TJLr1)

176 My understanding as to the bird flu quickly spreading is because the migratory carriers can infect the free range chickens. That is one reason eggs went up so drastically UNDER JOEPEDO. Also doesn't help chicken prices either.

As to pork; Cali consumes 15% but produces less than 4% so cut us off.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (17s+e)

177 What's wild to me about the so-called male "trannies" in the women's locker room...from what I understand, they have the natural male reaction to scantily clad fit women, but, somehow, that's waived away.

Didn't Riley Gaines say that Will Thomas was actually jacking it in the locker room?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

178 You know what John Fetterman did two weeks ago? He voted against giving ICE more resources in the OBBB.

Which is more important to ICE? Which actually means something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

to be fair, there might have been any number of things in there non ICE related that pushed him over the edge on the vote, including just getting along with his side. Any infighting on their side is fine with me.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

179 exas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.” “Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.

This seems to be a pattern.

I wouldn't be shocked to find out there is an affair going on, but there is a reason that it is being pushed NOW when it might say Coryn...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (t0Rmr)

180 Moderate titties?? Like B cups??

Posted by: andycanuck at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (2yoRf)

181 @165 on biblical grounds? She was going to turn into a pillar of salt?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (JtH6i)

182 Buy advertising telling people how awesome your products are.

A significant portion of the country buys bullshit "organic" veggies. Do the same with meat.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (t0Rmr)

There have been 'Cage Free' Eggs and Poultry sold in California for many years already...

Usually about 50% more in price, but still on the shelf for those who care.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)

183 DEId in place

@disclosetv 15m
JUST IN - U.S. State Department prepares for "mass layoffs" as early as Friday — Semafor

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (mlg/3)

184 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"


He's saying this from occupied land.

Be better, Gavin.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)

185 142 Mike Cernovich (a Californian) agrees that chickens need more space than factory farms give them. I don't think suing California over this is going to endear Trump to MAHA.
Posted by: gKWVE
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I missed the part where Cernovich is a specialist in agricultural practices.

He can still buy whatever eggs from CA producers that he wishes but he cannot and should not as a CA resident be able to bar a commercial producer of pork, chicken, and eggs from being able to sell to other willing consumers in CA.

CA is purposefully raising prices on subsistence foods for the public as well as energy prices for political gain. Even a majority of Californians has no power to compel other states from selling in CA.

State powers to do that were circumscribed during the Constitutional Convention and on purpose.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ctrM5)

186 But seriously...it's disgusting that they will grab this land, build density apartments on it, and then the people who once owned the land will never be able to afford to buy.
Posted by: LizLem

10p%

I had read there's an obscure Csli state law from 87 or
78 regarding this as well as a county law. But I don't believe it was ever imagined for this.

It's Gavin's way of saying in 2028 he led the building of X number of high density housing. No one will bring up it was essentially eminent domain type land grab.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (FxH7T)

187 The 1960's are where everything really went wrong in this country( yeah I know you go back further but it really accelerated in the 60's)

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (YwEeS)

188 178 to be fair, there might have been any number of things in there non ICE related that pushed him over the edge on the vote, including just getting along with his side. Any infighting on their side is fine with me.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

=======

My point being:

Rhetoric means nothing from elected officials. Votes mean everything.

People should learn to ignore the rhetoric completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

189 Personally, I'm looking forward to powdered wigs, blunderbusses and witch crazes.
Posted by: zombie


Hey! We had Kentucky shit and stuff!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (mlg/3)

190 As to pork; Cali consumes 15% but produces less than 4% so cut us off.
____

Bacon is a spice!

Posted by: Kamala H, Next Gov of CA at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (Dv3i1)

191 Is he a chicken Farmer? You do know that Farmers have an inherent self interest in their Live Stock being Healthy? and after centuries of raising livestock, might just be the right ones to make such judgements?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:48 PM (mP0Kj)

No, their interest is maximizing yield of meat (or eggs) per pound of food eaten by the animal.

I'm arguing that there should be other factors at play other than "what is the cheapest way to produce chicken (or eggs)?"

And, you know, it's not like we're coming at this from a libertarian position here. Fedgov and state gov's already heavily regulate our food industry.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (uCjyK)

192 Michigan cage free summary:

https://tinyurl.com/4ttterp3

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (ufFY8)

193 Everyone before 2020 or so: Young men will do anything to see attractive young women naked. Watch Porkys or American Pie or (lists dozens of other movies)

The left now: The idea that a young man would put on a skirt to get to see attractive young women naked in a locker room is offensive and wrong!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (t0Rmr)

194 Under Biblical rules wouldn't she have to marry her husband's brother?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (zhBpy)

195 Chickens in cages should have enough room to turn around. Same is true for pigs. If we can't do that, then we deserve lab grown meat. And I've worked at an egg ranch.

----
We advocate for good wages and working conditions for workers, we can also advocate for good living conditions for the animals that feed us. Keep reading...

I am not equating animals to humans. I am saying in our humanity we should consider the lives of the beasts.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (PcTds)

196 My understanding as to the bird flu quickly spreading is because the migratory carriers can infect the free range chickens. That is one reason eggs went up so drastically UNDER JOEPEDO. Also doesn't help chicken prices either.

As to pork; Cali consumes 15% but produces less than 4% so cut us off.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (17s+e)

Oh garbage. No migrating starling is gonna land in a herd of carnivorous hens.

It was an op, they brought the virus with them to detect and killed millions of chickens because they wanted to.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (8avO+)

197 Sacramento used to be the area they grew rice. No idea if there's any farming now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM (AcTAo)

198
"We sell products to everyone except California!"
-tag line? marketers, call my people, we'll have lunch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)



Barrett Firearms. They had a bunch of CA cop guns in their shop for repair, service or modification when CA passed the ban on civilian ownership of 50BMG rifles, so they told them to fuck off, shipped all the guns back unrepaired and told them not to bother sending anything else to their shop. Regular citizens were still allowed to send their guns in.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (y9nCu)

199
James Carville says Democrats do not have a good communication with men.

I disagree. They communicate perfectly. Men just don't agree with what they have to say.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)

200 176 My understanding as to the bird flu quickly spreading is because the migratory carriers can infect the free range chickens. That is one reason eggs went up so drastically UNDER JOEPEDO. Also doesn't help chicken prices either.

As to pork; Cali consumes 15% but produces less than 4% so cut us off.
Posted by: Jukin
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Yes. Transmission of bird flu is far easier to free range chickens because bird flu is endemic to wild bird populations.

I come from an agricultural state and from a family of farmers. Most people don't nowadays. Still have an FFA pin and awards somewhere for livestock judging.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (ctrM5)

201 As a bonus un-fuck the gas/diesel/kerosene cans so they're useable again. And rescind the 2-stroke ban. And fill your goddamn reservoirs. And manage your goddamn forests. And...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (Q4IgG)

202 180 Moderate titties?? Like B cups??
Posted by: andycanuck

B cups would be an improvement. Wait, what are we talking about again?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

203 Under Biblical rules wouldn't she have to marry her husband's brother?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:53 PM


I believe stones are involved.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (jc0TO)

204 The bacon must fry!

Posted by: Duke Leto Atreides at July 10, 2025 02:55 PM (2yoRf)

205 Trump Admin: there is no Epstein client list.

Wall Street Journal: here's the Epstein client list... https://archive.is/TKXgg

Posted by: DOGEd at July 10, 2025 02:55 PM (7FTZS)

206 Moderate titties?? Like B cups??

Honesty it isn't the size of the boob that matters so much as whether I can see it or not.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:55 PM (t0Rmr)

207 Can I compete against the smaller athletes, and steal their chance at medals and glory? no. Does that mean I get my ass kicked by people in my actual weight class? yes.
Posted by: El Mariachi -

This nonsense will end when a male identifies as female applies for life insurance and "her" premiums will match male premiums.

Taken to court, the insurance company will have facts as to probability to death.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 10, 2025 02:55 PM (FxH7T)

208
I come from an agricultural state and from a family of farmers. Most people don't nowadays. Still have an FFA pin and awards somewhere for livestock judging.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (ctrM5)

Grand Champion? Heifer? Hog?

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 02:56 PM (77W69)

209 Schrodingers boobs

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 02:56 PM (YwEeS)

210 There have been 'Cage Free' Eggs and Poultry sold in California for many years already...

Usually about 50% more in price, but still on the shelf for those who care.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)

Yeah, except those words don't (legally) mean anything, and it's very difficult in the current iteration of our food supply to really trace the source of where your food came from.

In other words, existing "food safety" laws are the reason for the current situation.

Trust me, I much prefer to go up to a guy and say "you raised these chickens?" "yep, here's my instagram of the farm." "cool, I'll buy some."

But that's not how it works outside of farmers markets.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:56 PM (uCjyK)

211 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (av+kn)

212 Honesty it isn't the size of the boob that matters so much as whether I can see it or not.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:55 PM


This calls for a hands on approach, and a Federal grant.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (jc0TO)

213 I had read there's an obscure Csli state law from 87 or
78 regarding this as well as a county law. But I don't believe it was ever imagined for this.

It's Gavin's way of saying in 2028 he led the building of X number of high density housing. No one will bring up it was essentially eminent domain type land grab.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (FxH7T)

That area is horrible for high density housing. Few roads, no mass transit, no jobs in walking distance, unstable hills with no bedrock supporting them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)

214 Eggs don't need to be cage free. They're not even ambulatory.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (zhBpy)

215 "FRED: "Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average" from 1980.
=====
Get eggs to 2 bucks per dozen again!"

That chart's last entry was May, when eggs where still ~4.78. They are $2.79/dz at Walmart (here) today.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (vbXSk)

216 Focusing on the important things I see. The same people who bash the WNBA constantly are all of a sudden concerned about women's sports. Makes a ton of sense.

Is it not at all strange that the US government is involved in policing sports in the first place? Imagine if the government had its hands this deep in any other kind of game. Chess, Call of Duty, Magic the Gathering...It would be really fucking weird, wouldn't it?

Every state that has a trans athlete ban has gone on to put more and more laws into place that target us, making existing in public difficult or impossible to do safely. It was never about fairness in sports and always about finding any reason to justify othering us, demonizing us, and eliminating us.

So that whole "Trump believes in States rights which is why he pushed for Roe V Wade to be overturned so each State can decide what's best for their citizens" was nothing but bullshit and now the government has the final say?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

217 James Carville says Democrats do not have a good communication with men.
-----------
I disagree. They communicate perfectly. Men just don't agree with what they have to say.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
============
To Democrats, "lie better" is the definition of effective communication.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (7RUmD)

218
We advocate for good wages and working conditions for workers, we can also advocate for good living conditions for the animals that feed us. Keep reading...

I am not equating animals to humans. I am saying in our humanity we should consider the lives of the beasts.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 02:53

I love all animals but poor people like fresh eggs and meat too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (77W69)

219 * As a bonus un-fuck the gas/diesel/kerosene cans so they're useable again. *
###

What has been fucked can never be un-fucked.

Posted by: Your neighborhood EPA administrator at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (av+kn)

220 >>> Chelsea Clinton is crowing about the Clinton Global being on the ground in Texas to give aid. Hildabeast is grooming her to run
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 02:43 PM (JtH6i)

She has a second wedding to pay for? They stole the money from the Haiti earthquakes to pay for her first wedding. Running the same scam all over again sounds like Clintons.

The thing is, they tried to make Chelsea a thing. Gave her a talk show gig, tried to foist her on liberal AWFL mommies. IT bombed. She has zero personality and a wet noodle was funnier. I don't see a career in politics for her.

She got a small win with the money laundering behind that stupid "They Persisted!" children's book series about famous strong women she "helped create." I think she's fine living a luxe life behind the scenes. Like the Obama girl nepo babies, she has dreams of ambition but a soft life. She'll coast on that until she dies.

As much as I despise the Momdanis, Newsomes, Sandy Cortez's of the world, they do have a spark of charisma that makes them compelling enough to appeal to a voter. Chelsea Clinton is like anti charisma. A charisma black hole. And she's too pale and stale for these times.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (gWBY1)

221 $2.75 per dozen large is about the historical average here for at least a decade. Higher in Winter, maybe down to $1.99 in warm weather.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (jc0TO)

222 6 gallon flush toilets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (zhBpy)

223 180 Moderate titties?? Like B cups??
Posted by: andycanuck
===

Went to college with a guy that said "Anything more than a nipple is overkill."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (17s+e)

224 So that whole "Trump believes in States rights which is why he pushed for Roe V Wade to be overturned so each State can decide what's best for their citizens" was nothing but bullshit and now the government has the final say?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)
------------------

If they're getting federal dollars, then states rights go out the window. But, I'm sure that's a distinction which goes right over the head of the average DUmmie.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (tT6L1)

225 Every state that has a trans athlete ban has gone on to put more and more laws into place that target us, making existing in public difficult or impossible to do safely. It was never about fairness in sports and always about finding any reason to justify othering us, demonizing us, and eliminating us.

Trannies are free to do whatever they want at home with whatever adult partner they can convince to participate with them.

But like other sexual antics it should stay at home - not in front of kids. And if you want to do sexual things in front of kids you belong in prison.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (t0Rmr)

226 Is it not at all strange that the US government is involved in policing sports in the first place? Imagine if the government had its hands this deep in any other kind of game. Chess, Call of Duty, Magic the Gathering...It would be really fucking weird, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

I'm right there with ya, I think we should repeal Title IX. It would save the tax payers at local levels a lot of money if they didn't have to pay for girls sports that no one watches.

...Yeah, I figured that's not what they meant.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)

227 >>> Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

HA HA HA HA HA

States Rights, again???

And oh, the poor widdle trans freak is whining about not being "allowed to exist"? Well, keep up with the current attitude...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

228 216 So that whole "Trump believes in States rights which is why he pushed for Roe V Wade to be overturned so each State can decide what's best for their citizens" was nothing but bullshit and now the government has the final say?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

========

CA can stop taking federal money for education and keep on.

It's an option.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

229 Oh garbage. No migrating starling is gonna land in a herd of carnivorous hens.

It was an op, they brought the virus with them to detect and killed millions of chickens because they wanted to.
Posted by: Oldcat

You would be wrong. It is very easy to transmit a virus and the better run farms take great extent to keep from outside sources transmitting viruses to livestock. Most ban outside visitors from other farms, sales personnel, etc. from visiting the confinement houses. Because once the disease gets into a confined flock, it can be disastrous.

In part, that is why China repeatedly is and was a source for many livestock viruses that jumped the gap to humans. They literally live with their pigs, chickens, etc. Thus, aerial spread viruses such as flu due to proximity and dose (along with smoking, poor ventiliation, etc) create a petri dish for raising viruses.

But, there is also the problem with vaxx. Marek's disease is an example where a vaxx in the 70's created a dependency on continued vaxx.

By interfering with survival of the fittest, the vaxx for Mareks created a vax dependency where non vaxxed chickens die as it has destroyed native immunity to Mareks.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (ctrM5)

230 MLTA
Make Light Trucks Again

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (mlg/3)

231 Small pickup trucks!

Posted by: Every guy everywhere at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (av+kn)

232 I'm right there with ya, I think we should repeal Title IX. It would save the tax payers at local levels a lot of money if they didn't have to pay for girls sports that no one watches.


it was a mistake from the get-go

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (Pv3Rg)

233 exas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.” “Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.

This seems to be a pattern.

I wouldn't be shocked to find out there is an affair going on, but there is a reason that it is being pushed NOW when it might say Coryn...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 02:51 PM (t0Rmr)

Isn't that how Obama slid into the senate, when the R guy had his divorce info leaked?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

234 Wee Toyota Pickups ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (zhBpy)

235 I looked into this chicken thing and it is complicated.

Most of the laws are not too bad, but they require access to "free range" and that can be a problem because chickens like staying protected close to the nest.

My solution is to require a photo of the "battery" or cage that the eggs come from on the package.

Let the public decide what they want to buy. Many of the modern cages look brutal, and I would not want them eggs. Maybe that would help.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (A7fWT)

236 If they're getting federal dollars, then states rights go out the window. But, I'm sure that's a distinction which goes right over the head of the average DUmmie.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM


It's not a bunch of retired rocket surgeons over there, you know.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (jc0TO)

237 231 Small pickup trucks!


take hard top off wrangler

take rear seats out of wrangler

remove rear windows

ta da!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 03:02 PM (Pv3Rg)

238 Oh garbage. No migrating starling is gonna land in a herd of carnivorous hens.

It was an op, they brought the virus with them to detect and killed millions of chickens because they wanted to.
Posted by: Oldcat

I watch the starlings hang out with my chickens. All the little birds eat the scratch I throw out for the hens.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:02 PM (77W69)

239 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

Do we get the El Camino SS ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:02 PM (kSDAy)

240 Is it not at all strange that the US government is involved in policing sports in the first place? Imagine if the government had its hands this deep in any other kind of game. Chess, Call of Duty, Magic the Gathering...It would be really fucking weird, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)


If they pay for it, they have a say in how it operates.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)

241 It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

Posted by: Frank Perdue at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (av+kn)

242 213 I had read there's an obscure Csli state law from 87 or
78 regarding this as well as a county law. But I don't believe it was ever imagined for this.

It's Gavin's way of saying in 2028 he led the building of X number of high density housing. No one will bring up it was essentially eminent domain type land grab.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (FxH7T)
____________________________________

There other shenanigans going on in an effort to confiscate property that started the week after the fires were put down. What the municipality did is require property owners to use the City designated debris removal services only. These limited entities (chosen by the City) are over charging. It gets tacked onto the Property tax invoice. Refusal to pay allows the city to put a lien on the property after condemning for safety reasons. Long term refusal results in an auction (in which developers swoop in and grab prime property).

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (dIske)

243 240 Is it not at all strange that the US government is involved in policing sports in the first place? Imagine if the government had its hands this deep in any other kind of game. Chess, Call of Duty, Magic the Gathering...It would be really fucking weird, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)


If they pay for it, they have a say in how it operates.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)

=======

We're still a far distance from them calling for the end of all federal funding of state operations.

Come on, guys. Catch up!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

244 when the R guy had his divorce info leaked?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) and husband Jack Ryan.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (ufFY8)

245 We advocate for good wages and working conditions for workers, we can also advocate for good living conditions for the animals that feed us. Keep reading...

I am not equating animals to humans. I am saying in our humanity we should consider the lives of the beasts.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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You might be interested to know that unhappy hens do not lay eggs. Same as unhappy pork does not put on weight, etc.

Optimal conditions for both require lighting, uncontaminated food and water, absence of parasites, temperature control, etc.

Gross ignorance of agricultural practices is the norm among today's population because simply put less than 1 percent of the population knows even crop farmers, let alone the few percent of a percent that are livestock farmers.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

246 My cousin has been raising chickens for years. In the beginning he thought people would stop by and buy the eggs. Nope. But now he just likes the birds for their conversation alone, so it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (TwZXH)

247 Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (ctrM5)

When I used to travel to China and had chickens at home, I always spent a few weeks isolating myself from my birds in case I picked up some weird Chinese bird flu.

And yes, wild birds do take a lot of interest in chickens and in the chickens food. I once had a blue heron try to, ahem, get a little too friendly with one of my hens. I was not too pleased.

I agree, it is a trade off. Birds outside are much more likely to come in contact with wild birds and other vectors for disease than birds in a warehouse are.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (uCjyK)

248 What part of the Constitution gives the government the control of sportsball?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (zhBpy)

249 >>> 218
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I love all animals but poor people like fresh eggs and meat too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (77W69)

How much does it cost to raise chickens in compliance with all the feralgov "organic" regs (not to mention marketing, transportation, etc etc) vs what I'm paying for my birdbrains? There's no fkn way I'd need to charge what Whole Paycheck charges.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (ULPxl)

250 Four barrel carb and dual exhaust!

Posted by: Small block Chevy at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (av+kn)

251
I don't see a career in politics for her.

__________

She's 45. A little long in the tooth for starting a political career, especially if you have nothing but your name to cash in on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (HZi96)

252 I would be for these women if it wasn't for the fact that they sued to get in men's spaces and now men are creeping into their spaces
so they reap what they sow

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (dEO6W)

253 248 What part of the Constitution gives the government the control of sportsball?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (zhBpy)

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The part that didn't forbid states from accepting federal government money in exchange for federal rules.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

254 The 1960's are where everything really went wrong in this country( yeah I know you go back further but it really accelerated in the 60's)
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 02:52 PM (YwEeS)

I believe that our country started going to hell when every product was forced to have a warning label that it wasn't to be eaten burned smoked, whatever.
Get rid of the fucking warning labels and let Darwin do his job!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (2J/Lj)

255
Chelsea Clinton is crowing about the Clinton Global being on the ground in Texas to give aid. Hildabeast is grooming her to run
Posted by: Smell the Glove

============

Hmmm, I wonder what's available. And will she be old-school Dem or will she get into that socialist beauty pageant?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:05 PM (UmB+t)

256 133 NFS!

@DefiantLs 3m
James Carville says Democrats do not have a good communication with men.

I disagree. I think their communication has been quite clear. The message is the problem. 'We hate you and want you either g*y or dead.' It's not really a strong message to keep men on your side. So, many of them left.

Posted by: Nelly at July 10, 2025 03:05 PM (cHLus)

257 My representative is Pramila Jayapal.
Posted by: nurse ratched

This is the literary version of seeing someone who is wholly undeserving of it getting hit in the nads.

Walk it off champ!

And my Senator Patty Murray.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Stretcher!

Posted by: Clay at July 10, 2025 03:05 PM (wLj9Q)

258 >>> My understanding as to the bird flu quickly spreading is because the migratory carriers can infect the free range chickens.

What's this I'm hearing about a screw worm spreading through Mexican cattle, so we are shutting down our Southern ports to livestock trade?

I suspect if Kamala was in charge, they'd let it spread just to destroy the American beef industry.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:05 PM (gWBY1)

259 I only buy free range vegitarian fed chicken eggs. I think that is a good use for vegitarians. Put them out to pasture and make them feed the chickens.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (SJnNf)

260
Let the public decide what they want to buy. Many of the modern cages look brutal, and I would not want them eggs. Maybe that would help.


Pretty sure commercial food processors and restaurants don't get emotionally involved in the housing of chickens.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (9s47C)

261 You know about the cup sizes?

They runneth over

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (/LpR+)

262 That is one reason eggs went up so drastically UNDER JOEPEDO. Also doesn't help chicken prices either.

As to pork; Cali consumes 15% but produces less than 4% so cut us off.
Posted by: Jukin


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I think they killed all those chickens after Trump won to sabotage his presidency. It was an op.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (A7fWT)

263 All this chicken/egg talk reminds me that I have to make 60 deviled eggs for a office outdoor pot luck next week. I don't mind except I have a hell of a time peeling hard boiled eggs and end up ruining quite a few. Exhausting.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (oiNtH)

264 "Mareks" sounds like a guy in Star Trek.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (2yoRf)

265 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"

What about hand-wired all tube amps ? Are we getting those ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (kSDAy)

266 >>> 259 I only buy free range vegitarian fed chicken eggs. I think that is a good use for vegitarians. Put them out to pasture and make them feed the chickens.
Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (SJnNf)

Bluebell the Hen thinks this is gross; she prefers delicious bugs. And sometimes mice, and frogs, and...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (ULPxl)

267 The thing is, they tried to make Chelsea a thing. Gave her a talk show gig, tried to foist her on liberal AWFL mommies. IT bombed. She has zero personality and a wet noodle was funnier. I don't see a career in politics for her.

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I always thought Hillary! would have been better off on the chat circuit being the 'Smartest Woman in the World' than become a Senator, then leaving that safe lifetime job and going into the government itself. She could have had plenty of money pouring in, Jesse Jackson pulled it off for a decade. And no responsibility so you don't have blots like her Libya failures on her record.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)

268 I think the government shouldn't be mandating the size of chicken cages and let people choose if they want cage free eggs and chicken or conventionally grown poultry.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (77W69)

269 "Judge" Joseph Laplante, yes, the same one who got smacked down by the Supremes for his previous nationwide injunction, resulting in that power being curtailed, has taken advantage of a loophole in the previous decision and declared "birthright citizens" a "class", and issued a NEW nationwide injunction.

This motherfucker needs to be jugged for contempt, followed by being impeached and removed from office.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (qpyNK)

270 Why do we have to kill animals when we can go to the store and get animal meat?

Why do we have to build power plants when we can just plug our appliances in to the wall.

The level of understanding 98% of leftists have about the world... but they want to tell us how to do things because they are smarterest and mostest experiencered and sheeet.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (17s+e)

271 I will vote for any candidate who pledges to return us to a pre-1960 America. Any.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (xcxpd)

272 Nearly 8 Million US Student-Loan Borrowers to See Interest Charges Again

https://tinyurl.com/7rt4zj69

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

273 Chelsea Clinton is crowing about the Clinton Global being on the ground in Texas to give aid. Hildabeast is grooming her to run
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Chelsea was fortunate enough to be ugly and avoid all the other kinds of grooming in her youth.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (JCZqz)

274 I love all animals but poor people like fresh eggs and meat too.

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Of course! More vested minds than mine could brainstorm solutions. My experience would suggest that poor people raise chickens or buy locally from someone they know. That probably won't work for inner city poor, but I'm sure there is a solution.

My intent is not to belittle producers. I do think it is honest hard work.

I also think God will bless all food that we pray over.

I also think that food "grown" under adverse conditions will affect the quality of the food.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (PcTds)

275 Marshall Stack what year?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (zhBpy)

276 All this chicken/egg talk reminds me that I have to make 60 deviled eggs for a office outdoor pot luck next week. I don't mind except I have a hell of a time peeling hard boiled eggs and end up ruining quite a few. Exhausting.
Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 03:06 PM (oiNtH)

And that satanic ritual is even harder.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

277 248 What part of the Constitution gives the government the control of sportsball?
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Interstate Converse.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM (2yoRf)

278 Sign me up for. Pre-1960 America
I want a 55 Chevy Belair.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 10, 2025 03:09 PM (SdwpW)

279 Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine)

44 of D.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:09 PM (/LpR+)

280 How much does it cost to raise chickens in compliance with all the feralgov "organic" regs (not to mention marketing, transportation, etc etc) vs what I'm paying for my birdbrains? There's no fkn way I'd need to charge what Whole Paycheck charges.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (ULPxl)

I never raised chickens commercially, but from what I understand from people who have done so, "organic" is a third party label (like the good housekeeping stamp of approval or whatever), that has strict and pedantic regulations and is not worth getting involved in for most farmers. For example, if a cow cuts her leg on a fence, you are not allowed to give her antibiotics. So you either see if she heals on her own or dies from infection. Obviously that's a waste of money and meat and most people would be fine with eating beef that got proper medical treatment.

The issue is the routine use of hormones and antibiotics and vaccines and everything else thats mixed in with commercial feed. That shit gets in our food supply.

Plus the inhumane treatment of animals in factory farms is pretty gross to a lot of people (me included).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:09 PM (uCjyK)

281 But, there is also the problem with vaxx. Marek's disease is an example where a vaxx in the 70's created a dependency on continued vaxx.

By interfering with survival of the fittest, the vaxx for Mareks created a vax dependency where non vaxxed chickens die as it has destroyed native immunity to Mareks.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (ctrM5)

“This is a FEATURE, not a bug.”

~ The vaxx sellers

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 10, 2025 03:09 PM (TJLr1)

282 260
Let the public decide what they want to buy. Many of the modern cages look brutal, and I would not want them eggs. Maybe that would help.

Pretty sure commercial food processors and restaurants don't get emotionally involved in the housing of chickens.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure


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This is fine. Let them go for efficiency and let the people with feelings buy eggs that come from happy chickens. There is no way to make every animal happy so start with the ones you use.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (A7fWT)

283 Blue Herons -- the dolphins of the bird kingdom.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (2yoRf)

284
I also think that food "grown" under adverse conditions will affect the quality of the food.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 03:08 PM

I think we may agree? I don't think it's a good idea for bureaucrats deciding everything under the sun including poultry.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (77W69)

285 My solution is to require a photo of the "battery" or cage that the eggs come from on the package.

Let the public decide what they want to buy. Many of the modern cages look brutal, and I would not want them eggs. Maybe that would help.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

You would find those far better than pictures from slaughterhouse for animals.

The should be whether or not the food is healthy and nutritious. Farmers have made great strides in the US to do so. Not so much for figuring out the optimal happyness of animals apart from gross calculations of yield aka weight on animals or the proportion of egg laying. Stressed animals of any sort fail to put on weight, don't lay eggs, don't give milk, don't breed. It is nature's way of self limiting the population.

I see the same talk by urban and suburban types regarding hunting. Then they get involved in whether or not some animal should be hunted.

Nature is often shocking cruel, violent, and absent of anything other than the law of the jungle. It ain't Disney out there. And one of the cruelest fate is not the gunshot that kills Bambi's mother but the relentless effects of starvation and disease when you ban it.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (ctrM5)

286 Newsom is so awful. And so pushy.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (aURVT)

287 I think the government shouldn't be mandating the size of chicken cages and let people choose if they want cage free eggs and chicken or conventionally grown poultry.

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100% agree. I don't want the gvt to have any part of my food choices from beginning to end.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (PcTds)

288 I was a wee child when we moved to CA in the '60's and California was paradise. Best schools, low crime, affordable housing, etc.

How ironic that the idiot Gov. points this out as a bad thing.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (oiNtH)

289 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:04 PM (ULPxl)

I didn't really answer your question though. Yes, it will likely be more expensive to raise animals how they were raised prior to the introduction of mass factory farming.

How much more expensive? It's hard to say. We can look to European countries and compare our prices to theirs, but there are a lot more factors at play.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (uCjyK)

290 Blue Birds are also assholes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (zhBpy)

291 >>> 268 I think the government shouldn't be mandating the size of chicken cages and let people choose if they want cage free eggs and chicken or conventionally grown poultry.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (77W69)

YES!

Dump the stupid ass regulations, not to mention BS marketing, in favor of information (ie, simple disclosure about what you do or do not do to raise your critters).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (ULPxl)

292 > 265 Newsom: "Trump wants to bring us back to a pre-1960s America"
(kSDAy)

That would be the America where jobs paid enough that families could afford a house on Dad's salary alone, leaving Mom available for the children, in addition to college funds, vacations, and all the other stuff that makes up the Good Life?

I'm not seeing the problem with this? Anyone?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (qpyNK)

293 >>> So that whole "Trump believes in States rights which is why he pushed for Roe V Wade to be overturned so each State can decide what's best for their citizens" was nothing but bullshit and now the government has the final say?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)
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If they're getting federal dollars, then states rights go out the window. But, I'm sure that's a distinction which goes right over the head of the average DUmmie.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 03:00 PM (tT6L1)


If abortion is a liberal sacrament (to Moloch), then the lefties need to pay their alms to their greatest sacrament. They scrounged up billions to fund Kamala's campaign in a matter of months. They could easily all chip in a cool million each and fund PP for life.

The key is they don't want to pay for it...they want YOU to pay for it.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM (gWBY1)

294 Plus the inhumane treatment of animals in factory farms is pretty gross to a lot of people (me included).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


Now do sheep farming. ( ehgg, they are gross things )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM (mlg/3)

295 The key is they don't want to pay for it...they want YOU to pay for it.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM


Their souls are already lost. They want yours.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM (jc0TO)

296 You know about the cup sizes?

They runneth over
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The tipple with the nipple holds the brew that is true!

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:12 PM (2yoRf)

297 That would be the America where jobs paid enough that families could afford a house on Dad's salary alone, leaving Mom available for the children, in addition to college funds, vacations, and all the other stuff that makes up the Good Life?

I'm not seeing the problem with this? Anyone?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:10 PM (

And black children were raised by both a mother and a father.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 10, 2025 03:12 PM (jM63s)

298 Bluebell the Hen thinks this is gross; she prefers delicious bugs. And sometimes mice, and frogs, and...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:07 PM (ULPxl)

So she doesn't like vegitarians? You would think chickens would love it.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 03:12 PM (SJnNf)

299 There other shenanigans going on in an effort to confiscate property that started the week after the fires were put down. What the municipality did is require property owners to use the City designated debris removal services only. These limited entities (chosen by the City) are over charging. It gets tacked onto the Property tax invoice. Refusal to pay allows the city to put a lien on the property after condemning for safety reasons. Long term refusal results in an auction (in which developers swoop in and grab prime property).
Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 03:03 PM (dIske)

I think that wrinkle was also in place for the 2018 fires in Bell Canyon. Many did not rebuild.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:12 PM (8avO+)

300 “This is a FEATURE, not a bug.”

~ The vaxx sellers
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
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Pretty much what Fauci and those shitheads were well aware of. VAED (Vaccine-associated Enhanced Disease) whenever a non-sterilizing vaxx is administered to a population. It creates the need to keep vaxxing otherwise death because it destroys community immunity.

Marek's disease is the poster child for VAED.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:12 PM (ctrM5)

301 >>>BUT the market in California and Texas is so large that the publishers are going to print what those states want and will not publish an alternative for other states.

Thus the hysterical "Texas makes the textbooks say Jesus created the dinosaurs" nonsense you'll hear from AWFLs online

Posted by: brak at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (jGJov)

302 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

Meet Sarah. Sarah a nurse in Colorado who publicly said she plans to combine her job in the ER with targeting people who support MAGA.

Let’s make Sarah famous and find out which hospital she works at so we can help her transition into unemployment.

https://tinyurl.com/uncv2nnn

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

303 How long until I no longer have to push one for English ?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (9X60i)

304 279 Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine)

44 of D.
Posted by: Commissar

No pics?!??! https://tinyurl.com/dtnxuxrz

I want to believe (or be the one to measure and confirm).

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (JCZqz)

305 If abortion is a liberal sacrament (to Moloch), then the lefties need to pay their alms to their greatest sacrament. They scrounged up billions to fund Kamala's campaign in a matter of months. They could easily all chip in a cool million each and fund PP for life.

The key is they don't want to pay for it...they want YOU to pay for it.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM (gWBY1)
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Socialism, when you have so much virtue and care so much, you are willing to steal from others to fund your virtue and caring.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (17s+e)

306 I dunno... I think most of us, if pushed, would draw a line SOMEWHERE when it comes to animal cruelty -- somewhere between PETA and roasting cute baby animals while they're still alive.

So, no, I don't think laissez-faire libertarianism is the answer here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (qpyNK)

307 Trying to keep up with all the comments but I don't think there's *that* much disagreement here.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (ULPxl)

308 So she doesn't like vegitarians? You would think chickens would love it.
Posted by: Reforger
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Commercial feeds include fishmeal, soybean meal, bone meal, etc. Chickens are omnivores essentially .

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (ctrM5)

309 Anyone heard from RFK Jr. Lately?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (SdwpW)

310
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:59 PM (gWBY1)

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Fabulous takedown of Chelsea, but --

I've heard she wants Something To Do other than annoy actual workers in the Clinton Global Initiative. She had a place all ready in the Hillary White House in 2016 (probably 2008 as well). Hillary continues to force herself into the public eye as she tries to change her epitaph from "2-Time Loser, Scorned Wife" to something more favorable. The Chelsea Project could help.

Idle thoughts. Those people are horrible and secretive and power-mad and provide many avenues of cynical speculation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (UmB+t)

311 Get rid of the fucking warning labels and let Darwin do his job!
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Haha! This is what I want to say - but in a much more memorable way.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (PcTds)

312 I'm not seeing the problem with this? Anyone?

50s music sucked. Hard pass.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (kSDAy)

313 Why not pass a law that makes it so California laws only apply to egg producers in California. Why does ca get to dictate its extreme agriculture laws on the rest of the producers. Just because their market is so big? Ca needs to be split into three states.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 10, 2025 03:15 PM (w4q3r)

314 Nobody cares if fish suffer.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

315 I thinks pres d ent omana should dew something about Trumps S S Ice Stormtroope t s that be king child r in of coler.

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, Vt at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM (p+utQ)

316 Cubs are beating the shit out of Minnesota right now. So there's that.

7-1 in the bottom of the 8th.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM (ufFY8)

317 Plus the inhumane treatment of animals in factory farms is pretty gross to a lot of people (me included).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Now do sheep farming. ( ehgg, they are gross things )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 03:11 PM (mlg/3)

In a science class in HS we had a lab where we injected, or rubbed testosterone onto lil chicks to turn them into premature roosters. Much of the sympathy for the things drained out over time when they pooped on your notebooks. Even the girls. The butch chicks with small combs and cock-a-doodle doing were funny

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

318 Isn't beastiality legal in WA State?

If we are talking about animal cruelty, I suggest we start with the corrections there.

Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM (Bi+MU)

319 Commercial feeds include fishmeal, soybean meal, bone meal, etc. Chickens are omnivores essentially .
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (ctrM5)

I've seen chickens eat mice and even snakes.

They will eat anything that their bird brain thinks will fit in their beak.

Sometimes they even get a taste for their own eggs, which is also a big problem.

And they're possibly the dumbest animals I have ever interacted with.

But I do love eggs!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM (uCjyK)

320 >>> 302 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

Meet Sarah. Sarah a nurse in Colorado who publicly said she plans to combine her job in the ER with targeting people who support MAGA.

Let’s make Sarah famous and find out which hospital she works at so we can help her transition into unemployment.

https://tinyurl.com/uncv2nnn
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

She seems nice.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (ULPxl)

321 Every one ignores the screaming of the oysters.

Posted by: Beatniks at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (jc0TO)

322 Posted by: whig


I am not sure if you agree with my solution of having a photo of the cages on the package, or not.

I agree with what you said, but my point is to turn animal welfare into a marketing issues. The Left did that with gay shit and green shit. Companies advertise how "carbon neutral" they pretend to be.

Why not simple law that farm operations for food sold to public must have representative photo of conditions? Make that their marketing position,.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (A7fWT)

323 306 I dunno... I think most of us, if pushed, would draw a line SOMEWHERE when it comes to animal cruelty -- somewhere between PETA and roasting cute baby animals while they're still alive.

So, no, I don't think laissez-faire libertarianism is the answer here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Commercial operations have the greatest incentive of all to avoid animal cruelty--it affects their profits.

One finds far more animal cruelty and neglect among the general populace for domestic animals and lazy backyard farmers not raising for a profit.

Animal abandonment, starvation, and neglect on spending for medical care, etc. are common.

PETA itself is famous for slaughtering dogs, cats, or whatever comes within its grasp because dead animals don't consume their donations. HSPCA is another horrible organization.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (ctrM5)

324 I agree with California's more humane practices with their farm animals

For God sakes , they have no life and are being slaughtered for our benefit, it’s the least we can do to let them see sunlight and be able to turn around

We’re f/u fat anyway, maybe we should eat fewer amd throw less away

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (nGraA)

325 When you don't press 1 for English the call should be transferred to ICE.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (zhBpy)

326 Isn't beastiality legal in WA State?

If we are talking about animal cruelty, I suggest we start with the corrections there.
Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM


Help. Me.

Posted by: The Chicken at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (kgE5c)

327 I've heard she wants Something To Do other than annoy actual workers in the Clinton Global Initiative. She had a place all ready in the Hillary White House in 2016 (probably 2008 as well). Hillary continues to force herself into the public eye as she tries to change her epitaph from "2-Time Loser, Scorned Wife" to something more favorable. The Chelsea Project could help.

Idle thoughts. Those people are horrible and secretive and power-mad and provide many avenues of cynical speculation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (UmB+t)

I'm sure her place has enough gardening space to keep someone occupied if they cared to.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

328 What are "hen-growing chickens"?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (w6EFb)

329 >>> 268 I think the government shouldn't be mandating the size of chicken cages and let people choose if they want cage free eggs and chicken or conventionally grown poultry.

Same with raw milk. I get it was necessary to pasteurize milk for big cities in the 1900s to prevent diseases spreading. But modern milking techniques make it safer! And they say there are nutrients killed off in the pasteurization process.

Supposedly raw milk is better for gut health, reduces allergies, reduces asthma, has more nutrients, etc. Fine. Let people decide if they want it, and what farms to get it from.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (gWBY1)

330 I'd pluck me.

Posted by: Buffalo Chicken at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (jc0TO)

331 I've heard she wants Something To Do other than annoy actual workers in the Clinton Global Initiative. She had a place all ready in the Hillary White House in 2016 (probably 2008 as well). Hillary continues to force herself into the public eye as she tries to change her epitaph from "2-Time Loser, Scorned Wife" to something more favorable. The Chelsea Project could help.

Idle thoughts. Those people are horrible and secretive and power-mad and provide many avenues of cynical speculation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:14 PM (UmB+t)

Chubble, born to privilege has all the money and time in the world and yet can't find satisfaction unless she's thought of as a thought leader.

She should take up painting or something.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (w4q3r)

332 Isn't beastiality legal in WA State?

If we are talking about animal cruelty, I suggest we start with the corrections there.
Posted by: garrett at July 10, 2025 03:16 PM

Help. Me.
Posted by: The Chicken at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (kgE5c)

uh oh don't tell Cenk U

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (8avO+)

333
Thus the hysterical "Texas makes the textbooks say Jesus created the dinosaurs" nonsense you'll hear from AWFLs online
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And objections from the "conservative" with CA requirements.

Two sides being played against each other overshadowing the bigger problem of federal vs local control of schools and education.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (PcTds)

334 When you don't press 1 for English the call should be transferred to ICE.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (zhBpy)

That would be an excellent reddit troll post.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (ufFY8)

335 Anyone heard from RFK Jr. Lately?
Asking for a friend.


He's been eaten by Leviathan. FDA just fully approved mRNA Covid vaxx for everyone down to 6 months old.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM (2ocoG)

336 Since I passed on, there's no national figure to control/protect the egg market.

Posted by: Edith Massey, The Egg Lady at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (G5+As)

337 I'd pluck me.
Posted by: Buffalo Chicken at July 10, 2025 03:19 PM


*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (kgE5c)

338 What are "hen-growing chickens"?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (w6EFb)

hens. they also grow roosters.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

339 Why not designate facilities by grade, A is maximum free range, C is minimum requirements and B is somewhere in the middle. Let the consumer decide if there is a difference in the taste of their eggs by grade.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (Dv3i1)

340 Stream of Commerce theory baby.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ctrM5)

I'd rather call it "freedom of commerce".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (g8Ew8)

341 Thus the hysterical "Texas makes the textbooks say Jesus created the dinosaurs" nonsense you'll hear from AWFLs online

That doesn't even make sense. Dinosaurs were well before Jesus.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (2ocoG)

342 She seems nice.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 03:17 PM (ULPxl)
*******
I hope she gets fired.
People like her should never be allowed to work in a hospital.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (NpAcC)

343 341 Thus the hysterical "Texas makes the textbooks say Jesus created the dinosaurs" nonsense you'll hear from AWFLs online

That doesn't even make sense. Dinosaurs were well before Jesus.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

344 Roosters don't lay eggs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (zhBpy)

345 I am not sure if you agree with my solution of having a photo of the cages on the package, or not.

I agree with what you said, but my point is to turn animal welfare into a marketing issues. The Left did that with gay shit and green shit. Companies advertise how "carbon neutral" they pretend to be.

Why not simple law that farm operations for food sold to public must have representative photo of conditions? Make that their marketing position,.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Do it for all of them including slaughterhouses, etc. then fine including those awful food processing plants for peanut butter, pickles (Vince Lombardi's son working for a summer remembers a working pissing in the pickle vat), and so on.

Do it for all the foreign produce brought in where night soil (human shit) is used as fertilizer and workers simply do their business in the fields without washing hands, etc.

Do it in the backrooms of super markets often infested with vermin and improper storage conditions (temp, etc. )

I know how food is made and most people would rush to their representative to make the bad pictures stop. Or they would starve.

Nature and this world in general is cruel.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (ctrM5)

346 > Commercial operations have the greatest incentive of all to avoid animal cruelty--it affects their profits.

Not very persuasive.

As I recall, much the same argument was made to claim that slavery wasn't cruel.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (qpyNK)

347 314 Nobody cares if fish suffer.
Posted by: Beatniks

Fuck fish. They're too stupid to know what's going on anyway. Cephalopods, on the other hand...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (JCZqz)

348 He has feathers in his mouth!

Posted by: not just the punchline guy at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (ufFY8)

349 I'd rather call it "freedom of commerce".
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Scotus term for Commerce Clause jurisprudence. See Jones and Laughlin Steel Case.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (ctrM5)

350 Supposedly raw milk is better for gut health, reduces allergies, reduces asthma, has more nutrients, etc. Fine. Let people decide if they want it, and what farms to get it from.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:18 PM (gWBY1)

I have a guy. I'm not a big milk fan in general, but when I do drink milk I go to the raw milk dealer. It's kind of like what buying weed used to be like.

"you got the money?" "yeah, you got the stuff?" "yeah, it's in cooler under the frozen peas." "aight, let's do this quick"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (uCjyK)

351 Are y'all saying that Jesus couldn't ride a dinosaur?

Posted by: Newt at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

352 347 314 Nobody cares if fish suffer.
Posted by: Beatniks

Fuck fish. They're too stupid to know what's going on anyway. Cephalopods, on the other hand...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (JCZqz)

Yeah. Don't eat octopus.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (w4q3r)

353 344 Roosters don't lay eggs.
Posted by: Boss Moss

How dare you deny trans-rooster identity!!!!

Posted by: Gaystapo Commissar at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

354
I always thought Hillary! would have been better off on the chat circuit being the 'Smartest Woman in the World' than become a Senator, then leaving that safe lifetime job and going into the government itself. She could have had plenty of money pouring in, Jesse Jackson pulled it off for a decade. And no responsibility so you don't have blots like her Libya failures on her record.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Naw. The bitch wanted formal power. She's always been kind of establishment and unimaginative that way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (UmB+t)

355 Coffee shop is giving away free cups of coffee as a promotion. Limit one per customer.

Jesus walks in: "Three coffees, please".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (qpyNK)

356 ICE raids on Camarillo farm.
Newsie: " tell me about this farm. Is it agricultural?"

Uh, show me one that isn't.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:23 PM (6MHxU)

357 Roosters don't lay eggs.
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You can't get down from an Elephant.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)

358 344 Roosters don't lay eggs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (zhBpy)

Oh that, we can all agree.

Except we shouldn't assume a chickens gender, so I'll rate this comment as "partially transphobic."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:24 PM (uCjyK)

359 >>> Let’s make Sarah famous and find out which hospital she works at so we can help her transition into unemployment. https://tinyurl.com/uncv2nnn
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

Horrifying. I honestly think she'd throw the Hippocratic oath out the window and let a MAGA patient die. Truly.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:24 PM (gWBY1)

360 356 ICE raids on Camarillo farm.
Newsie: " tell me about this farm. Is it agricultural?"

Uh, show me one that isn't.
Posted by: Commissar

Uh...exactly.

Posted by: Kiwi Farms at July 10, 2025 03:24 PM (JCZqz)

361 356 ICE raids on Camarillo farm.
Newsie: " tell me about this farm. Is it agricultural?"

Uh, show me one that isn't.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:23 PM (6MHxU)

It's a weed farm and they're in Carpinteria too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (77W69)

362 Coffee shop is giving away free cups of coffee as a promotion. Limit one per customer.

Jesus walks in: "Three coffees, please".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (qpyNK)

We'd need a global council to see if customer = trinity or person to determine the accuracy of this. And being omnipresent, God was always in the shop.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)

363 Woot! Successfully imported about 12 years of old emails into my new instance of Thunderbird running under Linux Mint. Still have 2024 and 2025 mails to import, but now I know the drill.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (F6+9F)

364 They're too stupid to know what's going on anyway.

Sea kittens!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (6MHxU)

365 343 341 Thus the hysterical "Texas makes the textbooks say Jesus created the dinosaurs" nonsense you'll hear from AWFLs online

That doesn't even make sense. Dinosaurs were well before Jesus.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 03:20 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

That's why the Gospels don't dwell on his younger years. He spent them burying all those dino bones.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (AQ1VH)

366 365 Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

That's why the Gospels don't dwell on his younger years. He spent them burying all those dino bones.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 03:25 PM (AQ1VH)

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Teenjus had adventures, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

367 >>>Cali should be broken up into at least 2 states. If the peeps in LA and SD want crazy, they can have them. No reason for 1 state to have over 15% of the pork market.
------------

California is composed of two diametrically opposed cultures.
California more than any other state is suited to division into two states.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (0b3lL)

368 Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the Lindsey Graham?

But you see my point here? You only hear of a hen, a rooster, and a chicken. Something's missing!

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (lX1hk)

369 Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IT WAS THE JEWS!!!

Posted by: Candace Owens at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

370 Teenjus


*snort*

Posted by: Newt at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (jc0TO)

371 Pulpo for everyone!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (QSrLX)

372 Coffee shop is giving away free cups of coffee as a promotion. Limit one per customer.

Jesus walks in: "Three coffees, please".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (qpyNK)

Ha!

A Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople joke.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (ufFY8)

373 I just lay there.

Posted by: The Cold Fish at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

374
Chubble, born to privilege has all the money and time in the world and yet can't find satisfaction unless she's thought of as a thought leader.

She should take up painting or something.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

===============

Even Gloria Vanderbilt and Jackie O got themselves jobs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (UmB+t)

375 Every one ignores the screaming of the oysters.
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We don't.

Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)

376 370 Teenjus


*snort*
Posted by: Newt at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (jc0TO)

=======

Righteous Gemstones came up with it.

It was Baby Billy's TV effort in Season 4 after Baby Billy's Bible Bunkers was hit by locusts at the end of Season 3.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

377 Horrifying. I honestly think she'd throw the Hippocratic oath out the window and let a MAGA patient die. Truly.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:24 PM (gWBY1)
*********
Absolutely. She would make sure their lines had air bubbles in them.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (NpAcC)

378 Not very persuasive.

As I recall, much the same argument was made to claim that slavery wasn't cruel.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
===========
Not really. You are putting animals into human terms which is unpersuasive itself. They ain't humans. So you can feel free to not consume animals anytime that you like or even food.

FWIW, By the time of the ACW, slavery was unprofitable except to a) sell new slaves westward, and b) cotton. Those that trained a slave to serve as skilled labor faced the real possibility of them fleeing to a free state as Frederick Douglass did. Those that allowed literacy, etc. of their slaves made them more human.

One of the problems that ended up draining a lot of eastern plantations was the soil was exhausted, their labor force aging, and Southern laws compelled slave owners to keep old slaves kept up with food, etc. The old solution before the 1820-30's was manumitting them when they aged. South though restricted that due to fears of a large free black population so the only thing left for older plantations was to breed slaves. The import ban, soil exhaustion via cotton, and western lands helped with that awful market.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 03:27 PM (ctrM5)

379 290 Blue Birds are also assholes.

but they make great schoolbusses.

Posted by: anachronda at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (v3pYe)

380 NOOD District Clown Judge

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (diNR9)

381
1. Newsom.
2. Out of control bus.
Some assembly required.

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (UjdFS)

382 >>> I've heard she wants Something To Do other than annoy actual workers in the Clinton Global Initiative. She had a place all ready in the Hillary White House in 2016 (probably 2008 as well). Hillary continues to force herself into the public eye as she tries to change her epitaph from "2-Time Loser, Scorned Wife" to something more favorable. The Chelsea Project could help.

Blonde Morticia, you are so right. And I'm sure the CGI employees are doing the pushing too. "You're talents are SO wasted here, Chelsea! You should run for office!"

I think deep in their souls, these political nebo babies and minor celebs WANT to matter. They know they lead useless lives. I think the divine in us craves purpose. Unfortunately the liberals have taught her since childhood to use that divine spark of purpose in a twisted way: to grift, steal, and desire to dominate/bully others.

Did you see that Charlize Theron has an African charity she named AFTER herself? The egos are too much.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 03:28 PM (gWBY1)

383 Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IT WAS THE JEWS!!!
Posted by: Candace Owens at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

I don't like the idea of entrapment by God at a personal level. Never liked the book of Job. What about that first family that was killed in the process?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)

384 Do it for all the foreign produce brought in where night soil (human shit) is used as fertilizer and workers simply do their business in the fields without washing hands, etc.


You don't have to go the foreign route for that.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (e2MJJ)

385
But that's not how it works outside of farmers markets.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:56 PM (uCjyK)



Most farmers markets are fake nowadays. If the produce is uniform and pretty; if there's any barcode stickers; if the booth has stacks of branded produce boxes etc. Then they are resellers who buy produce from the same wholesaler as your local grocery chain.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (y9nCu)

386 Coffee shop is giving away free cups of coffee as a promotion. Limit one per customer.

Jesus walks in: "Three coffees, please".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (qpyNK)

Ha!

A Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople joke.
----------

First one of the week! If you had Thursday afternoon at 3:22 please collect your winnings.

Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at July 10, 2025 03:29 PM (TN0g+)

387 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 03:30 PM (77W69)

388 Jesus put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IT WAS THE JEWS!!!
Posted by: Candace Owens at July 10, 2025 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

I don't like the idea of entrapment by God at a personal level. Never liked the book of Job. What about that first family that was killed in the process?
Posted by: Oldcat


Don't buy the entrapment angle. Do believe that God didn't tell us everything. Only what He wanted us to know.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 03:31 PM (e2MJJ)

389 Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

____________________________

Why do all the sanctimonious, narcissistic leftist females all insist on wearing welder's glasses.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (dIske)

390 Coffee shop is giving away free cups of coffee as a promotion. Limit one per customer.

Jesus walks in: "Three coffees, please".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Ha!

A Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople joke.
----------
First one of the week! If you had Thursday afternoon at 3:22 please collect your winnings.
Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult
=======
And He was on a Diet of Worms.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (2yoRf)

391 Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

What is nurse Sarah going to do, Inquire of everybody who comes into the ER-"Who did you vote for in the last election"?

I don't understand people who put these bizarre, violent plans on social media. They don't think anyone will find out who they are and report them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (2GCMq)

392 I like to wrestle girls.

But that's definitely a friendly, unless she's a gymnast/dancer, which becomes competitive.
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I'm still the inter-gender Champion!

Posted by: Zombie Andy Kaufmann at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

393 Naw. The bitch wanted formal power. She's always been kind of establishment and unimaginative that way.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 03:22 PM (UmB+t)

I wasn't surprised, because she isn't that smart. Bill was the popular one, as he was eclipsed she started to falter. The betrayal by the supers should have cued her to that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:34 PM (8avO+)

394 Don't buy the entrapment angle. Do believe that God didn't tell us everything. Only what He wanted us to know.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 03:31 PM (e2MJJ)

God buries false evidence and punishes those who didn't assume God was a liar?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

395 I know how food is made and most people would rush to their representative to make the bad pictures stop. Or they would starve.

Nature and this world in general is cruel.
Posted by: whig

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so you are against it because it would be too effective?

I only said eggs because that is what the people are arguing about now but I do think it should all be publicly accessible.

So what if people are revolted -- that is the point. Teach these idiots what the world really is about. I think it will do both - inform the public to make them less priggish, and improve some of the worst practices.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 03:39 PM (A7fWT)

396 The issue is the routine use of hormones and antibiotics and vaccines and everything else thats mixed in with commercial feed. That shit gets in our food supply.

Plus the inhumane treatment of animals in factory farms is pretty gross to a lot of people (me included).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 03:09 PM (uCjyK)

Then buy a farm and raise your own fucking food. I want see how your hands-off, non-intervention, let- nature-take-it's-course philosophy works out for you.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 03:44 PM (g8Ew8)

397 Nuisance is Not a King just a would be nincompoop who thinks i he can tell the whole nation how to live

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (wGqjj)

More Left-Wing Terrorism: Four Arrested for Throwing Spike-Strips In Front of ICE Vehicles

The Democrat media continues to avoid reporting on this, and Democrat politicians continue avoiding condemning it or even acknowledging it.

They think they can duck the issue because their media allies are covering it up.

They're living in the past. The leftwing media is dying and no one goes to them for actual news any longer.


Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

BREAKING: Border Patrol releases names & photos of suspects accused of using devices to spike their vehicles in LA today. The suspects were in possession of a tote bag w/ CHIRLA branding on it that had more spikes in it. CHIRLA is the major anti-ICE activist network in LA, and it has received $34 million in taxpayer funding. Law enforcement sources tell me that one of the suspects is transgender. They are all now facing felony charges.

CHIRLA is the "human rights" (open borders lunatic) organization that receives government funds to organize and lead violent insurrections against the government.

The various Democratic-aligned groups helping to fuel the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement uprising in Los Angeles are well funded and part of a coordinated operation despite organizers' efforts to make them appear spontaneous and grassroots.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, one of the activist organizers at the center of the Los Angeles protests, received millions in taxpayer dollars through government grants, including federal funding for immigration assistance services, a Washington Examiner review found.


Formed in 1986, CHIRLA is a 501(c)(3) legal services provider helping illegal immigrants, including those convicted of crimes, avoid deportation.

CHIRLA informed criminally convicted immigrants of California's Proposition 47, which downgraded and resentenced certain crimes. Under this 2014 state statute, felonies involving drug possession, fraud, and theft were classified as misdemeanors instead.

"Prop 47 could help clean your criminal record," CHIRLA previously advertised, noting that noncitizens with criminal convictions may be deported.

According to CHIRLA's tax filing for fiscal 2023, the charity reported receiving approximately $34 million in government grants that year, up from $12.4 million in grant money in 2022.

Grant records show the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency CHIRLA is protesting, has awarded the anti-deportation group with several six-figure grants since 2014 as part of a citizenship and assimilation program that financially supports organizations "actively working to remove barriers to naturalization." Categorized under "Citizenship Education and Training," the DHS grants totaling $1.2 million to CHIRLA were earmarked for "citizenship instruction and naturalization application services."

On X, a DHS spokeswoman said the Trump administration cut off CHIRLA's federal funding in March, including nixing nearly $101,100 remaining of a two-year, $450,000 grant yet to be paid out. According to a termination letter addressed to CHIRLA, the DHS determined that "the scope of work performed under this award no longer effectuates the program goals and the Department's priorities." CHIRLA was accordingly instructed to cease all federally funded activities carried out under the auspices of the award.

CHIRLA has also received a significant amount of taxpayer funding from the state of California, according to a Washington Examiner review of statewide grant records. In 2023, the state's Department of Social Services awarded CHIRLA about $3 million for an initiative providing free legal services to immigrants, such as application assistance in "cases seeking immigration remedies," i.e., deportation relief. Since at least 2020, CHIRLA has been granted $3 million each fiscal year through this legal assistance program. In 2022, CHIRLA received $1.37 million from California's social services department, specifically to provide pro bono defense services in removal proceedings.

...

CHIRLA, which is aiming to raise $65 million in funds for its new headquarters, also solicits donations online through ActBlue, the Democratic Party's primary fundraising platform, which is under federal investigation for facilitating a number of suspicious foreign transactions.

The spike-strips were carried in a CHIRLA bag:

chirlabag.jpeg

Posted by: Ace at 01:16 PM




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1 Hidey ho!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (uWKK8)

2 The Democrat media continues to avoid reporting on this, and Democrat politicians continue avoiding condemning it or even acknowledging it.

They think they can duck the issue because their media allies are covering it up.

They're living in the past. The leftwing media is dying and no one goes to them for actual news any longer.

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I wonder...

In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

3 Can we use J6 rules and just shoot them?

Oh wait, I forgot these are leftwing insurrectionists.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (t0Rmr)

4 Things that make you go hmmmmmm … shoot the bastards …

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday. . . at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (cfyxU)

5
I really should take a shower and get busy, you pushers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (UmB+t)

6 Find out who finances these domestic terrorists and RICO the crap out of them. Wealthy leftist? Not wealthy anyt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (JtH6i)

7 Moar!

Posted by: Doof at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (5jU2p)

8 2 - Yeah that's a good point. We might be in some sort of "inverse Solzhenitsyn" situation, where we and an increasing number of Normies know exactly what is going on, but the antifa types and their Dim handlers have no idea what we know because they still operate on the premise that if legacy media doesn't report on it, it doesn't exist.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (+b4rY)

9 More Antifa skullbuggery. Hope they enjoy prison life.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (uxAXv)

10 Did not nood!

Fuck them.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (fV+MH)

11 I'm sort of impressed the improvised spike strips actually worked. I would have expected them to fall over and be ineffective.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (tT6L1)

12 Thomas Sowell reminds us that immigration laws are the only laws where people want to help those who break them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (Pce4l)

13 CHIRLA sounds like one of those trendy names that wine moms give their daughters.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (64qRd)

14 >>> CHIRLA is the major anti-ICE activist network in LA, and it has received $34 million in taxpayer funding.

Of course.

Also, isn't the correct term for those devices in the picture a "caltrop"?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (uCjyK)

15 "Jude Jasmine Jeannine Allard"

Hmmm.....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (Wnv9h)

16
omg. I read this:

>>The suspects were in possession of a tote bag w/ CHIRLA branding on it that had more spikes in it.

and I thought, WHAT organization has the crazy guts to be this in-your-face? Then I kept reading...

>>CHIRLA is the major anti-ICE activist network in LA, and it has received $34 million in taxpayer funding.

Of course. They're not only legal, they're funded by us and they're untouchable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (UmB+t)

17 Also, isn't the correct term for those devices in the picture a "caltrop"?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (uCjyK)

I believe you're right.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (64qRd)

18 "Jude Jasmine Jeannine" So very special!

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (TwZXH)

19 Also, isn't the correct term for those devices in the picture a "caltrop"?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (uCjyK)

IIRC, that would be true if the ICE vehicles were in fact horses.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (Pce4l)

20 California's government is in rebellion against the Federal Government and the American people. We're just not calling it that.
Sooner or later we must resort to tian ming.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (gKWVE)

21 Nobody going to point out the dick and balls drawn on the back windshield?

For shame.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (j/vBG)

22 You no nooding bastages!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (5MZNC)

23 *zhèng míng.
Gah.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (gKWVE)

24 In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
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They live in a fantasy world in which they're the brave resistance protected by the PTB. As such, they think they're invulnerable. I mean, heck, some idiots tried to set a trap and gun down a bunch of officers. Then another guy assumed ambient air temperature after firing on ICE officers. Now this.

Remember, these are people who have virtually no connection with reality, and, as such, any information contrary to their fantasy world is automatically dismissed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (tT6L1)

25 Damn I have too much time on my hands.

Wiki: A caltrop (also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap,[1] galtrap, calthrop, jackrock or crow's foot[2][3]) is an area denial weapon made up of usually four, but possibly more, sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron).

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (64qRd)

26 6 Find out who finances these domestic terrorists and RICO the crap out of them. Wealthy leftist? Not wealthy anyt
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (JtH6i)

Can we RICO Congress? It's all just Calvinball, right?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (pIfcn)

27 I believe you're right.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (64qRd)

Our expert wordsmiths in the media strike again.

IIRC, that would be true if the ICE vehicles were in fact horses.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (Pce4l)

I'm no linguistical historian, but while these devices were originally used against mounted troops on horses / camels / whatever, I think we still call the modern day equivalent (used against tires) as "caltrops."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (uCjyK)

28 Zealots gotta zealot.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (TwZXH)

29 20 California's government is in rebellion against the Federal Government and the American people. We're just not calling it that.
Sooner or later we must resort to tian ming.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (gKWVE)

If it were up to me, CA would be a territory and no longer a state.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:25 PM (Pce4l)

30 Nobody going to point out the dick and balls drawn on the back windshield?

Any man who won't cast a gaze at another man's lap really cannot count himself a real man.

Posted by: David Brooks at July 10, 2025 01:25 PM (gKWVE)

31
In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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What sentencing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (UmB+t)

32 If all the undercover FBI, ATF, DEA, etc., weren't already all investigating each other in the KKK and the Patriot Front, maybe they could investigate the actual subversive groups.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (47/pr)

33
I'm no linguistical historian, but while these devices were originally used against mounted troops on horses / camels / whatever, I think we still call the modern day equivalent (used against tires) as "caltrops."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, but when’s the last time you heard “the police deployed caltrops to stop the vehicle”?

I realize we are talking about the media here, who cannot write anymore, but bear with me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (Pce4l)

34 The spike-strips were carried in a CHIRLA bag:

I want to say those are pretty good improvised caltrops but not that good a spike strip. The Strip needs to pull out after poking the tires and not just go bumpity bump down the road.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

35
Anyone seen by ICE to be throwing shit under their vehicles needs to get a taste of Rule 556. What turned out to be spike strips could just as well have been IEDs. Better safe than sorry.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (y9nCu)

36 "area denial weapon" Legos, Monopoly game pieces, jacks, marbles: for when you need to deny bare feet.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (TwZXH)

37 Wiki: A caltrop...

So, presumably, since these are nails pushed through a piece of hose without concern to ensure that it's impossible to not have a nail pointing up, these are not caltrops.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

38 31
In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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What sentencing?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (UmB+t)

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Well, sentencing is further out. I was imprecise.

But, like, the 10 arrested for attempted murder of the ICE agent because one other in their cell shot an ICE agent in the neck. Those arrests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

39 Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer

Someone get me on the phone with Rupert Murdoch so I can negotiate the contract for Pam Blondi to get the 4 am slot on Fox News.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (TGPs7)

40 Afternoon.

Not so much "spike strips" as pieces of hose or pipe with rusty nails through them.

Anyway, hope those guys have fun in jail.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (aBy2+)

41 James Lileks has found his car after being car-jacked earlier this week. Quite an adventure in Minnesomolia.

@Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

42 31 - Ace had stuff up yesterday iirc about the heads of that "Shut Down Cop City" crap a couple of years ago in Atlanta who all got sentenced. At least I think I read that here. I definitely read that yesterday.

Unfortunately "speedy" justice in this country takes several years, so schadenfreude is always a cold cut meal.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (+b4rY)

43 I am so happy we’re going to be getting some new shower partners.

Posted by: Federal Prisoners at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (AlNHY)

44 Just moments ago in Van Nuys during federal immigration law enforcement operations, 3 subjects attempted to impede & obstruct our efforts, using improvised devices aimed at disabling our vehicles. All three were arrested & now face felony charges.


Praying that Fedgov doesn't reduce or drop the charges.

Not holding my breath though.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (e2MJJ)

45 I realize we are talking about the media here, who cannot write anymore, but bear with me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (Pce4l)

Well we ARE talking about a media that saw foam earplugs in the street and thought they were rubber bullets.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:29 PM (64qRd)

46 Legos would decimate a barefoot attack.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:29 PM (fV+MH)

47 But, like, the 10 arrested for attempted murder of the ICE agent because one other in their cell shot an ICE agent in the neck. Those arrests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

I believe that was a local TX cop shot in the neck, not an ICE agent (who has since recovered).

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:29 PM (Pce4l)

48 James Lileks has found his car after being car-jacked earlier this week. Quite an adventure in Minnesomolia.

@Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

Damn. Glad he's alright. An iBuddy of mine is a big fan of his.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (aBy2+)

49 I wonder what charges these idiots will face? They're messing with federal agents along with damaging federal property.

I hope the idiots not only get charged for impeding federal officers, I also hope they get charged with damaging federal properly and also get sent the repair bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (tT6L1)

50 43 I am so happy we’re going to be getting some new shower partners.
Posted by: Federal Prisoners at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (AlNHY)

Might want to actually let them use the bar of soap before you make them bend over to pick it up.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (N39Ws)

51 btw, having stepped on a nail and driven it deep enough to need pliers to get it out, I shuddered when I saw that picture.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

52 Yeah, but when’s the last time you heard “the police deployed caltrops to stop the vehicle”?

I realize we are talking about the media here, who cannot write anymore, but bear with me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (Pce4l)

Spike strips are a different device.

They're rolled up rubber mats, usually the length of the width of a road, with lots of little spikes coming out of them to cause many tire punctures. They're thrown out right before a car passes over them, then pulled back in.

Caltrops are, well, what you see above. The professionally made ones are all metal, obviously, but using garden hoses and nails also works.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (uCjyK)

53 I want to say those are pretty good improvised caltrops but not that good a spike strip.

The Strip needs to pull out after poking the tires and not just go bumpity bump down the road.
Posted by: toby928


Like their dad's should have.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (e2MJJ)

54 I thought CHIRLA was a delicious, sugary snack treat.

Posted by: Federal Prisoners at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (AlNHY)

55 Not so much "spike strips" as pieces of hose or pipe with rusty nails through them.
____

Hey, it worked against the Salamancas.

But yes, despite the loads of taxpayer funds, they could have executed better.

Posted by: Mike Ehrmentraut at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)

56 51 btw, having stepped on a nail and driven it deep enough to need pliers to get it out, I shuddered when I saw that picture.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

The one scene in all of movies that truly haunts me is the scene in Home Alone when Daniel Stern steps on the nail.

Can never watch that one.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (j/vBG)

57 . . . . could just as well have been IEDs. Better safe than sorry.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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I would think that might be forthcoming. if you are willing to go en masse to shoot up an ICE facility, then bombings are certainly a logical step forward.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (ctrM5)

58 @Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation


Given that he lived long enough to post this, I question its accuracy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

59 Time for common sense spike strip legislation? Make it illegal to have the kind with the thing that goes up?

You don't need THAT many spikes for hunting.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (dGCAG)

60 They are being charged with crimes that carry a minimum 10 year sentence. FEDGOV is looking to make some very public examples. I wouldn’t count on any type of light sentence.

Posted by: Federal Prisoners at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (AlNHY)

61 The girltifa has a weak scraggly beard. No wonder she tried to cover it up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)

62 Caltrops are, well, what you see above. The professionally made ones are all metal, obviously, but using garden hoses and nails also works.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes



Yeah. Professionally made ones always have a point up no matter how it lands when you throw it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (e2MJJ)

63 Too irregular to be caltrops, not long enough to be spike strips.

Let's acronym them and call them IPDs. Improvised Pointy Devices.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (h7K+O)

64 The one scene in all of movies that truly haunts me is the scene in Home Alone when Daniel Stern steps on the nail.

Can never watch that one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

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A sadistic comedy in both of them. Realistically, IRL, McCauley would be in juvie court for being such a little psychopath.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:33 PM (ctrM5)

65 James Lileks has found his car after being car-jacked earlier this week. Quite an adventure in Minnesomolia.

@Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

Time to get out. Frogs in frying pans can feel the heat, and some of them actually DO jump out before they're boiled.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:33 PM (dGCAG)

66 I have to imagine The Diner podcast is going to be a doozy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:33 PM (mlg/3)

67 A few of those guys should be spoiling their grandkids. Now they’re going to be dodging Mr Doinker in a prison shower. I’m pretty sure that’s not a great retirement plan.

Posted by: Federal Prisoners at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (AlNHY)

68 Polymarket @Polymarket

BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (TGPs7)

69 Trump Throws Support Behind RINO and Warmonger Lindsey Graham’s Reelection Bid


Second look at the America Party?

Posted by: Lauren Boebert at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (/U5Yz)

70 Can I get an Eskimo pie from an ICE vehicle?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (fS2Jb)

71 Those aren't spike strips. Improvised caltrops at best.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)

72 47 But, like, the 10 arrested for attempted murder of the ICE agent because one other in their cell shot an ICE agent in the neck. Those arrests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

I believe that was a local TX cop shot in the neck, not an ICE agent (who has since recovered).
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:29 PM (Pce4l)

And that makes it much worse for them - since a felony was committed under Texas law (shooting the cop), and since a man was killed during the commission of that felony (their co-conspirator) each one of them, being part of that conspiracy, can be charged with Felony Murder in state court. Usual sentence - 15 years to Life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK8)

73 Yeah. Professionally made ones always have a point up no matter how it lands when you throw it out.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (e2MJJ)

Well, I don't think we're dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed. I'd say they did pretty good considering they're probably scared of power tools and have never seen the inside of a home depot before they bought the nails and hose to make these devices.

I'd give them a solid C+.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (uCjyK)

74
DHS 'financially supports organizations "actively working to remove barriers to naturalization."'

WHY in hell?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (UmB+t)

75 Let's acronym them and call them IPDs. Improvised Pointy Devices.
Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (h7K+O)

This could also be used to describe big fake tits.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (aBy2+)

76 The caltrops - Is that copper tube?

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (aBgBM)

77 off theater whore sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (/U5Yz)

78 The sad part about all this is that these 4, along with all the others arrested so far, will get top notch representation for free. I'm not even sure they'll see the inside of a prison, given the state of the judiciary these days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (Q4IgG)

79 Given that he lived long enough to post this, I question its accuracy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I never liked his schlock anyway. Minneapolis steadily gets worse due to DIEVersity and Lileks meanders around blathering about inanities for several decades. That tiptoe through the tulips could work in the 90's for columns but not after the Somalian invasion and George Floyd.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:35 PM (ctrM5)

80 "BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.
Posted by: Mister Ghost"


Wha? aren't we done with that?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (fV+MH)

81 James Lileks has found his car after being car-jacked earlier this week. Quite an adventure in Minnesomolia.

@Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

I only read The Bleat, not his other sites. Did he find it himself like his airpods, or did the local yokels actually do some legwork?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (0eaVi)

82 Clearly California and other states are helping criminals and defying Federal law. People have to start being charged in these state governments.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (YwEeS)

83
BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

============

"Reviewing" and "potential" are two of those words that make me cancel the rest of the sentence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (UmB+t)

84 And that makes it much worse for them - since a felony was committed under Texas law (shooting the cop), and since a man was killed during the commission of that felony (their co-conspirator) each one of them, being part of that conspiracy, can be charged with Felony Murder in state court. Usual sentence - 15 years to Life.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The one guy who knows stuff can at least provide info in plea deal. The other retardifas, too bad for them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

85 Those aren't spike strips. Improvised caltrops at best.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


Not caltrop. Caltrops are single pieces of metal. Those are garbage with nails.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (mlg/3)

86 All LA needs now is a heatwave and the stage will be set for a remake of Predator 2.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (rtOnA)

87 BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (TGPs7)

Release what files? We were just old that there is no list and that there are no videos.

Are they just talking about the already mostly public files they used in Ghislaines trial?

Why is this such a fucking moving target?

CIA files. We want the files that the CIA has (or had before they were incinerated to protect people) on Jeffrey Epstein.

Not court transcripts from Ghislaine's trial.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (uCjyK)

88 "BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.
Posted by: Mister Ghost"


Wha? aren't we done with that?
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (fV+MH)

I thought we were told to move on dot org.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:37 PM (dGCAG)

89 Yeah it became raccoon city slowly then all at once

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:37 PM (3Btk8)

90 What we need is common sense hose and nail regulation.

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet hardest hit at July 10, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)

91 83
BREAKING: U.S. DOJ has informed the court that it is reviewing the Epstein files for potential release.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

============

"Reviewing" and "potential" are two of those words that make me cancel the rest of the sentence.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (UmB+t)

Reviewed. Nothing to release. Move on.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (j/vBG)

92 41 James Lileks has found his car after being car-jacked earlier this week. Quite an adventure in Minnesomolia.

@Lileks
Today I learned which instincts kick in when one is carjacked, and apparently it is not self preservation
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

CC: Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)

93 Terrorism, censorship, and screaming on TikTok are huge clues that the left has no facts, logic, or persuasion for their policies

Posted by: Emmie at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (rF2iL)

94 I love this place. Truly.

ICE vehicle immobilized. We are all agreed. Destroy the perps.

What we REALLY need to settle on is whether those are caltrops.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (64qRd)

95 I only read The Bleat, not his other sites. Did he find it himself like his airpods, or did the local yokels actually do some legwork?
Posted by: OrangeEnt


"@Lileks Jul 8
The sheer evil of the carjackers: they realized they could be tracked by my AirPods, so they threw them out at two different locations, sending me on a hands-and-knees scouting mission on strangers’ lawns. No luck."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (mlg/3)

96 mmmm shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (1E9DX)

97 42 31 - Ace had stuff up yesterday iirc about the heads of that "Shut Down Cop City" crap a couple of years ago in Atlanta who all got sentenced. At least I think I read that here. I definitely read that yesterday.

Unfortunately "speedy" justice in this country takes several years, so schadenfreude is always a cold cut meal.
Posted by: the lower depths
=======
Always true. Including fixing injustices. Show me a moral panic and I will show you injustices as a result.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)

98 CIA files. We want the files that the CIA has (or had before they were incinerated to protect people) on Jeffrey Epstein.

Not court transcripts from Ghislaine's trial.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:36 PM (uCjyK)

The people carrying boxes and boxes of material out of the buildings (before they set them on fire) were wearing FBI jackets.

Not that I don't believe they COULD have been CIA... it's probably not that expensive to paint letters on the back of a jacket, after all not all USAID was spent overseas.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (dGCAG)

99 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)

100 Gary busey was the sanest person on that screw except maria conchita alonso

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (3Btk8)

101 What we REALLY need to settle on is whether those are caltrops.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (64qRd)

I'm definitely in favor of calling them "caltrops" and updating the aoshq style guide to reflect that.

I will also accept "improvised caltrops" or "attempted caltrops."

I firmly believe that "spike strip" in no way describes those devices.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (uCjyK)

102 It won't be long until these leftards start using IED's and/or Russian RPG's. The violence is escalating quickly .

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (g8Ew8)

103 Texas has put out a statewide alert for the man they believe was the ringleader of the gang that attacked the ICE detention facility, wounding the officer.

"ALVARADO, Texas (KLTV) - Gov. Greg Abbott has announced a $10,000 reward for a suspect wanted as part of a DPS Blue Alert in connection with the July 4 attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas.

During the attack on the facility, an Alvarado Police Officer was shot and wounded in the neck.
Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. He should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said.

In addition to the state reward, the FBI is offering up to $25,000, bringing the total reward amount up to $35,000."

I don't think he's going to be on the run for too long a time. Too much money to be had for whoever finds him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK8)

104 Deploying spike strips should be illegal. Even building may even be illegal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (zhBpy)

105 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

106 DHS 'financially supports organizations "actively working to remove barriers to naturalization."'

WHY in hell?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia



Because they were under Barky and Bribem for a long time.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (e2MJJ)

107 I don't give a fuck about the Epstein files. The best thing to do with any information we hold is to use it to advance US interests.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (YwEeS)

108 104 Deploying spike strips should be illegal. Even building may even be illegal.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (zhBpy)

How do you feel about firearms?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

109 What we REALLY need to settle on is whether those are caltrops.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (64qRd)

I'm definitely in favor of calling them "caltrops" and updating the aoshq style guide to reflect that.

I will also accept "improvised caltrops" or "attempted caltrops."

I firmly believe that "spike strip" in no way describes those devices.


You're all wrong. I call those "pointy ouchies".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (Riz8t)

110 The people carrying boxes and boxes of material out of the buildings (before they set them on fire) were wearing FBI jackets.

Not that I don't believe they COULD have been CIA... it's probably not that expensive to paint letters on the back of a jacket, after all not all USAID was spent overseas.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (dGCAG)

My point is I'm less interested in what Jeffrey Epstein was up to in his debased personal life, and more interested in who he worked for and who he was blackmailing.

In other words, I'll stipulate that there were videos of older men having sex with young girls. Those don't need to be released.

But we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (uCjyK)

111 107 I don't give a fuck about the Epstein files. The best thing to do with any information we hold is to use it to advance US interests.
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (YwEeS)

Justice is a US interest, isn't it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

112 Shut up, Dunce.
Posted by: toby928


You wound me, sir~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (mlg/3)

113 Let's acronym them and call them IPDs. Improvised Pointy Devices.
Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:32 PM (h7K+O)


Better acronym... E1 - exhibit 1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

114 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)

His cause is generally noble. Preserve Americana, and spread cheer wherever possible.

It starts to look like willful ignorance after a while. Maybe the carjacking will change that.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (dGCAG)

115 99 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)

same

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)

116 Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. He should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK

Oh, great, another one of those amazing legal immigrants I keep hearing about.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (uCjyK)

117 Absolutely justice is an interest.

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (YwEeS)

118 Caltrops are more like larger, sharpened jacks pieces.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (g8Ew8)

119 Time to get out. Frogs in frying pans can feel the heat, and some of them actually DO jump out before they're boiled.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:33 PM (dGCAG)

My first thought from the last few years is that he's still the pudgy kid who saw the big city and became so enamored of it that he'll never leave. But then he took the payoff from the paper, which I thought he'd never do. So, who knows if he's actually noticed it may be time to move on. Either to Arizona, or Walberswick.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (0eaVi)

120 Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

That is an almost useless description. Could have just stopped after "Asian male."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (/y8xj)

121 In addition to the state reward, the FBI is offering up to $25,000, bringing the total reward amount up to $35,000."

I don't think he's going to be on the run for too long a time. Too much money to be had for whoever finds him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK
---------------

Yeah, 35K for that loser isn't chicken feed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (tT6L1)

122 Jude Jasmine Jeannine Allard has a beard. WTF is it with all these violent trannies !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (NtVYv)

123 When they shot that 1 cop? They found a jammed AR15 on site. Could have been a lot worse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (zhBpy)

124 What took them so long?

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
1m

NEW: The DoD just withdrew the nomination of Admiral Michael Donnelly for vice admiral and commander of the 7th Fleet after discovering he permitted drag shows on board the USS Ronald Reagan - DailyWire

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (4tvN6)

125 "area denial weapon" Legos, Monopoly game pieces, jacks, marbles: for when you need to deny bare feet.

Shoot. The. Glass.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (D0HYP)

126 His cause is generally noble. Preserve Americana, and spread cheer wherever possible.

It starts to look like willful ignorance after a while. Maybe the carjacking will change that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM


Having a good matchbook collection doesn't make you a good American.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (jc0TO)

127
Let's keep going with the comparisons, shall we?

Anne Frank if turned in faces certain torture and death.

Dora and family if turned in receive a free plane ride home to their country of origin where she can see Boots, Tico, plus Abuella and the rest of her relatives. She may have to deal with wild animals though. Swiper! No Swiping!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)

128 What we REALLY need to settle on is whether those are caltrops.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (64qRd)

Well, they are caltrops, just pretty shabby ones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 01:44 PM (oj/wz)

129 But we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, I agree. My point though, when it comes to domestic ops, there's no real difference between CIA and FBI. Both are criminally complicit.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:44 PM (dGCAG)

130 Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK

So he looks like every Asian male. That's going to narrow it down. Best way for him to avoid detection is just to wear Hatsune Miku cosplay.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:44 PM (aBy2+)

131
But, like, the 10 arrested for attempted murder of the ICE agent because one other in their cell shot an ICE agent in the neck. Those arrests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Yeah, as long as it's only arrests and charges, it's all hypothetical, theoretical, undoable, lawyerable. Plus, it takes so many years to justice that the crimes and names are long forgotten, and there's seemingly no connection between the crime and the punishment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:44 PM (UmB+t)

132 NEW: The DoD just withdrew the nomination of Admiral Michael Donnelly for vice admiral and commander of the 7th Fleet after discovering he permitted drag shows on board the USS Ronald Reagan - DailyWire
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (4tvN6)

"Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (uWKK8)

133 What took them so long?

Libs of TikTok


Well, um... Navy?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (mlg/3)

134 Shoot. The. Glass.
Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM



I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (jc0TO)

135 107 I don't give a fuck about the Epstein files. The best thing to do with any information we hold is to use it to advance US interests.
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (YwEeS)

I think you're missing the bigger picture here.

It would appear that our intel agencies, working with foreign intel agencies, were using Epstein and Maxwell (and I'm sure others) to recruit young American girls in to a prostitution ring, so that Epstein could pimp those girls out to the ruling elite in the US and UK, if not around the world, and thus have major blackmail material on those people.

That should be the biggest story of the last 50+ years. It's evidence of an attempted (successful?) coup by our Intel agencies and Deep State against our elected officials and other institutions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (uCjyK)

136 "Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

That is an almost useless description. Could have just stopped after "Asian male."
Posted by: Oddbob"


Hah. It's funny cause it's true.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (fV+MH)

137 Sounds a lot like....what's the word? Starts with "in-" and rhymes with election.

Posted by: Paco at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (mADJX)

138 Why is this such a fucking moving target?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
======
Because frankly it involves US and foreign intel agencies acting on US soil and the FBI ignoring it.

MI-6 was definitely involved because Princes of the realm don't go anywhere without their security services handlers. Epstein himself was linked to Bill Barr's father, Les Wexner from whom Epstein got a prime NYC townhouse for ops plus got to run Wexner's fortune as an untrained hedge fund manager, Wexner himself had a shady rise to wealth and is associated with the MEGA group of oligarchs who are quite open about their support for a certain Mideast country with its own potent intel forces, and then you have the Clowns In America.

So, you have the premier law enforcement agency, the FBI, and the DoJ putting pressure on Epstein's original prosecutor (Acosta) on behalf of the intel agencies. Acosta admitted such during his confirmation hearings under oath for Sec. of Labor.

Then you have Bill Barr as AG, Wray as FBI chief, intentionally blowing the investigation of NYC townhouse, Pedo Island, and his NM ranch.

Deep State Globo Homo on parade.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (ctrM5)

139 Caltrops is the state agency what builds roads, you dumb whiteys.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockhead at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (H8ZQP)

140 The same organization just tried to murder federal agents using classic ambush tactics and rifles. You shouldn’t be surprised at the lengths they will go to create chaos. They have all the fundamental knowledge to make IED’s. Hell, the booger eaters in the ME were doing that and we’re not exactly talking Rhodes Scholars. Some will be dissuaded by the jail time these losers are facing. But that only means we are getting closer to the true believers now, and that’s where the rubber meets the road. This is where we need to make sure our guys are plugged in on their SA no matter where they are, and everyone has plenty of ammo.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (6HxG0)

141 Dead horse beating...

The Epstein saga is far from over—and now, thanks to Judicial Watch, we know the Department of Justice and the FBI are still scrambling to “locate” key records related to the disgraced financier and alleged sex trafficker.

Despite issuing public statements claiming there is no client list, no blackmail evidence, and no reason for further disclosure, the agencies are now backpedaling under oath. According to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, “They are sending out contradictory messages: telling the American people that no Epstein material will be released, while telling the federal court… that the Epstein FOIA review is proceeding.”

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (Q4IgG)

142 I don't give a fuck about the Epstein files. The best thing to do with any information we hold is to use it to advance US interests.
Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (YwEeS)

Justice is a US interest, isn't it?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

I kinda think scooping up teenage girls and boys, flying them to a remote island, making them have sex with vile old men, and then dumping them once they're used up is in the US interest to stop.

But I'm old fashioned like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (dGCAG)

143 136 "Song is described as an Asian male, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

That is an almost useless description. Could have just stopped after "Asian male."
Posted by: Oddbob"

Hah. It's funny cause it's true.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (fV+MH)

It would have been funny if they said he had Yu-gi-oh hair.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (uWKK8)

144 I thought we were told to move on dot org.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:37 PM (dGCAG)


We'd probably be better informed if people didn't constantly take to social media to re-bleat whatever their favorite opinion-inater had to say on a subject.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

145 The sheer evil of the carjackers: they realized they could be tracked by my AirPods, so they threw them out at two different locations, sending me on a hands-and-knees scouting mission on strangers’ lawns. No luck."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:38 PM (mlg/3)

I know he found his airpods himself because of the tracker on them. I wonder if he found his car, or the cops did.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (0eaVi)

146 "I always hated that scene."

I hated that they armed the baddest terrorist with one of those gaywad Steyr rifles. So gauche.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (TwZXH)

147 He looked ... like a man.

Posted by: Ms. Swan at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (jc0TO)

148 Pete Rose haircut?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (zhBpy)

149 That should be the biggest story of the last 50+ years. It's evidence of an attempted (successful?) coup by our Intel agencies and Deep State against our elected officials and other institutions.
___

Did this start under George H.W. Bush?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

150
But we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:41

Yes, this. So we allow CIA assets or whatever he was to abuse children and no biggie? What else is our government providing to their assets I wonder.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (77W69)

151 "area denial weapon" Legos, Monopoly game pieces, jacks, marbles: for when you need to deny bare feet.


10,000 marbles.
This is gonna be great!
Posted by: Flounder

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (e2MJJ)

152 We're all going to be deeply disappointed when the Epstein Files turn out to be some metal tools for smoothing out roughness around a weld.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (Da7Vv)

153
When they throw spike strips, it's speech.

When you use the wrong pronoun, it's genocide.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (HZi96)

154 Epstein had to be a tool to catch high power people, and so probably still is a blackmail hammer on those caught.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (+qU29)

155 There’s a cock and balls on that cars back window.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (FVP5O)

156 Good to hear Adm. Donnelly's finished. Sort of like the whole captain's responsibility for his ship, whether or not he was involved in some important mistakes/failures or not - command responsibility. I doubt he was the one who came up with the idea of drag shows, but there you go. An excellent thing to confirm to others that if you are aspiring to rise in rank, you'd best steer well clear of anything connected to the nonsense of the recent past.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:48 PM (1m82a)

157 In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Maybe they see themselves as being engaged in a forlorn hope, or perhaps as the modern equivalent of Kamikaze pilots. Or maybe they're just dumb. Or all of the above.

Posted by: Paco at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (mADJX)

158 154 Which people? He had no clients.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (zhBpy)

159 Then you have Bill Barr as AG, Wray as FBI chief, intentionally blowing the investigation of NYC townhouse, Pedo Island, and his NM ranch.

Deep State Globo Homo on parade.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (ctrM5)

Yes, I know. But no one seems to care. It's bizarre. And all of the people who claimed to care got to DC and said "eh, move on. Nothing to see here."

Also, let's not forget that Bill Barr's dad got Epstein his first job. Small world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (uCjyK)

160 >>> 134 Shoot. The. Glass.
Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM


I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (jc0TO)

Get. The. COW.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (ULPxl)

161
we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

============

You clever people who know why the FBI would not have the answers but the CIA would. Explain, please.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (UmB+t)

162 Remember the hockey haircuts from the 80's?


Even then I was like, what the fuck are these guys thinking?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (fV+MH)

163 140 The same organization just tried to murder federal agents using classic ambush tactics and rifles. You shouldn’t be surprised at the lengths they will go to create chaos. They have all the fundamental knowledge to make IED’s. Hell, the booger eaters in the ME were doing that and we’re not exactly talking Rhodes Scholars. Some will be dissuaded by the jail time these losers are facing. But that only means we are getting closer to the true believers now, and that’s where the rubber meets the road. This is where we need to make sure our guys are plugged in on their SA no matter where they are, and everyone has plenty of ammo.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 10, 2025 01:46 PM (6HxG0)

Something I've realized about all the IED's the US faced in Iraq and Afghanistan (but especially Iraq) - Saddam's former intelligence operatives combined with Iran were funneling a constant flow of high grade military explosives to all of the so-called guerilla groups there. Because that's the only hard part of making an IED; coming up with the hard core stuff that will make a big bang.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (uWKK8)

164 134 Shoot. The. Glass.
Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM


I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (jc0TO)

It's a movie, made in America for American audiences...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

165 My first thought from the last few years is that he's still the pudgy kid who saw the big city and became so enamored of it that he'll never leave. But then he took the payoff from the paper, which I thought he'd never do. So, who knows if he's actually noticed it may be time to move on. Either to Arizona, or Walberswick.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (0eaVi)

Yeah, I think that's the basic mentality.

I see it with older folks who live in the inner cities too. They have modest homes, keep their lawns clean, windows washed, insides pristine... and all around them their city is being gutted. They hear gunfire at night, see some of the thugs eyeballing them when they step outside their door.

In older times, they were the pillars of their communities.

It's no longer their community.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (dGCAG)

166 Shutzen ze crystal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (zhBpy)

167 Judge says YOLO!!!! even after the Supremes saying you can't make nationwide orders IN THIS VERY CASE...

Judge makes nationwide order striking down Trump's Executive order on Birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (mP0Kj)

168 I'm willing to compromise on this. We'll take the spike strips and they can throw each other under vehicles.

Posted by: Wally at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (96iig)

169 I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928


So the audience would know?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (e2MJJ)

170 The actor was russian i think it must have been in the script

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (3Btk8)

171 Alot of you have gone straight Q-anon over this epstein shit for your own sanity take a step back from believing everything your read on twitter.

Posted by: Cmonman at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (wgct4)

172 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)

same
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)

Why? Did he change that much after the dog passed? What about following little Gnat and her growth into another Lileks writer?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (0eaVi)

173 That should be the biggest story of the last 50+ years. It's evidence of an attempted (successful?) coup by our Intel agencies and Deep State against our elected officials and other institutions.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Bigger than Russia Russia? Bigger than sponsoring the overthrow of governments using Soros as a proxy? Bigger than covering up the Vegas Slaughter on behalf of the Saudis? Sending pallets of cash to Iran? Intercepting everyone's communications in the US for the NSA go paw through them? The 9/11 coverup for the Saudis? Toleration of UK violating the shit out of US neutrality with formal spy organizations here in WWII before the US entered the war?

This shit has went on since the US got in bed with France during the Revolutionary War (Conway Cabal?). And always the excuse is reasons of state and relations with foreign governments why nothing can be done about it. Nothing is new under the sun.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (ctrM5)

174 164 I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:45 PM (jc0TO)

It's a movie, made in America for American audiences...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

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The verisimilitude of language in Die Hard isn't perfect!

Aghast!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

175
Also, let's not forget that Bill Barr's dad got Epstein his first job. Small world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (uCjyK)

I think he worked at Goldman Sachs prior to the school?

I watched a video Mike Benz posted on X, Benz said that Epstein was the negotiator for a plane that the CIA used in the Air America drugs and gun running.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (77W69)

176 Deploying spike strips should be illegal. Even building may even be illegal.
Posted by: Boss Moss


There is no specific federal mention of caltrops.

In CA, Possession of caltrops, spike strips, and other "tire deflation devices" is a misdemeanor. Using them in a crime is a felony.

I'm sure the LA DA will be charging them real soon now.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (D0HYP)

177 157 In the decentralized, cell-based world of antifa, is word of the arrests and sentencing of antifa that are actually happening not reaching some members of the organization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Maybe they see themselves as being engaged in a forlorn hope, or perhaps as the modern equivalent of Kamikaze pilots. Or maybe they're just dumb. Or all of the above.
Posted by: Paco at July 10, 2025 01:49 PM (mADJX)

What's fortunate for us is that becasue the Left is unfocused and has no leadership, the most radical elements are self-sacrificing themselves in completely futile actions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (uWKK8)

178 It's a movie, made in America for American audiences...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

Yeah, I was watching something recently. It's all taking place in Eastern Europe, although there are Americans all over the scene.

But when the Americans chat up the locals, everybody speaks perfect English.

I appreciate that. How kind of them, to spend their whole lives waiting for Americans to show up, just so they can show off their language skills.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (dGCAG)

179 Spikesticks.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (SJnNf)

180 Missed CBD's morning rant but glad he stole and ranted about my main current beef: the lack of enforcement against employers of illegals.

The administration generally has constructed a very good framework for maximizing export of illegals with minimal effort or trouble, combo of disincentives/incentives for self-removal.

The obvious yuuuge missing part of this is enforcement against employers. Imagine the additional pressure for self-removal if employers had to start obeying the law, and quickly stopped hiring illegals. Would probably equal or surpass all the existing pressure. The "W-2" illegals are a much much much bigger problem - though a different kind of problem - than the criminals and gangs. It is that phenomenon that has wreaked economic and social havoc for decades.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (1m82a)

181 Did this start under George H.W. Bush?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

I think this kind of thing (honey pots) pre-dates George Bush's time with the CIA, but it wouldn't surprise me to see his fingerprints on any of these operations.

Also, an interesting side-story here, but in the Nixon library (IIRC), one of the JFK researchers found an FBI memo from 1963 recording that "George Bush from the CIA" was briefed on the Kennedy assassination the day after Kennedy was shot. If true, that would mean the Bush's were way more involved in the CIA and for much longer than publicly acknowledged. (to be fair, GHWB, when confronted with that, said "must have been another George Bush" and someone did find another George Bush working a lowly job at the CIA at that time, so it's not exactly definitive proof)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (uCjyK)

182 *Mike Benz said that Epstein was the agent or negotiator for the sale of the CIAs plane.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (77W69)

183 Speaking of language in film, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been playing in theaters for a few days, and there's some minor controversy:

People are speaking in American accents.

Instead of...British accents like Ancient Greeks did?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

184 NEW: The DoD just withdrew the nomination of Admiral Michael Donnelly for vice admiral and commander of the 7th Fleet after discovering he permitted drag shows on board the USS Ronald Reagan - DailyWire
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (4tvN6)

They need to dry dock that ship and fumigate it. Get all the pervert stank out of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (0eaVi)

185 Meanwhile, the Washington Post wants everyone to know that blaming the Texas flooding on a guy who was doing cloud seeding there means experts could declare you a danger to Our Democracy.

So that theory suddenly jumped way up in the likelihood category.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (t5upi)

186 The verisimilitude of language in Die Hard isn't perfect!

Aghast!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

Another movie I never saw, and don't give a shit about.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (oj/wz)

187 That is an almost useless description. Could have just stopped after "Asian male."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (/y8xj)
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Pic:

https://tinyurl.com/45y2ct8y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (4tvN6)

188 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)

same
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)

Why? Did he change that much after the dog passed? What about following little Gnat and her growth into another Lileks writer?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (0eaVi)

He was increasingly 'going native', which isn't a great thing in Progressive Blue Hells like Minneapolis.

Jasper dying was an off ramp.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)

189 What I hate about Harry Potter is owls don't even deliver mail.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (fV+MH)

190
The DoD just withdrew the nomination of Admiral Michael Donnelly for vice admiral and commander of the 7th Fleet after discovering he permitted drag shows on board the USS Ronald Reagan

__________

Not sure if the "drag shows" were some perv faction or sailors just being sailors, i.e. young jerkoffs doing what young jerkoffs do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (HZi96)

191 Die Hard is a Yule Tide Tale.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (zhBpy)

192 178 Yeah, I was watching something recently. It's all taking place in Eastern Europe, although there are Americans all over the scene.

But when the Americans chat up the locals, everybody speaks perfect English.

I appreciate that. How kind of them, to spend their whole lives waiting for Americans to show up, just so they can show off their language skills.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (dGCAG)

=======

I watched John Frankenheimer's Year of the Gun yesterday.

Set in Italy, I was expecting locals to speak English because American Hollywood movie made in Europe in the 90s.

Nope. Pure Italian when only Italians are in the room. No subtitles either. I was able to pick up a bit of it. They spoke quite quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

193 "Why? Did he change that much after the dog passed? What about following little Gnat and her growth into another Lileks writer?"

I don't know. Maybe felt like his style was getting more oblique and less direct. Besides, I feel like I've got the Minneapolis beat pretty well covered with Powerline.

I'll quit Smoke N' Scan when Stinky passes away, I expect.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (TwZXH)

194 183 Why not? He has black Greeks in there too...

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (YwEeS)

195 How did hans crew smuggle those tow missiles into the nakatomi building

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (3Btk8)

196 we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
========
You have some of their names. Flight manifests and google are your friend for Pedo Island.

And in the case of name similarities, pick the most wealthy and or powerful.

What we do not have is NYC names because easy to slip in and out of Epstein's horror house and his secretive NM property we know even less about.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

197 I think he worked at Goldman Sachs prior to the school?

I watched a video Mike Benz posted on X, Benz said that Epstein was the negotiator for a plane that the CIA used in the Air America drugs and gun running.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (77W69)

Possibly, but I know when Daddy Barr gave him the job teaching math at the Superfriends Academy, or whatever it was, Epstein didn't even have a bachelor's degree.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (dGCAG)

198 They need to dry dock that ship and fumigate it. Get all the pervert stank out of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (0eaVi)
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Worse than the poop deck!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (4tvN6)

199 Die Hard is good though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (d8x+f)

200 So he looks like every Asian male. That's going to narrow it down. Best way for him to avoid detection is just to wear Hatsune Miku cosplay.
Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:44 PM (aBy2+)


Most of Russia is in Asia, as is Iran, and India. Using the term Asian to refer exclusively to those people formerly referred to as Oriental is stupid.

It should also be noted that there are distinct physical differences between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean although most white folks probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference unless they'd spent a good bit of time around members of all of those groups.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

201 Jude Jasmine Jeanine really trying to convince that he’s a she by extra feminine names? Yes; They took like a woman- totally/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (2GCMq)

202 Bigger than Russia Russia? Bigger than sponsoring the overthrow of governments using Soros as a proxy? Bigger than covering up the Vegas Slaughter on behalf of the Saudis? Sending pallets of cash to Iran? Intercepting everyone's communications in the US for the NSA go paw through them? The 9/11 coverup for the Saudis? Toleration of UK violating the shit out of US neutrality with formal spy organizations here in WWII before the US entered the war?

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (ctrM5)

I think it's all part of the same phenomena, frankly. But the Epstein situation, specifically, is easy to explain and easy for people to understand, and there isn't a lot of moral ambiguity about whether or not prostituting out young girls is okay or not.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (uCjyK)

203 Asian male with access to a FlowBee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (zhBpy)

204 Another movie I never saw, and don't give a shit about.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (oj/wz)
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Grinch!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (xa4Rn)

205 Chuck C thought I saw that they have already been charged, with felonies. Easy to get cases mixed up, though. Bill Melugin or the ICE X account probably have the details.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (1m82a)

206 149 That should be the biggest story of the last 50+ years. It's evidence of an attempted (successful?) coup by our Intel agencies and Deep State against our elected officials and other institutions.
___

Did this start under George H.W. Bush?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

I'm convinced he was the start... Father of the Deep State...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

207 Is it really terrorism if there is no manifesto?

Posted by: Operator Error at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (4EBQC)

208 You're all wrong. I call those "pointy ouchies".
Posted by: Archimedes


Per the meme that the guy who named Walkie Talkies should name other things, they are Wheelie Unsealies.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (h7K+O)

209 Speaking of language in film, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been playing in theaters for a few days, and there's some minor controversy:

People are speaking in American accents.

Instead of...British accents like Ancient Greeks did?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

But which American accent?

Southern? Midwestern? Valley Girl?

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (pGEND)

210 @161

>>You clever people who know why the FBI would not have the answers but the CIA would. Explain, please.

I just find it fascinating that a guy who got his start when Bill Barrs father got him a teaching gig, became a billionaire hedgefund manager, ran a large international underage prostitution and child **** ring, apparently solely with himself as the supplier and client and then ultimately met his demise in a jail run by Bill Barr as the head of the federal prison system.

It's a shame very few people find that worthy of investigation and getting to the bottom of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (XV/Pl)

211 Via Insty, robots performing unassisted surgery. Like Prometheus!


https://tinyurl.com/4fmybeye

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (QqW4y)

212 I watched John Frankenheimer's Year of the Gun yesterday.

Set in Italy, I was expecting locals to speak English because American Hollywood movie made in Europe in the 90s.

Nope. Pure Italian when only Italians are in the room. No subtitles either. I was able to pick up a bit of it. They spoke quite quickly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

I prefer the Sergio Leone way.

I expect movies set in Italian to be badly dubbed. Anything less seems... pedantic.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (dGCAG)

213
I would think that might be forthcoming. if you are willing to go en masse to shoot up an ICE facility, then bombings are certainly a logical step forward.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:31 PM (ctrM5)



Watch for someone's house blowing up. That's the Antifa bomb lab. I expect them to fuck up the bomb assembly and turn themselves into pink mist a few times before they get it right.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (y9nCu)

214 Deploy the Legos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (zhBpy)

215 Pic:

https://tinyurl.com/45y2ct8y
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (4tvN6)

His face is almost a perfect circle. He looks like a South Park character.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (oj/wz)

216 >> Because that's the only hard part of making an IED; coming up with the hard core stuff that will make a big bang.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (uWKK

The military grade HE just gives you more destructive power on a smaller footprint. You would be amazed at the shit these morons used to make IED’s and AP devices. There aren’t a lot of the chemical precursors laying around in some of these countries so old artillery shells, etc. initially did the job. When that ran low the shitheads in Iran started shipping them the know how and higher grade HE to make EFP’s. It’s one reason I was hoping that Trump just a flattened that country.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (6HxG0)

217 >>> 185 Meanwhile, the Washington Post wants everyone to know that blaming the Texas flooding on a guy who was doing cloud seeding there means experts could declare you a danger to Our Democracy.

So that theory suddenly jumped way up in the likelihood category.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (t5upi)

It *could* be an attempt at distraction. I don't see how anyone could have the means to make a storm basically stop moving, although I suppose you could argue that Someone could take advantage of that situation.

But I think it's funny the WaPo idiots can't just *ignore* it, and instead feel compelled to defend EXPERTS!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (ULPxl)

218 Oh yeah with andrew mccarthy trying to be a serious actor based on a michael mewshaw novel

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (3Btk8)

219 He was increasingly 'going native', which isn't a great thing in Progressive Blue Hells like Minneapolis.

Jasper dying was an off ramp.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)

yeah, I used to like him a lot. But he just helped me conclude that everyone in Minnesota, even the supposedly good ones, were pieces of shit I didn't want to listen to anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (uWKK8)

220 178 It's a movie, made in America for American audiences...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

Yeah, I was watching something recently. It's all taking place in Eastern Europe, although there are Americans all over the scene.

But when the Americans chat up the locals, everybody speaks perfect English.

I appreciate that. How kind of them, to spend their whole lives waiting for Americans to show up, just so they can show off their language skills.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (dGCAG)

I can't get my wife or best friend to watch movies made in languages other than English, no matter how good those movies are.

You have to make concessions to your audience, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

221 You clever people who know why the FBI would not have the answers but the CIA would. Explain, please.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (UmB+t)

Acosta said he was told from above to leave Epstein alone, he worked for intelligence.

Which means the CIA (and the CIA's proxies / sometimes allies like Mossad and MI6).

The FBI was of course part of the cover up (as was the justice department, under Acosta), but the people who would know the whole story are the people in the CIA, not the FBI.

And I would wager the FBI / DOJ went out of their way to avoid entangling any of the intelligence side of this in their investigation. And that's evidenced by Ghislaine's trial and the lack of naming co-conspirators and by the fact that none of the John's have been arrested.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (uCjyK)

222 109 I firmly believe that "spike strip" in no way describes those devices.

You're all wrong. I call those "pointy ouchies".


pointinators.

Posted by: anachronda at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (v3pYe)

223 In addition to the state reward, the FBI is offering up to $25,000, bringing the total reward amount up to $35,000."

I don't think he's going to be on the run for too long a time. Too much money to be had for whoever finds him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK
---------------

Yeah, 35K for that loser isn't chicken feed.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM (tT6L1)
*******
They still haven't caught the killer dad from Idaho or the last New Orleans escapee.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (NpAcC)

224
That CHIRLA website is so uniquely American it's crazy.


Important documents that should be kept in a safe place

- Birth and marriage certificates (if applicable)
- Passport from your country (for each person)
- Vaccination card (for children)
- Social security card (if applicable)
- Identification card
- Affidavit of the person who will be responsible for your children in your absence

What is "undocumented" about these illegal aliens? Social security card, wtf?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (UmB+t)

225 He left out the mRNA vaccine for infants...


Bruce Fenton@BruceFenton

Bombing Iran lost the anti-neocons.

Attacking Massie lost the libertarians.

Expanding the Ukraine war lost those who trusted his promises.

Covering for Epstein lost his base.

Now the Lindsay Graham endorsement leaves almost no one left but staffers, insiders, business partners and Always Trumpers who will stay forever no matter how badly they are humiliated.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (TGPs7)

226 we need to know who those older men were, and who was sponsoring / protecting / paying Epstein.

And I don't think the FBI has those answers. The CIA would, though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
========
You have some of their names. Flight manifests and google are your friend for Pedo Island.

And in the case of name similarities, pick the most wealthy and or powerful.

What we do not have is NYC names because easy to slip in and out of Epstein's horror house and his secretive NM property we know even less about.
Posted by: whig


The intelligence agencies have top notch facial recognition capabilities. Use it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (e2MJJ)

227 220 I can't get my wife or best friend to watch movies made in languages other than English, no matter how good those movies are.

You have to make concessions to your audience, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

=======

"But the subtle emotions will make you feel deeply!"

"Ugh...Jap talk. Just, no."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

228 Yeah, I was watching something recently. It's all taking place in Eastern Europe, although there are Americans all over the scene.

But when the Americans chat up the locals, everybody speaks perfect English.

I appreciate that. How kind of them, to spend their whole lives waiting for Americans to show up, just so they can show off their language skills.
Posted by: BurtTC


Watching "The Death of Stalin" will warp your mind.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (D0HYP)

229
You're all wrong. I call those "pointy ouchies".

pointinators.
Posted by: anachronda at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (v3pYe)

_________

They perpetrated pointillism.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (HZi96)

230
Possibly, but I know when Daddy Barr gave him the job teaching math at the Superfriends Academy, or whatever it was, Epstein didn't even have a bachelor's degree.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM
Mike Benz goes over Epstein's history in this clip

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/
1942752401129365688

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (77W69)

231 With some common chemicals you can make an explosive out of paper. Not a great one, but still deadly.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (FVP5O)

232 Its always funny to me when they translate a film to spanish the dubbers have the wrong intonations

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (3Btk8)

233 Possibly, but I know when Daddy Barr gave him the job teaching math at the Superfriends Academy, or whatever it was, Epstein didn't even have a bachelor's degree.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (dGCAG)
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Dalton School. I've knew three girls from Dalton back a hundred years ago in college and they all had sex with a teacher in high school. Sounds perfect for Epstein.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (xa4Rn)

234 I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928

So the audience would know?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (e2MJJ)


Wouldn't the audience have figured it out if, subsequent to his saying it, the glass got shot?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

235 You clever people who know why the FBI would not have the answers but the CIA would. Explain, please.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:50 PM (UmB+t)

Yeah, I'm of the belief whatever one says about CIA's role in all this, the FBI was right there in the middle of it too.

You can't separate one from the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (dGCAG)

236 192 178 Yeah, I was watching something recently. It's all taking place in Eastern Europe, although there are Americans all over the scene.

But when the Americans chat up the locals, everybody speaks perfect English.

I appreciate that. How kind of them, to spend their whole lives waiting for Americans to show up, just so they can show off their language skills.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (dGCAG)

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I watched John Frankenheimer's Year of the Gun yesterday.

Set in Italy, I was expecting locals to speak English because American Hollywood movie made in Europe in the 90s.

Nope. Pure Italian when only Italians are in the room. No subtitles either. I was able to pick up a bit of it. They spoke quite quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)


My 'favorite' of this type of stuff is British actors playing Nazis, speaking in English with an English accent. I suppose Brits say the same about American actors playing Nazis, speaking English with a variety of American accents.

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

237 181 Did this start under George H.W. Bush?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

For your edification, from wiki, Craig J. Spence Reagan WH aide who was well connected to a variety of power players in DC and NYC.

"Spence had also been linked to a White House guard named Reginald deGueldre, who allowed Spence and his friends to take late-night White House tours. Among the guests in Spence's midnight tours of the White House were two male prostitutes. A White House probe regarding the tours led the Secret Service to furlough three guards, but it was also publicly stated that the First Family's security was never threatened, and it was explained that security guards were allowed to give private tours. President George H. W. Bush was made aware of the scandal."

Continued

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

238 234 I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928

So the audience would know?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (e2MJJ)

Wouldn't the audience have figured it out if, subsequent to his saying it, the glass got shot?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

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Well, the problem is that the Germans were speaking such shit German that actual Germans who watched the film didn't know what the Germans in the film were supposed to be saying.

So, it's actually a commentary on how shit the German in the film actually is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

239 With some common chemicals you can make giant heads out of paper.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (HTa/G)

240 Its where christian slater and matt yglesias went to school

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (3Btk8)

241 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (vf0Uk)

242 I'm convinced he was the start... Father of the Deep State...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

It predated HW, but the Bush's (and Prescotts) played a huge role in getting us to where we are today with the Deep State.

Rockefellers and Dulles's are the names we usually see in the early days of the modern deep state, but some version of the "deep state" clearly existed prior to those assholes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (uCjyK)

243 How did hans crew smuggle those tow missiles into the nakatomi building

In the big truck that the fake ambulance eventually drives out of.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (D0HYP)

244 Watch for someone's house blowing up. That's the Antifa bomb lab. I expect them to fuck up the bomb assembly and turn themselves into pink mist a few times before they get it right.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


Or their meth lab.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (e2MJJ)

245 Schiess auf das Fenster.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (zhBpy)

246 Shooten zie glassen.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (fV+MH)

247 The leftwing press could barely remember the time the capital was attacked with more ordinance than Jan 6.

Which is when the Weather Underground planted a bomb beneath the Senate floor, and it *went off*.

People were injured at the floor had to be fixed more than cleaning apocryphal shit smears off Capitol walls.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (Q4cxx)

248 I can't get my wife or best friend to watch movies made in languages other than English, no matter how good those movies are.

You have to make concessions to your audience, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

Not even Akira?!

Posted by: Blasphemy! at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (TbWk/)

249 Continued re Spence,
"A follow-up article featured reports from Spence's friends and guests indicating that Spence's home was wired up with extensive surveillance equipment and that he would attempt to entice guests into sexual encounters with prostitutes to use as blackmail. One male soldier reported that he had been enticed into an encounter with a female prostitute by Spence, who then used photos of the tryst in order to blackmail him into "beating up a couple of guys". When the soldier afterwards refused to have sex with Spence, Spence showed the pictures to the soldier's wife, leading to the couple's separation.

Spence entered a downward spiral in the wake of the exposé, increasingly involving himself with call boys and crack. He disappeared briefly, evading government agents who wanted to subpoena him to testify about the Vinson prostitution ring. Spence made headlines again after his arrest on July 31, 1989, at the Barbizon Hotel on East 63rd Street in Manhattan for criminal possession of a firearm and criminal possession of cocaine.

Continued.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (ctrM5)

250 t *could* be an attempt at distraction. I don't see how anyone could have the means to make a storm basically stop moving, although I suppose you could argue that Someone could take advantage of that situation.

But I think it's funny the WaPo idiots can't just *ignore* it, and instead feel compelled to defend EXPERTS!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 01:56 PM (ULPxl)

I read the background - it comes from the fact that there's a guy who has a small cloudseeding contract in South Texas, over 100 miles away from Kerr County. It was made to add some rain to the local farmers in a very dry area. He dropped a small amount of silver iodide in some local clouds that morning, and its reported that this resulted in about 1/2 inch of rain in a 2 or 3 square mile area. Hundreds of miles away from the far bigger storm system to the north of him, which was the remains of Tropical Storm Barry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (uWKK8)

251 Former Dallas Stars enforcer Shane Churla hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (vf0Uk)

252 Watching "The Death of Stalin" will warp your mind.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (D0HYP)

I love that film! Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev is extremely silly, but it's part of the charm.

Same as Lucius Malfoy coming in as General Zukov. Brilliant!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (dGCAG)

253 But remember, pAntifa is just an idea, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (vf0Uk)

254 I will give them points for a decent quick and easy caltrop.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (VlU/R)

255 Epstein was tied to wexnee who was tied to the cleveland mob that got some of their money from air america (allegedly)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (3Btk8)

256 I can't get my wife or best friend to watch movies made in languages other than English, no matter how good those movies are.

You have to make concessions to your audience, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

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"But the subtle emotions will make you feel deeply!"

"Ugh...Jap talk. Just, no."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

"I don't want to READ a movie"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (xcxpd)

257 The leftwing press could barely remember the time the capital was attacked with more ordinance than Jan 6.

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I did it again: ordnance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (Q4cxx)

258 In August, 1989 during an eight-hour interview with the Washington Times, Spence denied that deGueldre alone had cleared the White House tours and explained that the guard had only served as a guide. The reporters, Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper would write that "Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by 'top level' persons", including Donald Gregg, national security adviser to Bush, then vice president, at the time the tours were given. When pressed to identify who it was who got him inside the White House, Spence asked "Who was it who got [long-term CIA operative] Félix Rodríguez in to see Bush?", indicating that he was alluding to Gregg. Gregg himself dismissed the allegation as "absolute bull", according to Hedges and Seper. "It disturbs me that he can reach a slimy hand out of the sewer to grab me by the ankle like this," he told the reporters. "The allegations are totally false."

During the same interview Spence claimed that the surveillance equipment at his home had been set up by "friendly" intelligence agents. Rumors of Craig's ties to the CIA dated back to his Vietnam correspondent days, and the CIA was also speculated to be one of the sources of his wealth.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (ctrM5)

259 Watch for someone's house blowing up. That's the Antifa bomb lab. I expect them to fuck up the bomb assembly and turn themselves into pink mist a few times before they get it right.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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You're saying you believe they have the same expertise as the Weather Underground when it comes to making bombs?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (tT6L1)

260 Party like it is the 1980's all over again!!! #EarthFirst #EarthLiberationFront #Greenpeace #Caltrops #TreeSpikes #Communism #TracyStone-Manning #X-Files #DarknessFalls

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (9aVck)

261 Shooten zie glassen.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (fV+MH)

I can tell you never took German in school.

It's all one word!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (dGCAG)

262 He was increasingly 'going native', which isn't a great thing in Progressive Blue Hells like Minneapolis.

Jasper dying was an off ramp.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)

Maybe this little kerfluffle with the baddies might change his outlook? He's a good writer and mostly is in tune with my outlook on life and culture.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (0eaVi)

263 >>> 234 I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?
Posted by: toby928

So the audience would know?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:51 PM (e2MJJ)

Wouldn't the audience have figured it out if, subsequent to his saying it, the glass got shot?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

Some of the audience, but then you have the people who were confused during Back to the Future II, or for whom the title was changed from License Revoked to License to Kill...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (ULPxl)

264 Seriously, how hard is it to revoke their 501(c)(3) status? They are engaging in terrorism against the USA.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (rvwwT)

265
Gator Gitmo. Waterboarding therapy. Military tribunals. Executions.

Some disassembly required ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (3RzDp)

266 The Texas Tribune posted an article about the recent floods here being caused by climate change.

Uh, this is the coolest start to a summer we've had in decades.

Also, this type of thing has happened every 30 or so years, so take your bullshit elsewhere, shitsticks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (vf0Uk)

267 Same as Lucius Malfoy coming in as General Zukov. Brilliant!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (dGCAG)
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Jason Isaacs, one of my favorites.

Probably the best seether on screen.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (Q4cxx)

268
Watching "The Death of Stalin" will warp your mind.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (D0HYP)

__________

If you knew what happened and watched the movie, you could convince yourself that that's what happened.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (HZi96)

269 Epstein was tied to wexnee who was tied to the cleveland mob that got some of their money from air america (allegedly)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (3Btk

Yeah, his ties to Wexner are what make it clear Epstein was just a middle manager for bigger fish.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (dGCAG)

270 242 I'm convinced he was the start... Father of the Deep State...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

It predated HW, but the Bush's (and Prescotts) played a huge role in getting us to where we are today with the Deep State.

Rockefellers and Dulles's are the names we usually see in the early days of the modern deep state, but some version of the "deep state" clearly existed prior to those assholes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Prescott Bush's ancestor got into business with the Rockefellers during the WWI era. Which helped fuel Prescott Bush's rise to wealth and power.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

271 Well, the problem is that the Germans were speaking such shit German that actual Germans who watched the film didn't know what the Germans in the film were supposed to be saying.

So, it's actually a commentary on how shit the German in the film actually is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

"Gunter, Gleiben, Glauchen, Globen”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (uWKK8)

272 Crystalnacht. Glass Night. But it's Schiess auf das Fenster?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (zhBpy)

273 Same as Lucius Malfoy coming in as General Zukov. Brilliant!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (dGCAG)
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Jason Isaacs, one of my favorites.

Probably the best seether on screen.
Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (Q4cxx)

You cost me my servant!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (dGCAG)

274 pointy ouchies

Since it was van nuys are they cal trops?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (HTa/G)

275 Yeah, I'm of the belief whatever one says about CIA's role in all this, the FBI was right there in the middle of it too.

You can't separate one from the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (dGCAG)
-

Book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684513537

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (4tvN6)

276
If you knew what happened and watched the movie, you could convince yourself that that's what happened.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (HZi96)
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Watching "Death of Stalin" I thought, "Mockumentary" along the lines of "Spinal Tap."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (tT6L1)

277 I can tell you never took German in school.

It's all one word!
Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:02 PM (dGCAG)
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And fixing to do it is another 2 syllables somewhere.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (Q4cxx)

278 Watch for someone's house blowing up. That's the Antifa bomb lab. I expect them to fuck up the bomb assembly and turn themselves into pink mist a few times before they get it right.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


Or their meth lab.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 02:01 PM (e2MJJ)
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a happy story for the afternoon is always appreciated

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (592NS)

279 robots performing unassisted surgery.

https://youtu.be/7p4ZsYYU5Cc

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (ExV1e)

280 You have some of their names. Flight manifests and google are your friend for Pedo Island.

And in the case of name similarities, pick the most wealthy and or powerful.

What we do not have is NYC names because easy to slip in and out of Epstein's horror house and his secretive NM property we know even less about.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

We have names of people who were on Epstein's plane, true.

But all of those people have claimed they just hopped on a plane and did nothing wrong. And that may be true. Epstein was a big networker and threw around money / plane rides to make connections.

And as you say, that list would not include people who arrived at his NYC place or New Mexico or FL place (or even little st james) on another mode of transportation.

For this blackmail operation to work, there would have to be a "list" (in some form) of people being blackmailed.

And I would expect that that "list" exists at Langley, and probably not with the FBI.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (uCjyK)

281 I know he found his airpods himself because of the tracker on them. I wonder if he found his car, or the cops did.
Posted by: OrangeEnt


"@Lileks Jul 9
I think I’m getting carpal tunnel from entering my VIN in the Minneapolis impound website every three minutes. I can’t wait to buy a self driving car so the next time I’m carjacked I can lock the doors and drive it to the police station"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mlg/3)

282 Who needs Iran when the US taxpayer funds our own terrorism?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (Vfq+S)

283
John Wayne said that the guy who dubbed his voice into German was better than he was.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (HZi96)

284 274 pointy ouchies

Since it was van nuys are they cal trops?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (HTa/G)

And they retire with CalPIERCE

Posted by: Oh it's getting bad at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (TbWk/)

285 Shoot zem. Shoot zem both.

Why was that in English?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (QqW4y)

286 Watching "The Death of Stalin" will warp your mind.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 01:58 PM (D0HYP)
__________
If you knew what happened and watched the movie, you could convince yourself that that's what happened.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (HZi96)

"Death of Stalin" is the most honest movie ever made about the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (uWKK8)

287 I wish James L read these comments. If he does, I hope he knows it's time to leave the city. I really mean it.

It sucks but he has to leave, NOW.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (Pv3Rg)

288 I quit Lileks after Jasper passed away.
Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)


Yeah, I quit reading him years ago. A very small dose of slice-of-life stories garnished with light takes on politics goes a long way.

Posted by: Paco at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (mADJX)

289 The word "caltrop" simply doesn't get used enough

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (pMi6S)

290
Good lord, there are CHIRLA offices in Tijuana and Mexico City.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (UmB+t)

291 Been MIA from political news past few days. Catching up.

A social media influencer names @sharonsaysso has been posting about flippant comments people are posting on social media about approving alligator alcatraz. How demeaning and dehumanizing it is to joke about people getting eaten by alligators. And that a lot of the people joking about it have pro Jesus messages on their profiles. She adds:

"If you've ever wondered how Hitler did it...how he convinced ordinary, church oriented, law abiding citizens to go along with his plans...it began with dehumanizing people."

Lighten up, Sharon the Karen, it's just a silly joke. Geez, liberals have turned into such humorless scolds.

I will also not that a social media post with THIS EXACT SAME MESSAGE is what got Gina Carano fired by Disney and canceled! It was considered antisemitic and hateful. But this Sharon lady will not get canceled, because she's criticizing the "correct" thing.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (gWBY1)

292 >>> 266 The Texas Tribune posted an article about the recent floods here being caused by climate change.

Uh, this is the coolest start to a summer we've had in decades.

Also, this type of thing has happened every 30 or so years, so take your bullshit elsewhere, shitsticks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:03 PM (vf0Uk)

Heh. How did "climate change" cause the floods before there were cars? For that matter, if BUDGET CUTS REE caused a lack of warnings (which as we know is BS anyway) then explain WTF happened in East TN / West NC just last fall?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ULPxl)

293 285 Shoot zem. Shoot zem both.

Why was that in English?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (QqW4y)

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Guy saying it was Japanese. Guy receiving the orders was German.

Better chance he understood the English rather than the Japanese?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

294 CHIRLA good! OrangeManBad bad!

Posted by: NPC_11001010 at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

295 Whelp, back to work.

Slave to the grind......


https://youtu.be/C3nycoZ-zzw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (vf0Uk)

296 To CECOT with all of CHIRLA!

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (S+el1)

297 Well, the problem is that the Germans were speaking such shit German that actual Germans who watched the film didn't know what the Germans in the film were supposed to be saying.

So, it's actually a commentary on how shit the German in the film actually is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)


They should have stuck in a scene like the conjugated Latin scene from Life of Brian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (ExV1e)

298 Is this what democracy looks like?

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (Q4cxx)

299 I can tell you never took German in school.

It's all one word!
Posted by: BurtTC


Twas a bit of discussion in Deutsche klasse

"SHIESS DEM FENSTER"
oder
"SHIESS DAS FENSTER"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (mlg/3)

300 Book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684513537
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (4tvN6)

Ooh! That looks good, right up my alley. I'll check it out when I get home, thanks!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (dGCAG)

301 My 'favorite' of this type of stuff is British actors playing Nazis, speaking in English with an English accent. I suppose Brits say the same about American actors playing Nazis, speaking English with a variety of American accents.
Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

Alo Alo, a British French Resistance show did an awesome job of intentionally screwing up accents.
Especially French.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM (SJnNf)

302 Prescott Bush's ancestor got into business with the Rockefellers during the WWI era. Which helped fuel Prescott Bush's rise to wealth and power.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

Right, I phrased that in a confusing way.

The Bush's by Prescott's generation and Walkers (Bush's wife's family) both had deep connections to power.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM (uCjyK)

303 The word "caltrop" simply doesn't get used enough
Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM


We're not complaining, though.

Posted by: CalTrans at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM (0sNs1)

304 Democrats still believe discover is not widely accepted.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM (MMp6W)

305 "The Texas Tribune posted an article about the recent floods here being caused by climate change."

Climate Change causes both droughts and floods because the science.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM (rbw5v)

306 Alo Alo, a British French Resistance show did an awesome job of intentionally screwing up accents.
Especially French.
Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM


What are we, chopped spotted dick?

Posted by: French Castle Guards at July 10, 2025 02:11 PM (0sNs1)

307 My 'favorite' of this type of stuff is British actors playing Nazis, speaking in English with an English accent. I suppose Brits say the same about American actors playing Nazis, speaking English with a variety of American accents.
Posted by: Gref


Now do Roman movies. I still think they should be a bit more * cough * animated.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:11 PM (mlg/3)

308 287 I wish James L read these comments. If he does, I hope he knows it's time to leave the city. I really mean it.

It sucks but he has to leave, NOW.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Lileks is Dave Barry without the humor. Similar to Whatshername Bombeck.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:11 PM (ctrM5)

309 Shoot zem. Shoot zem both.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (QqW4y)

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Hey, that's pretty close to quoting a Queensryche line.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (Q4cxx)

310 The Romans were British.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (zhBpy)

311 Heh. How did "climate change" cause the floods before there were cars? For that matter, if BUDGET CUTS REE caused a lack of warnings (which as we know is BS anyway) then explain WTF happened in East TN / West NC just last fall?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ULPxl)

A good measure as to how long this kind of thing has been going on in Central Texas - the Waco Mammoth National Monument (the best mammoth site in North America, well worth a visit) contains the remains of an entire herd of Mammoths that were buried alive in mud, where they stood, by just such a flood 29,000 years ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8)

312 >>> Speaking of language in film, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been playing in theaters for a few days, and there's some minor controversy:
People are speaking in American accents.

How dare they!!


Posted by: People who love Les Mis and don't care all the Frenchies have a British accent at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (gWBY1)

313 Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (gWBY1)

Lol, no one hopes or expects anyone will actually get eaten by alligators.

Alligators don't generally eat people, especially not adults.

It's a meme / joke. Obviously.

And everyone knows it except the most brain dead MSNBC devotees.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (uCjyK)

314 All Romans were British.

This is known.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (fV+MH)

315 Democrats still believe discover is not widely accepted.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 10, 2025 02:10 PM


We just hope we don't condemned for our unwoke name.

Posted by: MasterCard at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (0sNs1)

316 Right, I phrased that in a confusing way.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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I do that often. Speed is the antithesis of careful writing but timeliness is of essence in conversations. So the imperfect comment made timely is better than the perfect bon mot much later after the thread closes.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

317 Also Book;

John Ringo meets Douglas Adams

https://www.amazon.com/B0FB467B1T

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (rbw5v)

318 The word "caltrop" simply doesn't get used enough
Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM

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Cal-plop is a good word to use in San Francisco.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (Q4cxx)

319 I had CHIRLA once. The Doc gave me some large pill and told me to pee blood for a few days and I would be fine and to wrap it up next time I wanted some of the old In N Out with the local whores.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (lX1hk)

320 @Harry Paratestes & whig-thanks for spelling out the Epstein Files BS. I fall into the IDGAF category about other things sometimes when I see posts like this. My patience wears thin. I want to see justice meted out.

Posted by: JROD at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (IlL6s)

321 People are speaking in American accents.


right, because Greek

if they were Roman, they'd speak with British accents

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (Pv3Rg)

322 >>> 311
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A good measure as to how long this kind of thing has been going on in Central Texas - the Waco Mammoth National Monument (the best mammoth site in North America, well worth a visit) contains the remains of an entire herd of Mammoths that were buried alive in mud, where they stood, by just such a flood 29,000 years ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK

Obviously caused by the 1% of the Indigenous Peoples who were driving around in their SUVs!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (ULPxl)

323 317 Also Book;

John Ringo meets Douglas Adams

https://www.amazon.com/B0FB467B1T

Link no worK?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (F/35S)

324 Also Book

https://www.amazon.com/ Hell-Yeah-Baddies-Victor-Tango/dp/B0FB467B1T

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (rbw5v)

325 Hey, that's pretty close to quoting a Queensryche line.
Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM


You've been here long enough to know the Style Guide specifies Queensrÿche.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (0sNs1)

326 And fixing to do it is another 2 syllables somewhere.
Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (Q4cxx)

Right! The German word would be the equivalent of "shoot the glass for the purpose of getting to Bruce Willis."

All one word.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

327
I would love to watch these serieses about the Borgias or the whoevers but the moment I hear those English accents I quit. It's always an indication of a ridiculous script, hammy acting, and overwrought directing, down to the camera work.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (UmB+t)

328 All Romans were British.

This is known.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (fV+MH)
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"People called 'Romans', they go the 'ouse?"

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (Q4cxx)

329
So the imperfect comment made timely is better than the perfect bon mot much later after the thread closes.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

_________

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

George S. Patton

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (HZi96)

330 I do that often. Speed is the antithesis of careful writing but timeliness is of essence in conversations. So the imperfect comment made timely is better than the perfect bon mot much later after the thread closes.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

That is a kind and generous way of putting it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (uCjyK)

331 "Death of Stalin" is the most honest movie ever made about the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Death of Biden's Brain is a natural dark comedy sequel.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (ctrM5)

332 He says "Shiess dem fenster" which apparently should be "Schieß auf das Fenster" but that doesn't make sense either.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (mlg/3)

333 Shouldn't fenster be a window? Defenestrated?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (zhBpy)

334 But it's Schiess auf das Fenster?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:04 PM (zhBpy)

I'm Dickens. He's Fenster.

Posted by: Have to be over 29 at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (0eaVi)

335 "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

George S. Patton
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yep. One lives in the moment, not forever.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (ctrM5)

336 "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

George S. Patton
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:14 PM (HZi96)

man, I just remembered a comment I wanted to make about one of JJ's articles this morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK8)

337 PSA: Sean Davis reminds us the GOPe has yet to confirm 120 nominations the President has long since sent over to the Senate.

These include major positions, including ambassador to the EU, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and multiple U.S. attorneys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (592NS)

338 I had CHIRLA once. The Doc gave me some large pill and told me to pee blood for a few days and I would be fine and to wrap it up next time I wanted some of the old In N Out with the local whores.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at July 10, 2025 02:13 PM (lX1hk)
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CHIRLA you must be joking!

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:16 PM (Q4cxx)

339 312 >>> Speaking of language in film, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been playing in theaters for a few days, and there's some minor controversy:
People are speaking in American accents.

How dare they!!
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They're also downplaying the fact that CN cast the dead eyed little girl who chopped her tits off

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 10, 2025 02:16 PM (F/35S)

340 >>> 313 Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (gWBY1)

Lol, no one hopes or expects anyone will actually get eaten by alligators.

Alligators don't generally eat people, especially not adults.

It's a meme / joke. Obviously.

And everyone knows it except the most brain dead MSNBC devotees.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (uCjyK)

That, and we know that the only way to have any risk of being eaten at all, is to attempt to escape instead of just accepting a deportation.

Besides, the alligators are all sick of people because DeathSantis overfed them with COVID-19 victims!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ULPxl)

341 Dersh on the Epstein documents.

https://tinyurl.com/y6hnxvj7

Hmmmmmm

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 10, 2025 02:16 PM (/U5Yz)

342 No. Pest strip.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 02:17 PM (63Dwl)

343
So the imperfect comment made timely is better than the perfect bon mot much later after the thread closes.
Posted by: whig

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Willow is the graveyard of the perfect bon mot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:17 PM (UmB+t)

344 What I'm getting from this thread is there is no way to say "shoot the glass" in German.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:17 PM (fV+MH)

345 195 as you see in movie it was a construction site, all.kinds of stuff gets brought in what's a few crates more?

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 02:17 PM (+qU29)

346 Besides, the alligators are all sick of people because DeathSantis overfed them with COVID-19 victims!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:16 PM (ULPxl)

True. DeathSantis was the best thing to happen to alligator population since they put alligators on the endangered species list.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (uCjyK)

347 344 What I'm getting from this thread is there is no way to say "shoot the glass" in German.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 02:17 PM (fV+MH)

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There's probably an idiom that literally translates to "throw the puppy into the oven," that's closest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

348 Apparently Mars is also having climate change right now. Let's think, what giant spherical heat source in the galaxy could account for such heat fluctuations on both earth AND mars?

Instead lefty scientists will be all:
Before the NASA Mars rover landed on Mars: no climate change. After the Mars rover landed on Mars: climate change.

ZOMG HUMNS ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE ON MARS. Because of course correlation is causation, peeps!

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (gWBY1)

349 And stop calling me CHIRLA!

Posted by: Airplane! at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (av+kn)

350 I think I’m getting carpal tunnel from entering my VIN in the Minneapolis impound website every three minutes. I can’t wait to buy a self driving car so the next time I’m carjacked I can lock the doors and drive it to the police station"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mlg/3)

The only good use of self driving cars? But you can't leave your phone in it.

Posted by: Have to be over 29 at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (0eaVi)

351 >>> Speaking of language in film, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been playing in theaters for a few days, and there's some minor controversy:
People are speaking in American accents.


So it's like how the BBC is coming out with a mostly-black reeactment of the 1066 Battle of Hastings. We Wuz Normanz n' Sheeit.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:19 PM (noPDf)

352 134 Shoot. The. Glass.
Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM


I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?

Isn't there some kind of house rule that we don't sh*t on Die Hard? You want some nice wholesome modern entertainment? Watch Ironheart. We don't sh*t on Die Hard.

Karl was a hothead whose brother was killed by John McClane at the beginning of the movie; rode him down a flight of stairs in a headlock and brothers neck got broke.

Karl went apesh*t several times trying to get McClane; they had McClane cornered and Karl was having a field day shooting up the office on full auto. Gruber had to get his attention because Karl WASN'T LISTENING. So he repeated emphatically SHOOT THE GLASS because Karl was a little bang bang crazy. Perfectly logical scene. Sh*tting on it makes you sound stupid. Go watch Ironheart.

Posted by: Nelly at July 10, 2025 02:19 PM (cHLus)

353 PSA: Sean Davis reminds us the GOPe has yet to confirm 120 nominations the President has long since sent over to the Senate.

These include major positions, including ambassador to the EU, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and multiple U.S. attorneys.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 02:15 PM (592NS)

Well I sympathize with not having an ambassador to the EU, since they are an enemy totalitarian state.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:19 PM (8avO+)

354 What am I? Chopped liver????

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
19m

BREAKING: A member of the nation's largest teachers union said to an undercover journalist that the National Education Association is "all about Inclusion.. unless you're Jewish."

I have the video.
Buckle up.👇🧵

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 02:19 PM (4tvN6)

355 The only good use of self driving cars? But you can't leave your phone in it.
Posted by: Have to be over 29


IIRC, you need to have a phone logged into the car's system to drive it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)

356 Hey those spiked strips are guilty of patent infringement crimes for ripping Ron Propeils 1958 Dog O Matoc Hot Dog cooker ...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (uEWUd)

357 Nolan creates technically perfect amusements and confections.

The only ones that are re-watcable are the Batman films, Memento and Dunkirk.

Nobody is going to plunk their but on a couch, pop open a cool one and put Oppenheimer on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (XV/Pl)

358 I wish James L read these comments. If he does, I hope he knows it's time to leave the city. I really mean it.

It sucks but he has to leave, NOW.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 02:07 PM (Pv3Rg)

But where? He doesn't seem to be as enamored of Arizona now since in BiL died? I've noticed on his forays into England, his wife doesn't go along. So, he'll probably stay put.

Posted by: Have to be over 29 at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (0eaVi)

359 ZOMG HUMNS ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE ON MARS. Because of course correlation is causation, peeps!

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (gWBY1)
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We should pre-blamed Elon Musk.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (Q4cxx)

360 INTC up 2% on news of ... CEO admitting company will never be able to catch up with competitors.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:20 PM (TwZXH)

361 Why do businesses stay in the Californica ???

Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (J7c+Z)

362 320 @Harry Paratestes & whig-thanks for spelling out the Epstein Files BS. I fall into the IDGAF category about other things sometimes when I see posts like this. My patience wears thin. I want to see justice meted out.
Posted by: JROD
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Justice will always be imperfect and absent in this world. Like even the Nuremberg and other war trials failed to rectify hideous perpetrators and fellow travelers in WWII. Werner von Braun certainly knew and used slave labor to make his rockets and purposefully targeted civilians. Albert Speer, provided all that slave labor to businesses which are still running in Germany or Japan today. Businesses like Bayer, and Mauser, for example, are still making money. Swiss banks helped hide stolen wealth from European Jews for decades afterwards for profit.

Operation paperclip run by Allan Dulles himself brought in NotSees for US government employment to beat the Russians. The full extent of commie traitors in the US government during the FDR, Truman, and Ike administration never was revealed despite the Venona Papers revealing how deep the rot existed.

All we can do is fight the good fight in our own lives.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)

363 361 Why do businesses stay in the Californica ???
Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (J7c+Z)

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"My almonds!"
-VDH

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

364 Not all mots are bon.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (0sNs1)

365 Heh. How did "climate change" cause the floods before there were cars? For that matter, if BUDGET CUTS REE caused a lack of warnings (which as we know is BS anyway) then explain WTF happened in East TN / West NC just last fall?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ULPxl)

Yeah, lived on and off in the same part of Central Valley Calif for 66 years... I LAUGHED when I was told our last drought was caused by Climate Change...

We are ALWAYS in a drought, briefly interrupted by short periods of flood conditions.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mP0Kj)

366
Dersh on the Epstein documents.

https://tinyurl.com/y6hnxvj7

Hmmmmmm
Posted by: Maj. Healey

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Sounds like he's het up over false accusations. Those are the perps he wants outed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (UmB+t)

367 INTC up 2% on news of ... CEO admitting company will never be able to catch up with competitors.

Not being in denial is actually positive news for them, sad to say.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (noPDf)

368 Shoot. The. Glass.
Posted by: Hans Gruber at July 10, 2025 01:43 PM


I always hated that scene. So he tells him to shoot the glass in German, his native language, but he doesn't understand so he has to say it in English, I mean, what's up with that?

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

well in real world terms they had to cue in the audience, so they needed English.

And in the movie terms, I can see Hans using English might well jar him out of berserker mode and back onto the needs of the mission.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (8avO+)

369 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

370 Nood, you reprobates~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)

371 >>> 363 361 Why do businesses stay in the Californica ???
Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (J7c+Z)

=======

"My almonds!"
-VDH
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

Almonds suck. Grow pecans.

Posted by: Texas at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (ULPxl)

372 There is nothing you can't say in German that can be said in less than 25 letters or less

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 02:23 PM (+qU29)

373 Willow is the graveyard of the perfect bon mot.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Back in the day, I used to be the last, lone, commenter frequently (before the gray box limit).

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

374 Jude Jasmine Jeannine is probably mentally screwed up from Transgender Therapy......

Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:23 PM (J7c+Z)

375
We are ALWAYS in a drought, briefly interrupted by short periods of flood conditions.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 02:22 PM (mP0Kj)

__________

In Texas, droughts are ended by floods and vice versa.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 02:23 PM (HZi96)

376 Wirf den Krähenfuß auf das Glas!

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 02:23 PM (TwZXH)

377 Kami Harris when elected Governor will fix this problem !!!!

Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (J7c+Z)

378 BREAKING: A member of the nation's largest teachers union said to an undercover journalist that the National Education Association is "all about Inclusion.. unless you're Jewish."
I have the video.
Buckle up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 02:19 PM (4tvN6)

When a new member signs up, do they get a dagger and a cute little lapel pin?

Posted by: Zombie HJ & SS Auxiliary Members at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (lX1hk)

379 GeshootenzegliesticianenmorgenenvorFruhstucken

but that's only before breakfast.

Posted by: Axeman at July 10, 2025 02:24 PM (Q4cxx)

380 >> They're also downplaying the fact that CN cast the dead eyed little girl who chopped her tits off

Elliot/Ellen Page was in Inception, yes? Directors like to repeat actors they like working with.

They are one of the least problematic in that cast. It is chock full of mouth preachy liberal actors I can;t stand but looks glorious. Dilemma.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:26 PM (gWBY1)

381 Poseidon that presides over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses will say one day that Californica SUX and punish the evil goers of this land of Homos, Losers and Transgenders.

Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (q/j2W)

382 ZOMG HUMNS ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE ON MARS. Because of course correlation is causation, peeps!
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 02:18 PM (gWBY1)

Yes. I am really sick of "Climate Change" being mentioned repeatedly about fossil mass extinctions from 400 million or so years ago. It might be even true, but I suspect that it is getting to be a requirement.

45 years ago I was very suspicious of the 'Meteor Impacts Everywhere' craze starting then were every blip on a curve was blamed on a mystery asteroid impact. They even had a crap curve trying to fit a 26 million year cycle onto it. It didn't look like a good fit.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (8avO+)

383 What we have here is complete disregard for law and order and a lack of respect for the law.

Filet they asses and barbeque them in molasses!

Posted by: Sheriff Buford T. Justice at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (wVcYX)

384 Shakes out sock.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2025 02:29 PM (0eaVi)

385 Only the federal government world pay protestors to attack their own employees

Posted by: Rando Calrissian at July 10, 2025 02:30 PM (sSvTc)

386 Poseidon that presides over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses will say one day that Californica SUX and punish the evil goers of this land of Homos, Losers and Transgenders.
Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 02:28 PM (q/j2W)

He'll have a time of it. The part I live in is higher above sea level than Ohio and about half an hour or so from the coast by car. Earthquakes alone aren't going to cut it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:31 PM (8avO+)

387 So much chaos and murdering you is not enough some vocalized killing your children.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 10, 2025 02:38 PM (2arS9)

388 "@Lileks Jul 9
I think I’m getting carpal tunnel from entering my VIN in the Minneapolis impound website every three minutes. I can’t wait to buy a self driving car so the next time I’m carjacked I can lock the doors and drive it to the police station"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mlg/3)

Well the immediate answer is to open Notepad or equivalent, type in the VIN and save the file, then copy and paste as required.

But I agree the fact you can have dry, blasé humor over personal crime means you are well on the way of the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water turning into frog soup. Get out, Gnat is probably in college now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)

389 Better charge them Federally and in a friendlier locale.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 10, 2025 03:32 PM (Vvh2V)

390 Well, the problem is that the Germans were speaking such shit German that actual Germans who watched the film didn't know what the Germans in the film were supposed to be saying.

So, it's actually a commentary on how shit the German in the film actually is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 02:00 PM


Yeah maybe. Doesn't he actually say to shoot the window? That might have been confusing.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

391 Make them pay for New Tires right from their Wallets before they go on Trial

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (wGqjj)

Six Secret Service Agents Suspended Due to Failures at Butler Assassination Attempt

Finally.

They're being suspended without pay. They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

Six members of the Secret Service have been suspended for failures related to last year's assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa.

The suspensions for the six agents ranged from 10 to 42 days, and they won't be paid while on leave, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News on Wednesday.

The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

"We aren't going to fire our way out of this," Quinn told the outlet. "We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation."

I think you're giving up too quickly on "firing our way out of this."

...

A scathing Senate report on the assassination attempt released in September determined that "multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures by [Secret Service] contributed" to Crooks' ability to carry out the deadly shooting.

"These included unclear roles and responsibilities, insufficient coordination with state and local law enforcement, the lack of effective communications, and inoperable [Counter-Unmanned Aircraft] systems, among many others," the damning report read.

A second assasination attempt against Trump took place two months later at the president's Palm Beach, Fla., golf course.

Quinn insisted that the Secret Service is "totally accountable for Butler."

"Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again," he said.

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1 "You mean I have to chase counterfeiters?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

2
Good Morning

Posted by: four seasons at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (3ek7K)

3 Names please

Posted by: Zeera at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (ahzH3)

4 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (+qU29)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (GYt5+)

6
Why not fire them? They royally *ucked up.

Posted by: four seasons at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (3ek7K)

7 As I said at the time, we really only have two conclusions to draw here:

1) the secret service is nowhere near as "elite" of a protective detail as is claimed, and it's just been blind luck (and lack of attempts) that have kept (most) presidents from being shot or killed

or

2) The events of Butler PA were a huge aberration from normal procedures, in which case, it looks like the secret service was trying to get Trump killed.

Both scenarios have some pretty huge implications.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (uCjyK)

8 I still remain in awe of President Trump's reaction time. Incredible how fast he hit the deck after seeing blood on his hand. There was no real lag, "What in the world" hesitation, he hit the floor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (tT6L1)

9 They're being suspended without pay. They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

I hope those "diminished operational responsibilities" include washing Dan Bongino's car, petsitting for Stephen Miller, and fast food takeout service for any cabinet official who wants some at 2 am.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK8)

10 6
Why not fire them? They royally *ucked up.
Posted by: four seasons at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (3ek7K)

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Probably something about law enforcement procedure for federal employees. Easier to access when they're still employed, sort of thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

11





















Don't coddle them! Fire them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (6D/wt)

12 I would be in favor or firing them all

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (+qU29)

13 SUPER secret service agents...

super small
super fat
super incompetent.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

14 A scathing Senate report on the assassination attempt released in September determined that "multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures by [Secret Service] contributed" to Crooks' ability to carry out the deadly shooting.
_____

Who told CNN to have a camera crew at the scene? Or was it incredible luck?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

15 Secret Service Barbie.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (zhBpy)

16 The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

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

Sometimes it is best to hope employees leave on their own.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (sX1BW)

17 I really would like to see them fire their way out of this.

Fire all they asses.

Posted by: Fire Them All at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (r/wv3)

18 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (6D/wt)

Worried you were doin' a Mitch McConnell...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

19 Assign them to Biden.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:14 PM (zhBpy)

20 I think it's obvious FLOTUS made sure she got the best detail while leaving the second and third string for candidate Trump.

Conditions were intentionally created for this to happen and it almost worked. Only by Grace of God was President Trump spared.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:14 PM (tT6L1)

21 Oh boy - a whole 10 to 42 days?!?

That'll learn 'em!

Posted by: The_Hoser at July 10, 2025 12:14 PM (f4jia)

22 16 The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

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

Sometimes it is best to hope employees leave on their own.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (sX1BW)

For some reason I'm imagining Melissa McCarthy playing the movie roll for one of these agents...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

23 I talk about the loss of competency in our institutions a lot, but it is hard for me to imagine that with all those professional secret service agents there, no one said "hey, that roof top right there should probably be watched closely, that looks like a perfect place for a sniper."

In fact, the original story from the secret service was (paraphrasing) "oh yeah, we definitely thought about that, but the roof was too sloped to put an agent on, so we decided to just ignore it."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (uCjyK)

24 god I fuckin hate shit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (fV+MH)

25 I still remain in awe of President Trump's reaction time. Incredible how fast he hit the deck after seeing blood on his hand. There was no real lag, "What in the world" hesitation, he hit the floor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (tT6L1)

Excellent observation. I would imagine President Trump has had a bit of training in SA and do not hesitate to react, etc.

Posted by: Control at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (r/wv3)

26 24 god I fuckin hate shit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (fV+MH)

As a colostomy bag user, I agree.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

27 They're being suspended without pay. They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

Is this code for "reassigned to find out who is photocopying $20s at the Steamboat Springs Kinko's"? Because I truly hope so.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (D7oie)

28 Yeah. Please explain why we can't fire our way out of this. If these people were incompetent a year ago, they are incompetent now, and they will still be incompetent a year from now.

Fire every last one of those who were involved.

Posted by: Ralph at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (8WZD4)

29 Oh boy - a whole 10 to 42 days?!?

That'll learn 'em!
Posted by: The_Hoser at July 10, 2025 12:14 PM (f4jia)

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Yeah, but they'll get their version of the Mark of Cain in their personnel file. They can probably kiss any chance at promotion good by.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (tT6L1)

30 In fact, the original story from the secret service was (paraphrasing) "oh yeah, we definitely thought about that, but the roof was too sloped to put an agent on, so we decided to just ignore it."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (uCjyK)

Don't forget "well it was kinda hot that day, so I stayed in the air conditioned room."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK8)

31 " Oh boy - a whole 10 to 42 days?!?

That'll learn 'em!
Posted by: The_Hoser"

I guess they're supposed to be embarrassed or humiliated or some shit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (fV+MH)

32 I think you're giving up too quickly on "firing our way out of this."


*******

Heh.

Posted by: EFG at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (Ai4Tb)

33
Worried you were doin' a Mitch McConnell...
Posted by: jim

Nope just poor typing.

Mitch bring quiet is blessing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (6D/wt)

34 "Ummmm, yeaahhhh, we're going to need you guys to move your stuff down to Storage B"...

Posted by: Lumbergh at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (/HDaX)

35 Shouldn't we be hiring Gurkhas to deal with sloped roofs?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (od0dV)

36 Maybe it is code for "transferred in grade to TSA where they will work for two months, and then be let go for 'poor fit' and 'sorry about your pension'"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)

37 I was told I could have a stapler.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (zhBpy)

38 27 They're being suspended without pay. They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

Is this code for "reassigned to find out who is photocopying $20s at the Steamboat Springs Kinko's"? Because I truly hope so.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (D7oie)

I wonder if most people realize that many printer and copiers have code in their microprocessors to identify money being copied...and also, print, in yellow dots, information about the printer being used to print docs?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

39 I wonder if the short chubby female Barney Fife that struggled to holster her weapon and looked all panicked… I wonder if she’s one of the 6

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (+kWhq)

40 Jimmah!

I'm just glad you're still here, bro.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (fV+MH)

41 31 " Oh boy - a whole 10 to 42 days?!?

That'll learn 'em!
Posted by: The_Hoser"

I guess they're supposed to be embarrassed or humiliated or some shit.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (fV+MH)

like I said above, you always need someone around who's job is to go pick up chinese takeout at 2 am.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (uWKK8)

42 Shouldn't we be hiring Gurkhas to deal with sloped roofs?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (od0dV)


I thought Koreans were best for sloped roofs.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (D7oie)

43 30 In fact, the original story from the secret service was (paraphrasing) "oh yeah, we definitely thought about that, but the roof was too sloped to put an agent on, so we decided to just ignore it."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (uCjyK)

Don't forget "well it was kinda hot that day, so I stayed in the air conditioned room."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK

Well, if cows can get on such a sloped roof, then those SS agents were perfect.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

44 Afternoon Ace.
I wonder if they'll suspend the head supervisor in the area who assigned more and more experienced agents to Dr Jill.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (JtH6i)

45 I wonder if most people realize that many printer and copiers have code in their microprocessors to identify money being copied...and also, print, in yellow dots, information about the printer being used to print docs?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (ynpvh)


and that may be why your printer doesn't work when the yellow ink is run dry?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (D7oie)

46 38 I wonder if most people realize that many printer and copiers have code in their microprocessors to identify money being copied...and also, print, in yellow dots, information about the printer being used to print docs?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

======

In the first episode of The Wire, a junkie used a black and white copy machine to make money.

It worked because the dealer didn't look very closely at the money.

"Money green, mother fucker."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

47 I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

48 like I said above, you always need someone around who's job is to go pick up chinese takeout at 2 am.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (uWKK
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Probably need to brush up on their coffee fetching skills, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (tT6L1)

49
2) The events of Butler PA were a huge aberration from normal procedures, in which case, it looks like the secret service was trying to get Trump killed.

Both scenarios have some pretty huge implications.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (uCjyK)

If it's an aberration, was it specific to this event to facilitate this specific shooter or did they simply erode the number and quality of SSAs until somebody got through?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (pIfcn)

50 Both scenarios have some pretty huge implications.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Both. Obammy years and DEI caused a lot of problems for the agency as well as moving the agency to the blob Homeland Security under idiot GWB.

Second, the order for Trump to get the third rate protection detail occurred suddenly after one of the Bidens (Jill mebbe) demanded top level security which caused Trump's normal team to be reassigned.

A lot of the Deep State are Dems/commies in the agencies and my guess is that whoever told Jill to go somewhere had the clout to likewise ensure Trump not to get good protection at Butler.

If we view DC as typical monarchies (albeit elected), the amount of money and power is easily worth killing people in order to retain those. And often the monarchs are reluctant to pry too much into those plots because it would end up destabilizing the government (see the Poison plot by Mdm Montespan in Louis XIV's reign).

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)

51 Oh no. Not suspended.
Will it go in their permanent record too?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ImXfC)

52 A scathing Senate report on the assassination attempt

This is the ONLY reason those agents were suspended. If there hadn't been a public report, nothing would have been done about the failures.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (0Htd1)

53 25 I still remain in awe of President Trump's reaction time. Incredible how fast he hit the deck after seeing blood on his hand. There was no real lag, "What in the world" hesitation, he hit the floor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (tT6L1)

It would have taken Biden 8 minutes to drop his ice cream cone and make it to the ground.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (IifOV)

54 it's a start

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

55 Don't forget "well it was kinda hot that day, so I stayed in the air conditioned room."
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK

Right. If we are to believe that that is how they operate, then they are some of the most unelite protective services in the world.

Maybe Trump should just get rid of the secret service altogether and hire more competent people. Who does Taylor Swift use for her security?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (uCjyK)

56 51 Oh no. Not suspended.
Will it go in their permanent record too?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM

They were put on super secret probation.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at July 10, 2025 12:21 PM (IifOV)

57 Seems like this is the only rally of hundreds that there was any press at. You would think it was the only one he had if just watching drive by news.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:21 PM (SJnNf)

58 I heard that there is no list of the 6 suspended agents so, it can't be released.

Posted by: MLCross at July 10, 2025 12:22 PM (Q2MxE)

59 56 51 Oh no. Not suspended.
Will it go in their permanent record too?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM

They were put on super secret probation.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at July 10, 2025 12:21 PM (IifOV)

Maybe the have to watch Joey...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

60 >> wonder if the short chubby female Barney Fife that struggled to holster her weapon and looked all panicked… I wonder if she’s one of the 6
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (+kWhq)
__
Exactly what I was thinking. What a disgrace.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 10, 2025 12:22 PM (bNf8H)

61 You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.

Posted by: The Operative - Serenity at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (TbWk/)

62 I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood

Not paying hookers in Columbia was my first clue the SS had lost it's panache... and skills.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (6D/wt)

63 So they tried to get Trump killed and almost succeeded,

and they get the Costanza treatment.


How in the fuck are you supposed to spell succeed?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (fV+MH)

64 I wonder if most people realize that many printer and copiers have code in their microprocessors to identify money being copied...and also, print, in yellow dots, information about the printer being used to print docs?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Easier to do credit card fraud in the US (also Secret Service jurisdiction) but a LOT of dollars floating around outside the US are fakes where producers have much less risk and sometimes official protection. Norks actually run state sponsored counterfeiting of US currency for example and been doing that shit for decades.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)

65 If we view DC as typical monarchies (albeit elected), the amount of money and power is easily worth killing people in order to retain those. And often the monarchs are reluctant to pry too much into those plots because it would end up destabilizing the government (see the Poison plot by Mdm Montespan in Louis XIV's reign).
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)

Agreed. I think it is well within the realm of possibilities that someone maneuvered this scenario. (ie: putting the most incompetent / DEI hires in charge of this event, knowing that they'd fuck it up. Then when Trump survived the attempt, going in to CYA mode.)

But, for the same reason we'll never know the full story of Epstein or JFK, RFK, etc., I think we will likely never know the full story of what happened in Butler. As you say, too much power and money at stake.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (uCjyK)

66 I still remain in awe of President Trump's reaction time. Incredible how fast he hit the deck after seeing blood on his hand. There was no real lag, "What in the world" hesitation, he hit the floor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (tT6L1)


There are several protection companies that also provide training for the protectees. The one I heard about also shoots the protectee with wax bullets if they get it wrong, just to drive home the point.

I suspect Trump went through it three or four times to get it right. He has that sort of personality.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (D7oie)

67
I think you're giving up too quickly on "firing our way out of this."



I hear that waterboarding is effective

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (y9nCu)

68


Is the fat chick one of them?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (et1vG)

69 Many people have been fired for far less egregious errors in planning and judgment.

Posted by: Indy Bill at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (Wx7HT)

70 6
Why not fire them? They royally *ucked up.
Posted by: four seasons


Because they are government employees. In the eighties and nineties most of the people I hung out with worked for federal, state, or local government agencies. I never heard of anyone being fired for incompetence, or for any other reason. A lot of the worst employees actually get promotions.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (0Htd1)

71 68


Is the fat chick one of them?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (et1vG)

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I would doubt that any of those who put themselves between Trump and potential danger would be part of the reprimanded group, even if she couldn't get her gun from her holster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

72 47 I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

They haven't exactly covered themselves in honor historically either.

Didn't a bunch of agents get caught up in a very public argument with hookers in South America when Obama was president?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:25 PM (uCjyK)

73
As a colostomy bag user, I agree.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Damn, when do you get rid of that thing? Are you in some long-term healing process?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:25 PM (UmB+t)

74 Find out who orchestrated Jill Biden's and Kamala's movements that day that required shuffling of Secret Service agents and changes in protocols. IIRC that person was Jill's assistant in some capacity. It was, by some accounts, highly irregular.

Get that person, who I believe did not get a pardon, in front of a useless Congressional committee so she can plead the fifth. Then we'll all know...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

75
I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood

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Under Biden? Weren't they doing hookers and blow in Venezuela under Obama?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (UmB+t)

76 Stiffing hookers. What kind of shit is that? Don't we pay those assholes enough?

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (SJnNf)

77 72 47 I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

They haven't exactly covered themselves in honor historically either.

Didn't a bunch of agents get caught up in a very public argument with hookers in South America when Obama was president?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:25 PM (uCjyK)

Wheels up, rings off.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

78 This seems to be a problem in law enforcement across the board. The fuckups don't get shitcanned the way anyone in just about any other job would if they fucked up as badly, they get "reassigned" "put on paid administrative leave" or the resign in lieu of discipline only for their stupid ass to show up working at some other agency. This culture of coddling not just mistake but gross failure and outright abuse has got to stop, especially when you're talking about people with guns and qualified immunity.

Posted by: Fuck up move up (or sideways) must end at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

79 58 I heard that there is no list of the 6 suspended agents so, it can't be released.
Posted by: MLCross

Employee disciplinary files are exempt from FOIA. And suspending them is actually a good precursor to firing them later for bad performance reviews. Other than Reductions in Force like in other agencies, if you want to fire a federal employee, they have substantial due process rights, even more if the firing 'stigmatizes' them (that gives them liberty due process claims as well as property). So it ain't as simple to fire ground level employees as those primarily involved in upper levels under Humphrey's Executor or Myers cases.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (ctrM5)

80 Norks actually run state sponsored counterfeiting of US currency for example and been doing that shit for decades.
Posted by: whig

Iran was printing Super 100s for may years.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (6D/wt)

81 78 This seems to be a problem in law enforcement across the board. The fuckups don't get shitcanned the way anyone in just about any other job would if they fucked up as badly, they get "reassigned" "put on paid administrative leave" or the resign in lieu of discipline only for their stupid ass to show up working at some other agency. This culture of coddling not just mistake but gross failure and outright abuse has got to stop, especially when you're talking about people with guns and qualified immunity.
Posted by: Fuck up move up (or sideways) must end at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

=======

Theory:

Reno 911! was a documentary, not a comedy show.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

82 I think you're giving up too quickly on "firing our way out of this."



I hear that waterboarding is effective
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (y9nCu)

That's good thinkin!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

83 They are swamp critters. They stay until pension.

Posted by: torabora at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (Z6q/G)

84
I suspect Trump went through it three or four times to get it right. He has that sort of personality.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:23 PM (D7oie)
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I was thinking more in term of President Trump's age. He's not a young man yet, he managed when he had to. For me, it was sort of reassuring, knowing the guy I planned on voting for still had it together.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (tT6L1)

85 But the roof was SLOPED ...

and it was HOT.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (vbXSk)

86
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (UmB+t)

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Correction, Colombia.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (UmB+t)

87 84 I was thinking more in term of President Trump's age. He's not a young man yet, he managed when he had to. For me, it was sort of reassuring, knowing the guy I planned on voting for still had it together.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (tT6L1)

=======

*stares off into the middle distance with his mouth agape*
-Joe Biden

*laughs about bacon as a spice*
-Kamala Harris

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

88 Secret Service Barbie.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (zhBpy)

She comes with a gun and a holster, but the gun doesn't fit in the holster.

Posted by: Methos at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (zLwRl)

89 66 Wax bullets and the protectee. The SAS uses nothing but live ammo in training. I guess it keeps the lads on their toes. Margaret Thatcher underwent a hostage rescue scenario with the SAS, and yes, they used live ammo. She described it as exciting.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (gm9Sb)

90 to be a problem in law enforcement across the board. The fuckups don't get shitcanned the way anyone in just about any other job would if they fucked up as badly, they get "reassigned"



No comment.
- Catholic Church

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (ImXfC)

91 76 Stiffing hookers. What kind of shit is that? Don't we pay those assholes enough?
Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (SJnNf)

You would think.

And call me old fashioned, but I'd prefer members of my elite protective services to not be banging hookers even if they're off the clock.

Seems like a great way to get yourself compromised by intel agencies or foreign powers. "Hey, we have pictures of you sucking some whores toes while you were traveling for work. Wouldn't want those pictures to end up with your wives and bosses, would we?"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:29 PM (uCjyK)

92 They had one job. To secure the area and protect the candidate. They failed on both counts. They are not SS material. They don't belong in that agency, period.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (qBdHI)

93 Is this code for "reassigned to find out who is photocopying $20s at the Steamboat Springs Kinko's"? Because I truly hope so.
Posted by: Kindltot


I'm hoping for all of them being assigned to investigating counterfeiting at the Johnston Atoll

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (D0HYP)

94 Are you in some long-term healing process?

The recovery is brutal. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (+aMIZ)

95 Because they are government employees. In the eighties and nineties most of the people I hung out with worked for federal, state, or local government agencies. I never heard of anyone being fired for incompetence, or for any other reason. A lot of the worst employees actually get promotions.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:24 PM (0Htd1)

This is true. As a former employee of a federal contractor I worked with government personnel that routinely exceeded their statutory authority and interpreted contracts in an extremely dubious manner (always to the government's benefit of course) They were eventually caught and called out on it by their superiors-- after our company took several expensive hits of course. The folks that were caught were allowed to retire or jump to other agencies where I assume they continue screwing over contractors to this day.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (I4CNo)

96 It’s government employees. Good enough for government work is a saying for a reason.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (ImXfC)

97 8 I still remain in awe of President Trump's reaction time.

As they dragged him out he yelled, "Fight, fight, fight." He knew exactly how to respond. That man is on top of things.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (0Htd1)

98 Put 'em to work doing landscape work at Mar-a-Lago. Win-win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2025 12:31 PM (XeU6L)

99 Margaret Thatcher underwent a hostage rescue scenario with the SAS, and yes, they used live ammo. She described it as exciting.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (gm9Sb)

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No worries. She was the Iron Lady.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 12:31 PM (kYF0p)

100 As they dragged him out he yelled, "Fight, fight, fight." He knew exactly how to respond. That man is on top of things.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (0Htd1)
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The most iconic moment in my time on this planet. With apologies to Mr. Neil Armstrong.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:32 PM (tT6L1)

101 74 Find out who orchestrated Jill Biden's and Kamala's movements that day that required shuffling of Secret Service agents and changes in protocols. IIRC that person was Jill's assistant in some capacity. It was, by some accounts, highly irregular.

Get that person, who I believe did not get a pardon, in front of a useless Congressional committee so she can plead the fifth. Then we'll all know...
Posted by: Martini Farmer

And that person was told by someone else, likely in the campaigns, and that DNC/campaign staffer was told by senior campaign management staffer (Jill need to shore up support in Philadelphia blah blah blah) and the senior staffer had that suggested by someone else such as a campaign donor.

All have plausible deniability and able to pass the bucks to blame others.

Intel ops often consist of insertion into the ordinary bureaucratic flow of agencies and political operations so as to cover their own tracks.

Example of the pagers is Mossad is a perfect example. Mossad got into the acquisitions of comms for Hezbollah and skillfully guided them into choosing that particular firm with that particular fake manufacturing, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)

102 Theory:

Reno 911! was a documentary, not a comedy show.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

Look up the Coffee City police department. It's pretty much that in real life, only without anything humorous about it.

Posted by: People in power systems protect the system at July 10, 2025 12:32 PM (TbWk/)

103 No comment.
- Catholic Church
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (ImXfC)

To defend the Catholic church here a bit -- it was not THAT widespread, and the church treated the, ahem, incidents as moral failings, rather than legal failings.

The priests confessed their sins, did penance, and were absolved. The Church tried to move them to places where they wouldn't be tempted to sin again.

Not GREAT, and not how the church treats child diddling now, but it's not like the church was purposely trying to protect child molesters, even if that ended up being the outcome.

Unlike the government, who does purposely try to protect all kinds of miscreants and criminals, including the child molesting teachers who make up a not-insignificant part of the Dem Deep State through their very powerful unions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:32 PM (uCjyK)

104
I think the Secret Service got lazy under Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood

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There was also that much earlier failure when some loon slipped away from a White House tour and got into the private quarters. I remember that intellectually challenged agent in charge saying that the agents on duty exercised "admirable restraint" in not taking down the loon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (UmB+t)

105 they get "reassigned" "put on paid administrative leave"

That's standard practice to reduce litigation exposure.

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (twEYS)

106 15 Secret Service Barbie.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Barbie isn't usually a rolly poly falling against the car door.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (0Htd1)

107 Under Biden? Weren't they doing hookers and blow in Venezuela under Obama?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:26 PM (UmB+t)
*****
True. I see a pattern though... Democrat administration.

Trump is lucky he wasn’t assassinated during his first term with these lazy assholes guarding him.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (NpAcC)

108 Now that you are out, you get to guard the dog.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (bv2/x)

109
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (UmB+t)

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Meant to say, that was in Trump's first term.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (UmB+t)

110 Only in govt work are you "punished" with 10 - 42 days absence without pay but guaranteed return to paid employment for the abject failure of your basic duties resulting in the near absolute failure of your assigned mission. The only "diminished" role these corrupt or incompetent aholes should get is firing if not also criminal investigations.

Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (tivWi)

111 How many agents with actual qualifications for the Presidential detail get turned down because they weren't Checkbox Americans?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (lXoJ5)

112 The fat one couldn't put her gun back in the holster.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (zhBpy)

113 President Trump yelling "fight, fight, fight" was one of the coolest things I have ever seen on live TV. Saying that, I was watching the man at the Iowa State Fair and got a bit nervous.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 10, 2025 12:33 PM (gm9Sb)

114 Seems like a great way to get yourself compromised by intel agencies or foreign powers. "Hey, we have pictures of you sucking some whores toes while you were traveling for work. Wouldn't want those pictures to end up with your wives and bosses, would we?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:29 PM (uCjyK)

Agreed.
But why add then "how do you make a hormone?" joke to it? Just pay them already? Whores gotta eat too.

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:34 PM (SJnNf)

115 Coward. Should be fired. It does send a message. You are not going to powerpoint train competency or ethics.

My guess the reassignment will be back to uniform pulling embassy duty.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at July 10, 2025 12:34 PM (m5P/4)

116 90 to be a problem in law enforcement across the board. The fuckups don't get shitcanned the way anyone in just about any other job would if they fucked up as badly, they get "reassigned"



No comment.
- Catholic Church
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (ImXfC)

*whistling innocently and avoiding eye contact*

Posted by: Teachers' Union at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (TbWk/)

117 Iran was printing Super 100s for may years.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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To be fair, so has the Federal Reserve. Paper pretending to be sound currency. From what I understand about Iran, a lot of the fake 100's are a substitute internal currency traded among Iranians as much as used for bad shit abroad.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (ctrM5)

118 Secret Service was more concerned with hiring quotas and pronouns.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (IifOV)

119 Thinking about the hookers and blow in Mexico scandal, I can see SS agents pressuring a newbie into joining them so, A: they have a hold over him and B, they can ostracize him if he declines.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

120 get turned down because they weren't Checkbox Americans?"

You mean like the Austin Fire Chief?

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (twEYS)

121 Trump got up at Butler saying "Fight!" Take a hundred men, probably ninety would want.to stay down, nine would want to get up but would stay down because SS agents said so. And then you would have one like Trump.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (kYF0p)

122 Over the last few years I have attended a couple of events where I was able to observe the Secret Service folks up close. I was not impressed at all.
Last week I was playing golf at Trump's course in Virginia when he was playing. A huge difference!
- Thoroughly professional.
- Excellent coverage. (And securing a golf course is almost impossible)
- It seems a rule that all snipers must have beards.
- There is something bout a good looking lady with a Car-4.......

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (W/lyH)

123 Agreed.
But why add then "how do you make a hormone?" joke to it? Just pay them already? Whores gotta eat too.
Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:34 PM (SJnNf)

I think the story was that the SS agents felt they were being overcharged for the services provided, and felt that it was a bit of a shakedown by the whores.

Which it probably was.

But, agreed, that is the risk you run when you're a secret service agent protecting the president and decide to use your off-duty time to have sex with whores in the third world who just see you as a gigantic walking dollar sign. Unlike the whores back home who truly care about you, because you're different than the other guys.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:36 PM (uCjyK)

124 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 12:28 PM (ImXfC)

You could have picked public schools if you wanted a lot more molesters.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Qr870)

125 Do we know any more about Thomas Crooks today than we did 360 days ago? No we don’t… that fact is telling

All kinds of investigative journalists just dove into that right?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 12:36 PM (ZtAny)

126 They're being suspended without pay. They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

I hope those "diminished operational responsibilities" include washing Dan Bongino's car, petsitting for Stephen Miller, and fast food takeout service for any cabinet official who wants some at 2 am.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK

Put 'em to work in the cellar of some government office building, swiping twenty-dollars bills with a magic marker to detect counterfeits.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NhG0j)

127 73
As a colostomy bag user, I agree.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Damn, when do you get rid of that thing? Are you in some long-term healing process?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:25 PM (UmB+t)

Maybe surgery in October. Post-surgery may need ileostomy bag, so a new hole to my abdomen would be added if large intestine needs more healing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

128 Do you think short lady agent was suspended?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 10, 2025 12:37 PM (dE3DB)

129
True. I see a pattern though... Democrat administration.

Trump is lucky he wasn’t assassinated during his first term with these lazy assholes guarding him.
Posted by: redridinghood

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I suspect the pattern was first formed when affirmative action became a priority in federal hiring. At the same time, I think heterosexual males have a massive weakness and they should be rotated out of roles as privileged as the SS before they get comfortable. Also, use women where possible. ("Possible" does not include roles requiring superior strength, obviously.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:37 PM (UmB+t)

130 Seems like a great way to get yourself compromised by intel agencies or foreign powers. "Hey, we have pictures of you sucking some whores toes while you were traveling for work. Wouldn't want those pictures to end up with your wives and bosses, would we?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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And Fat Leonard used that modus operandi to get a lot of information about US Navy ops in Asia. Hookers, booze, and bribes.

Twas ever thus.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

131 FFS, you can fire your way out of bad employees.

The rot is deep.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (PMtkd)

132 The fat one couldn't put her gun back in the holster.

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It had a Ho-Ho in it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (qBdHI)

133 Becoming a fed employee must be like becoming an ordained minister.

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (+Bkka)

134 No fat chicks.

Posted by: The Secret Service at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (zhBpy)

135 Matt! The Mattster! The Quinn man! The Big Cheese! Makin' copies! Only one copy for the Matt-man!

Posted by: Butler Secret Service Agent reassigned duties after suspension at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (wVcYX)

136 https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/
1943344912642248928/history

Information on the who:

EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:
Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics

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There's much more. It's a long X.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

137 Root cause? They were so unsat that it looked like they were deliberately taking a dive to help kill Trump

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 12:39 PM (ciYHQ)

138 The SS really has to retrain that woman agent who couldn't manage to holster her weapon at the Butler shooting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 12:39 PM (JtH6i)

139
Maybe surgery in October. Post-surgery may need ileostomy bag, so a new hole to my abdomen would be added if large intestine needs more healing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Man, hang in! I hope your doctors are good.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:39 PM (UmB+t)

140 93 Is this code for "reassigned to find out who is photocopying $20s at the Steamboat Springs Kinko's"? Because I truly hope so.
Posted by: Kindltot

I'm hoping for all of them being assigned to investigating counterfeiting at the Johnston Atoll

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 12:30 PM (D0HYP)

Every time I hear or see the word atoll, I think of a Beanie & Cecil episode involving the No Bikini Atoll...

https://youtu.be/88QOmxSa-IE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

141 On the suspensions...if you get an unpaid suspension, your career advancement in fed gov is over. As is your ability to move to any other position not purposely put into.

These folks are done in all but name only...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 12:39 PM (tOcjL)

142

It's peculiar that Trump almost had his head blown off and the SS is suspending people, six of them.

Why not every single SS that was there?


Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (et1vG)

143 It had a Ho-Ho in it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (qBdHI)

So did the 2024 election

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Qr870)

144 39 I wonder if the short chubby female Barney Fife that struggled to holster her weapon and looked all panicked… I wonder if she’s one of the 6
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


That would be sexist, hater.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (0Htd1)

145 " Matt! The Mattster! The Quinn man! The Big Cheese! Makin' copies! Only one copy for the Matt-man!
Posted by: Butler Secret Service Agent reassigned duties after suspension"


Hah hah....I was just thinking about that skit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (fV+MH)

146 The idea behind Butler - spin up the local crazy leftist Known Wolves like Crooks while you assign incompetent SS agents and set them up to intentionally leave gaps in the security.

That way both sides - the SS leader and the agents spin up the local leftists can both claim ignorance of the plan. The former just was "incompetent" and the latter where just "too good at being undercover"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (t0Rmr)

147 They can always assign them to Hillary, which would be a fate worse than death if other SS agent anecdotes are to be believed.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (ohhLJ)

148
It had a Ho-Ho in it.
Posted by: Lady in Black

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STOP lol!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (UmB+t)

149 I think Butler was always considered a protection failure, but before the Biden administration left office, it wasn’t considered a failure by them in the same way as it is now.

Posted by: Advo at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (jO4mz)

150 Why not every single SS that was there?

I recall that not every agent that was covering Trump were actually SS but from another agency and given substandard training.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 12:41 PM (lXoJ5)

151 Becoming a fed employee must be like becoming an ordained minister."

More than a few feel they rank a bit higher. Godlike is more like it...

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 12:41 PM (twEYS)

152 7 As I said at the time, we really only have two conclusions to draw here:

1) the secret service is nowhere near as "elite" of a protective detail as is claimed, and it's just been blind luck (and lack of attempts) that have kept (most) presidents from being shot or killed

or

2) The events of Butler PA were a huge aberration from normal procedures, in which case, it looks like the secret service was trying to get Trump killed.

Both scenarios have some pretty huge implications.


I still cling to my completely amateur theory based on what i've seen the secret service do previously to the lapses at Butler; it is so outside what they've allowed, it had to be deliberate. My pet theory is the advance agent was in on it as was Mayorkas. People who play video games could have secured that perimeter better.

Posted by: Nelly at July 10, 2025 12:41 PM (cHLus)

153 118 Secret Service was more concerned with hiring quotas and pronouns.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (IifOV)

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The woman in charge of SS got out before she could be fired. Good riddance.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 12:41 PM (kYF0p)

154
They can always assign them to Hillary, which would be a fate worse than death if other SS agent anecdotes are to be believed.
Posted by: Halfhand

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Oh man, that would have been so perfect for Kerry O'Grady.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (UmB+t)

155 Maybe surgery in October. Post-surgery may need ileostomy bag, so a new hole to my abdomen would be added if large intestine needs more healing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Praying for ya!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (W/lyH)

156 Only in govt work are you "punished" with 10 - 42 days absence without pay but guaranteed return to paid employment for the abject failure of your basic duties resulting in the near absolute failure of your assigned mission.

This is one of the perks that college professors get - the sabbatical.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (t0Rmr)

157 Are the Democrats rushing to the defense of these six agents?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XDtG+)

158 Example of the pagers is Mossad is a perfect example. Mossad got into the acquisitions of comms for Hezbollah and skillfully guided them into choosing that particular firm with that particular fake manufacturing, etc.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)


Mike Benz passed on the story of the photocopier tech that serviced the photocopiers in the British Prime Minister's office getting turned, same sort of thing

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (D7oie)

159 Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (+Bkka)

In what respect?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (p0Ax5)

160 > I wonder if the short chubby female Barney Fife that struggled to holster her weapon and looked all panicked… I wonder if she’s one of the 6

Agent FUPA.

The planning and execution of the plan were the biggest problems that day. Unless she was part of the planning, she probably shouldn't be suspended.

I do think she should be put on a probationary exercise, diet, and tactical re-training program. If she can't perform, she should be fired.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 12:43 PM (lIio7)

161 I think is it a sign of the rot that Dan Bongino got out of the secret service.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 12:43 PM (kYF0p)

162 Usually cubicle sabbaticals are paid.

Posted by: The Secret Service at July 10, 2025 12:43 PM (zhBpy)

163 Sending incompetent agents to protect Trump while there were Known Wolves trying to kill him is very reminiscent of putting "Ms Shops on the Internet All Shift" and "Mr Nap Time" on Epstein watch the night he was murdered.

Plausible deniability since the schmucks in both cases don't know anything about the plan, but it gives you certitude they aren't going to stop it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:44 PM (t0Rmr)

164 Bring back Jim West and Artemus Gordon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:44 PM (63Dwl)

165 These folks are done in all but name only...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Now you've done it, lol. We can't have reasonableness when we are hunting for scalps!!!.

(btw just kidding)

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ctrM5)

166 So w Elon's exit, so went DOGE? Not so much as a popcorn fart of a story of their work since after 6 months of 24/7 coverage. Guess the rubes were impressed enough to shut it down.

Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (tivWi)

167 You could have picked public schools if you wanted a lot more molesters.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Qr870)


Probably.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (2yqAv)

168 One of things that annoys me about the Butler PA incident is that the SS refuses to provide the name and background of the individual who was in charge of the detail that day. They consistently say Curran was there that day, so all responsibility would fall to him. I see Curran as a figurehead and an administrator. His presence could run interference on an Agent in Charge responsible for the specific protocol and application.

That's the person who would make the strategic calls on the ground. And, that person would have quite a bit of influence on whether certain steps were taken to assure safety of their charge. It is conceivable that a single person in such a position could purposefully ignore all the warnings, and actually enhance the potential for an assassination attempt like the one that occurred.

One could make the conjecture that these suspensions reflect peon agents merely did what they were told instead of doing their jobs...allowing whoever was in charge to run the show in a negative fashion.

10 years ago, I'd chastise myself for coming up with something like this. Pure fiction. Would never happen. Now, I think it's likely.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (dIske)

169 Example of the pagers is Mossad is a perfect example. Mossad got into the acquisitions of comms for Hezbollah and skillfully guided them into choosing that particular firm with that particular fake manufacturing, etc.

Reminds me of the operation that blew up one of the Soviets big oil pipelines under Reagan...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (t0Rmr)

170 Not paying hookers in Columbia was my first clue the SS had lost it's panache... and skills.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron


In addition to being lazy and incompetent, but cheap bastards, who don't pay their whores.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (0Htd1)

171 Hopefully the USSS has a field office in Adak for these six.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (XDtG+)

172 Common sense Hoho Control.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (zhBpy)

173
As is your ability to move to any other position not purposely put into.

Posted by: Nova Local

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To my amateur eyes, that seems like a pretty big loophole. Endless strings can't be pulled? Lisa Page and Peter Strzok come to mind.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (UmB+t)

174 It's peculiar that Trump almost had his head blown off and the SS is suspending people, six of them.

Why not every single SS that was there?


Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 10, 2025 12:40 PM (et1vG)

It sounds like they're only going after the low level agents, not the supervisors or anyone with any real power here.

Which is the way of the world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)

175 166 So w Elon's exit, so went DOGE? Not so much as a popcorn fart of a story of their work since after 6 months of 24/7 coverage. Guess the rubes were impressed enough to shut it down.
Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (tivWi)

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It's not.

Just because the news isn't talking about it, doesn't mean it's not happening.

https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

176 Everyone’s organization should be so forgiving. One of my bosses complained that I took a two week vacation after five years even though I had accrued five weeks! I can’t imagine being responsible for a life, screwing up in the most egregious way, and still keeping my job. Only a government employee could receive this type of discipline.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 12:46 PM (J4BK5)

177 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 12:46 PM (Vqpc5)

178 174 It sounds like they're only going after the low level agents, not the supervisors or anyone with any real power here.

Which is the way of the world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)

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Heads of the Pittsburgh office aren't low level nobodies.

But, there are implications still that it's a snow job.

I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

179 Set aside the fact that the Secret Service was trying to get Trump killed.

For years, they have been an embarrassing, undisciplined rabble. They're adept at banging hookers, blowing lines, and cleaning up Lil' Hunty's many messes. But not stopping people from climbing the fence and running into the WH, or anything like that.

If I were Trump, none of these people would be allowed anywhere near me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:46 PM (BI5O2)

180 157 Are the Democrats rushing to the defense of these six agents?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XDtG+)

Well they already gave them raises and promotions so...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (xcxpd)

181 We are aware of the SS because of its high visibility. The balance of the bureaucracies, and some highly critical (see: State Department), are just as compromised.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XeU6L)

182 Mike Benz passed on the story of the photocopier tech that serviced the photocopiers in the British Prime Minister's office getting turned, same sort of thing
Posted by: Kindltot
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Read that. Way back, I think the CIA did the same to the copier at the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. Paranoia for counterintel types is a job hazard along with sleepless nights.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (ctrM5)

183 So w Elon's exit, so went DOGE? Not so much as a popcorn fart of a story of their work since after 6 months of 24/7 coverage. Guess the rubes were impressed enough to shut it down.
Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (tivWi)


There is an X page and all, you could look there.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (D7oie)

184 Not just a last-minute Jill event in PA, Kamala was in Philadelphia for a TownHall, too. Both got much better protection than PDT.

Posted by: EveR at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (rdF17)

185

"We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation."

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (jvJvP)

186 Let me guess, the 6 will not include anyone who you and I would find incompetent, but will be every available white male who was within 50 miles of the shooting.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (Da7Vv)

187 Thinking about the hookers and blow in Mexico scandal, I can see SS agents pressuring a newbie into joining them so, A: they have a hold over him and B, they can ostracize him if he declines.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

Exactly the reason for Epstein's island, too. Creating Kompromat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (48oK1)

188 I wonder if a federal judge will impose an injunction for their suspensions? Wouldn’t surprise me.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (J4BK5)

189 It sounds like they're only going after the low level agents, not the supervisors or anyone with any real power here.

Which is the way of the world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)

Because if they admit the supervisors etc are fuckups then the people above them who put them in those positions look like fuckups (which they are) but that cannot be allowed to happen. And so it goes.

Posted by: Power without accountability at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (TbWk/)

190 169 Example of the pagers is Mossad is a perfect example. Mossad got into the acquisitions of comms for Hezbollah and skillfully guided them into choosing that particular firm with that particular fake manufacturing, etc.

Reminds me of the operation that blew up one of the Soviets big oil pipelines under Reagan...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (t0Rmr)

Or the Russian pipeline to Europe in the Baltic....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

191 153 118 Secret Service was more concerned with hiring quotas and pronouns.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 10, 2025 12:35 PM (IifOV)

If that's the root cause, I don't see them fixing that.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (jvJvP)

192 181 We are aware of the SS because of its high visibility. The balance of the bureaucracies, and some highly critical (see: State Department), are just as compromised.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Surely not!!. Sean Hannity tells us always that it is only a few rotten apples while most agents are ham and egger good guys. Sean wouldn't lie, would he?

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

193 The video of the shooter crawling around on the roof with people standing around staring at him while he lines up his shot is enough evidence to can every one of the bastards that were on duty there that day if you ask me.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (QB+5g)

194 1) the secret service is nowhere near as "elite" of a protective detail as is claimed, and it's just been blind luck (and lack of attempts) that have kept (most) presidents from being shot or killed

or

2) The events of Butler PA were a huge aberration from normal procedures, in which case, it looks like the secret service was trying to get Trump killed.

Both scenarios have some pretty huge implications.


A third possibility is their bench is shallow. Maybe they have two or three teams that are really good, but the benchwarmers like agent FUPA are terrible.

It's entirely possible the top brass at SS knew this and were intentionally putting their good teams on Jill and Joe and others, ensuring the benchwarmers would be put on Trump's detail.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (lIio7)

195 >>Why not every single SS that was there?
__
Because you don't fire the defensive line because the offense failed to score a touchdown. In fact, I think one of the male SS agents who prominently appears in the iconic fist-pump photo was elevated to Trump's personal detail at Trump's request.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (bNf8H)

196 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (ukeFl)

197 That Jill Biden event in the Pittsburgh area was hastily added at the last moment. I believe it was done intentionally to allow her to have experienced agents, leading Trump to be covered by the fat Keystone Kops. It being the ONLY rally covered by CNN up to that point was no coincidence, either.

Posted by: Conspiracy To Murder at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (G5+As)

198 They're not being fired, but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."


Sorting and counting paperclips in Barrow, Alaska.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (e2MJJ)

199 Read that. Way back, I think the CIA did the same to the copier at the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. Paranoia for counterintel types is a job hazard along with sleepless nights.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:47 PM (ctrM5)


Best reason to send your secretarial staff to Copier repair school EVAR!

If this is not being done, then I have no faith in anyone, and we are all doomed for the timidity and entitled negligence of our so called elites.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:49 PM (D7oie)

200 Heh...Sid thinks that because someone said Garcia wasn't MS-13, then he's a US citizen.

God, Sid.

You're fucking stupid.

I laugh at you for being so stupid. Just go and vote for Vance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

201 One of these priests taught music in a.high school I attended. When his offenses were found out, he was just shuffled off to nowhere job. Not a proper punishment.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (Fju+s)

202 > The woman in charge of SS got out before she could be fired. Good riddance.

That was the woman who made the sloped roof comment, right?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (lIio7)

203 "Operational failure" = "Mistakes were made."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (eD91D)

204 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

https://tinyurl.com/42xfnvsn

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

205 There is also the idea that Trump knew when he stood up he might be killed. He would have gone down yelling "Fight Fight Fight", his message to us unequivocal, and unable to be parsed and dissected and twisted by those who would enjoy doing that for their own ends and as a black mark on his legacy.

"...Well you see after January 6, Trump was moderating in his later years, really wanted lots of compromise and amnesty and cooperation with Democrats, and such despite their attacks. Let's do it for Donald. He would have wanted it that way."

No peckerwood faggotface he wanted - expected - us to FIGHT. He was clear. Watch the tape.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (Qr870)

206 Or the Russian pipeline to Europe in the Baltic....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Yes. Compromised gas line compressor if I remember the details correctly. Something similar was done with the attacks on the Iranian centrifuges with Stuxnet. Spun out of control from control system compromise.

Operation Uranium Ship is another such.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:51 PM (ctrM5)

207 Is one of the suspended agents of the female persuasion? Because I remember a chubby gal who struggled to holster her sidearm.

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 12:51 PM (AOsQT)

208 Jerusalem Post: Reporter's Notebook: 'Post' meets with top Hebron sheikh who wants to pull out of PA

Joining the Abraham Accords could be a game changer, but it has opposition from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides and may be torpedoed globally.

https://tinyurl.com/9xz4czjc

Very interesting. Some sheiks want to kick the PA out and reorganize the West Bank into a bunch of Emirates. IDF and Shin Bet's attitudes are "better the devil you know." But Israel is the Strong Horse here and Arabs will ultimately respect that. I dunno, man, the notion of "Palestinian Statehood" has been rotten from the start. Time to say Fuck It and cast their fortunes to the wind?

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 12:51 PM (Vqpc5)

209 Tunnel Collapse in LA.

https://tinyurl.com/569jjcbp

You know, we have been digging tunnels for several millennia. If you have a collapse, it is incompetence.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

210 Yes I posted the obvious after 137 comments

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (ciYHQ)

211 Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

https://tinyurl.com/42xfnvsn
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)
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Risible and stupid. Maybe Jasmine should try standup comedy?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (tT6L1)

212 I think is it a sign of the rot that Dan Bongino got out of the secret service.
Posted by: JM
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I have a friend who is ex-SS. Came to work for us in, of all things, the commercial HVAC business. I never asked him why he quit.

From time at the range together, I can tell you that he was excellent shot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (XeU6L)

213 " Yes I posted the obvious after 137 comments
Posted by: Fenrisulven"


We all do it. U aren't special.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:53 PM (fV+MH)

214 >"diminished operational responsibilities."

----

organizing the Holiday Potluck
picking up the Director's dry cleaning
office supplies inventory

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 12:53 PM (AOsQT)

215 Jasmine Crockett is what the Left thinks of black people.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:53 PM (Qr870)

216 You know, we have been digging tunnels for several millennia. If you have a collapse, it is incompetence.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:51 PM (jc0TO)


That or they disturbed the lair of the graboids

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (eb5mD)

217
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

It should never have been possible for some guy in Pittsburgh to fuck up that badly, if that's truly what happened.

If the SS is truly as incompetent as they were that day in PA, and the only reason all of our presidential candidates haven't been assassinated is due to blind luck and the fact that there aren't that many potential assassins living amongst us, then the entire organization needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

We're supposed to just accept that it's normal practice that blindingly obvious places for snipers to hide aren't covered, SS agents don't go on sloped roofs, SS and local police aren't able to communicate with each other, there is no coordination between and amongst agencies, SS agents need to call tech support to use their drones, and local cops (who have the manpower) are told to watch the traffic or sit in an office instead of covering the crowd, etc. etc.?

What if an actual foreign power wanted to assassinate our leaders? Seems like it would be incredibly easy to do.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (uCjyK)

218 Was the LA tunnel collapae high speed rail?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (zhBpy)

219 Surely not!!. Sean Hannity tells us always that it is only a few rotten apples while most agents are ham and egger good guys. Sean wouldn't lie, would he?
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

This is a conservative chestnut? Axiom? Aphorism? Dogma? about law enforcement in general that needs to die and have critical thinking take its place. Tired of it.

Posted by: Distrust government but not their gunmen? at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (TbWk/)

220 Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

https://tinyurl.com/42xfnvsn
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

Risible and stupid. Maybe Jasmine should try standup comedy?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (tT6L1)

I'd say she should flip burgers at McDonald's but it would probably fall on the floor.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (Vqpc5)

221 "Jasmine Crockett is what the Left thinks of black people."


I mean....idotoo

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (fV+MH)

222 In addition to being lazy and incompetent, but cheap bastards, who don't pay their whores.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (0Htd1)

Secret service Jon. "Ya know. Now that I got a nut I feel like it wasn't what I was expecting. In fact that was not even worthy of payment. Zzzzzzzzz."

Whore. "Moan..."

Whores should know better than to try and collect after the deed.
Don't they have pimps to educate them on such things?

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (SJnNf)

223
You know, we have been digging tunnels for several millennia. If you have a collapse, it is incompetence.
Posted by: toby928
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Prima facie evidence that Trump is destroying the country.

Posted by: Dems at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (XeU6L)

224 Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

--

Yes, his supporters are the ones trying to kill him...because they support him. Makes sense to me!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (qBdHI)

225 220 Rep. Jamsime Crockett:

"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

https://tinyurl.com/42xfnvsn
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

Risible and stupid. Maybe Jasmine should try standup comedy?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (tT6L1)

======

She has seen to poll of her beating Allred, and she's reportedly considering a run for the Senate.

Please have her do it.

She'll raise so much money and lose by so much. It'll be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

226 Just because the news isn't talking about it, doesn't mean it's not happening.

https://x.com/DOGE

******

"...news isn't talking about it..." means it's doing nearly nothing of consequence. It was wall to wall sky is falling tearing thru the first layer of corruption. We've all seen how these things go in DC. If the Dems or GOPe aren't screeching at some level it's not scratching the surface. I don't have an X account, probably most people don't so I'll wait until conservative-adjacent media seems something important.

Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (tivWi)

227 "VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."
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So you won't mind if we just take the Left's guns away. Since you obviously don't need them.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (Qr870)

228 Best reason to send your secretarial staff to Copier repair school EVAR!

If this is not being done, then I have no faith in anyone, and we are all doomed for the timidity and entitled negligence of our so called elites.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Bible says it best--Put not your trust in princes.
Franklin's aphorism--two can keep a secret if one is dead also comes to mind.

So, you want a less crooked and deceitful state, then you minimize its wealth, power, and reach including that of its foremost citizens. Given the US nation, that means governance as much as possible at the lowest possible level.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)

229 I'd say she should flip burgers at McDonald's but it would probably fall on the floor.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (Vqpc5)
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I read somewhere that there's always leafblowing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (4tvN6)

230
Some sheiks want to kick the PA out and reorganize the West Bank into a bunch of Emirates.

Posted by: Robert

============

I imagine the PA could actually be bought off very easily by some sheikhs. Retire to beautiful Dubai, no need to hustle for the luxury anymore, just enjoy our generosity and the favors of foreign prostitutes who are very easy to sponsor for a weekend.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (UmB+t)

231 Names would be a nice touch, that would teach them a lesson.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (+qU29)

232 Maybe they should hire the Boring Company.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (zhBpy)

233 226 "...news isn't talking about it..." means it's doing nearly nothing of consequence. It was wall to wall sky is falling tearing thru the first layer of corruption. We've all seen how these things go in DC. If the Dems or GOPe aren't screeching at some level it's not scratching the surface. I don't have an X account, probably most people don't so I'll wait until conservative-adjacent media seems something important.

Posted by: LaGrange at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (tivWi)

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"It's only happening if the left is screaming about it, and I refuse primary sources."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

234 We knew the Secret Service didn't meet with local LEOs, despite the obvious need to do so.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (w6EFb)

235 Was the LA tunnel collapae high speed rail?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM


Six miles of sewer apparently.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

236 How's the lack of violence in all the lefty cities doing then, Crockashit?

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (Qr870)

237 The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

1. Lugging the dreaded water jug replacement and refilling the office water cooler. Written up if you spill.

2. Taking up all janitorial duties including scrubbing toilets at HQ.

3. Walking and feeding all employees pets at 'Bring your Pet to Work Day'.

That's just for starters.

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (oiNtH)

238

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, known for her outspoken style, surprisingly tops hypothetical primary field, putting pressure on Allred, O'Rourke, and Castro as Democrats eye John Cornyn's seat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (63Dwl)

239 She has seen to poll of her beating Allred, and she's reportedly considering a run for the Senate.

Please have her do it.

She'll raise so much money and lose by so much. It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM has the right of political analysis: Treat it as a review of bad acting, appalling scripts, deviant sexuality, and rank idiocy and deceit.

Just like Hollywood.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (ctrM5)

240 Risible and stupid. Maybe Jasmine should try standup comedy?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:52 PM (tT6L1)
********
She hasn't even said she's running for the Texas Democrat senate seat, but she's ahead of all the Democrat candidates in the polls.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (NpAcC)

241 Dat maff ain't maffin!

*z-snap and head bobble*

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

242
I still cling to my completely amateur theory based on what i've seen the secret service do previously to the lapses at Butler; it is so outside what they've allowed, it had to be deliberate. My pet theory is the advance agent was in on it as was Mayorkas. People who play video games could have secured that perimeter better.
Posted by: Nelly at July 10, 2025 12:41 PM

I'm a housewife and I would have had someone on that roof and I would have tested the communications, I would have made sure all agencies could speak with one another. I know nothing but I would have sussed those two issues out.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (77W69)

243 238

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, known for her outspoken style, surprisingly tops hypothetical primary field, putting pressure on Allred, O'Rourke, and Castro as Democrats eye John Cornyn's seat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (63Dwl)

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In an era where Democrats have raised the profile of obnoxious black women and outright lost the Hispanic male vote while splitting the Hispanic female vote, they're gonna get all excited about a Crockett senate run in...

Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

244 You know, we have been digging tunnels for several millennia. If you have a collapse, it is incompetence.
Posted by: toby928
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Prima facie evidence that Trump is destroying the country.
Posted by: Dems at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM



A Day without Illegals.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (jc0TO)

245 Hide your children and wallets: Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton Global Foundation in the ground in Texas.

The Patriot Front is apparently going to be in Texas too.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (TGPs7)

246 Rep. Jasmine Crockett, known for her outspoken style, surprisingly tops hypothetical primary field, putting pressure on Allred, O'Rourke, and Castro as Democrats eye John Cornyn's seat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (63Dwl)
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I laugh because she'll scream racism and sexism at every single one of the other Democrats in the field. They'll bow out and watch Crockett get creamed in the general.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

247 I wonder if the short chubby female Barney Fife that struggled to holster her weapon and looked all panicked… I wonder if she’s one of the 6

Actually she was the agent in charge of the site... Since standard government procedure, known to anyone who has been in the military, is: "Shit runs down hill", the chance of her being suspended is about as great as my chances (at 77) of dating Sydney Sweeney this week end.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (Da7Vv)

248 Hopefully the USSS has a field office in Adak for these six.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2025 12:45 PM (XDtG+)


BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
When I was in Sinop, feeling sorry for myself, I always cheered up by knowing I wasn't in Adak.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

249 Dat maff ain't maffin!

*z-snap and head bobble*

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at July 10, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)
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/pages back and forth through dictionary for white foke

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 12:59 PM (4tvN6)

250 > Was the LA tunnel collapae high speed rail?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM

Six miles of sewer apparently.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)
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There are not enough miles of sewer on the planet to deal with the amount of shit in L.A.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)

251 Was the LA tunnel collapae high speed rail?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (zhBpy)

Apparently was to be a conduit for wastewater. Story poorly written. 700 feet underground? That would put it way below sea level. Doubtful.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:59 PM (48oK1)

252 Trump down to his lowest favorability rating, - 2, since April...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (TGPs7)

253 She'll raise so much money and lose by so much. It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Seems to me it's a way for her to make money.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (/Uw4P)

254 Hide your children and wallets: Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton Global Foundation in the ground in Texas.

The Patriot Front is apparently going to be in Texas too.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (TGPs7)


Put them to work filling sand bags...in El Paso.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (W/lyH)

255 Six miles of sewer apparently.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

That's a shitty place to be stuck in a collapsed tunnel.

I'll be here all night, folks, tip your waiters.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)

256 700 miles underground

Posted by: Bombadil at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (MX0bI)

257 253 She'll raise so much money and lose by so much. It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Seems to me it's a way for her to make money.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (/Uw4P)

======

Well, she is doing the politics by celebrity thing.

It's not like she's in it for the legislative language.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

258 I think DOGE got so much press because Elon was involved, and very visible- how many times did we see him in Oval Office photos with the Preznit?

But now he has left DOGE- turned on it, you might say- and moved on

so the press did, too

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (AOsQT)

259 Is one of the suspended agents of the female persuasion? Because I remember a chubby gal who struggled to holster her sidearm.
Posted by: Don Black


I won't bang on her for that. I've had problems in high stress situations where we just took down a convict that was fighting and I'm reaching back for cuff and they're not where they're supposed to be and I'm trying to hold an arm with one hand and find cuffs with another.

I will bang on her for being so short she couldn't cover her principal.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (e2MJJ)

260 "Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

How does someone say such a thing? Isn't there some mechanism in the brain that says "Oh hell no"

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (ciYHQ)

261 143 It had a Ho-Ho in it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 12:38 PM (qBdHI)
So did the 2024 election
Posted by: ...


Hey! Don't put us in the same category with that imbecile.

Posted by: Street Ho at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (0Htd1)

262 It is virtually impossible to fire anyone in law enforcement on any level.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (Pce4l)

263 Apparently was to be a conduit for wastewater. Story poorly written. 700 feet underground? That would put it way below sea level. Doubtful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:59 PM (48oK1)
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Yeah, have to qualify as "doubtful" because, well, CA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (tT6L1)

264 This is a conservative chestnut? Axiom? Aphorism? Dogma? about law enforcement in general that needs to die and have critical thinking take its place. Tired of it.
Posted by: Distrust government but not their gunmen?
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One of the central problems of governance is how do you ensure the fidelity of agents acting on your behalf to take your best interests at heart. Same for individuals as it is for government, business, or even the church.

Effective sanctions requires something like the Mafia Omerta and made men. That is the agent must be personally responsible even unto death, jail, and financial ruin, for failure and non- compliance with directives from the principle.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

265 260 "Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

How does someone say such a thing? Isn't there some mechanism in the brain that says "Oh hell no"
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (ciYHQ)

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"Crooks' parents had MAGA signs in their front yard!"
-added to the firmware within 24 hours and never removed

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

266 You load sixteen tons and what do you get?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (fV+MH)

267 How does someone say such a thing? Isn't there some mechanism in the brain that says "Oh hell no"
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (ciYHQ)

She just wants to watch you deny it.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (Qr870)

268 Well, she is doing the politics by celebrity thing.

It's not like she's in it for the legislative language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah.

Also thinking she will be allowed to run and lose bigly so the Dems have a talking point about how racist and sexist everyone is.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (/Uw4P)

269 She'll raise so much money and lose by so much. It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Seems to me it's a way for her to make money.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM



Her husband the campaign manager, her brother doing advertising, and her cousins getting paid to organize the get-out-the-vote all agree that it's no grift.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (jc0TO)

270 268 Yeah.

Also thinking she will be allowed to run and lose bigly so the Dems have a talking point about how racist and sexist everyone is.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (/Uw4P)

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Oh, it'll all just be about the money.

Dumb fucks in Hollywood and Manhattan will shove money at her like she's Beto.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

271 Six miles of sewer apparently.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

Shit! What are they going to do with it now?

Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (SJnNf)

272 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

Or what you said earlier.

I should read before I post.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (/Uw4P)

273 "Crooks' parents had MAGA signs in their front yard!"
-added to the firmware within 24 hours and never removed
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, also, why have we not heard anything more about Crooks and his family?

All we know about him is that he was a young kid with no social media presence who was once in a blackrock commercial then one day decided to kill Trump.

And we know next to nothing about his family.

Seems odd.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)

274 I can't wait for the "I'm bowing out because Jasmine is the most qualified candidate" endorsement from one of her opponents.

Comedy gold.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:04 PM (tT6L1)

275 I should read before I post.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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What is the fun in that?

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

276 274 I can't wait for the "I'm bowing out because Jasmine is the most qualified candidate" endorsement from one of her opponents.

Comedy gold.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:04 PM (tT6L1)

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I want Allred to fight dirty to keep his spot. He ran against Cruz.

He's now gonna win against Paxton whom everyone tells him is a much easier target.

It's his turn!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

277 I imagine the PA could actually be bought off very easily by some sheikhs. Retire to beautiful Dubai, no need to hustle for the luxury anymore, just enjoy our generosity and the favors of foreign prostitutes who are very easy to sponsor for a weekend.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (UmB+t)

They wouldn't even have to do that. The Sheik quoted in the piece says a large part of OA security are members of his clan. They could take control with minimal bloodshed.

Personally, while I understand the hesitation, I think it's an idea worth considering. We know the PA to be corrupt and parasitic and the Sheiks see the time is ripe to get rid of it.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 01:04 PM (HORD1)

278 273 "Crooks' parents had MAGA signs in their front yard!"
-added to the firmware within 24 hours and never removed
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, also, why have we not heard anything more about Crooks and his family?

All we know about him is that he was a young kid with no social media presence who was once in a blackrock commercial then one day decided to kill Trump.

And we know next to nothing about his family.

Seems odd.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)

"Remember me?" - Guy who killed a Minnesota state senator and then immediately disappeared

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (j/vBG)

279 271 Six miles of sewer apparently.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

Shit! What are they going to do with it now?
Posted by: Reforger at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (SJnNf)

It's anybody's guess.

Posted by: Total crapshoot at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

280 but when they return to work, they will have "diminished operational responsibilities."

Somebody needs to fight counterfeiting in Nome, after all.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (xTIDn)

281 >Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (e2MJJ)
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so you were a cop?

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (AOsQT)

282
I should read before I post.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:03 PM (/Uw4P)
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You're not new here.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (tT6L1)

283 It's sad that LA is turning into a shithole failure.


That place was beautiful.


But it's what they wanted.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (fV+MH)

284 @11

>>Don't coddle them! Fire them!

This is step 1, the final step will be firing them in about 3 months time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (XV/Pl)

285 As a resident of Texas I could only wish Jasmine Crockett wins the Dem nomination for that senate seat. Because she’d have ZERO chance of winning…. Collin Allred can get to 45% probably; she’d be at 40% or worse…. It would be hilarious and continual entertainment

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (5MZNC)

286 We haven't seen the ' Patriot Front ' since beginning of the year

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (+qU29)

287 When will one of the legions of professional journalists uncover the names of the six and inform the public? Any hour now, I'm sure. I'll bet Fapper is working hard to give us serfs the dope, ASAP!

Ha! I denounce myself.

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (aBgBM)

288 285 As a resident of Texas I could only wish Jasmine Crockett wins the Dem nomination for that senate seat. Because she’d have ZERO chance of winning…. Collin Allred can get to 45% probably; she’d be at 40% or worse…. It would be hilarious and continual entertainment
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (5MZNC)

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AWFLs in Houston will demand her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

289 Either everything from Epstein was destroyed or they're lying. And he should know:

https://tinyurl.com/ye3ynka8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (4tvN6)

290 I'm a housewife and I would have had someone on that roof and I would have tested the communications, I would have made sure all agencies could speak with one another. I know nothing but I would have sussed those two issues out.
Posted by: CaliGirl


If I ran the SS, the motto would be, "We Own The High Ground".

Every roof would be covered. We would have enough agents or, "I'm sorry Mr. President, you can't go out there. We can't get enough agents to secure the area".

Suddenly the government is concerned about spending money? GTFOOH.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (e2MJJ)

291 246 Rep. Jasmine Crockett, known for her outspoken style, surprisingly tops hypothetical primary field, putting pressure on Allred, O'Rourke, and Castro as Democrats eye John Cornyn's seat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:56 PM (63Dwl)
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I laugh because she'll scream racism and sexism at every single one of the other Democrats in the field. They'll bow out and watch Crockett get creamed in the general.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

It's the same effect as Zohran Mamdami becoming popular in NYC. We sit here and wonder "wow, if the Dems get some moderate candidates, they might make a run for things!" While the Dem base is going after the most radical fire breathing communist candidates they can find.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

292 Yeah, also, why have we not heard anything more about Crooks and his family?

All we know about him is that he was a young kid with no social media presence who was once in a blackrock commercial then one day decided to kill Trump.

And we know next to nothing about his family.

Seems odd.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Wheels within Wheels. So you get Schrodinger's assassin paradox: conspiracy or nutjob. Seems like that happens with every assassination or attempted one.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)

293 What's Robert Francis O'Rourke up to these days?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (kTd/k)

294 291 It's the same effect as Zohran Mamdami becoming popular in NYC. We sit here and wonder "wow, if the Dems get some moderate candidates, they might make a run for things!" While the Dem base is going after the most radical fire breathing communist candidates they can find.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

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When you push moderates out of your party, all that's left is the radicals.

I didn't expect moderation at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

295 so you were a cop?
Posted by: Don Black


Prison guard. That's why the handcuff case could slide around on the belt. No where near as much stuff as what a cop carries. It was the cuff case and the key fob that held the cell block keys.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (e2MJJ)

296 281 >Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:00 PM (e2MJJ)
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so you were a cop?
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (AOsQT)

Not a pig. Bull. Hack. Screw.

Posted by: If I remember correctly at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (TbWk/)

297 295 Prison guard. That's why the handcuff case could slide around on the belt. No where near as much stuff as what a cop carries. It was the cuff case and the key fob that held the cell block keys.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (e2MJJ)

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Attica! Attica! Attica!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

298 Every roof would be covered. We would have enough agents

Sorry, the security for DOCTOR Jill Biden's appearance in Pittsburgh comes first.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (xTIDn)

299 AWFLs in Houston will demand her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am sure that Hispanic males will be attracted to her personality and policy platform.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)

300 Do they do just wrife off those expenses to skippy o rourke kamala et al

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (3Btk8)

301 299 AWFLs in Houston will demand her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am sure that Hispanic males will be attracted to her personality and policy platform.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)

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Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

302 >We haven't seen the ' Patriot Front ' since beginning of the year

---

yeah, the FBI changed hands
those guys still work there, I would bet

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (AOsQT)

303 Every roof would be covered. We would have enough agents or, "I'm sorry Mr. President, you can't go out there. We can't get enough agents to secure the area".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (e2MJJ)

Honest question. If the Principal wants to go out there anyway, is that even a thing or is it only a pulp novel plot device?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (vakLI)

304 LA is Orlando with a coastline and mountains. They both suck. A series of dilapidated strip malls interrupted by a traffic light on every corner

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (ycs3a)

305 so you were a cop?
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:05 PM (AOsQT)

Not a pig. Bull. Hack. Screw.
Posted by: If I remember correctly


Back when Texas Department of Criminal Justice was simply Texas Department of Corrections.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (e2MJJ)

306 > What's Robert Francis O'Rourke up to these days?

Butt stuff.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (lIio7)

307 286 We haven't seen the ' Patriot Front ' since beginning of the year
Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 01:06 PM (+qU29)

With USAID dismantled their brand new balaclava budget went to zero.

Posted by: Can't glow in dirty balaclavas at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (TbWk/)

308 While the Dem base is going after the most radical fire breathing communist candidates they can find.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

They think they are copying Trump.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (Qr870)

309 Make Firing Failures Great Again!

[Pun intended ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (HODnp)

310 That's a scary job

alright then, well done

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (AOsQT)

311 "U aren't special."

Ya know, I was gonna close with "because Im special ".

but I had a premonition that I was unspecial but still got to talk about me.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (ciYHQ)

312 Prison guard. That's why the handcuff case could slide around on the belt. No where near as much stuff as what a cop carries. It was the cuff case and the key fob that held the cell block keys.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (e2MJJ)
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I thought prison guards were overpaid until I actually worked at a prison. I then realized they weren't paid nearly enough. I remember doing a walk through of pre trial detention, where they held some incredibly crazy and terrible people. Yeah, no thanks.

My long way of saying "thanks for helping keep us safe."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

313 293 What's Robert Francis O'Rourke up to these days?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (kTd/k)

Touring the state in preparation for for another run at the Senate, presumably.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (Pce4l)

314 302 >We haven't seen the ' Patriot Front ' since beginning of the year
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yeah, the FBI changed hands
those guys still work there, I would bet
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (AOsQT)

You'd think they'd be celebrating a supposedly "right wing" administration. Instead, they dropped off the face of the Earth. How odd.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (uWKK8)

315 289 Either everything from Epstein was destroyed or they're lying. And he should know:

https://tinyurl.com/ye3ynka8
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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His self admitted Epstein connections and his response about them lacks any kind of verisimilitude. Kind of like Clinton's I smoked weed but didn't inhale bullshit.

Deshowitz is using the TODDI defense. That other dude did it!!!

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)

316 Honest question. If the Principal wants to go out there anyway, is that even a thing or is it only a pulp novel plot device?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (vakLI)

Also I fully realize I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but that's only because I'm the second most illiterate person on this site.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (vakLI)

317 While the Dem base is going after the most radical fire breathing communist candidates they can find.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

They think they are copying Trump.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM



It won't work since the Right rules all the corporate media..

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (jc0TO)

318 Honest question. If the Principal wants to go out there anyway, is that even a thing or is it only a pulp novel plot device?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

I honestly have no clue. You see in movies where POTUS says he's going to stop and shake hands.
I don't know how much power the SS actually has to stop him.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (e2MJJ)

319 Don Black I am sure of that

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (+qU29)

320 Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
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Someone is socking TJM?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

321 316 Also I fully realize I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but that's only because I'm the second most illiterate person on this site.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (vakLI)

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I'm #1! I'm #1!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

322 Orlando has become a sink hole of stupid like tim blair law where the pulse shooters father was a visiting iman

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (3Btk8)

323 ur special to me Fenrisulven.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (fV+MH)

324 Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (ciYHQ)

I think eleven was trying to say don't be too hard on yourself. I *think*. Let's see how wrong I got this.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (Qr870)

325 Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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S'Okay,

I don't get Prometheus.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (ctrM5)

326 I am sure that Hispanic males will be attracted to her personality and policy platform.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)

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Oh, it's a joke.

I get jokes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

Roundtine… That’s gold Jerry, gold!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (5MZNC)

327 Were I to speculate, I'd say the Agent in Charge that day is sitting in a detention center somewhere getting all kinds of pointed questions. And, the reason these suspensions on the regular agents present took so long was to assure that they weren't aware of (and supporting) the goals of that Agent in Charge.

Instead, they are being suspended for following the Agent In Charge's direction at the scene without question despite it being beneficial to the individual attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate.

The haven't released the name, experience or background of the Agent in Charge. Instead, they've hedged by saying Curran (being the director) had that responsibility as he attended the rally. He's a bureaucrat. He wouldn't be making the calls on something like:

"Hey, boss, there's a guy climbing up a ladder with a gun." "Stay at your designated position. It's being handled." "Ok."

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (dIske)

328 While the Dem base is going after the most radical fire breathing communist candidates they can find.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

They think they are copying Trump.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (Qr870)

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"ONLY STALIN CAN KILL HITLER!

Open a book sometime, h8r ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (HODnp)

329 Back when Texas Department of Criminal Justice was simply Texas Department of Corrections.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:10 PM (e2MJJ)

So how much like or unlike "OZ" was it? Daily shanking and buttrape?

Posted by: I would imagine a bit more mundane, if stresssful at July 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TbWk/)

330 313 293 What's Robert Francis O'Rourke up to these days?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 01:08 PM (kTd/k)

Touring the state in preparation for for another run at the Senate, presumably.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (Pce4l)

The best part of that poll showing that Jasmine Crockett is leading among Democrats in Texas was that it also showed Beat-o with only 13% support FROM DEMOCRATS. HA! Stick a fork in his career, it is WAY over! Nobody wants a 3 time loser to hang around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:13 PM (uWKK8)

331 327 Were I to speculate, I'd say the Agent in Charge that day is sitting in a detention center somewhere getting all kinds of pointed questions. And, the reason these suspensions on the regular agents present took so long was to assure that they weren't aware of (and supporting) the goals of that Agent in Charge.

Instead, they are being suspended for following the Agent In Charge's direction at the scene without question despite it being beneficial to the individual attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate.

The haven't released the name, experience or background of the Agent in Charge. Instead, they've hedged by saying Curran (being the director) had that responsibility as he attended the rally. He's a bureaucrat. He wouldn't be making the calls on something like:

"Hey, boss, there's a guy climbing up a ladder with a gun." "Stay at your designated position. It's being handled." "Ok."
Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 01:12 PM (dIske)

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The names have been released.

Detailed here:

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/
1943349185279070574

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

332
Honest question. If the Principal wants to go out there anyway, is that even a thing or is it only a pulp novel plot device?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

===============

Supposedly, when Gorby jumped out of the limo in NYC to shake hands with those throngs of happy Yankees, it was against the vociferous insistence of security -- his, one assumes. There must be other instances where people said The hell with security, I'm goin' for it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (UmB+t)

333 "ONLY STALIN CAN KILL HITLER!


err...

Posted by: toby928 tugs collar at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (jc0TO)

334 "I think eleven was trying to say don't be too hard on yourself."


I think I am also retarded.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (fV+MH)

335 The fact the detail didnt know where the hospital was and waited about three minutes to get out of the parking lot

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (3Btk8)

336 Beat-o with only 13% support FROM DEMOCRATS. HA! Stick a fork in his career
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What career?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (W3T6M)

337 I think I am also retarded.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (fV+MH)

There have been more controversial things expressed on these pages.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 01:15 PM (Qr870)

338 The best part of that poll showing that Jasmine Crockett is leading among Democrats in Texas was that it also showed Beat-o with only 13% support FROM DEMOCRATS. HA! Stick a fork in his career, it is WAY over! Nobody wants a 3 time loser to hang around.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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White boy fake hispanic former congress critter Beto is not longer a shiny object.

Resist We Much Crockett is now a superstar!!!! to Dems.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

339 My focus these days is on transparency.

The government is trans-phobic! I want to know what they're up to, who's doing what, what's in which bills, where our troops are, what they're doing there... and on and on.

It's not just about not telling us about the Epstein op. It's not even about killing a President, and trying to shoot a leading candidate. Sure, I'd like more info on all that, but in general, what are you people up to! Everything you do should be in the open, with the ONLY exception being operations that would cause people in the line of fire to be compromised.

And if you work behind a desk at Langley, you're not in the line of fire.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 10, 2025 01:15 PM (dGCAG)

340 336 Beat-o with only 13% support FROM DEMOCRATS. HA! Stick a fork in his career
---------------
What career?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (W3T6M)

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I said years ago he should have taken his close loss to Cruz and moved out of state to a New England locale with an open Senate race in the near future.

He could have used his celebrity to blanket the market with his name recognition and raise money like no one else and bypass the local machine.

Instead, he kept trying in Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

341 Prometheus is better than Temple of Doom.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 01:15 PM (fV+MH)

342 What's in a name?!

https://tinyurl.com/mus6kthp

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (4tvN6)

343 Charlie Kirk starts his radio show today plinking that one-strung Epstein banjo… sheesh I get the interest but move on please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (5MZNC)

344 If gerald butler from law abiding citizen were there they would have been toast

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (3Btk8)

345 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I can see you flaunting your cob status by not using tiny url etc.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (ctrM5)

346 > Honest question. If the Principal wants to go out there anyway, is that even a thing or is it only a pulp novel plot device?
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Probably "one of those things never discussed" because OPSEC. If you knew, then that is a vulnerability that can be leveraged. As is much of the OPSEC around the President and his clan.

Trump "may" have wanted to continue his Butler appearance, but circumstances would have prevented it anyway... public injuries and death for one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (Q4IgG)

347 What career?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 01:14 PM (W3T6M)

Dude’s got a job at Texas State in its Polk-sci department (that is, if he still “teaches” there) and an inflation adjusted pension for his time in the HR, repping El Paso. He’ll do just fine.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (Pce4l)

348 Deshowitz is using the TODDI defense. That other dude did it!!!

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)
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We can play the same game with Trump, ya know.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (4tvN6)

349 No way jose

Now covenant that just toads the wet sprocket

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3Btk8)

350 Wheels within Wheels. So you get Schrodinger's assassin paradox: conspiracy or nutjob. Seems like that happens with every assassination or attempted one.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)

Yes, it is very odd. And it's frustrating that no one pushes these questions.

Well, other than w/ Lee Harvey Oswald. Those questions were pushed. The answers werent forthcoming, but at least the right questions have been asked, publicly, many times.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 01:17 PM (uCjyK)

351
btw, why isn't Trump furious about this? It's his life on the line. Does he have a private detail that he trusts more than the SS?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (UmB+t)

352 343 Charlie Kirk starts his radio show today plinking that one-strung Epstein banjo… sheesh I get the interest but move on please
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Better to ignore the 'influencers' as they are bad for the digestion. They rely on outrage to drive clicks plus money.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (ctrM5)

353 343 Charlie Kirk starts his radio show today plinking that one-strung Epstein banjo… sheesh I get the interest but move on please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (5MZNC)

The swamp won. Move on.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (j/vBG)

354 345 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I can see you flaunting your cob status by not using tiny url etc.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (ctrM5)

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Eh. Splitting x links at the final backslash keeps the link short enough to not blow the margins, tells people where you're sending them, and is faster than a link shortener.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

355 but move on please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (5MZNC)
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How long is the list you're willing to move on from?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (4tvN6)

356 345 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM flounces. He never flaunts.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 01:19 PM (W3T6M)

357 I dont know how his rich developer father didnt cut him off the first time.

Of course money spent in texas didnt go to more critical races

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:20 PM (3Btk8)

358
Yes, it is very odd. And it's frustrating that no one pushes these questions.

Well, other than w/ Lee Harvey Oswald. Those questions were pushed. The answers werent forthcoming, but at least the right questions have been asked, publicly, many times.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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There are questions about Lincoln's assassination and the curious failures that allowed Booth to get access to him and escape. Supposedly Robert Lincoln believed that Edwin Stanton was behind it all. MLK, similar situation.

Heck, there are still questions even about the hit on Prince Ferdinand as to whether Serbia's top leaders knew about it or just the Black Hand terrorist organization or the hit on President McKinley.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (ctrM5)

359 TJM flounces. He never flaunts.
Posted by: pudinhead
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How bout a compromise. TJM fleeces.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:21 PM (ctrM5)

360 but move on please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:16 PM (5MZNC)
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How long is the list you're willing to move on from?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:18 PM (4tvN6)

I guess I feel like it’s futile at this point so why bang your head against the wall. Kirk or anyone else perseverating on the Epstein files at this point is wasted breath for better or worse. I get it, very little makes sense on the topic but I’m tired of the outrage machine.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (5MZNC)

361
Maybe Trump should just get rid of the secret service altogether and hire more competent people. Who does Taylor Swift use for her security?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:20 PM (uCjyK)



About 2 months ago, there was a rumor going around that Trump had hired Christian Craighead, "Obi Wan Nairobi", the SAS guy who saved hundreds and smoked the Somali terrorist cocksuckers who attacked the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi a few years ago. All without orders or permission from the Limey government, which pissed them off enough that they threatened to court martial him, and wouldn't sign off on the book he wrote about the incident.

Personally, I doubt that it's true, but I can see Trump going that route.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

362 So how much like or unlike "OZ" was it? Daily shanking and buttrape?
Posted by: I would imagine a bit more mundane


A lot depended on when it was. When I started on October of 82, it wasn't that bad. The line went out to work the fields and came back in in the afternoon tired. By summer of 83, it was fights daily. They were hot, tired and poor impulse control. By '85, they had pretty much done away with the inmates working the fields growing crops and weeding. Fights went down to a couple a week. Stabbings were usually over a big rift between gangs and were rare. Rapes were few. Most was consensual. I caught more consensual than ever a rape.

Biggest reason why prisons ran smooth? The powers that be could really fuck them up.
FAFO.

24/7 lockdown in your cells & sack lunches & dinners. Same as after riots. My first day on a new unit, they'd had a gang fight/stabbing the night before. Unit stayed locked down for 45 days until they figured the bad blood between the two Mexican gangs burned out.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (e2MJJ)

363 What's in a name?!

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I came across Page Turner who, disappointingly, is not an author but an HGTV home improvement host.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (L/fGl)

364 Eh. Splitting x links at the final backslash keeps the link short enough to not blow the margins, tells people where you're sending them, and is faster than a link shortener.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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CBD frowns on that for us commoners.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (ctrM5)

365 What career?

Same as any Democrat: grifting and imitating a Wind Dancer at a used car lot.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (Da7Vv)

366 The names have been released.

Detailed here:

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/
1943349185279070574
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
______________________________________

Not the one making the calls that day.

https://tinyurl.com/mw5shaap

((The Secret Service agent in charge of former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pa., “was known to be incompetent” and “failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training,” according to new whistleblower allegations released by a Republican lawmaker.

The unidentified agent was one of several Secret Service officials sidelined after catastrophic security failures led to would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20,...))

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 01:23 PM (dIske)

367 and imitating a Wind Dancer at a used car lot.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM


Is that what those floppy things are called? I never knew that.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (jc0TO)

368 White boy fake hispanic former congress critter Beto is not longer a shiny object.


Pancho Vanilla.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (e2MJJ)

369 Nood spike strips

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (5MZNC)

370 >Eh. Splitting x links at the final backslash keeps the link short enough to not blow the margins, tells people where you're sending them, and is faster than a link shortener.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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This guy gets it!

just highlight the text
right click
open in new tab

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (AOsQT)

371 252 Trump down to his lowest favorability rating, - 2, since April...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Oh, no! He'll never get reelected now!

Posted by: Chicken Little at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (G5+As)

372 I came across Page Turner who, disappointingly, is not an author but an HGTV home improvement host.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Parental hatred for a spawn by misnaming them is a terrible thing.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)

373 The six years of this administration has been... wait, * checks notes...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (mlg/3)

374 Is Crockett trying to get her picture on the cover of The Rolling Stone?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 10, 2025 01:25 PM (kTd/k)

375 370
This guy gets it!

just highlight the text
right click
open in new tab
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 01:24 PM (AOsQT)

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Browsers correct for the carriage return, so it's easy for everyone.

I've never seen CBD chide anyone for this particular delivery of unshortened links, only those that blow the margins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

376 I dubbed him skippy o rourke

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (3Btk8)

377 This guy gets it!

just highlight the text
right click
open in new tab
Posted by: Don Black
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Kinda missing the point here. Not functionality but blog policy is to use tiny url, or some other link shortener to avoid problems like blowing out the margins. Easy enough to do with links.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (ctrM5)

378 Is that what those floppy things are called? I never knew that.

Neither did I till I tried to find a video of one in action.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 01:26 PM (Da7Vv)

379 I've never seen CBD chide anyone for this particular delivery of unshortened links, only those that blow the margins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I don't get it.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 01:27 PM (ctrM5)

380 24/7 lockdown in your cells & sack lunches & dinners. Same as after riots. My first day on a new unit, they'd had a gang fight/stabbing the night before. Unit stayed locked down for 45 days until they figured the bad blood between the two Mexican gangs burned out.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 01:22 PM (e2MJJ)

Wild stuff. Not someplace I would ever want to be, on either side of the bars.

Posted by: No thanks at July 10, 2025 01:28 PM (TbWk/)

381 I'm less sympathetic to Agent FUPA. While I can sympathize with, perhaps, being a junior agent or a primarily administrative employee suddenly shuffled into a critical position because of someone else moving pawns on a chessboard, the appropriate reaction to that is to protest to management that you're being put in an impossible position. My job is nowhere near that critical and more than once I've avoided being fired because there's a paper trail that says "I told you in advance I wasn't qualified for this, and that it was well outside my job description".

That's the incompetence she should be fired for.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (xBngO)

382 I've never seen CBD chide anyone for this particular delivery of unshortened links, only those that blow the margins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)
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In general, CBD is anti-blow.

See: (1) Hunter Biden; (2) Kamala Harris

Posted by: Another Anon at July 10, 2025 01:34 PM (4h45B)

383 My job is nowhere near that critical and more than once I've avoided being fired because there's a paper trail that says "I told you in advance I wasn't qualified for this, and that it was well outside my job description".

That's the incompetence she should be fired for.
Posted by: Daniel Ream

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Alternate - I am peon not manager with superior knowledge. Management put me in a position beyond known capabilites... fire them.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 10, 2025 01:52 PM (4EBQC)

384 Afternoon Ace.
I wonder if they'll suspend the head supervisor in the area who assigned more and more experienced agents to Dr Jill.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 12:19 PM (JtH6i)

I suspect that was the director of the SS who did that, and she resigned soon after it happened.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 01:54 PM (8avO+)

385 How did he lose his shoes?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (zhBpy)

386 It should never have been possible for some guy in Pittsburgh to fuck up that badly, if that's truly what happened.

If the SS is truly as incompetent as they were that day in PA, and the only reason all of our presidential candidates haven't been assassinated is due to blind luck and the fact that there aren't that many potential assassins living amongst us, then the entire organization needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
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Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 12:54 PM (uCjyK)

Its even worse that that. Lets just grant that the SS at the time was a clusterfuck. This should still have been fully unknown to a potential assassin, especially the noob with no contacts Crooks. But he came the same day that the A team was pulled off the case? The chances of a shooter at a rally is low, since in all his other rallies they haven't seen or caught one.

So we have to buy that the shooter managed to noodle about with a scope and weapons on the site for hours without anyone seeing him and acting on it. The crowd noticed him, many times over. But the SS and LEO did not?

The other half of this equation is that some person neutered the SS AND another person vectored in Crooks.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 02:09 PM (8avO+)

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

punk-monkey.jpg

The headline says it all!

What this demonstrates is that the enforcement of our laws protecting American workers from predation by illegals is woefully inadequate. A nice fine levied against every employer who employs illegals would be a fine start. How about 100 times the hourly wage employers pay the illegals....each day they work? That ought to focus their minds on the basic documentation necessary to prove legal employment status. And the whining protestations from these employers are insulting. How hard is it to prove that a prospective employee is legal? It's called an "I-9," and it is administered by the federal government. Those meatpacking plants in Iowa and the strawberry farms in California and landscaping services all over the country can go pound sand if it is too difficult. It's the law, and by breaking it they subvert the economic and cultural recovery of America. I have zero sympathy, and in fact would love to see criminal charges brought against a few dozen CEOs, to encourage the others!

And if they make the specious argument that the I-9 system is insufficient, then the Trump Administration is capable of bolstering that process. But it is the employers' responsibility to ensure that their employees are legal, and if it takes more time and costs a bit more to be certain, well, that is the price I am willing for them to pay!

LA needs construction, landscape workers as illegal immigrants stop showing up for work amid ICE enforcement

In Los Angeles, landscapers as well as framers are not showing up to job sites as President Donald Trump is carrying out his agenda and crack down on illegal immigration in cities around the nation.

According to Bloomberg, LA, which erupted in riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier last month after ICE was conducting operations in the city, has been seeing low staffing in some industries that have relied on immigrant labor such as construction and landscaping.

“We don’t have enough people to staff the work and we’re scrambling to figure it out,” said Arturo Sneider, the CEO at Primestor, a real major estate management company in California and two other states. “It’s triggering delays."


Well Arturo...tough shit. Pay a decent wage to legal workers and you will have your pick of legal employees. In fact, why don't you sponsor a job fair and some training programs for high school students who need jobs.

Hell, expand that to every high school in the country. So we need framers? Great! I've done it, and it isn't that hard to learn. And a few weeks of instruction on how to run a leaf blower may even be within the skillset of some of our public school teachers! These are entry-level jobs and are just perfect for people just starting in the job market.

America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer. Labor is governed by basic economic laws, just like everything else. But if the legal wage is higher than the illegal wage, the labor market is distorted, and does not function normally.

As for relief for certain industries? No. America has seen too much variability in the application of the law, and a generation or two of rigid and vigorous application of labor and immigration law will do wonders for our respect for our institutions, and begin to repair the horrid damage that illegal immigration has done to our country.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:00 AM (N1DT3)

2 Ummm... which headline says it alll?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

3 2 Ummm... which headline says it alll?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

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It's a bit further down:

"LA needs construction, landscape workers as illegal immigrants stop showing up for work amid ICE enforcement"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

4 nood fagz
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (fV+MH)

Gross!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 11:02 AM (MGB5H)

5 Pay a decent wage to legal workers and you will have your pick of legal employees.

Working in meatpacking plants was a good union job until the 1990's.

Then the meatpacking companies figured out that illegals were a lot cheaper.

Now, ICE is denounced for deporting the hard-working employees at meatpacking plants.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (xTIDn)

6 If it's to be believed by some of the videos and pictures posted of traffic in and around L.A., it's dead. As in hardly any traffic. The cause? Purported to be a lack of illegals on the roads.

Someone estimated there were between 15 and 20 million of them.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

7 I saw an article about LA dwellers being shocked that their roads were no longer congested amidst all the ICE crackdowns.

Maybe you could even end the "housing crisis" in California by getting rid of all the illegals overwhelming it?

Watch housing prices come down and wages go up, and you might even have a viable middle class in California!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (N1DT3)

8 When we first moved to OK they passed a law that the first time your business was caught with an illegal you lost your business license for 6mo (in addition to hefty fines). Second time forever.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (MGB5H)

9 WHO WILL CUT MY GRASS, CLEAN MY HOUSE, AND TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN?

Posted by: Typical Rich LA Resident! at July 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xTIDn)

10 7 I saw an article about LA dwellers being shocked that their roads were no longer congested amidst all the ICE crackdowns.

Maybe you could even end the "housing crisis" in California by getting rid of all the illegals overwhelming it?

Watch housing prices come down and wages go up, and you might even have a viable middle class in California!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (N1DT3)

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Someone's been saying that rent prices are going to see an effect by mass deportations.

Also grocery prices.

And insurance rates.

Deporting a shit ton of illegals is going to have a lot of positive effects for people legally allowed to be in the United States.

And, besides, all those illegal astronomical engineers will build up the space programs of Guatemala and Honduras, helping their GDP!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

11 So we need framers? Great! I've done it, and it isn't that hard to learn.

This guy gets it. I mean, you just stick the seed in the ground.



Oh ... framers


Never mind

Never mind.

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at July 10, 2025 11:05 AM (jc0TO)

12 According to Bloomberg, LA, which erupted in riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier last month after ICE was conducting operations in the city

The stupid, she is real...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:05 AM (mlg/3)

13 Illegals don't generally buy car insurance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:06 AM (zhBpy)

14 Illegals don't generally buy car insurance.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:06 AM (zhBpy)

Which drives up rates for those who do when they cause a huge number of accidents.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (MGB5H)

15 The majority of those illegal alien landscapers and construction workers came here with zero marketable skills. Just goes to show any warm body can be taught to do the same work, it's just that the employers don't want to pay people a living wage after taxes. Much easier to avoid all that legalese.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (36PRH)

16 13 Illegals don't generally buy car insurance.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:06 AM (zhBpy)

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Their crashes affect insurance rates of those that do, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

17 2 Ummm... which headline says it alll?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

Exactly what I said. I think CBD means the headline of the story he links. Which he knew... as he was writing the story. But we are merely 'rons. Non mind reading 'rons at that.

I am trying to think of some way to blame this on the french... cultural arrogance?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (bss/y)

18 13 Illegals don't generally buy car insurance.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Or health insurance...

Posted by: ERs across the nation at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (JCZqz)

19 Much easier to avoid all that legalese.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (36PRH)

*fist bump*
-Jumanji Action Jackson

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (MGB5H)

20 Their crashes affect insurance rates of those that do, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

See. It all works out!
-Insurance companies

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (bss/y)

21 Illegals don't generally buy car insurance.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Fun fact: illegals can purchase cut rate state insurance at the expense of CA taxpayers.

~*~*~* The More You Know ~*~*~*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (mlg/3)

22 This is America, damn it, and we speak American!

North Carolina denies mom's homeschooling application because her college diploma was written in Latin

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

23 If it's to be believed by some of the videos and pictures posted of traffic in and around L.A., it's dead. As in hardly any traffic. The cause? Purported to be a lack of illegals on the roads.

Somewhat overblown - there is certainly a lot of congestion on LA freeways at the moment. (But I don't have a good sense of what the baseline is.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (xTIDn)

24 7 I saw an article about LA dwellers being shocked that their roads were no longer congested amidst all the ICE crackdowns.
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Just checked traffic on google maps. A surprising amount of green in LA at 8:07 AM on a weekday.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (eb5mD)

25 Now, ICE is denounced for deporting the hard-working employees at meatpacking plants.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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History has been missing its ARC lately here. Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (ctrM5)

26 "America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs"

Preach it! That argument about no one to work the jobs grinds my gears.

Link goes to bls.gov labor participation chart. There's a massive amount of people who have left the work force. Simply replacing them is far different than bringing them back into the labor force.

https://tinyurl.com/32dzznvv

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (pIfcn)

27 Well Arturo...tough shit. Pay a decent wage to legal workers and you will have your pick of legal employees. In fact, why don't you sponsor a job fair and some training programs for high school students who need jobs.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there really aren't enough citizens in the LA area to do the work. And the pay would have to be huge to get them to come to a place as expensive to live as LA. But maybe they can get temp workers from all over the less expensive areas of the country to work for a few years to cash in when they move back to Nebraska or wherever.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Dv3i1)

28 I may be only 29, but I know a lot of folks who remember when ICE was called the INS.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (36PRH)

29 I think the real reason behind the angst over deportations is the probable shift in representation in Congress. Maybe not blue to red, but an overall reduction in Congressional seats due to a decrease in population. IMO the illegals should have never been counted, locally or nationally for any other reason than how many deportations were needed.

The violence is purely politically driven by the Democrats and their sponsors who see their power being diluted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)

30 My son, the Rock Star, is doing construction and loves it. I told him he comes from a long line of carpenters and woodworkers. Working with your hands is fun. You create or restore shit. Working outdoors is fun. Sitting in front of a screen sucks donkey dicks.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (W3T6M)

31 This is America, damn it, and we speak American!

North Carolina denies mom's homeschooling application because her college diploma was written in Latin
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM


She should go back to Latin America.

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (jc0TO)

32 27 It wouldn't surprise me if there really aren't enough citizens in the LA area to do the work. And the pay would have to be huge to get them to come to a place as expensive to live as LA. But maybe they can get temp workers from all over the less expensive areas of the country to work for a few years to cash in when they move back to Nebraska or wherever.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Dv3i1)

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If there aren't enough people to do the work, does that affect how much work needs to be done?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

33 may be only 29, but I know a lot of folks who remember when ICE was called the INS.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (36PR

Won bar trivia a number of years ago for knowing that and what it stood for. Think I was the only one there that did.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 11:10 AM (MGB5H)

34 22 This is America, damn it, and we speak American!

North Carolina denies mom's homeschooling application because her college diploma was written in Latin
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World

When did diplomas start being written in English? I must be old.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)

35 29 I think the real reason behind the angst over deportations is the probable shift in representation in Congress. Maybe not blue to red, but an overall reduction in Congressional seats due to a decrease in population. IMO the illegals should have never been counted, locally or nationally for any other reason than how many deportations were needed.

The violence is purely politically driven by the Democrats and their sponsors who see their power being diluted.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)

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Probably a host of interconnected motives. Representation is one. Cloward-Piven is another. Corruption through government grants is another. True believers is a fourth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

36 Or health insurance...

Remember when it was a filthy lie that Obamacare would provide free health insurance to illegals?

Mayor Karen Bass:

Patients are skipping life-saving care out of fear of ICE, with no-shows doubling in some L.A. hospitals.

I worked in the Emergency Room — I know firsthand how dangerous this is.

This assault on our city must end.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (xTIDn)

37 If there aren't enough people to do the work, does that affect how much work needs to be done?
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There's an equilibrium somewhere, no idea how it will get there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)

38 How did they know it was Latin? Grok?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (zhBpy)

39 15 The majority of those illegal alien landscapers and construction workers came here with zero marketable skills. Just goes to show any warm body can be taught to do the same work, it's just that the employers don't want to pay people a living wage after taxes. Much easier to avoid all that legalese.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Bingo. It also produces more profit for the business owners as typically labor costs are about 80 percent or more. So what if their employees off duty murder, rape, pillage, and drive drunk and gobble up free welfare bennies. The owner got his stack, jack.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (ctrM5)

40 That a CEO was completely comfortable offering a public comment about hiring illegals speaks to the heart of the problem.

One that will likely resurface once Trump is gone.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (j/vBG)

41 Pull my finger.

Posted by: The Invisible Hand at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

42 Angela McArdle
@RealAngelaMc
4m
So far, I have not seen any photos or first hand accounts of anyone eaten by an alligator but I remain both optimistic that my friends are telling the truth and horrified at the situation

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (D7oie)

43 I seem to recall that one of the recent ICE busts at a packing plant (chicken?) nabbed many illegal aliens. And was used as an example of how Americans DO want to do the work - they needed new workers, they did job fairs or similar, and there were a bunch of Americans at the door trying to get employed.

But another aspect was the Social Security fraud - the illegal aliens apparently "passed" the system because their SSN info appeared legit. Mostly because they were using stolen numbers and info. So the I-9 or whatever came back as "Legit!" despite being far from it.

How many victims had their lives ruined because the IRS went after them? Wages garnished, refunds unfunded, even having to deal with courts when they didn't do a single thing wrong - someone else, who didn't even follow the law to get into the country, screwed them over.

Hopefully that's something the DOGE team has been working on, even without Elon Musk at the helm.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (eHGF2)

44 I can't wait for all these employers to start complaining about the artificially high minimum wage, now that they have to actually pay it!

Posted by: drocity at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (SWJcb)

45 Thx CBD. I'm sure the RINOs are try to get Trump's ear about losing cheap labor. Americans will do the jobs to cronies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 11:13 AM (JtH6i)

46 37 If there aren't enough people to do the work, does that affect how much work needs to be done?
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There's an equilibrium somewhere, no idea how it will get there.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)

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Well, just imagine road work.

If suddenly the population of LA drops, is all the road work to expand lanes and such required? If not, then the need for labor then decreases as well.

Or commercial construction. If the economy of LA suddenly contracts because a tenth of the populations tops participating, or whatever, how many new commercial buildings need to be built? Or residential construction?

Or clerks in shops?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

47 >>If there aren't enough people to do the work, does that affect how much work needs to be done?

There's an equilibrium somewhere, no idea how it will get there.
Posted by: Chuck Martel


You guys are sounding parabolic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:13 AM (mlg/3)

48 Just quickly looking at the primestor website, they seem to present a woke face to the world. Maybe that's good business for them for some reason but it sets off my Soros detector.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 10, 2025 11:13 AM (MMp6W)

49 Maybe Arturo should cut his own salary to pay for American workers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 11:14 AM (hY4dx)

50
"LA needs construction, landscape workers as illegal immigrants stop showing up for work amid ICE enforcement"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Not showing up for work? Are they staying at home? Are they still in the country? Where's the rest of the facts, journalist?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:14 AM (UmB+t)

51 History has been missing its ARC lately here. Hope you are doing well.

Thanks.

Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)

52 Ummm... which headline says it alll?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

This one speaks volumes:
California bishop lifts Sunday Mass obligation for churchgoers fearful of ICE raids. Link goes to pmsnbc

https://tinyurl.com/2saktycv+

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (N39Ws)

53 51Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)

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Dude.

Hard core.

Glad you're feeling better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

54 Speaking of alligators...

The latest hate crime? Taking selfies with the "Alligator Alcatraz" sign and posting them on your socials.

the sadz... the left has 'em.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (Q4IgG)

55 Mexico must need roofers by now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (zhBpy)

56 54 Speaking of alligators...

The latest hate crime? Taking selfies with the "Alligator Alcatraz" sign and posting them on your socials.

the sadz... the left has 'em.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (Q4IgG)

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Remember. It's cool to follow the rules of humorless scolds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

57 Good luck with the I-9 when these illegals have social security numbers/cards. The problem is the identity/number theft. My mother went through this working HR. Was sent to classes by the company. The cards were issued by the government. The only way she was able to catch people was to call them by the name on the card to the office………they’d forget their name.
Sure, employers need to not hire illegals, no argument. Problem is government not doing their job in the first place solving this problem. When illegals have all the proper documentation that is gov issued and not counterfeit, what is the employer supposed to do?

Posted by: JROD at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (IlL6s)

58 Costs will rise as employers have to pay a fair wage or more to get Americans to do the work that illegals used to do. But people will be making more so it will cancel out.

We are on the cusp of an American renaissance. No illegals from third world countries are invited.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 11:16 AM (S+el1)

59 I was the Latin from Manhattan!

Posted by: Cesar Romero at July 10, 2025 11:16 AM (G5+As)

60 “We don’t have enough people to staff the work and we’re scrambling to figure it out,” said Arturo Sneider, the CEO at Primestor, a real major estate management company in California and two other states. “It’s triggering delays."

There are 350M people in the US, and many of the news items I see are "massive job losses coming because of AI"

So...I don't buy this.

Now, he might have to raise salaries and therefore the prices he charges, but if everyone is forced to stop hiring illegals this will leave them all in an equal position.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:16 AM (t0Rmr)

61
How many victims had their lives ruined because the IRS went after them? Wages garnished, refunds unfunded, even having to deal with courts when they didn't do a single thing wrong - someone else, who didn't even follow the law to get into the country, screwed them over.

Posted by: Another Anon

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A number of them did, and their stories are awful. People denied needed benefits for YEARS. I don't know why it takes so long to get that straightened out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:17 AM (UmB+t)

62 CBD,
Amen

Posted by: Useless Eater at July 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Aegdl)

63 52 Ummm... which headline says it alll?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

This one speaks volumes:
California bishop lifts Sunday Mass obligation for churchgoers fearful of ICE raids. Link goes to pmsnbc

https://tinyurl.com/2saktycv+
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (N39Ws)

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I guess the optics of asking for an indulgence, I mean donation, in lieu of attending mass didn't occur yo him.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:17 AM (36PRH)

64 If suddenly the population of LA drops, is all the road work to expand lanes and such required? If not, then the need for labor then decreases as well.

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Whether they expand them or not, the freeways and major streets here are crumbling into rubble. They used to be among the best in the nation.

For all that I pay in taxes, is it too much to ask that some of it gets spent on something as basic as maintaining the damn roads?

No. We're getting High Speed Rail and Low Income Housing instead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 11:17 AM (hY4dx)

65 Costs will rise as employers have to pay a fair wage or more to get Americans to do the work that illegals used to do. But people will be making more so it will cancel out.


And remember as well 90% of the illegals are on welfare. Not only are they taking low skill jobs, but they are costing us $$$ in taxes.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)

66 37 If there aren't enough people to do the work, does that affect how much work needs to be done?
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There's an equilibrium somewhere, no idea how it will get there.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Markets work wonders--e.g. if the task is too labor intensive at wage rates, either prices for that task go up causing buyers to question whether it is needed or in the long run--high labor costs often lead to mechanization and changes in cultivation patterns.

Extensive gardening in HOAs, business parks, and all sorts of real estate land grooming requirements require a cheap ass level of labor that is only sustainable with cheap labor pricing.

Move to zero scaping, etc. reduced plantings of screens so mowing is easier, and so on is one example of that.

Agriculture needs chemicals, etc. and labor, grooming people's home lawns much less so and excessive yard wastes from fertilizers, lawn chemicals, etc. run off into the various ditches, creeks, etc. into a lot of drinking water for suburbs and cities.

Farmers are more careful about using those chemicals, in part due to price+application, and second, because they can negatively affect soils.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:18 AM (ctrM5)

67 Who will replace the illegals on the welfare rolls?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:19 AM (zhBpy)

68 65

And remember as well 90% of the illegals are on welfare. Not only are they taking low skill jobs, but they are costing us $$$ in taxes.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)

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AND not paying for healthcare insurance.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:19 AM (36PRH)

69 1+ million already self-deported.

This is before doing any of these, which Trump can do:

1) Requiring all Section 8 landlords to certify under penalty of perjury that their tenants are citizens/Lawful Permanent Residents
2) Requiring all gov. contractors to certify under penalty of perjury that all their employees are citizens/LPR
3) Requiring all Medicare/Medicaid providers to certify all recipients are citizens/LPR

And that's before announcing that every business has 6 months to confirm all employees are citizens/LPR, after which the owners and executives will be arrested if not in compliance.

None of these require a single ICE arrest.
But, it'll lead to at least 10 million self-deporting.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 11:19 AM (VlU/R)

70 If suddenly the population of LA drops, is all the road work to expand lanes and such required? If not, then the need for labor then decreases as well.

I suspect most of the 10% or so of illegals that work have longish commutes. They certainly can't afford to live in the blue enclaves they work in.

So this should also significantly reduce traffic

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (t0Rmr)

71 Second look at the Russian government?

Authorities in Moscow on Tuesday designated Yale University as an “undesirable” organization, accusing the U.S. institution of trying to destabilize the country and training Russian activists to oppose the Kremlin.

Just wait until they find out what Yale is doing in the United States...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (xTIDn)

72 Whether they expand them or not, the freeways and major streets here are crumbling into rubble. They used to be among the best in the nation.

For all that I pay in taxes, is it too much to ask that some of it gets spent on something as basic as maintaining the damn roads?

No. We're getting High Speed Rail and Low Income Housing instead.
Posted by: Cicero
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Work on a popular initiative to kill blanket primaries, kill cheat by mail, etc. You have to kill teh rigging and cheating in your elections before you can start to fix what is a problem.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (ctrM5)

73 6
‘ Someone estimated there were between 15 and 20 million of them.’

No doubt someone can make an argument where illegals are needed for this job or that and I would agree with them.

But all of those arguments fell away for me when I compare it to the numbers above. There’s no problem in this country where the right answer is to import an entire country of people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (jbnUc)

74 Beautifully said and accurate! Basic economics.

Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (2gjbv)

75 I also enjoy the same people insisting that we must let in unlimited unskilled workers complaining that the minimum wage is too low.

supply and demand is racist, yo!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2025 11:21 AM (pIfcn)

76 They certainly can't afford to live in the blue enclaves they work in.

When you live five to a room, it gets easier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:21 AM (xTIDn)

77 No. We're getting High Speed Rail and Low Income Housing instead.
Posted by: Cicero


The plot of True Detective Season 2 centers on the CA elites stealing the High Speed Rail money.

As we are 10 years in and there is no high speed rail I suspect the real world miscreants did an even better job stealing it then their fictional counterparts

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:22 AM (t0Rmr)

78 For all that I pay in taxes, is it too much to ask that some of it gets spent on something as basic as maintaining the damn roads?

No. We're getting High Speed Rail and Low Income Housing instead.
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Sorry, but I'm more convinced that the bulk of what we're all getting from our taxes is *grift* followed by a smattering of programs designed to spend money on behalf of illegals. The powers that be literally don't care about the citizens or the streets or the roads or crime.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (TN0g+)

79 1) Requiring all Section 8 landlords to certify under penalty of perjury that their tenants are citizens/Lawful Permanent Residents
2) Requiring all gov. contractors to certify under penalty of perjury that all their employees are citizens/LPR
3) Requiring all Medicare/Medicaid providers to certify all recipients are citizens/LPR


I'd add a fourth one here - arrest government employees that provide aid of any sort to illegals. Then follow up with the NGOs through which the money is usually laundered

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (t0Rmr)

80 There is also the fact that employers are competing against the welfare system and in the case of teenagers competing against the allowance from mom and dad, free rent with good wifi etc etc. It is not just "pay a decent wage and workers will show up",

People who choose not to work may not know what calculus is, but they are performing a calculus of sorts to determine if the meager bump in income they can get by taking an entry level job is worth losing that many hours of free time. Welfare reform would help. Capping how many years you can draw welfare; if you can never hold a job, that is a disability situation, jump through those hoops. Also they should not take away a dollar in benefits per dollar earned. Change the rules so you can keep your bennies and work say 10 hours a week at a very starter job to prove to employers you know how to show up; then do a sliding percent reduction, and have the social workers explaining that "with the earned income tax credit you will get that money when you file your taxes.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (bP/i4)

81 F5 seems to be broken.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (zhBpy)

82 This isn't going to go well, is it?

@Reuters 43m
Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (mlg/3)

83
@Reuters 43m
Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:23 AM (mlg/3)


F' Elon and the Tesla he rode in on...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)

84 Sorry, but I'm more convinced that the bulk of what we're all getting from our taxes is *grift* followed by a smattering of programs designed to spend money on behalf of illegals. The powers that be literally don't care about the citizens or the streets or the roads or crime.

The federal government is spending 4X of what it did when Shrub came into office. And in that time there have been several significant improvements in the ability to render services using the internet.

Yet services provided to citizens are generally slower, more error prone, and require more paperwork.

So where is that $6T/year going? And the answer is the pockets of the uniparty and their clients.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:25 AM (t0Rmr)

85 A nice fine levied against every employer who employs illegals would be a fine start.

***********

Tangentially related to this concept I was pleased to note in the Morning Report that the FTC head Andrew Ferguson is looking into pursuing a course of action against Gender Transition hospitals, clinics, and individuals on the basis of consumer fraud, as opposed to treating it as a medical issue. Strip that fig leaf of "For The Chirrens" away.

This is the sort of outside-the-box thinking that I like from this administration. I hope it gains traction

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 11:25 AM (poXs5)

86 Watch “The View” Relentlessly Batter President Trump – “He Doesn’t Believe In the Constitution”

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Well, he may not be the constitutional scholar that Justice Jumangi is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

87 67 Who will replace the illegals on the welfare rolls?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Reduce the pressure on welfare rolls by having a job market for the former layabouts. Late Clinton years had low inflation, high labor participation rates, and mostly native employment due to Gingrich TANF rules, etc.

Don't like Clinton much but it is true what they said, a job earning cash is the best social welfare program out there. Strong job markets reduce crime, reduce drug use, and reduce other bad habits like generational welfare families.

That means, however, you keep out foreign labor to compete.

Every nation that lets in cheap labor from abroad is guaranteed higher crime, more internal disorder, and shittier living conditions for the natives. Those that keep immigration barriers high, even if the society is relatively poor, the civil society can compensate sustaining low crime, and decent living conditions--Japan is an example.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)

88 Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says
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Drive you to the donut shop? I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Posted by: Grok 9000 at July 10, 2025 11:26 AM (Dv3i1)

89 People who choose not to work may not know what calculus is, but they are performing a calculus of sorts to determine if the meager bump in income they can get by taking an entry level job is worth losing that many hours of free time.

In most of the big blue shitties getting an entry level job means a reduction in your income (from welfare). So why the hell would ANYONE there work not under the table?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:26 AM (t0Rmr)

90 Ummm... which headline says it alll?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

It makes you read the content.

[Content? What content?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:26 AM (Gj5e6)

91 So where is that $6T/year going? And the answer is the pockets of the uniparty and their clients.

USAID was a classic example. Most of the money spent on "foreign aid" never got outside the Beltway.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:27 AM (xTIDn)

92 Ummm... which headline says it alll?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)


If you skip all the boilerplate above the comments you can avoid these confusions.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:27 AM (ExV1e)

93 86 Watch “The View” Relentlessly Batter President Trump – “He Doesn’t Believe In the Constitution”

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Well, he may not be the constitutional scholar that Justice Jumangi is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Yes, all I learned about constitutional law came from The View. They have fine constitutional scholars on that panel that serve as a valuable educational resource in how our Constitution was written, should be applied, and the historical understanding of its terms.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:27 AM (ctrM5)

94 Everything in CBD's post also applies to engineering/tech jobs.

US companies have been able to use the government to provide an 'easy button' to get their hands on highly educated, skilled, cheap labor.

Which, of course, if very detrimental to our home grown skilled labor pool

Elon Musk et al, whining that they can't fill their engineering positions without H1B visas also should be responded to with: tough shit.

If you need them, then engage with schools to educate people on the skills you need. Or apprenticeships. Or, find another way.

It is not the government's job to solve industrys' labor problems.

Posted by: ghbucky at July 10, 2025 11:27 AM (/xDbx)

95 USAID was a classic example. Most of the money spent on "foreign aid" never got outside the Beltway.

Lil Z in an unscripted moment claimed that he only got 50% of the aid allocated to Ukraine.

While he's not exactly trustworthy I don't doubt he's right about this one

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

96
🎵
Move 'em out, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em out, head 'em up:
Rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:
Rawhide!
🎶

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 11:28 AM (AOsQT)

97 Has the Democrat-Media Complex begun screaming they we'll soon pay $10 for a head of lettuce, if you can find one, prices of new homes will increase by 25%, and babies will die by the thousands because every other nanny is hiding-out, afraid to travel the streets? If not, I am disappointed in them! Especially the Media. They have one job. Spread panic, accusations of raycissm, uncertainty and doubt!

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 11:29 AM (aBgBM)

98 "LA needs construction, landscape workers as illegal immigrants stop showing up for work amid ICE enforcement"


That's what teenagers are for. All teenagers, especially males, ought to have a least one job in which they bust their ass all day long and come home dead tired. Even more so for the high school drop out types.

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 11:29 AM (GUOwU)

99 "Open the trunk, HAL."

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 11:30 AM (AOsQT)

100 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

France wouldn't give my wife a visa until she had her college degree translated from Latin to French.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:30 AM (2yqAv)

101
To the Ruling Class, government means extracting a dollar from you, spending a dime on a program and keeping the other 90 cents for themselves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 11:30 AM (HZi96)

102 At some point you have enough letteuce.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:30 AM (zhBpy)

103 That's what teenagers are for. All teenagers, especially males, ought to have a least one job in which they bust their ass all day long and come home dead tired. Even more so for the high school drop out types.
Posted by: Ripley


High school should be eliminated.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:30 AM (mlg/3)

104 Of course if the government chooses to make it hard or risky to hire illegals, that will incentive the business world to start lobbying government to fix the welfare system that is sucking up too many of their potential employees.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 10, 2025 11:31 AM (bP/i4)

105 and babies will die by the thousands because every other nanny is hiding-out, afraid to travel the streets?

There was an article in The Atlantic a number of years ago arguing modern feminism had failed because all that had happened with the move to corporate work by women is that white upper/middle class corporate feminists had hired minority women to take care of their kids instead of doing so themselves as the generations before had.

They aren't completely wrong in this.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:31 AM (t0Rmr)

106
F5 seems to be broken.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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You are down to your left mouse button. Is your lifeboat accessible and stocked?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (UmB+t)

107 60 “We don’t have enough people to staff the work and we’re scrambling to figure it out,” said Arturo Sneider, the CEO at Primestor, a real major estate management company in California and two other states. “It’s triggering delays."

There are 350M people in the US, and many of the news items I see are "massive job losses coming because of AI"

So...I don't buy this.

Now, he might have to raise salaries and therefore the prices he charges, but if everyone is forced to stop hiring illegals this will leave them all in an equal position.
Posted by: 18-1
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He is crying in his champagne because elimination of cheap labor eventually means less in his pay packet. I despise people like that.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (ctrM5)

108 That's what teenagers are for. All teenagers, especially males, ought to have a least one job in which they bust their ass all day long and come home dead tired. Even more so for the high school drop out types.

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 11:29 AM (GUOwU)

Exactly.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (tOcjL)

109 So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

110 So where is that $6T/year going? And the answer is the pockets of the uniparty and their clients.

Microsoft is currently laying off thousands of Americans, while applying for thousands of new H-1B visas.

The CEO of Microsoft is named Satya Narayana Nadella.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (xTIDn)

111 I seem to recall that one of the recent ICE busts at a packing plant (chicken?) nabbed many illegal aliens. And was used as an example of how Americans DO want to do the work - they needed new workers, they did job fairs or similar, and there were a bunch of Americans at the door trying to get employed.

I recall, several years back, a story about an ICE raid at a chicken plant in Alabama, I believe. Next day, there was a huge line of black folks waiting to apply for the jobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (ExV1e)

112 109 So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

SCOTUS technically has taken up that issue yet...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

113 109 So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

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He created a class, as Alito said would happen in his concurrence.

It will get stayed within a week, and the whole class thing is going to get reduced dramatically, if not completely eliminated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

114 It is not the government's job to solve industrys' labor problems.
Posted by: ghbucky
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Yep. If you pay them enough, they will come. Sort of like Congress critters.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (ctrM5)

115 Nero Newscum is going to find big apartment complexes in Palisades instead of private homes. Watch the building permit prices fly with those.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (17s+e)

116 109 So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

So the judge is saying the country is done. Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

117 Another renegade judge! This judge needs to be arrested and at this point, ICE and the National Guard need to go door-to-door to arrest and deport any anchor babies.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (S+el1)

118 I saw some doofus complaining that the Trump administration wants to pull grandmas out of nursing homes and have them get jobs on farms.

My 93 year old M-I-L is going to be moving in with us next month. I'm thinking she will be just in time for peach harvest.

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (poXs5)

119
Microsoft is currently laying off thousands of Americans, while applying for thousands of new H-1B visas.

The CEO of Microsoft is named Satya Narayana Nadella.


And the stock market loves it - look at MSFT stock over the last month

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

120 America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer.
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We need to reinstate the ban on corporations being able to buy back their stock.
Prior to that, they either had to pay dividends or make capital investments with their profits.
Now, they can take those profits, buy the stock, inflating the stock price from two directions, and the CEOs cash massive bonuses/stock options.
But, that all requires ever and ever cheaper labor because they no longer invest in physical facilities, limping along with 30-40+ year old equipment.

Cheap, unlimited immigrant labor drives down all wages, not just the physical labor wages.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (VlU/R)

121
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

SCOTUS technically has taken up that issue yet...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

Basically the judge did an injunction after SCOTUS said they can't do injunctions...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (VE6XX)

122 Oops...

I meant to cite:

Elon Musk et al, whining that they can't fill their engineering positions without H1B visas also should be responded to with: tough shit.

Microsoft is currently laying off thousands of Americans, while applying for thousands of new H-1B visas.

The CEO of Microsoft is named Satya Narayana Nadella.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)

123 I must've been sick the day they covered this in law school.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Write Supreme Court Opinions To “Tell People How I Feel”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)

124 FDA just fully approved mRNA vaxxes for 6 month olds. Someone nuke DC please.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (QZThv)

125 110 So where is that $6T/year going? And the answer is the pockets of the uniparty and their clients.

Microsoft is currently laying off thousands of Americans, while applying for thousands of new H-1B visas.

The CEO of Microsoft is named Satya Narayana Nadella.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (xTIDn)

I would deny all of their H1-Bs for this year. Maybe add a rule that if you lay off Americans, you do not qualify for H1-Bs in that year...H1-Bs should always be 1st.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (tOcjL)

126
So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship
Posted by: It's me donna

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lol what is this, a judge saying SCOTUS can't take the case this October?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (UmB+t)

127 It will get stayed within a week, and the whole class thing is going to get reduced dramatically, if not completely eliminated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Judge did not actually do the hard work to certify a class according to existing rules so this ruling was a ruling by a lazy ass virtue signalling clown judge.

A class of all the world wanting to come here minus US citizens is not compliant with certification of a class.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)

128 3 51Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Did you ignore all the July 4 warnings about fireworks safety?

Posted by: The Huge Manatee. at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)

129 119
Microsoft is currently laying off thousands of Americans, while applying for thousands of new H-1B visas.

The CEO of Microsoft is named Satya Narayana Nadella.

And the stock market loves it - look at MSFT stock over the last month
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

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I was going through some labor stats yesterday, comparing H1B and H1B1 numbers from April and May of last year to this year.

Both months this year are down 20% from last year.

In general, it seems like there's a pattern of reduced use overall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

130 Democrats only talk about the Constitution either:

1. When they're out of power

2. When they're running for office

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Qr870)

131 81 F5 seems to be broken.

saw an f20 at an airshow once.

Posted by: anachronda at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (v3pYe)

132 How do your feelings establish precedent?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (zhBpy)

133 H1B was originally designed for specific cases where no one in America had the knowledge.

So if you needed a specific mathematician or scientist.

H1Bs are now used for jobs that industry just wants to pay less for.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (t0Rmr)

134 If Musk and the other tech titans needs foreign engineers, we should let them. Brain drain our competitors and bring in more smart people to the US.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (S+el1)

135 121
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

SCOTUS technically has taken up that issue yet...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

Basically the judge did an injunction after SCOTUS said they can't do injunctions...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (VE6XX)

Okay...I was just pointing out SCOTUS has not ruled on the birthright citizenship issue. They've ruled on the injunction issues.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 10, 2025 11:36 AM (tOcjL)

136 In MSFT's case I do think part of this is lowering hiring because they believe AI can essentially do those jobs.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)

137 123 I must've been sick the day they covered this in law school.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Write Supreme Court Opinions To “Tell People How I Feel”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)

never go full Ketanji

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (pIfcn)

138 If Musk and the other tech titans needs foreign engineers, we should let them. Brain drain our competitors and bring in more smart people to the US.

Back in the 90s say I think you could argue that is how this would play out.

Instead its led to a massive wealth transfer TO India.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

139 There is never a shortage of workers. There is a shortage of workers willing to work at a given wage. Pay $1M/year and you’ll have every American applying for the jobs “American won’t do”.

And no, I’m not suggesting farm works should be paid $1M, just making the point.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (ImXfC)

140 127 Judge did not actually do the hard work to certify a class according to existing rules so this ruling was a ruling by a lazy ass virtue signalling clown judge.

A class of all the world wanting to come here minus US citizens is not compliant with certification of a class.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)

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And SCOTUS could end up using it as an excuse to eliminate classes from the American judicial process entirely, as they've indicated in cases like Kavanaugh's dissent in Labcorp v Davis indicates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

141 There is also the fact that employers are competing against the welfare system and in the case of teenagers competing against the allowance from mom and dad

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Kids can do landscaping, but the market is so dominated by quick cheap landscapers kids really don't break into as much. It just isn't efficient. Why hire a kid who could do it for a summer or a year - but he will then move on - only to know you will have to find another one the following year.

Cheap landscaping service is just easy. Likely with illegal labor, but it is easy and efficient for everyone.

But if that labor goes away and the cost goes up, then it definitely opens up the market for teenagers.

Good luck getting a teenager on a construction project with today's safety and insurance.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (sX1BW)

142 I was going through some labor stats yesterday, comparing H1B and H1B1 numbers from April and May of last year to this year.

Both months this year are down 20% from last year.

In general, it seems like there's a pattern of reduced use overall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

Yes, and COINCIDENTALLY when Trump takes office and drops the hammer on H1B visas, I get substantial pay raises. UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!!!!!!

One of the COBS should write up an article about how badly the H1B visa process is corrupted/abused.

I'd say it is hair raising, but the reality anymore, that is as bad as you all probably expect.

Posted by: ghbucky at July 10, 2025 11:38 AM (/xDbx)

143 There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer.

But don't think these thieves are working cheap. They're subsidized by NGOs (and governmental organizations, but they're all the same).

Posted by: t-bird at July 10, 2025 11:38 AM (Vm5SY)

144 It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


What about falling down an elevator shaft

Hope you are doing better.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 11:38 AM (Qr870)

145 They've gone pro defamation?

America’s Biggest Teachers’ Union Severs Ties With Anti-Defamation League

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

146 Who will coach the pickleball?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (zhBpy)

147
Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Write Supreme Court Opinions To “Tell People How I Feel”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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ffs woman, that's what bumpers are for.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (UmB+t)

148 >Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Write Supreme Court Opinions To “Tell People How I Feel”

She's been overpraised her entire life.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (rJ48h)

149 Instead its led to a massive wealth transfer TO India.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

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India is still one of the poorest, dirtiest, and most backward places on earth. Bring their tech talent here. Our tech sector will become richer and smarter.

All India is doing these days is serving as the world's call center.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (S+el1)

150 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

Not all labor is in equal demand.

Supermarket stockers are a lot more important than baristas.

People will manage their costs by choosing which labor is most important to them.

Some guy named Adam Smith said something about the "Invisible Hand."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (2yqAv)

151 H1Bs are now used for jobs that industry just wants to pay less for.

For tech companies, the big advantage is not lower salaries for H1-B types, but the fact that they are indentured servants - the company fires them, and it's back to India they go.

Makes for a very compliant labor force.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (xTIDn)

152 I'm too lazy to research if this is true, but I have seen stories where Indian immigrant entrepreneurs with gas stations and convenience stores apply for H1B to staff them. If true, this is huge abuse.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)

153
It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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Sorry, ARC! I'm glad you're recovering.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (UmB+t)

154 The unseen shot a bird.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (zhBpy)

155
SCOTUS SHMOTUS!

I'm a district court judge, dammit!

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (AOsQT)

156 Maybe you could even end the "housing crisis" in California by getting rid of all the illegals overwhelming it?
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Saw a recent article that there has been a huge increase in homes for sale being pulled from the market as sellers refuse to accept low-ball offers.

Yet another way Powell is fucking over regular Americans.

You can't buy at the artificially high interest rates.
They can't afford to sell at below-market to make the sale.

But MegaCorp, with direct access to the discount window, has unlimited funds to buy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 11:41 AM (VlU/R)

157 Cheap landscaping service is just easy. Likely with illegal labor, but it is easy and efficient for everyone.

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I have a small yard that takes me 30-45 mins to do, including trimming, pull weeds, etc.

I got some quotes from lawn companies. They wanted $60-80 a week for service.

Cheap is not the word I’d use.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:41 AM (ImXfC)

158 "If Musk and the other tech titans needs foreign engineers, we should let them. Brain drain our competitors and bring in more smart people to the US."

This argument might be more compelling if Big Tech hadn't laid off 100,000 workers in the last few months.

Not to mention, the credentials of foreign engineers are somewhat questionable. Boring outsourced software development on the 737 Max to a cheap company on India. How did that work out?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 11:41 AM (rbw5v)

159 >India is still one of the poorest, dirtiest, and most backward places on earth.
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that has nukes

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 11:42 AM (AOsQT)

160 Boeing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:42 AM (zhBpy)

161 Who will coach the pickleball?
Posted by: Boss Moss


The pilates 'instructors'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:42 AM (mlg/3)

162 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:37 AM (ImXfC)

Yes, It's called a free market, and I am all for it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:42 AM (2yqAv)

163 but I have seen stories where Indian immigrant entrepreneurs with gas stations and convenience stores apply for H1B to staff them

Yeah, I've seen a listing of H-1B applications to bring in people to manage gas stations in the South.

Because you simply can't find Americans to do those jobs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 10, 2025 11:43 AM (xTIDn)

164 What is interesting is that:

A) none of affirmative action Jackson's staffers stopped her from promulgating nonsense, meaning they either dared not, or could not.

B) none of the other leftists justices intervened in her writing her opinion, meaning they aren't colluding with each other, or the asshole just wouldn't listen.

So maybe Soto gave her an audible slap as punishment for not listening to directions?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2025 11:43 AM (52syf)

165 >Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Write Supreme Court Opinions To “Tell People How I Feel”
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Most people just go to therapy.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Qr870)

166 something about the "Invisible Hand."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (2yqAv)

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 10, 2025 11:44 AM (Qr870)

167 Yes, It's called a free market, and I am all for it!

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The free market always adjust. It will adjust to having cheap abundant labor, it will adjust to not having cheap abundant labor.

Yes, there may be some short term pains as it adjusts - but so was the Covid shutdown.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (sX1BW)

168 Leftists whine about income inequality here. It’s because they are uneducated imbeciles.

Wanna see inequality? Got to Mumbai. You have $5M condos next to slums. That’s inequality.

Inequality in the US means you have last years iPhone.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (ImXfC)

169 164 What is interesting is that:

A) none of affirmative action Jackson's staffers stopped her from promulgating nonsense, meaning they either dared not, or could not.

B) none of the other leftists justices intervened in her writing her opinion, meaning they aren't colluding with each other, or the asshole just wouldn't listen.

So maybe Soto gave her an audible slap as punishment for not listening to directions?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2025 11:43 AM (52syf)

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Clerks are no-nothing researchers. They would never correct a SCOTUS justice.

And it's obvious that Jackson is grating on everyone both behind closed doors in conference and in oral arguments.

Except Thomas. I suspect he's just laughing at her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

170 Maybe Ketanji could just write shitty music?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (zhBpy)

171 @TheBabylonBee
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17h
Former White House Doctor Denies Ever Knowing A "Joe Biden" https://buff.ly/JV4bodO

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (AOsQT)

172 California bishop lifts Sunday Mass obligation for churchgoers fearful of ICE raids.

The Lord loves you and wants you to continue your criminal behavior which helps to impoverish people who aren't members of my diocese because ORANGEMANBAD, amen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

173 I need to do my part to keep the workforce legal by taking care of the yard work. It's hot and loud but probably worth 1.75 liters of mid bourbon.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 10, 2025 11:46 AM (MMp6W)

174 If illegal aliens are a net economic benefit to THIS country, why can't they go back and be a net economic benefit to their home country?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 11:46 AM (7fElN)

175 I can't wait for Dr O'Connor to claim HE has dementia and can't remember anything

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:47 AM (t0Rmr)

176 I always crack when when the left uses religion when it’s convenient. Usually it’s “religious people are sooooooo stupid”. But now it’s oh no poor churches can’t do their thing because ice raids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:47 AM (ImXfC)

177 146 Who will coach the pickleball?
Posted by: Boss Moss

The seamy underbelly of the pickleball lifestyle is hidden from view. I'm expecting a revealing expose' in the near future. Don't let your babies grow up to be pickleballers.

Posted by: Caligula On A Court at July 10, 2025 11:48 AM (G5+As)

178 America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer.

The correct answer is nobody wants to work anymore. People should be grateful just to have a job working 80 hours a week and getting paid for 40 at a rate that adjusted for inflation was entry-level in 1986 and not adjusted for inflation was entry-level in 1998. Kids these days just don't have any work ethic!

Posted by: CEO from his yacht at July 10, 2025 11:48 AM (TbWk/)

179 74 If illegal aliens are a net economic benefit to THIS country, why can't they go back and be a net economic benefit to their home country?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 11:46 AM (7fElN)

Same reason tariffs are bad if we have them but are awesome for every other country that has them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:48 AM (ImXfC)

180 And that's before announcing that every business has 6 months to confirm all employees are citizens/LPR, after which the owners and executives will be arrested if not in compliance.

Need to translate that one into Hindi.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

181 It's time. Time to go after the businesses/contractors/subcontractors who prey on the illegal invader for cheaper wages so they can line their pockets with the profits from this modern day slave trade. Time to stop lying to ourselves and our children that it is okay that Jesus and Graciela can be exploited doing the work American citizens should be doing. Stop destroying the fabric of our country so some illegal invader can send money home to his family who hates America and Americans.

Posted by: Ready! Aim! Fire! at July 10, 2025 11:49 AM (r/wv3)

182
If illegal aliens are a net economic benefit to THIS country, why can't they go back and be a net economic benefit to their home country?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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ay-MEN! These doctors and teachers who have benefited from America's education system who want to "give back." Ohhhh, I am so grateful, I want to give back!" (What they generally mean is, they want to teach and treat other illegals.)

Give back by taking your great American know-how to your country and treating and educating your people so they don't have to crash our borders to obtain it. Fix your own damn country, improve it, build it up so people aren't so tempted to exit. THAT is how you can "give back."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (UmB+t)

183 The thing I like about the World Cup is you find out what kind of Mexican everyone is.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (fV+MH)

184 So a judge over rules the SCOTUS and says Trump can't end birthright citizenship
Posted by: It's me donna
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He didn't. The judge ignored the judicial rules on classifying a class and certified it by winging it.

Scotus ruled simply regarding judicial injunctions, not whether birthright citizenship could be ended by an EO.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)

185 I suspect most of the 10% or so of illegals that work have longish commutes. They certainly can't afford to live in the blue enclaves they work in.

So this should also significantly reduce traffic
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:20 AM (t0Rmr)


And the Earth began to heal. -- climate change cultists

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

186 I'm too lazy to research if this is true, but I have seen stories where Indian immigrant entrepreneurs with gas stations and convenience stores apply for H1B to staff them. If true, this is huge abuse.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)


The Vietnamese lady who owned the local chinese restaurant sponsored a lot of her family to come to the US and had them work in her restaurant while they were getting citizenship. It cost her a lot of money and time, and she wound up knowing every state and federal employee in the area getting the paperwork processed.
This was back when they were shooting people trying to escape over the borders, by the way.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (D7oie)

187 CBD. This rant was spot on.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 10, 2025 11:51 AM (nW73G)

188 " CBD. This rant was spot on.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat"

It was.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:51 AM (fV+MH)

189 188 " CBD. This rant was spot on.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat"

It was.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:51 AM (fV+MH)

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Not enough booms. Needs more pew pews.

0 stars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

190 This rant was spot on.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 10, 2025 11:51 AM (nW73G)


Thank you! Sadly...It was easy to write.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (2yqAv)

191 He didn't. The judge ignored the judicial rules on classifying a class and certified it by winging it.

Scotus ruled simply regarding judicial injunctions, not whether birthright citizenship could be ended by an EO.

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Ending birthright citizenship is going to be a tough uphill climb.

So its nice to have these actions by lower district court judges to help carry a bit of the load.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (sX1BW)

192 Almost no one wants to work, but people do it because they want goods and services. Yes some people have "jobs they love" but that's honestly rare.

And this is oddly something the left doesn't get about the economy.

So if salaries go up more people will take jobs. And removing illegals/H1Bs will increase the salaries of this jobs (supply and demand)

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t0Rmr)

193 US companies have been able to use the government to provide an 'easy button' to get their hands on highly educated, skilled, cheap labor.

Well... credentialed and cheap anyways.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

194 The E-Verify process is pretty simple. There can be situations where the documentation process can get a bit convoluted, but those are one offs, and any employer facing one of those can easily defend their decisions. It's mostly a piece of cake.

Does it sometimes mean that someone you just hired gets released in a few days when something turns up wrong or they can't "find" a piece of missing paperwork? Yes. That's the law and its not hard to follow.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (GZYu7)

195 191 Ending birthright citizenship is going to be a tough uphill climb.

So its nice to have these actions by lower district court judges to help carry a bit of the load.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (sX1BW)

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Merits will be something of a tossup, but I'm cautiously hopeful.

It's all the procedural stuff now that's just stupid resistoid bullshit.

The leftist judiciary is tearing up their own powers for temporary wins against Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

196 Pity the Democrat.

TV News Now@TVNewsNow
Fox News’ @greggutfeld: “The problem with the Democrats right now is the hoax apparatus is broken. In the days you could rely on a big hoax - collusion, fine people, drinking bleach - the media would do your work for you.”
"Now, the ratings for CNN and MSNBC are lower than Jasmine Crockett’s SAT scores. Their credibility is on a par with Smollett, so the Dems have to do their own work now. Their friends aren’t fighting their battles any more.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (L/fGl)

197 Well Arturo...tough shit. Pay a decent wage to legal workers and you will have your pick of legal employees. In fact, why don't you sponsor a job fair and some training programs for high school students who need jobs.

This. HS kids need entry-level jobs. Back in the day, it was HS and younger that mowed lawns and performed other low-level jobs for money instead of illegals doing it.

Those jobs were not meant as permanent jobs. The Dems and Reps are both guilty.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

198 Thanks.

Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Youch!!!!. Nasty and glad you are on the road to recovery.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

199 Too much boobs!!!!

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (fV+MH)

200 199 Too much boobs!!!!
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (fV+MH)

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Midwesterner is socking eleven.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

201 191 He didn't. The judge ignored the judicial rules on classifying a class and certified it by winging it.

Scotus ruled simply regarding judicial injunctions, not whether birthright citizenship could be ended by an EO.

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Ending birthright citizenship is going to be a tough uphill climb.

So its nice to have these actions by lower district court judges to help carry a bit of the load.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (sX1BW)

PP can help!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (ynpvh)

202 He didn't. The judge ignored the judicial rules on classifying a class and certified it by winging it.

Scotus ruled simply regarding judicial injunctions, not whether birthright citizenship could be ended by an EO.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)

Yes.. I clarified above

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (VE6XX)

203 You can't buy at the artificially high interest rates.
They can't afford to sell at below-market to make the sale.

But MegaCorp, with direct access to the discount window, has unlimited funds to buy.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 11:41 AM (VlU/R)


If it is still more profitable to borrow money at the institutional rate, and then buy out companies, strip them, and use them as cash cows until they go into receivership, as opposed to buying companies and making money while operating it while paying off the loan, the rates are still too low.

Cheap credit allows Blackrock et al to buy up all the housing to rent out at higher rates because no one can afford the Blackrock price to buy. The people screaming th loudest about the rates are the hedge funds.

Go, support them, they are clearly on your side.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (D7oie)

204 America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer.
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Yep, with the labor participation rate at 62.3%, there's a large pool available.

And the labor participation rate doesn't measure people who are not actively looking for work.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (G0vdT)

205 198 Thanks.

Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Youch!!!!. Nasty and glad you are on the road to recovery.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5) \

One's body parts exploding is never a good thing. Get well soon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (ynpvh)

206 There was an article in The Atlantic a number of years ago arguing modern feminism had failed because all that had happened with the move to corporate work by women is that white upper/middle class corporate feminists had hired minority women to take care of their kids instead of doing so themselves as the generations before had.

That's okay. The younger generations just stopped having kids so... problem solved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

207
The judge ignored the judicial rules on classifying a class and certified it by winging it.

Posted by: whig

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How does something like this even get filed? This is getting so ridiculous I'm waiting for a judge to simply up and declare the 2024 election void. Or why not "find" that his/her salary is actually $100mil/year?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (UmB+t)

208 The Vietnamese lady who owned the local chinese restaurant sponsored a lot of her family to come to the US and had them work in her restaurant while they were getting citizenship. It cost her a lot of money and time, and she wound up knowing every state and federal employee in the area getting the paperwork processed.
This was back when they were shooting people trying to escape over the borders, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 11:50 AM (D7oie)
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Sponsoring someone into the US is no joke, because you're financially responsible for them. Sounds like this lady did everything the right way. My in laws moved here from Canada and they had to have a sponsor. My wife is still in awe over the responsibility the sponsor took on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (tT6L1)

209 204 America doesn't have a labor problem. There are plenty of people to fill these jobs, but not at the artificially low wages that the GOPe and the globalists prefer.
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Yep, with the labor participation rate at 62.3%, there's a large pool available.

And the labor participation rate doesn't measure people who are not actively looking for work.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 10, 2025 11:55 AM (G0vdT)

But they're jobs Globalists won't do...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

210 Too much boobs!!!!
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (fV+MH)

***

Said NO ONE ever...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (ycs3a)

211 Too much boobs!!!!
Posted by: eleven


... said the factory worker in China

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (mlg/3)

212 207 How does something like this even get filed? This is getting so ridiculous I'm waiting for a judge to simply up and declare the 2024 election void. Or why not "find" that his/her salary is actually $100mil/year?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (UmB+t)

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Lawyers file whatever to try and get progress.

Dumb progressive judges go YOLO.

SCOTUS limits the lower courts' powers.

This is gonna keep happening for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

213 This. HS kids need entry-level jobs. Back in the day, it was HS and younger that mowed lawns and performed other low-level jobs for money instead of illegals doing it.

Those jobs were not meant as permanent jobs. The Dems and Reps are both guilty.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Yep. England got fat and rich in the 18th century and its landowners and factory owners started importing labor from Ireland on the cheap instead of hiring the native population.

Most employers think it is their god given right to hire cheap employees. My father ran a small business (farming) but never stinted on making sure his employees got paid no matter how bad teh business climate was.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)

214 That's okay. The younger generations just stopped having kids so... problem solved.

It does solve women "earning less then" men.

Not sustainable to put it mildly.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (t0Rmr)

215 Merits will be something of a tossup, but I'm cautiously hopeful.

It's all the procedural stuff now that's just stupid resistoid bullshit.

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Ultimately, ending birthright citizenship will be a result of electoral success coupled with a compliant Court. The latter will be a result of the former. Either because a new justice gets added or because the political winds are too strong for the Court to go against.

Rogue district court justices help because they are the ones going against the Court - not Trump. This helps on both fronts.

Still a very uphill climb, but with luck the left's TDS will make it easier.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (sX1BW)

216 But LA needs their slave labor.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (jPdyB)

217
Sponsoring someone into the US is no joke, because you're financially responsible for them. Sounds like this lady did everything the right way. My in laws moved here from Canada and they had to have a sponsor. My wife is still in awe over the responsibility the sponsor took on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 11:56 AM (tT6L1)

I did that for my BIL's FIL & MIL. They were very appreciative as even their own kids wouldn't/couldn't do it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

218 215 Ultimately, ending birthright citizenship will be a result of electoral success coupled with a compliant Court. The latter will be a result of the former. Either because a new justice gets added or because the political winds are too strong for the Court to go against.

Rogue district court justices help because they are the ones going against the Court - not Trump. This helps on both fronts.

Still a very uphill climb, but with luck the left's TDS will make it easier.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (sX1BW)

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"All y'all racist mother fuckers!"
-KJB in conference, helping

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

219 216 But LA needs their slave labor.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (jPdyB)

Well, they ARE Democrats...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

220 Sock off

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (G0vdT)

221 169
‘ And it's obvious that Jackson is grating on everyone both behind closed doors in conference and in oral arguments.’

All the while, she’s thinking that she’s super smart and important.
Such as huge concentration of the Dunning Kruger effect.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

222 The leftist judiciary is tearing up their own powers for temporary wins against Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Or limiting the powers of all the judges that get appointed by Trump.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (Qr870)

223 A bill could have been passed that clarified what jurisdiction thereof means. I think up until around 1995 even democrats would have been on board with making it so at least one of the parents have to be a citizen to get birthright citizenship.

Why was it never done. Would have been an easy political win.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (ImXfC)

224 220 Sock off

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (G0vdT)

With a hash like that, some may think you work for the Gov't...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

225 Could Jumangi push the wise Latina to the right?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (zhBpy)

226 221 169
‘ And it's obvious that Jackson is grating on everyone both behind closed doors in conference and in oral arguments.’

All the while, she’s thinking that she’s super smart and important.
Such as huge concentration of the Dunning Kruger effect.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

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It's obvious that ACB is actively turned off by her, that KJB's arguments are derailing any effort Kagan is making to convince anyone else of her side, and that even Sotomayor is realizing that she's dumb as a box of rocks.

KJB may end up pushing the court further to the right than another Thomas could.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

227 How does something like this even get filed? This is getting so ridiculous I'm waiting for a judge to simply up and declare the 2024 election void. Or why not "find" that his/her salary is actually $100mil/year?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

All the leftie NGOs, leftie billionaires funding those groups, and the Democratic Party are colluding in filing these cases. My guess, if you impeached one of these lawless judges, you would find a chain of emails, phone calls, etc. all done ex parte before these judges jump out and say YOLO!!! Resist We Much!!!!. Norm Eisen is one such lawfare clown with the anti Trump crap, and there are doubtless others.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

228 I just wanted to be the first one on the internet to say it.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (fV+MH)

229 221 169
‘ And it's obvious that Jackson is grating on everyone both behind closed doors in conference and in oral arguments.’

All the while, she’s thinking that she’s super smart and important.
Such as huge concentration of the Dunning Kruger effect.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

Hah! The lack of mental ability and concentration leads to a concentration of Dunning-Kruger...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)

230 Yep. England got fat and rich in the 18th century and its landowners and factory owners started importing labor from Ireland on the cheap instead of hiring the native population.

[ . . . ]
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)


You have to admit they also enacted huge barriers to block competition from the colonies and other economies.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (D7oie)

231 222 The leftist judiciary is tearing up their own powers for temporary wins against Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Or limiting the powers of all the judges that get appointed by Trump.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (Qr870)

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Powers that conservative justices never assert.

When the 5th Circuit ruled Biden's debt forgiveness unconstitutional, they limited the ruling to the 5th Circuit.

This is the judiciary taking away a weapon the left uses and the right never does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

232 H1Bs are now used for jobs that industry just wants to pay less for.

They fill the need for non-"white male" recent college graduates.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

233 Could Jumangi push the wise Latina to the right?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (zhBpy)
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No, but Kagan and Sotomayor appreciate having someone on SCOTUS who makes them look like the epitome of sober legal rectitude.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:01 PM (tT6L1)

234 233 Could Jumangi push the wise Latina to the right?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (zhBpy)
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No, but Kagan and Sotomayor appreciate having someone on SCOTUS who makes them look like the epitome of sober legal rectitude.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:01 PM (tT6L1)

And Smaht.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (ynpvh)

235 Too much boobs!!!!
Posted by: eleven

*********

Too much?

Or too many?

There's a difference.

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (poXs5)

236 Kagan is intelligent but corrupt.

Wide Latina isn't intelligent and is also corrupt.

Action Jackson might be so stupid she doesn't even know she is corrupt.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (t0Rmr)

237 I ain't got no time for judgin and shit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

238 233 Could Jumangi push the wise Latina to the right?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (zhBpy)
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No, but Kagan and Sotomayor appreciate having someone on SCOTUS who makes them look like the epitome of sober legal rectitude.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:01 PM (tT6L1)

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Sotomayor is only considered a reasonably sober jurist because we now see she can see the obvious, which KJB can't.

She'll still vote as she always did, but the comity in the chambers is going to be...strained.

KJB won't be able to convince anyone of anything. She'll be an island to herself.

She'll be one of the least effective justices in SCOTUS history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

239 235 Too much boobs!!!!
Posted by: eleven

*********

Too much?

Or too many?

There's a difference.

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (poXs5)

Countable vs non-countable.
Remember explaining this to the older one when he was small...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (ynpvh)

240 Could Jumangi push the wise Latina to the right?

With a forklift.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (vZbEn)

241
Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 11:58 AM (G0vdT)

With a hash like that, some may think you work for the Gov't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 11:59 AM (ynpvh)
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Heh, I only notice it from time to time and then forget about it.

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (G0vdT)

242 It's obvious that ACB is actively turned off by her, that KJB's arguments are derailing any effort Kagan is making to convince anyone else of her side, and that even Sotomayor is realizing that she's dumb as a box of rocks.

KJB may end up pushing the court further to the right than another Thomas could.

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Kagan at this point has to be thinking her role is to limit the rightward swing of the Court as much as possible.

Will a girl boss rivalry develop between Kagan and ACB, and could that push things more to the right so that ACB can be writing major majority opinions instead of Kagan?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (sX1BW)

243 Too many boobs? That is a logical impossibility

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (t0Rmr)

244 Kagan is intelligent but corrupt.

Wide Latina isn't intelligent and is also corrupt.

Action Jackson might be so stupid she doesn't even know she is corrupt.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (t0Rmr)
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Harsh but fair.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (tT6L1)

245 how much water
how many gallons of water

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

246 Ultimately, ending birthright citizenship will be a result of electoral success coupled with a compliant Court. The latter will be a result of the former. Either because a new justice gets added or because the political winds are too strong for the Court to go against.

Rogue district court justices help because they are the ones going against the Court - not Trump. This helps on both fronts.

Still a very uphill climb, but with luck the left's TDS will make it easier.
Posted by: SH (no more socks)

My personal guess is that Scotus rules against the president but allows Congress to legislate to exclude illegals as not subject to the jurisdiction thereof which would end them being able to claim natural born status. That allows the Court to avoid the wailing and denaturalizing of those prior to Congress passing such a law but allows the rule to apply prospectively.

That will be a major issue because it would be subject to a filibuster and not able to be included for reconciliation bills.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)

247 243 Too many boobs? That is a logical impossibility

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (t0Rmr)

Congress
Kalifornia
Democrats

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:04 PM (ynpvh)

248 India is still one of the poorest, dirtiest, and most backward places on earth. Bring their tech talent here. Our tech sector will become richer and smarter.

You cannot bring them here without bringing there here. As someone who works extensively with Indians, the notion of their "tech talent" is overblown.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

249 There could be infinitely many boobs in the universe.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 12:05 PM (fV+MH)

250 248 India is still one of the poorest, dirtiest, and most backward places on earth. Bring their tech talent here. Our tech sector will become richer and smarter.

You cannot bring them here without bringing there here. As someone who works extensively with Indians, the notion of their "tech talent" is overblown.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

Why are they always asking for Bob and Vagene? I don't even know those two...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

251
Lawyers file whatever to try and get progress.

Dumb progressive judges go YOLO.

SCOTUS limits the lower courts' powers.

This is gonna keep happening for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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It's funny because there's any number of consequential things you can't do without checking a specific box or initialing some line or attaching Form #123456-Z. It just gets kicked out of the system.

How can this injunction even take effect?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:05 PM (UmB+t)

252 Hand to G*d- a week ago yesterday a female yard crew leader (white) was outside our condo giving a tutorial on leaf blowing to a young (white) male. He was probably 18-20 old. The demographics of our crew have completely changed in 3 months. This is in Central Florida.

Posted by: B-Ha at July 10, 2025 12:05 PM (+9J0U)

253 That allows the Court to avoid the wailing and denaturalizing of those prior to Congress passing such a law but allows the rule to apply prospectively.

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Perhaps, courts do love a good old reliance argument.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:05 PM (sX1BW)

254 All the while, she’s thinking that she’s super smart and important.
Such as huge concentration of the Dunning Kruger effect.

It's obvious that ACB is actively turned off by her, that KJB's arguments are derailing any effort Kagan is making to convince anyone else of her side, and that even Sotomayor is realizing that she's dumb as a box of rocks.

KJB may end up pushing the court further to the right than another Thomas could.

+++
Somehow during Biden we slipped into Dunning Kruger meats Wile E Coyote all across the board. It's stunning.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (jPdyB)

255 I'm too lazy to research if this is true, but I have seen stories where Indian immigrant entrepreneurs with gas stations and convenience stores apply for H1B to staff them. If true, this is huge abuse.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)


Non-natives will always give hiring preference to their own ethnic group. If the government provides a way for them to get more of that group into the country, they'll use it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

256 KJB won't be able to convince anyone of anything. She'll be an island to herself.

She'll be one of the least effective justices in SCOTUS history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)
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There'll be a lot of solo dissents in her future.

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (G0vdT)

257 Story time:
Back in the 90s, folks in my home town were commuting 80+ miles to the resort and ski area to the north to work landscaping jobs.

IIRC, the going rate was $15 an hour.
Inflation adjusted, that is near $33 an hour; almost $70k a year.
I bet that rate is still around $15/hr; inflation adjusted to 1990 would have been around $7 an hour.
And that no citizen is doing that work anymore.

That's how bad illegal immigration fucks over Americans
And the immigrants.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (VlU/R)

258 Sotomayor is only considered a reasonably sober jurist because we now see she can see the obvious, which KJB can't.

She'll still vote as she always did, but the comity in the chambers is going to be...strained.

KJB won't be able to convince anyone of anything. She'll be an island to herself.

She'll be one of the least effective justices in SCOTUS history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Court interdynamics is similar to Kremlinology. Simply put, it is a long term relationship that lasts longer than many of these justices' marriages until death or disability do they part.

We find out about a lot of the personal relationships decades later unless there is some sort of crisis like Justice Douglas trying to hold on as a justice. That crisis required all eight other justices threatening to support his impeachment if he did not resign because of senility and alcoholism.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

259
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)

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Up to Congress? So, never gonna happen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (UmB+t)

260 256
There'll be a lot of solo dissents in her future.
Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (G0vdT)

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Which will piss off Roberts. There's nothing he likes more than a unanimous decision.

If he can't get it anymore, is he happy with 8-1s or does he soften the overall stance and ends up getting grounds for 5-4 conservative majority decisions more frequently?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

261 254 All the while, she’s thinking that she’s super smart and important.
Such as huge concentration of the Dunning Kruger effect.

It's obvious that ACB is actively turned off by her, that KJB's arguments are derailing any effort Kagan is making to convince anyone else of her side, and that even Sotomayor is realizing that she's dumb as a box of rocks.

KJB may end up pushing the court further to the right than another Thomas could.

+++
Somehow during Biden we slipped into Dunning Kruger meats Wile E Coyote all across the board. It's stunning.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 12:06 PM (jPdyB)

They produce sub-par meat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

262 Hand to G*d- a week ago yesterday a female yard crew leader (white) was outside our condo giving a tutorial on leaf blowing to a young (white) male.

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Oh, the many jokes that the male tutee must have made when back among his fellow male cohorts.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (sX1BW)

263 The hot new thing on the interboobs is foodies going to India and getting the most disgusting street vendors on video while they cook with their nasty hands and feet in the food and the foodie eating it and getting sick or passing because it is just too nasty.

This is the real India.

Posted by: Babu Rangmangdingdong at July 10, 2025 12:08 PM (r/wv3)

264 258 Court interdynamics is similar to Kremlinology. Simply put, it is a long term relationship that lasts longer than many of these justices' marriages until death or disability do they part.

We find out about a lot of the personal relationships decades later unless there is some sort of crisis like Justice Douglas trying to hold on as a justice. That crisis required all eight other justices threatening to support his impeachment if he did not resign because of senility and alcoholism.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

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The other ladies on the court writing in decisions that Jackson is kind of dumb is a pretty big outward sign, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

265 By that I meant the left slipped in. From Bacon is a spice for president to mostly peaceful illegals protesting to KJB.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 12:08 PM (jPdyB)

266 263 The hot new thing on the interboobs is foodies going to India and getting the most disgusting street vendors on video while they cook with their nasty hands and feet in the food and the foodie eating it and getting sick or passing because it is just too nasty.

This is the real India.

Posted by: Babu Rangmangdingdong at July 10, 2025 12:08 PM (r/wv3)

Now go bathe in Ganges; it's sacred. So sacred everybody there shits in it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)

267 We find out about a lot of the personal relationships decades later unless there is some sort of crisis like Justice Douglas trying to hold on as a justice. That crisis required all eight other justices threatening to support his impeachment if he did not resign because of senility and alcoholism.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

His behavior must have been outrageous, because both Thurgood Marshall and William Rhenquist were allowed to hang on for a couple of years after they were virtually comatose. I still remember the pictures of Rhenquist being rolled into the court looking like the original Captain Pike.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK8)

268 "All teenagers, especially males, ought to have a least one job in which they bust their ass all day long and come home dead tired."

And then crack open a cold beer.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (KAi1n)

269 Well I'm totally off today. Maybe the retardary is catching.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (jPdyB)

270 >She'll be one of the least effective justices in SCOTUS history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

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damn shame that such an important post was filled on the basis of skin color and naughty bits

her biggest accomplishment will be Sitting There

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (AOsQT)

271 As someone who works extensively with Indians, the notion of their "tech talent" is overblown.

Combining education with practical skill to create things that reliably work is still an American thing. You find it less here - but you will not find it at all anywhere else.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (xPpl6)

272 NOOD Sekret Service Agents

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

273 If he can't get it anymore, is he happy with 8-1s or does he soften the overall stance and ends up getting grounds for 5-4 conservative majority decisions more frequently?

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

Her dissents will be so off the wall that fence sitters will just abandoned that side even if Kagan is making a more "reasonable" case.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (sX1BW)

274 Honestly, I think KJB's a gift. A constant reminder of what DEI brings to the table and a constant reminder of the worthlessness that was the *biden junta and the Republicans who voted to confirm her. Seriously, SCOTUS now firmly embedded in sitcom territory.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)

275 270 >She'll be one of the least effective justices in SCOTUS history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

----

damn shame that such an important post was filled on the basis of skin color and naughty bits

her biggest accomplishment will be Sitting There

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 12:09 PM (AOsQT)

Is she attracted to the same types of naughty bits she possesses? That would be another plus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

276 Which will piss off Roberts. There's nothing he likes more than a unanimous decision.

If he can't get it anymore, is he happy with 8-1s or does he soften the overall stance and ends up getting grounds for 5-4 conservative majority decisions more frequently?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
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She seems to be okay on contract law but when it comes to policy questions and the Constitution...aah boy.

Posted by: WisRich at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

277 Non-natives will always give hiring preference to their own ethnic group. If the government provides a way for them to get more of that group into the country, they'll use it.
---
Never hire an Indian or Chinese to run any department in tech.

I've heard so many stories of companies that put them in charge of hiring and, within years, the entire department is replaced with all of theirs.
And utterly incompetent while feverishly covering for each other.
This is why all of your electronics are shit, even the "good" American brands.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (VlU/R)

278 274 Honestly, I think KJB's a gift. A constant reminder of what DEI brings to the table and a constant reminder of the worthlessness that was the *biden junta and the Republicans who voted to confirm her. Seriously, SCOTUS now firmly embedded in sitcom territory.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)

When retarded is a point of view...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

279 My fncking brain hurts



CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
Jul 8
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Kristi Noem just announced that TSA will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes when they go through security checkpoints.

This comes days after the FBI warned about terror sleeper cells in the USA.
I never felt more unsafe than under this Admin.
Jul 8, 2025 · 9:53 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (D7oie)

280 His behavior must have been outrageous, because both Thurgood Marshall and William Rhenquist were allowed to hang on for a couple of years after they were virtually comatose.

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Both had statuses that made them virtually untouchable.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (sX1BW)

281 280 His behavior must have been outrageous, because both Thurgood Marshall and William Rhenquist were allowed to hang on for a couple of years after they were virtually comatose.

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Both had statuses that made them virtually untouchable.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 10, 2025 12:11 PM (sX1BW)

We have untouchables too.

Posted by: India at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

282 Perhaps, courts do love a good old reliance argument.
Posted by: SH (no more socks)
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Courts in a long line of cases has proposed that Congress has plenary power over immigration and the few Robert's court decisions like Trump v. Hawaii have reiterated that. So relatively easy for Roberts, etc. to persuade the Court to do that.

Technically, as they have in criminal cases, they can apply grandfathering to prior cases where children born to illegals prior to Trump declaration are American citizens but those after are not. That requires more legal reasoning to support such a distinction.

A few times, the Court has simply ruled and left the political branches to fix the problem.

One such way would be that Congress will feel immense pressure if Scotus allowed Trump's declaration to stand to allow grandfathering of past pseudo natural born illegals in exchange for banning future pseudo natural born illegals.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)

283 198 Thanks.

Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery.

It's the one medical problem that you only have once.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Been there. Done that. What is with our warranties on defective appendix?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 12:12 PM (W3T6M)

284 192 Almost no one wants to work, but people do it because they want goods and services. Yes some people have "jobs they love" but that's honestly rare.

And this is oddly something the left doesn't get about the economy.

So if salaries go up more people will take jobs. And removing illegals/H1Bs will increase the salaries of this jobs (supply and demand)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t0Rmr)

No it's those damn lazy kids and their avocado phones!

Posted by: And their iToast! at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (TbWk/)

285 India.Cholera, dead animals and human waste in the rivers. Plague, leprosy. 28 languages. And they have nukes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 10, 2025 12:13 PM (gm9Sb)

286 India is still one of the poorest, dirtiest, and most backward places on earth. Bring their tech talent here. Our tech sector will become richer and smarter.

All India is doing these days is serving as the world's call center.
Posted by: Diabeetus at July 10, 2025 11:39 AM (S+el1)

For every brilliant Indian engineer, you get a hundred plodders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:15 PM (m6YJY)

287 "Had my appendix explode, but am doing fine now, after a lengthy recovery."

Caught my spouse's early. Had it out last Odin's day.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 12:16 PM (rbw5v)

288 "Almost no one wants to work, but people do it because they want goods and services. Yes some people have "jobs they love" but that's honestly rare."

I work because I like sleeping indoors and eating hot meals.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 10, 2025 12:18 PM (rbw5v)

289 The illegals in the construction trades are not working for low wages. They are paid just as much as USA citizens. The people who keep arguing that they are getting slave wages don't know what they are talking about. The savings for employers is in the FICA, UI, Workman's Comp, etc that they have to cover for legal employees. It about doubles the cost of wages.

Posted by: Ignore contards at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (g4Mek)

290 Employing illegals is a two-fer for employers who employ illegals. It's not just the lower pay. It's also that these workers have no rights. Injured on the job? Fired. No workers' comp for you. Sexually harassed or, worse yet, sexually assaulted on the job? Keep your mouth shut or you'll be fired and/or deported. Health care mandates? That's what the whole "free healthcare for illegals" mantra is all about.

I hate to sound like I'm channeling my inner Marxist here, but the exploitation runs deeper than mere low pay.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at July 10, 2025 02:12 PM (bWR5k)

291 I framed. I worked at a nursery. I mowed laws. As a job.
I did all the work they say they need illegals for.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (gDhA9)

292 289 The illegals in the construction trades are not working for low wages. They are paid just as much as USA citizens. The people who keep arguing that they are getting slave wages don't know what they are talking about. The savings for employers is in the FICA, UI, Workman's Comp, etc that they have to cover for legal employees. It about doubles the cost of wages. Posted by: Ignore contards at July 10, 2025 02:06 PM (g4Mek)

Yep!

Worse still, the illegals get to CLAIM those benefits without anyone paying into the system.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 02:57 PM (gDhA9)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Maratti Nativity1.jpg


The Holy Night

Carlo Maratti

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 Lovely painting of Our Mother.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)

2 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (kgE5c)

3 *sigh*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (kgE5c)

4 fist

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (sJHOI)

5 Again, either too early or too late.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (BHrzb)

6 That is a very big baby.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (fV+MH)

7 Top 237.

Posted by: Weasel at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (fFFrU)

8 6 That is a very big baby.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (fV+MH)

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Perspective. He's closer to the camera.

5 feet closer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

9 That is a whopping big baby.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

10 Who’s the kid?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ymT3i)

11 That is a very big baby.
Posted by: eleven

One might even say a miraculous birth!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

12 She gave birth to a toddler.

Ouch.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (fV+MH)

13 Big thighed baby J.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (ufFY8)

14 That is a very big baby.

Got a flashlight too.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Wcf+j)

15
"Looks like His Father!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (HZi96)

16 That is a whopping big baby.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM


A Big Beautiful Baby, even. Fabulous. The best.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

17 The other children must be angels.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (zhBpy)

18 And now is the time when we circumcise you!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (ymT3i)

19 Are those peeping angels?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (ufFY8)

20 "Private Joker do you believe in the Virgin Mary?"

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (AOsQT)

21 That is a whopping big baby.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM

A Big Beautiful Baby, even. Fabulous. The best.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)
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He's going to grow up to be Somebody...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (7fElN)

22 "Looks like His Father!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Heh!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

23 Baby Jesus has a lot of hair for a newborn.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

24 Is it me or does the angel closed to Mary's right ear have a demonic look in his eyes?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (N39Ws)

25

Beautiful.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (KrNsD)

26 Also I don't the Holy Mother should show cleavage

it kind of goes against brand

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (AOsQT)

27 I really like this painting.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

28 Beautiful rendition of Mary. I would hang it, in the shrine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (u82oZ)

29 Incredible light/dark contrast

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ufFY8)

30 This is beautiful.
It's like Christmas in July!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

31 Are those puttos or cherubs? They all look the same to me.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ymT3i)

32 That kid is about a week from walking.

Posted by: He's H-u-u-u-ge! at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (G5+As)

33 >Baby Jesus has a lot of hair for a newborn.
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and a full set of teeth

and could hit a curveball at age three

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

34 Always good to start the morning with a vision of our Mother Mary.

Pray for us sinners now
And at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (mT+6a)

35 He was really premature. Born 6 years before Himself.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

36
Big kid in order to drive out the moneylenders later.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (HZi96)

37 Incredible light/dark contrast
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

The painting or Jesus v stan?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (cYBz/)

38 Who are the other kids?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

39 33 and could hit a curveball at age three
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

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Could God throw a curveball that he himself could not hit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

40 Lovely example of chiaroscuro.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (NgqoH)

41 He had some lovely portraits of Mary, and I also like his self portraits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 09:36 AM (2GCMq)

42 Isn't it still a bit early to be thinking about Christmas?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 09:36 AM (g8Ew8)

43 What's the light source?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:36 AM (zhBpy)

44 "Could God throw a curveball that he himself could not hit?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"


fkn lol.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (fV+MH)

45 Are those puttos or cherubs? They all look the same to me.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ymT3i)

A Power?
A Throne?
Seraphim?
Archangel?
Angel?

I forget the other four...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ufFY8)

46 I like the delicate rendering of her right hand. Everything about this painting causes you to hush and draw near. Sweet.

Posted by: red speck at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

47
Isn't it still a bit early to be thinking about Christmas?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 09:36 AM (g8Ew

__________

Never!

Posted by: Stores already putting out Christmas stuff at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (HZi96)

48 That kid must have teleported out of her womb or she would be dead.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (fV+MH)

49 What's the light source?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Seems to be emanating from Jesus Himself.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (cYBz/)

50 What's the light source?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:36 AM (zhBpy)

Ummm... well, you know.

Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

51 >Could God throw a curveball that he himself could not hit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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I don't know, but God's fastball IS the speed of light

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

52 What's the light source?
Posted by: Boss Moss


U-235

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (e2MJJ)

53 Baby Jesus has a lot of hair for a newborn.
----------

I had my first haircut when I was six weeks old.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (g8Ew8)

54 Definitely art.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (N1DT3)

55 51 >Could God throw a curveball that he himself could not hit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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I don't know, but God's fastball IS the speed of light
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

======

Could God throw a fastball faster than the speed of light that he himself created? Could he hit it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (GBKbO)

56 Sorry I seem to have bent the 100 comment rule

hey nice painting

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (AOsQT)

57 Isn't it still a bit early to be thinking about Christmas?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Due to government cutbacks, Christmas was yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (e2MJJ)

58 That kid must have teleported out of her womb or she would be dead.
Posted by: eleven

There was precedence - He teleported in so. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

59 I don't know, but God's fastball IS the speed of light
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

So is his curveball.
And, get this, so is his change-up.

Let's not talk about his knuckle ball.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ufFY8)

60 43 >>>What's the light source?

"In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."

Posted by: red speck at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (0Id0S)

61 God stole first base!

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (fV+MH)

62 Does God throw a knuckleball??

Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

63 and could hit a curveball at age three
Posted by: Don Black
________

But not a 1 iron.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (QqW4y)

64
I forget the other four...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ufFY

______

Seraphim
Cherubim
Thrones
Dominion
Virtues
Powers
Principalities
Archangel
Guardian angels

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (HZi96)

65 I note the distinct lack of halos.

Posted by: But that's just me at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (XQo4F)

66 Baby Jesus has a lot of hair for a newborn.
----------

I had my first haircut when I was six weeks old.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Had a classmate in 8th grade, Italian kid, who could have been shaving.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (e2MJJ)

67 King of Kings, Savior of the World, The Prince of Peace, My Redeemer.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (P0m9n)

68 >61 God stole first base!

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (fV+MH)

Who?

Posted by: Lou Costello at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (NgqoH)

69 Baby Jesus has a lot of hair for a newborn.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
******
Not compared to a Hispanic baby.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

70 and could hit a curveball at age three
Posted by: Don Black


Pfft. I kilt me a bar.

Posted by: Davy Crockett at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

71 God stole first base!
Posted by: eleven

Bob and Tom - the first baseball game

https://t.ly/gE5WG

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 09:42 AM (cYBz/)

72 Guardian angels
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Mine quit. Hospitalized for nerves.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:42 AM (e2MJJ)

73 and could hit a curveball at age three
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)


Jobu was old enough to smoke and drink and he still couldn't hit a curveball.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:42 AM (ExV1e)

74 God stole first base!

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (fV+MH)

Who?
Posted by: Lou Costello at July 10, 2025 09:41 AM (NgqoH)

"I don't give a darn!"

(Shortstop?)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:42 AM (ufFY8)

75 What's the light source?

*************

The Answer May Surprise You - a praise limerick

From springing from the Virgin Mary's womb
'Til He rose again and overcame the tomb
His glory was unfurled
as the Light of the World
You can see by the way He lights up a room!

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 09:42 AM (poXs5)

76 Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 09:42

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 09:43 AM (2GCMq)

77 75

Threadwinner, muldoon.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ufFY8)

78 You know who else couldn't hit a curveball?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:44 AM (fV+MH)

79 *You can see by the way He lights up a room!*

Snort.

Posted by: Thanks Muldoon! at July 10, 2025 09:44 AM (XQo4F)

80 The Colorado Rockies?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (zhBpy)

81 Oh my.. That baby has to be 15 + pounds.... My Daughter was just under 10 pounds and that was hard enough...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VE6XX)

82 and could hit a curveball at age three
Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)


Was a quarterback at age 2. Who do you think invented the Hail Mary pass?

*I'll see myself out*

Posted by: Doof at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (5jU2p)

83 You know who else couldn't hit a curveball?
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:44 AM (fV+MH)

Currently, the Atlanta Braves.

Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)

84 Oh my.. That baby has to be 15 + pounds...

Well, Mary appears to have an ample supply, so...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 10, 2025 09:47 AM (ufFY8)

85 Also I don't the Holy Mother should show cleavage

it kind of goes against brand
Posted by: Don Black.


I don't think so at all. She's a mother. She has to feed her child. What better way to show that than through some (very modest) cleavage?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

86 Currently, the Atlanta Braves.
Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)


They're brave, not skilled.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:47 AM (ExV1e)

87 This is where Cameron got the designs for the Na’vi? Look at that nose.

Kid to the lady’s right (her right) looks like a pig.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 10, 2025 09:47 AM (aeiyZ)

88 LOL

84, 85

Horde Mind, treading carefully.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (ufFY8)

89 Expertly rendered but ultimately, jejune.

WNH.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (XV/Pl)

90 From L to R: Seraphim, Cherubim, Mary, Jesus, Guardian Angel.

Not pictured: Joseph.

Posted by: Photo caption at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

91 I don't think Carlo Maratti ever saw a newborn baby.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:49 AM (fV+MH)

92
Not pictured: Joseph.
Posted by: Photo caption at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

_________

Jewish husband. What do you expect?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:50 AM (HZi96)

93 From L to R: Seraphim, Cherubim, Mary, Jesus, Guardian Angel.

Not pictured: Joseph.
Posted by: Photo caption


Dad is working.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:50 AM (e2MJJ)

94 Not pictured: Joseph.
Posted by: Photo caption at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

He's got that deck to install in Nazareth Heights. New baby to feed.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ufFY8)

95 I for one am glad no one is talking about bewbs.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 09:50 AM (36PRH)

96 92, 93 & 94.

Horde mind. LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:51 AM (e2MJJ)

97 You know who else couldn't hit a curveball?
Posted by: eleven


Fred Brackenfeld. Whatta dink.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 09:51 AM (mlg/3)

98 >He's got that deck to install in Nazareth Heights. New baby to feed.
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LOL.

Posted by: Photo caption at July 10, 2025 09:51 AM (XQo4F)

99 You know who else couldn't hit a curveball?
Posted by: eleven


Me. Fact that I needed glasses didn't help.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:52 AM (e2MJJ)

100 Those aren’t the hands of a working class ancient Jewish woman.

Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 09:52 AM (2gjbv)

101 Those aren’t the hands of a working class ancient Jewish woman.
Posted by: H


How many do you have in your collection, Herr Ech?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 09:53 AM (mlg/3)

102 One of the most effective and moving portraits of Mary I've seen. She is every human mother, so feminine in her figure, her gentle hands, and peaceful expression as she holds her newborn. The dark background makes Mary and Jesus the only focus and gives them a luminous quality. The Cherubs are the only hint at the holiness of the event, otherwise it is so completely a human moment.

Posted by: JTB at July 10, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

103 Not pictured: Joseph.
Posted by: Photo caption at July 10, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

He's got that deck to install in Nazareth Heights. New baby to feed.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ufFY


Nazareth Heights -- I laughed at that way too much!

Also was reminded of the "Hymie Town" comment from one of those race hustlers (Sharpton? Jackson?)

Posted by: Doof at July 10, 2025 09:53 AM (5jU2p)

104 Expertly rendered but ultimately, jejune."

What does the USMC have to do with this?

Oh, "je-june". Never mind.

Posted by: man at July 10, 2025 09:54 AM (tubbA)

105 100 Those aren’t the hands of a working class ancient Jewish woman.
Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 09:52 AM

That's because they've been soaking in Palmolive liquid.

Posted by: Madge at July 10, 2025 09:54 AM (XQo4F)

106 Kid to the lady’s right (her right) looks like a pig.

The lady is Mary, the onlookers are angels and no it doesn't .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 09:54 AM (2GCMq)

107 Also was reminded of the "Hymie Town" comment from one of those race hustlers (Sharpton? Jackson?)
Posted by: Doof


Jackson was Hymie Town.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:55 AM (e2MJJ)

108 Also was reminded of the "Hymie Town" comment from one of those race hustlers (Sharpton? Jackson?)
Posted by: Doof


That was (in Rush's imitation of Buckley) REVEREND Jackson.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

109 Well...it would be a perfect depiction of a very not so newborn.


But it is lovely.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:56 AM (fV+MH)

110 Ha, I think Jackson was Hymie Town.

Had to come up with a neighborhood sounding description, and "Heights" is darned near universal.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:56 AM (ufFY8)

111 Hey, has anyone seen Kris lately? She doesn't seem to have been around very much.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

112 @110 Was Sharpton the one saying the joooos controlled the weather?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 09:57 AM (36PRH)

113
Joseph was a woodworker and Jesus helped him. Can you imagine having a chest of drawers marked, "J&J, 13 AD"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:58 AM (HZi96)

114 Was Sharpton the one saying the joooos controlled the weather?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

I thought that was some DC Councilman.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

115 There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights...

Posted by: Car 54 at July 10, 2025 09:59 AM (XQo4F)

116 Cocoa Supply Crunch Shown In One Chart
https://shorturl.at/OuPer
ZeroHedge

Forget Canadia. Invade Côte d’Ivoire!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 10:00 AM (ULPxl)

117 Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Please, come take my hand
Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Soon, you'll need a man...

Posted by: Neil Diamond, The Jewish Elvis at July 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r/wv3)

118 From L to R: Seraphim, Cherubim, Mary, Jesus, Guardian Angel.

Not pictured: Joseph.
Posted by: Photo caption

Joseph is still haggling with the inn-keeper over the price of their accommodations.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)

119 Joseph only paid wholesale.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:02 AM (fV+MH)

120 "Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation," he said.

White added: "And D.C. keep talking about, 'We a resilient city.' And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful."

Posted by: D.C. Councilman Trayon White Sr., March 2018, Facebook at July 10, 2025 10:02 AM (XQo4F)

121 Kid to the lady’s right (her right) looks like a pig.

The lady is Mary, the onlookers are angels and no it doesn't .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 09:54 AM (2GCMq)


The curl of hair on the fore angel being right in front of the nose of the aft angel does give that illusion, however.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ExV1e)

122 Beautiful painting. Would hang. Thank you CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 10:03 AM (JtH6i)

123 Joseph is still haggling with the inn-keeper over the price of their accommodations.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


"Take three shekels off for the cow poop in the next stall!"

"I didn't charge you anything to begin with!"

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 10:03 AM (e2MJJ)

124 Mary looks like Alice the Goon from Popeye.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 10, 2025 10:04 AM (eb5mD)

125 Joseph is still haggling with the inn-keeper over the price of their accommodations.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I want to speak to the Manger.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)

126 No Putti Allowed in the Delivery Room

NO EXCEPTIONS!

Posted by: Bethlehem General Hospital at July 10, 2025 10:05 AM (JkO4W)

127
Behold, a seely tender babe
In freezing winter night
In homely manger trembling lies,—
Alas, a piteous sight!
The inns are full, no man will yield
This little pilgrim bed,
But forced he is with seely beasts
In crib to shroud his head.
Despise him not for lying there,
First, what he is enquire,
An orient pearl is often found
In depth of dirty mire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 10:05 AM (HZi96)

128
Weigh not his crib, his wooden dish,
Nor beasts that by him feed;
Weigh not his mother's poor attire
Nor Joseph's simple weed.
This stable is a prince's court,
This crib his chair of state,
The beasts are parcel of his pomp,
The wooden dish his plate.
The persons in that poor attire
His royal liveries wear;
The prince himself is come from heaven—
This pomp is prized there.
With joy approach, O Christian wight,
Do homage to thy king;
And highly prize his humble pomp
Which he from heaven doth bring.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 10:06 AM (HZi96)

129 "I want to speak to the Manger.
Posted by: Tonypete"


The horse will see you now.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:06 AM (fV+MH)

130 https://tinyurl.com/2hamb9dr+

New information about the planet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (ExV1e)

131 Are the fore angel and the aft angel on Mary's port or the viewer's starboard?

Posted by: Not nautically inclined at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (XQo4F)

132 Are those puttos or cherubs? They all look the same to me.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ymT3i)


I think puttos wrap around your ankles and calves to keep the dirt out of your shoes.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (D7oie)

133 Beautiful painting.

Thanks.

Time for yard work. We'll see if home ownership after 6 months of hell will improve the quality of my work.

Posted by: Stateless NOT HOMELESS! 01% towards 20% getting better at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (jvJvP)

134 . . . ankles we have heard on high . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (D7oie)

135 Nor Joseph's simple weed.

Was it good bud?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 10:09 AM (Dqgxg)

136 Woman and children with an unusual light source? Should probably be reported as a potential radioactive orphan source. Fascinating and terrible incidents!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 10, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

137 *I think puttos wrap around your ankles and calves to keep the dirt out of your shoes.*

We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Spats at July 10, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

138 We're sitting right here.
Posted by: Spats at July 10, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)


I know, right?

Posted by: Gaiters at July 10, 2025 10:11 AM (D7oie)

139 135 Nor Joseph's simple weed.

Was it good bud?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 10:09 AM

Duuuude...

Posted by: Four twenty at July 10, 2025 10:12 AM (XQo4F)

140 Leggings

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 10:12 AM (AOsQT)

141 The major theme of Christ's birth is that of poverty. The Word spoke the entire universe into existence. He owns and commands it all (including, for example, the asteroid 16 Psyche, that contains an estimated ... stupid-money lot of gold), but gave it up to take on flesh and be born in a cave and laid in a food trough.

By his birth, he demonstrates his love for us, but also for the beauty of God's creation, which exists for God's glory, and not for our pleasure or comfort.

Our weak and insufficient, but still appropriate, response to Christ's birth is to care deeply for everyone who is less fortunate than ourselves. By this we worship God and show our love for him.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 10, 2025 10:13 AM (jYRYu)

142 That is a very big baby.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (fV+MH)

You said a mouthful.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:13 AM (Qr870)

143 Are the fore angel and the aft angel on Mary's port or the viewer's starboard?
Posted by: Not nautically inclined at July 10, 2025 10:07 AM (XQo4F)


Mary's starboard, viewer's port.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

144 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful art today. I guess CBD is watching Xmas in July on French television.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2025 10:14 AM (W/lyH)

145 113
Joseph was a woodworker and Jesus helped him. Can you imagine having a chest of drawers marked, "J&J, 13 AD"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Um, that would be "I&I, 13 AD"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 10:15 AM (Dv3i1)

146 "The major theme of Christ's birth is that of poverty."

We're on our way. And we're loaded.

Posted by: The three wise men at July 10, 2025 10:15 AM (XQo4F)

147 Leg warmers. A fashion that will hopefully never return.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 10:15 AM (QqW4y)

148 Would Mary have been the type of mom to wear yoga pants in public?

Posted by: Trivial speculation at July 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XQo4F)

149 Maybe I'm way behind everyone else (and this is from June 20), but this is the first time I've seen a map:
Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in 'alarming' threat to national security: experts
https://shorturl.at/d4HZC
NY Post

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 10:18 AM (ULPxl)

150 "The major theme of Christ's birth is that of poverty."
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If forced to come up with "the major theme", I would say humility not poverty.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Qr870)

151 150 "The major theme of Christ's birth is that of poverty."
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If forced to come up with "the major theme", I would say humility not poverty.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Qr870)

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Gotta be transforming robots from another world. It's in the subtext.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

152 Mary never once in her life asked to be shown to a manager.

A manger, yes.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Qr870)

153 Douglas Mackey who was convicted by the Biden DOJ for his evil meme of "Text your vote in" as "Election interference" in 2016, had his conviction overturned by the court of appeals, who noted "Lack of evidence".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Da7Vv)

154 150 "The major theme of Christ's birth is that of poverty."
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If forced to come up with "the major theme", I would say humility not poverty.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Qr870)

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Huh. I would have said, "climate change."

Posted by: Pope Leo XIV at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (hY4dx)

155 Judges would also have accepted "God's gift of redemption to all mankind."

Posted by: Major themes at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

156 Gotta be transforming robots from another world. It's in the subtext.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

John Connor the savior of humanity had the initials JC

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (Qr870)

157 owl.

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (GAyiy)

158 Judges would also have accepted "God's gift of redemption to all mankind."
Posted by: Major themes at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

That's just reading pretty heavily into it now.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:22 AM (Qr870)

159 this was before restricting incandescence.

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 10:22 AM (GAyiy)

160 John Connor the savior of humanity had the initials JC
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (Qr870)


His middle name was Henry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 10:22 AM (ExV1e)

161 156 Gotta be transforming robots from another world. It's in the subtext.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

John Connor the savior of humanity had the initials JC
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:21 AM (Qr870)

=======

Sarah Conner has the same initials as Sonny Chiba.

Coincidence?

There's no such thing as coincidence!

Wake up, sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

162 "Mary looks like Alice the Goon from Popeye"

No, she doesn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 10:22 AM (2GCMq)

163 "...big baby..."
you can't hurt that.

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 10:23 AM (GAyiy)

164 Thank you CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 10:03 AM (JtH6i)


You are very welcome!

I think the painting is lovely and sweet. Not fantastic art, but the artist had talent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (2yqAv)

165 Morning.

I bet this was easy to paint. I mean it's like three-quarters black.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (jklKX)

166 Why when the libs apply a pet issue to Mary and Christ, do they do immigration, and not, say, abortion. 🤔

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (Qr870)

167 "Would Mary have been the type of mom to wear yoga pants in public?
Posted by: Trivial speculation"

Probably more a culottes type. With flats.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (fV+MH)

168 Hmm, I actually like this. The lighting effect on the faces with the black background is a nice touch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 10:25 AM (snZF9)

169 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (2yqAv)

I always appreciate these. Thanks.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:25 AM (Qr870)

170 I think the painting is lovely and sweet. Not fantastic art, but the artist had talent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (2yqAv)

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He's no Cecilia Gimenez.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 10:25 AM (hY4dx)

171 "Lovely example of chiaroscuro."
i love mexican food.

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 10:26 AM (GAyiy)

172 166 Why when the libs apply a pet issue to Mary and Christ, do they do immigration, and not, say, abortion. 🤔
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM


I don't get no respect.

Posted by: Homelessness at July 10, 2025 10:26 AM (XQo4F)

173 this was before restricting incandescence.
Posted by: cmeat


Fred Upton fires up his time machine...

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

174 168 Hmm, I actually like this. The lighting effect on the faces with the black background is a nice touch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 10:25 AM (snZF9)

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I did it first.

Posted by: Elvis on Black Velvet at July 10, 2025 10:27 AM (hY4dx)

175 153 Douglas Mackey who was convicted by the Biden DOJ for his evil meme of "Text your vote in" as "Election interference" in 2016, had his conviction overturned by the court of appeals, who noted "Lack of evidence".
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
=======
The grand jury should have never indicted, the prosecutor should have never charged Mackey, the judge should have set aside the charges as a matter of law, the jury should have never convicted him, and the appellate courts sat on their ass on a patently unconstitutional violation of Mackey's 1st amendment rights for four years.

Everyone of those assholes should be ashamed and their money taken to compensate Mackey for a miscarriage of justice.

Hammurabi had a better idea, judges that misbehaved etc. for miscarriage of justice should be cast into the river (drowned).

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (ctrM5)

176 Huh.

I never thought the Holy Family was poor. Wasn’t Mary in-the House of David and therefore fairly well off?

Humble, yes. Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for them in the Inn, not because they were poor.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (aEdvU)

177 Ask your doctor if Restricting Incandescence is right for you.

Posted by: The Marketing Department at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (XQo4F)

178 Hmm. I see they hired a new Seven Times Viagra lady.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 10:29 AM (hY4dx)

179 Hammurabi had a better idea, judges that misbehaved etc. for miscarriage of justice should be cast into the river (drowned).
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (ctrM5)

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Hah!

That never works.

-- Sargon I
-- Moses
-- Romulus & Remus

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 10:30 AM (hY4dx)

180 Was the Holy Family Poor?

From a site called " Catholic Answers"

https://tinyurl.com/4x9ycpuw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 10:32 AM (2GCMq)

181 179 -- Romulus & Remus
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 10:30 AM (hY4dx)

=======

Just had Junior watch a video about them.

Gotta get him at least passingly familiar with Rome and its history before we go.

I've been having him read from a bunch of books my mother gave us to learn about different sites so far. The Colosseum and the Pantheon at this point.

I'm sure little is resting in long term memory, but at least I'm trying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

182 I'll never not love a good representation of the Holy Night.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:33 AM (aOqEy)

183 A Big Beautiful Baby, even. Fabulous. The best.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)
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😂 Tremendous baby, best that's ever been.

Posted by: bluebell at July 10, 2025 10:33 AM (P/Jb0)

184 Hammurabi had a better idea, judges that misbehaved etc. for miscarriage of justice should be cast into the river (drowned).
____

The boats instead. (shudders)

Posted by: Ancient Persians at July 10, 2025 10:33 AM (Dv3i1)

185 You are very welcome!

I think the painting is lovely and sweet. Not fantastic art, but the artist had talent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (2yqAv)


That's like, just your opinion, man!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:34 AM (aOqEy)

186 this was before restricting incandescence.
Posted by: cmeat


I saw restricting incandescence with Dramarama at the Corn Shuck Bowl in '89.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 10:34 AM (mlg/3)

187 Thank CBD.
Hadrian the Seventh, (127-12 is that your composition? Whatever the source it is profoundly moving.

Posted by: Lester Fahrner at July 10, 2025 10:34 AM (VQX6O)

188 "Horde Mind, treading carefully."
"you appear capable, mrs. mcdonagh."

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 10:35 AM (GAyiy)

189 "I'll never not love a good representation of the Holy Night.
Posted by: AlaBAMA"

It is beautiful but it's about a year and a half after the holy night.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:35 AM (fV+MH)

190 I'll never not love a good representation of the Holy Night.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:33 AM (aOqEy)
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Same here. There's nothing like a newborn baby, but especially that One.

Posted by: bluebell at July 10, 2025 10:35 AM (P/Jb0)

191 It is beautiful but it's about a year and a half after the holy night.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:35 AM (fV+MH)

Not according to the song.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:35 AM (aOqEy)

192
Whatever the source it is profoundly moving.
Posted by: Lester Fahrner at July 10, 2025 10:34 AM (VQX6O)

_________

"New Prince, New Pomp", by St. Robert Southwell

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 10:36 AM (HZi96)

193 What was the first thing Mary said after giving birth?


'Well, that was unexpected!'


Ba da bum

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:37 AM (aOqEy)

194 Houthi sank a second commercial ship.

Shit will hit the fan harder if they keep this up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 10:37 AM (ufFY8)

195 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

"Asterix" is always a good source for Roman history.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:37 AM (O5h9G)

196 193 What was the first thing Mary said after giving birth?


'Well, that was unexpected!'


Ba da bum
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:37 AM (aOqEy)

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*The Spanish Inquisition waits in the wings*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

197 Christmas in July?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 10:39 AM (Pce4l)

198 Cross-Eyed Mary?

Posted by: Jethro Tull at July 10, 2025 10:39 AM (Pce4l)

199 Joseph was a woodworker and Jesus helped him. Can you imagine having a chest of drawers marked, "J&J, 13 AD"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:58 AM (HZi96)
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I think about that often. Can you imagine having a piece of furniture made by the Holy Family? There has to be stuff somewhere and it has to be exceptional quality, I would think.

Probably no provenance papers though, sadly.

Posted by: bluebell at July 10, 2025 10:39 AM (P/Jb0)

200 "Christmas in July?
Posted by: Cow Demon"

Why not?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (fV+MH)

201 Orange man evil.

Senator Patty Murray@PattyMurray
The Trump administration thinks we should pull grandma out of the nursing home to have her work on a farm.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

202 183 A Big Beautiful Baby, even. Fabulous. The best.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)
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😂 Tremendous baby, best that's ever been.
Posted by: bluebell at July 10, 2025 10:33


Yuuge!

Posted by: Bigly at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)

203 A Big Beautiful Baby, even. Fabulous. The best.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

Even people who don't really know or like him very much, who are very very unfair to him, they agree he's the best. It's true.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (Qr870)

204 Next on Antiques Roadahow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (zhBpy)

205 Senator Patty Murray@PattyMurray
The Trump administration thinks we should pull grandma out of the nursing home to have her work on a farm.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

Never forget Ellipsis Rule #1

It's ALWAYS projection from the commies. That's literally their move. Well that and shooting them.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (Qr870)

206 194: no, we need to stay out of it. And I bet it’s America’s fault anyway

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (Pce4l)

207 Just had Junior watch a video about them.

Gotta get him at least passingly familiar with Rome and its history before we go.

I've been having him read from a bunch of books my mother gave us to learn about different sites so far. The Colosseum and the Pantheon at this point.

I'm sure little is resting in long term memory, but at least I'm trying.
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He likes pizza, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (W3T6M)

208 Universal Basic Income will get Homeless People Up Off the Street and Up On Their Feet. It would also Reduce Crime since People would no longer do Desperate Things to Survive. Furthermore, it would pay and feed Landlords, Supermarkets, and Pharmacies.

I doubt this will ever happen. Current government assistance covers some of the bases. Comparisons will be made to Covid-era STIM checks, which caused inflation.

Inflation caused as much by supply chain disruptions as anything else. And oligarchs arbitrarily raising price because of corporate greed.

If we could get UBI and Medicare for All that would be a great political accomplishment. This has actually been discussed about since the 80s. The day of automation, robots, and AI is going to replace almost everyone is here. Sadly, it won't happen until senate is apportioned by population.

Maybe UBI should be $20,000-$30,000 a year? More for Families. All that money would mostly feed Landlords, Supermarkets, and Pharmacies. The Economy would boom. Crime would go down significantly as people would not have to resort to desperate acts to survive. This is a decent policy...send to your elected officials

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

209 Never forget Ellipsis Rule #1

It's ALWAYS projection from the commies. That's literally their move. Well that and shooting them.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (Qr870)


*looks around, nervously*

Posted by: Cuomo at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (aOqEy)

210 The baby needs to be immediately tested for diabetes. Or diabeetus.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Pce4l)

211 195 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

"Asterix" is always a good source for Roman history.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:37 AM (O5h9G)

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Scanning through YouTube, Asterix and Caesar is available there.

Local library doesn't have anything, though.

It's a start.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

212 Finally Brooke Rollins gets a clue:
x.com/SecRollins/status/1943127456510017715
tinyurl.com/48nk3rec
Thank you anyone who was putting pressure on this weak reed. No thanks to the agricultural cartel.

Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (yYROg)

213 Great painting.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (ZRzmB)

214 UBI = government as parent, giving out allowance money.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Pce4l)

215 207 He likes pizza, rite?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (W3T6M)

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The Romulus and Remus video ended with a pizza joke.

It's just about the only thing he remembered.

I was just glad he also remembered the she-wolf. Kind of important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

216 Trump said he wants children to eat trees.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:43 AM (fV+MH)

217 210 The baby needs to be immediately tested for diabetes. Or diabeetus.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 10:42 AM


I can help.

Posted by: The new Barbie at July 10, 2025 10:43 AM (XQo4F)

218 Yes!! Art!!

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 10:43 AM (PMtkd)

219 208 Universal Basic Income will get Homeless People Up Off the Street and Up On Their Feet. It would also Reduce Crime since People would no longer do Desperate Things to Survive. Furthermore, it would pay and feed Landlords, Supermarkets, and Pharmacies.

If we could get UBI and Medicare for All that would be a great political accomplishment. This has actually been discussed about since the 80s. The day of automation, robots, and AI is going to replace almost everyone is here. Sadly, it won't happen until senate is apportioned by population.

Maybe UBI should be $20,000-$30,000 a year? More for Families. All that money would mostly feed Landlords, Supermarkets, and Pharmacies. The Economy would boom. Crime would go down significantly as people would not have to resort to desperate acts to survive. This is a decent policy...send to your elected officials
Posted by: Intercepted DU

======

None of these effects have happened in real world applications of UBI.

Because real UBI has never been tried.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

220
Houthi sank a second commercial ship.

Shit will hit the fan harder if they keep this up.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

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Fvcking bastards. Whose was it this time? Red Sea or elsewhere?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UmB+t)

221 UBI might help some homeless people but it's far more likely to exacerbate the rampant addiction issues amongst the homeless population.

In other words, it will kill more people like they want.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (aOqEy)

222 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

Do you do a detox every now and then?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (2yqAv)

223
Aaaaaand good morning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UmB+t)

224 It's just about the only thing he remembered.

I was just glad he also remembered the she-wolf. Kind of important.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

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Start celebrating the Lupercalia every year. He'll remember.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (hY4dx)

225 The Romulus and Remus video ended with a pizza joke.

It's just about the only thing he remembered.

I was just glad he also remembered the she-wolf. Kind of important.
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Treat him to Bolognaise sauce. This will change his life. A man of taste.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (W3T6M)

226 221 UBI might help some homeless people but it's far more likely to exacerbate the rampant addiction issues amongst the homeless population.
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Is this about us?

Posted by: EBT cards at July 10, 2025 10:45 AM (XQo4F)

227 Would Mary have been the type of mom to wear yoga pants in public?
Posted by: Trivial speculation"

Probably more a culottes type. With flats.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:24 AM (fV+MH)

And a leopard print blouse and she'd wear large cat-eye sunglasses during the daytime.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 10:45 AM (g8Ew8)

228 @208 So, in summary, the only solution for what ails the country is socialism.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 10:46 AM (36PRH)

229 >Do you do a detox every now and then?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist

That's a lot of detox!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 10, 2025 10:46 AM (ZRzmB)

230 Don't take Lupercalia if you're allergic to Lupercalia.

Posted by: The Legal Department at July 10, 2025 10:47 AM (XQo4F)

231 Those poor African-American women...

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Over 2,000 senior NASA staff plan to leave, per Politico.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 10:47 AM (mlg/3)

232 220
Houthi sank a second commercial ship.

Shit will hit the fan harder if they keep this up.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

===============

Fvcking bastards. Whose was it this time? Red Sea or elsewhere?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UmB+t)

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Weren't both of them Greek-owned vessels?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 10:47 AM (36PRH)

233 228 @208 So, in summary, the only solution for what ails the country is socialism.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

And making everyone Queer. It's never been tried!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at July 10, 2025 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

234 Beautiful

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (e+kSu)

235 Weren't both of them Greek-owned vessels?
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Don't piss off the Greeks.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (W3T6M)

236 235 Weren't both of them Greek-owned vessels?
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Don't piss off the Greeks.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (W3T6M)

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Modern day Greeks are tax dodging tourist trap owners who get pushed around by a neutered Germany.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

237 @231 don't let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (36PRH)

238 Oh what will we do without 2000 upper NASA staff?

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 10:48 AM (fV+MH)

239 Maybe UBI should be $20,000-$30,000 a year? More for Families. All that money would mostly feed Landlords, Supermarkets, and Pharmacies. The Economy would boom.


Breaking windows will fund the glazers.

The mind boggles.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)

240 I'll never not love a good representation of the Holy Night.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:33 AM (aOqEy)

Yeah!!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (PSEDc)

241 Modern day Greeks are tax dodging tourist trap owners who get pushed around by a neutered Germany.
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This is true. And they have to look at Germans wearing Speedos all the time, too! And they are badly sunburned as well. Not as bad as Irish with a Florida sunburn - but bad.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (W3T6M)

242
We'll get to UBI after we get the deficit zeroed down and a tril or so banked, everyone housed, everyone provided with vouchers for medical care (and the medical insurance industry substantially deregulated so that prices are normal), same for food, infrastructure in white-glove condition, all that jazz. THEN you can have your free drug money.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (UmB+t)

243 CNBC:

At 66 years old, one Sherman Oaks, California-based mom thought she'd be enjoying an empty nest with her husband. Instead, she's sharing her home with an unexpected roommate: her 27-year-old daughter. Since their 27-year-old moved back home in early 2024, the mother, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her daughter's identity, says she and her husband are spending close to $5,000 a month covering all of her daughter's living expenses. This includes up to $1,500 on food, $700 on transportation and $400 on her pet cat, the mother says.

... I've known parents who convert their kids old rooms within the hour of the kids moving out, just so they can't come back

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

244 Oh my.. That baby has to be 15 + pounds.... My Daughter was just under 10 pounds and that was hard enough...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VE6XX)

My grandmother's twin sister had a shitload of kids, none under 10 pounds, the heaviest 16 pounds. They say he was born walking lol. He's 6'5".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 10:51 AM (snZF9)

245 Wyatt, how nice to see you. Hope you are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 10:51 AM (HFcKg)

246 Mamdani's far-left allies aim to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC House Democrats

... at least now we know why he has a baseball bat

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 10:52 AM (RHGPo)

247 None of these effects have happened in real world applications of UBI.

Because real UBI has never been tried.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Commies keep trying to recreate the dynamics of a loving family where the parents work to sustain their children.

From each according to their abilities, and to each according to their needs only works when you have a loving and mutually respectful relationship in a family. It rarely scales well unless mebbe monasteries, etc. where the participants are screened out for slackers, etc.

Free ingress but rule breakers are cast out.

FWIW, Marx was a shitty parent who did not apply at home what he imagined for others.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

248 Stanley Dunham wasn’t a virgin, but it’s said she also brought forth a lightbringer.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 10, 2025 10:52 AM (qB+VJ)

249 This includes up to $1,500 on food


?!

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (jc0TO)

250 I was 11 lbs. my mother never let me forget it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (aOqEy)

251
And they are badly sunburned as well.

Posted by: pudinhead

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lol those sunburned Germans drove me crazy in Spain. They needed some rain on the plain to get them indoors. I bet that country leads in skin cancer rates.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (UmB+t)

252 This is a 'must read.' I repeat, a 'must read':

@TIKhistory
Karl Marx never bathed and had boils all over his body, was an alcoholic, had an unpaid maid whom he might have r*ped (he certainly got her pregnant, despite what Wikipedia says). He smoked so much it killed one of his babies (which he left in the family bed - the only one they had - because he was too lazy to get a job to afford to bury it), and he made his aristocratic wife depressed and turn to drink...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (mlg/3)

253 Houthi sank a second commercial ship.

Shit will hit the fan harder if they keep this up.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt


They need orbital bombardment.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (snZF9)

254 Humble, yes. Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for them in the Inn, not because they were poor.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (aEdvU)

Correct. Plus Joseph was a carpenter, which was considered a high-demand skill. They had money to spend.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

255 254 Humble, yes. Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for them in the Inn, not because they were poor.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 10, 2025 10:28 AM (aEdvU)

Correct. Plus Joseph was a carpenter, which was considered a high-demand skill. They had money to spend.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (g8Ew

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The flashback in The Passion of the Christ of Jesus making a table tall enough for seats is always a nice respite in the film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

256 At 66 years old, one Sherman Oaks, California-based mom thought she'd be enjoying an empty nest with her husband. Instead, she's sharing her home with an unexpected roommate: her 27-year-old daughter. Since their 27-year-old moved back home in early 2024, the mother, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her daughter's identity, says she and her husband are spending close to $5,000 a month covering all of her daughter's living expenses. This includes up to $1,500 on food, $700 on transportation and $400 on her pet cat, the mother says.

... I've known parents who convert their kids old rooms within the hour of the kids moving out, just so they can't come back
Posted by: SMOD
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Enablers do this and their behavior as parents may have something to do with their daughter's ridiculous expectations. Personal failure often breeds resilience and character by causing one to evaluate why they failed and what they must do to succeed.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

257 BREAKING: Over 2,000 senior NASA staff plan to leave, per Politico.


NASA has 2,000 people in Senior staff? Talk about bloat. Where are they going to go to get paid anywhere near the salary and benefits they are currently getting from taxpayers? China?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 10:54 AM (Dv3i1)

258 249 This includes up to $1,500 on food


?!
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:53 AM (jc0TO)

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Yeah, how much does their 27 year old daughter weigh? No wonder they want to protect her identity.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 10:55 AM (36PRH)

259 I could eat out 2 meals a day for $1500 a month.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)

260
Weren't both of them Greek-owned vessels?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

===============

The first one for sure, and it was a damn nice and big vessel. wtf is with those Houthis? Madmen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:55 AM (UmB+t)

261 238 Oh what will we do without 2000 upper NASA staff?
Posted by: eleven
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Less globull warming bullshit for one thing.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

262 Both Greek owned, flagged in 3rd party flagging countries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 10:56 AM (zhBpy)

263 ... I've known parents who convert their kids old rooms within the hour of the kids moving out, just so they can't come back
Posted by: SMOD

Failure to Launch movie, Terry Bradshaw, naked room.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 10:56 AM (Dv3i1)

264 The 2000 upper NASA staff should have taken the buyout.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:56 AM (jc0TO)

265 Trump shooting at Powell again on truth.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 10:56 AM (MGB5H)

266 They need orbital bombardment.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Linebacker I and II B-52 saturation bombing with dumb bombs. Obliterate their sorry asses and the whole region (other than Iran) will breathe a sigh of relief.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:57 AM (ctrM5)

267 Is NASA any closer to finding anything, anywhere?

Ridiculous waste of money. Might as well call it what it is, welfare for engineers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 10:57 AM (aOqEy)

268 The Holy Night, Carlo Maratti

Lovely.

But holy cow! Is there appropriate support from the Hallmark Channel and Walt Disney World Resort's, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party (Aug)?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2025 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

269 265 Trump shooting at Powell again on truth.
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Trump needs to kick this guy's ass. Curb Stomp Em.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 10:57 AM (W3T6M)

270 Trump shooting at Powell again on truth.


Yay! Oh wait ... ON truth, not IN truth.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM (jc0TO)

271 265 Trump shooting at Powell again on truth.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Powell led the Fed to billions of bucks in losses by propping up the Biden junta. He is now costing the US taxpayer billions of bucks in refinancing charges by keeping interest rates up when not warranted.

Plus, the f*cker lied about the 2.5 billion buck renovation of the Fed's HQ. Powell is a rotten apple and a shitty Fed chief.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

272
That story about the 27-year-old came into my aggregator and I didn't click, but now I'd like to know, how on earth does it cost $5000/month to support someone who isn't paying rent? $700/month for a cat must mean it's a very sick cat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM (UmB+t)

273 Bomb their infastructure. Power plants, ports, whatever they have.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM (zhBpy)

274 Is NASA any closer to finding anything, anywhere?

Ridiculous waste of money. Might as well call it what it is, welfare for engineers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA


Woah, woah, slow down there, kemosabe. Some people need to ... checks notes... eat.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

275 Routh, second attempted assassin, is in court today trying to shit can his public defenders.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 10:59 AM (MGB5H)

276 275 Routh, second attempted assassin, is in court today trying to shit can his public defenders.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 10:59 AM (MGB5H)

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He's not serious unless he's screaming Attica.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

277 Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

My son- who is not 27 -just graduated from college in May of '24. He currently lives at home but is working. It would be financially hard for him to move out but he does pay a number of bills so it's not as if he's freeloading.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 10:59 AM (2GCMq)

278 Bomb their infastructure. Power plants, ports, whatever they have.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 10:58 AM


Bomb them forward to the stone age.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)

279 Treat him to Bolognaise sauce. This will change his life. A man of taste.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Never cared for it. So I guess I will be a man with no taste.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:00 AM (ctrM5)

280 I love how NASA defends its value by claiming we wouldn't have figured out microwaves or tang without them.

The very engineers who figured it out inside NASA could have figured out the popcorn maker outside NASA.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 11:00 AM (aOqEy)

281 @270 At least Trump's rants are limited to the Truth Social. Imagine him recording those same "statements" on Tiktok with his face too close to the camera.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (36PRH)

282 I'M OUT OF ORDER?! YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!!!

Posted by: Ryan Wesley Routh at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (jc0TO)

283 nood fagz

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 11:01 AM (fV+MH)

284 I'm surprised Brennan is showing his mug on MSNBC.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (36PRH)

285 My son- who is not 27 -just graduated from college in May of '24. He currently lives at home but is working. It would be financially hard for him to move out but he does pay a number of bills so it's not as if he's freeloading.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I can see your position but not the family situation as described above. For whatever reason, sometimes children return to their parent's home for a time (schooling, getting started on a job, etc).

But, for a parent to shove out a bunch of money in order to support a layabout that apparently does not want to work at 27 to support herself to the tune of thousands of bucks per month, not so much.

The prodigal son was welcomed back with a feast, but not a feast everyday after that.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (ctrM5)

286 If we could get UBI and Medicare for All that would be a great political accomplishment. This has actually been discussed about since the 80s. The day of automation, robots, and AI is going to replace almost everyone is here. Sadly, it won't happen until senate is apportioned by population.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)


... and here we see the wisdom of not apportioning the senate by population.

Posted by: Emmie at July 10, 2025 11:04 AM (rF2iL)

287 My son- who is not 27 -just graduated from college in May of '24. He currently lives at home but is working. It would be financially hard for him to move out but he does pay a number of bills so it's not as if he's freeloading.
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My wife is guiding a former student who graduated Magna Cum Laude from RIT in how to get a job. He is a quick learner but the shit he doesn't know is massive. The career path for him is to, get this, Intern for a year to get hired. I remember a time when RIT Engineers were recruited on campus. Methinks the IT/Software world is totes fucked up.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 11:04 AM (W3T6M)

288 That story about the 27-year-old came into my aggregator and I didn't click, but now I'd like to know, how on earth does it cost $5000/month to support someone who isn't paying rent? $700/month for a cat must mean it's a very sick cat.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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My guess is somewhere very upscale and daughter expects that 60k per year to support her lifestyle that she has become accustomed to.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:05 AM (ctrM5)

289 Methinks the IT/Software world is totes fucked up.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Massive shift in technology to AI right now is my guess plus companies prefer hiring the cheaper H1B's.

Guy would do better trying to enlist in armed forces, get some credentials, plus a security clearance that defense contractors want.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:07 AM (ctrM5)

290 Wait.
Are they saying there's no Epstein client list?
Or are they saying there's no Epstein client _blackmail_ list?
'Cause if the latter, it sounds like they are being hyper-technical.

Like, there's no list that goes something like:
"Prince Charles, 2 videos of sex with a young boy. Paying $100k per month."

Now, that's not to say that that list can't be built.

I'd also suggest that the biggest source of his income wasn't blackmail but accommodating their depravity with absolute, guaranteed discretion.
And if he was an IC asset, there's a big chance he had no idea, or was kept ignorant, of the blackmail side.
There is no Epstein blackmail list.
B/c it's the CIA's list.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 11:08 AM (VlU/R)

291 Posted by: whig at July 10, 2025 11:03 AM (ctrM5)

I didn't see the article but if the kids don't want to get a job after a reasonable amount of time looking then the parents should not be paying for them. We show our son the bills: "This is your health insurance, This is your car insurance " and say "We expect you to pay at least part of them. He also pays for the food for some kind of diet he's on to lose fat and gain muscle.

This seems to be growing concern for some people: Kids coming back home, and I think there are therapists who people who deal with putting down expectations with kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 11:10 AM (2GCMq)

292 She also remains on their medical insurance! Another problem with the ACA (Medicare/Medicaid), places where people don't need or want to grow up.
---
Ameritas, Can You Stay on Your Parents’ Insurance After Age 26? June 9, 2025

Know the "aging up" rule
Most states require adults to get their own insurance by age 26. However, eight states allow young adults to apply to stay on their parent’s plan beyond age 26. These states are Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin (as of January 2025).

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2025 11:11 AM (NFX2v)

293 Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 11:04 AM (W3T6M)

Good for your wife helping It must be a tough situation for the young person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (2GCMq)

294 Houthi sank a second commercial ship.

**********

Tell me (lie if you have to) that they used a torpedo known as "The Blowfish"

Posted by: muldoon at July 10, 2025 11:12 AM (poXs5)

295 she and her husband are spending close to $5,000 a month covering all of her daughter's living expenses. This includes up to $1,500 on food, $700 on transportation and $400 on her pet cat, the mother says.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo


Maybe it's time to cut back and only cover necessary expenses. The daughter can pay for her own pet cat if having a pet is that important. Maybe the daughter could also pack her own lunch

Posted by: Emmie at July 10, 2025 11:15 AM (rF2iL)

296 "Ask your doctor if Restricting Incandescence is right for you."
side effects include tongue stain. do not take in a vacuum.

Posted by: cmeat at July 10, 2025 11:22 AM (GAyiy)

297 Oh, yes. Son pays for his own gas for car to and from work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 11:32 AM (K/6I2)

The Morning Report — 7/10 /25

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Good morning kids,

Kind of funny that Debbie Wasserman (Test +) Schultz is worried about ZOhran Mamdani driving away Jewish voters . . .and yet she who was last seen being spit-roasted by two Pakistani brothers and jihadist terrorist adjacent computer hackers, has yet to say boo about Bro-Fo Omar, or the Coelacanth-looking Dearbornistanian Rancida Tlaib, or Andre Carson, TItty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez and all the other bust out loud and proud Jew-haters in her party. All of a sudden, oh no! we might lose the Jewish vote! AS IF!!!

Sadly given the fact that the vast majority of my co-religionists (which is merely a tragic accident of birth) who continue to delude themselves into thinking the Democrat Party is their savior and protector will always vote Democrat regardless of who their candidate is, simply out of generational, Pavlovian reflexive belief of the myth that Democrat = Good and GOP = Evil, regardless of the facts hitting them in the face like a molotov cocktail from a keffiyah-clad Columbia undergrad. But even if they don't, and by some miracle even one of them wakes up and smells the coffee, New York city and state are rigged, the fluke of Rudy Giuliani and Doomberg notwithstanding. There is no way Curtis Sliwa will win, and the fact that Eric Adams, Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop mass murderer Cuomo or even Carlos Danger couldn't win the primary is indicative of just how utterly insane New York and its Democrat Party are.

Basta Cosi, as there are more important things in the offing this morning.


But in a related story, as I will attempt to elucidate if you bear with me, at least this will make you smile:

Violent demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations broke out near a courthouse in downtown San Francisco, California, on Tuesday. Video of the protest shows far-left demonstrators attempting to interfere with federal immigration enforcement action by barring the path of an ICE van and climbing onto its hood.At least two demonstrators can be seen in the video clinging to the ICE vehicle as it attempts to drive away, with one person falling off and another holding on as the van swerves sharply. Protesters, many wearing masks and keffiyehs, were also seen engaging in physical altercations with federal agents. “Holy f***ing s**t, frightening times, right?” a demonstrator can be heard exclaiming in the video before adding: “What the f**k have we gotten ourselves into?”Meanwhile, another protester who spoke with local San Francisco media, identified only as “Sorin,” stated that see was injured while attempting to block an ICE vehicle. “I was bleeding everywhere,” she said, adding: “They were brutal to those of us trying to exercise our rights and protect our community.”

Good. "What the fuck have we gotten ourselves into?!" Helluva time to wake up, Genius! Now lick your wounds, and take it like a man (as perhaps your cellmate in D-Block will tell you as he bends you over in the prison shower).

If only that would be the fate of John Brennan, James Comey (pronounced Cummy) and Clapper.

Alas, At the very least as CBD and I pondered in the latest episode of the podcast,(linked here, in the sidebar and at the usual outlets noted below the exposure of their treasonous treachery will forever stain them and stand as a warning for future generations of a revived America.

So, As Debbie Wasserman Schultz contemplates why no one condemns Zohran Mamdani and the turn that her Party is taking, and searches for a jackhammer to attempt to remove the encrusted godzilla semen from her hair, curious that she is not equally curious why no one, and not least of which her in this case, is condemning the attacks on ICE.

Is there a greater danger to a constitutional republic than an armed phalanx of nihilists, activated by the words of the leaders of the minority party, attempting to maim and kill government officials?

For all their sanctimony about “protecting democracy” and “upholding the rule of law,” today’s Democrats have built a movement that selectively nullifies both. When they’re in power, they ignore the law, declining to enforce statutes they dislike, gutting immigration courts, and instructing executive agencies to slow-walk deportations.

When out of power, they attempt to nullify the exercise of executive power through venue shopping, nationwide injunctions, institutional sabotage, and now, through ideological violence.

It’s the same pattern every time: If voters elect someone they oppose, they launch impeachment proceedings or shop for a judge to block authority. If ICE agents do their jobs, they are branded as racists. If a president uses Article II powers to enforce the border, they call it fascism. It’s nullification by any means necessary—ballots, bench, or bullets. The difference between the Democrat party and the Jacobins is increasingly that of wardrobe and weaponry. The Democrats have spent years stoking this fire. They wrap their bombast in the language of compassion—but it’s calculated sabotage, and they know it.

Lurker Extraordinaire, and Ace Cruetly Fanboi, Prof. Victor Davis Hanson states in his eloquent and accurate essay . . .

Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence.

For sure, Trump's successes are a major factor in the lashing out by the Left we are witnessing. But Trump's policy successes hold up a mirror and serve to underscore the Democrat/Left's abject failures and destruction that have been going on for decades. And that is the real danger to the Democrats, it is an existential threat to their future as more and more people are awakened to this fact: that all of the pain, misery, suffering and waste of life and potential for well over 200 years is all the fault of the Democrat Party and the Leftist movement. Perhaps like the hapless bruised and baterred Antifa dupe above, more and more average Democrat voters are saying to themselves in their own quiet way "What the Fuck Have We Gotten Ourselves Into?!"


Trump, and please God a growing and unstoppable movement of American revival and renaissance that he started when he came down that escalator 10 years ago will eradicate Leftist progressivism and last until America's Quincentenary in 2276 and beyond. Amen.

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    The Roots of Leftist Rage
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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2025 07:17 AM (e5NfL)

2 Now to the content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 10, 2025 07:17 AM (e5NfL)

3 Bon jour, mes amis gris

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:18 AM (xW5lw)

4 I nooded.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 07:20 AM (O7YUW)

5 A couple of old Israeli fighter pilots couldn't resist the opportunity to fly against Iran, so they did. I guess once badass, always badass.

https://tinyurl.com/3kyn2xuf

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:20 AM (xW5lw)

6 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

8 Top 10! yAy!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 07:21 AM (lXoJ5)

9 Willowed:

Don't be so crabby.

"Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

They musseled in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

Buncha chowderheads
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (JRP2U)

We've got it covered.
Posted by: Old Bay
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

167 150 >They musseled in.
___
It's just the clam before the storm.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 10, 2025 07:10 AM (XQo4F)

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

10 Debbie Wasserman Shultz mystifies me. Why she employed a Pakistani spy, maybe knowingly, for as long as she did, and did nothing to stop it, is nutso.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:23 AM (xW5lw)

11 Re: Epstein.

Nobody knows nothing.

Trust Trump. He's got something big going on.

As the kids say, let him cook.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 10, 2025 07:24 AM (47/pr)

12 thx jj

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

13 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

I saw video of that scrum outside the courthouse downtown and I must wonder, why aren't the LEO simply clubbing these people into submission?

You cannot allow these people to assault the police and walk away unscathed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2025 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

14 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 07:25 AM (Q4IgG)

15 Nacly Dog, Thought of you yesterday after reading about your "almost 20 year anniversary". Hugs and good wishes are sent your way.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 10, 2025 07:26 AM (yTvNw)

16 Yesterday would have been my 20th anniversary. So I called my best friend, from 10th grade. He was at the wedding. A friend of his answered. My friend had passed away unobserved the day after I last called him. A wellness check found him.

We can go from hanging on to out so fast these days.

There is no family left. He outlived them all.

Hold those you love close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

17 {Salty}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2025 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

18 {{{Mrs JTB}}}

Thank you. I guess I did sign up for the "full life experience."

I remember the good times. Our wedding was definitely one of them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

19 Usually Nextdoor is either boring or a sewer of NPC non-thought but I happened to look at it for my old LA neighborhood last night and had to chuckle…. One guy was dropping truth bombs left and right about ICE actions being lawful and righteous quoting US code sections etc… it was just an epic smack down of all the emotionalism (kidnapping rreeee) on the site…. So epic one lady who didn’t agree with him piped up and accused him of “writing and arguing so well he must be using AI”

Dude your arguments are too good… you must be cheating with AI!! Hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 07:30 AM (nrfI8)

20 Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence.
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VDH is on to something, but that last part may be too mildly stated. I think "impotence" is better than fading influence, impotence in the face of pitched battles against specific policies the left hates. They've failed to gain any popular traction so far, and it's killing them. They're left hating PDJT personally, because they convince themselves his personal political strength keeps the policies alive. If only they could get rid of Trump, or so they think, the policies would fail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:31 AM (QEO+S)

21 Old Bay sux and J.O. is worse

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 07:31 AM (T1QkV)

22 Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 10, 2025 07:31 AM (wVcYX)

23 San Franpsycho

When the real history of this time is examined, I expect the epidemiologists will find the COVID-19 Wuhan vaccine as the most virulent of the new killer diseases.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

24
Very sorry for you and your friend, Salty.

"O God, Who has doomed all men to die, but has concealed from all the hour of their death, grant that I may pass my days in the practice of holiness and justice, and that I may deserve to quit this world in the peace of a good conscience, and in the embraces of Your love."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:32 AM (HZi96)

25 They're left hating PDJT personally, because they convince themselves his personal political strength keeps the policies alive. If only they could get rid of Trump, or so they think, the policies would fail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:31 AM (QEO+S)


Excellent point, and one that suggests that the Cult of Personality that has formed around President Trump is probably destructive in the long term.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 07:32 AM (Zv8bq)

26 {{{fart jokes)))

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 07:32 AM (fV+MH)

27 “In this conservative women’s media sphere,” CNN lectures ominously, “modern feminism is seen as anti-men, casual sex and nontraditional relationship structures are viewed as detrimental"

"STOP NOTICING!" they pleaded desperately as they clung to their last scrap of relevancy with the desperation of a drowning man.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 07:33 AM (lXoJ5)

28 Sadly given the fact that the vast majority of my co-religionists (which is merely a tragic accident of birth) who continue to delude themselves into thinking the Democrat Party is their savior and protector will always vote Democrat regardless of who their candidate is, simply out of generational, Pavlovian reflexive belief of the myth that Democrat = Good and GOP = Evil, regardless of the facts hitting them in the face like a molotov cocktail from a keffiyah-clad Columbia undergrad.

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Prager used to explain it as "Jews continuing to vote for FDR."

Despite FDR’s bigotry which derailed many Holocaust rescue plans:

[The TImes of Israel (November 2019):] "Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans"

https://is.gd/NpZYWP

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:33 AM (jPEX5)

29 Alias Sid is fever dreaming again, confusing socialist Nazis with right wingers. What a sad, mixed-up mess of alt-history Sid lives in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:33 AM (QEO+S)

30 *As the kids say, let him cook.*

We never say that.

Posted by: The kids at July 10, 2025 07:34 AM (XQo4F)

31 All your Hitlers are belong to us.

Posted by: xGrok at July 10, 2025 07:36 AM (wVcYX)

32 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 07:37 AM (cYBz/)

33 All your Hitlers are belong to us.
Posted by: xGrok at July 10, 2025 07:36 AM (wVcYX)

🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 07:37 AM (g47mK)

34 “All members of the faithful in the Diocese of San Bernardino who, due to genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions, are unable to attend Sunday Mass or Masses on holy days of obligation are dispensed from this obligation, as provided for in Canon 1247, until such time as this decree is revoked or amended,” Rojas wrote.

Nice Church if you can keep it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

35 >28 “In this conservative women’s media sphere,” CNN lectures ominously, “modern feminism is seen as anti-men, casual sex and nontraditional relationship structures are viewed as detrimental"

+++
LOL. Has CNN found the plane yet?

Posted by: The black hole beckons at July 10, 2025 07:39 AM (XQo4F)

36 I saw video of that scrum outside the courthouse downtown and I must wonder, why aren't the LEO simply clubbing these people into submission?

You cannot allow these people to assault the police and walk away unscathed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2025 07:25 AM (RIvkX)
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It's the usual performative San Francisco stuff. If they weren't protesting ICE that same group of people would be getting all worked up about something else, don't you think?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:40 AM (v0QQY)

37
I can understand the historical attraction of Jews to the Democratic party. Most Jews emigrating to the US came from Eastern Europe and Russia, where pogroms, poverty and discrimination were rampant. Without a kind of mutual aid, their lot would have been even worse.

But that's not the Democratic party of today. The one today is all in with their new Muslim pals and the cause of the Palestinian murderers is their new banner. I don't know what, if anything, will change the attitude of the - if I may use the term - secular Jews.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:40 AM (HZi96)

38 I was lonely , but now I found xGrok ! Are you lonely, confused, uninspired, misunderstood? Visit xGrok for some collaborative fun and exchange of ideas !
---neo-nazis

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 07:41 AM (g47mK)

39 "Aliassmithsmith"


Like you actually care about Americans.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 07:41 AM (fV+MH)

40 Despite its hostility to America and American values, Democrat presidents have enthusiastically encouraged its growth.

Despite? I think you mean "Because of".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

41 Nobody knows nothing.
Trust Trump. He's got something big going on.
As the kids say, let him cook.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 10, 2025 07:24 AM (47/pr)

This isn't his scandal. He inherited it. If he's playing it the way he is, he has a compelling reason, and his reasoning is based on America's best interests. If you really trust Trump, that's the only position to take.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 07:42 AM (WHfpM)

42 > > Elon Musk Can’t Buy the Swamp (in Deep State D.C., Swamp Bayou! - jjs)
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🤣

Very true

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

43 I saw Encrusted Godzilla Semen open for Test Icicles at La Zona Rosa in '06.

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:42 AM (jPEX5)

44 Huck Follywood

I went to several World Bank protests. The choreographed scrum near police officers is usually directed by leaders at a distance with good comms.

Those are the ones to take in. Roll up the network. They are highly organized for touted anarchists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

45 Inside Philadelphia Public Libraries' 'Palestine Storytime' Events, Where Kids Are Taught To Make 'Protest Art' Promoting 'Palestinian Liberation'

Who had Drag Queen Mohammedan Terrorist Hour on their Bingo Card?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

46 The problem was not that FDR didn't want the Jews, the problem was that nobody wanted the Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
%C3%89vian_Conference

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:44 AM (HZi96)

47 It’s nullification by any means necessary—ballots, bench, or bullets.

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

Old & Busted: "Send lawyers, guns and money ..."
New Hotness: "Send ballots, bench, and bullets ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:44 AM (jPEX5)

48 ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day'

That show was nasty.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

49 If they weren't protesting ICE that same group of people would be getting all worked up about something else, don't you think?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:40 AM (v0QQY)
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Agreed but I can't recall seeing actual assault like that before.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2025 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

50 "Coelacanth-looking"? WTF?

At any rate, for people who are supposed to be smart, it hasn't made any sense for Jews to be Democrats for decades now. Give that ANOTHER "WTF"?

As best I can figure, Republicans were the hard core Christianity folks, with a fair amount of "Jews killed Christ" anti-Semitism in the mix. But for the last couple of decades at least, the Religious Right doesn't have the grip on the Republican Party that it used to, and the Democrats have become openly anti-Israel and pro-Islamist. The guys that want to bring old-fashioned pogromes to America are todays Democrats.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 10, 2025 07:45 AM (hOOi9)

51 I went to several World Bank protests. The choreographed scrum near police officers is usually directed by leaders at a distance with good comms.

Those are the ones to take in. Roll up the network. They are highly organized for touted anarchists.


Clearly the Feds don't want to roll up the leaders or they would have. The Feds have owned SIGINT and counter-SIGINT for generations, if they wanted these guys, they would have grabbed them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:46 AM (a4flb)

52 I mean ... they tried to shoot him.



If you don't think he's legit then what the fuck does it take???

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 07:46 AM (fV+MH)

53 I don't know what, if anything, will change the attitude of the - if I may use the term - secular Jews.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:40 AM (HZi96)


Nor do I. It is irrational, illogical, and contrary to even the most basic civilizational rules for survival, but they continue to support those who will eventually destroy them.

And the ones I know will come to my home if the shit hits the fan, because I am nothing like them!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 07:46 AM (Zv8bq)

54 This morning is our annual pistol qual exercise for my parish's security team.

Always an interesting event as some will bring previously untested weapons instead of their EDC.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (cYBz/)

55 Saw a story where some senior flag officers in the IAF flew missions against Iran.

Fighter pilots getting stuff done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

56
Every constituency group in the Democratic party has an expiration date.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (HZi96)

57 Trump Blasts ‘Deranged’ Democrats over Bill to Identify ICE Officers, Prevent Them from Wearing Face Coverings

--

Then DC and the IC should stop redacting sections of released sensitive materials that supposedly hide names to protect individuals. If it's ok to target ICE by not allowing them to cover up so they're put in harm's way, same applies to all those redacted names on various court-ordered releases of info and FOIA requests.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

58 ... will eradicate Leftist progressivism and last until America's Quincentenary in 2276 and beyond. Amen.

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"We will have our revenge (and I will meet you there) -- in this life or the next!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (jPEX5)

59 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Job Security for police and other agencies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

60 Does Debbie Was-A-Man Snitch really use Encrusted Godzilla Semen as hair mousse?

Posted by: Only her hairdresser knows for sure at July 10, 2025 07:49 AM (XQo4F)

61 But for the last couple of decades at least, the Religious Right doesn't have the grip on the Republican Party that it used to, and the Democrats have become openly anti-Israel and pro-Islamist.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 10, 2025 07:45 AM (hOOi9)


I'll take the Religious right any day over GOPe Republicans.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 07:49 AM (Zv8bq)

62 Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot integrated into the X platform (formerly Twitter), has ignited widespread controversy after it posted a series of anti-Semitic messages. Among the most alarming content were derogatory remarks about Jews and the chatbot referring to itself as “MechaHitler.”

Hitler bad
Stalin and Moa (bobba) Moa Moa
Good

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

63 ‘Sounds Like A Politician’: Dan Turrentine Says Ketanji Brown-25 Jackson ‘May Be A Stain On Biden

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Very Meta (vis-a-vis Affirmative Action Jackson): A Stain on a ShitStain ...

"I do what's right and wait for the law to catch up with me."
-- OG Anti-American and -Constitution Commie DEI Hire Justice Thurgood Marshall

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM (jPEX5)

64 Is Pam Bondi burning the midnight oil working on getting indictments, arrests, pleadings, convictions and prison time for the anti-ICE insurrectionists?

Never has so little been accomplished by a woman who was given so much...

Posted by: Get Your Ass In Gear Already Bitch! at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM (r/wv3)

65 The problem was not that FDR didn't want the Jews, the problem was that nobody wanted the Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:44 AM (HZi96)

from that page, it looks like the US and UK exceeded the refugee quota set by the nazi, in spite of what happened at that conference..of course the UK would not loosen its control over the mandate, which they lost anyway

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 07:51 AM (g47mK)

66 54 This morning is our annual pistol qual exercise for my parish's security team.

Always an interesting event as some will bring previously untested weapons instead of their EDC.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (cYBz/)

Bendición de las pistolas

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

67 Prager used to explain it as "Jews continuing to vote for FDR."

Despite FDR’s bigotry which derailed many Holocaust rescue plans:

[The TImes of Israel (November 2019):] "Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans"

https://is.gd/NpZYWP
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:33 AM (jPEX5)


People know what they know and all the facts in the world will not make them turn away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

68 Never has so little been accomplished by a woman who was given so much...
Posted by: Get Your Ass In Gear Already Bitch! at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM (r/wv3)

Megyn Kelly predicts she's gone soon. Kelly has been pretty accurate in her predictions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 07:53 AM (WHfpM)

69 Bondi is flaccid so far.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 07:53 AM (S0RZG)

70 Outstanding Commentary today JJ. Thank You

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 07:53 AM (YCxFk)

71 If they weren't protesting ICE that same group of people would be getting all worked up about something else, don't you think?

Its targets of opportunity. Right now, the optics are bad for burning down cities like they did for the BLM riots.

Weak minded people who have a Savior Complex are told that Gazans and MS-13 gang members are "Sparks of Divinity" so as the self-anointed Guardian Angels of these lesser creatures in need of Someone Speaking Out For Them, speaking which means violence, they justify their miserable, neurotic, chronic mental illness lives with lashing out at politically acceptable targets.

I'm trying to figure out why the Trump administration is OK with this violence. Given abandoning shoring up the budget, and now capitulating to the Globalists in feeding the Ukrainian Grift Machine, burying the Epstein Client List and failing to actually go after any bad actors, the Trump team apparently is a flash administration.

Back to Business As Usual.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

72 "Megyn Kelly predicts she's gone soon. Kelly has been pretty accurate in her predictions.
Posted by: Ordinary American "

I like Megyn. She's legit.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 07:55 AM (fV+MH)

73 Would of any these antifa anti Ice idiots been arrested under Merrick Garland? No. Give Bondi a break. She is making sure no local left wing judges get these cases

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 07:55 AM (YCxFk)

74 The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.
Secret Service suspends 6 agents assigned to protect Trump during Butler assassination attempt

They are still using pics from 7th grade yearbook for Crooks. He had phones. He had bank accounts. His house was scrubbed. (they took the silverware).
This is all fucking bullshit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

75 The whole public announcement of "investigations" of Brennan and Comey are being done all wrong.

First the FBI/DOJ has to slip some salacious gossip to a friendly news outlet, the friendly news outlet reports it, which in turn the FBI/DOJ use to justify opening a counter intelligence operation/investigation, which in turn allows them to get a FISA warrant, which lets them surveil them and every one connected to the, then they determine that all of their lawyers are part of the criminal conspiracy which removes ACP, that lets them surveil their attorneys, and you keep this up for half a decade bankrupting them and everyone connected to them.


I mean, that's how you do it, right?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (XV/Pl)

76 64 Is Pam Bondi burning the midnight oil working on getting indictments, arrests, pleadings, convictions and prison time for the anti-ICE insurrectionists?

Never has so little been accomplished by a woman who was given so much...
Posted by: Get Your Ass In Gear Already Bitch! at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM
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I would, but my internet connectivity isn't very good here inside the Fox News green room.

Posted by: Pamela Blondie at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (XQo4F)

77 One notable parallel that is astonishing to me (not really) is the “intelligentsia” and all the right people branded Whittiker Chambers as an uncultured boor at the time. Alger Hiss was an urbane sophisticate you see. He couldn’t possibly be a Communist, you see.

There is a recurring theme in US politics, certainly the Department of State among others, where they invariably choose the wrong side, and destabilize. Start wars, it would seem. And anyone not on the “Full Speed Ahead” bandwagon gets the Treatment. It might be relatively benign at first, but they will be eliminated one way or another.

I see the parallels with Donny J. “Two Scoops” Trump, President type, 1 ea. All the urbane sophisticates, the “usual suspects” had knives out for him from the start. Exact. Same. Playbook.

The destruction of Senator Joe McCarthy was an early deep state manifestation of wielding their power. Barry Goldwater got their attention as well. Nixon, of course.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (Mav0r)

78 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (T+z9y)

79
Those are the ones to take in. Roll up the network. They are highly organized for touted anarchists.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
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This.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (PTkP3)

80
Nor was FDR's attitude toward Jews anything exceptional in America. This country never had the racial hatred of Jews like Germany or the religious hatred like France, but, like in Britain, there was a deep social distain for Jews in the US. It was here a long time before WWII and it stayed a long time afterwards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:57 AM (HZi96)

81 But for the last couple of decades at least, the Religious Right doesn't have the grip on the Republican Party that it used to, and the Democrats have become openly anti-Israel and pro-Islamist.

Excuse me? Ted Cruz is demanding that the US hand over a quarter trillion dollars to Israel for Reasons.

That is some serious AIPAC/Evangelical influence.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

82 Every constituency group in the Democratic party has an expiration date.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:47 AM (HZi96)

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"One King To Rule Them All."

/The "NO KINGS" PsyOp!

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:57 AM (jPEX5)

83 First the FBI/DOJ has to slip some salacious gossip to a friendly news outlet, the friendly news outlet reports it, which in turn the FBI/DOJ use to justify opening a counter intelligence operation/investigation, which in turn allows them to get a FISA warrant, which lets them surveil them and every one connected to the, then they determine that all of their lawyers are part of the criminal conspiracy which removes ACP, that lets them surveil their attorneys, and you keep this up for half a decade bankrupting them and everyone connected to them.


I mean, that's how you do it, right?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (XV/Pl)

Bhussein start all of this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

84 Megyn Kelly was no very accurate in 2016, when she was a never Trumper. Bondi will get at least a year.

A new AG has to be confirmed by the Senate. She has good Deputies though, but would only be acting AG

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 07:58 AM (YCxFk)

85
Off to make coffee for Her Majesty and get the brutes fed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:58 AM (HZi96)

86 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 07:59 AM (e2MJJ)

87 These people climbing on the ICE vehicles are trying to get them to stop. This is their mission.

If they stop their will be violence and death, the result of that will only bolster their side.

They want martyrs. The press needs martyrs.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 07:59 AM (ri7hX)

88 Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the preferred candidate among Texas Democrat voters to run for Senate in 2026, according to recent polling.

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Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

89 @10

>>Debbie Wasserman Shultz mystifies me. Why she employed a Pakistani spy, maybe knowingly, for as long as she did, and did nothing to stop it, is nutso.

The even bigger mystery is why did the Paki spy and his family get a tap on the wrist and were allowed to leave the country.

Maybe the same people "investigating" the Epstein case can add this to their plate seeing as they've wrapped up everything.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 07:59 AM (XV/Pl)

90 Getting rid of Bondi would be a victory for trash like Tillis and the other RINO's, who want another gentleman like Bill Barr

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:00 AM (YCxFk)

91 They are still using pics from 7th grade yearbook for Crooks. He had phones. He had bank accounts. His house was scrubbed. (they took the silverware).
This is all fucking bullshit.


Well, the Three Stooges have proven to be a trio of do-nothing fuck-ups, so we should find some other distraction before they make one for us.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

92 Eric Adams is still the sitting mayor, and has the Bully Pulpit. Silwas and cuomo need to endorse him

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:01 AM (YCxFk)

93 There’s One Last Chance To Hold John Brennan Accountable For Russiagate

Him being shot in homo love triangle?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

94 A new AG has to be confirmed by the Senate. She has good Deputies though, but would only be acting AG
Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 07:58 AM (YCxFk)

Harmeet Dhillon will run things for as long as it takes. I'll be surprised if Bondi makes it to Labor Day. She's aggressively mishandled stuff that directly redounds to the President -- unforgivable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:02 AM (WHfpM)

95 Getting rid of Bondi would be a victory for trash like Tillis and the other RINO's, who want another gentleman like Bill Barr

So same worthless AG, but not as easy on the eyes.

At this point, Trump should just appoint a Mexican Weathergirl.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:02 AM (a4flb)

96 88. If Georgians can vote for Rapheal Warnock .....

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:02 AM (YCxFk)

97 @90

>>Getting rid of Bondi would be a victory for trash like Tillis and the other RINO's, who want another gentleman like Bill Barr

She's a lightweight and incompetent, and quite frankly, I'm sick of listening to her bullsh*t.

There was a reason they wouldn't let Matt Gaetz be AG, and Blondi is showing us what that reason was.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 08:03 AM (XV/Pl)

98 >Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.
Posted by: Lady in Black

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Yes, if she just starts wearing an oversized foam rubber ten gallon pink cowboy hat.

Posted by: Frederica Wilson at July 10, 2025 08:03 AM (XQo4F)

99 Bondi will fall because of the Epstein mess. It's one thing to say "I saw the files and decided not to release the information, for good reasons of national security." It's another to stand up and say "What files?". The latter is just too obviously insults the intelligence of her audience.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:03 AM (elz1b)

100 Take pity on a moron...what's the "25" reference to KJB? Is it her IQ? I kidding about the IQ, but I really don't know.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 10, 2025 08:04 AM (Wg6v7)

101 88 Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the preferred candidate among Texas Democrat voters to run for Senate in 2026, according to recent polling.

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Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)



How many Wetbacks have licenses and are now registered Democrats? I hope Texas has toughened their election integrity laws?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

102 When thinking of Bondi, remember this. Tillis is retiring and on the Jud Committee. No new AG gets out of Committee without him.

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (YCxFk)

103 Mexican Weathergirl looks way too high maintenance.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (fV+MH)

104 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May shade from a cloud-dappled sky keep you a tad cooler.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

105 Getting rid of Bondi would be a victory for trash like Tillis and the other RINO's, who want another gentleman like Bill Barr.

Well, a democrat AG would have run guns to Mexico, shot up a few ranches out west, fire bombed a religious cult and deported a Cuban child or two by now all the while droning a few Americans overseas they didn't like and investigating a few congressman for blackmail information and making examples of them with a few zero dark thirty no knock raids.

Posted by: Bagpipes Billy Boy Barr, Deep Stater at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (r/wv3)

106 Arguments that the DoJ hasn't had but a number of months to make any headway are beginning to look weak. With a stack of pending issues ranging from the auto pen scandal to Brennan and Comey's involvement in the Russia-gate hoax, AG Bondi and the bopsi-twins over at the FBI have their hands full.

Lastly, with the punting of all things Epstein, the DoJ is effectively 0-1. This is not "winning."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)

107 Unless Trump doesn't like Bondi, she's not going anywhere.

She has time to have some wins but the Epstein case has been a shitty look for a lot of people.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:06 AM (PMtkd)

108 Matthew Arbo, a self-described “academic and ethicist turned leadership and culture consultant,” began working for Lankford in July as a senior adviser, with one of his priority roles being leading the Values Action Team (VAT), a coalition of proclaimed conservative members of Congress whose staffs meet weekly with outside groups to advocate for a conservative agenda.

Values
100k new illegal per month
6 year path to amnesty
100% dismissal of crimes
PS
OU SUCKS (festering donkey dicks)

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

109 Maybe the same people "investigating" the Epstein case can add this to their plate seeing as they've wrapped up everything.

If by "investigating" you mean destroying evidence and spreading disinformation, they already have departments with that skill set in place.

One of the fall out conspiracies from this epic mis-management and aftermath of the Epstein case is that people are connecting the dots and painting a Fang Fang/Fartswell type honeypot relationship with Patel and his 18 years younger "Mossad" girlfriend.

Mossad is being blamed for everything, even Climate Change, so why not?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

110 Here is a feel good. Montana Federal court has 3 Judges. All were Obama appointed, due to Tester and Max Baucus.

2 of those Obama appointees are retiring, allowing Trump to replace them. Good stuff

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

111 Off to make coffee for Her Majesty and get the brutes fed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:58 AM (HZi96)
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My life story too, in one sentence.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:07 AM (elz1b)

112 Democratic socialists in New York City, emboldened by Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary win, are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next — and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at the top of their list, is daring them to try.

MAGA literally wants to deport Mandami, so of course DSA focuses on fighting Democrats

Wouldn't it be nice if the DSA wasn't completely silent about MAGA? Most Dems are congratulating Mandami and fighting MAGA. As usual DSA cannot be bothered to admit MAGA is a threat. They have no interest in opposing Republicans, just Democrats.

The young want anti war candidates, and Mamdami had over 50,000 volunteers. He had an unprecedented volunteer campaign. Mamdani's policy positions should be the Democratic baseline. Workers above owners. Labor before capital. And really mean it and act on it instead of paying lip service while maintaining the status quo.

Mamdani has shown Dems how to win the young male vote and Trump supporters. But it's more important to do the bidding of donors for some Democrats.

We need a rebranding from "socialism", though. The term new-deal capitalism or social democracy?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 08:07 AM (ycI94)

113 . If Georgians can vote for Rapheal Warnock .....
Posted by: Jonah

True. I've got a lot of election questions, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 10, 2025 08:07 AM (S0RZG)

114 107. I am more worried about Patel, than Bondi

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

115 113. Agreed

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

116 One notable parallel that is astonishing to me (not really) is the “intelligentsia” and all the right people branded Whittiker Chambers as an uncultured boor at the time. Alger Hiss was an urbane sophisticate you see. He couldn’t possibly be a Communist, you see.

...

I see the parallels with Donny J. “Two Scoops” Trump, President type, 1 ea. All the urbane sophisticates, the “usual suspects” had knives out for him from the start. Exact. Same. Playbook.

The destruction of Senator Joe McCarthy was an early deep state manifestation of wielding their power. Barry Goldwater got their attention as well. Nixon, of course.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 07:56 AM (Mav0r)

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Soviet Communist Spy Whittaker Chambers was (in)famous for writing a critique of Ayn Rand's magnum opus "Atlas Shrugged."

Here's a recent buffoonery published by some idiot named Paul Baumann at some idiocy named Commonweal Magazine:

"From Ayn Rand to Donald Trump: Whittaker Chambers tried to warn us (May 29, 2025)"

https://is.gd/NLDXxL

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 08:08 AM (jPEX5)

117 @99

>>The latter is just too obviously insults the intelligence of her audience.

The pivoting from The whole we got truck loads of stuff coming to everything is child **** and we can't release any of it to, client list? what client list?, nonsense is unacceptable.

She's got to go and I think Kash and Bongino have to go as well, they simply look like deers caught in the headlights anytime they are questioned and Bongino has particularly nasty responses when questioned.

It's just not at all acceptable what they are doing, and it's not going away.

So If the administration wants to protect Jeffrey F***king Epstein and Deep State Cabal that propped him up, fine, but it's going to hang around you like hobo stank.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 08:09 AM (XV/Pl)

118 99 Bondi will fall because of the Epstein mess. It's one thing to say "I saw the files and decided not to release the information, for good reasons of national security." It's another to stand up and say "What files?". The latter is just too obviously insults the intelligence of her audience.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:03 AM (elz1b)

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Yes. Had they handled it like this, they still would have gotten pushback, but those not so invested would have been willing to say, "I've trusted him this far and he's been good so I'm trusting him."

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:09 AM (PMtkd)

119 Mamdani has shown Dems how to win the young male vote and Trump supporters.

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@Grok, is that you?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 08:10 AM (jPEX5)

120 What has Bongino said recently about the Epstein files?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:10 AM (PMtkd)

121 Violent demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations broke out near a courthouse in downtown San Francisco, California, on Tuesday

A few years of Pound Me in the Ass Prison is a great cure for this type of behavior. Keep the prosecutions coming!
Keep winning!!!!!!

Posted by: JUDGE WALLY GATOR at July 10, 2025 08:10 AM (5yGIt)

122 Lastly, with the punting of all things Epstein, the DoJ is effectively 0-1. This is not "winning."

DNC/RNC pipe bomb? 0-2
Butler PA shooter? 0-3
Tolerating to the point of it appearing as Facilitating the riots against ICE? 0-4

Sending a battalion of agents to stomp around in the Idaho woods looking for a off-the-meds arsonist/shooter appears to me that they don't want to go after any Deep State adjacent criminality.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

123 106. Good points Martini, but how do we proceed? Do we try to prevent new marxism and Corruption, or go digging the past?

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

124 Jared Isaacman, who was collateral damage in the Musk Wars, says he was a Democrat but now is a Republican, and he's thinking of running for some political job. Why he became a Republican ought to be instructive to Democrats, but the lesson will just fly right over their socialist little heads:

As for his politics—the thing that got him in trouble with Gor—Isaacman tells me he has always viewed himself as a “moderate” who was pushed further to the right as the left embraced what he regarded as nonsensical, progressive policies. “I have two daughters; I don’t like the idea of biological males in locker rooms with my kids,” he said. “And I am ideologically aligned with many things in Trump’s agenda, certainly smaller government and bringing spending under control.”

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:11 AM (g+IG3)

125 Ok, one more time for those of us who are hard of learning:

Why is Ghislaine Maxwell in jail?

Posted by: Still not getting it at July 10, 2025 08:12 AM (XQo4F)

126 Bondi is loyal to Trump. AG is probably the most important position, and toughest position in his cabinet - the constant drumbeat about her is coming from inside the house - DC. they spread it onto blogosphere. They obviously want her out, since she is not Barr or Mr. I recuse myself, let's get Special prosecutor in here. Scary thought. I DGAF about Epstein, but I do about loyalty.

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 08:13 AM (g47mK)

127 The pivoting from The whole we got truck loads of stuff coming to everything is child **** and we can't release any of it to, client list? what client list?, nonsense is unacceptable.

She's got to go and I think Kash and Bongino have to go as well, they simply look like deers caught in the headlights anytime they are questioned and Bongino has particularly nasty responses when questioned.

It's just not at all acceptable what they are doing, and it's not going away.

So If the administration wants to protect Jeffrey F***king Epstein and Deep State Cabal that propped him up, fine, but it's going to hang around you like hobo stank.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 08:09 AM (XV/Pl)

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Well-said, Thomas. I've lost respect for all three of them and Trump would be wise to cut them all loose ... but then he'd have to admit to having been wrong (one of his weaknesses).

I don't know if Matt Gaetz (or frankly anybody who could be confirmed by that Hive of Villainy in The Senate) would be any better, but what the hell: Make The AG Gaetz Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 08:13 AM (jPEX5)

128 Old Bay is an essential nutrient and is required for enjoyment of seafood. So Clam up out there!

Posted by: Cockles and Mussels, Alive-Alive-O at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (G5+As)

129 @125

>>Why is Ghislaine Maxwell in jail?

Because apparently, her and Epstein were trafficking underage girls for prostitution and engaged in a pedo ring that only involved them and no one else.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (XV/Pl)

130 "She's got to go and I think Kash and Bongino have to go as well, they simply look like deers caught in the headlights anytime they are questioned and Bongino has particularly nasty responses when questioned."

I think the problem is that they're just not administrators, not leaders. Kash is a loyal, able staffer from way back, and Bongino is a worker bee. That's not enough in these positions. Compare this to Scott Bessant, a superior administrator and leader. The rest of the cabinet seem to understand how to run their departments to serve the President.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)

131 Given abandoning shoring up the budget, and now capitulating to the Globalists in feeding the Ukrainian Grift Machine, burying the Epstein Client List and failing to actually go after any bad actors, the Trump team apparently is a flash administration.

Back to Business As Usual.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)


Interesting times. What we know for sure is that Trump is the real deal. So we know that when he seems to deviate from the script that some sort of 5D chess thing is going on.

On the Ukraine, maybe Putin (who is really am anti-Globalist ally) is getting out of line, and it's a negotiation. Trump has suddenly pulled back on sending things to Ukraine before. As it is, he's been handing victory to Putin, because he knows Z will never seek peace.

They're obviously lying about Epstein. Probably, that means Epstein is alive, in witness protection, and there is a MASSIVE investigation afoot and they want to make the bad guys complacent.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (hOOi9)

132 Good morning!

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (TwZXH)

133

Damn, SHould've used Wasserman's face for the vampire.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)

134 Ok, one more time for those of us who are hard of learning:

Why is Ghislaine Maxwell in jail?

Posted by: Still not getting it at July 10, 2025 08:12 AM (XQo4F)

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She didn't bid high enough for an AutoPen Pardon?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 08:15 AM (jPEX5)

135 What has Bongino said recently about the Epstein files?

Bongino should take his totally wrecked reputation and retire with his millions. Maybe there are enough sycophants and losers who likes his style of empty bravado and spunk where he can restart podcasting.

Bongino actually did far more meaningful investigations when they payout was book royalties and fodder for his podcasts, but actually put him in a position of authority?

Bongino is following his own rule: "Don't Get Dead" and by that, there is a reason why he has serious protection detail, because elements in the Deep State/Five Eyes/etc. want him to be a sinecure.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb)

136 99

>>The latter is just too obviously insults the intelligence of her audience.

The pivoting from The whole we got truck loads of stuff coming to everything is child **** and we can't release any of it to, client list? what client list?, nonsense is unacceptable.

She's got to go and I think Kash and Bongino have to go as well, they simply look like deers caught in the headlights anytime they are questioned and Bongino has particularly nasty responses when questioned.

It's just not at all acceptable what they are doing, and it's not going away.

So If the administration wants to protect Jeffrey F***king Epstein and Deep State Cabal that propped him up, fine, but it's going to hang around you like hobo stank.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 08:09 AM (XV/Pl)

It’s not to say that Blondi and Kash and Bongino have done no good but they have not done the good required to save the rule of law and order—ie put THE primary focus of the DOJ/FBI on those who censored, harassed and imprisoned law abiding Americans during the Biden reign of terror. We , essentially, care about nothing else but justice for the seditionists and traitors.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 10, 2025 08:16 AM (FCPbW)

137 Good morning!

>>Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence.


Oh yeah, witnessed this yesterday at a place I volunteer. A delightful woman, apart from politics, uncharacteristically went off on "Why are there so many people that HATE and want to take the rights we fought so hard and died for?!?!?"
*sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:16 AM (GbwPZ)

138 As for his politics—the thing that got him in trouble with Gor—Isaacman tells me he has always viewed himself as a “moderate” who was pushed further to the right as the left embraced what he regarded as nonsensical, progressive policies. “I have two daughters; I don’t like the idea of biological males in locker rooms with my kids,” he said. “And I am ideologically aligned with many things in Trump’s agenda, certainly smaller government and bringing spending under control.”

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That contrasts with that boob of a dad a while back (a Dudes for Harris guy?) that I remember wherein he was voting for the ability of his younger daughters to have abortions in the future.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

139 122. Arresting Antifa rioters with Federal Charges, instead of allowing local and state Charges. 1-0

I want perp walks too, but I also want Elon back on our side for 2028. It will be here before ya know it


Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

140 The Teachers union just held their annual commie camp convention in, of all places, Portland. They condemned parents who want to stop the indoctrination of children into cadres, and then they worshipped Baal before symbolically burning a federal building.

Anyway, I hate the teachers unions with the fire of seven suns.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:18 AM (7k1wd)

141 Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the preferred candidate among Texas Democrat voters to run for Senate in 2026, according to recent polling.

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Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.
Posted by: Lady in Black


I would crawl nude over broken glass while doused witb rubbing alcohol to vote against her.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:18 AM (e2MJJ)

142 Why is Ghislaine Maxwell in jail?

From what I understand, its a "Conspiracy" charge, which means that there has to be some level of believable conjecture that some people were going to do something criminal.

Since we are told that there are no johns in this so-called sex trafficking ring, and they refuse to try to identify anyone in the mounds of child-pr0n sitting on their desks, apparently there are no victims.

She is a patsy for some people thinking about doing bad things to young girls.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

143 tful woman, apart from politics, uncharacteristically went off on "Why are there so many people that HATE and want to take the rights we fought so hard and died for?!?!?"
*sigh*

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What rights have been taken away? Sigh, for sure.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 08:18 AM (qBdHI)

144 I think the problem is that they're just not administrators, not leaders. Kash is a loyal, able staffer from way back, and Bongino is a worker bee. That's not enough in these positions. Compare this to Scott Bessant, a superior administrator and leader. The rest of the cabinet seem to understand how to run their departments to serve the President.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)


No. Kash, especially has walked the walk. The "problem" is that they are at the tip of the spear now, and so to do their job a certain amount of deception is required, as is the case in all war. I sincerely believe that neither of those two like to lie to the public like this, and it is making them testy.

If nothing seems to be happening, it's because what's really going on is massive, and they can't afford to tip anybody off. Massive operations don't happen overnight.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 10, 2025 08:18 AM (hOOi9)

145 I don't think Patel, Bongino or Bondi are going anywhere.

I've lost respect for them too; HOWEVER, we need them there. WTF else are we going to get appointed that isn't a hack for the left or worse?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (PMtkd)

146 130. It’s amazing how fast so called conservatives pivot from hero worship of Trump cabinet members to demanding their removal when their answers don’t fulfill these people’s fantasy over an issue.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (K45Rj)

147
Jizz Lane intersects Hershey Highway?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (x0n13)

148 >>. . .over their bill, which would require Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to display legible identification and prohibit them from wearing face coverings.


Will some Republican please add to this bill a requirement for full transparency of Congress as well, including they make public all of their residences, their children's schools, and oh yeah, which Congressional staffers have been paid off to hush up sexual assault allegations?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:20 AM (GbwPZ)

149 I got a flat tire last week. I suspect Mossad did it.

Posted by: Secret Agent Man at July 10, 2025 08:20 AM (G5+As)

150 Excellent point, and one that suggests that the Cult of Personality that has formed around President Trump is probably destructive in the long term.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 10, 2025 07:32 AM (Zv8bq)

The saving grace is that any “cult of personality” has just over a 3 year time limit on it, then it’s done. He’s too old to linger on like Obama, influencing policies for another decade. There will be a successor in 3 years; there has to be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:20 AM (0DdMG)

151 I have no clue what happened with the Epstein stuff but I don’t care too much…. Yeah Patel and Bongino and Bondi stepped on a few rakes…. But at the same time I don’t want people like Laura Loomer dictating personnel decisions for Trump… she seems kinda nutty to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 08:20 AM (nrfI8)

152 "What we know for sure is that Trump is the real deal. So we know that when he seems to deviate from the script that some sort of 5D chess thing is going on."

This is an example of Personality Cultism. This is Faith, not reason.

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 08:21 AM (TwZXH)

153 This is about a week old but …

The managed care industry got carpet-bombed yesterday, after Centene Corporation (CNC), one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., suffered the worst single-day stock drop in its history—crashing up to 40% after yanking its 2025 guidance. The crash was caused by devastating new actuarial data showing that Centene’s Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollees are sicker, costlier, and fewer than expected, especially in 22 states where Centene holds significant market share.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 08:21 AM (gaHF4)

154 >>What rights have been taken away? Sigh, for sure.

Abortion and DEI stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:21 AM (GbwPZ)

155 You guys think a new AG and FBI director will be so easy to get confirmed.

How do ya think we got Chris Wray, Bill Barr, and Jeff Sessions?

Because the GOP Senate told Trump his first picks would not be confirmed. They already DK'ed Ed Martin in 2025.

Even with Trump's political capital this year, he had to fight to get Bondi, hesgeth, and Patel confirmed

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

156 It's National Piña Colada Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

157 Since I'm not privy to the day-to-day operations at the DOJ, I'm not as quick to throw Bondi, Patel, Bongino under the bus. Although I think the Epstein thing was badly handled (those Phase I binders given out were very, very stupid). I'll reassess my thoughts on those 3 at the end of their first year.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

158 Fred Thompson said a thing about that violence in San Francisco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (jYRYu)

159 Next time Trump has a televised cabinet meeting, tune in to it. It's mind-numbing in how banal they can be, but it's very interesting in where people are seated and what they feel is important enough to bring up in that setting. Obviously it's mostly run-of-the-mill stuff and nothing classified... however occasionally someone will let slip a tid-bit of juicy information.

There was some shuffling of seat assignments for this last meeting. That can be, but isn't always an indication of "who's in and who's out" in the administration.

The previous cabinet meetings are on YouTube and the White House's website.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

160 I don't know if Matt Gaetz (or frankly anybody who could be confirmed by that Hive of Villainy in The Senate) would be any better, but what the hell: Make The AG Gaetz Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 08:13 AM (jPEX5)

FWIW you have a winning idea and slogan there: MAGGA!. ….it would be a move that is truly Trumpian. Bold, audacious and Entirely positive for his voters…and the rule of law.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (FCPbW)

161 Bottom line, is a big majority of Trump voters do not care about Epstein.

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

162 Crockett leads a hypothetical primary field with 35% of likely Democratic voters, followed by former Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred at 20%, former Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and Rep. Joaquin Castro tied at 13%.

Cornholeyn is walking dead man.
Paxton up over 25%

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

163 Alex Jones:

https://tinyurl.com/25axuf47

The Federalist:

https://tinyurl.com/3cvvw6jc

Not a good picture. Not what we voted for. Maybe not what a lot of people will make an effort to vote for in 26:

https://tinyurl.com/txmnej59

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 08:24 AM (x8PQF)

164 156 It's National Piña Colada Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

Im not into yoga

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

165 We need another John Ashcroft for sure

Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

166 >>That contrasts with that boob of a dad a while back (a Dudes for Harris guy?) that I remember wherein he was voting for the ability of his younger daughters to have abortions in the future.


What's the matter with Kansas, you ask?
Well, what's the matter with these people who doggedly fight for the right to extinguish their bloodline?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:25 AM (GbwPZ)

167 It’s amazing how fast so called conservatives pivot from hero worship of Trump cabinet members to demanding their removal when their answers don’t fulfill these people’s fantasy over an issue.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (K45Rj)
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While this is a good argument I also am persuaded by the "never apologize and don't give an inch" argument, meaning, Bondi said what she said and, as ridiculous as it might have been, now I intend to accept it rather than see the left take down a cabinet appointee. If she goes, she should go on Trump's terms, not to satisfy outside critics.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:26 AM (7k1wd)

168 The managed care industry got carpet-bombed yesterday, after Centene Corporation (CNC), one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., suffered the worst single-day stock drop in its history—crashing up to 40% after yanking its 2025 guidance. The crash was caused by devastating new actuarial data showing that Centene’s Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollees are sicker, costlier, and fewer than expected, especially in 22 states where Centene holds significant market share.


so.... the mRNA shots did their jobs?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 08:26 AM (Pv3Rg)

169 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)

170 The managed care industry got carpet-bombed yesterday, after Centene Corporation (CNC), one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., suffered the worst single-day stock drop in its history—crashing up to 40% after yanking its 2025 guidance. The crash was caused by devastating new actuarial data showing that Centene’s Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollees are sicker, costlier, and fewer than expected, especially in 22 states where Centene holds significant market share.
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 08:21 AM (gaHF4)

That was the plan. Coward Penis crash and then TA fucking DA Medicaid for all.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

171 The previous cabinet meetings are on YouTube and the White House's website.


Martini Farmer! I was literally going to post this very suggestion this morning

I find the cabinet meetings all super interesting, which is crazy

lots of good stuff in there

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 08:27 AM (Pv3Rg)

172 >>It's National Piña Colada Day.

May just get caught in the rain!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:27 AM (GbwPZ)

173 I think the error with the Epstein files is that they jumped out with promises to make them public without understanding what they had. At a bare minimum, I think they found out that it’s not worth collapsing the Israeli government, and wrecking the entire political situation in the Middle East, just to make activists in the US happy.

Are some evil people who were involved going to get away with evil things? Yes, they are. The cost of taking them down is clearly far too high.
(Of course I’m sure all 5 eyes were involved in the Espionage Island.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:27 AM (0DdMG)

174 Cornholeyn is walking dead man.
Paxton up over 25%
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

I would not be surprised at all to see Cornyn drop out. He has no chance and he must know that….

I can’t believe I don’t know; Has Paxton formally announced he’s running?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 08:27 AM (nrfI8)

175 On the Ukraine, maybe Putin (who is really am anti-Globalist ally) is getting out of line, and it's a negotiation. Trump has suddenly pulled back on sending things to Ukraine before. As it is, he's been handing victory to Putin, because he knows Z will never seek peace.

Again, its not our (meaning the West's) fight. This is a lovers quarrel that has been going on for centuries.

Z is a fraud puppet that was installed by the Deep State for the benefit of Bankers, MIC, Globalists et al. As we saw with CoViD, death is part of the kink, so when Trump says No More Deaths, the DS is taking that personally since that is what they want.

What pisses me off is that the US only makes 500 Patriot missiles a year, and many of those were cooked off in defense of US's foreign bases due to Israel's spat with Iran (that somehow I have to underwrite both sides of the fight).

Trump is emptying the US's ability to defend itself by giving that corrupt dictator Z the ability to keep the war going and kiling more people.

Trump is making America Last Again just like all of his predecessors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

176 > Take pity on a moron...what's the "25" reference to KJB?
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go to youtube and search 'brown 25'

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (AOsQT)

177 Whole attempting to retrieve my cake I got caught in the rain.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (zhBpy)

178 Ha! It just started raining while I am enjoying my coffee and EMT in the backyard. Guess I'll have to drink a pina colada today. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:29 AM (GbwPZ)

179 The previous cabinet meetings are on YouTube and the White House's website.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

Here is Idi Amin's cabinet meeting from 1970.

"Don't Be Weak...You Must Not Be Like A Woman"...

https://tinyurl.com/3ykratx5

Posted by: Lion King at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (r/wv3)

180 Ghilaine Maxwell is in prison and Epstein is dead.


That's what we'll get.

The pimps got punished. That's what we'll get.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (fV+MH)

181 1 I have no clue what happened with the Epstein stuff but I don’t care too much…. Yeah Patel and Bongino and Bondi stepped on a few rakes…. But at the same time I don’t want people like Laura Loomer dictating personnel decisions for Trump… she seems kinda nutty to me
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 08:20 AM (nrfI
******
Agreed. I'm not going to hold this against them as there are other things that are way more important to me.
As far as Loomer is concerned, Trump needs to stay far away from that loon.

I was expecting the article J.J. linked: "A Florida woman has been arrested after arriving at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club with a gun and “an urgent message” to be about Loomer , but it wasn't.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

182 Maybe Bondi could bring in Gaetz as some kind of deputy AG, then PDTS could let her 'retire' and let Gaetz serve as the acting AG, then drag out the selection/appointment of her replacement.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (3Ope8)

183 over their bill, which would require Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to display legible identification and prohibit them from wearing face coverings.


Will some Republican please add to this bill a requirement for full transparency of Congress as well, including they make public all of their residences, their children's schools, and oh yeah, which Congressional staffers have been paid off to hush up sexual assault allegations?
Posted by: Lizzy


Add in that if Antifa or any protester wears ANY kind of face covering that they can and WILL be shot on the spot. No questions asked.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (e2MJJ)

184 I enjoyed seeing the usual land whales and retards being run over by the ICE vehicle. I feel much better now. Thanks JJ!

Posted by: It's The Small Pleasures In Life at July 10, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

185 4/8/25

Earlier, Paxton hinted at the news on X, writing: "Tune into Laura Ingraham on FNC. You don't want to miss this one."

Later, Paxton tweeted: "It's official. I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for President Trump's agenda and take a sledgehammer to the D.C. establishment. Together, let's send John Cornyn packing."

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

186 Good morning, Horde. I’ll probably continue in lurking mode. Off to read the content. Thanks. J.J.

Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 08:32 AM (fveCG)

187 >>Add in that if Antifa or any protester wears ANY kind of face covering that they can and WILL be shot on the spot. No questions asked.

D'oh!

YES!!! No face masks while protesting if ICE has to unmask.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:32 AM (GbwPZ)

188 oh well -

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated the newly composed “Mass for the Care of Creation” today, marking the first use of the liturgical texts he approved a few weeks ago.
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Delivering a homily – comprised of a prepared text and initial off-the-cuff comments – Leo said that Francis’ writings are still relevant today: “In a world that is burning, both from global warming and from armed conflicts, which make Pope Francis’ message in his encyclicals Laudato si‘ and Fratelli tutti so relevant today.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)

189 What I think is the best part of the poll showing Crockett ahead is the finding that Beat-o is politically dead. Only 13% support among Democrats! But everyone hates a 3 time loser.
And Allred, their most likely nominee, only has 20% support. A good sign that he’s never going to do better than his 2024 race against Ted Cruz, where with a big, well financed campaign he only got 44% of the vote.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:33 AM (Lhvai)

190 Is that Florida woman dumb enough to think that President Trump goes to Mar-a-lago in July?

Posted by: Make Institutions Great Again! at July 10, 2025 08:33 AM (G5+As)

191 No, it isn’t that “we” don’t care. Most Americans care a great deal about a great many things.

But we’ve been beaten down and demoralized, for decades now, where nothing ever happens to the perpetrators. Congress might have a hearing or two, yell at some DEI hire for an hour or two, and then it’s business as usual. “We Shall Never Speak Of This Again”. This is part of a deliberate strategy by the way. It is not a matter of incompetence per se. It is a conditioning process, a method of managing expectations. Normalize corruption and decline. “This is normal and nothing can ever be done about it”. What are you gonna do about it? Very effective.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 08:34 AM (iZHkp)

192 "Good morning, Horde. I’ll probably continue in lurking mode. Off to read the content. Thanks. J.J.
Posted by: QED Texan"

Welcome.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 08:34 AM (fV+MH)

193 It’s amazing how fast so called conservatives pivot from hero worship of Trump cabinet members to demanding their removal when their answers don’t fulfill these people’s fantasy over an issue.

I was an early demanding their removal before it got popular.

The best cabinet members are ones with axes to grind against The Establishment. They don't need motivation.

Rudy G would have made a better AG because he would love the opportunity to burn the place down.

Bondi is just another politician, Patel is a jock sniffer who is controlled by a foreign power and Bongino is a washed up cop who had great success podcasting.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

194
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 10, 2025 08:34 AM (tljrc)

195 YES!!! No face masks while protesting if ICE has to unmask.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:32 AM (GbwPZ)


Maybe ICE agents could wear a kaffiyeh. Everybody else does.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 08:35 AM (SfhV1)

196 Cornholeyn is walking dead man.
Paxton up over 25%
Posted by: rhennigantx


Cornyn is a Seagull Senator.
Swoops in, makes a lot of noise, shits everywhere & flies off.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:35 AM (e2MJJ)

197
177 Whole attempting to retrieve my cake I got caught in the rain.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (zhBpy)

We told you to stay out of MacArthur Park.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:35 AM (Lhvai)

198 All the ICE protesters whining about how they’re Nazis because they’re wearing face coverings and no badges with names…. These same people all insisted everyone cover their face to protect from the sniffles in 2020…. Which still causes me rage every time I think about it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 08:35 AM (nrfI8)

199 What are you gonna do about it?

Vote Harder and Send Moar Campaign Money to the political consultants!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)

200 >>Secret Service suspends 6 agents assigned to protect Trump during Butler assassination attempt


About dang time!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:36 AM (GbwPZ)

201 I warned from the outset that, even with other big moves being made, nothing would or could come of this Epstein nonsense DoJ has been chattering about - they never should have said any of that.

It reminds me of when Rush tried to warn his listeners that nothing ever would or could come of Trump's "Lock Her Up" campaign rhetoric... there are promises that, if ever made flesh, would destroy the American government, and nobody is going to go there. Not yet, anyway.

Those cases are examples of why I also say that the swamp can't be drained, and meaningful reform of the Deep State is impossible - the Deep State is *the* State. And, as always - the problem isn't that the system is corrupt, it's that corruption is the system. To reform it is to destroy it, and Trump doesn't want to be the President who buried the Republic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (BI5O2)

202 ICE should be wearing riot gear.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (zhBpy)

203 It's also....
National Kitten Day.🐱

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

204 ‘It’s Blatant Consumer Fraud’: Inside The FTC’s Workshop On Transgender Procedures

Addadicktomy is FAKE

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

205 Trump is emptying the US's ability to defend itself by giving that corrupt dictator Z the ability to keep the war going and kiling more people.
----------------
Meh. In August Saudi Arabia will increase oil production bigly. This will bring Putin to the Peace Table.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (W3T6M)

206 177 Whole attempting to retrieve my cake I got caught in the rain.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (zhBpy)

We told you to stay out of MacArthur Park.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:35 AM (Lhvai)

Made me think of Average White Band… Cut the Cake

The 70s were awesome

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (nrfI8)

207 161 Bottom line, is a big majority of Trump voters do not care about Epstein.
Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

Not according to Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson and Wayne Root. These are key players in Trump's social media network, and they have his ear.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (WHfpM)

208 Enjoyed the Susie Wiles article. Been wanting to know more about her - she seems somewhat shadowy.

Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (2gjbv)

209 Is Pam Bondi burning the midnight oil working on getting indictments, arrests, pleadings, convictions and prison time for the anti-ICE insurrectionists?

Never has so little been accomplished by a woman who was given so much...
Posted by: Get Your Ass In Gear Already Bitch! at July 10, 2025 07:50 AM (r/wv3)


Have you considered applying for a job at the DOJ?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

210 Maryland Man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia

He is a violent criminal and illegal , and all I can think of when I read his first name is "Killmore" . Which sounds like what he's like to do. Can we just send him somewhere where we'll never have to hear about him again?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (2GCMq)

211 203 It's also....
National Kitten Day.🐱
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

Our dearly departed Ciampro (may he RIP) would no doubt be posting links to his kittehs.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (N39Ws)

212 And Allred, their most likely nominee, only has 20% support. A good sign that he’s never going to do better than his 2024 race against Ted Cruz, where with a big, well financed campaign he only got 44% of the vote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:33 AM (Lhvai)

Something like $100 M from Bollywood.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

213 Cake in the rain is upsetting, but losing the recipe is a disaster!

Posted by: Drunken Hines Cake Mix at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (G5+As)

214 They will come to your country and kill all tha kittens.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (ea87+)

215 Seems to be a lot of propaganda about what is going on in the Ukraine. Don't know what to believe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (zhBpy)

216 I like Megyn. She's legit.
Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 07:55 AM (fV+MH)


She's a grifter. She'll go anywhere and say whatever they want to hear for a paycheck. Oh, but she's "on our side" today so the truth just drips from her lips.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

217 I need some hittaws. And a weiner dog.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (fV+MH)

218 Astrud Gilberto:
youtube.com/watch?v=uT6j67JUs9o

Posted by: Give gp That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (TwZXH)

219 208 Enjoyed the Susie Wiles article. Been wanting to know more about her - she seems somewhat shadowy.
Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (2gjbv)

Not shadowy -- simply modest, loyal and hard-working.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)

220 He also recorded himself sitting at a restaurant in a Disney park using a corndog and cake pops to explain how gender "reassignment" surgery has altered his male anatomy, according to InsideTheMagic. In another video, he bragged about how he even "peed standing up" in the women's bathroom at Disney World.

Main StreetWalkers USA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

221 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

I suggest to some of these folks that they might write to the DOJ and President Trump , because I doubt whether Trump or Bondi are reading the comment section of ASHQ, but nobody had yet said that they have done that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (2GCMq)

222 >>I warned from the outset that, even with other big moves being made, nothing would or could come of this Epstein nonsense DoJ has been chattering about - they never should have said any of that.


It was wild how quickly the released Epstein prison video footage was altered to show Hillary entering the cell. People know things even if the prosecutions never happen. That, along with ". . . and Epstein didn't kill himself" memes is interesting.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (GbwPZ)

223 I saw encrusted godzilla semen open for Gallager in an alley in '87

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (Y/Vdg)

224 “I was bleeding everywhere,” she said, adding: “They were brutal to those of us trying to exercise our rights and protect our community.”

Its funny, when the government was shooting J6 protestors I was told that this is what you are supposed to get when you interfere with the governments actions.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (t0Rmr)

225 If there was no Epstein client list then why did his enabler woman get convicted for trafficking? Who was she trafficking to? How did a math teacher from New York become a billionaire? Of course the whole thingstinks to high heaven. There are people on Epsteins list from both sides of the uni-party aisle. DC will ALWAYS protect its own.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (ycs3a)

226 Good morning, Deplorables.

Salty, I'm sorry for the bad run you're dealing with. Here's a hug...maybe it'll help.

{{{NaclyDawg}}}

Posted by: creeper at July 10, 2025 08:41 AM (zFwIe)

227 Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)

Yes; it was a good article.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:42 AM (2GCMq)

228 Megyn isn't a grifter you dummy.

You're living in 10 years ago.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 08:42 AM (fV+MH)

229 Cornholeyn is walking dead man.
Paxton up over 25%

Paxton will lose the seat.

Posted by: Eskimo at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (h39WR)

230 Police: Woman Goes to Mar-a-Lago with Gun and ‘Urgent Message’ for Trump

This would be THE story of the month, if not year, if a rightwing loon showed up outside of Biden's place.

But remember when another similiar assassin tried to kill Kav and the story was ignored? This will get the same treatment.

Until you round up the left's leadership they will continue to send their flunkies to cause havoc

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (t0Rmr)

231 Getting rid of Bondi would be a victory for trash like Tillis and the other RINO's, who want another gentleman like Bill Barr
Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:00 AM (YCxFk)


You're wasting your time. Bondi could personally gun down everyone whose ever even considered voting for a Democrat and the "we hate Bondi" group would find something else to bitch about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

232 rhennigantx,

Might want to check where our errant senator open border Langfort graduated....

Posted by: Miflin at July 10, 2025 08:45 AM (aA6YN)

233
You're wasting your time. Bondi could personally gun down everyone whose ever even considered voting for a Democrat and the "we hate Bondi" group would find something else to bitch about.


Is she better then Barr? No doubt. She's the best AG in years.

But

There are a bunch of things she could be doing, and has even talked about doing them...and then has not.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

234 No ones mentioning it, because I don’t think it matters much, but the idea that an Arab led army could move against the Houthi is laughable. The “official” Yemeni government’s army has collapsed; the Saudis tried for a couple years and gave up when they failed miserably as well. They’re not going to try that again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:45 AM (Lhvai)

235 Well, a democrat AG would have run guns to Mexico, shot up a few ranches out west, fire bombed a religious cult and deported a Cuban child or two by now all the while droning a few Americans overseas they didn't like and investigating a few congressman for blackmail information and making examples of them with a few zero dark thirty no knock raids.
Posted by: Bagpipes Billy Boy Barr, Deep Stater at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (r/wv3)


It helps to have the entirety of the federal government in your corner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

236 Oh, but she's "on our side" today so the truth just drips from her lips.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

Why does everything have to be an extreme -- she's an exalted truth-teller or she's "grifter"? She's a sharp analyst and right more often than wrong. She came around to Trump through a process worth talking seriously, and helped him in his election. (Her filleting of the five legal cases against Trump were as good as any given by a Trump advocate.) She has not taken an adversarial position on Epstein at all, but has objectively noted the problems with Bondi's performance.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

237 I've lost respect for them too; HOWEVER, we need them there. WTF else are we going to get appointed that isn't a hack for the left or worse?

I've consoled myself with the fact that these fuck-ups put an end to the arresting of parents at school board meetings, and fewer grand mothers being arrested for a cameo outside of the Babylon DC capitol 4½ years ago. Maybe less zealous investigations and SWAT raids on years old alleged abortuary protest violations.

Its a win, if you squint.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

238 200 >>Secret Service suspends 6 agents assigned to protect Trump during Butler assassination attempt


About dang time!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:36 AM (GbwPZ)

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Suspends?? Suspends??

Fire their asses. And of course, any major decision maker that day.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (PMtkd)

239 And, BTW, that isn't to bag on Trump or his admin. They're doing pretty well for a group committed to preserving the American system intact.

But, when you hear anyone saying they'll drain the swamp or take out the Deep State, please understand that's just chumming for voters, and it won't be happening.

Think of it this way: Giuliani and other Fed prosecutors said "we're out to destroy the Italian mafia," and they did.

Now, imagine if they'd said "we're out to reform the Italian mafia, and turn them into productive, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens." That would be ludicrous. It could never work. When you hear any Drain The Swamp talk, it's exactly that silly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

240 Arguments that the DoJ hasn't had but a number of months to make any headway are beginning to look weak. With a stack of pending issues ranging from the auto pen scandal to Brennan and Comey's involvement in the Russia-gate hoax, AG Bondi and the bopsi-twins over at the FBI have their hands full.

Lastly, with the punting of all things Epstein, the DoJ is effectively 0-1. This is not "winning."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)


https://www.justice.gov/news

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

241 Holstering your weapon is too hard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 08:47 AM (zhBpy)

242 Our dearly departed Ciampro (may he RIP) would no doubt be posting links to his kittehs.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (N39Ws)
*******
Sorry for the loss of your kitty.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

243 So the official word on Epstein, the Jan 6th Bomber and the Cocaine in the White House is: "Move along - nothing to see here."

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 08:47 AM (Da7Vv)

244 I went to Trump's South Bronx rally about a year ago, and tried to get into his Madison Square Garden rally where I was surrounded by Orthodox Jews who were also trying to get in. You could feel their motivation.

Compare secular Jews. For a smart group of people, they're dumb at politics. They've promoted policies that have created the whirlwind we're now seeing on so many fronts.

Chuck Schumer is the poster child for this. Now he's endorsing Zohran!

The old line was "Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans." But I don't know many self-gassing Puerto Ricans.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (dtajH)

245 ‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy’

One of the best books I have ever read.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

246 >> These same people all insisted everyone cover their face to protect from the sniffles in 2020…. Which still causes me rage every time I think about it


These same antifa people attack with intent to maim or kill any independent reporter who attempts to record their "protests" to protect their identities. Andy Ngo is the most well-known victim, but they do this regularly:

https://tinyurl.com/yey422fy

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (GbwPZ)

247 Secret Service suspends 6 agents assigned to protect Trump during Butler assassination attempt

Are these the ones that couldn't handle a hot roof sloped at a slight angle??

Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

248 Suspends?? Suspends??

Fire their asses. And of course, any major decision maker that day.


I assume that a lot of this kind of stuff gets done by the person scheduling the personal, as you note. While I expect plausibility was maintained - the person that schedule the incompetent coverage and personal on this day almost certainly knew that there were "lone wolves" being spun up to take advantage of the opportunity he created.

Sort of like how in the prison Epstein was in the guards on duty the night he died were both known slackers who could be counted on to not do their jobs

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (t0Rmr)

249
"One receives only imperfect justice in this world. Only fools, children, left-wing Democrats, social scientists, and a few demented judges expect anything better."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (HZi96)

250 242 Our dearly departed Ciampro (may he RIP) would no doubt be posting links to his kittehs.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 08:39 AM (N39Ws)
*******
Sorry for the loss of your kitty.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

My bad. Ciampino - fellow Horde member who always posted about his kittehs. He passed away this week.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (N39Ws)

251 Is there some sort of secret reason why Ciampino isn't on the absent friends list???

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

252 233There are a bunch of things she could be doing, and has even talked about doing them...and then has not.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

======

DOJ investigations are generally behind closed doors until they start filing in courts.

Most of the work is behind the scenes.

I have no opinion on Bondi because I assume most of the work in the DOJ is happening in ways that we cannot see, and good work before cases are actually brought before courts is stuff we shouldn't see.

Throw in the fact that hiring new career attorneys at the DOJ takes months...after political appointees have been appointed which took months for some (hell, the DC USA is still temporary).

Will it end up being no smoke and no fire? Or will it be the smoke was just never visible?

Only time will tell, and I'm not getting my panties in a bunch about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

253 You know what would make an awesome movie.

Call it "BUTLER". A dramatized and truthful reenactment of the events on the day we almost lost the country.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (QB+5g)

254 229 Cornholeyn is walking dead man.
Paxton up over 25%

Paxton will lose the seat.
Posted by: Eskimo at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (h39WR

Paxton won his last statewide election in 2022 by 10 points (the same basic margin Cornyn won reelection by in 2020), after years of enemies inside and outside the party throwing everything they could against the wall to see if something would stick. I doubt Paxton will lose.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (SSEhk)

255 In memory of Ciampino and National Kitty Day, a link to their fund raiser

https://tinyurl.com/44h4aruw

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (AcTAo)

256 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

Excellent book. I had wanted to see the movie too before it had left the local theatre, but I didn't and I don't have a streaming service to get it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (2GCMq)

257 ‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy’

One of the best books I have ever read.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)


Is that the one by Eric Metaxis? (sp)

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (SfhV1)

258 27 “In this conservative women’s media sphere,” CNN lectures ominously, “modern feminism is seen as anti-men, casual sex and nontraditional relationship structures are viewed as detrimental"

"STOP NOTICING!" they pleaded desperately as they clung to their last scrap of relevancy with the desperation of a drowning man.
Posted by: NR Pax

Y'know... As a teenager back in the 80's, I wasn't political at all and probably not terribly conservative when I deduced that feminism was toxic and stupid.
In the 90's, when everyone else thought that TV show Home Improvement was hilarious, I thought it sucked because Mom and kids are snarky and rude to Dad and that's just awesome! And Mom is always right and Dad is wrong and dumb because he doesn't agree with Mom and even the kids are smarter than dumbo dad!
Feminism = women are always right and men are always wrong.
Fuck that!
Reality= at LEAST half of the time, Father really does Know Best.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (2J/Lj)

259 253 You know what would make an awesome movie.

Call it "BUTLER". A dramatized and truthful reenactment of the events on the day we almost lost the country.
Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (QB+5g)

======

Paul Greengrass would have trashed every project to make that as fast as possible if it had been a Democrat shot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (GBKbO)

260 I'm actually pretty ambivalent towards Bondi and Patel. The thing is, they're not politicians which IMO is what's needed in those positions. I think the left chooses people for high level positions based on how devoted they are to "the cause." Highly motivated partisans.

There's no reason why we can't have the same kind of people running agencies, bureaus and departments of government with aggressive, ideological mindsets bent on revenge. Or whatever. The point being these "managers" need to have the political will and finesse to cut through the clutter and make things happen.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

261 254 Paxton won his last statewide election in 2022 by 10 points (the same basic margin Cornyn won reelection by in 2020), after years of enemies inside and outside the party throwing everything they could against the wall to see if something would stick. I doubt Paxton will lose.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (SSEhk)

========

"We're gonna make him Christine O'Donnell."
-the implication

"It's 2025, not 2010, bruh."
-the reality

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

262 COVID boosters correlate with worse survival rates for cancer with third-most deaths: study

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

263 251 Is there some sort of secret reason why Ciampino isn't on the absent friends list???
Posted by: redridinghood


The Dog Lobby.

Posted by: Felix the Cat at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

264 Excellent book. I had wanted to see the movie too before it had left the local theatre, but I didn't and I don't have a streaming service to get it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (2GCMq)


I thought the book was better than the movie.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

265 249
"One receives only imperfect justice in this world. Only fools, children, left-wing Democrats, social scientists, and a few demented judges expect anything better."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (HZi96)

Everybody yells our for Justice
Then at Judgement they beg for Mercy

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

266 Paxton will lose the seat.
Posted by: Eskimo at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (h39WR)

Nope, Paxton will win quite easily. You forget that he’s already won 3 statewide races in spite of the accusations against him being out there each time.

The only job Paxtons campaign has to do is to convince the voters who’ve voted for him 3 times already to do it one more time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Lhvai)

267 It’s amazing how fast so called conservatives pivot from hero worship of Trump cabinet members to demanding their removal when their answers don’t fulfill these people’s fantasy over an issue.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (K45Rj)

I never had any particular regard for Bondi or Bongino. I identified the former as a careerist who had broken faith with the 2A time and again in Florida and was a compromise choice. As for Bongino, he seems like a good guy who reached his peak as a podcaster. I did have high expectations for Patel and did sing his praises. But I have not "demanded his removal." I simply observed that he appears to lack administrative/leadership skills. Bondi, however, does need to be cashiered.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (WHfpM)

268
The Dog Lobby.
Posted by: Felix the Cat at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

_______

Twarn't me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (HZi96)

269 I suggest to some of these folks that they might write to the DOJ and President Trump , because I doubt whether Trump or Bondi are reading the comment section of ASHQ, but nobody had yet said that they have done that.

Trust me that there are sentiment reading web crawlers out there that go through active opinion websites to gauge public sentiment on pretty much any topic.

If political consultants need to know the public's feeling on some matter, they will pump some stupid articles out in the usual channels, then wait out the public sensitivity to the "outrage" or policy and then have the webcrawlers vacuum up comments and through algorithms determine intensity, depth, and "legs" on an issue. Some time later, you will see the fallout of this analysis in public policy changes or tuning.

So yes, bitching on this and other websites is better than writing letters that are instantly tossed into the burn pile after they get the name and address of the malcontent so that it can either be sent to campaign money hustlers, or to a watch list.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (a4flb)

270 Bottom line, is a big majority of Trump voters do not care about Epstein.
Posted by: Jonah at July 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

Not according to Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson and Wayne Root. These are key players in Trump's social media network, and they have his ear.
Posted by: Ordinary American


I care. I'm ok with half of the US government going to jail for diddling kids and trafficking sex slaves.
I'm also ok with other governments falling because of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (e2MJJ)

271 It’s amazing how fast so called conservatives pivot from hero worship of Trump cabinet members to demanding their removal when their answers don’t fulfill these people’s fantasy over an issue.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 10, 2025 08:19 AM (K45Rj)


It's like five people who come on every morning and form their "I hate Pam Bondi" circle jerk. No matter what the DOJ does, they'll pivot their complaints to but what about... Oh, Merrick Garland executed thousands a day... bitch, bitch, bitch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

272 Is that the one by Eric Metaxis? (sp)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (SfhV1)

10 4

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

273 Why do we even need the DOJ? Get rid of it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

274 255 In memory of Ciampino and National Kitty Day, a link to their fund raiser

https://tinyurl.com/44h4aruw
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 10, 2025 08:50 AM (AcTAo)
*****
🐈🐈‍⬛😿

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

275 Eric Metaxas had some other fine books including "Letter to the American Church" and "7 Men."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 08:56 AM (2GCMq)

276 Trump is making America Last Again just like all of his predecessors.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)
==================
Well, here is a new trollish approach! Trump is insuffiently MAGA. I think I'm going to enjoy this line of attack.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 08:56 AM (CtvVQ)

277 I'm actually pretty ambivalent towards Bondi and Patel. The thing is, they're not politicians which IMO is what's needed in those positions. I think the left chooses people for high level positions based on how devoted they are to "the cause." Highly motivated partisans.

There's no reason why we can't have the same kind of people running agencies, bureaus and departments of government with aggressive, ideological mindsets bent on revenge. Or whatever. The point being these "managers" need to have the political will and finesse to cut through the clutter and make things happen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


Left "devoted to the cause" = gets shit done
Right "devoted to the cause" = makes excuses why shit can't get done.

Sorry. Seen this movie too many times.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:58 AM (e2MJJ)

278 Shares of WK Kellogg
soared more than 50% on Wednesday following a report that chocolate maker Ferrero is close to a roughly $3 billion deal to buy the cereal company.

The Italian company known for its circular hazelnut chocolates could finalize an acquisition of the legacy breakfast foods business as soon as this week.

grappa is not just for breakfast

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

279
Everybody yells our for Justice
Then at Judgement they beg for Mercy
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

_________

Under Thy lash our inconstancy is visited, but our sinfulness is not changed.

Our suffering soul is tormented, but our neck is not bent.

Our life groans under sorrow, yet amends not in deed.

If Thou spare us, we correct not our ways: if Thou punish, we cannot endure it.

In time of correction we confess our wrongdoing: after Thy visitation we forget that we have wept.

If Thou stretchest forth Thy hand, we promise amendment; if Thou withholdest the sword, we keep not our promise.

If Thou strikest, we cry out for mercy; if Thou sparest, we again provoke Thee to strike.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 08:59 AM (HZi96)

280 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 10, 2025 08:59 AM (XQo4F)

281 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 08:24 AM (x8PQF)

Why are things like Epstein "political firestorms" and who do you think is driving it? If you think it's all just normal folks then you're stuck in Y2K thinking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

282 I care. I'm ok with half of the US government going to jail for diddling kids and trafficking sex slaves.
I'm also ok with other governments falling because of it.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 08:54 AM (e2MJJ)

Same here. Though jail would be too good for them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 08:59 AM (N39Ws)

283 Re: Pedo Island

Trump would have been happy to burn many who partook -- I'm looking at you Bill Clinton -- but then he'd have to burn them all -- not just the ones we already hate -- and it would become a ShitShow with risk of blowback.

It's plausible that this started with Mossad -- Ghisaine father was connected -- before our CIA/FBI horned in, so Israel has exposure. Pimping out American girls to blackmail US potentates woulddn't play well in Peoria.

I'll be satisfied with Comey and Brennan in orange jumpsuits.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (dtajH)

284 Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Look at the success National Media Darlings Wendy Davis and Beto O'Rourke had! Not electoral success, mind you, but they had moderately successful runs on the liberal news circuit, until they were too embarrassing and irrelevant for even that, and were quietly dropped.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (JCZqz)

285 For all the gripes about Patel, he’s still the best Director the FBI has ever had. If you think different, name one who was better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Lhvai)

286 284 Look at the success National Media Darlings Wendy Davis and Beto O'Rourke had! Not electoral success, mind you, but they had moderately successful runs on the liberal news circuit, until they were too embarrassing and irrelevant for even that, and were quietly dropped.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (JCZqz)

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If Crockett has to leave her House seat to run, I encourage her to do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

287 There's no reason why we can't have the same kind of people running agencies, bureaus and departments of government with aggressive, ideological mindsets bent on revenge.

You gratuitously added the "revenge" part, I want motivated people, and Trump for the most part has selected them. Homan, RFK, Tulsi, Hegseth and others.

They are good at their jobs because they believe in the vision and know how much they and others have been screwed by the previous administrations.

They view their roles as a Mission.

I have no idea what Bondi, Patel or Bongino see in their respective roles. Bongino hinted that it was a form of "duty". Patel is just there so he can hang out in the locker room and Bondi is a professional politician.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 09:01 AM (a4flb)

288 285 For all the gripes about Patel, he’s still the best Director the FBI has ever had. If you think different, name one who was better.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Lhvai)

=======

Ed Kranepool was the better first baseman.

Fight me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

289 Everybody wants things to be one way, when they're another way... in this case, some people want Bondi, et. al. to be straight shooters, so they'll gobble up their slop and believe in the latest phase of this cover up. Others wanted them to be straight shooters who'd blow the lid off this cover up, and gobbled up that slop and believed it, and are now disillusioned.

All of it is slop and everyone wants to think their bowl is full of wedding soup.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 09:01 AM (BI5O2)

290
Everybody yells our for Justice
Then at Judgement they beg for Mercy


Readchoi has a skit were an angry person confronts God and demands that He bring real justice to this world instead of letting evil fester.

His skit is much better then I can describe it so I'll just link it: https://tinyurl.com/wc2se3nu


Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

291 It reminds me of when Rush tried to warn his listeners that nothing ever would or could come of Trump's "Lock Her Up" campaign rhetoric... there are promises that, if ever made flesh, would destroy the American government, and nobody is going to go there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 08:37 AM (BI5O2)
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Excellent comment.

On a personal and entirely petty note, I only hope they can release the beneficiaries of the secret Congressional slush fund to pay off sexual complaints against Senators and Congressmen. Is that too damaging to American government? No, it is not, only to a few scumsucking Congresscritters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:02 AM (96KLw)

292 Mamdani leads general election poll for NYC mayor — by 10 pts.

Moar pls

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

293 Wonder what the Marxist will name their Joy Division?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 10, 2025 09:03 AM (ea87+)

294 > Left "devoted to the cause" = gets shit done
Right "devoted to the cause" = makes excuses why shit can't get done.

Sorry. Seen this movie too many times.
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With the right ideological mindset, the right could get shit done, assuming they wanted to.

I assume there are people on the right with that mindset. Some of them are right here. But there's a weird sort of "style" to being a FedGov high level bureaucrat. It involves lots of misdirection and the ability to lie on demand.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

295 The people criticizing Bondi et all have never ever been put in the situation she is in and cannot imagine what it's like to be dumped in enemy territory with just the good will of the boss as your only weapon.

Probably most of the people they work with want to see them fail. I'm sure no one is going out of the way to help them and show them the ropes.

It's going to take years to reverse the direction these agencies were in up to now.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 09:03 AM (QB+5g)

296 It's like five people who come on every morning and form their "I hate Pam Bondi" circle jerk. No matter what the DOJ does, they'll pivot their complaints to but what about... Oh, Merrick Garland executed thousands a day... bitch, bitch, bitch.


honestly the morning thread tends to accumulate some "people" who are clearly on an agenda

take it with a grain of salt

the Epstein thing - he's dead. the op is over (hopefully). decent people are trying to undo the harms and prevent future ones, as best they can.

there's limited time to create a new, better, stronger structure for the US govt. I watch the cabinet meetings and am left with, let these people work. not one of them now seems like a weasel.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Pv3Rg)

297 Trump would have been happy to burn many who partook -- I'm looking at you Bill Clinton -- but then he'd have to burn them all -- not just the ones we already hate -- and it would become a ShitShow with risk of blowback.


They were fucking children and trafficking sex slaves.

Good. Burn them all. Both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:04 AM (e2MJJ)

298 For all the gripes about Patel, he’s still the best Director the FBI has ever had. If you think different, name one who was better.

That he is not objectively evil in his role? That is what makes him better?

The others have far more accomplishments and have motivated their troops to whatever sinister cause, and have carried out the vision of their POTUS and Party than Patel.

Based on that, replacing Patel with a dead cat would make for this country's greatest FBI Director.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

299
The others have far more accomplishments and have motivated their troops to whatever sinister cause, and have carried out the vision of their POTUS and Party than Patel.


This is the difference in how we are being asked to judge Bondi/Patel/etc

I want the mirror version of Wray so we can undo the damage he did. Not someone that will allow everything Wray and co did to stand.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (t0Rmr)

300 Ed Kranepool was the better first baseman.

Fight me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

Didn't he switch on and off with Donn Clendenon? Kranepool looked like a businessman in a baseball uniform. But he was good.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (WHfpM)

301 284 Would Texans actually vote for that ghetto bombast Jasmine Crocket for senator? I can't see it, but then again, I've long lost my rose-colored glasses on such matters.
Posted by: Lady in Black

What’s happening is that in much of the left, Angry Black Girls are drowning out the voices of anyone challenging them for dominance. KBJ’s ridiculous court opinions are the same Angry Black Girl crap, they start shouting and throwing shit and everyone runs away.

Wanna know the first group that dumps them and walks away from the Dem Party when the Angry Black Girls take over? Hispanics, that’s who. They’ve seen more than enough of that in their day to day lives, they aren’t voting to give any of those people power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (0DdMG)

302 It's National Piña Colada Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 08:22 AM


And it's raining. Hmmm....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (Wnv9h)

303 Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

You hate Bondi. I dislike Kelly. If I can find four other people to join me we can bash her in the morning thread every day. It'll be exhilarating.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

304 I live in what was Paxton’s State House district. I’ve watched him climb to State Senate and AG, and his wife climbing right behind (she won his House seat and now holds the Senate seat). I’m not a fan of them because of integrity issues and haven’t voted for either one in years. Saying that, he’ll probably beat loser extraordinaire Cornyn.

Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (fveCG)

305 the encrusted godzilla semen from her hair

Mr. Sefton, you are assuming the sex of both Ms. Wasserman-Schultz and myself.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Godzilla at July 10, 2025 09:08 AM (0sNs1)

306 301 Wanna know the first group that dumps them and walks away from the Dem Party when the Angry Black Girls take over? Hispanics, that’s who. They’ve seen more than enough of that in their day to day lives, they aren’t voting to give any of those people power.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (0DdMG)

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Polls (spit) including exit polls (spit) are showing Hispanics are now evenly split between the parties, with men being outright Republican.

They're where white people were about 20 years ago.

It doesn't help that most Hispanics think of themselves as...white.

So attacks on white people become an attack on something like 70% of Hispanics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

307 You hate Bondi. I dislike Kelly. If I can find four other people to join me we can bash her in the morning thread every day. It'll be exhilarating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

I don't hate her.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:09 AM (WHfpM)

308 You're wasting your time. Bondi could personally gun down everyone whose ever even considered voting for a Democrat and the "we hate Bondi" group would find something else to bitch about.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

She used nine millimeter! That's a pussy round!! She should have used a 45!!!

Posted by: Bitchers at July 10, 2025 09:09 AM (0eaVi)

309 Epstein was a Democrat who donated heavily to Democrats throughout his lifetime.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

310 @288

>>Ed Kranepool was the better first baseman. Fight me.

I mean, did MLB change the rules of the game based on your defensive strategies? No, they did not, nuff said.

--
I'm Keith Hernandez damnit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (XV/Pl)

311 They were fucking children and trafficking sex slaves.

Good. Burn them all. Both sides of the aisle.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 10, 2025 09:04 AM (e2MJJ)

Exactly. I do not care who they are, what party they belong to, or what their last name is. You diddle kids and engage in human trafficking -- away you go. I do not want any of those pieces of subhuman debris in society.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (N39Ws)

312 Paxton will lose the seat.
Posted by: Eskimo at July 10, 2025 08:43 AM (h39WR

Paxton won his last statewide election in 2022 by 10 points (the same basic margin Cornyn won reelection by in 2020), after years of enemies inside and outside the party throwing everything they could against the wall to see if something would stick. I doubt Paxton will lose.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 08:49 AM (SSEhk)


Several members of the state legislature and three members of the state supreme court lost their jobs over siding with the anti-Paxton team.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

313 300 Ed Kranepool was the better first baseman.

Fight me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

Didn't he switch on and off with Donn Clendenon? Kranepool looked like a businessman in a baseball uniform. But he was good.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:06 AM (WHfpM)



I believe they platooned together at first. CLendennon went on to become an executive at a Pen company after he retired from baseball IIRC.


With Jones and Agee as well as Swoboda in the outfield.


What a team. My beloved '69 Mets and '73 (despite the heartbreaking loss to the A's) and of course '86 with the Kid, Hernandez, Gooden, Strawberry and all the rest.


I wish pro sports was normal. I miss going to a baseball game. Last good game I saw was about 10 years ago, down in Coney Island when I saw the Mets minor league team the Brooklyn Cyclones. That was fun.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)

314 In 1970, Ed Kranepool was sent down to Norfolk because his batting average was abysmal. He woke up, started hitting, and was above .275 for the rest of his career, becoming a top pinch-hitter in his later years.

Maybe Bondi, Patel, and Bongino need to be sent down to Norfolk.

Posted by: Meet The Mets! at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

315 >Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that
----

dude, you're kinda stepping on my act

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

316 not a new turn for the Democrats. they are just showing themselves for what they have always been. ask a black person from 1866 when Jim Crow showed up

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (8qMs2)

317 I'm sure Bondi, Bongino and Patel wanted there to be a lot of dirt on Epstein.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

318 For 2 years Democrats have cheered on Hamas and Jews shrugged. But Zohran will make them leave the party? Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ImXfC)

319 These same antifa people attack with intent to maim or kill any independent reporter who attempts to record their "protests" to protect their identities. Andy Ngo is the most well-known victim, but they do this regularly:

https://tinyurl.com/yey422fy
Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:48 AM (GbwPZ)
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The right attacks journalists with words, and they scream bloody murder. But the left attacks with frozen water bottles, cement shakes, mace and pepper spray, and fists or sticks, and mainstream journalists say nothing. Nada.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (krlmU)

320 Bondi stays because Trump likes blondes

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

321 Nothing will happen because there were no clients

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (zhBpy)

322 I’m not a fan of them because of integrity issues and haven’t voted for either one in years. Saying that, he’ll probably beat loser extraordinaire Cornyn.
Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (fveCG)

I voted for Paxton in his last AG primary because I sure wasn’t going to vote for the Great Brown Hope, George P. Bush.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0DdMG)

323 They were fucking children and trafficking sex slaves.

Good. Burn them all. Both sides of the aisle.


There are several reasons we NEED this.

1) These people committed serious crimes. Assuming it has not been destroyed their is sufficient evidence to convict them - and in the case of say Prince Andrew even without that evidence

2) If these people get away with it it tells everyone that they can continue to do these sorts of things in the future

3) Two Americas isn't sustainable. If the laws don't apply to elites why the hell should anyone else follow them?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

324 There’s no spinning the Epstein thing. Trump and his admin are covering it up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ImXfC)

325 What a team. My beloved '69 Mets...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)

Yes, what a great team and season. Seaver, Gentry, Koosman and Ryan.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (WHfpM)

326 You hate Bondi. I dislike Kelly. If I can find four other people to join me we can bash her in the morning thread every day. It'll be exhilarating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

Hey! I hate everybody! I can be on both teams!
Wait... Who is Kelly?
Never mind, I don't care. I hate people and she is some kind of people. Good enough!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (2J/Lj)

327 I voted for Paxton in his last AG primary because I sure wasn’t going to vote for the Great Brown Hope, George P. Bush.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0DdMG)

You did not like the clean new Wranglers on a brand new four wheeler ads

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

328 Heading out this afternoon for a weekend with my side of the family. My sister won't go anywhere near my family because her dog allergy triggers her asthma (so neither will the rest of her family), my brother's daughter has a fake fear of dogs so their entire family avoids us too, and my other brother's family will be busy getting ready for his son's wedding reception.

No, this nowhere near a relaxing vacation. Expect me to make the Top 10 in the AoS Wall O' Shame this week.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs prayers for peace at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Wt5PA)

329 The right attacks journalists with words, and they scream bloody murder. But the left attacks with frozen water bottles, cement shakes, mace and pepper spray, and fists or sticks, and mainstream journalists say nothing. Nada.

The secret in all this is that violence works.

If the right had street thugs doing these sorts of things they would get much better press coverage.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (t0Rmr)

330 What a team. My beloved '69 Mets...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)


Cubs were better. They just couldn't close.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SfhV1)

331 Several members of a violent migrant gang accused of "unleashing terror" to maintain control of a notorious crime strip represented by progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Grace Meng have been taken down by police in a major bust. Eight members of the ruthless 18th Street transnational gang are accused of carrying out several brutal beatings and stabbings to maintain their dominance of the Roosevelt Avenue commercial corridor in Queens.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

332 Never expected the image of if Debbie Wasserman being spit-roasted by Palis today.

Happy birthday, JJ.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (ufFY8)

333 326 You hate Bondi. I dislike Kelly. If I can find four other people to join me we can bash her in the morning thread every day. It'll be exhilarating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

Hey! I hate everybody! I can be on both teams!
Wait... Who is Kelly?
Never mind, I don't care. I hate people and she is some kind of people. Good enough!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (2J/Lj)

Me-again, the news lady, who bleeds from, you know, wherever.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SSEhk)

334 Yes, what a great team and season. Seaver, Gentry, Koosman and Ryan.
Posted by: Ordinary American

You left out Cal Koonce!

Posted by: Mettle the Miniature Mule at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (G5+As)

335 Pakis, Palis.
Tomayto, tomahto.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (ufFY8)

336 331 Several members of a violent migrant gang accused of "unleashing terror" to maintain control of a notorious crime strip represented by progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Grace Meng have been taken down by police in a major bust. Eight members of the ruthless 18th Street transnational gang are accused of carrying out several brutal beatings and stabbings to maintain their dominance of the Roosevelt Avenue commercial corridor in Queens.
Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

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So...AOC's gonna cry at their sentencing, right? For the cameras?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

337 If you're interested in some solid background concerning the tragedy in Texas,

https://tinyurl.com/377x6e8t

Posted by: Miflin at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (aA6YN)

338 There’s no spinning the Epstein thing. Trump and his admin are covering it up.


My assumption is they cut a deal to get the deep state to allow them to do other things in return for burying this.

I think its a bad deal.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

339 Big Red Machine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (zhBpy)

340 The Defense Department will buy $400 million of preferred stock in MP Materials. MP Materials owns the only operational rare earth mine in the U.S. at Mountain Pass, California. It will build a second magnet manufacturing facility in the U.S. with the support of the Pentagon.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

341 325 What a team. My beloved '69 Mets...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)

Yes, what a great team and season. Seaver, Gentry, Koosman and Ryan.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:13 AM (WHfpM)



My dad took me and my brother to see a taping of the Ed Sullivan show where the team would come up and sing "You Gotta Have Heart"

Sullivan nearly had to run for his life when he announced "We Pre-taped that segment, so now we bring you the Chihuahaus spinning bears spinning plates on their noses!" I was heartbroken.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:16 AM (x0n13)

342 Posted by: pookysgirl needs prayers for peace at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Wt5PA)
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you are a special human, with what you put up with. Good on ya.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:16 AM (krlmU)

343 If the right had street thugs doing these sorts of things they would get much better press coverage.
Posted by: 18-1

The physically fit feds dressed up in khakis as the Patriot Front have been such a disappointment thus far.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

344 Kelly is an opportunist that came around to the notion she'll get a better deal as a right leaning news figure then a "moderate" or center-left one.

And that's ok as long as everyone keeps that in mind with everything she says and does

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

345 Ukraine said on Wednesday it had detained a Chinese father and son, both suspected of spying on its prized Neptune anti-ship missile programme, a key part of Kyiv's growing domestic arms industry critical to its defence against Russian invaders. The announcement by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) follows assertions by Kyiv in recent months that Beijing, which has sought to project an image of neutrality, is helping the Kremlin's war effort.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

346 If they’re lying about Epstein what else are they lying about?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:17 AM (ImXfC)

347 Oh yeah, witnessed this yesterday at a place I volunteer. A delightful woman, apart from politics, uncharacteristically went off on "Why are there so many people that HATE and want to take the rights we fought so hard and died for?!?!?"
*sigh*
Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 08:16 AM (GbwPZ)

Get in her stupid face and ask her to recite exactly what rights are being taken away. And tell her to be specific or STFU. We, as a political group, shy away from being confrontational. I passed that station decades ago.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 10, 2025 09:18 AM (5xuJ/)

348 344 Kelly is an opportunist that came around to the notion she'll get a better deal as a right leaning news figure then a "moderate" or center-left one.

And that's ok as long as everyone keeps that in mind with everything she says and does
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)


Most “conservative” pundits fall into this category.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:18 AM (ImXfC)

349 339 Big Red Machine.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:15 AM (zhBpy)



"Da!"

- - Comrade Stalin

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:19 AM (x0n13)

350 Unless Trump doesn't like Bondi, she's not going anywhere.

She has time to have some wins but the Epstein case has been a shitty look for a lot of people.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 10, 2025 08:06 AM (PMtkd)

I'm not seeing much concern one way or the other about the Epstein kerfluffle from the average informed person.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 09:19 AM (g8Ew8)

351 > Bondi stays because Trump likes blondes
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In my comment upthread about Trump's cabinet meetings I noted where people sit in relationship to Trump. It's a classic "boss move" to put people you trust near your seat at the head of the table.

Bondi was seated across from Trump in previous meetings. In this last cabinet meeting she was seated to his right, next to SoS Rubio. It's a better seat for her to be recorded by the media. Previously the media, and their cameras were behind Bondi, and it was awkward for her to turn around, so you saw the back of her head when she spoke.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Q4IgG)

352 3) Two Americas isn't sustainable. If the laws don't apply to elites why the hell should anyone else follow them?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

I believe America is at the dawn of this realization. And the outcome will not be peaceful.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 10, 2025 09:19 AM (N39Ws)

353 Ukraine said on Wednesday it had detained a Chinese father and son, both suspected of spying on its prized Neptune anti-ship missile programme,

This is an odd one - they developed the missile with...North Korea.

Ukraine really is the center of every part of bad behavior on the part of western Nat Sec people...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

354 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tool Discovered in China

... his name is Xi

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

355 I voted for Paxton in his last AG primary because I sure wasn’t going to vote for the Great Brown Hope, George P. Bush.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0DdMG)

I wish I had someone I could get behind and support in the Republican primaries.

Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 09:20 AM (fveCG)

356 What a team. My beloved '69 Mets...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)

You're killing me, Smalls.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt - Cub fan at July 10, 2025 09:20 AM (ufFY8)

357 "The Democrats have spent years stoking this fire."

Never forget Biden and his handlers smearing his Border Patrol agents for supposedly whipping illegals just like slaves as they rushed the border if (only it were true). Dems have been sowing this hate and they are going to reap the whirlwind

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 09:21 AM (GUOwU)

358 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt - Cub fan


High five

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 09:21 AM (SfhV1)

359 Get in her stupid face and ask her to recite exactly what rights are being taken away.
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arguing with the retarded will take up a lot of time and energy, and accomplish little.

It's the Propagandists telling the idiot what to think you have to go after, and the teachers union members who teach young people not to think critically, and accept "we have always been at war with East Asia" pablum, those are who you have to fight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (3zKHI)

360 Cubs were better. They just couldn't close.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SfhV1)

They're playing well this year.

Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)

361 “ Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.”

Psalm 31:9

Posted by: Marcus T at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (XXLiD)

362 Just heard from a former co-worker that today was his last day on the job. He and his wife paid off the house and now they can relax for a bit. Checks calendar And I got about two more years before I can do the same thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (lXoJ5)

363 I would like to know -

Content of Hillary's email server
Content on Anthony Weiner's laptop
Emails on Fast and Furious govt gun running operation
How many different underage girls are on Hunter's laptop
Anything about the Butler shooter
Whether Patriot Front is linked to US govt
Names and number of US agents and their activities on J6


I could go on.

After Epstein announcement, I expect we'll find out nothing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Dv3i1)

364 I can't hear bullwhips cracking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (zhBpy)

365 The only way that the BATFE could get in on the Jan 6th Agency orgy of framing MAGA people was the "E" for explosives. The reason you haven't heard squat about the Jan 5/6 bomber is that he was a government contractor working for the BATFE, and to expose him would blow up the entire agency.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 10, 2025 09:23 AM (Da7Vv)

366 Get in her stupid face and ask her to recite exactly what rights are being taken away.

Trump is deporting citizens! And he's stealing our SS and giving it to Elon Musk! He banned abortion and is going to make The Haidmaid's Tale real!

Posted by: Some lefty at July 10, 2025 09:23 AM (t0Rmr)

367 I believe Jane Jarvis deserves much credit for the Mets coming from 13 1/2 games behind to defeat the hated Durocher-led Cubs. Her and the black cat.

Posted by: Duffy Dyer at July 10, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

368 In the grand scheme of things Epstein being absolved isn’t a big deal. But the huge deal is the trust in Trump that will be chiseled away from this.

For a lot of people this is a big deal. It’s been a big deal. They were promised action from Trump, Bondi, Bingino, Patel. And then they basically said nah bruh we were lying to you, now please go away. That’s how you lose people.

It’s like that saying the coverup is worse than the crime.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ImXfC)

369 Meme seen on the Internet:

Only one man can save us ... And it's Nicolas Cage in National Treasure, saying "I'm going to steal the Epstein files."

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (T+z9y)

370 364 I can't hear bullwhips cracking.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (zhBpy)

Gimme a minute.... I know it's around here somewhere...

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (2J/Lj)

371 What a team. My beloved '69 Mets...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:10 AM (x0n13)


Cubs were better. They just couldn't close.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SfhV1)

If this keeps up, soon we will be arguing Madison v Marbury.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt - Cub fan at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ufFY8)

372 so.much.Concern

Posted by: runner at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (g47mK)

373 For all the gripes about Patel, he’s still the best Director the FBI has ever had. If you think different, name one who was better.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Lhvai)

Bob Mueller!

Posted by: Bob Mueller, Former FBI Director And All But Forgotten at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (r/wv3)

374 Cubs were better. They just couldn't close.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SfhV1)

They're playing well this year.
Posted by: dantesed at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)

Got absolutely screwed is ASG selections. Busch and Seyia should both be there. Hell seyia leads the league in RBIs.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 09:25 AM (MGB5H)

375 Having a radical Leftist KBJ on the SCOTUS is like having someone have her ilk live next door to the Justices. What's that saying about being a liberal until you're mugged?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 10, 2025 09:26 AM (KwCuT)

376 Candy maker Ferrero is buying cereal giant WK Kellogg for $3.1 billion. WK Kellogg, which makes cereals such as Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes, spun off into a standalone company in 2023.

Kellogg's was split into two companies on October 2, 2023, with WK Kellogg Co owning the North American cereal division, and the existing company being rebranded to "Kellanova", owning snack brands such as Pop-Tarts and Pringles alongside the international cereal division. The purpose of the split was to separate the faster-growing convenience food, and international cereal products market, from the slower growth North American cereal market.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

377 I recall reading that the seating arrangement in a Cabinet meeting is kind of determined from tradition, in that the oldest departments are seated closest to the President

Sec State
Sec Def (nee War)

Posted by: Don Black. at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (AOsQT)

378 For a lot of people this is a big deal. It’s been a big deal. They were promised action from Trump, Bondi, Bingino, Patel. And then they basically said nah bruh we were lying to you, now please go away. That’s how you lose people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ImXfC)

Yes, it is a big deal, and not going away. As Roseanne Barr said yesterday, "Mr. President, read the room."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (WHfpM)

379 It's a classic "boss move" to put people you trust near your seat at the head of the table.

It's also a classic "boss move" to position those who need to be defended close by as well. Pretty sure DTS knows the issue is hot button.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (3Ope8)

380 I have no idea who Ed Kranepool is.

He must have been a good firstbaseman.

Which is no easy task.

Posted by: eleven at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (fV+MH)

381 355 I voted for Paxton in his last AG primary because I sure wasn’t going to vote for the Great Brown Hope, George P. Bush.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0DdMG)

I wish I had someone I could get behind and support in the Republican primaries.
Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 09:20 AM (fveCG)

I don't much like Paxton. I side with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges he effectively got unelected (because they were unambiguously right on the law). And Paxton seems like a reptile to me. But I've voted for him in every statewide race, and I'll be doing so again this time. He's no more distasteful than politicians in general, he could hardly be more corrupt than Cornyn (who is a uniparty deep stater through and through), and he seems to actually be interested in fighting to advance conservative causes. That's enough for me. I don't have to want to hang out with him or admire him. He's a tool. So long as he serves his purpose, I'll continue using him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (SSEhk)

382 >>No, this nowhere near a relaxing vacation. Expect me to make the Top 10 in the AoS Wall O' Shame this week.


Sounds like a fun bunch /s
We love you here!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (GbwPZ)

383 Cubs and Tigers are doing well this year.
In my annual over/under bets with my buddy, I have the over on both teams, and they are ripping it up so far.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:28 AM (ufFY8)

384 Cubs and Tigers are doing well this year.
In my annual over/under bets with my buddy, I have the over on both teams, and they are ripping it up so far.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 10, 2025 09:28 AM (ufFY8

Both rumored landing spots for Bregman when the bosox decide they can't keep him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 09:29 AM (MGB5H)

385 arguing with the retarded will take up a lot of time and energy, and accomplish little.

It's the Propagandists telling the idiot what to think you have to go after, and the teachers union members who teach young people not to think critically, and accept "we have always been at war with East Asia" pablum, those are who you have to fight.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:22 AM

Lots of luck going after the teachers union members. Take down the idiots sprouting bullshit immediately. It stops them in their tracks. I didn't make the rules. They feel they have the right to open their mouths and are never confronted. Make them feel like the crap you scrape off your shoes. Shove their "truth" back down their throats. Of course, being Hungarian, we don't do this "calm thing".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 10, 2025 09:29 AM (5xuJ/)

386
Art thread is up!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 10, 2025 09:29 AM (x0n13)

387 "If they’re lying about Epstein what else are they lying about?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

Many thing I don't like about the case being dropped. The whole thing stills stinks but maybe there is no smoking gun. But beyond the supposed lists, videos, clients etc... the thing I cant get over is his manner of death. He hanged himself with a sheet from some bed frame not big enough to keep his feet off the floor. No f**ing way. Just not possible.

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (GUOwU)

388 I like the field better than baseball. Even minor league fields.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (zhBpy)

389 Yes, it is a big deal, and not going away. As Roseanne Barr said yesterday, "Mr. President, read the room."
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (WHfpM)

We’ll see. The news cycle doesn’t last long these days.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ImXfC)

390 On a personal and entirely petty note, I only hope they can release the beneficiaries of the secret Congressional slush fund to pay off sexual complaints against Senators and Congressmen. Is that too damaging to American government? No, it is not, only to a few scumsucking Congresscritters.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:02 AM (96KLw)


I believe that is entirely within Congress so the DOJ has no access to it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

391 I don't have to want to hang out with him or admire him. He's a tool. So long as he serves his purpose, I'll continue using him.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 09:27 AM (SSEhk)

Yes, a tool. I appreciate your insight. Thanks.

Posted by: QED Texan at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (fveCG)

392
Cubs and Tigers are doing well this year.

__________

Astros traded Kyle Tucker to the Cubs for Isaac Paredes and Cam Smith. And it's worked out very well for both teams.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (HZi96)

393 Debbie Wasserman is the down from not just one felon but two felons. Both convicted on government corruption and stealing taxpayer monies.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 10, 2025 09:31 AM (17s+e)

394 Trump using tariffs to punish countries for the types of reasons sanctions have been used is a bad move, IMHO. He's spent a lot of time trying to convince all the naysayers that the tariffs are about fairness and increasing revenue, now he pulls this stunt with punitive tariffs.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 09:32 AM (36PRH)

395 I don't have to want to hang out with him or admire him. He's a tool. So long as he serves his purpose, I'll continue using him.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrica

This is how I view every politician. I don’t care if you’re a nice person. I don’t care what you do in your free time. Vote for things that help me, and you have my support.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (ImXfC)

396 In the grand scheme of things Epstein being absolved isn’t a big deal. But the huge deal is the trust in Trump that will be chiseled away from this.

For a lot of people this is a big deal. It’s been a big deal. They were promised action from Trump, Bondi, Bingino, Patel. And then they basically said nah bruh we were lying to you, now please go away. That’s how you lose people.

It’s like that saying the coverup is worse than the crime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ImXfC)

Nah. I'm really not seeing it. Like I said, a few are upset, but most are prioritizing a lot of things much more current than Epstein.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2025 09:33 AM (g8Ew8)

397 "It's the Propagandists telling the idiot what to think"

Here's the thing:

They don't think.

It's that simple.

They just spit out what they are taught are the correct answers the same way they got passing grades in HS.

There's no critical analysis done. No correlation for consistency. No attempt to reconcile with possible first principles. No depth, no compulsion.

This is why they consistently appear to be hypocrites.

What they "think" is more like an opinion of what they believe will get them approval of their group at that time.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (QB+5g)

398 A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from your gym membership to Amazon Prime subscription to let customers cancel their recurring payments as easily as they signed up, and through the same method. Last fall, industry groups representing companies that benefit from subscription revenue — including cable providers, entertainment studios, advertising companies, and home security firms — sought to block the rule in court.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

399 The criticism would have had more merit had Kasich not helped to worsen the nation’s fiscal woes during his tenure as governor. By publicly promoting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to able-bodied adults, Kasich helped to create the problem that the reconciliation bill begins to address.
===================
It was worse than that. The state legislature voted down Medicaid expansion and Kasich implemented it using Executive Order. He is entirely personally responsible for it, at least in Ohio, the POS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 09:39 AM (UVJ0A)

400 Suzanne Massie, expert on Russian culture, was born on January 8, 1931. She died on January 26, 2025, aged 94

Reagan called Massie “the greatest student I know of the Russian people”. Others labelled her “Reagan’s window on the Soviet Union”, “Reagan’s Russian whisperer” and “the woman who ended the Cold War”.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

401 @398 the check must have cleared.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 09:44 AM (36PRH)

402 Oh, and one more thing.... NOOD.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 10, 2025 09:46 AM (36PRH)

403 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

DWS & others of her ilk haven't taken the Democratic Socialist Party of America's message seriously. 🤷‍♀️

It's been around for a time: dsausa org, A History of Democratic Socialists of America 1971-2017, Bringing Socialism from the Margins to the Mainstream by Joseph M. Schwartz, DSA National Political Committee, July 2017

>The Philadelphia Tribune, Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary win could ripple across U.S., Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University, Jul 8, 2025

In part, "Mamdani’s win is clearly a rebuke of the more corporate wing of the Democratic Party. I know there are people who say that New York is different from the rest of the country. But from a political perspective, Democrats in New York are less different from Democrats in the rest of country than they used to be."

>OTOH - Jewish Community Voice (of Southern New Jersey): What you should know about Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists, July 09, 2025, By Asaf Elia-Shalev - JTA

>But what's not really being considered in the NYC Mayor's race at this point in time:

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

404 'Mamdani’s Wife, Absent for Much of Campaign, Is Thrust Into Spotlight' Rama Duwaji, a 27-year-old animator and illustrator, married the presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City mayor this winter. By Taylor Robinson
June 25, 2025

Reportedly, the Syrian-American artist, born in Houston, TX, grew up between the United States and the Arabian Gulf. Her heritage, while primarily Syrian, also includes influences from the Gulf region.

Ms. Duwaji's portfolio indicates she's worked with a variety of clients, most notably The New Yorker, The Washington Post, BBC, Apple, Spotify, VICE and the Tate Modern.

The general election for Mayor of New York City will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Early voting will take place from October 25, 2025, to November 2, 2025. That's
3 1/2 months to turn things around, Debbie, inside a party with substantially different Democrats.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 10, 2025 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

405 Leftist Jews are probably the biggest evidence against the Elders of Zion conspiracy that Jews all run the world. Lefty Jews are legit retarded and incapable of even running a 7-11 properly, much less a global conspiracy.

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Daily Tech News 10 July 2025

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Disclaimer: This song sounds like that other song.

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Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:31 AM (SSEhk)

2 Yay, bear with asymmetrical balls!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

3 G'Day everyone and Good Night

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

4 Morning all.

Night Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 10, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

5 It's hard to get the first on Pixy's threads. Not to worry, I'm going to remember all the little people from the winner's dais.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:33 AM (SSEhk)

6 Magpie in Western Australia helps to save woman after she fell from a window:

https://tinyurl.com/4bmn9c4s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:39 AM (2GCMq)

7 A devotional, "God is there" followed by a prayer and some insights by the devotional writer :

https://tinyurl.com/m4fbzadd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:44 AM (2GCMq)

8 DNCE Cake by the Ocean

What did I just watch?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 04:47 AM (aURVT)

9 8 bear, we debated in the last thread.

Do you want carry it over?
Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 04:44 AM (r2ymA)

Not really.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:48 AM (SSEhk)

10 m - Just guessing, but probably DNCE Cake by the Ocean.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 10, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

11 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 10, 2025 04:49 AM (hoCmQ)

12 Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 04:44 AM (r2ymA)

Please stop. You made your points. At some point Iit's not a debate. Calling someone a cuck is simply someone doing their shift work ( Yay! /s) on the ASHQ Insult factory

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)

13 13 Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 04:44 AM (r2ymA)

Please stop. You made your points. At some point Iit's not a debate. Calling someone a cuck is simply someone doing their shift work ( Yay! /s) on the ASHQ Insult factory
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)

It's okay. I'm not especially offended, and I don't think chavon is either. There's only like half a dozen topics at the HQ. We'll get the chance to call each other names again. Organically. In due course.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:52 AM (SSEhk)

14 We'll get the chance to call each other names again. Organically. In due course

Ok. I laughed .Carry on .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:53 AM (2GCMq)

15 15 Not really.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:48 AM (SSEhk)

Yeah you don't want to be humiliated, that's OK.
Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 04:52 AM (r2ymA)

Wait a second! I thought I was a cuck, for whom humiliation in the game. I is konfused.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:54 AM (SSEhk)

16 11 m - Just guessing, but probably DNCE Cake by the Ocean.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 10, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

Apparently!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

17 It ain't a cake song dance off without the B-52s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlI7FzN8Pcw

C aaaaa ke

Posted by: Adriane the Cake Song Critic . . . at July 10, 2025 04:54 AM (cfyxU)

18 Maybe "Cake by the Ocean" will replace the current earworm "Meet Me at the Apateu" that is on endless repeat in my brain.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 04:57 AM (aURVT)

19 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 10, 2025 04:59 AM (a1415)

20 The cadence of the song title "Cake by the Ocean" brings "Smoke on the Water" to mind.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

21 GOODBYE SCREENS - THIS LAPTOP BLASTS A 100-INCH DISPLAY INTO YOUR FACE:

https://tinyurl.com/3xp4rvys

Oh, and BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 05:03 AM (x8PQF)

22 Cake by the ocean?????

I prefer sand which is there.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 05:04 AM (x8PQF)

23 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)

You aren't a coblogger or a moderator, so your intervention is not appreciated.

Let it go.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:04 AM (Zv8bq)

24 Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 04:52 AM (r2ymA)

You are being an ass.

See you in a week.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:05 AM (Zv8bq)

25 Just giving my opinion. CBD . Never claimed to be moderator. I'm glad nobody else ever tells people to knock it off. Ever. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:07 AM (2GCMq)

26 CBD, has the EU stuff affected your in-France internet?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)

27 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 10, 2025 05:11 AM (AN2gy)

28 Susie Wiles, WH Chief of Staff sounds like a sensible, no nonsense woman:. From
NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4kbzcw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:11 AM (2GCMq)

29
Bitchat

Bitch at

Got it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 05:13 AM (Tv15w)

30 It'll take years for any of us to visit Yemen as tourists.

In the meantime, this is looking enticing:

https://tinyurl.com/ynxj8pp9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 05:14 AM (x8PQF)

31 "There's only like half a dozen topics at the HQ"

Boobs, war (esp WW2), pets, things subject to sin taxes, food, sciencey stuff, and boobs.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 05:17 AM (KAi1n)

32 Hadn't Jack Dorsey made enough money? I think he should just go away and stop messing with tech.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:18 AM (2GCMq)

33 Supposedly Kim Jong Un is building a luxury resort to promote tourism in North Korea.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:19 AM (HFcKg)

34 Supposedly Kim Jong Un is building a luxury resort to promote tourism in North Korea.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:19 AM (HFcKg)


Great place for a Moron Meet-up!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:23 AM (Zv8bq)

35 CBD, has the EU stuff affected your in-France internet?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)


Yes. Sites are blocked for reasons that are opaque. For instance, Rumble is blocked in France, but not in the UK.

Jerusalem Post is blocked sometimes in the UK, although that might be a technical issue.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:25 AM (Zv8bq)

36 33 "There's only like half a dozen topics at the HQ"

Boobs, war (esp WW2), pets, things subject to sin taxes, food, sciencey stuff, and boobs.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 05:17 AM (KAi1n)

The six official topics according to the HQ style guide are:

1. Boobs
2. 45 ACP > 9 mm, prove me wrong (or crossbows versus longbows, on heritage preservation days)
3. Movies, music, and books that don't suck (unless you are ace, whose tastes are frankly appalling, so much so that he has to be trolling)
4. Pets and animals we will make into pets in the coming apocalypse
5. DOOM!
6. The War of Northern Aggression and other military unpleasantnesses

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:27 AM (SSEhk)

37 The haute cuisine of corn plant tree soup and the grass mattresses are to die for.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:28 AM (HFcKg)

38 Evening and morning, all you late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Thor's Day once again. I'm up after a night of short sharp nightmares: A teacher in high school (one I never had) *fining* me for something and me telling him in public that he must be awfully unpopular with people; me at my old job trying to explain to someone that if you run a report that draws from an underlying table, and the table records have no data in them, you will get a blank report.

Melatonin. Heckuva drug, Howard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:35 AM (omVj0)

39 Time for the morning walk.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 10, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

40 "You aren't a coblogger or a moderator, so your intervention is not appreciated."

Well, you're living up to the dildo bit.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 10, 2025 05:37 AM (zNwjn)

41 Supposedly Kim Jong Un is building a luxury resort to promote tourism in North Korea.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025


***
Great. A resort with starved, frightened staff and the finest of peasant cuisine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:38 AM (omVj0)

42 38 33 "There's only like half a dozen topics at the HQ"

Boobs, war (esp WW2), pets, things subject to sin taxes, food, sciencey stuff, and boobs.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 05:17 AM (KAi1n)

The six official topics according to the HQ style guide are:

1. Boobs
2. 45 ACP > 9 mm, prove me wrong (or crossbows versus longbows, on heritage preservation days)
3. Movies, music, and books that don't suck (unless you are ace, whose tastes are frankly appalling, so much so that he has to be trolling)
4. Pets and animals we will make into pets in the coming apocalypse
5. DOOM!
6. The War of Northern Aggression and other military unpleasantnesses
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:27 AM (SSEhk)

stylesheet point:

6. The War of Northern Aggression and the Recent Unpleasantness

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:41 AM (aURVT)

43 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:27 AM (SSEhk)

6. The War Of The Southern Rebellion.
7. Ginger or Mary Ann.
8. Long Bows vs. Cross Bows

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:43 AM (Zv8bq)

44 Another AoSHQ topic: the recent Sniffle Scare/ Face Diaper/ Clot Shot Hoax.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:45 AM (omVj0)

45 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 10, 2025 05:45 AM (XQo4F)

46 Wolfus, I found another pic of Pail Tibbetts with his pipe. If you search his name it should pop on the search engines. 3 guys in their dress greens. I guess he favored a Kaywoodie briar. I’ve heard of Dunhill and Peterson brands. Dr. Grabow! ha

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 05:45 AM (tXwiM)

47 37 CBD, has the EU stuff affected your in-France internet?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)

Yes. Sites are blocked for reasons that are opaque. For instance, Rumble is blocked in France, but not in the UK.

Jerusalem Post is blocked sometimes in the UK, although that might be a technical issue.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:25 AM (Zv8bq)

Thanks, intrepid EU-based reporter!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:45 AM (aURVT)

48 *** eyes the maple syrup jug ***

Posted by: fluffy at July 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

49 Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 10, 2025 05:37 AM (zNwjn)

Your input is based on complete ignorance of how this website functions, and is simply ad hominem.

Do better.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:46 AM (Zv8bq)

50 Posted by: fluffy at July 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

Are you making a Manhattan?

Good man! Cocktails for early breakfast!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:48 AM (Zv8bq)

51 14 There's only like half a dozen topics at the HQ.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:52 AM (SSEhk)

Au contraire! We are large, we contain multitudes.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:48 AM (aURVT)

52 Don't forget the cilantro / no cilantro wars

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:48 AM (HFcKg)

53 Beans or no beans in Chili.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 10, 2025 05:51 AM (Zv8bq)

54 >>> Are you making a Manhattan?

*** counts eggs ***

Posted by: fluffy at July 10, 2025 05:52 AM (AN2gy)

55 Wolfus, I found another pic of Pail Tibbetts with his pipe. If you search his name it should pop on the search engines. 3 guys in their dress greens. I guess he favored a Kaywoodie briar. I’ve heard of Dunhill and Peterson brands. Dr. Grabow! ha
Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025


***
I'll take a look, CT. Kaywoodie, as I understand it, was a premium American brand once upon a time, reckoned to be higher quality overall than Dunhill was at the time. In my small collection of vintage pipes I don't have one yet. I do have two of the older Dr. Grabows, and they are good pipes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

56 Don't forget the cilantro / no cilantro wars
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:48 AM (HFcKg)

Yeah, food is definitely a thing. I'm not sure how to incorporate it into the infallible six-topic schema.

Maybe:

5. DOOM! and the comfort foods were are eating while the world goes to hell

Art, of course, is a recognized subtopic of Boobs. Art went straight to hades once people decided they had a better idea than drawing, painting, or sculpting the female form.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:53 AM (SSEhk)

57 58 Art, of course, is a recognized subtopic of Boobs.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:53 AM (SSEhk)

Ha!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:55 AM (aURVT)

58 I wonder if Walt Whitman suspected that that line would be plucked out of the whole.

The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?

Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

59 CT, a pic such as you describe is proving elusive on Startpage's and Brave's image search. I did find one of Tibbetts at a desk in his dress uniform smoking a pipe, though. Looks like a straight "brandy" shape.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (omVj0)

60 One of the many things not to be found in North Korea--- a cook book.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (HFcKg)

61 Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)


***
I quoted that to Miss Linda the other day, but I had forgotten, or never knew, that it was Whitman's.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

62 One of the many things not to be found in North Korea--- a cook book.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (HFcKg)
----
There are only so many ways to boil grass and tree bark.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 05:58 AM (IBQGV)

63 You know who liked Walt Whitman? Abe Lincoln.

Conclusion: It does not pay to like Walt Whitman.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 05:59 AM (SSEhk)

64 What do you do in a case like this? Woman receives hundreds of packages of things she never ordered after Chinese seller lists her home as the return address:

NY Post

https://tinyurl.com/zt3ka2ny

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:59 AM (2GCMq)

65 I must admit that Cake By The Ocean has been a secret favorite of mine for years.

The bass line is catchy as hell and the little Asian girl bassist is a cutie.

The video is entertaining and filled with girls in bikinis, so what’s not to like?

We could all use a little ‘cake by the ocean’ every now and then - just take a shower afterwards to get all the sand out of your nooks and crannies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:00 AM (6ydKt)

66 There are only so many ways to boil grass and tree bark.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025


***
Smuggle 'em in some Tony Chachere's Cajun Seasoning. It'll really make the insect casseroles pop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

67 moar Whitman:

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:03 AM (aURVT)

68 And now that I watched the video again I realize the Asian chicky is the guitarist and I even like her fingernails.

The bassist is not nearly as attractive.
I’m glad they didn’t put him in a bikini.

Somebody needs to feed the drummer a sandwich, tho.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:05 AM (6ydKt)

69 There are only so many ways to boil grass and tree bark.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025

***
Smuggle 'em in some Tony Chachere's Cajun Seasoning. It'll really make the insect casseroles pop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)
---
I'm guessing that seasoning works well for crawdads, so that makes sense.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025 06:05 AM (IBQGV)

70 BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg6x4g6gg6t

UK and France discussing pilot deal that could see 50 migrants a week sent back

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

71 There’s two (2) pics I found with Col. Tibbets and his pipe. Both times he’s palming them. The first one, he was awarded the DFC or somesuch on the spot right after landing the Enola Gay. He is saluting some general, pipe is palmed in left hand. This is a big no-no, bit they didn’t GAF in those days too much. Non-regulation headgear. Horrors!

The other, if you search an interesting book title called “three musketeers”, the story of Ferrebee and Van Kirk, his favorite bombardier and navigator. There’s a photo of him again palming his Kaywoodie pipe.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 06:08 AM (tXwiM)

72 UK and France discussing pilot deal that could see 50 migrants a week sent back
Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

You can fit that many on a single plane easy. Can't be that hard to scare up one pilot a week.

Probably find some volunteers, even.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2025 06:08 AM (BjH5D)

73 I'm waiting for New York to blow up the Statue of Liberty as they usher in Communism. California is not far behind. It's the new trendy thing. Those damn Southerners!

Posted by: Case at July 10, 2025 06:08 AM (ilX37)

74 from the BBC link:

"Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are holding talks"

What could go wrong.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

75 I must protest at all of the 19th century poetry being bandied about so early in the morning.

This is almost as bad as math.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:11 AM (6ydKt)

76 One of the many things not to be found in North Korea--- a cook book.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (HFcKg)

101 Ways to Wok Your Dog

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 06:11 AM (JRP2U)

77 Talk about conspiracy theories . Some nut responding to an article in today's "NY Post"on failures in protecting Trump in Butler thinks that the shooting was a completely staged event to give Trump a boost in the election.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:12 AM (2GCMq)

78 So just how Marxist is LA Mayor Karen Bass?

This Marxist:

https://tinyurl.com/ynabmbda

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 06:13 AM (x8PQF)

79 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 10, 2025 06:14 AM (uGaBv)

80 from the BBC link:

"Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are holding talks"

What could go wrong.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)
-

What good go right?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 06:14 AM (x8PQF)

81 77 Talk about conspiracy theories . Some nut responding to an article in today's "NY Post"on failures in protecting Trump in Butler thinks that the shooting was a completely staged event to give Trump a boost in the election.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:12 AM (2GCMq)

No plan in the history of human beings making plans has ever started with "OK so first you're going to shoot at my head. Make sure you hit me, but don't kill me. I'll be making a lot of sudden movements. Try for an earlobe shot if you can.".

Even William Tell was allowed to stand still for crying out loud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2025 06:15 AM (BjH5D)

82 Disclaimer: This song sounds like that other song.

Which one?

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:16 AM (aURVT)

83 from the BBC link:

"Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are holding talks"

What could go wrong.
Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

— —

They’ve both finally figured out that the establishment is dead and gone if they don’t do something about mass immigration, especially of the illegal kind.

Macron sent out police in Calais earlier this week to knife the rubber dinghies the illegals use to cross the channel before the boatloads could get offshore.

It only took the French a decade to get this serious about stopping the flow.

Elsewhere in the EU, many countries are putting border controls back in place to stop migrants, effectively ending the Schengen Agreement.

The elite globalists are finally starting to figure out how much they’ve screwed up over there.

The Democrats here still haven’t gotten the memo.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:17 AM (6ydKt)

84 I'm guessing that seasoning works well for crawdads, so that makes sense.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2025


***
I guess; I'm not really a crawfish person. I put some on my eggs, angel hair and meatballs, etc. It has salt and pepper plus other spicy seasonings. There's also Zatarain's, an old-line local company -- their HQ is on the same side of the river where I live.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

85 One of the many things not to be found in North Korea--- a cook book.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 10, 2025 05:57 AM (HFcKg)
*
101 Ways to Wok Your Dog
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025


***
Cat curry a la Pyongyang

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)

86 Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 10, 2025 06:15 AM (BjH5D

The rest of the respondents basically said that the poster was crazy ( She thinks Trump had no scar) with one saying, " A good therapist could help." I laughed but I don't know how many therapists today are not progressive and not affected with TDS.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:20 AM (2GCMq)

87 from the BBC link:

"'We agree this can't go on' says PM, as UK and France discuss deal to send back some migrants"

It's gonna be yuge.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:21 AM (aURVT)

88 *Are you making a Manhattan?

Good man! Cocktails for early breakfast!*
+++
Gotta start in the morning if you wanna drink all day.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 10, 2025 06:21 AM (XQo4F)

89 Interesting note from Wikipedia on “Cake By The Ocean”:

Lyrical changes
On September 28, 2024, at a Jonas Brothers concert at the LDLC Arena in Paris, France, Joe Jonas changed the lyric "Walk for me, baby / I'll be Diddy, you'll be Naomi" to "Walk for me, baby / I’ll be watching you be Naomi". The changes came as the rapper, born Sean Combs, was arrested and charged with racketeering and sex trafficking by force.


Joe Jonas (lead singer of DNCE) was a co-writer on the song,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

90 Good morning, all. It's a hot day already here in the GPROMD and I'm quietly grateful for the existence of air conditioning.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 06:22 AM (lXoJ5)

91 BBC writing is going to heck:

The so-called "one in, one out" deal would see France would send an asylum seeker to the UK - possibly with a family connection to Britain - for every migrant sent back

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:25 AM (aURVT)

92 It's Friday Eve.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 10, 2025 06:25 AM (XQo4F)

93 *rubs eyes* Mornin' Horde.

Quantas data leak: Approximately one month and a few more announcements leading up to them stating, "Everything. They got everything."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

94 Disclaimer: This song sounds like that other song.

Which one?
Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:16 AM (aURVT)


There are plenty of songs these days with casual blasphemy. Pick one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 10, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

95 I took a look at the video, but there doesn't seem to be much of the Asian chick with the guitar. No extended shots, anyway. This "quick cuts" technique in videos (and movies too) is not a lot of fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

96 Quantas data leak: Approximately one month and a few more announcements leading up to them stating, "Everything. They got everything."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025


***
"I hate Qantas."
( -- Disgruntled koala in Qantas ads, ca. 1970)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:28 AM (omVj0)

97 And another leftist endorsing the murder of Trump:

"Can you just imagine how good our country would be right now if he didn't fail."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:28 AM (2GCMq)

98 93 Quantas data leak: Approximately one month and a few more announcements leading up to them stating, "Everything. They got everything."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

Yikes.

The Aussie airline said today this personal information includes names and/or email addresses, and warned frequent flyer numbers, customer tiers, status credits, and points balances might also be compromised.

In a "minority" of the total number of cases – reportedly up to one million people – other data points were also revealed. These include:

Physical addresses (residential addresses and business addresses, including hotels for misplaced baggage delivery)
Dates of birth
Phone numbers
Genders
Meal preferences

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)

99 took a look at the video, but there doesn't seem to be much of the Asian chick with the guitar. No extended shots, anyway. This "quick cuts" technique in videos (and movies too) is not a lot of fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

Her name is JinJoo Lee.
I looked it up.

She’s not nearly as attractive without the sunglasses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:30 AM (6ydKt)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 06:30 AM (aURVT)

101
*strides in*
*accepts coffee from gorgeous executive assistant*

Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:30 AM (HZi96)

102 @70/m: "UK and France discussing pilot deal that could see 50 migrants a week sent back"

Fetchez la vache!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

103 Beans or no beans in Chili.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You misspelled Chile.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 06:33 AM (NXz8h)

104 50 deportations a week. Maybe.

We have a new one: Deportation Theater.

Posted by: davidt at July 10, 2025 06:35 AM (i0F8b)

105 We're out of coffee.

Posted by: Gorgeous executive assistant out front should have told you at July 10, 2025 06:35 AM (XQo4F)

106 The left is still hunting the right - from within:

https://tinyurl.com/37hekstm

The agencies have got to go - all of them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 06:35 AM (x8PQF)

107 103 Beans or no beans in Chili.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

###

*Ahem.*

Posted by: The carrots at July 10, 2025 06:36 AM (XQo4F)

108 "Can you just imagine how good our country would be right now if he didn't fail."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Either demonic possession has become more common or the demons just aren't bothering to hide any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 10, 2025 06:37 AM (lXoJ5)

109 One of the many things not to be found in North Korea--- a cook book. Posted by: Ben Had

Cookbooks work deemed subversive by the NORK government and banned during the last big famine.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 06:38 AM (NXz8h)

110 @105/Gorgeous executive assistant:

https://youtu.be/Bbv5B71KmkA

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 06:39 AM (O7YUW)

111 Tibbetts is my new man-crush (no homo). I never paid much attention to him. As a Trivia or History buff, I could always tell you the names of the pilots and planes - Enola Gay and Bockscar, but I was a little fuzzy, okay a lot fuzzy, on the details. He didn’t just show up on the flight line one day and “Oh hey, you’re gonna drop the bomb today”. It took years of planning, and they didn’t tell anybody who didn’t need to know what they were doing until the last minute. The 509th Composite group was hated on Tinian, because they were fenced off into their own compound within the base.

Tibbetts was an amazing, remarkable individual, the aircrews and fighter pilots during world war II had a horrible job. He was a great leader, those guys had balls that clanked.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 10, 2025 06:39 AM (tXwiM)

112 And another leftist endorsing the murder of Trump:

"Can you just imagine how good our country would be right now if he didn't fail."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:28 AM (2GCMq)
-

They're all over the place!

https://tinyurl.com/4wxz5ytm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 06:40 AM (x8PQF)

113 I have had my data leaked so many times it doesn’t really phase me anymore, though I have thought about signing up for that incogni thing. Roca news is always advertising it.

Posted by: H at July 10, 2025 06:40 AM (2gjbv)

114
The problem with leftists is that they can't murder just one. So they kill Trump. Now they have Vance. Are they going to kill him too?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:43 AM (HZi96)

115 In other news, the meteorologist who devised the method of measuring wind chill has died.

He was 86, but felt like he was 75.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 10, 2025 06:43 AM (XQo4F)

116 106 The left is still hunting the right - from within:

https://tinyurl.com/37hekstm

The agencies have got to go - all of them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 06:35 AM (x8PQF)

The sad part is that the U.S. taxpayers have been funding this kind of stuff for half a century.

I’d love to see what happens if they try to do a full “Color Revolution” in the Untied States and ban the Republican party for extremism and threatening democracy.

This isn’t Germany or France.
That won’t work here and would probably ignite a civil war if they tried it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

117 mornin yall. I keep a drip pan under my data.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

118 115 In other news, the meteorologist who devised the method of measuring wind chill has died.

He was 86, but felt like he was 75.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 10, 2025 06:43 AM (XQo4F)


The inventor of Autocorrect has died. His funnel will be tomato.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 10, 2025 06:45 AM (PiwSw)

119 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at July 10, 2025 06:46 AM (XQo4F)

120 In local news, I saw a new name mashup, "Juandrigus".
Predictably, he got a DUI.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

121 Ear worm my daughter found: Baby Hotline by Jack Stauber

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 06:47 AM (oERdd)

122 112:
They're all over the place!

https://tinyurl.com/4wxz5ytm
Posted by: Biden's Dog
.................................
Warren County, Pa. Home of Allegheny National Forest. I've been up there. Pretty country. Not to many of her type (commie) up in them thar parts. Very rural, very conservative.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 10, 2025 06:49 AM (uGaBv)

123 For some crazy reason I just cranked up ZZ Top as my morning music. Yes, to answer the obvious question, I am perhaps a little over-caffeinated.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 06:50 AM (kO68M)

124 104 50 deportations a week. Maybe.

We have a new one: Deportation Theater.
Posted by: davidt at July 10, 2025 06:35 AM (i0F8b)

Biden had Border Patrol and ICE doing the opposite of their job description for the past four years while starving their budgets to pay for all the illegals.

The BBB has just given both agencies so much money they’re about to be better funded than every other federal law enforcement combined, including the FBI.

If what’s being said is true, and they stick to the plan, the Trump administration is about to put ICE everywhere, and you’ll notice.

If they can get the court cases settled and get a system in place to start mass deportations, we should start seeing a lot more going home soon.

That’s a lot of “ifs” but they now have the money to do what Trump promised so we’re going to have to wait and see on this.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

125 123 For some crazy reason I just cranked up ZZ Top as my morning music. Yes, to answer the obvious question, I am perhaps a little over-caffeinated.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 06:50 AM (kO68M)

“La Grange” is a great ZZTop wake up song.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

126 Posting this comment from my Galaxy Z Fold 6 which is quite honestly amazing. I've had Z Folds since the 2 came out ...what... 6 years ago... people are still amazed by it when they ask me what it is and how "it must be brand new". Nope. Been around forever... Apple lemmings just think that their junk phones are the pinnacle of technology. I'll never own a slab phone again.

Anyways, greetings from Iceland. Gorgeous place. Food is amazing.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 10, 2025 06:54 AM (t2+s6)

127 This isn’t Germany or France.
That won’t work here and would probably ignite a civil war if they tried it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:44 AM (6ydKt)
=================
You're joking, right?

Posted by: Victoria Nuland at July 10, 2025 06:54 AM (kO68M)

128 This is why I keep my credit reports frozen.

I just got turned down for a Lowes credit card because they couldn't see my 835 FICO score.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 10, 2025 06:54 AM (ZmEVT)

129 “La Grange” is a great ZZTop wake up song.
Posted by: SpeakingOf "

If that don't make your booty move , your booty must be dead.

Posted by: Fatboy Slim at July 10, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

130 For some crazy reason I just cranked up ZZ Top as my morning music. Yes, to answer the obvious question, I am perhaps a little over-caffeinated.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025


***
We'll just call you "Sharp Dressed Man," then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

131 Thousands of people hardest hit.

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

LMAO

Never change, Pixy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:58 AM (E0urw)

132 121 Ear worm my daughter found: Baby Hotline by Jack Stauber
Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 06:47 AM (oERdd)


It’s like a terrible combination of The Buggles, Talking Heads, and Baby Shark.

And now it’ll be in my head for the next few hours.

God have mercy on my soul.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

133 Practical science lesson #78: Alcohol is a solution.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 06:59 AM (NXz8h)

134 For some crazy reason I just cranked up ZZ Top as my morning music. Yes, to answer the obvious question, I am perhaps a little over-caffeinated.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025

***
We'll just call you "Sharp Dressed Man," then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

And he's now "Nationwide"

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 10, 2025 06:59 AM (wVcYX)

135 I think it's because the ONT kicked off with a photo of some hay in a field south of La Grange, Tx., so I felt compelled. I could have gone Kinky Freidman, but I went a different direction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 06:59 AM (kO68M)

136 Phone Nic Update:

Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day'

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:59 AM (jPEX5)

137 A ZZ-top inspired commentary on life:

1983: "She's got legs!"

2025: "C'mon legs, work for me this morning..."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 07:00 AM (O7YUW)

138 122 112:
They're all over the place!

https://tinyurl.com/4wxz5ytm
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Warren County, Pa. Home of Allegheny National Forest. I've been up there. Pretty country. Not to many of her type (commie) up in them thar parts. Very rural, very conservative.
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country

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I don't think she's very far from Butler, PA.

Posted by: Couldn't help but notice at July 10, 2025 07:01 AM (XQo4F)

139
Getting Her Majesty and Varus on the road to San Antonio this morning. Then, rest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:01 AM (HZi96)

140 I think it's because the ONT kicked off with a photo of some hay in a field south of La Grange, Tx., so I felt compelled. I could have gone Kinky Freidman, but I went a different direction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 10, 2025 06:59 AM (kO68M)

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Damn -- that brings back some good memories of listening to Imus In The Morning on my hour-long one-hour morning commute in The Bay]/s] Gay Area in the early 90's.

Back when all my gay homo friends & coworkers (really very sweet people, butt ...) were dropping dead monthly from "suspected HIV" and AIDS ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:03 AM (jPEX5)

141 "Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

142 You're joking, right?
Posted by: Victoria Nuland at July 10, 2025 06:54 AM (kO68M)

Well, I wouldn't put anything past you, of course.

Not too many people can claim to have been the brainchild behind the worst war in Europe since WWII, but you deserve all the credit there.

But I don’t think you’ll be able to change the U.S. government by throwing a block party and handing out cookies like you did in Ukraine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (6ydKt)

143 Time I shaved and showered. Back later, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

144 Best wake up song is "Fresh Coffee" by Caffeine

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (4qMiv)

145 138: I don't think she's very far from Butler, PA.
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90 minutes, two hours, depending on what route you take. Warren, Pa is close to the NY State line.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 10, 2025 07:05 AM (uGaBv)

146 Well, I sufficiently f*cked that last comment up with the wrong close tags (and failure to put the corresponding link in the URL field.

My insomnia HAD been cured for months but not tonight for some reason ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (jPEX5)

147
"Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)


They musseled in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

148 "Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

They musseled in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

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"STOP KILLING WAVES TO MAKE WAVERUNNERS!"

/obligatory Donkey-Chompers

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:09 AM (jPEX5)

149 I fired all their asses and I liked it! I am gonna hire Vaxxed African Stunt Babies to program my AI and really save a bundle!

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Owner Of Fat Man Boobs And Tech Weirdo at July 10, 2025 07:09 AM (r/wv3)

150 >They musseled in.
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It's just the clam before the storm.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 10, 2025 07:10 AM (XQo4F)

151 Vaxxed African Stunt Babies used to travel with Barnum & Bailey. They were pretty good.

Posted by: Back in the day at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

152 "Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

They musseled in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

Buncha chowderheads

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (JRP2U)

153 Best wake up song is "Fresh Coffee" by Caffeine

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (4qMiv)

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I had a clock radio to help wake me up for high school in the late 70's -- and it was nearly always a Barry Manilow song (like "Somewhere In The Night" which was the anthem for my first love -- and I worked in Las Vegas with a Filipino Lounge Singer who crushed it in the evenings).

/surrenders Man-Card

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:13 AM (jPEX5)

154 If Bulg stops by please tell him I left a picture of a pretty girl in a swimsuit for him. No joke . It's from the "NY Post" cover:

https://tinyurl.com/w3rca683

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:14 AM (gHfHP)

155 That’s a lot of “ifs” but they now have the money to do what Trump promised so we’re going to have to wait and see on this.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 10, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

So easy to let them in, so hard to get rid of them. Life can be perverse.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 10, 2025 07:14 AM (WHfpM)

156 Vaxxed African Stunt Babies used to travel with Barnum & Bailey. They were pretty good.

Posted by: Back in the day at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

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Damn, I laughed WAY TOO HARD at this ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:15 AM (jPEX5)

157 Buncha chowderheads
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (JRP2U)

Yes,,they were .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:15 AM (gHfHP)

158 "Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

They musseled in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

Buncha chowderheads
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (JRP2U)

We've got it covered.

Posted by: Old Bay at July 10, 2025 07:15 AM (wVcYX)

159 Remain clam. All is well!

Posted by: Kevin Bacon at July 10, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F)

160 The Haitians in Parksley,Va. have built themselves a Babtist church.
Doubt they are leaving

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 07:16 AM (T1QkV)

161 If Bulg stops by please tell him I left a picture of a pretty girl in a swimsuit for him. No joke . It's from the "NY Post" cover:

https://tinyurl.com/w3rca683

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 07:14 AM (gHfHP)

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That's a Great Headline, Fen:

"NO BABES ALLOWED!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:16 AM (jPEX5)

162 Old Bay sux and and J.O. is worse.

Posted by: Accomack at July 10, 2025 07:17 AM (T1QkV)

163 Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:03 AM (jPEX5)

You are yummy

Posted by: The Barrel at July 10, 2025 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

164 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

165 NOOD

J.J. Sefton is here with the Morning Report

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 10, 2025 07:19 AM (O7YUW)

166 Don't be so crabby.

"Vegetarian mob gangs up on Maine CLAM festival for failing to provide plant-based alternative"

Oh no, how shellfish.
Posted by: fd at July 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

They musseled in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 07:06 AM (HZi96)

Buncha chowderheads
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 10, 2025 07:12 AM (JRP2U)

We've got it covered.
Posted by: Old Bay

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

167 150 >They musseled in.
___
It's just the clam before the storm.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 10, 2025 07:10 AM (XQo4F)

; )

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 07:20 AM (aURVT)

168 The trick here is that if you know how the random numbers are generated, a malicious program can use that information to "prove" things that aren't true.

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"Random Number Generators -- like "AI -- are based upon algorithms and black-box predictable."

-- Things I learned when first becoming a Computer Programmer in the late 70's (damn, I'm gettin' old ...)

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 07:20 AM (jPEX5)

169 Strange. I just saw a YT video that claimed Starmer had a serious court ruling against him in a corruption case and was on the verge of resigning.

I cannot find anything elsewhere to indicate this wasn't an elaborate hoax.

Posted by: Epobirs at July 10, 2025 07:22 AM (/0z9K)

170 114 The problem with leftists is that they can't murder just one. So they kill Trump. Now they have Vance. Are they going to kill him too?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:43 AM (HZi96)

"*The* problem with leftists"? There's others!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 07:23 AM (aURVT)

171 >160 The Haitians in Parksley,Va. have built themselves a Babtist church.

+++
Southern Babtist or Independent Babtist?

Posted by: It depends on the fried chicken at July 10, 2025 07:25 AM (XQo4F)

172 Yesterday would have been my 20th anniversary. So I called my best friend, from 10th grade. He was at the wedding. A friend of his answered. My friend had passed away unobserved the day after I last called him. A wellness check found him.

We can go from hanging on to out so fast these days.

There is no family left. He outlived them all.

Hold those you love close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 10, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

173 These high tech layoffs can be easily explained.
They don’t want to go any more than necessary into debt transitioning to AI. Since nobody has found the real “killer app” using AI that justifies spending billions of dollars, they need a path to “plan B”, even if they don’t know what “plan B” will be.

Posted by: SMOD at July 10, 2025 08:09 AM (gaHF4)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 9, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Tip your bartender.

Been a rough week on a lot of fronts. Prayers for all among the Horde for issues known and unknown, small and large, and personal or adjacent. TRex isn't smart enough to pray for specific intentions, so I usually stick with praying for strength and wisdom and for happiness and good health. May it be also for those in Texas.

[Top photo: Field near Ammannsville (just south of La Grange), Texas]

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I know what you're thinking. This is going to be another Wednesday ONT stuffed with eccentric and eclectic knowledge, moments of wit and humor, and timeless music, right? It is going to be exciting, cutting edge and adventuresome, right! Ummm.....yeah. Sure. Glad you're here anyway. As seems to be the fashion these days, a special hello to the lurkers - otherwise known as "pre-commenters" or "commenters in training." Happy reading!

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Classic Calvin & Hobbes:

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Fun with words:

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This explains a lot:

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In case there are questions:

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Apparently this is true:

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Since we're opening that Pandora's Box, we must include this clip:

You will note the presence of "stalker" on Don's graphic, but we'll let the dorks and stalkers fight that one out.

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We have reached the animal-themed section of the program.

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Not sure if this qualifies as the religion or philosophy part of the program but it works either way:

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Same:

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What photo could go here that would encourage healthy interest from the military aviation geeks (nerds?) among the Horde? Ah yes. OLS it is. Have at it. (Photo from the US National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.)

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Today I learned that General Mills made more than breakfast cereals.

In 1946, General Mills established an Aeronautical Research Division. The division developed high altitude balloons for the United States Navy Office of Naval Research. They were initially used mostly for high altitude meteorological observation, known as Skyhook balloons.

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Hundreds of General Mills balloons carrying reconnaissance equipment were launched by the United States government under Project Genetrix to surveil Eastern bloc countries and their nuclear capabilities.

Several General Mills employees left and formed Raven Industries to carry on the aeronautical and balloon work in 1956. More trivia: between 1984 and 2019, Raven Industries made hundreds of balloons and other inflatables for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

General Mills did interesting projects in other parts of its business too. The General Mills Electronics division developed the DSV Alvin submersible which was used to explore the wreck of Titanic and other deep-sea missions.

If you found this interesting, I will let you determine if that makes you a geek or a nerd.

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Space launch report - next flight:

July 13, 2025
SpaceX Falcon 9
Launch time: Window opens 12:31 a.m. ET (0431 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

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For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 8th, 2025 - Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie is debuting the first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This addition to the line enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie and encourages doll play that extends beyond a child's own lived experience, thereby fostering a greater sense of inclusion and empathy - all pillars of the Barbie brand's mission. Mattel Press Release

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No more taking off shoes for airport security: DHS to End "Shoes-Off" Travel Policy

Passengers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints
National Press Release
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a new policy today which will allow passengers traveling through domestic airports to keep their shoes on while passing through security screening at TSA checkpoints.

The new policy will increase hospitality for travelers and streamline the TSA security checkpoint process, leading to lower wait times.

The TSA directive says nothing about pants, but it is probably better that most people in the airport remain fully clothed. However, pants are still required for the Book Thread and optional for the Hobby Thread.

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Transportation and infrastructure news:

The Maryland Transportation Authority announced that demolition of the existing structures of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is expected to begin on or about July 7, weather permitting. For those keeping track, the bridge collapsed on March 26, 2024. That means it has taken a little more than 15 months to start demolition. Completion of the new bridge is targeted for October 2028. I'll take the over.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner is like a slow motion car crash. You can't bear to watch but you can't look away.

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Live Brian Setzer Orchestra for the big ONT finish:

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There is no truth to the rumor that TRex's doctor has taken the fifth. Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




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1 “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

Posted by: mindful webworker - that settles it... or does it? at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (JYGoS)

2 Hay!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (0eaVi)

3 Yay, National Don't Put all your Eggs in One Omelet Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

4 Top ten

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (Lo97M)

5 Howdy.

Posted by: QED Texan at July 09, 2025 10:02 PM (fveCG)

6 I made it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 09, 2025 10:02 PM (XQo4F)

7 Howd Hordlings. Top O the evening to you. Scottish Open starts at 2am Eastern time. Haggis for all! If its not Scottish ITS CRAP!!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 09, 2025 10:02 PM (hftn9)

8 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 10:02 PM (zZu0s)

9 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).

Does diabetes turn you brunette? I thought Barbie was blonde.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

10 Baled out of the Cafe just in time!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (e+kKL)

11
"The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable."

~ Peyton Manning

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (XQo4F)

12 *sliding in fast!*

Yikes!
Hiya T!
I'll be over here in the lounge, trying to order a cocktail, while still lurking...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (L9kkv)

13 Good choice on the mystery click.

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (2Am07)

14
*shoots cuffs*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (HZi96)

15 Greetings, all, to the greatest community on the planet. As Stan Lee would say, "Excelsior!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (CHHv1)

16 La Grange. They got a lot of nice girls there.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (Lo97M)

17 'Outside of a dog, a book is Man's best friend.'

'Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)

18 Did a site visit in NYC today, had some street tacos.

NY may be a leftist sh*t hole, but damn you can get some good tacos.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (XV/Pl)

19 No more taking off shoes in airports? Don't know if we'll be less safe, but maybe it won't stink as much.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

20 12 Hiya T!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM
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Hiya COMM!

Posted by: TRex - waving politely at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

21
How much insulin does Diabetes Barbie need every month?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (HZi96)

22 Speaking of planets, how are the plans proceeding to get our own? Not that I'm impatient, or anything, but...I'm impatient. Really tired of this one.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

23 Raven Industries is located in Sioux Falls, SD and my eldest brother used to work there.
He didn't do balloons, he worked on farm / industrial sprayers. A lot of the farm stuff was such that when it came in for work you had to full hazmat suit to do the initial cleaning.

Posted by: KCSteve at July 09, 2025 10:06 PM (bxAlI)

24 Today I learned that General Mills made more than breakfast cereals.

In 1946, General Mills established an Aeronautical Research Division. The division developed high altitude balloons for the United States Navy Office of Naval Research.


It was an obvious way to branch out. They already knew how to sell mostly-empty plastic bags.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:06 PM (DgGvY)

25 Six minutes in and what, high thirties?

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 10:07 PM (n4GiU)

26 If Dogs don't go to Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they go.

Pretty sure that was Will Rogers.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 10:07 PM (RmOaB)

27 I thought "nerd" was short for "ne'er do well"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 10:07 PM (gKWVE)

28 Miss Linda has headed off home, and I'm about to wind it up for the evening. Tomorrow she has kitten yoga at the library. Yes, the events has real kittens from local shelters released among the yoga participants as they follow the video; you can pet them and even adopt one if you like.

Instead of standing there with my face hanging out, I plan to drive up the street and have a coffee. Who's with me?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:08 PM (omVj0)

29 25 Six minutes in and what, high thirties?

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 10:07 PM (n4GiU)
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I'll do my part.

Thank you for the swell ONT Mr. Rex!

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 10:08 PM (sfOD1)

30 Six minutes in and what, high thirties?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 10:07 PM (n4GiU)

Centigrade?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

31 23 He didn't do balloons, he worked on farm / industrial sprayers.

Posted by: KCSteve at July 09, 2025 10:06 PM
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That lines up with the rest of the story that I omitted from the content. Raven got into automated and autonomous tech for tractors and was acquired by Case New Holland.

Posted by: TRex - down on the farm at July 09, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 I thought "nerd" was short for "ne'er do well"
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025


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The first time I heard the word was on an episode of Happy Days, spoken by Fonzie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)

34 Now see.
It totally pays to go back and visit content. Jeez! How else would we ever know about diabetes Barbie you guys?!
🥲😜🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (L9kkv)

35 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (uGaBv)

36 Wolfus, ALH has a post you may be interested in.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

37 Good stuff.

Of those Pittsburgh calls, the first one is meh. But the other two I can see as legit, especially that third one.

the number of people who confuse 'to' and 'too' is amazing two me.

Two Me could be from Africa or Asia and be absolutely amazed that people confuse 'to' and 'too'.

Posted by: RickZ at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

38 The third item on the Pittsburgh Police Scanner isn't even funny. Kind of heartwarming that a bartender thinks highly enough of his patrons that he calls for a welfare check when a regular is absent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (e+kKL)

39 YouTube has announced it will stop monetizing content featuring AI-generated videos starting July 15, 2025. This bold policy update is designed to address growing concerns about the authenticity, quality, and ethical implications of synthetic media on the platform.

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (GITLP)

40 Thanks for the dandy Wednesday Night ONT, TRex!

Love the flag-wrap on the hay bales. Very patriotic!

King Harv must be an admirer of the TRex. Congrats!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (kB9dk)

41
Dork. Definitely, dork.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (HZi96)

42 Wolfus, ALH has a post you may be interested in.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025


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I'll take a look, thanks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (omVj0)

43 This is the younger brother of Grump/toby. He tells me the Moron Horde included me in their prayers after my burst appendix/sepsis episode a couple of weeks ago. A sincere thank you to all you fine people. I am recovering well.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM (VTJ0e)

44 29 Thank you for the swell ONT Mr. Rex!

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 10:08 PM
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You're welcome!

Posted by: TRex at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

45 It totally pays to go back and visit content. Jeez! How else would we ever know about diabetes Barbie you guys?!
🥲😜🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:09 PM (L9kkv)

Wow! that opens up a whole new line for Mattel. How about Syphilis Barbie, or Leprosy Barbie, with detachable limbs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (e+kKL)

46 I’m barely 150 pages in a 933 page book -recommended earlier - Blacklisted by History by M. Evans, about Senator Joseph McCarthy

It’s a great read. One thing I’m immediately struck by is how similar the events and chicken shit back then and today. Like say, Peter Stroke getting his pension re-instated after being fired for cause.

If you read the Wiki on a fellow named John Service, he was a diplomat stationed in China before the war. Wiki says he “correctly predicted the Communists would defeat the Nationalists”

Well, yes. Since he had a profound impact on making this happen - not too tough of a prediction. He made that happen.

Eventually the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson fired him. Supreme Court re-instated him. Same BS, different day. The book is replete (so far) of really, really fvcked up shit.

The Balkans were another. They supported Tito over a guy named Michailovich, who was both anti-Nazi and anti-Communist. If you have Uk, US, and Russia on your side, good to go. Michailovich was rounded up, show trial, executed.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (ds7a/)

47 Did any of the General Mills balloons get shot down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

48 Joe Rogan
@joerogan
Jul 8
Shout out to all the people that still don’t believe in conspiracies. Your ability to stick to your guns is inspiring.
Jul 8, 2025 · 11:59 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (D7oie)

49 This is the younger brother of Grump/toby. He tells me the Moron Horde included me in their prayers after my burst appendix/sepsis episode a couple of weeks ago. A sincere thank you to all you fine people. I am recovering well.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM (VTJ0e)

Glad to hear it! Thank you for checking in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 10:13 PM (e+kKL)

50 40 Thanks for the dandy Wednesday Night ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM
***
You're welcome! Thanks for being here.

Posted by: TRex at July 09, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 the number of people who confuse 'to' and 'too' is amazing two me.

The number of people that confuse "two plus two" - or "what size is a 2 x 4" is much, much bigger.

Hence why you have all these Mexicans here. Because they can put together inch and a half by three and a half lumber.

Part of the fall of America, honestly ? Its the status afforded to those that assign honestly to the subtlety of "to" and "too".

Who cares ? Nobody that makes anything of use.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 10:13 PM (RmOaB)

52
A sincere thank you to all you fine people. I am recovering well.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM (VTJ0e)

___________

*looks up from beer*

Thanks, but fine people are the next blog over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:13 PM (HZi96)

53 And thank you for the Growler Ball video. Brings back great memories.

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:14 PM (2Am07)

54 Hundreds of General Mills balloons carrying reconnaissance equipment were launched by the United States government under Project Genetrix to surveil Eastern bloc countries and their nuclear capabilities.

One of the points in the Oppenheimer movie that Nolan really didn't do justice is when they find out the Soviets had set off their own nuclear test. Oppenheimer's rival, Lewis Strauss, who is presented as a jealous jerk in the movie, was the guy who had pushed for this when the consensus by Oppenheimer and his associates was that it wouldn't work and the Soviets were far from building their own bomb anyway.

This was from fixed wing aircraft not balloons, but your note reminded me of it...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)

55 53 And thank you for the Growler Ball video. Brings back great memories.

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:14 PM
***
Yessir. Thought you might appreciate it. Glad you caught it.

Posted by: TRex - the sound of freedom at July 09, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

56 Good evening.
You know, Lindsey Graham reminds me of Marvin Zindler.

youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:16 PM (ncgY2)

57 Passengers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints

The appropriate response to the shoe bomber should have been the bombing of Muslim cities until the danger of a follow up dissipated.

But I guess I should just be happy the US government didn't take the opportunity of the panty bomber to make us all fly bottomless.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:17 PM (t0Rmr)

58 "Live Brian Setzer Orchestra..."
- - - - - - - - -
Be glad it wasn't Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 09, 2025 10:17 PM (4h45B)

59 Wow! that opens up a whole new line for Mattel. How about Syphilis Barbie, or Leprosy Barbie, with detachable limbs?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I mentioned this meme earlier today, this time I'll link it.

https://is.gd/sOIMrI

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

60 Don't they still use OLS at airports?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 10:17 PM (D7oie)

61 I can see that this ONT could go right off the rails....
I'm glad I decided to sit way over here...

Barkeep! Tell my pals I'm here...the next round is on me!


°put it on my tab*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:18 PM (L9kkv)

62 Eventually the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson fired him. Supreme Court re-instated him. Same BS, different day. The book is replete (so far) of really, really fvcked up shit.

The Balkans were another. They supported Tito over a guy named Michailovich, who was both anti-Nazi and anti-Communist. If you have Uk, US, and Russia on your side, good to go. Michailovich was rounded up, show trial, executed.
Posted by: Common Tater

Why it's almost as if our most treacherous, insidious enemy is our very own Intelligence Community.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

63 YouTube has announced it will stop monetizing content featuring AI-generated videos starting July 15, 2025. This bold policy update is designed to address growing concerns about the authenticity, quality, and ethical implications of synthetic media on the platform.
Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 10:10 PM (GITLP)

I watched a couple of AI vids a while ago. The stupid voice that mispronounces, the pictures that don't match the narration, the outright lies about people makes me wonder why they haven't been shut down before.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

64
You know, Lindsey Graham reminds me of Marvin Zindler.

____________

I'll thank you not to diss Marvin Zindler. He was a Houston institution who did a lot of good for people. "SLIIIIIIIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)

65 The appropriate response to the shoe bomber should have been the bombing of Muslim cities until the danger of a follow up dissipated.

The only thing Lewis Black ever said, in comedy, that made a bit of sense to me. And he wasn't trying to be that funny.

Nobody, on any of those fucking planes, needed fear anything if only they each had one of those 12" trophy bats. The kind Louisville Slugger used to make.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 10:19 PM (RmOaB)

66 Good evening morons y gracias Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

67 Wow! that opens up a whole new line for Mattel. How about Syphilis Barbie, or Leprosy Barbie, with detachable limbs?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I learned a fair amount about Hansen's disease, leprosy, from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:20 PM (t0Rmr)

68 Last time I flew East was late August 2001. My sister nagged me into going. About the only good thing I could say about that trip was the farmers markets were stuffed with fresh peaches and black plums.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 09, 2025 10:20 PM (sZyeE)

69 Today I learned that General Mills made more than breakfast cereals.
------
When the country turned to the production of war materials, there were a lot of what are now surprising engagements.

So far as General Mills goes, they manufactured the mount for the SV radar dish. See upper right corner at:
https://maritime.org/tech/radiocat/sv.php

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 10:21 PM (XeU6L)

70 However, pants are still required for the Book Thread and optional for the Hobby Thread.
----

Question authority!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 10:21 PM (kpS4V)

71 Sorry I'm late, I was getting my vintage shoelace collection appraised. I cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining the original aglets.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 09, 2025 10:21 PM (toqvN)

72 ***Skyhook
---

Rush, maha Rushie, Limbaugh used that term as a euphemism.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:22 PM (ncgY2)

73 Sorry I'm late, I was getting my vintage shoelace collection appraised. I cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining the original aglets.

Wait...does this mean the Lace Wigs thing on this site was on the up and up?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:22 PM (t0Rmr)

74 Occasionally I'll see someone flying in a mini skirt or short shorts.

Obviously she has a lot more confidence in how much they clean those seats then i do.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:23 PM (t0Rmr)

75 ***Type 1 Diabetes Barbie
---------

Does she come with little bruises from the hypodermic needles on her tummy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:24 PM (ncgY2)

76
I cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining the original aglets.

__________

Metal. Only losers have plastic aglets.

*snickers cruelly*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:24 PM (HZi96)

77 Did any of the General Mills balloons get shot down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025


***
The ones used to advertise Kaboom cereal sure did!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:24 PM (omVj0)

78 What next in the pipeline, Mastectomy Barbie?

Yeesh.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 10:24 PM (/gTjv)

79
What next in the pipeline, Mastectomy Barbie?

_________

Hemorrhoid Barbie

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 10:26 PM (HZi96)

80 I’m barely 150 pages in a 933 page book -recommended earlier - Blacklisted by History by M. Evans, about Senator Joseph McCarthy
-----

A terrific book.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 10:26 PM (XeU6L)

81 Many thanxs for this thread TRex. All these years and I didn't know jf it was spelled "nurd" "nerd" or "nird."

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 10:26 PM (W/lyH)

82 and other inflatables
Ummm, was there something going on at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade besides the parade? That we never saw on tv?

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2Am07)

83 67 Wow! that opens up a whole new line for Mattel. How about Syphilis Barbie, or Leprosy Barbie, with detachable limbs?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I learned a fair amount about Hansen's disease, leprosy, from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...
Posted by: 18-1



I read those books. The first six anyway. Heard there was another (III Chronicles of TC) but never read them. Odd, dark, books, but readable. I didn't hate them. Kept my interest anyway but I was a teenager when I read them.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 10:26 PM (uGaBv)

84 Did any of the General Mills balloons get shot down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

Just mine by those stupid kids.

Posted by: Lucky the Leprechaun at July 09, 2025 10:27 PM (0eaVi)

85 …I cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining the original aglets.
Posted by: tankdemon


I thought the aglet was that thing that dangles down in the back of the mouth.

Posted by: mindful webworker - or was that the philtrum? at July 09, 2025 10:27 PM (JYGoS)

86 Ya know, I'm really glad (and you should be too) that I don't have to take my shoes off here...

Oh. Wait. Sorry...
I'll go back to lurking now...or, maybe not1🤪...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:27 PM (L9kkv)

87 Passengers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints
Now do belts, please.

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:28 PM (2Am07)

88 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).

Why a Diabetes Barbie? Is there already a cancer Barbie, or an asthma Barbie, or a peanut allergy Barbie?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 09, 2025 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

89 Re Valvoline....ALWAYS check your oil before driving on a long trip.

Posted by: JUDGE WALLY GATOR at July 09, 2025 10:29 PM (5yGIt)

90 Oh forgot....
TELL YOUR WIFE THAT!

Posted by: JUDGE WALLY GATOR at July 09, 2025 10:30 PM (5yGIt)

91 Love a bartenfer that will check on absent regulars

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 10:30 PM (gDlxJ)

92 Did any of the General Mills balloons get shot down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

Just mine by those stupid kids.
Posted by: Lucky the Leprechaun
--

It's not as though we weren't trying.

One Quaker Oats advertisement described Anderson’s blasting technique as “food shot from guns of peace.”

Posted by: Quaker Oats at July 09, 2025 10:30 PM (XeU6L)

93 87 Passengers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints
Now do belts, please.
Posted by: GWB
-----------

So much for getting rid of TSA.
So much for getting rid of Homeland Securitas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:31 PM (ncgY2)

94 I also think the bartender calling in the welfare check is sweet. There are a couple of people who check on my mom like that (they don't know me), and I think it's very thoughtful of them.

Hadrian, I've tried to explain Marvin Zindler to non-Houstonians before, and the conclusion I've reached is that you had to be there. Same goes for Mattress Mack.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 09, 2025 10:31 PM (Y+AMd)

95

I read those books. The first six anyway. Heard there was another (III Chronicles of TC) but never read them. Odd, dark, books, but readable. I didn't hate them. Kept my interest anyway but I was a teenager when I read them.


I did like his Gap series more. I remember reading that when I was taking the subway to work and it completely took me out of the mundane world of rude, smelly people all around me.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:32 PM (t0Rmr)

96 85 That's the vulva. Or is it uvula? I always get those mixed up.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 09, 2025 10:32 PM (Y+AMd)

97 What barroons?
We no have barroons.

Posted by: Chinese Intelligence Service at July 09, 2025 10:32 PM (W/lyH)

98 That's the vulva. Or is it uvula? I always get those mixed up.

AN ONT is only allowed to make that mistake once.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:33 PM (t0Rmr)

99 Setzer is, and has always been great. But, he's one of those old celebrity dudes, who is starting to look like an old lesbian. No criticism, just observation. (Stephen Tyler,
Bruce Springsteen, etc.)

Posted by: irright at July 09, 2025 10:33 PM (pbMUY)

100 Who paid them to come out with a Diabetes Barbie?

If they were really socially conscious she would have been Homeless Barbie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:33 PM (ncgY2)

101 I’m barely 150 pages in a 933 page book -recommended earlier - Blacklisted by History by M. Evans, about Senator Joseph McCarthy
----

Reading that, I kept thinking that the Dems think 'It worked last time'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XeU6L)

102 Why a Diabetes Barbie? Is there already a cancer Barbie, or an asthma Barbie, or a peanut allergy Barbie?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 09, 2025 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

The Flatus Barbie was an unexpectedly poor seller.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM (e+kKL)

103 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).

Why a Diabetes Barbie? Is there already a cancer Barbie, or an asthma Barbie, or a peanut allergy Barbie?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 09, 2025 10:28 PM (0Htd1)


So not only our population is getting sicker, but also our dolls are, too? Get RFK, Jr on the case.

That kind of doll is just insipid. Do a body builder Barbie, FFS, not make disease something little girls should want.

That doll is both insipid and vapid. Congrats, Mattel.

Posted by: RickZ at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM (gKDq2)

104 I had fortunate good luck to see The Brian Setzer Orchestra during their first tour in 1990s and then many times after. I think the last time was in 2019.

It was a marvel to hear the 20th breadth of American music played with apex skill. Without a doubt that band went far in making clear that what they performed was a pinnacle moment of American classical music: we don't need no Mozart, we gots Rock n' Roll.

In February, 2025 he announced that an auto-immune disease had robbed his ability play guitar. A month or so later, after beginning treatment, he felt that he was going to be able to play again, hopefully in the not to distant future.

I monitor his progress with hopes that I can be there when that band blows minds once again. Heck, I would drive 1000 miles to hear that band again and will if that happens. And you should too. For reals.

This is the band I saw the first time. Damn.

One Rockin' Night - Full Concert
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Montreal, Canada, 1995
https://youtu.be/AG8pU-kh49w

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM (NXz8h)

105 With all the rain around this part of Texas, it's a wonder they got anything baled up around La Grange...

Oh, and saw a lovely vintage photo of The Bon Ton Restaurant today. Nostalgia, man.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM (jh5OO)

106 Remember calling someone a communist without complete documentary evidence is beyond the pale of what should be accepted in American culture, but calling someone a white supremacist, a fascist, or hell a NAZI is a-ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:35 PM (t0Rmr)

107 I love the Pittsburg Scanner.

I now want an Alligator Alcatraz Complaint Hot Line Report.

*I don't ask for much*

How can I help you, illegal terrorist falafel belle?
"A mosquito the size of a hijab bit me!" Too bad, return to the desert, Ahab. Cobras looking pretty good now, eh?

"It's so humid I could die"! Good. The gators are hungry. You should have stayed in Iran.

2am: What the hell do you want?
"Mo is snoring and farting and I want my lawyer! I can't sleep! I have rights! This pillow sucks! Are you there?" Loud snoring noises...

*Reveille*
"I demand to know which direction is Mecca! I need to pray!" Snoring sounds...

"This breakfast is not halal! I smell bacon! I demand to talk to the UN! Or NATO or the EU!" It is halal, I bought it at Trader Joe's. Eat it or not, the gators don't mind.

"I demand to go to El Salvador CECOT! It can't be worse than this hell!" We can add you to a long list. We will need to process your papers. It might take some time, meanwhile, enjoy your tropical stay!

"I am out of TP! What kind of crap is this?" I don't know your crap and don't want to. Use your left hand. We were told to keep this place cultured to your needs. Aim into the hole.


Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 10:36 PM (6PCLE)

108 That's the vulva. Or is it uvula? I always get those mixed up.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 09, 2025 10:32 PM (Y+AMd)

You, too?

Posted by: zombie Linda Lovelace at July 09, 2025 10:36 PM (e+kKL)

109 That's the vulva. Or is it uvula? I always get those mixed up.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 09, 2025 10:32 PM (Y+AMd)


You are thinking of the vuvuzela. Apparently if you blow on it just right you get a really loud sound.
Or I might be thinking of that horn thing from the World Cup

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 10:37 PM (D7oie)

110 That kind of doll is just insipid. Do a body builder Barbie, FFS, not make disease something little girls should want.

Adepta Sororitas Barbie complete with power armor and bolter complete with fully flammable heretic assembly play set.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:37 PM (t0Rmr)

111 Do a body builder Barbie, FFS
-------

Nah, Who wants a muscled up woman?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ncgY2)

112 'night...

youtu.be/Cnchea6LHN0

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 10:37 PM (uGaBv)

113 BTW, That oil sign should have read "Lubrications 10:40"

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:38 PM (2Am07)

114

Nah, Who wants a muscled up woman?


Male spaces on the leftwing parts of the internet seem obsessed with "muscle mommies"

I...don't get it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:38 PM (t0Rmr)

115 93 So much for getting rid of TSA.
So much for getting rid of Homeland Securitas.

Like THAT would happen. Trump will not, or any other 'politician' will ever make it happen. The 'Deep State' has claws. They'll never let it go....

My opinion😐

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:39 PM (L9kkv)

116 112 'night...

youtu.be/Cnchea6LHN0
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country
-----------------

See, this what happens when you get too much exercise and play too much golf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:39 PM (ncgY2)

117 Who paid them to come out with a Diabetes Barbie?

If they were really socially conscious she would have been Homeless Barbie.
Posted by: Braenyard


Isn't that all of them, before they're purchased?

Posted by: deep thoughts from mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

118 and play too much golf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:39 PM (ncgY2)

***

I do not understand these words in this order.

Posted by: Chinese Intelligence Service at July 09, 2025 10:41 PM (W/lyH)

119 Crap!
Off chicom sock

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 10:41 PM (W/lyH)

120 I thought the aglet was that thing that dangles down in the back of the mouth.
Posted by: mindful webworker - or was that the philtrum?

I thought it was a

Posted by: Some Rat at July 09, 2025 10:42 PM (TfUTr)

121 That's the vulva. Or is it uvula? I always get those mixed up.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel

What a coincidence! Me too!

Posted by: Kumala - Queen of The Word Salad at July 09, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

122 Well, that was awkward.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 09, 2025 10:42 PM (TfUTr)

123 I don't get it. I guess the robot on the porch is kinda weird. But a call for animal control about a lost dog and a welfare check on an absent drunkard are just about the most prosaic police calls there are.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM (BI5O2)

124 Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM

Heh.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM (jc0TO)

125 Who paid them to come out with a Diabetes Barbie?

If they were really socially conscious she would have been Homeless Barbie.
Posted by: Braenyard

I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM (NXz8h)

126 I don't think that's LittleBro928's first comment but he is a prolific lurker.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)

127
I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
---------

And a straight razor. Oh, wait, that's for Surgeon Barbie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ncgY2)

128 Nah, Who wants a muscled up woman?

Male spaces on the leftwing parts of the internet seem obsessed with "muscle mommies"

I...don't get it.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:38 PM (t0Rmr)

Having dated female bodybuilders...it's real.
I really like fit women. Not the extremes, and sometimes as a woman is dieting for a meet things get...funky. But off that schedule, soft skin over muscle is a vibe. Silk over steel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 09, 2025 10:45 PM (xcxpd)

129 This is the younger brother of Grump/toby. He tells me the Moron Horde included me in their prayers after my burst appendix/sepsis episode a couple of weeks ago. A sincere thank you to all you fine people. I am recovering well.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at July 09, 2025 10:11 PM (VTJ0e)
====
b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

130 If they were really socially conscious she would have been Homeless Barbie.
Posted by: Braenyard

Isn't that all of them, before they're purchased?
Posted by: deep thoughts from mikeski

Pavement Princess Barbie costs like 2000 bucks a night.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 09, 2025 10:46 PM (TfUTr)

131 I think it would be fun to watch heads explode when these get released.

Mommy Barbie, with 4 kids.
Redneck Barbie, with her hunting rifle.
Construction Barbie, with her hammer and saw.
Suicide Bomber Barbie, with her explosive vest and hajib.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 09, 2025 10:46 PM (S/Y4j)

132 If they were really socially conscious she would have been Homeless Barbie.

Orrr....phentalil (?) Barbie) you know, the one who is always tipped over in Philly...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:46 PM (L9kkv)

133 So not only our population is getting sicker, but also our dolls are, too? Get RFK, Jr on the case.

That kind of doll is just insipid. Do a body builder Barbie, FFS, not make disease something little girls should want.

That doll is both insipid and vapid. Congrats, Mattel.
Posted by: RickZ


Type 1 isn't a lifestyle disease, type 2 is. Type 1 is genetic, or maybe environmental.

The doll is still insipid and vapid, or at least virtue-signalling, but this is on the level of calling the handicapped "handi-capable," not like calling 600 pound land whales "healthy at any size."

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

134 What next in the pipeline, Mastectomy Barbie?

Yeesh.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 10:24 PM


Ken is Barbie with a top chop.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:47 PM (jc0TO)

135
Having dated female bodybuilders...it's real.
I really like fit women. Not the extremes, and sometimes as a woman is dieting for a meet things get...funky. But off that schedule, soft skin over muscle is a vibe. Silk over steel.


I've dated female athletes (runner/tennis) and they were certainly toned but that's not the same thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:47 PM (t0Rmr)

136 Next up, 'Prostate Ken'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 10:48 PM (XeU6L)

137 I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


* ponders barbie doll *

* ponders ken doll *

How could you tell if they were trans?

And, what parts?

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

138 I've dated female athletes (runner/tennis) and they were certainly toned but that's not the same thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:47 PM


I remember swimmers being pretty nice.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:48 PM (jc0TO)

139 Fascinating about the word "nerd" being invented by Dr. Suess!

And let me just say that I think it is lovely that the bartender asked for a check on his awol customer! Hope all was well and the guy just went to AA!

Posted by: jocon307 at July 09, 2025 10:49 PM (EuROc)

140 Did a site visit in NYC today, had some street tacos.

NY may be a leftist sh*t hole, but damn you can get some good tacos.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (XV/Pl)
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You go to NY and eat tacos?

10 demerits.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

141 think it is lovely that the bartender asked for a check on his awol customer!

The customer was putting his kids through college.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (jc0TO)

142 LOL. NYC tacos, hahahaha.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (BI5O2)

143 Brian Setzer Orchestra used to do a Christmas Tour... GREAT Concerts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (mP0Kj)

144 Ok. Alright. I'm really gonna lurk now....
Sorry for being a pain in collective asses...

Thanks TRex!
I love this Horde!
🙂🙂💕❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (L9kkv)

145
We learned abiut zebraa & donkeys here today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (HLrNP)

146 Mexican food on the East Coast is abysmal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM (BI5O2)

147 Did a site visit in NYC today, had some street tacos.

NY may be a leftist sh*t hole, but damn you can get some good tacos.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 10:05 PM (XV/Pl)
=====
You go to NY and eat tacos?

10 demerits.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

1000 demerits. I live in New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:51 PM (NXz8h)

148 > Does diabetes turn you brunette? I thought Barbie was blonde.
Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

Nowadays you're lucky if the Barbie doesn't have a schlong.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 10:51 PM (qpyNK)

149 We learned abiut zebraa & donkeys here today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM


There is a farm with Zedonks here. You can see them from the road.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:52 PM (jc0TO)

150 I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM (NXz8h)

Work your own corner, pal

Posted by: Mr. Potato Dick at July 09, 2025 10:52 PM (pIfcn)

151 135
Having dated female bodybuilders...it's real.
I really like fit women. Not the extremes, and sometimes as a woman is dieting for a meet things get...funky. But off that schedule, soft skin over muscle is a vibe. Silk over steel.

I've dated female athletes (runner/tennis) and they were certainly toned but that's not the same thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:47 PM (t0Rmr)

Dated a couple different Gymnasts in late High School and first year of College.

Yummmmm

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)

152 Thanks TRex!
I love this Horde!
🙂🙂💕❣
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:50 PM
***
It is quite a little cluster of interweb humanity, isn't it?!

Posted by: TRex - dino moron at July 09, 2025 10:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

153 The hay in the field needs to be in the barn soon. It's cloudy in the west and it looks like rain.....

Posted by: AlmostYuman at July 09, 2025 10:53 PM (bj34f)

154 Yeah, I thought it was cute that the Supreme Court unanimously held that the Secretary of State can’t fire a State Department employee. Just like today, you can’t do your job, simply because some some assclown in a robe doesn’t like it.

The F.B.I. did a really really good job of surveillance in those days, but the problem was one of enforcement. If the AG or DOJ gets orders to leave someone alone that’s what happens.

I always figured they should have nuked Moscow in 1945, would have saved millions and millions of lives. So far.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 09, 2025 10:53 PM (Ai1Ju)

155 Really, east of the Mississippi, period. I don't miss the Mexican food in CO because I can cook my own and it's pretty darn good. But good lord, are the Mexican restaurants BAD. It's like a joke.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:53 PM (BI5O2)

156 148 > Does diabetes turn you brunette? I thought Barbie was blonde.
Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

Nowadays you're lucky if the Barbie doesn't have a schlong.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 10:51 PM (qpyNK)

Yeah, but GI Joe has gone Men goin their own way... so has been putting his Kung Fu grip to a different purpose.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 10:54 PM (mP0Kj)

157 TSA: in 2002, I flew out to AZ to help with the first grandkid. They pulled me out of line coming and going, did the baggage search and the shoes (I was wearing huaraches both times).
I can only assume they chose my little middle-aged white self to prove they were not racially/ethnically profiling.

I have only been on a plane 4 times in the 21st century.

Posted by: sal at July 09, 2025 10:54 PM (f+FmA)

158 I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM (NXz8h)

What would the "after" be?
Was Ken trans? He never had a before part.
(Of course, neither did GI Joe.)

Posted by: GWB at July 09, 2025 10:54 PM (2Am07)

159 Any chance one of our esteemed public servants could use Morse code to blink out the letters of the Agency keeping things unreleased during a Fox and Friends hit or something?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 09, 2025 10:56 PM (pIfcn)

160 Y'all know the one about the little girl who goes to buy a Barbie and a GI Joe? The clerk tells her "Barbie comes with Ken, not GI Joe." She replies "nah, Barbie comes with GI Joe. She fakes it with Ken."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:57 PM (BI5O2)

161 What conceivable use would there be for a 28rd 1911 drum mag?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:57 PM (jc0TO)

162 Nowadays you're lucky if the Barbie doesn't have a schlong.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 10:51 PM (qpyNK)

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Ken would kill for one of those.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 10:57 PM (hY4dx)

163 It is quite a little cluster of interweb humanity, isn't it?!
Posted by: TRex - dino moron at July 09, 2025 10:52 PM (IQ6Gq)


Yep. See ya Saturday sweet one😜

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 10:59 PM (L9kkv)

164 The new GI Joe is a total pretty boy pussy. The old one was a grizzled, haunted killer with a thousand yard stare.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:01 PM (BI5O2)

165 and play too much golf.

I do not understand these words in this order.
Posted by: Chinese Intelligence Service

Why not? Chinese uses subject-verb-object word order.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 09, 2025 11:02 PM (KAi1n)

166 Barbie-two-ate

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 11:02 PM (dE3DB)

167 Stupid Houtis! Missile alert 45 minutes ago at 5:15AM!

But it's nice to have a sufficient heads up to freshen up and get dressed before heading down to the shelter.

Caught someone we know in the boarding area at Ben Gurion Airport.

Did I say stupid Houtis?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM (roqsI)

168 Thinking about, Mattel really missed the boat by not offering a selection of interchangeable genitalia for Ken. The kids could have mixed and matched, just like Mr. Potatohead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM (hY4dx)

169 Really, east of the Mississippi, period. I don't miss the Mexican food in CO because I can cook my own and it's pretty darn good. But good lord, are the Mexican restaurants BAD. It's like a joke.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:53 PM (BI5O2)

Same with me. There a few good Mexican restaurants east of the Mississippi but quite a lot of garbage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM (HglHP)

170 Isn't GI Joe small now. Ken sized? I remember when he was darn near Charlie McCarthy size.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:04 PM (jc0TO)

171 Next up, 'Prostate Ken'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Priapism Ken

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 09, 2025 11:04 PM (KAi1n)

172 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM (roqsI)


Stay safe, BD

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 11:05 PM (dE3DB)

173 Stupid Houtis! Missile alert 45 minutes ago at 5:15AM!

But it's nice to have a sufficient heads up to freshen up and get dressed before heading down to the shelter.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM



Is a missile attack black tie or white tie?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:05 PM (jc0TO)

174 and play too much golf.

I do not understand these words in this order.
Posted by: Chinese Intelligence Service

Why not? Chinese uses subject-verb-object word order.
Posted by: Dark Litigator


It's not the S-V-O thing, it's the R/L thing. They're big fans of 1980s coin-op arcade games.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 11:06 PM (DgGvY)

175
>>>There is a farm with Zedonks here. You can see them from the road.
Posted by: toby928

Sure, bro.
Pull the other one.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:07 PM (HLrNP)

176
"Zedonks,' he says.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:07 PM (HLrNP)

177 A few hints your are in a bad Mexican restaurant: sour cream and hamburger enchiladas, chive and black olive pico de gallo, Pace Picante salsa.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:08 PM (NXz8h)

178 The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” — Vincent van Gogh

Good night luvvies 🧐

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 11:09 PM (L9kkv)

179 If you could cross-breed a zebra and a pig, would it be called a Zoinks?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (S/Y4j)

180 Thinking about, Mattel really missed the boat by not offering a selection of interchangeable genitalia for Ken. The kids could have mixed and matched, just like Mr. Potatohead.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:03 PM (hY4dx)

Eyes and ears and funny noses,
You can attach different hoses.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (HglHP)

181 161 What conceivable use would there be for a 28rd 1911 drum mag?

biab. bunk.

Posted by: clarence at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (ofB/E)

182 few hints your are in a bad Mexican restaurant: sour cream and hamburger enchiladas

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I'm of the firm opinion that enchiladas *only* have cheese inside, preferably chihuahua cheese. But once you start adding meat, etc. then it's some other product.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)

183 17 musicians sure eat into your take home pay when you’re the headliner. Throw in paying for a couple of back up singers and you’re almost doing the show for free.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (VofaG)

184 161 What conceivable use would there be for a 28rd 1911 drum mag?
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 10:57 PM (jc0TO)

The best one of all: because.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 09, 2025 11:12 PM (bss/y)

185 If you could cross-breed a zebra and a pig, would it be called a Zoinks?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Would the bacon be plaid?

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 11:14 PM (DgGvY)

186 few hints your are in a bad Mexican restaurant: sour cream and hamburger enchiladas

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I'm of the firm opinion that enchiladas *only* have cheese inside, preferably chihuahua cheese. But once you start adding meat, etc. then it's some other product.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)

Taco Bell started to go downhill when they got rid of the Enchirito. Personally I thought it was when they got rid of the Bell Burger.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:14 PM (VofaG)

187 I'm of the firm opinion that enchiladas *only* have cheese inside, preferably chihuahua cheese. But once you start adding meat, etc. then it's some other product.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Mini-burritos?

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 11:15 PM (DgGvY)

188 I'm of the firm opinion that enchiladas *only* have cheese inside, preferably chihuahua cheese. But once you start adding meat, etc. then it's some other product.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

The locals around my hood think that is silly. So does their abuelas. Rolled or flat enchiladas?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:15 PM (NXz8h)

189 183 17 musicians sure eat into your take home pay when you’re the headliner. Throw in paying for a couple of back up singers and you’re almost doing the show for free.
Posted by: polynikes

This is why we had to let the Lennon Sisters go. I barely had enough $$ to keep Bobby and Cissy. Thank goodness Myron Floren worked cheap.

Posted by: Lawrence Welk at July 09, 2025 11:16 PM (G5+As)

190 Big win on the washing machine front today. I had replaced the pump, which was leaking, last month, but the damned machine was still leaking onto the basement floor. Today I took the cover off, and tried to operate it without the cover. Soon as the drum began to fill, water appeared on the floor. Upon closer inspection, I found the corrugated hose from the pump outlet to the drain line had been chafing on the cement floor, and worn through three adjacent corrugations. I cut the bad part out of the hose, and went to the garage. Found a piece of thick-walled transparent plastic hose that was exactly the right I.D. to fit the nipple on the pump, and the cut stub of the hose going to the drain. Installed that, clamped it up, turned on machine. Drum fills, no leaks, woo-hoo! Put cabinet back on machine, did load of laundry, floor stayed dry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 11:16 PM (e+kKL)

191 Rolled or flat enchiladas?

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Either. But if I'm going NM style, then I like to go flat, and Christmas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:17 PM (BI5O2)

192 There was a whole Marvin Zindler entourage, too. His go-to guys. The surgeon who used to go to Central America and fix cleft palates. The roofer who would check out the situation. Guys like that, who I bet he knew from his days as a sheriff's deputy.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 09, 2025 11:17 PM (eStot)

193 Either. But if I'm going NM style, then I like to go flat, and Christmas.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Flat. Chicken. Green, Hot.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:18 PM (NXz8h)

194 I'm of the firm opinion that enchiladas *only* have cheese inside, preferably chihuahua cheese. But once you start adding meat, etc. then it's some other product.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Mini-burritos?
Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 11:15 PM


I'm trying to imagine milking those little dogs for the cheese.

I mean, I wouldn't do it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:19 PM (jc0TO)

195 Thanks for the ONT, TRex. La Grange and nerds!

Posted by: scampydog at July 09, 2025 11:19 PM (tR1Bk)

196 Taco Bell started to go downhill when they got rid of the Enchirito. Personally I thought it was when they got rid of the Bell Burger. Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:14 PM (VofaG)

I haven't tried this in years, but for a lng time you could ask for the Enchirito off the menu and they would give it to you, with the spork.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 09, 2025 11:19 PM (eStot)

197 Is a missile attack black tie or white tie?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:05 PM (jc0TO)
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Knot either of them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 11:20 PM (roqsI)

198 Rock This Town was a song I obsessed over, and eventually mastered back when I was playing guitar a lot. I did better than this wizard in this one special instance.

https://youtu.be/v0G6muCHXD0?si=Je1RCHkH62nkt15g

Related Rocksmith plus is selling a one-year subscription for $55.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2025 11:20 PM (lhenN)

199 zerohedge@zerohedge 38m

ISRAEL IDENTIFIES MISSILE LAUNCH FROM YEMEN TOWARD ISRAEL
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We already knew that.
Our intel is better than yours.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 11:20 PM (ncgY2)

200 I'm trying to imagine milking those little dogs for the cheese.

I mean, I wouldn't do it.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:19 PM (jc0TO)

They are mean little bastards. You'd get bitten, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 11:21 PM (e+kKL)

201 I'm trying to imagine milking those little dogs for the cheese.

I mean, I wouldn't do it.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:19 PM (jc0TO)

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The trick is in correctly identifying the female.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:22 PM (hY4dx)

202 You can get .45 ACP Thompson SMG drum magazines in 50 or 100 round sizes. Why you would want something like that on a 1911 beats me!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

203 ISRAEL IDENTIFIES MISSILE LAUNCH FROM YEMEN TOWARD ISRAEL
----

We already knew that.
Our intel is better than yours.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 11:20 PM (ncgY2)

High time for Israel to send some missiles in Yemen. Take out the launch sites, and any nearby villages, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 11:23 PM (e+kKL)

204 105 With all the rain around this part of Texas, it's a wonder they got anything baled up around La Grange...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM


We have put the combine into my wheat field twice in the last two weeks. Both times it sank to the axles and we had to tow it out.

I have $35,000 worth of wheat getting close to rotting in the field.

If it doesn't quit raining soon, I am going to start building an ark!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 11:24 PM (HlyYF)

205
I'd call them Zonkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:25 PM (P1PfC)

206
Good evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 11:25 PM (UmB+t)

207 Brian Setzer said in February that he had an auto-immune and can't play guitar.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2025 11:25 PM (lhenN)

208 114

Nah, Who wants a muscled up woman?

Male spaces on the leftwing parts of the internet seem obsessed with "muscle mommies"

I...don't get it.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 10:38 PM


Well, someone in the relationship has to be the man!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 11:26 PM (HlyYF)

209 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).
_____________________________

They should have gone all in and had one of the legs amputated.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 11:27 PM (dIske)

210 @ABC . 3h

Six agents have been issued suspensions by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year's attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 11:28 PM (ncgY2)

211 I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:43 PM


Have you ever seen a naked Ken doll?

Clearly, he has started the surgery for a male to female transition!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 11:28 PM (HlyYF)

212 You can get .45 ACP Thompson SMG drum magazines in 50 or 100 round sizes. Why you would want something like that on a 1911 beats me!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

The stick was good enough for WW2 soldiers as it was reliable compared to the drum.

Same issues with the AR Drums. IIRC the Colorado theater shooter had a drum mag that jammed which probably saved a lot of lives. Though he switched to his shotgun.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:29 PM (pbPrT)

213 Six agents have been issued suspensions by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year's attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.

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Seems fair, but why stop at six?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:29 PM (hY4dx)

214 Wandered off, watched some vids, got tired.

Thought I'd pass back by to say g'nite to y'all.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and thus ends the day tonight at July 09, 2025 11:30 PM (JYGoS)

215 Well, shortly after my daughter turned 1, 'something' said "I'mma gonna turn off your pancrase". Here she is at 7 and, well, that's one of the least offensive Barbie dolls I can get her. *Sigh*, cheaper than Insulin too.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at July 09, 2025 11:30 PM (ScW81)

216 Six agents have been issued suspensions by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year's attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.

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They deliberately set up the opposition candidate to be murdered in a Serpico-style hit.

They should be suspended from a fucking gallows pole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:31 PM (BI5O2)

217 What? No barf up Barbie? You feed her and then minutes later take her to the bathroom, squeeze her tummy and she throws up. That's the way she keeps her figure. All little girls should know about this.

Posted by: Case at July 09, 2025 11:31 PM (ilX37)

218 Rock This Town was a song I obsessed over
Posted by: BourbonChickenRock

Me thinks there is a high probability you will like this.
https://youtu.be/AG8pU-kh49w?t=3105

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:32 PM (NXz8h)

219
Suspended?

Not fired?

I mean, they literally Have One Job.

And they can't do it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:33 PM (P1PfC)

220 They deliberately set up the opposition candidate to be murdered in a Serpico-style hit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:31 PM


The fox says that the henhouse is, his words!, clean as a hound's tooth.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 11:33 PM (jc0TO)

221 Peasants:

@MostafaBushehri . 1h

A $10,000 investment in 2009 would be worth today,
#NVDA: ~$8,000,000
#INTC: ~$11,330

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 11:34 PM (ncgY2)

222 Before it was Disney-fied/fancified, lower State Street in Santa Barbara had a great place called Casablanca (no, not Moroccan). A real joint. They had chorizo enchiladas that were fantastic, besides being the only chorizo enchiladas I'd ever encountered. Good friend got married at the mission, 3 of us schemed immediately about when we should bolt to go to Casablanca. We stayed most of the reception but then off we went.

Eons ago I used to make mole poblano chicken enchiladas. They were very good. Need to make that mole poblano again. Lost the recipe I'd developed (based on a few classic recipes) over the years in a move, will need to reconstruct from memory. 35 ingredients? Something like that.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 11:34 PM (1m82a)

223

Roof? What roof?

Guy on a roof? What guy on a roof?

He has a gun? On a roof?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:34 PM (P1PfC)

224 Big win on the washing machine front today.
_-_-_
Reminds me of a visit to my folks' place a couple decades back. Living far from any sizeable town, we repaired washers until they were hopeless, so they had repaired this washer five or six times and had finally given up on it and actually replaced it. I rolled up just as the ceremony for the old washer was beginning. Yep, .44 magnum does the trick. Good times.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 09, 2025 11:36 PM (d+8IC)

225 I had a chile relleno stuffed with chicken, an enchilada filled with carne asada, Spanish rice, and frijoles for lunch today at my favorite Mexican eatery. You can stick with a cheese only enchilada if you like: I like my way better!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

226 Not fired?

I mean, they literally Have One Job.

And they can't do it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 09, 2025 11:33 PM (P1PfC)

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You can't find qualified fat chicks who can't even unholster a gun in just every laundromat and donut shop, you know.

These agents are rare jewels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:37 PM (hY4dx)

227 This is the band I saw the first time. Damn.

One Rockin' Night - Full Concert
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Montreal, Canada, 1995
https://youtu.be/AG8pU-kh49w

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 10:34 PM (NXz8h)

Dang, I'd like to see that in person. Lawrence Whelk he's not.

Posted by: Javems at July 09, 2025 11:38 PM (8I4hW)

228 She replies "nah, Barbie comes with GI Joe. She fakes it with Ken."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 10:57 PM (BI5O2)


Ah the innocence of youth, she hasn't heard of "Jody" yet

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

229 222 Before it was Disney-fied/fancified, lower State Street in Santa Barbara had a great place called Casablanca (no, not Moroccan). A real joint

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In the actual Casablanca in the actual Morocco, there is an actual Rick's Cafe Americain.

What I remember about it is the gambling and the $50 T-shirts, but mostly the $50 t-shirts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (hY4dx)

230 The PPSh-41, the basic sub-machine gun of the Red Army in WWII, had drum mags, but given the quality control and conditions of production, most drums would only fit certain guns. So when a new shipment came in, time was spent matching mags to guns. Stick mags were also popular, and more reliably, and the main mag used in the follow-on sub-gun.

One day a few years back a young-ish Russian immigrant guy had a DP-27, the Red Army's light machine gun, which he'd welded back together from a kit. Semi-auto, of course. He had the pan magazines for it, he was testing his 54R reloads for gun function. He said the pan mags worked well but usually troops loaded them a few rounds short of max capacity, which works with most mags to improve reliability.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (1m82a)

231 Trump was provided a rag tag SS detail with some spots filled by other departments. The person who put that together is the one who should be in prison.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (pbPrT)

232 Did Bach drink beer? I think he drank beer, a lot of beer. And some schnapps.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (ncgY2)

233 I had a chile relleno stuffed with chicken, an enchilada filled with carne asada, Spanish rice, and frijoles for lunch today at my favorite Mexican eatery. You can stick with a cheese only enchilada if you like: I like my way better!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Here is Las Cruces every place has their own spin on everything. This is win. I know all the restaurants well and only order that certain dish place X knocks out of the park. My life is hard.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (NXz8h)

234 Same issues with the AR Drums. IIRC the Colorado theater shooter had a drum mag that jammed which probably saved a lot of lives.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:29 PM


There have been multiple left-wing shooters that have had their AR-15s jam during a mass shooting attempt.

The same thing also happened at the Marjorie Stoneham (David Hogg) shooting.

And supposedly one of the shooters at the recent ICE agent ambush had their AR-15 jam.

Is there a way to f*ck up the operation of an AR-15?

Like misloading the magazine, some long-gun version of limp wristing, etc.?

I assume they haven't shot their weapons enough that they were critically dirty.

Or does the function of the weapon just depend on the IQ of the shooter?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 11:41 PM (HlyYF)

235 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).
_____________________________

They should have gone all in and had one of the legs amputated.
Posted by: Orson


Older brothers will be willing to help their little sisters with that!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:42 PM (ZVgZ4)

236 I wonder if the treacherous praetorian guards in days of yore were also incompetent, undisciplined roustabouts who whiled away their time blowing through lines of ancient Roman coke and frolicking with hookers when they weren't murdering Emperors.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:42 PM (BI5O2)

237
I am surprised we haven't seen a Transgender Barbie with before and after parts.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


Barbie potato head.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 11:43 PM (63Dwl)

238 Dang, I'd like to see that in person. Lawrence Whelk he's not. Posted by: Javems

Start watching Sezter's web site. He is 65 and with the auto immune challenges - If he tours again it could be the last time. Don't miss it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:43 PM (NXz8h)

239 polynikes @231 with what I remember was the case at Butler. Not as exciting or colorful or stupid as many explanations, but whatareyagonnado.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 11:44 PM (1m82a)

240 Las Cruces has good Mexican: so red or green?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:45 PM (ZVgZ4)

241 I like the Lefties jamming up their weapons: not going to them any hints.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:46 PM (ZVgZ4)

242
It's getting dry here. Had some showers all around, some spot ~ 5 miles away got nearly 1/2" of rain a few hours ago, but nothing here. A chance tomorrow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)

243 209 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).
_____________________________

They should have gone all in and had one of the legs amputated.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 11:27 PM (dIske)

They'd be whale-sized, like Lena Dunham...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 11:48 PM (ynpvh)

244 Or does the function of the weapon just depend on the IQ of the shooter?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 11:41 PM (HlyYF)
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Cit. Houthis. See above

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

245 Pillage Idiot - a dirty AR will run just fine as long as it is sufficiently lubricated. I've had the rifle fail to go into battery after a few hundred rounds; a quick spritz of CLP and it was back in service.

I'm also assuming the retards who are attempting mass shootings have no idea how to clear a simple failure to fire, much less a double feed or bolt override.

Posted by: PabloD at July 09, 2025 11:49 PM (o2Win)

246 I need to eat and cook more Mexican stuff. Ditto for Vietnamese. Great restaurants and stores abound here for both of course, as they have for a long time.

I recall going east to DC and of course giving up on Mex, but was happy to see Vietnamese going strong in NoVa.

Over the years, surely as a side effect of some mysterious demographic/border thing that I can't quite figure out, I started coming across decent Mex in unexpected places back there. Anchorage of course had some great Mex (oil industry) when I visited there. And never did try the places in Baku, where the oil thing also probably accounted for the Mex restaurants. Just focused on the great kebab etc. when there.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 11:49 PM (1m82a)

247 Trump was provided a rag tag SS detail with some spots filled by other departments. The person who put that together is the one who should be in prison.
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM (

Yes, they were deliberately withholding a proper detail for Trump's outdoor events, knowing that the threat level was maxed out.

But according to local and State police, the detail on the ground also refused to coordinate with them, even with basic comms that are considered necessary for all candidate details.

The entire thing reeks to high heaven. They should all burn for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:49 PM (BI5O2)

248 South side. 18th Street. Caller says that he is a bartender and one of his long time regulars hasn't stopped by in a while. Caller would like a welfare check.

Sadly, Norm passed away 1 1/2 months ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 11:50 PM (ynpvh)

249 240 Las Cruces has good Mexican: so red or green?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:45 PM (ZVgZ4)

Yes.
And when it comes to mole, there's red, green, yellow, brown, black...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 11:52 PM (ynpvh)

250 Brian Setzer said in February that he had an auto-immune and can't play guitar.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2025 11:25 PM (lhenN)

Yeah, he mentioned something about his hands feeling like they're waaaay bigger, and it screws him up. I know a little about that. If I'm sitting in a wrong chair where my wrist is bent too much because the guitar is too low my hand goes numb, and feels like its twice the size. Its impossible to play, because your targeting is out the window. You press the wrong strings because you can't feel the strings. I can at least correct that by standing with a strap like I'm used to for decades, or sitting in the right chair. He on the other hand is totally fucked. What a shitty thing to happen to a guitar player. I watch RA steal the guitar from my father at the worst time. He is a shell of his former self.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 11:52 PM (snZF9)

251 The most talented guitarist either lives in Nashville or in a frozen forest in Sweden where the Wendigo will kill you on sight.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2025 11:52 PM (lhenN)

252 More to the point, even if you set aside the strong likelihood that the SS was trying to get Trump killed, they've been an embarrassing, undisciplined rabble for years. They're adept at cleaning up after Lil' Hunty, enthusiastic even, but little else.

If I were Trump, none of these people would be allowed near me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:54 PM (BI5O2)

253 Las Cruces has good Mexican: so red or green?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

We are blessed. Hatch, NM, 30 miles north of LC, is the premier spot for chiles. On labor day they throw a Chile Festival where tons of green chiles are roasted. It is not rare to see peeps go home with a 100 lbs of fresh roasted green chiles. The red chiles are the same plant but they are allowed ripen all the way which turns them red.

So red or green? It depends on the dish. Chile Colorado is always red. Green seems to be the go to for most other dishes but you can always get red or Christmas.

One can order online from the stores in Hatch. You typically can get red and green in powder (I get medium and hot and blend them) or green in jars (most convenient). The best green after fresh roasted is frozen (I think some places ship those - not sure). There really is a difference.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:54 PM (NXz8h)

254 The Roman Army was pretty good at killing. The Praetorian Guard probably more so. Do mafiosi get very far if they slack off? No. Think mafosi when you think of the Praetorian Guard!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

255 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 11:55 PM (77rzZ)

256 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 11:52 PM (snZF9)

You missed the wood working hobby thread last Saturday . I would have liked to have read your input.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:55 PM (pbPrT)

257 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 11:54 PM (NXz8h)

Getting frozen, roasted chiles from Hatch is insanely expensive here. I'm having a friend FedEx me some for my next green chile.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (BI5O2)

258 Mmm chiles

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (RIvkX)

259 What happened to the chick SS agent who started fighting with another agent at shift change?

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (pbPrT)

260 What are Wendigo doing in Sweden? Ans.: whatever they like!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (ZVgZ4)

261 Trump was provided a rag tag SS detail with some spots filled by other departments. The person who put that together is the one who should be in prison.
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 11:40 PM

I heard trump had Obi-wan Nairobi as his personal security guy after he became president. You need to read up on that dude. Holy shit. Former SAS operator that stormed a hotel in Nairobi by himself where 5 terrorists had attacked and were executing people. He saved 700 people that day. If trump still has that dude he'll be fine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (snZF9)

262 Trump needs a Sejanus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 09, 2025 11:58 PM (hY4dx)

263 Getting frozen, roasted chiles from Hatch is insanely expensive here. I'm having a friend FedEx me some for my next green chile.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I know. I feel your pain.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 12:00 AM (NXz8h)

264 .3h

Polish citizens set up Border Patrol Movements to stop German police from pushing illegal migrants across the border to Poland..

The Polish State has now sprung into action: border checkpoints have been established and the army has been deployed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:01 AM (ncgY2)

265 I know. I feel your pain.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 12:00 AM (NXz8h

Worth it. I'm not typically a snob who needs "the best" this or that. But the Hatch chiles are not a marginal improvement. They're wildly superior.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:02 AM (BI5O2)

266 It pisses me off that the geeks, nerds, etc. all get to pass themselves off as math/science geeks/nerds. I fully qualify as a language geek/nerd.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:03 AM (77rzZ)

267 264 Polish citizens set up Border Patrol Movements to stop German police from pushing illegal migrants across the border to Poland..

The Polish State has now sprung into action: border checkpoints have been established and the army has been deployed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:01 AM


So Germany is encroaching on the borders of Poland?

That somehow sounds familiar.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:04 AM (HlyYF)

268 Polish citizens set up Border Patrol Movements to stop German police from pushing illegal migrants across the border to Poland..

The Polish State has now sprung into action: border checkpoints have been established and the army has been deployed.
Posted by: Braenyard


Poland's not gonna get ambushed this time.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 12:05 AM (DgGvY)

269 So Germany is encroaching on the borders of Poland?

That somehow sounds familiar.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:04 AM (HlyYF)

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THE FILTHY POLES PROVOKED US!!!

Posted by: A. Schicklegruber at July 10, 2025 12:05 AM (hY4dx)

270 But the Hatch chiles are not a marginal improvement. They're wildly superior
_-_-_-_
The ones the grow east of Pueblo are pretty good, but yeah...Hatch.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 12:05 AM (d+8IC)

271 It's weird. The locally grown poblanos and jalapeños here are fine. But the chiles are completely wrong. Even the "hot" varieties are inconsistent and often practically flavorless. I don't know if it's the soil, or climate or what.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:06 AM (BI5O2)

272 There are a distressing number of fatties, both me and women, in all levels of law enforcement. They can barely walk from their fire lane parked cruiser into the Dunkin Donuts without getting winded. No wonder they're jumping to weapons or otherwise using excessive force so quickly. They don't have the wherewithal to get physical for very long at all.

Posted by: The very blubbery blue line at July 10, 2025 12:06 AM (TbWk/)

273 It can be lunch time

Germany can't protect their own borders from Muslim invaders

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:08 AM (mSVFR)

274
88 For $10.99, you can now have your own Type 1 Diabetes Barbie (with polka dot outfit).

Why a Diabetes Barbie? Is there already a cancer Barbie, or an asthma Barbie, or a peanut allergy Barbie?
- - - - -- - --

When you open the Anorexia Barbie box, all you'll find is a stick...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 10, 2025 12:08 AM (oR+vR)

275 Men. Not me. I am neither fat nor in law enforcement. Stupid typos.

Posted by: The very blubbery blue line at July 10, 2025 12:08 AM (TbWk/)

276 Think this is a different ship than last night.

The Houthis have published a video of their attack against the Greek-owned bulk carrier Eternity C.

The killed a number of Filipino sailors and took several more hostage.

This video shows the ship sinking earlier today
https://tinyurl.com/5yszue7f
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If Trump wants to shoot something these guys need shooting.
Our pilots need the exercise. Two days of everything ought to clear that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:09 AM (ncgY2)

277 Red Wing boots and Mattel could do a collaboration on a Butch Barbie. Flannel, chain wallet and femullet to complete the look.

Posted by: And a pink Subaru at July 10, 2025 12:10 AM (TbWk/)

278 27/ What is it with all the fat people in general? Folks, eat less and exercise more, even if it’s only walking. It’s not that difficult:

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:10 AM (77rzZ)

279 If Trump wants to shoot something these guys need shooting.
Our pilots need the exercise. Two days of everything ought to clear that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:09 AM (ncgY2)

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4 out of 5 doctors agree that a generous dose of depleted uranium will cure a nasty case of Houthi obnoxiousness.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 10, 2025 12:12 AM (hY4dx)

280 Brian Setzer has to be getting up in age,, He got big when I was in England 1979 maybe.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:13 AM (mSVFR)

281 Douglas Macgregor@DouglasMacGregor

BREAKING: Tunnel collapses in Los Angeles, at least 15 people currently trapped.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 10, 2025 12:13 AM (TGPs7)

282 So Germany is encroaching on the borders of Poland?

That somehow sounds familiar.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Last night there was video. The Germans are loading illegals into step vans and driving them ACROSS the border and dumping them in Poland. Poland says, nie więcej. (no more)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:13 AM (ncgY2)

283 278

See if you still think it's not that difficult when you're 80.

Posted by: mnw at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (kd60y)

284 Oooh. Laptop charger works great on phone. Probably explode soon.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (d+8IC)

285 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 11:57 PM (snZF9)

Seems Trump became aware of him at the time of that attack and rescue and thanked him personally for saving Americans. They kept in touch and he hire him in 2025. If you recall though Trump put the SS guy who shielded him at Butler as head of the SS . Jumped over a lot of people . I assume he's the only reason 6 agents have been fired.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (pbPrT)

286 What is it with all the fat people in general? Folks, eat less and exercise more, even if it’s only walking. It’s not that difficult:
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:10 AM (77rzZ)

We need to bring back smoking. Gooses the metabolism a bit and helps suppress appetite. Shortens lifespans too so there are fewer years in which to pack on the pounds.

Posted by: Sort of kidding at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (TbWk/)

287 What do you figure the odds are these Houthi inbreeds are going off without orders from Tehran, or in contrqvention of them?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:15 AM (BI5O2)

288 BREAKING: Tunnel collapses in Los Angeles, at least 15 people currently trapped.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Trump's fault.

Posted by: Dems at July 10, 2025 12:15 AM (XeU6L)

289 I like Mexican border cookery: it’s different in Texas, than say Arizona. New Mexico has some of the best of both. But the best chicken mole I ever had was in Oaxaca State, deep down in Mexico. I couldn’t begin to describe the flavor of the mole: it was just very good! What we are used to up here on the border they call norteña style: it’s different down in Mexico proper!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 12:17 AM (ZVgZ4)

290 287 What do you figure the odds are these Houthi inbreeds are going off without orders from Tehran, or in contrqvention of them?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Zip

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:19 AM (ncgY2)

291 I see people carrying more weight than if I was on their back all day.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:19 AM (mSVFR)

292 If Trump wants to shoot something these guys need shooting.
Our pilots need the exercise. Two days of everything ought to clear that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:09 AM


How long can our Reaper UAVs loiter? Can the Houthis detect them using Iranian technology?

After ten or so pirate attack ships disappear after running into a Hellfire missile, I would assume the pirate/terrorists will start to encounter a serious recruiting problem.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:19 AM (HlyYF)

293
What is it with all the fat people in general? Folks, eat less and exercise more, even if it’s only walking. It’s not that difficult:
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:10 AM (77rzZ)

We need to bring back smoking. Gooses the metabolism a bit and helps suppress appetite. Shortens lifespans too so there are fewer years in which to pack on the pounds.
Posted by: Sort of kidding

================

I'll do it all for you and save you the expense of cigarettes.

Posted by: Tapeworm at July 10, 2025 12:19 AM (UmB+t)

294 Mounting 4, M2-BMG on those ships would slow Houthis down a bit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:21 AM (ncgY2)

295 We need to bring back smoking. Gooses the metabolism a bit and helps suppress appetite. Shortens lifespans too so there are fewer years in which to pack on the pounds.
Posted by: Sort of kidding at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (TbWk/)

I've tried to find stats but they are hidden...

Which would kill more people... Lung Cancer from smoking, or the epidemic of Obesity and all the side effects of it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:22 AM (mP0Kj)

296 Last night there was video. The Germans are loading illegals into step vans and driving them ACROSS the border and dumping them in Poland. Poland says, nie więcej. (no more)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:13 AM


Unpossible!!!

Everyone knows that illegal immigrants are a net benefit to every culture and every host country.

Why would Germany "export" such a valuable resource?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:22 AM (HlyYF)

297 Well, I am going to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 12:23 AM (e+kKL)

298 I’m barely 150 pages in a 933 page book -recommended earlier - Blacklisted by History by M. Evans, about Senator Joseph McCarthy[/ii]


I read it after reading Ann Coulter’s, Treason.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 12:24 AM (J4BK5)

299 288 BREAKING: Tunnel collapses in Los Angeles, at least 15 people currently trapped.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Trump's fault.
Posted by: Dems at July 10, 2025 12:15 AM


True dat!

Plus a soupcon of GLOBAL WARMING!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:24 AM (HlyYF)

300 What is it with all the fat people in general? Folks, eat less and exercise more, even if it’s only walking. It’s not that difficult:

Most jobs aren't physically taxing any more.
Way fewer people work anyway
Food high in calories is cheap, fast, and relatively tasty.

I was actually thinking about this the other day. I can buy some cheap pastries - HoHos or whatever - and just stuff them in my face as I walk to the car. If I want a salad I have to inspect each ingredient and spend time cutting them up and prepping them. And a salad is a simple healthy dish.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:26 AM (t0Rmr)

301 I love Chicken Mole, Chiles Rellanos too. There was a Mexican restaurant in town that for the first couple of years the menu was not in English. But then word got around. To the owners credit the business grew but quality remained authentic and high.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:26 AM (ncgY2)

302 Little more than 2 hours to go, be back when I get home

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 12:26 AM (mSVFR)

303 Zip
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:19 AM (ncgY2

I dunno. Iran has backed off from direct missile attacks, and it's not really in their best interest to provide Israel a pretext for breaking a ceasefire right now. Add in the fact that the Houthis are quite literally severely retarded, and I think it's possible they're going off half-cocked.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:27 AM (BI5O2)

304 Last night there was video. The Germans are loading illegals into step vans and driving them ACROSS the border and dumping them in Poland. Poland says, nie więcej. (no more)

Doesn't Poland still have their EU placed despot running things, Tusk?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:28 AM (t0Rmr)

305 Sorry, fat people piss me off.

My primary care physician is fat. He is a good doctor, very thorough. But it pisses me off when he rags on me about my drinking. Fine, tubby, how’s about I give up booze when you give up pasta?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:28 AM (77rzZ)

306 294 Mounting 4, M2-BMG on those ships would slow Houthis down a bit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:21 AM (ncgY2)

Ships are too big to cover with just 4 MGs... what they are doing is boarding and planting charges now...

They need more crew, who are armed and trained... but that raises a LOT of liability issues in parts of the world, that the Houthis are not attacking...

IMO? Best solution? Convoys.... protected by actual Naval Assets... a couple of attack helicopters would stop any attack cold... but you need the Naval assets to support them.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:28 AM (mP0Kj)

307 294 Mounting 4, M2-BMG on those ships would slow Houthis down a bit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:21 AM


I think I read once that it is the insurance companies that are opposed to arming up the ships in pirate/terrorist waters. (Any corrections welcome.)

I wonder if the pirates actually sinking the cargo ships and murdering crew is going to change the actuarial calculations by the insurers?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (HlyYF)

308 Social Security was designed back when LOTS more people smoked.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (63Dwl)

309 Isn't the solution to Houthi piracy just to destroy any port/village they come out of?

Make it in the Yemeni's own interests to stop them.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (t0Rmr)

310 305 Sorry, fat people piss me off.

My primary care physician is fat. He is a good doctor, very thorough. But it pisses me off when he rags on me about my drinking. Fine, tubby, how’s about I give up booze when you give up pasta?
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:28 AM (77rzZ)

I'm 6 ft even... 220 lbs... and have been since I was 25. Yeah... back then it was 5% body fat, lots more now... but...

a couple years ago a new Indian Doctor at the practice I go to was saying I needed to lose weight as I was OBESE by their chart...

He was about 120 lbs soakin wet... I said 'sure Doc, as soon as you can lift as many weights as I do, out ski me, out bike me, and outrun me'...

I've lost all faith in what Doctors say...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:32 AM (mP0Kj)

311 I think I read once that it is the insurance companies that are opposed to arming up the ships in pirate/terrorist waters. (Any corrections welcome.)

I wonder if the pirates actually sinking the cargo ships and murdering crew is going to change the actuarial calculations by the insurers?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (HlyYF)

Insurance companies don't have a problem with armed ships in bad places... they have a problem with armed ships in Good Places...

And you don't just take the arms off the ships... if its enough firepower to actually do some good.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)

312 It's weird. The locally grown poblanos and jalapeños here are fine. But the chiles are completely wrong. Even the "hot" varieties are inconsistent and often practically flavorless. I don't know if it's the soil, or climate or what.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It is the varieties grown, the soil, and the climate. Equally important is the local knowledge about to grow them and how to read the crop at harvest.

New Mexico State University has a Chile department where they have institutionalized a lot of this knowledge and for fun they develop new varieties. Each spring they have a big sale where sell young plants so you can grow them at home. Having a riot break out is not uncommon

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 12:34 AM (NXz8h)

313 Do the Iranians have any assets or allies that could possibly allow them to track a U.S. nuclear attack sub?

Can a sub otherwise safely operate in the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden?

If so, how about a sub as a listening platform? When they hear the prop sounds of a small fast attack boat, they signal the fast movers to come in and terminate the threat?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:35 AM (HlyYF)

314 309 Isn't the solution to Houthi piracy just to destroy any port/village they come out of?

Make it in the Yemeni's own interests to stop them.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (t0Rmr)

They’re Arabs. They will never make peace, never stand down. Once a pack goes mad like this they’ve got to be put down like wild dogs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:35 AM (Lhvai)

315 No the Iranians cannot track a sub there. But except for nukes there’s not much a sub could do against them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:36 AM (Lhvai)

316 Yemeni have an average IQ of *68.*

And Iran gave them IRBMs. It'd be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:37 AM (BI5O2)

317 If you added cigarettes back in, you'd just have fatasses chainsmoking on top of being fat. Not uncommon among certain lower-class demos. You can't fix one vice with another in this country. There isn't enough virtue left in its people to settle for a single vice.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 12:38 AM (SSEhk)

318 Seems Trump became aware of him at the time of that attack and rescue and thanked him personally for saving Americans. They kept in touch and he hire him in 2025. If you recall though Trump put the SS guy who shielded him at Butler as head of the SS . Jumped over a lot of people . I assume he's the only reason 6 agents have been fired.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 12:14 AM (pbPrT)

The dude I'm talking about isn't SS. Trump hired him as a personal body guard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 12:38 AM (snZF9)

319 It's weird. The locally grown poblanos and jalapeños here are fine. But the chiles are completely wrong. Even the "hot" varieties are inconsistent and often practically flavorless. I don't know if it's the soil, or climate or what.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It is the varieties grown, the soil, and the climate. Equally important is the local knowledge about how to grow them and how to read the crop at harvest. The consistent flavor comes from all that. On one occasion I was able to corner a famer in his field and got him to explain all this to me. He thought I was completely loco. He was right.

New Mexico State University has a Chile department where they have institutionalized a lot of this knowledge and for fun they develop new varieties. Each spring they have a big sale where sell young plants so you can grow them at home.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 12:38 AM (NXz8h)

320 The judges have awarded extra points for the use of soupçon in an otherwise prosaic and mundane comment.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at July 10, 2025 12:40 AM (dDmld)

321 If so, how about a sub as a listening platform? When they hear the prop sounds of a small fast attack boat, they signal the fast movers to come in and terminate the threat?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:35 AM (HlyYF)

signal... how...

They would have to pop an antenna to the surface, as they don't carry enough antenna length to get a signal through the water...

And popin that Antenna? would give their position away both physically, and Electronically.

Best solution IMO would be a couple of Destroyers, accompanying an LHD... Attack Helos, and F-35s, and drones (oh my).

Drones for surveillance, Attack helos for the small boats... and a couple F-35Bs to attack any shore target where they come from.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:43 AM (mP0Kj)

322 I already understood that the Antifa ICE ambush squad was woefully unprepared (thankfully) for the mission that they were attempting.

However, I just realized that the hit squad was so profoundly stupid that they ran this op in TEXAS!

They are clearly used to operating in Seattle, Portland, LA, NYC, etc.

Committing criminal acts in a jurisdiction where you no longer have both your defense lawyers AND the prosecutor on your side, is going to be a very enlightening experience.

I hope they all get sentences of at least 30 years ... pour encourager les autres!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:43 AM (HlyYF)

323 And, mind you, the other tribes in Yemen (who are retarded) consider the al-Houthi to be backward and stupid. Organ grinders employ monkeys smarter than these folks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:43 AM (BI5O2)

324 Committing criminal acts in a jurisdiction where you no longer have both your defense lawyers AND the prosecutor on your side, is going to be a very enlightening experience.

I hope they all get sentences of at least 30 years ... pour encourager les autres!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:43 AM (HlyYF)

Actual question... were they Texicans? or did they come in from out of State?

Makes a difference as to State charges, or Fed Charges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:46 AM (mP0Kj)

325 They’re Arabs. They will never make peace, never stand down. Once a pack goes mad like this they’ve got to be put down like wild dogs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:35 AM


If you had said put down like wild hogs, then the obvious solution would be to just post Ben Had at the egress point from their safe harbors.

Problem solved!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:46 AM (HlyYF)

326 My primary care physician is fat. He is a good doctor, very thorough. But it pisses me off when he rags on me about my drinking. Fine, tubby, how’s about I give up booze when you give up pasta?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:28 AM (77rzZ)

Right? Don't you love doctors like that? When I was in cardiac rehab all the nurses who ran it were rotund, except for one who was in fantastic shape. The rest though were frigging bouys. When my mom was in the hospital every time I went out for a smoke there were doctors and nurses out there puffing away. The surgeon who did my FIL's bypass died of a heart attack. My FIL's cholesterol was like 500 when he first got checked, it was off the charts. The family joke is dude, your cholesterol was so frigging high you killed your surgeon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 12:46 AM (snZF9)

327 Isn't the solution to Houthi piracy just to destroy any port/village they come out of?

Make it in the Yemeni's own interests to stop them.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2025 12:29 AM (t0Rmr)

Aren't the Houthis rebels against what passes for government in Yemen? I though there was a civil war/proxy fight between Iran and the Saudis for a while before Oct 7 happened.

Posted by: Methos at July 10, 2025 12:47 AM (zLwRl)

328 soupçon
Can you use that word in a sentence?
Yes. "Soupçon is easier to type on a phone keyboard than a laptop."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 12:47 AM (d+8IC)

329 Aren't the Houthis rebels against what passes for government in Yemen?

--‐---

Yes. Feral 'tards gone wild. Perfect clients for Tehran.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:48 AM (BI5O2)

330 It is the varieties grown, the soil, and the climate. Equally important is the local knowledge about how to grow them and how to read the crop at harvest. The consistent flavor comes from all that. On one occasion I was able to corner a famer in his field and got him to explain all this to me. He thought I was completely loco. He was right.“

There’s a local variety of “sweet onion” grown here, not really sweet but it’s a very mild yellow onion, I like to cook with them. Talked to a grower at a farmers market, he said the key to their mildness was to have a very sandy field with no sulfur in it. I would imagine that’s also true for Vidalia onions. (From Vidalia, Louisiana)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:48 AM (Lhvai)

331 328 soupçon
Can you use that word in a sentence?
Yes. "Soupçon is easier to type on a phone keyboard than a laptop."
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 12:47 AM (d+8IC)

Soupcon? He's in the Jail Cell next to the Soup Nazi...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:48 AM (mP0Kj)

332 Fun ONT, thanks TRex!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 12:49 AM (PcTds)

333 Actual question... were they Texicans? or did they come in from out of State?

Makes a difference as to State charges, or Fed Charges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 12:46 AM


Good question.

I think their mug shots have already been posted. Funny though, I have not read a single article noting whether they were in state or out of state violent idiots.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:49 AM (HlyYF)

334 Subs can send radio underwater, but at an incredibly slow bit rate. On the surface they can signal as fast as you like, so I expect they send a lot of traffic while surfaced, at least in peacetime.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 12:50 AM (ZVgZ4)

335 Maybe the Houthis just need to be carpet bombed with MOABS. Connect them right and you'll suck the breathable air out of the whole country.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 10, 2025 12:51 AM (snZF9)

336 High time for Israel to send some missiles in Yemen. Take out the launch sites, and any nearby villages, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 11:23 PM (e+kK)
-

Simply need to destroy Yemen's ports, and water, electric, gas and fuel facilities and all military and government sites.

Launches are not from sites but from mobile vehicles.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 12:52 AM (Z1fCZ)

337 I seem to recall not long ago we spent over a month and a good portion of our very expensive naval missile stocks hammering the Houthis. Israelis have hit them hard, including a few days ago. Leadership and such have been taken out. It's made a difference, but not completely solved the problem. Unlike bad fiction (all fiction), and "doctrines" and other conference room crap, reality can be more complicated.

Ultimate solution is for the other (official guvamint) side in Yemen to finally exterminate them. I assume we and the Saudis and others are working on that (we were during our carrier-based air campaign).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 12:53 AM (1m82a)

338 The third item on the Pittsburgh Police Scanner isn't even funny. Kind of heartwarming that a bartender thinks highly enough of his patrons that he calls for a welfare check when a regular is absent.

I found it heartwarming too. Good to hear about good people.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 12:53 AM (PcTds)

339 328 soupçon
Can you use that word in a sentence?
Yes. "Soupçon is easier to type on a phone keyboard than a laptop."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 12:47 AM


I was going for "highly educated but actually quite stupid Left-wing elitist" in that comment.

I thought the word choice was an excellent match for that particular "voice".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:53 AM (HlyYF)

340 Shout out to all the people that still don’t believe in conspiracies. Your ability to stick to your guns is inspiring.

Gotta agree with this as well!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 12:54 AM (PcTds)

341 Traditionally, pour encourager les autres, means they would be hanged, by the neck, until dead.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 12:54 AM (ZVgZ4)

342 It's actually a perfect illustration of the obsolescence and hollowness of NATO. Poland deploys military forces to counter moves by ...... its "ally" next door.

Chef's kiss, really.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 12:54 AM (1m82a)

343 I remember when it became apparent Tehran had given these dogmen actual freakin' missiles... a coworker got trapped in the Riyadh airport when they started lobbing them at it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 12:54 AM (BI5O2)

344 One of the two victimized ships in the Red Sea the past week had armed guards who fired on the attackers. No details beyond that.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 12:55 AM (1m82a)

345 Mmmm, sweet onions!

Walla Walla Sweets are soo good, you can just eat them like an apple (with maybe a bit of salt)

They make fantastic onion rings, too.

They don't cause stomach issues for me, like the regular yellow onions do, so that's a big plus.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

346 If you’re talking about the 10 idiots, they were based in Fort Worth. Pathetic. Whoever recruited them needs to think about the effectiveness of making LARPing tranny’s their foot soldiers.

Fort Worth is a good city, but I’m sure this group was online with each other constantly and worked themselves up into a frenzy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 12:55 AM (0DdMG)

347 I'm too lazy to make soup from scratch, so I get my soup from a soupcon.

Am I doing it right?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 12:55 AM (SSEhk)

348 If they hadn't dropped to the ground, folded like cheap suits, the state would have saved a lot of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 12:56 AM (ncgY2)

349 How about an AIDS Infected Barbie that is thin as a rail and sickly looking to the point the Barbie looks like they are on their death bed !!!!

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 10, 2025 12:58 AM (J7c+Z)

350 Passengers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints
Now do belts, please.

Then get rid of scans

Then get rid of TSA

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 12:58 AM (PcTds)

351 a salad is a simple healthy dish.
Posted by: 18-1

You obviously don't love thousand island dressing.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 12:58 AM (KAi1n)

352 348 Hey, BWASB, how goes it?

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:58 AM (77rzZ)

353 342 Traditionally, pour encourager les autres, means they would be hanged, by the neck, until dead.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 12:54 AM


That is what I actually want.

I would still be happy with life without parole.

I will settle for 30 years in jail ... because I am a realist!

P.S. In Texas, I assume they still put male-to-female Trantifa in a men's prison? Boy are those guys going to have a rough time in prison.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 12:59 AM (HlyYF)

354 a salad is a simple healthy dish.
Posted by: 18-1

You obviously don't love thousand island dressing.
Posted by: Dark Litigator

For the Win!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 10, 2025 01:00 AM (NXz8h)

355 Welp, Amazon doesn't sell soupcon and their website hasn't had a certificate for 445 days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 01:00 AM (ncgY2)

356 My suggestion to Trump is stop building the wall on the Texas border and build one around Californica......

Californica is a "F**khole" Big Time !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 10, 2025 01:01 AM (J7c+Z)

357 Social Security was designed back when LOTS more people smoked.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

And didn't wear seat belts, drove drunk more often, worked with asbestos....

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 01:01 AM (KAi1n)

358 A big chef's salad makes me hungry.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 01:01 AM (ncgY2)

359 353 348 Hey, BWASB, how goes it?
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 12:58 AM (77rzZ)

I'm so cranky that even I find my company irritating. So, situation normal, nothing to report.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 01:02 AM (SSEhk)

360 Social Security hopes you wait until 65+ to collect, but die before .........

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 10, 2025 01:02 AM (J7c+Z)

361 I used to drive thru Walla Walla every summer, on the way to visit my grandparents & aunts/uncles. Would stop by a farmer's stand & pick up a few 25lb bags of sweet onions each way... oh, so good... and less expensive than paying retail.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

362 360 BWASB

👍

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:03 AM (77rzZ)

363 Ultimate solution is for the other (official guvamint) side in Yemen to finally exterminate them. I assume we and the Saudis and others are working on that (we were during our carrier-based air campaign).
Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 12:53 AM (1m82a)

And there’s a big part of the problem. There was a lot of talk on some channels that the US was attacking Yemen so that the other “official” government could stage an offensive. Looked like it was gonna happen - and then the “official” army just fell apart without doing much of anything, and their Defense Minister resigned in disgrace, and the next day the US just said “well fuck it” and we came up with some kind of excuse to quit doing anything there.
Sad to say, we expended a large amount of ordnance and accomplished very little. Lost two F-18’s and quite a few Reapers, too. (Luckily no lives lost)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:04 AM (0DdMG)

364
The third item on the Pittsburgh Police Scanner isn't even funny. Kind of heartwarming that a bartender thinks highly enough of his patrons that he calls for a welfare check when a regular is absent.

I found it heartwarming too. Good to hear about good people.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

==============

Requests for welfare checks are very common in the sleepy beach town near me, and police blotter can be quite amusing. I'll never forget the woman who couldn't figure out how to get out of her BMW. She drove to the police station and honked until someone came out and gave her instructions.

Posted by: Tapeworm at July 10, 2025 01:04 AM (UmB+t)

365 Member and likely "leader" of the TX Antifa attack at large (I think). Benjamin Song. USMC reserves for years, member of the Socialist Rifle Association (wonder if they have cool conventions and a museum?). "Other than honorably" discharged from the military. Real sweetheart I'm sure.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:05 AM (1m82a)

366 I sadly think all ten of them are home grown Texan terrorists: they all seem to come from Dallas/Fort Worth or their suburbs except for that one schlub from College Station. I presume he flunked out of Texas A&M and now hates the world. Interesting how none of them had facial jewelry or danger hair color. Almost as if they had been recruited for those traits. How you disguise trans I don’t know!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 01:05 AM (ZVgZ4)

367
omg another sock I forgot to take off. These darn things are like the Red Shoes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 01:05 AM (UmB+t)

368 Speaking of Amazon, I remember a few years back that they were going to put a note on the products from "black owned" businesses.

I have heard nothing since then.

Did it backfire bigly? I do not care about your skin color, I want the best product and best price from the company with the best service and the most honesty.

If your "marketing" is based on your skin color, then I will be more than happy to move to another seller with other priorities.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:05 AM (HlyYF)

369 362 I thought that Walla Walla only existed in Porky Pig cartoons.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:05 AM (77rzZ)

370 So Germany is encroaching on the borders of Poland?

That somehow sounds familiar.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Because Germany needs lebensraum

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 10, 2025 01:07 AM (6U1c2)

371 The two F-18s were lost, of course, to friendly fire and an "oopsie" aboard the carrier. Think it took the tug over the side with it. Assume appropriate measures were taken to secure certain items resting on the bottom of the Red Sea. We have assets for just this purpose.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:07 AM (1m82a)

372 368 The ginger ballerina in The Red Shoes. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:08 AM (77rzZ)

373 >> omg another sock I forgot to take off.

That's part of the "culture" here. Many a sock fail becomes unexpectedly hilarious. Enjoy it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 10, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

374 As long as the Poles don't mount a cross-border attack on a German radio station, things should be fine.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:08 AM (1m82a)

375 361 Social Security hopes you wait until 65+ to collect, but die before .........

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 10, 2025 01:02 AM


If you want to fix Social Security, then hire the guys that calculate the warranty period for appliances and car batteries.

Those guys are frickin' geniuses! I can't tell you how many times I have had items like that fail almost immediately after passing out of the warranty period.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:09 AM (HlyYF)

376 Welfare Queen and Section 8 Housing Barbie that weighs 300 lbs, single mother with 10 kids wearing I love LA T-Shirt.

Posted by: Joe Jackson at July 10, 2025 01:10 AM (aKoaI)

377 I'm so cranky that even I find my company irritating. So, situation normal, nothing to report.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 01:02 AM


Does sipping a little bourbon qualify as a little break from yourself?

If so, then I have a suggestion.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:11 AM (HlyYF)

378 378 Hey, Pillage.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:13 AM (77rzZ)

379 This Song character evaded capture by hiding out in woods for a day - why those woods weren't searched and he was able to do this, I don't know and find unimpressive.

He's considered armed and dangerous and is on the loose in TX (unless he's left that state by now).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:13 AM (1m82a)

380 Are the Houthis currently under anyone's control or just some kind of Yolo terrorists

--------

They are clients of Tehran.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 01:13 AM (BI5O2)

381 378 I'm so cranky that even I find my company irritating. So, situation normal, nothing to report.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 01:02 AM

Does sipping a little bourbon qualify as a little break from yourself?

If so, then I have a suggestion.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:11 AM (HlyYF)

The missus is slightly ahead of you. She's enjoying my company so much she just poured me a glass of whiskey for medicinal purposes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 01:13 AM (SSEhk)

382 372 The two F-18s were lost, of course, to friendly fire and an "oopsie" aboard the carrier.”

I wonder if the USS Gettysburg has painted a little F-18 on the wall next to its fire control station.

I do think - at least I hope - that the Navy has leaned a lot from that little excursion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:14 AM (0DdMG)

383 Requests for welfare checks are very common in the sleepy beach town near me, and police blotter can be quite amusing. I'll never forget the woman who couldn't figure out how to get out of her BMW. She drove to the police station and honked until someone came out and gave her instructions

That is hilarious - thanks for sharing!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 01:14 AM (PcTds)

384 Howdy Bulg!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:14 AM (HlyYF)

385 I thought that Walla Walla only existed in Porky Pig cartoons.
Posted by: Bulg
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LOL.

youtu.be/TYgOlqinH7A

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

386 Yolo terrorists >>> Yoko terrorists

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:15 AM (77rzZ)

387 Gonna call it an early night

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 10, 2025 01:16 AM (PcTds)

388 German police pushing an illegal Afghan migrant across the border into Poland.

The event was filmed at the border bridge in the town of Guben by the Polish Citizens Patrol Movement, who told him to return to Germany.

The movement has 7000 members and was founded a few weeks ago to patrol the border with Germany and stop the German police from pushing illegal migrants into Poland.

Subtitles in English
https://tinyurl.com/bdz6vcem


Clip of German carrier in Poland caught by citizen watch guard.
From last night.

https://tinyurl.com/p8axst4r

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 01:16 AM (ncgY2)

389 The missus is slightly ahead of you. She's enjoying my company so much she just poured me a glass of whiskey for medicinal purposes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 01:13 AM


Smart AND loving?

Sounds like you caught yourself a good one!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:16 AM (HlyYF)

390 Houthis are one side of the Yemen civil war that's divided the country. They control much of the Red Sea coast part. The recognized government is the other side, backed by the Saudis, the US, and others. Houthis are another proxy of Iran.

Funny, it's almost like hitting 3 sites with a few bombs doesn't really address much of the problem that Iran poses, besides being a "mow the lawn" temporary measure, depending on follow-up.

Oh - and the Houthis are a pretty weird bunch. Part of the culture is massive consumption of khat (by chewing), sort of comparable to coca leaf chewing in the Andean countries. Fun fact: Israel's military CoS is of Yemeni origins (Jewish Yemeni, naturally). Yemen had one of the world's oldest and most traditional Jewish communities. And, for language geeks, what is considered the most classical version of Arabic.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:17 AM (1m82a)

391 For all intents and purposes the Houthi ARE the Yemeni government now. From a wiki stub, the Houthi control 1/3 of the land, but 80% of the population. Which means that the “official” government claims control of a whole lot of sand that no one cares about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:18 AM (0DdMG)

392 Posted by: Pillage Idiot

*raises glass*

Cheers!

*quaffs drink*

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 01:19 AM (77rzZ)

393 I do think - at least I hope - that the Navy has leaned a lot from that little excursion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 01:14 AM


What is the best way to get better at combat operations?

Learn painful lessons from your errors in combat operations!

Assuming of course, that you have actual war-fighters in command positions, rather than DEI hires.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:20 AM (HlyYF)

394
As seems to be the fashion these days, a special hello to the lurkers - otherwise known as "pre-commenters" or "commenters in training."


"Commenting adjacent" is coming up strong on the inside rail.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:20 AM (Tv15w)

395 There was an excellent article (of course forget where, now) by a former Tico-class cruiser commander about the systemic issues as well as the USS Gettysburg-specific issues that probably contributed to the shoot-down (a second F-18 was also fired on but evaded). It touched on just about every aspect of the current Navy. Very troubling and completely persuasive/easy to believe.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:20 AM (1m82a)

396
And here I thought that General Mills milled generals ... to take off their rough edges, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:21 AM (Tv15w)

397 One of the two victimized ships in the Red Sea the past week had armed guards who fired on the attackers. No details beyond that.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 12:55 AM (1m82a)
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Won't help:

https://tinyurl.com/38ch5tzc

They are barbarians. They need to be destroyed through and through.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 10, 2025 01:23 AM (Z1fCZ)

398 Night all.

Please cause only the "appropriate" amount of trouble to those that deserve it in your daily lives tomorrow!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 01:24 AM (HlyYF)

399
Here's a photo of some Houthis for you. You can see the herp-a-derp all over their lovely faces:

https://tinyurl.com/mw5d8dp5

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 01:24 AM (BI5O2)

400 ...and if the phone in my hand is the only light on in the house, here come the bugs....hey, what's a June bug doing in here? Out!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 10, 2025 01:25 AM (d+8IC)

401
"Bark we now, bow-wows of folly
Walla Walla Wash and Kalamazoo"

-- carton strip, "Pogo", by Walt Kelly

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:25 AM (Tv15w)

402 Alvarado is an interesting choice for their attack: it’s a tiny little place, right off I-35W, founded by a veteran of the Mexican-American War and currently around 6,000 people. Other than the ICE detention center, there’s some farming, some light industry, and some shops. They probably thought it was easy pickings. It’s rural, and city folk always think they’re smarter than country folk. I’m glad they were wrong!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 01:27 AM (ZVgZ4)

403
Here's a photo of some Houthis for you. You can see the herp-a-derp all over their lovely faces:


The publicity team for that "boy band" has its work cut out for it, that's for sure!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:28 AM (Tv15w)

404
CoS -- Chief of Staff

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:29 AM (Tv15w)

405 402
Here's a photo of some Houthis for you. You can see the herp-a-derp all over their lovely faces:

https://tinyurl.com/mw5d8dp5
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 01:24 AM (BI5O2)


Gentleman on the right is practicing good trigger discipline, I see.

Posted by: Weasel would not be amused at July 10, 2025 01:30 AM (PiwSw)

406 As long as Iran remains under current management, the Houthis will be a problem. However - why they haven't been subjected to a quarantine - maritime and air - is unfathomable to me.

Countries/outfits doing far less have been subjected to such measures. A naval quarantine would be easy. Air operation could be run out of Saudi and the other part of Yemen. All the khat and food aid they want (oh yes, the Houthis and the people they subjugate are fed by our food - since unless things have changed, 80% of all food aid is US-sourced, either the commodities or $). But enforcing a naval quarantine on military items should not be that difficult.

Anyway, if it hasn't happened already it's unlikely to happen. Seems their capacity has been diminished. And in any case, see first sentence above.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:31 AM (1m82a)

407
Shrillary is especially fond of Edema Barbie and uses hers to work out taste fashion fixes for her signature cankles.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:31 AM (Tv15w)

408 Yudhishthira's Dice -

Their faces look deformed! Like bad AI. Inbreeding, much?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 01:32 AM (ZVgZ4)

409 Member and likely "leader" of the TX Antifa attack at large (I think). Benjamin Song. USMC reserves for years, member of the Socialist Rifle Association (wonder if they have cool conventions and a museum?). "Other than honorably" discharged from the military. Real sweetheart I'm sure.
Posted by: rhomboid


I saw the Socialist Rifle Association open for This Town Needs Guns at Bullet's Sports Bar in 2010.

https://youtu.be/PWt0gZ0Y3Fs

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:33 AM (DgGvY)

410
tasteful

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:34 AM (Tv15w)

411 Their faces look deformed! Like bad AI. Inbreeding, much?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 01:32 AM (ZVgZ4)

Mouths stuffed with khat leaves. The drooling is just part of being a Houthi though. But the khat doesn't help.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 10, 2025 01:36 AM (BI5O2)

412 Won't help:

https://tinyurl.com/38ch5tzc

They are barbarians. They need to be destroyed through and through.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
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Right.

On the other hand the two sunk Greek ship were attacked by small boats. Only 5 survivors. Four 50 BMG, pardon me Romeo13, could have taken out those small boats.

It's late I've got to go. See yall tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 01:36 AM (ncgY2)

413
Their faces look deformed! Like bad AI. Inbreeding, much?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


More than a few of them hve what likely are wads of khat between their cheeks and gums.

In their country, being able to demonstrate a bloodline free of first cousin marriages out to three generations guarantees your offspring a place in the "genius in the making" breeding pool.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:38 AM (Tv15w)

414 In their country, being able to demonstrate a bloodline free of first cousin marriages out to three generations guarantees your offspring a place in the "genius in the making" breeding pool.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot


Your DNA looks like a helix: good.

Your family tree looks like a helix: bad.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:40 AM (DgGvY)

415
Speaking of breeding pool, it's time to go paddle around some lacunae of interest in my own family lines.

Later.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:41 AM (Tv15w)

416 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 01:27 AM (ZVgZ4

They might also have assumed a quick getaway with a major highway so close.

Businesses near freeway onramps are often chosen for robbery.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 10, 2025 01:42 AM (Ezs10)

417 >>oh yes, the Houthis and the people they subjugate are fed by our food - since unless things have changed, 80% of all food aid is US-sourced, either the commodities or $

So we are funding the very terrorists that we are fighting against? Who would have thunk it, (cough) Bin Laden (cough.)
Posted by: chavon


"My Tax Dollars" "Somehow Also My Tax Dollars" meme goes here.

Posted by: mikeski at July 10, 2025 01:42 AM (DgGvY)

418
Your DNA looks like a helix: good.

Your family tree looks like a helix: bad.
Posted by: mikeski


Well done -- succinct and to the point!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:42 AM (Tv15w)

419 Oh - and the Houthis are a pretty weird bunch. Part of the culture is massive consumption of khat (by chewing), sort of comparable to coca leaf chewing in the Andean countries.
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Note the bulges in many of their cheeks.

https://tinyurl.com/mw5d8dp5

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2025 01:43 AM (XeU6L)

420 We need to release insects into Yemen that feed on the khat bush. I wonder if grasshoppers would do the trick?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 10, 2025 01:48 AM (Ezs10)

421
For the sake of argument, let's agree that the cutoff of USAID funding would result in14 million deaths.

How many of those fourteen million unfortunates would be grateful to the U.S. for having saved / improved their lives? I'll wait ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:49 AM (Tv15w)

422
I wonder if grasshoppers would do the trick?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor


Create khathoppers, as it were

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:50 AM (Tv15w)

423
"You're still here ..."

You are right. G'night!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 01:51 AM (Tv15w)

424 😂😂😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 10, 2025 01:51 AM (Ezs10)

425 We didn't fund "the Arabs" in A-stan, as they were called. The muj we supported were mostly the same ones we linked up with after 9/11. AQ got funding from lots of sources, mostly in the Gulf, but during the Soviet Afghanistan war the people who went on to become AQ were just a very small part of the anti-Soviet coalition.

Ending US contributions to what I assume is a WFP operation in Houthi-land could be interesting. WFP is US-dominated thanks to us being basically the sole big sugar daddy. I think the idiot McCain widow (referring to both of them as idiots here) is the current director, unless she's been bounced (don't recall how that post
cycles).

I'm past the point of caring so might be fun to take a "see what happens" approach to that part of the Houthi issue. My guess is Chy-nah and some EU and others would step up with $$ to keep it going. Been years since it was my problem or I followed it, but there were individual programs where the US wasn't the 800-lb gorilla.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:55 AM (1m82a)

426 >>We need to release insects into Yemen that feed on the khat bush. I wonder if grasshoppers would do the trick?
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How about using Paraquat?

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 01:56 AM (rdVOm)

427 Note well that the idiocy of our resident retard is far from exceptional - it's the effective IQ level of a huge % of the US population. Inertia is the greatest force in the universe, but it's the main strength the US retains. See no reason for strong optimism with a burden like this.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:58 AM (1m82a)

428 Tammy I thing most of the khat is imported from Ethiopia. Might be the brain damage talking, but I think most of it is grown elsewhere.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2025 01:59 AM (1m82a)

429 Those Hooties look pretty bad, wonder what the Blowfish look like.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 10, 2025 02:08 AM (0nHVk)

430 Hi, Debby.

Hooties look as bad as Hootie sounds... dude can only sing about 5 or 6 notes.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

431 Why not breed khat plants that have extra cathinone, like the way marijuana users have bred for higher THC? Then the usual dose would leave the user manic and constipated! We could release seed all over the sea coast from drones. The Houthis would clamor for the new stronger khat. Then they could be more whacked out all the time! Perhaps less able to coordinate an attack. Confusion to our enemies!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 02:11 AM (ZVgZ4)

432 Why not breed khat plants that have extra cathinone, like the way marijuana users have bred for higher THC?
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Great idea, but would take too long.

Spray it all down with fentanyl. Let 'em go out in a dream.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

433 Ah! I didn’t do my research! Ethiopia and Kenya are the big exporters. If we want to mess with the Houthis’ khat we would need to start there!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 02:18 AM (ZVgZ4)

434 Spray it all with fentanyl…

Man you want to be as cruel to the Houthis as the Chinese are to us!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 10, 2025 02:21 AM (ZVgZ4)

435
Qat grows in Yemen. That's what the Yemenis chew. I always wondered why no one has isolated the active ingredients in qat and for that matter betel and created a new drug. There must be a reason why they can't get the coca or opium treatment because otherwise the world would be high on those plants. Maybe they're too picky to grow widely.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 02:25 AM (UmB+t)

436 >>Man you want to be as cruel to the Houthis as the Chinese are to us!
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Got to respect different cultures, ya know.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

437 Call it "compassion fatigue" or whatever... after being Taken Advantage Of, by so many, for so long.

Why continue to G.A.F.?

Turn the other cheek, only to get chops busted again?

Meh.

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

438 Posting this fine evening from Cohoe, AK. Near the mouth of the Kasilof River, whence we will be dipnetting red salmon tomorrow. Really loving this new travel trailer, like bringing an apartment with us, instead of living in a damned tent. A real toilet and shower, for heaven's sake.

But tomorrow DH will be freezing his nuts in the river with the boy, pulling out salmon by the net full, and I will be up to my ears in fish guts.

Really good counts this week at the fish weir, so we have high expectations. By the middle of next week, we will be smoking and canning like mad.

Yum.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 10, 2025 02:53 AM (VKuXR)

439 Really good counts this week at the fish weir, so we have high expectations. By the middle of next week, we will be smoking and canning like mad.

Yum.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 10, 2025 02:53 AM (VKuXR)
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Sounds delish. Our company cook was sick for the reenactment at Astoria last weekend, so we didn't get our surf and turf meal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 10, 2025 02:55 AM (XZ5S6)

440 Sounds delish. Our company cook was sick for the reenactment at Astoria last weekend, so we didn't get our surf and turf meal.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 10, 2025 02:55 AM (XZ5S6)

Assuming we do well in the next couple of days, I will bring smoked salmon treats to the Texas MoMe in October, if you are interested. Just, you know, word.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 10, 2025 03:02 AM (VKuXR)

441 Assuming we do well in the next couple of days, I will bring smoked salmon treats to the Texas MoMe in October, if you are interested. Just, you know, word.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 10, 2025 03:02 AM (VKuXR)
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Wooo! I'm there!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 10, 2025 03:03 AM (XZ5S6)

442 *Homer Simpson voice*

Mmmm... salmon...

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

443 Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 03:02 AM

Perhaps I should've used a /sarc tag...

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

444 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hubby is out of town for a few days, so it's just us gals here, and I can keep the lights on all night if I want to - 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 10, 2025 03:13 AM (SRRAx)

445 Wooo! Girl party!

Good to see you, Teresa!

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

446 Again, this by design.

Why do they do it?
Posted by: chavon at July 10, 2025 03:16 AM (r2ymA)

Who the fuck knows?

DH is white, I'm white, my son is Mayan. Who gives one fat damn?

I think leftists are racists by design.

We are not.

QED.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 10, 2025 03:23 AM (VKuXR)

447 TiFW-- how is Amanda today?

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:26 AM (rdVOm)

448 Again, this by design.

Why do they do it?


They openly talk about ending whiteness. It's anti-white propaganda. You see white women and men with anyone but other whites in commercials, television, and movies because they're trying to convince whites to voluntarily go extinct. Same reason pr0n is obsessed with interracial sex. There's an old observation that the purpose of a system is what it does. A corollary is that if a system appears designed to achieve a certain result it is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 03:33 AM (SSEhk)

449 Tcn-- may your nets be full!

Teresa-- may you and yours receive many blessings!

Good night, all. Got stuff to do in the morning...

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

450 (r2ymA)

stirring up trouble

Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

451 Finally home
1 red light, 1 turn on red ,7 deer 1 that was in my yard

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 03:54 AM (mSVFR)

452 459 (r2ymA)

stirring up trouble
Posted by: JQ at July 10, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

Entirely possible, but he/she/it is not wrong per se.

We're an open multiracial country. Free people have to be free to love someone of any race or ethnicity they choose. I don't have any problem with mixed-raced unions. Why would I? But there's a difference between free people making their own choices and the concerted propaganda we are seeing to influence those choices. That's what I object to: the subtle thumb on the scale. But, of course, if you're white and notice this, you're a racist. Unlike, say certain segments of the black community, which have been very vocal in their opposition to black men choosing white or asian mates, for example. They can openly complain about this kind of thing in nakedly racialist language and draw nary a peep of criticism from the broader culture. What's going on here is no different than the endless gay propaganda in media. And the people who have conquered us have done such a thorough job that we won't even complain about the conquest.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 03:55 AM (SSEhk)

453 They are buying into Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 03:57 AM (+qU29)

454 So whats this stuff going around about 'excessive cloud seeding' ? Is that a thing these days?

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 10, 2025 04:16 AM (+I6Y/)

455 Rolled or flat enchiladas?

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Either. But if I'm going NM style, then I like to go flat, and Christmas.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 11:17 PM (BI5O2)

Sonora style: flat with a fried egg over easy on the top.

Posted by: capo de tutti capi of the penguin syndicate at July 10, 2025 04:21 AM (oaGmv)

456 I don't know who is starting it, but who will stop the rain?

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2025 04:25 AM (+qU29)

457 bwsb, your cukitude is exactly why the West has been lost.

You're wasting your time on me. Maybe there's a beer hall that will be more receptive.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 10, 2025 04:25 AM (SSEhk)

458 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

459 215 Well, shortly after my daughter turned 1, 'something' said "I'mma gonna turn off your pancrase". Here she is at 7 and, well, that's one of the least offensive Barbie dolls I can get her. *Sigh*, cheaper than Insulin too.
Posted by: tRusty Hudson at July 09, 2025 11:30 PM (ScW81)

I appreciate your input on this topic, a lot.

Posted by: m at July 10, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

460 Any word on the release of the Type II diabetic Barbie, you know the 400 pound chick with an amputated leg?

Posted by: dave at July 10, 2025 02:25 PM (2ZUrQ)

One-Dog Band Cafe

rodentsniffingflower.jpg


Dog prefers hopping around like a bunny.

My bodyguard.

The narc.

Pupper has ears like Dumbo.

Cool runnings.

Puppy rescued from a bag thrown in a garbage can turns out to be the sweetest little recycling project.

Dogs share my feelings about vegetarianism.

Dog thinks a guy in a werewolf costume is just a big weird dog.

Dog has a touch of Munchausen syndrome.

Dog provides all the in-flight entertainment you could want.

Cat and owl meet to determine who can be the most aloof.

Fun with water.


Almost as noisy as a husky:

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM




Comments

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1 Possibly first

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (6PCLE)

2 Meow

Posted by: whig's phone at July 09, 2025 07:22 PM (ctrM5)

3
Good evening, everyone. No, please stay seated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:25 PM (HZi96)

4
I'd take that chandelier down or move the cat tree. Someone's gonna get injured.

Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:26 PM (UmB+t)

5 Good evening Ace Thanks for your efforts today and every day!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 07:26 PM (hpmMD)

6 One man dog band needs a couple Husky back up singers...and they would not disappoint.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 07:27 PM (dIske)

7 Good.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 09, 2025 07:27 PM (QSrLX)

8
Dog musician >>>>> Stockhausen

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (HZi96)

9 >>> I'd take that chandelier down or move the cat tree. Someone's gonna get injured.
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:26 PM (UmB+t)


Pretty close to taking out the tv on the way down.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (cduTK)

10 Cats really do perform some sort of mental gymnastics before they engage in physical gymnastics.

You can see the little wheels turning in their kitty brains as they compute their trajectory.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (IBQGV)

11
Jeez, how long as that sock been on?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (UmB+t)

12 That's the varmit that's been eatin' all my flowers!

Posted by: Guy with no flowers at July 09, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)

13 That's the varmit that's been eatin' all my flowers!
Posted by: Guy with no flowers at July 09, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)
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Little guy looks like he's about to do more than simply eat it. He's awfully friendly with that flower.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:30 PM (IBQGV)

14


Whats up with that Muir guy always looking like he is gonna get up and run off the set?

And what is the deal with his face? He turns his head to the side like Brain Williams does. Is it the nose or something.

Posted by: E Buzz at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (et1vG)

15 I've seen that top picture on a greeting card.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (63Dwl)

16 AlaBAMA, are you jaded?

Yes, yes I am.

AlaBAMA, how jaded are you?

I'm so jaded, my first thought about the doggo in the trash can is that the asshole filming it out the dog there for internet likes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (RUMEY)

17 Why do liberal idiots always feel compelled to fuck shit up, especially when the shit is running smoothly?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (GnfE8)

18 Good evening, everyone. No, please stay seated.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:25 PM (HZi96)

*throws pie*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 07:32 PM (HglHP)

19 >>> Jeez, how long as that sock been on?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (UmB+t)


Hard to say...

Posted by: Paul Carrack at July 09, 2025 07:32 PM (cduTK)

20
Ian, because they want it their way.

Assholes

Posted by: fourseasons at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

21 8
Dog musician >>>>> Stockhausen
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (HZi96)


Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (PiwSw)

22 17 Why do liberal idiots always feel compelled to fuck shit up, especially when the shit is running smoothly?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (GnfE8

How else do you get attention if you're a spoiled asshole?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (RUMEY)

23 Chandeleir cat looks like Snowflake!!

I have her cat tree by the window. To get down she likes to jump onto a really nice wooden table. Paw prints were showing up on the table so I put that rubber mat there which she has really shredded.

But she hasn't really damaged anything else.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 99%- mental state clawing up from 10% at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (jvJvP)

24 Dog musician >>>>> Stockhausen

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Dog musician >>>>> Stockhausen >>>>> Alannis Morissette "Head over Heals" complete with annoying harmonica solo.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (TN0g+)

25 I'm so jaded, my first thought about the doggo in the trash can is that the asshole filming it out the dog there for internet likes.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (RUMEY)

I'm that jaded, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (h7ZuX)

26 Guy in top pic seems to be prairie-dogging some plant genitals early in the morning...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 07:34 PM (ynpvh)

27 Varmit is a very woody word.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 07:34 PM (PiwSw)

28 I'm so jaded, my first thought about the doggo in the trash can is that the asshole filming it out the dog there for internet likes.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 07:31 PM (RUMEY)

I'm that jaded, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

You're not the only ones.

Posted by: Tuna at July 09, 2025 07:35 PM (lJ0H4)

29 Ian, because they want it their way.

Assholes
Posted by: fourseasons at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

Yup.
That is a valid reason, commensurate with the stuff I am witnessing this very second at a *mumble mumble* board meeting.

I am in the peanut gallery, contemplating popcorn.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 07:35 PM (GnfE8)

30 Dog musician >>>>> Stockhausen >>>>> Alannis Morissette "Head over Heals" complete with annoying harmonica solo.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (TN0g+)


I like her "You Oughta Know", a celebration of psychotic co-dependence.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (PiwSw)

31 Lacks Penguins...

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (s0Otf)

32 Watermelon dog looks a lot like Ralphy.

But much younger and more active.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 99%- mental state clawing up from 10% at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (jvJvP)

33 thank you Ace!


Yay!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 07:38 PM (dKEEs)

34 Little guy looks like he's about to do more than simply eat it. He's awfully friendly with that flower.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:30 PM (IBQGV)

Well, there's probably not a lot of sex torsos in his species.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 99%- mental state clawing up from 10% at July 09, 2025 07:39 PM (jvJvP)

35 I like her "You Oughta Know", a celebration of psychotic co-dependence.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM

And blowing someone in a theater.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 07:39 PM (HglHP)

36 Rodent be looking for some stamen.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:40 PM (W/lyH)

37 1 Possibly first

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (6PCLE)


A confident first, this is not.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 07:43 PM (RUMEY)

38 dog, dog, dog, puppies, dog, dog, can, dog..ok

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)

39 anyone who would toss a puppy tied up in a bag into a dumpster should be killed on the spot and tossed into said dumpster as a replacement.

jus' sayin' ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (dKEEs)

40 Is watermelon fed goose any good? A little less gamey perhaps?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM (2UnvF)

41 sock,

Yep I agree. Cats on the other hand.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM (3ek7K)

42
Precision timekeepers (well, lowest resolution precision timekeepers) be aware, in less then 15 minutes, at 0:00Z 7/10, which is 8PM EDT, the value of DUT1 will update to +0.1s until further notice.

That is, UT1, astronomical time, in now 0.1s ahead of UTC (exact value today is +50.46ms). This will last well into 2026. The Erf has been rotating a bit fast of late.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)

43 37 1 Possibly first

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (6PCLE)


Works for me.

Posted by: Zombie Werner Heisenberg at July 09, 2025 07:47 PM (PiwSw)

44 Ian, because they want it their way.

Assholes
Posted by: fourseasons at July 09, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

Yup.
That is a valid reason, commensurate with the stuff I am witnessing this very second at a *mumble mumble* board meeting.

I am in the peanut gallery, contemplating popcorn.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 07:35 PM (GnfE
***

Doesn't matter how well it works. Until they tell you how to do it, it isn't good enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:48 PM (W/lyH)

45 That cat jump was pretty awesome.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:48 PM (TN0g+)

46 Airplane doggy probably has breath that smells like ass.

Can I get a Tic-Tac over here?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 07:49 PM (wzQvI)

47 Lampjumper cat jumps lamps.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 07:50 PM (LHPAg)

48 Cats really do perform some sort of mental gymnastics before they engage in physical gymnastics.

You can see the little wheels turning in their kitty brains as they compute their trajectory.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (IBQGV)

My cat in college used to try and jump from just above the floor on a shelf/unit to the closet top shelf. She would make worried sounding chirps, move head side to side to get the distance down. So proud when she made it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)

49 Dog thinks a guy in a werewolf costume is just a big weird dog.



♫ A stranger's just a friend you haven't met. ♫


Streetcar!

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 07:53 PM (jc0TO)

50 The Erf has been rotating a bit fast of late.
Posted by: publius,

No wonder I'm dizzy!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at July 09, 2025 07:56 PM (G5+As)

51 Dogs share my feelings about vegetarianism.

Did that once to a bird at a food court. I tossed it a piece of cucumber and it tilted it's head to the side and gave me a "What the fk are you trying to pull" look back at me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

52 That is, UT1, astronomical time, in now 0.1s ahead of UTC (exact value today is +50.46ms). This will last well into 2026. The Erf has been rotating a bit fast of late.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM



Twirling ... twirling ... twirling toward freedom.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 07:57 PM (jc0TO)

53 52 That is, UT1, astronomical time, in now 0.1s ahead of UTC (exact value today is +50.46ms). This will last well into 2026. The Erf has been rotating a bit fast of late.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM


Twirling ... twirling ... twirling toward freedom.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 07:57 PM (jc0TO)

Last time this happened it was Japan's fault...
Tohoku Quake.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 08:01 PM (ynpvh)

54 Russia recruiting unknowing suicide bombers as part of shadow war against Ukraine - report

Vlad Putin is at the back of the line

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 08:02 PM (GITLP)

55
Had sarsaparilla float for dessert. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:03 PM (HZi96)

56 What's with the dog and the watermelon?

It's not that good, doggeh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 08:05 PM (RIvkX)

57 Jeez, how long as that sock been on?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (UmB+t)
====

You'll have to keep it on at least another 40 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 09, 2025 08:06 PM (RIvkX)

58 >>> 42
Precision timekeepers (well, lowest resolution precision timekeepers) be aware, in less then 15 minutes, at 0:00Z 7/10, which is 8PM EDT, the value of DUT1 will update to +0.1s until further notice.

That is, UT1, astronomical time, in now 0.1s ahead of UTC (exact value today is +50.46ms). This will last well into 2026. The Erf has been rotating a bit fast of late.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)

Time and Date has a decent write-up with a little more detail:
https://shorturl.at/IuNCb
There doesn't seem to be a good answer about why it is doing this. Not sure how significant ~1 second out of 86400 is though...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 08:06 PM (ULPxl)

59 >>What's with the dog and the watermelon?


You've never had a Golden, have you?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 08:07 PM (viF8m)

60 I'm watching Jeopardy! now. There is what looks to be another trans contestant . Again.

Not a criticism, just an observation!

What's going on?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 08:08 PM (kpS4V)

61 I'm choking to death here

https://tinyurl.com/nhje26j5

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:08 PM (jc0TO)

62
Jeez, how long as that sock been on?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 07:28 PM (UmB+t)
====

You'll have to keep it on at least another 40 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

=============

lol and get another $20bil and never have to do a lick of work!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 08:08 PM (UmB+t)

63 Cat & owl - that is a very handsome cat.

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 08:09 PM (v2PU4)

64 >>> 60 I'm watching Jeopardy! now. There is what looks to be another trans contestant . Again.

Not a criticism, just an observation!

What's going on?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 08:08 PM (kpS4V)

You will be made to care.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ULPxl)

65 Or is it just a lady with a strong jaw? If so, apologies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 08:11 PM (kpS4V)

66 Ah, home. Let's see what's happening in the world...

"Former Hasbro CEO Alan Hassenfeld has died" - Well that's sad for his family.

"Olivia Munn's mother diagnosed with breast cancer" - Well that's awful for her... and her family, I guess.

"Angel Reese will grace the cover of NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" - Oh come on! Nobody gives a flying F, not even lesbians who watch girl basketball.

Slow news day, I guess.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:12 PM (MyqLb)

67
It's looking more and more likely a negative leap second will be needed around 2029, ff this keeps up. The last normal positive leap second was at 0:00Z Jan 1, 2017.

So, ~10 years without one. And it continues.

I predict if a negative leap seconds looms, they will get off their asses and accelerate the plane to eliminate them. A negative leap second has never been done, and it would likely break the internet and just be a mess with computer systems all over.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:13 PM (w6EFb)

68 Having watched some 80s music videos today, I think we should bring back big hair and pouffy clothes for the ladies. Can't figure the underlying style for the guys of the era.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 08:13 PM (AcTAo)

69 Sssssssss

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at July 09, 2025 08:14 PM (jc0TO)

70 I'm watching Jeopardy! now. There is what looks to be another trans contestant . Again.

Not a criticism, just an observation!

What's going on?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 08:08 PM (kpS4V)

You will be made to care.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ULPxl)

Jeopardy has been unwatchable since Art Fleming left.

The so-called "glory years" with Trebek were abysmal. I vomit just thinking about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (8sydA)

71 Which are worse:

Pharmaceutical brand names
Star Wars character names

And can they be interchangeable?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)

72 Which are worse:

Pharmaceutical brand names
Star Wars character names

And can they be interchangeable?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)

Don't take Jar Jar Binks if you are allergic to Jar Jar Binks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM (HglHP)

73 Pharmaceutical brand names
Star Wars character names

And can they be interchangeable?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)

—————-

Don’t take Palpatine if you’re allergic to Palpatine.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM (u73oe)

74 >> There doesn't seem to be a good answer about why it is doing this. Not sure how significant ~1 second out of 86400 is though...

There is a predictable component to this due to the solar and lunar tidal torques (and smaller gravitational perturbations) and then an unpredictable random component. It's this latter that has done something unexpected. Some suspect it may be the differential rotation of the inner core somehow. Could be mass redistributions in the mantle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM (w6EFb)

75 I like the concept of this game I just made up, but I've seen so little Star Wars over the years that I am unable to participate. Best I cna do is slap some letters together and ask, Star Wars character or medication?

Frothee Melitornix

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:20 PM (0aYVJ)

76 Having watched some 80s music videos today, I think we should bring back big hair and pouffy clothes for the ladies. Can't figure the underlying style for the guys of the era.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 08:13 PM (AcTAo)

Really? Pastel colors, skinny ties. Pornstaches.

That's just the straight guys.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:20 PM (LPgB/)

77
They've only been able to measure this to the current incredible precision since atomic clocks were invented and came online for around 1960. However, before then, astronomical observations became precise enough around the early 1820s, that variation in the earth's rotational speed could be detected, just not to the current atomic clock precision.

There was a period during the late 1800s when the Erf was rotating pretty fast, and the length of the day was likely 3 ms faster. Had the current UTC scheme been in place then, several negative leap seconds would have been required.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:21 PM (w6EFb)

78 Having watched some 80s music videos today, I think we should bring back big hair and pouffy clothes for the ladies

Hairspray went out when everyone wet themselves over chlorofluorocarbons.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

79 Time and Date has a decent write-up with a little more detail:
https://shorturl.at/IuNCb
There doesn't seem to be a good answer about why it is doing this. Not sure how significant ~1 second out of 86400 is though...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 08:06 PM (ULPxl)

Just changes in the distribution of mass and the loss due to interaction with other planets and the moon. An earthquake can make a hiccup in the speed of the rotation.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:21 PM (8avO+)

80 Possibly first
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM


First or First not. There is no possibly.

Posted by: Yoda Crusher at July 09, 2025 08:22 PM (0sNs1)

81 And can they be interchangeable?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)


Eleven names and anti-depressants.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:22 PM (D7oie)

82 Which are worse:

Pharmaceutical brand names
Star Wars character names

And can they be interchangeable?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)

Oh no, I didn't take my Palpatine today. Makes my face get all pale and wrinkly when I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:22 PM (LPgB/)

83 Cats really do perform some sort of mental gymnastics before they engage in physical gymnastics.…
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Most spectacular leap I ever saw: The cat quickly leaped off the bartop, several feet over to on top of a dresser, jumped down to a shelf, another leap back onto another dresser, then launched into space, and with one paw swatted a moth so hard the moth smacked several feet down to the floor, deceased. That was some impressive fast calculation and gymnastics.

Cat landed safely.

Posted by: mindful webworker - wheels turning precisely at July 09, 2025 08:23 PM (JYGoS)

84 Hot dogs are a sandwich, fight me!

Posted by: Edgy Bint at July 09, 2025 08:23 PM (36PRH)

85 You might want to sit down for this, but the Rockies are losing again

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 08:24 PM (gKWVE)

86
Here's a timeanddate page, with the long term graph of the LOD (length of day) back to 1830. Scroll down:
https://tinyurl.com/yah2me49

Now, that is stitching together ephemeris time calculation before 1960 with post 1960 atomic clock measurements.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

87 Billy Squires has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:24 PM (HglHP)

88 Squire

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:24 PM (HglHP)

89 I like her "You Oughta Know", a celebration of psychotic co-dependence.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM

There were so many great nineties women singers.

Since then, we've had, um... Beyonce and Taylor Swift.

Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 08:25 PM (r2ymA)

90 There doesn't seem to be a good answer about why it is doing this. Not sure how significant ~1 second out of 86400 is though...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 08:06 PM (ULPxl)


Hysteresis effect of the Sun's magnetic field acting on the rotating core of the Earf.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:25 PM (D7oie)

91 Growing up in Wyoming in the 1980s was different than the rest of the country, at least compared to MTV.

The boys wore Levis, T-shirts, or casual button shirts, sneakers or boots. Hair was usually moderately short, a few mullets, and wispy mustaches for the lucky few who could grow one.

The girls wore Levis, T-shirts or blouses, sneakers, boots or flats. Their hair was maintained, but not a lot of Jersey Mall-hair.

All in all, a very conservative town when I lived there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 09, 2025 08:25 PM (0aYVJ)

92 Hot dogs are a sandwich, fight me!
Posted by: Edgy Bint at July 09, 2025 08:23 PM


No, Ace said *twice* today that they are not. The Science is Settled!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)

93 My doctor had me on Alderaan but you can't get it anymore so now I take Endor.

Posted by: Guy with no flowers at July 09, 2025 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

94 Give the Sox bullpen a chance.

Posted by: Accomack at July 09, 2025 08:26 PM (wmiYU)

95 Hot dogs are a sandwich, fight me!
Posted by: Edgy Bint at July 09, 2025 08:23 PM (36PRH)


Hot dogs are an empanada

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:27 PM (D7oie)

96 The gimmick of the 'backwards' question and answer always bugged me. You would never answer a What is X question with that answer.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (8avO+)

97 I predict if a negative leap seconds looms, they will get off their asses and accelerate the plane to eliminate them. A negative leap second has never been done, and it would likely break the internet and just be a mess with computer systems all over.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:13 PM (w6EFb)
---
What happens if people just ignore it and get on with their lives?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (IBQGV)

98 64 and clouds on the beach. We were promised some precipitation, but, alas……. It’s dry as a bone.

Prayers for all y’all soaked. I’m begging for the moisture to be sent our way. But rarely do fronts move from east to west.

I miss Ciampino.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (mT+6a)

99 It is delightful to spend an evening made dulcet by the lack of penguins with y'all, even if it is shorter than usual.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (0sNs1)

100 Not hopping like a bunny, pronking like a mule deer.

Posted by: Fred_Z at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (VQIqq)

101 Hot dogs are a sandwich, fight me!
Posted by: Edgy Bint at July 09, 2025 08:23 PM

No, Ace said *twice* today that they are not. The Science is Settled!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)

Sammich is 2 pieces of bread, not one bun.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (8avO+)

102 Is watermelon fed goose any good? A little less gamey perhaps?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 07:46 PM (2UnvF)



Should be moist, but it may be a little watery.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (144I4)

103 Don't take Jar Jar Binks if you are allergic to Jar Jar Binks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM

Don’t take Palpatine if you’re allergic to Palpatine.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM


Hah. The Horde mind glitched. See? They used different characters.

Posted by: mindful webworker - real and spectacular at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (JYGoS)

104 There were so many great nineties women singers.

*buffs nails*

Posted by: Johnette Napolitano at July 09, 2025 08:29 PM (gKWVE)

105 " I think we should bring back big hair and pouffy clothes for the ladies."

-------
I came of age in the 80's. I am still a sucker for mom jeans.

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 08:29 PM (MxCkF)

106 Coruscant will give you mood swings, suicidal thoughts, explosive diarrhea, and kidney failure.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:31 PM (HglHP)

107 Sammich is 2 pieces of bread, not one bun.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM


* Jimmy John's has entered the chat *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

108 I was originally on Amanaman but it was ineffective so my doctor put me on Pandababa.

Hey it works.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 08:31 PM (kpS4V)

109 Millions of penguins bunched up at the South pole cause a wobble in time that has perplexed the experts. Some have even proposed instituting negative time in an attempt to counteract the mephitic mass menacing mankind.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at July 09, 2025 08:31 PM (vFG9F)

110 85 You might want to sit down for this, but the Rockies are losing again
Posted by: gKWVE


So are the Mariners.

*sigh*

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2025 08:32 PM (mT+6a)

111
You might want to sit down for this, but the Rockies are losing again
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 08:24 PM (gKWVE)

_________

*men gasp*
*women scream*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:32 PM (HZi96)

112 Yes, lets bring back those halcyon days of yore, before hardwood became the norm!

Posted by: J. Random Moron at July 09, 2025 08:33 PM (ii4Ij)

113 Sammich is 2 pieces of bread, not one bun.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM

* Jimmy John's has entered the chat *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

I have to finish the laggard cutting before eating to restore sandwichhood.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:33 PM (8avO+)

114 *men gasp*
*women scream*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:32 PM


* dogs howl *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

115 Hairspray went out when everyone wet themselves over chlorofluorocarbons.
Posted by: gKWVE


As I noted the other day, they figured out there was an entirely different reason the ozone hole varied. Chlorofluorocarbons are off the hook.

Big hair can make a comeback at last.
https://bit.ly/big-hair-80s

Posted by: mindful webworker - prefers that long, straight hippie gal hair at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (JYGoS)

116 "Angel Reese will grace the cover of NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" - Oh come on! Nobody gives a flying F, not even lesbians who watch girl basketball.

Slow news day, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC

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

For those of you who care, and I know that's ALL of you, Angel Reese smacked a clipboard out of the hands of one of her coaches (not the head coach, not like it would matter though) in a fit of frustration. She was losing and finished the game that way. I think her team is something like 3-15 for the season. Stellar.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (144I4)

117 Possible side effects of Calrissian include excessive consumption of malt liquors, homicidal or suicidal ideation, compulsive gambling, career death, and dry mouth.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:35 PM (jc0TO)

118 I have to finish the laggard cutting before eating to restore sandwichhood.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 08:33 PM


Are you making a mountain out of a mohel?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:35 PM (0sNs1)

119
We have some old show photos with Her Majesty with big hair. What a fox. Still is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:36 PM (HZi96)

120
Real class act that Angel Reese.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:36 PM (w6EFb)

121 *men gasp*
*women scream*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:32 PM

* dogs howl *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

*Frogs turn gay*

*Snakes give each other reacharounds*

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:36 PM (QbJcY)

122 Sometimes those pet rescue shorts/vids are faked. Terrible things to do to those animals. Not that the puppy here was faked but, gee, just happened to video the trash?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 09, 2025 08:36 PM (KAi1n)

123 I was working in a packing shed, so not a lot of styling going on. Didn't see the videos but did see some New Wave bands on tour.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 08:37 PM (AcTAo)

124 Real class act that Angel Reese.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:36 PM


She's the mebounder, yes?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:37 PM (jc0TO)

125 That is, she has great rebound numbers because she misses 4/5th of her own shots in the paint.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:38 PM (jc0TO)

126 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

127 "Slow news day, I guess.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:12 PM (MyqLb) "

and yet, no Gorn.

SAD!

* dogs howl *

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:39 PM (dKEEs)

128 Hot dogs are an empanada
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:27 PM (D7oie)


Nuhuh! Empanadas are sealed in a crust, hot dogs are partially open.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 09, 2025 08:40 PM (/HDaX)

129 Don't take Jar Jar Binks if you are allergic to Jar Jar Binks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM

Don’t take Palpatine if you’re allergic to Palpatine.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 08:18 PM

Hah. The Horde mind glitched. See? They used different characters.
Posted by: mindful webworker - real and spectacular at July 09, 2025 08:28 PM (JYGoS)
---
Are they different, though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Uc84U04Sk

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 08:40 PM (IBQGV)

130 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons? That critter in the top pic? I ran over one this afternoon. I dodged, and it dodged - in the same directions. Richardson's ground squirrels (aka gophers) are dumber than your average Democrat.

And coming home just now, I saw not one, but two speed goats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 08:41 PM (ZO20Q)

131 >> She's the mebounder, yes?

I think so -- I've seen some funny clips of her missing shot after shot, but getting her own rebounds, and then missing again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:41 PM (w6EFb)

132 Remember when Luke whacked that Ozempic Storm Trooper riding a Wegovy with an Iservay?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:42 PM (vFG9F)

133 For those of you who care, and I know that's ALL of you, Angel Reese smacked a clipboard out of the hands of one of her coaches (not the head coach, not like it would matter though) in a fit of frustration. She was losing and finished the game that way. I think her team is something like 3-15 for the season. Stellar.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (144I4)

And yes, those silly news feeds I see, you'd swear she's the only player in the league. I seem to remember some white chick who played for a while.

Musta retired.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:43 PM (QbJcY)

134 That's a good looking watermelon. The pale spot where it rested on the ground is nice and golden. That dog knows how to pick 'em!

Posted by: Emmie at July 09, 2025 08:44 PM (rF2iL)

135 true dat, Emmie!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:45 PM (dKEEs)

136 I don't think the owl was the willing participant. 🫣



Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 09, 2025 08:45 PM (NFX2v)

137 Nuhuh! Empanadas are sealed in a crust, hot dogs are partially open.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 09, 2025 08:40 PM (/HDaX)


Fine, empanadas are calzones, and hot dogs are arepas

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:45 PM (D7oie)

138 Speed goats? Not the Pontiac kind?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:46 PM (vFG9F)

139 I don’t even care about men’s basketball. All squeaky shoes and hairy armpits.

Women’s basketball? Forgeddiboutit.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 08:46 PM (77rzZ)

140 *men gasp*
*women scream*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:32 PM

* dogs howl *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

*Frogs turn gay*

*Snakes give each other reacharounds*
Posted by: BurtTC
-----
Outside, in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl

Posted by: Bob at July 09, 2025 08:46 PM (XeU6L)

141 Remember when Luke whacked that Ozempic Storm Trooper riding a Wegovy with an Iservay?
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:42 PM (vFG9F)

Sort of related, but not, I was watching something on Amazon, and one of those commercials came on. They show the people struggling with whatever, then get all cheerful about the drug they're pumping, before speed reading through the side effects.

The drug was for people with Tardive Dyskinesia. If you don't know what that is, look it up.

There's a drug. For Tardive Dyskinesia. The actors get all fumbly and their faces contort... it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. I was falling off the couch from laughing.

Now, I know plenty of people with TD. It's no laughing matter, but the commercial, for the drug to treat it... you people... if I can call Big Pharma "people."

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:48 PM (QbJcY)

142 Why can't hot dogs have a class all their own? Why do they have to conform to the specifics of some other foodstuffs?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:48 PM (vFG9F)

143 I'm'a have a nother beer.
(*new glarus moon man*)
just because.

quite certain I'w'l regret this in, say 8 hours or so ...

but there you have it, in a nutshell.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:49 PM (dKEEs)

144 Why can't hot dogs have a class all their own? Why do they have to conform to the specifics of some other foodstuffs?
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:48 PM



Fight the power, Bruh!

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:49 PM (jc0TO)

145 There are some among us here
Who feel that life is just a joke

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 08:49 PM (0DdMG)

146 Speed goats? Not the Pontiac kind?
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:46 PM (vFG9F)

Pronghorn antelope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 08:49 PM (e+kKL)

147 @140

*fistbump* !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:50 PM (dKEEs)

148 Crap. Now I have to cue up Dylan, just because it has been a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 08:51 PM (XeU6L)

149 I think so -- I've seen some funny clips of her missing shot after shot, but getting her own rebounds, and then missing again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 09, 2025 08:41 PM (w6EFb)


Hey! You miss every shot you don't take. And for Angel, apparently most of the ones she does, as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:51 PM (D7oie)

150 Fine, empanadas are calzones, and hot dogs are arepas
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:45 PM (D7oie)


Ok, I can get behind that. For certain classes of arepas.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 09, 2025 08:51 PM (/HDaX)

151 "Angel Reese will grace the cover of NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" - Oh come on! Nobody gives a flying F, not even lesbians who watch girl basketball.

Slow news day, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC

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

For those of you who care, and I know that's ALL of you, Angel Reese smacked a clipboard out of the hands of one of her coaches (not the head coach, not like it would matter though) in a fit of frustration. She was losing and finished the game that way. I think her team is something like 3-15 for the season. Stellar.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (144I4)

The WNBA, from it's Commissioner on down, seems to be doing everything they can to blunt the impact of the one person who has brought them, and I'm not making this up, an at least 500% increase in veiwership and merchandise sales.

Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 08:52 PM (r2ymA)

152 And my laundry out on the line is getting soaked by this rain shower. If the shower passes soon, maybe I will get a couple of drying hours in; or I could leave it out overnight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 08:53 PM (e+kKL)

153 Hot dogs are not some second class food to be lumped in with some other food. The proud American Hot Dog is in a class by itself and deserves it's own category.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

154 Ok, I can get behind that. For certain classes of arepas.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 09, 2025 08:51 PM (/HDaX)


But of course. Some "arepas" are actually misclassified pupusas, and we know those are actually dimsum

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:54 PM (D7oie)

155 but you an' me, we've been through that
and this is not our fate.
let us not speak falsely now
for the hour is getting late.

!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:55 PM (dKEEs)

156 153, THIS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 08:56 PM (dKEEs)

157 The WNBA, from it's Commissioner on down, seems to be doing everything they can to blunt the impact of the one person who has brought them, and I'm not making this up, an at least 500% increase in veiwership and merchandise sales.
Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 08:52 PM (r2ymA)

Reminds me of the story of the two women who worked in a nursing home. They were lovers, until one of them broke off the relationship and moved to another state.

The one who stayed behind, she went to the police and told them she and her lover had intentionally killed something like 5 old folks in the facility, just for kicks.

Now, when those folks died, no one suspected anything. Afterwards, they dug up bodies, didn't find any evidence of the drugs that were supposed supplied to them, but dagnabbit, they had a confession, and that was good enough.

The confessor got 10 years. The other gal got life without parole. That was well over 10 years ago.

Now, there's revenge, and then there's lesbo revenge.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM (QbJcY)

158
Hot dogs are not some second class food to be lumped in with some other food. The proud American Hot Dog is in a class by itself and deserves it's own category.
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

___________

Like the log cabin, the hot dog is more finely adorned in simplicity. Mustard. Onions. Perhaps relish. No more is needed to bring out its humble virtues. More would be excessive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:59 PM (HZi96)

159 There are some among us here
Who feel that life is just a joke
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 08:49 PM


The ones waiting for the bass solo?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 08:59 PM (0sNs1)

160 But of course. Some "arepas" are actually misclassified pupusas, and we know those are actually dimsum
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 08:54 PM (D7oie)


Scratches head. I'll have another bowl of ice cream.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 09, 2025 08:59 PM (/HDaX)

161 Globalize the Empanada!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 09, 2025 09:00 PM (pIfcn)

162 She's the mebounder, yes?
-----

That is, she has great rebound numbers because she misses 4/5th of her own shots in the paint.

Posted by: toby928

============

Lol, I thought it was because she's all about "me". I guess both work!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 09:00 PM (144I4)

163 The confessor got 10 years. The other gal got life without parole. That was well over 10 years ago.

Now, there's revenge, and then there's lesbo revenge.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM (QbJcY)

That is a woodchipper-worthy crime.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 09:00 PM (e+kKL)

164 Thanks so much Ace!
I tend to lurk here most days....I love the critter stuff..
Bless you good lovely one! Thanks Ace, you're a good friend.




Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:00 PM (L9kkv)

165 Crap. Now I have to cue up Dylan, just because it has been a while.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 08:51 PM (XeU6L)

Crap. Now I have to go there. Dylan actually sucks all things considered. Totally overrated.

Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 09:00 PM (r2ymA)

166 The confessor got 10 years. The other gal got life without parole. That was well over 10 years ago.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM


Does no one think of the Subaru?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:01 PM (0sNs1)

167 hmmm


@JustTheNews
·
2m
Secret Service suspended half a dozen agents without pay in aftermath of Butler shooting

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

168 @ 157 -
& that right there is why I am doing so many guns & knives hidden inside books.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM (dKEEs)

169 Wasn't Dylan a one-man band? ahwoo!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM (wzQvI)

170 The long-haired silver tabby in the owl video is, I think, a Maine Coon, or has some in him/her. Those ears are a Coon cat trait.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM (omVj0)

171 Wal mart had some Jamaican spicy beef empanadas that i really liked.

I do not give a shit if they are a sandwich or not.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM (d8x+f)

172 Does no one think of the Subaru?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:01 PM (0sNs1)

Forget the Subaru, what about the Shih Tzu!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:03 PM (QbJcY)

173 @157
Yikes! I guess the squealer gets the better deal. That's what they show on TV shows, it must be true.

I was just going to say that the WNBA must be reading out of the Dem's playbook. Do whatever it takes to piss off your base.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 09:03 PM (144I4)

174 Wal mart had some Jamaican spicy beef empanadas that i really liked.

I do not give a shit if they are a sandwich or not.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM


If they're spicy enough, you will.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:03 PM (0sNs1)

175 Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM (QbJcY)

Burt, are you full of shit on that one. That one seems shaky to my layman's legal mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:04 PM (d8x+f)

176 there is iron in the words of H7 !

(@ 15

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:04 PM (dKEEs)

177 If they're spicy enough, you will.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:03 PM (0sNs1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:05 PM (d8x+f)

178 But the human Angel Reese shot Expert qualification in the Vogon Marines Annual Rifle Preliminary Ladies Match on Vogsphere.

Posted by: Zarniwoop at July 09, 2025 09:06 PM (TAeXP)

179 168 @ 157 -
& that right there is why I am doing so many guns & knives hidden inside books.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:02 PM (dKEEs)

I'm not even kidding, after the ex left (and I got her bullshit protection order ended), I fully expected cops to show up and tell me I'm under arrest for some unspeakable crime.

She's not a lesbo, but she sure knows their tricks.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:06 PM (QbJcY)

180 We should put the hot dog/sandwich question to a plebiscite. I suspicion that the majority of folks would agree that yes, indeed, a hot dog is a sandwich.

Posted by: Have You Ever Been Polled? at July 09, 2025 09:07 PM (G5+As)

181 "Angel Reese will grace the cover of NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" - Oh come on! Nobody gives a flying F, not even lesbians who watch girl basketball.

Slow news day, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC

"NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" seems a bit unwieldy for magazine. I propose a shorter, punchier name that still retains the spirit of the sport:

"Miss"

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 09, 2025 09:08 PM (bA75n)

182 Aren’t all of those Latin-American dishes basically the same thing: Meat, eggs, veggies, wrapped in tortillas?

I mean, tasty as all get out, but basically just the same thing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 09:08 PM (77rzZ)

183 Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM (QbJcY)

Burt, are you full of shit on that one. That one seems shaky to my layman's legal mind.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:04 PM (d8x+f)

No, it's real. I saw a documentary, can't remember where or when. They interviewed both women. They had the news reports and legal processes.

I guess some facts might have been gotten wrong by the doc, but I sure as hell didn't make it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:08 PM (QbJcY)

184 Grudge-keeping is a traditionslly female sport,

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 09:09 PM (gDlxJ)

185 A Quorum?!

When I took this job I thought I'd be Serpico! Instead I'm like Fish from Barney Miller.

Posted by: Guy from so I married an axe murderer at July 09, 2025 09:09 PM (d8x+f)

186 151 "Angel Reese will grace the cover of NBA 2K26 WNBA edition" - Oh come on! Nobody gives a flying F, not even lesbians who watch girl basketball.

Slow news day, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC

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

For those of you who care, and I know that's ALL of you, Angel Reese smacked a clipboard out of the hands of one of her coaches (not the head coach, not like it would matter though) in a fit of frustration. She was losing and finished the game that way. I think her team is something like 3-15 for the season. Stellar.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 08:34 PM (144I4)

The WNBA, from it's Commissioner on down, seems to be doing everything they can to blunt the impact of the one person who has brought them, and I'm not making this up, an at least 500% increase in veiwership and merchandise sales.

Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 08:52 PM (r2ymA)


The WNBA probably has a fan base equal to the combined fan bases of a half-dozen AAA minor league baseball teams. At most. It would not exist if corporate sponsors, and ESPN plus other networks who will show almost any sport in the summer to fill time, weren't duped or arm-twisted into handing money to the league.

Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 09:09 PM (aBgBM)

187 I know too much about how hot dogs are made to want to consume them.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 09, 2025 09:10 PM (ycs3a)

188 This beautiful and charming observer of the current scene tried to get some money for her several assault charges.

Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Tiktoker says the young girls died in the Texas flood because of racism and because illegals are being deported.
"More White people will have to die in order for m*therfuckers to care”

-
Too bad; so sad.

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: GiveSendGo campaign, which was set up for the woman who mocked the "white girls" who lost their lives in the TX floods, raises a whopping $140.
Houston mayoral appointee Sade Perkins is claiming to be the victim after her racist rants went viral.
The campaign claims because she had the "courage" to call out the "racial disparity in emergency response."
"If you believe in: Free speech, Equity, Protecting Black women from systemic retaliation... Then stand with Sade Perkins. Let her know she is not alone and that we will not let her voice be erased."
The majority of the donations appear to be from people trolling Perkins.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 09:10 PM (L/fGl)

189 I tried doing a quick internet search, but apparently there's a more recent case, some nurse in Pennsylvania who killed a bunch of patients.

What's wrong with you, Pennsylvania? First Jerry Sandusky, then the Butler assassination attempt, now this!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:11 PM (e+Yrg)

190 wasn't joking either, Burt

half a hacksaw blade, sharpened & pointed on the back edge, slipped down the spine of a hardcover book.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:11 PM (dKEEs)

191
Now, there's revenge, and then there's lesbo revenge.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 08:57 PM (QbJcY)

________

For couples that apparently don't have sex, lesbians seem to have very intense relationships.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 09:12 PM (HZi96)

192 The question is; Can Joey Chestnut eat 71 arepas?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 09:13 PM (wzQvI)

193 184 Grudge-keeping is a traditionslly female sport,
Posted by: vmom


Serbs are all women??

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 09:14 PM (gKWVE)

194 I know too much about how hot dogs are made to want to consume them.
Posted by: Life of Wryly

I just made a batch of hot dogs. VPB
Venison, pork and beef in equal proportions.
Lightly smoked.
No, you can't have any now.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:15 PM (cPGH3)

195 Wasn't Dylan a one-man band? ahwoo!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Paul Simon was a poet and a one man band.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 09:15 PM (L/fGl)

196 Found it: https://tinyurl.com/249ppcdu

I was wrong about the one chick, who was actually sentenced to 20-40 years, but got out after about 10 for "good behavior." The other is apparently still behind bars.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:16 PM (IrYHD)

197 I just made a batch of hot dogs. VPB
Venison, pork and beef in equal proportions.
Lightly smoked.
Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:15 PM


Weren't they hard to get lit?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:17 PM (0sNs1)

198 Ahwooo!

... innit ... ?

g'night alla youse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:17 PM (dKEEs)

199 wasn't joking either, Burt

half a hacksaw blade, sharpened & pointed on the back edge, slipped down the spine of a hardcover book.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 09:11 PM (dKEEs)

I guess I could look into something similar. Now that it's just me and the cats. I don't expect the cats to be able to access any weapons I have hidden.

Hopefully.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:17 PM (IrYHD)

200 Yep. Heading up to ONT...I probably don't belong here...
But, I do love this cafe...💕
Thanks Ace and friends....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:17 PM (L9kkv)

201 Weren't they hard to get lit?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Pro tip
Big rolling papers.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:18 PM (cPGH3)

202 180 We should put the hot dog/sandwich question to a plebiscite. I suspicion that the majority of folks would agree that yes, indeed, a hot dog is a sandwich.

Posted by: Have You Ever Been Polled? at July 09, 2025 09:07 PM (G5+As)

Who has not cut a couple hot dogs in half and put them between two slices of bread, when hot dog buns are not on-hand? If your hot dog bun halves become separated, don't you have a classic sandwich construction? Is there any fundamental difference between those constructions and hot dogs in un-separated hot dog buns? Not to me. Hot dogs between bread-type stuff in any form are sammiches.

Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 09:19 PM (aBgBM)

203 What's wrong with you, Pennsylvania? First Jerry Sandusky, then the Butler assassination attempt, now this!
Posted by: Burt

17, I think.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 09:19 PM (HglHP)

204 I was just going to say that the WNBA must be reading out of the Dem's playbook. Do whatever it takes to piss off your base.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 09:03 PM (144I4)

There are some obvious parallels between the Democrat Party and the WNBA.

The nexus of excellence as embodied by Caitlin Clark and the long-standing WBNA ethos embodied by mostly angry lesbians.

Posted by: chavon at July 09, 2025 09:20 PM (r2ymA)

205 Yep. Heading up to ONT...I probably don't belong here...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:17 PM


* pats bench *

Come over here and sit by me. We can discuss what shenanigans the Clinton Foundation is thinking of trying since they have 'aid workers' here on the ground in Texas.

Or we could talk about yaks and sea otters.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:21 PM (0sNs1)

206 Got the car's six-month oil change (88,900 miles on the car, 4500 miles on the oil) done today. I'm hoping my drive to Indiana and back this fall will allow me to put some more miles on the oil before December. Here I drive less than 800 miles a month -- and the oil is supposedly good for 10K.

Even with modern synthetic oils, though, I just can't bring myself to change it only once a year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:22 PM (omVj0)

207 Or, if you prefer something philosophical, we could discuss The Collected Works of Wesley Crusher.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:23 PM (0sNs1)

208 17, I think.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2025 09:19 PM (HglHP)

Yeah, something like that.

Oh, and I forgot Budd Dwyer.

Be better, Pennsylvania.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 09:24 PM (IrYHD)

209 205

*burp*

I'll be right over🤪....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:24 PM (L9kkv)

210 Got the car's six-month oil change (88,900 miles on the car, 4500 miles on the oil) done today.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:22 PM


I hope you pulled over and took a picture of 80085 on the odometer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:25 PM (0sNs1)

211 My wife got a package of Korean "peanut flavored dried squid" and got it out to nosh on.

I tried a piece, and I think I have found the real-world equivalent of "caffeinated bacon"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 09:26 PM (D7oie)

212 Top Pic...

Damn... this aint a poppy!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 09:27 PM (mP0Kj)

213 Got the car's six-month oil change (88,900 miles on the car, 4500 miles on the oil) done today.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025
*
I hope you pulled over and took a picture of 80085 on the odometer.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025


***
Darn, didn't think of that! I did snap a pic of the Buick Park Avenue's milestone of 100,000, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:28 PM (omVj0)

214 Texas is up to 104 people.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 09:28 PM (zhBpy)

215 Love the rodent and flower picture!

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:29 PM (TwZXH)

216 207

Yikes. That just makes my head hurt...
Can't even.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:29 PM (L9kkv)

217 Consequences.

Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Six different Secret Service agents who were connected to the first ass*ssination attempt of Trump have been suspended.
"Their roles range from supervisory positions to line level agents."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 09:30 PM (L/fGl)

218 My wife got a package of Korean "peanut flavored dried squid" and got it out to nosh on.

I tried a piece, and I think I have found the real-world equivalent of "caffeinated bacon"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025


***
It must not be like the dried squid I used to buy my cat Chekov D. Siberian at the Asian market nearby. That stuff smelled to me like it had gangrene before it died.

Chekov loved it. His buddy Wolf wouldn't touch it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:30 PM (omVj0)

219 I have a 95 Civic with 563,000 miles on it. A 06 Accord with 334,000 miles on it and an 07 Pilot with 280,000 mile on it. I don't need 3 cars for myself but I am not going to give them away until they break.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 09, 2025 09:31 PM (ycs3a)

220 There's a US county named "Pasquotank." Who knew?

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:31 PM (TwZXH)

221 So I get ... that's a Prairie Dog ? And they dig those holes that your cattle can step in ?

I couldn't shoot one. Many enjoy shooting them. Hence the .17 round. But I couldn't.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:31 PM (RmOaB)

222 So I get ... that's a Prairie Dog ? And they dig those holes that your cattle can step in ?

I couldn't shoot one. Many enjoy shooting them. Hence the .17 round. But I couldn't.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025


***
When I lived in Aurora, CO, in 2000, there was an undeveloped field nearby that held a prairie dog town. They were cute fellows, popping up to take a look and to sit above ground in the evening sun. I discovered there is no way to get between a prairie dog and his hole. If you somehow did, he'd dive down another hole entirely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:34 PM (omVj0)

223 "I couldn't shoot one."

If he disrespected me, maybe. Depends if my homies were watching.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:34 PM (TwZXH)

224 214

I've been contemplating Texas as a place to move to. However, these days on the mountain....too hot. July, August....
8500 altitude.

I'm thinking maybe Idaho...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:35 PM (L9kkv)

225 Can't figure the underlying style for the guys of the era.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 08:13 PM (AcTAo)

Poofy hair and tight jeans.

Posted by: Reforger at July 09, 2025 09:36 PM (SJnNf)

226 I couldn't shoot one. Many enjoy shooting them. Hence the .17 round. But I couldn't.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

I probably couldn't either, but I'd like to.
Watch some of those vids. Calculating windage, range, and they're hitting very small targets at several hundred yards out.
Hell, I've become addicted to rat shooting vids. The scopes they use (with multi-thousand dollar air rifles) cost more than the truck I drive.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:36 PM (cPGH3)

227 "And they dig those holes that your cattle can step in ?"

Breed cattle with great big flat feet.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:36 PM (TwZXH)

228 It must not be like the dried squid I used to buy my cat Chekov D. Siberian at the Asian market nearby. That stuff smelled to me like it had gangrene before it died.

Chekov loved it. His buddy Wolf wouldn't touch it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 09:30 PM (omVj0)


The new cat loves dried squid. It smells like low tide to me, but when my wife has it out, he acts like he is Don Rickles and you owe him money. The other cats couldn't care the least about it.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

229 I'm also the cat that doesn't run over squirrels in the road. I won't cause an accident to miss them. But if there is an option ? I slow down and the tree rat lives another day.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:38 PM (RmOaB)

230 Breed cattle with great big flat feet.
Posted by: gp Stares At Sun

And that don't fart.
For de earf.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:38 PM (cPGH3)

231 229 Me too.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:39 PM (TwZXH)

232 Watch some of those vids. Calculating windage, range, and they're hitting very small targets at several hundred yards out.

Or you could put a paper plate up that far.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:39 PM (RmOaB)

233 Breed cattle with great big flat feet.
Posted by: gp Stares At Sun

You know, Peggy Hill feet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 09:40 PM (L/fGl)

234 Or we could talk about yaks and sea otters.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 09:21 PM (0sNs1
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Or ships or shoes or sealing wax...

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 09:40 PM (SW6Ju)

235 233 LOL

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:41 PM (TwZXH)

236 See youz upstairs...
I sooo love the Horde here.... 😉...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:41 PM (L9kkv)

237 OUT: Comey, Brennan Crossfire Hurricane

IN: Crossfire Hurricane2 . Comey ,Brennan and Pound me in the ass prison when auto pen pardons are not so good.

Posted by: JUDGE WALLY GATOR at July 09, 2025 09:41 PM (5yGIt)

238 I slow down and the tree rat lives another day.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

Okay...true confessions. First wife and I were on a country road. We saw a rabbit. I went into the harangue about how animals would move, and it was the driver trying to avoid the animal that killed most of them.
I drove straight at that rabbit.
Thump, thump

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:42 PM (cPGH3)

239 I've been contemplating Texas as a place to move to.

For me ? No. They're a very loud people. New York, with Pledge of Allegiance. A caricature of what everyone thinks about Texas.

I knew all I needed to know about Texas when most of the small-town Applebees stood up for the national anthem ... as played on TV. No thanks.

My opinion will be unpopular. That's fine. I'd side with Texas, just like I side with religion. But like both, a little bit goes a long, long way for me.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:44 PM (RmOaB)

240 That's why he was named Thumper, I guess.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:44 PM (TwZXH)

241 the hot dog is more finely adorned in simplicity. Mustard. Onions. Perhaps relish. No more is needed to bring out its humble virtues. More would be excessive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 08:59 PM (HZi96)


Whoa, whoa, whoa. The toppings war, begun they have.

Posted by: Yodog at July 09, 2025 09:45 PM (gKDq2)

242 241 Cheez Whiz FTW.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:46 PM (TwZXH)

243 241 Different brands like different toppings. You wouldn't dress a Dave Berg the same way you'd outfit a Vienna Beef.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:47 PM (TwZXH)

244 the hot dog is more finely adorned in simplicity. Mustard. Onions. Perhaps relish. No more is needed to bring out its humble virtues. More would be excessive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This man knows of what he speaks.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:47 PM (cPGH3)

245 I'm thinking maybe Idaho...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:35 PM (L9kkv
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None of my business, but I moved to Wyoming from a very greenstone a few years back and I love it. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 09:47 PM (A/QNE)

246 Who has not cut a couple hot dogs in half and put them between two slices of bread, when hot dog buns are not on-hand? If your hot dog bun halves become separated, don't you have a classic sandwich construction? Is there any fundamental difference between those constructions and hot dogs in un-separated hot dog buns? Not to me. Hot dogs between bread-type stuff in any form are sammiches.
Posted by: Gref


So a hot dog between two slices of bread is a sandwich.

And a hot dog nestled into a hinged bun is a sandwich.

How far around can the bread go before it stops being a sandwich? Is a corn dog a sandwich?

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:48 PM (DgGvY)

247
Okay...true confessions. First wife and I were on a country road. We saw a rabbit. I went into the harangue about how animals would move, and it was the driver trying to avoid the animal that killed most of them.
I drove straight at that rabbit.
Thump, thump
Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:42 PM (cPGH3)

So you took out the stupid one, thus saving the species. Shoulda earned you a beejer..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (bA75n)

248 Okay...true confessions. First wife and I were on a country road. We saw a rabbit. I went into the harangue about how animals would move, and it was the driver trying to avoid the animal that killed most of them.
I drove straight at that rabbit.
Thump, thump
Posted by: MkY


That one was too dumb to live. You've improved the gene pool.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (DgGvY)

249 Hot dog in a Klein Bottle baguette.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (TwZXH)

250 I'm thinking maybe Idaho...

Frankly ... you have to think an area that nobody else wants. Because if it's "hot" ? Then you end up with Atlanta. If it's "cool" ? You end up with Nashville.

There is no possible way to have anything good without the locusts from the Pacific Coast and North East coming down and ruining it.

The Ohio Valley at least has that going for it. No Yankees. No Californians.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (RmOaB)

251 This Horde Mind thing is kind of scary sometimes.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (DgGvY)

252 How far around can the bread go before it stops being a sandwich? Is a corn dog a sandwich?
Posted by: mikeski

Where's the bread?
Not a sammich!

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (cPGH3)

253 Uh oh the hotdog topping debates have begun. Better call in the ONT.

Posted by: H at July 09, 2025 09:51 PM (2gjbv)

254 Okay...true confessions. First wife and I were on a country road. We saw a rabbit. I went into the harangue about how animals would move, and it was the driver trying to avoid the animal that killed most of them.
I drove straight at that rabbit.
Thump, thump
Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:42 PM (cPGH3)

With gophers, the best way to miss them is to drive right at them. They usually run across the road, and not parallel to your line of travel. If you dodge left or right, the gopher is also going to dodge left or right, and you have a 50/50 chance of hitting it. If you drive right at it, and it dodges, your odds of a clean miss are much better.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 09:52 PM (e+kKL)

255 Cornbread isn't bread?

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:53 PM (DgGvY)

256 Well, I did my part.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:53 PM (cPGH3)

257 The Ohio Valley at least has that going for it. No Yankees. No Californians.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:50 PM (RmOaB)

Haiti's nice this time of year. And no Californians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 09:53 PM (e+kKL)

258 245

I'm just a bit south of Wyoming. I've spent many days/weeks there! It's a serious consideration....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:54 PM (L9kkv)

259 Hot dog in a Klein Bottle baguette.
Posted by: gp Stares At Sun


All the hot dogs in existence are in that baguette.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:54 PM (DgGvY)

260 251 Great minds think alike/Fools rarely differ...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 09, 2025 09:54 PM (bA75n)

261 When all you have to comment about is if Ketchup on a Hot Dog is a thing to argue about ?

And that is a real thing ... I've heard on local radio folks argue exactly that. Who fucking cares ? Wake me up when somebody forces me to put ketchup on my hot dog. Or denies me the right to do so.

It's my hot dog ... which I'd like to throw away. But if I'm starving ... I'd like to put ketchup on it. And don't care about erudite opinions at that point.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 09:54 PM (RmOaB)

262 259 Yup, best way to cheat in a hotdog eating contest.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at July 09, 2025 09:55 PM (TwZXH)

263 With gophers, the best way to miss them is to drive right at them. They usually run across the road, and not parallel to your line of travel. If you dodge left or right, the gopher is also going to dodge left or right, and you have a 50/50 chance of hitting it. If you drive right at it, and it dodges, your odds of a clean miss are much better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think you have fairly approximated my argument that evening, just before I killed Thumper.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:55 PM (cPGH3)

264 253 Uh oh the hotdog topping debates have begun. Better call in the ONT.

Posted by: H at July 09, 2025 09:51 PM
***
You rang?

Posted by: TRex - ONT warming up at July 09, 2025 09:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

265 I think you have fairly approximated my argument that evening, just before I killed Thumper.
Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:55 PM (cPGH3)

Well, you get the odd one that just freezes on the spot. Owls and hawks get those guys too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2025 09:56 PM (e+kKL)

266 250

Yeah. This, this is something to consider. I just don't want to have a bunch of lefties around me....😒

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:57 PM (L9kkv)

267 You rang?
Posted by: TRex

We gonna talk hot dogs, or is this something new... exciting; cutting edge; adventuresome.?
Cause I've got laundry to do...

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 09:57 PM (cPGH3)

268 Well, you get the odd one that just freezes on the spot. Owls and hawks get those guys too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Is that why roads are full of dead opossums?

"Aaaaah! A car! Play dead!"

Squoosh.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:58 PM (DgGvY)

269 You guys are making Jonah Goldberg proud right now.

How do you feel about that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 09:58 PM (zZu0s)

270 258 - no state income tax, no traffic (except those darn Coloradans!), I'm 90 minutes from DIA, and did I mention no traffic?

I live just north of the capitol in Cheyenne. My property taxes when I bought the place were about $1,700 per year. They just dropped them to about $1,200 per year. Everything seems to go in the right direction here.

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 09:58 PM (2v2r4)

271 Hot dog wrapped in a tortilla — Perro Caliente

Posted by: mindful webworker - that settles it... or does it? at July 09, 2025 09:58 PM (JYGoS)

272 Annd...heading up...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 09, 2025 09:59 PM (L9kkv)

273 I still have the ceiling drip in my living room. Fortunately -- miraculously -- it happened right over a bucket I had left there from the last leak, which happened in a different spot. Of course I called what is laughingly labeled "maintenance," and they said they would put in a work ticket. No appearance by anybody today. I'll call again tomorrow, and the day after that if I have to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (omVj0)

274 Cornbread isn't bread?
Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 09:53 PM (DgGvY)


I am not sure, are we talking about actual cornbread, or "johnnycake"?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 10:00 PM (D7oie)

275 Noodus ONT

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 10:01 PM (omVj0)

276 Squoosh.
Posted by: mikeski

True story, cause i'm not a good liar...
Week after the great rabbit debacle, we were leaving my folk's house after dark. There was an owl feeding on some dead critter in the road.
I adopted the now suspect tactic... and killed an owl.
Only times that's ever happened for me.
I lost a lot of credibility with that wife.

Posted by: MkY at July 09, 2025 10:02 PM (cPGH3)

277 Yeah. This, this is something to consider. I just don't want to have a bunch of lefties around me....

Its not just "leftie" ... its priority.

Why do folks you like, you think, not leave New Jersey or Boston or such here ? And trust me - many of the loud voices on this board are from Jersey.

Would you want them around you ? Do you think they'd be less pushy from your side of the fence ?

They would not. Because that is their priority. That is how they live.

Now consider all the places they WOULD leave for. Avoid those.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 10:04 PM (RmOaB)

Quick Hits

Remember when ABC's gay Ken doll David Muir reported from the NC floods wearing a fake fireman's jacket with clothespins pulling in the waist so that he looked cute on TV?

Well now he's in Texas, with a cinched-in tight t-shirt.

The reveal here is that Mark Halperin thought he was "already out," but Megyn Kelly says no, that's just the widespread belief. I guess it's a don't-ask-don't-tell situation.

Are there any straight male proggies? Any at all?

The Wisconsin judge who aided and abetted a fugitive from the law asked to have her case dismissed.

The magistrate in her criminal trial refused.

The magistrate makes rulings which are passed on to the actual judge. The judge can sign these orders or reject them.

Dugan filed a motion in May to dismiss the charges against her, saying she was acting in her official capacity as a judge and therefore is immune to prosecution. She argued that the federal government violated Wisconsin's sovereignty by disrupting a state courtroom and prosecuting a state judge.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph on Monday recommended against dropping the charges. The ultimate decision is up to U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, who can accept the other judge's recommendation or reject it.

What they're saying:

"We are disappointed in the magistrate judge’s non-binding recommendation, and we will appeal it," Dugan attorney Steven Biskupic, a former federal prosecutor, said in a statement. "This is only one step in what we expect will be a long journey to preserve the independence and integrity of our courts."

Judges simply declaring that the law doesn't apply to them is the left's way of "fighting fascism."

In one of the most fascist acts of the Obama-Biden junta, the DOJ prosecuted a twitter-user for posting the old joke that you should rush to the polls on Wednesday (that is, the day after the election). The Obama-Biden junta, fanatically devoted to criminalizing all right-wing speech, prosecuted this poor guy and got him sentenced to seven months in federal prison for, alleging, conspiring to defraud people of their right to vote.

That insane conviction has now been tossed.

In 2023, Mackey was convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison for a meme he made about the 2016 election. His graphic, obviously a parody, indicated that people could vote for Hillary Clinton via text. Clinton herself hilariously tried to blame her loss on Mackey, instead of recognizing the fact that American voters simply hate her.

But today, we received great news from Mackey himself. The U.S. Second Court of Appeals has overturned his conviction and instructed the lower court to dismiss all charges against him.

Douglass Mackey
@DougMackeyCase

BREAKING: THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS THROWN OUT MY CONVICTION FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE

THE CASE HAS BEEN REMANDED TO THE DISTRICT COURT WITH ORDERS TO IMMEDIATELY DISMISS

HALLELUJAH!


How did it ever get to this?

And what kind of punishments are needed for the people who did this?

InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022

Do you support or oppose deporting those illegally in the United States back to their country of origin?

Support: 61%
Oppose: 35%


* White: 65-31
* Black: 53-37
* Hispanic: 50-48

* Dem: 26-68
* GOP: 94-4
* Indie: 59-37

@cygnal
(A) 7/1-2 1,500 LV

Pretty much the same story every week: CNN and MSNBC's ratings fall again.

MSNBC and CNN suffered staggering losses in viewership over the past year -- while Donald Trump's ascendancy supercharged Fox News in the cable news ratings war.

The left-leaning networks -- which will both be spun off by their respective parent companies -- suffered year-over-year declines in all major metrics for the second quarter compared to the same period last year, according to the latest Nielsen data, which was reported by AdWeek.

Comcast-owned MSNBC, with its rabid anti-Trump lineup of anchors, drew an average 1.008 million primetime viewers from April to June, a year-over-year decline of 15%, Nielsen figures show.

In the the advertiser-covered 25-to-54 demographic, primetime viewership plunged 20%, to 91,000 compared to last year -- despite star anchor Rachel Maddow returning to full-time duty during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

...

The exodus of eyeballs was even worse during the day, with total viewership plummeting 26%, to an average of 596,000, and 31%, to 57,000, in the key demo compared to the same quarter last year.


CNN, which has languished in last place despite paying anchor Anderson Cooper a reported $18 million in salary, averaged 538,000 total viewers in primetime for the three-month period and 105,000 in the demo, according to Nielsen

Year-over-year, the network saw declines of 13% in total viewers in primetime and a 15% drop in the 25-54 demo.


The two racist, batshit-crazy black women fired by MSNBC -- Tiffany Cross and Joy Reid -- now have contracts at CNN, because they're so moderate and centrist.

Cringe pussy Alex Padilla demands a law to unmask ICE agents so that his antifa allies can assassinate them.

Sydney Watson believes that the long, depressing era in which people and corporations compete to out-ugly each other is finally over.

Counterpoint:

Posted by: Ace at 06:25 PM




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1 st

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:24 PM (TN0g+)

2 nd

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:24 PM (TN0g+)

3 Prima Moronus

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 09, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

4 The Wisconsin judge who aided and abetted a fugitive from the law asked to have her case dismissed.

The magistrate in her criminal trial refused.

==

very amusing!

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM (g47mK)

5 Fortuna caeca est.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM (CA7Od)

6 Katrina made Shep Smith.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM (jgmnb)

7 being "first" is not all that..unless I do it!

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM (g47mK)

8 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 06:30 PM (Wnv9h)

9 Its amazing to me that the msm makes *zero* effort to appeal to the hetero male portion of the (potential, if not actual) viewing audience. Like NO EFFORT at all, none, zilch.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:30 PM (TN0g+)

10 Meh.

Posted by: Accomack at July 09, 2025 06:30 PM (+Bkka)

11 It's really astounding that CNN now really has no business plan whatsoever - they're just flailing around, wondering how long their backers are going to keep them going.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (uWKK8)

12 Does Mackey have any recourse against his wrongful conviction?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (HFcKg)

13 Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM

Shep made himself an asshoe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Wnv9h)

14 The two racist, batshit-crazy black women fired by MSNBC -- Tiffany Cross and Joy Reid -- now have contracts at CNN, because they're so moderate and centrist.
==

Notoriety. Think Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (g47mK)

15 Star Wars is dead, ace so, no idea why you included a picture of Jabba the Hut.

..oh, that's Lena Dunham? Never mind....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (tT6L1)

16 “We live in a culture that is so deeply fatphobic, misogynistic, racist, ageist.”

NO, You're fat because you don't care about yourself, Don't add me to your victimhood.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (hpmMD)

17 You think the go fund me stabber can’t be found not guilty? Well they just found the kid who stabbed the lacrosse player to death in a fight at a house party not guilty. The dead guy was a white boy . The stabber was Raul Valle. It was in Connecticut so who knows.



Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (VofaG)

18 > Well now he's in Texas, with a cinched-in tight t-shirt.

Bro, you're supposed to use photoshop to make your hips and waist look small.

http://tiny.cc/rq0p001

Posted by: Hakeem Photoshop Guru Jeffries at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (lIio7)

19 I might agree with Lena Dunham about the ageist part, if I'm being honest.

The rest is batshit crazy when the person saying it has been rewarded far in excess of her talent and ability.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (KC0zd)

20 Yesterday it was 95 and sunny, acceptable humidity. Today was 83, cloudy and awful humidity. I did have enough sense to bring a change of clothes to work.

Posted by: Accomack at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (+Bkka)

21 Star Wars is dead,

==

no

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:33 PM (g47mK)

22 Its amazing to me that the msm makes *zero* effort to appeal to the hetero male portion of the (potential, if not actual) viewing audience. Like NO EFFORT at all, none, zilch.
Posted by: Crusader

That's because they don't exist.

XOXO
MSM

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 09, 2025 06:33 PM (JkCto)

23 I can't do more than 7 seconds of batshit crazy CNN bish.

The last guy who rode Lena Dunham at Cowtown hit the bell and lasted longer than me.

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:33 PM (1l+t9)

24 Willowed : Lena Dunham is looking facially and physically like a Vogon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 06:33 PM (JtH6i)

25 Let's do Democrat math on the ratings slump.

13% of 100 viewers is only 13 viewers. Whereas 13% of 100,000 viewers is 13,000.

So, in essence, CNN and MSNBC have slowed the decline!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:34 PM (tT6L1)

26 Does Mackey have any recourse against his wrongful conviction?
Posted by: Ben Had

Every sane American knew the entre case was BS.
But maybe '...under color of law'?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 06:34 PM (hpmMD)

27 Shep made himself an asshoe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Wnv9h)

That's Captain Shep! of the USS Faux News

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 09, 2025 06:34 PM (/6GbT)

28 I'm not afraid of fat bishes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (zhBpy)

29 I might agree with Lena Dunham about the ageist part, if I'm being honest.

The rest is batshit crazy when the person saying it has been rewarded far in excess of her talent and ability.
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Pretending for a moment that any of us cared, what would the highlight of Lena's career be? I really believe I've never watched even 60 seconds of her anywhere at anytime.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

30 Since I am a moron who doesn't know anything, I get my understanding of the American justice / correctional system from Orange is the New Black.
Mackey was sentenced but didn't get to the "surrender" phase where he actually checks in at the joint and receives his orange suit and a number. The sentence was thrown out before he did time. Lucky for him.
I feel like the judge who came up with this bullshit verdict needs to go before a criminal court himself for attempted kidnapping. Maybe attempted murder, given the certain target Mackey would have worn over his seven months.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (1qbhR)

31 Lena, you're right. I would call you a fucking no impulse control loser with mental illness thrown in.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (HFcKg)

32 Did the memer actually serve time? (I can't recall) How would he get it back? Doesn't matter if it was bs, they got the job done. He can never be made whole unless the perps are thrown in jail themselves. Which, of course, will never happen.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 06:36 PM (0eaVi)

33 That poll on deportation indicates Dems are terrified by the thought of mowing their own lawns, maintaining their own swimming pools, or doing any household maintenance.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 09, 2025 06:36 PM (ZB9dX)

34 As I don't watch tv, I don't know this dude in the black tee shirt. But it does seem ghey to me. So that is my vote. He is gay. Who cares if he has biceps in the middle of a tragedy? Who is this audience who has a biceps fetish?

It is my fault for bringing up Lena below, isn't it, Ace? You are punishing me. I have a Lena problem. I guess this makes me Lenagistic. It's not your fat, Lena. It's your entire personality of whining like a cranky Gatling Gun with diarrhea.

On the other hand, I'd rather slap my butt with honey and sit in a fire ant bed that listen to Pissaki, that beetch. At one point I had hope she'd fade away.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I think I hate her!

I guess I should be thankful that Benghazi liar, black pearl Rice does not have a show. Or maybe she does, but in my bubble I don't know!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:36 PM (6PCLE)

35
Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero


What's he doing these days?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

36
http://tiny.cc/rq0p001
Posted by: Hakeem Photoshop Guru Jeffries

I guess he thought we'd think his hard body bent the rails. Nope!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (hpmMD)

37 Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition.

Nothing to do with breaking da law. She dindu nuffin'. Just like all those folks attacking police and setting fires to buildings; totes peaceful.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)

38 35
Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero

What's he doing these days?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

Still Sucking Dick

Posted by: Energizer Bunny at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (1l+t9)

39 35
Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero

What's he doing these days?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

Working at the local gloryhole?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (ynpvh)

40 The really egregious aspect of the Hillary oblivious meme case and conviction is that bitch actually facilitated a false dossier present as true to effect the vote and subsequently the voter’s choice.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (VofaG)

41
I never knew who Lena Dumbass was until I saw ya'll talking about here, thank goodness.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (3ek7K)

42 Pretending for a moment that any of us cared, what would the highlight of Lena's career be? I really believe I've never watched even 60 seconds of her anywhere at anytime.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

Exactly. Nothing she did made enough of an impression that we could name any of it, let alone remember.

And yet she has a platform.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (KC0zd)

43 Lena Dunham has been seeing top dollar NYC Psychiatrists since she was three years old. Behold the end result of decades of therapy!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (lIio7)

44 Fatphobic AND Misogynistic?

You mean... guys don't like Fat Chicks?

Who woulda thunk it!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (mP0Kj)

45 They're raping everyone in there. Astrodome.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (zhBpy)

46 Sen Jose Padilla pushes his bill that would BAN ICE agents from wearing masks

With a name like Padilla, I'm sure he knows why cops wear masks in Mexico...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh)

47
What's he doing these days?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

$20 bucks under the overpass

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 06:39 PM (hpmMD)

48 It’s not part of her judicial duties to break the law and harbor a federally wanted man.

Stupid bint.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)

49 39 35
Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero

What's he doing these days?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

Working at the local gloryhole?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (ynpvh)

DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON SHEP AND GERALDO!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:40 PM (6PCLE)

50
Lena Dunham? Isn't she that singing lady in the Jardience commercial?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:40 PM (HZi96)

51 Lena Dunham complains about living in a �fatphobic� society.

Holy Massive Whale, Ismael! She's even BIGGER than before.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (ynpvh)

52 Put your drink down before you watch this.

You have been warned....

https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (1l+t9)

53 I think CBD's been in France for too long. French women are not that attractive...so , now he is under the impression that Owens is attractive! My goodness, Admiral Ackbar's sister ? come on! she ugly-ish.

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (g47mK)

54 DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON SHEP AND GERALDO!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat


I'm sure we can already read that on Archive Of Our Own somewhere anyway.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (1qbhR)

55 DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON SHEP AND GERALDO!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:40 PM (6PCLE)

Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera: great newsmen of our time? Discuss.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (0eaVi)

56 ICE is arguably fighting an insurgency aided and abetted by the likes of Padilla.

I'll not say more, for fear of aggravating ace.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

57 50
Lena Dunham? Isn't she that singing lady in the Jardience commercial?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:40 PM (HZi96)

If so, that commercial takes place on planet Lena.
Jabba has found his soulmate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (ynpvh)

58
Holy Massive Whale, Ismael! She's even BIGGER than before.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (ynpvh)

___________

Now a Jabba-class landwhale.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (HZi96)

59 Pretending for a moment that any of us cared, what would the highlight of Lena's career be? I really believe I've never watched even 60 seconds of her anywhere at anytime.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
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"Girls" on HBO. It was a negative look at the singles scene, sort of a rebuttal to "Sex and the City."

She was naked a lot. No one wanted to see it. There were other better-looking girls (a low bar to be sure) and I think Matt Lauer's daughter did nude scenes and stuff.

I know this only because we had HBO for "Game of Thrones" so I would see the promos for it. She was lauded as the voice of the youths, but then began posting photos of her taking a dump on social media, admitted to molesting her younger sister and obviously has eaten a small village.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

60 Obvious not Oblivious stupid autocorrect. Oblivious doesn’t make any sense . What good are you.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (VofaG)

61 On Dugan? A Judge is NOT A JUDGE once their ass is off the bench.

It's what is known as Positional Authority... and you only exercise it when working WITHIN that Position... ie doing the Job.

She tried to aid and abet an illegal to escape, not through her Job, but by interfering with law enforcement OUTSIDE her job... even if within the same building.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)

62 Lena being that fat means she won't have to live in a fatphobic society very long

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (JtH6i)

63 christyblinky, you would deny us one of your rants? This is completely unfair.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (tT6L1)

64 Sounds like Lena Dunham can't find a job....

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (D1vbu)

65 Judge Dugan needs to lose a few pounds. Prison life will be good for her.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (/U5Yz)

66 Not even sure what the judge's argument is - she's on tape, interfering with officers trying to make an arrest, outside her courtroom. The whole thing is cut and dried.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (D1vbu)

67 Now a Jabba-class landwhale.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (HZi96)
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Doesn't she have an uncredited cameo as an aquatic dinosaur in the new Jurassic World movie?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (ZOv7s)

68 https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (1l+t9)

That was hideous but I don't think it was Greta Thundermug.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (6PCLE)

69 ICE needs to wear Famine Napkin Masks to protect the Illegal Aliens from getting COVID ............ DUH !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (BltCC)

70 And then Lena's sister came out as gay.
bUt SaMe SeX aTtrAcTiOn iS bOrN tHis WaY

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (1qbhR)

71
Sounds like Lena Dunham can't find a job....
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (D1vbu)

__________

"Please see my agent for my further insights. Also any roles that might be around. Completely not picky."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (HZi96)

72 'Wakanda' inspired city in Africa, which was going to become the real-life version of the city from Black Panther, has officially been scrapped.

Phase one of the $6B futuristic 'Akon city' was set to open in 2026; however, only a single building was made.
@CollinRugg

Another Hollywood inspired success story.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (/U5Yz)

73 We are not fat-phobic.

We are Christian and we hate the sin of gluttony.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ZmEVT)

74 Not even sure what the judge's argument is - she's on tape, interfering with officers trying to make an arrest, outside her courtroom. The whole thing is cut and dried.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (D1vbu)
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During office hours, judges can do lines of cocaine, traffic children and pop caps into people they don't like. It's in the Constitution somewhere. The Judge Dredd clause.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

75 > Are there any straight male proggies? Any at all?


Well, some of them are pedophiles, necrophiles, zoophiles, and so on, but I don't think that actually counts as "straight".

Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (qpyNK)

76 Lena Dunham - maybe the world isn't full of misogynist, racist, fat phobic, etc.

Maybe you're just a fat, lazy, untalented and unpleasant slob? Maybe it was close to a miracle you ever got any job in which talent was a factor?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (D1vbu)

77 Lena Dunham complains about living in a “fatphobic” society.
“We live in a culture that is so deeply fatphobic, misogynistic, racist, ageist.”

-
Let's not forget baboon ugly phobia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (L/fGl)

78 Dugan's arguments have the weight of a popcorn fart in a tornado. Enjoy jail you stupid scrunt.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

79 I was on a plane when Lena Dunham was on it. No way could she have gone through the door. I think they built the plane around her.

"WD, you'll be sitting next to her."

"Dude, everyone on the PLANE is sitting next to her."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (KC0zd)

80 Phase one of the $6B futuristic 'Akon city' was set to open in 2026; however, only a single building was made.
@CollinRugg


the African god "Wawa" wins again

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 06:47 PM (1qbhR)

81 77 Lena Dunham complains about living in a “fatphobic” society.
“We live in a culture that is so deeply fatphobic, misogynistic, racist, ageist.”

-
Let's not forget baboon ugly phobia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (L/fGl)

Cacophobia

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)

82 That poll on deportation indicates Dems are terrified by the thought of mowing their own lawns, maintaining their own swimming pools, or doing any household maintenance.

Honestly, I doubt they even do that much thinking about it. Just "if Trump is fer it, I'm agin' it."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 09, 2025 06:47 PM (/y8xj)

83 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:44 PM (6PCLE)

I agree with you. The head was too round and it didn't really look like her face.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 06:48 PM (2GCMq)

84 I don't think I had heard of Lena or paid attention til Ace mentioned her years ago. I could have spent my entire life never knowing of her sorry self.

To be brief, I apparently dislike everyone. Or almost everyone, excluding my husband and family. Or neighbors and a few friends. President Trump and Company. And some Moron's and 'ette's and Ace.

That's it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:48 PM (6PCLE)

85 During office hours, judges can do lines of cocaine, traffic children and pop caps into people they don't like. It's in the Constitution somewhere. The Judge Dredd clause.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

I AM the LAW!

Except instead of Sylvester Stallone and his Lawgiver pistol, it is Judge Dugan with a squirt gun.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:48 PM (D1vbu)

86 Are there any straight male proggies? Any at all?

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 06:49 PM (2GCMq)

87 "Hispanic: 50-48"

I imagine a number of these are those who came here and got citizenship the hard way, i.e. legally, and deeply resent these line-cutters.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2025 06:49 PM (CwhoI)

88 52 Put your drink down before you watch this.

You have been warned....

https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (1l+t9)

Even with the warning, why would you subject us to that.

What was she trying to do?

The appellation of Doom Goblin doesn't begin to describe her in this video.

That's Ackbarish to the 10th power ...

Posted by: browndog hackles up at July 09, 2025 06:50 PM (TTAGa)

89 Well, some of them are pedophiles, necrophiles, zoophiles, and so on, but I don't think that actually counts as "straight".

Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (qpyNK)
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So here's a forgotten mystery click for Ace: apparently the University of Michigan has decided that the song it plays between the 3rd and 4th quarters is "Mr. Brightside."

A song about a guy being cheated on. Whole stadium singing about being cucked. Can't make it up.

At least when the Welsh adopted a song about being cheated on, they got revenge. ("Delilah" for those not of the Boyo persuasion.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:51 PM (ZOv7s)

90 Sen Jose Padilla pushes his bill that would BAN ICE agents from wearing masks...

---------

Jose has put on a lot of weight compared to when he was a utility infielder with the San Francisco farm system.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:51 PM (TN0g+)

91 Lena Dunham complains about living in a “fatphobic” society.

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One word of advice, Lena: Ozempic.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 06:52 PM (unUNN)

92 These proggie judges make El Mariachi, Attorney at Law start to think he's got a shot at a seat on the high court....

I mean, I just play a lawyer here, but for fuck's sake, I know not to interfere with a valid arrest warrant. or to shut the fuck up in court when I don't know what is going on.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:52 PM (D1vbu)

93 Katrina made Shep Smith.
Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM

Shep made himself an asshoe.

*****

Shep's asshoe made Shep.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 09, 2025 06:52 PM (GYt5+)

94 Speaking of baboons . . .

Townhall.com@townhallcom
NEW — John Brennan says he's "clueless" about what he's being investigated for.
"The people who actually work this...the ones who put together the intelligence community assessment...showed the best of what the intelligence community and what CIA is made of!"
"I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for."

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I'm pretty sure it's the lies, perjury, and treason.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 06:52 PM (L/fGl)

95 David Muir is a fag who likes have hairy balls bounced off of his tonsils. Repeatedly. I should know.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+)

96 Are there any straight male proggies? Any at all?

Yes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 06:49 PM (2GCMq)
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But they're all at least 65. Any younger than that and they're perverts.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)

97 Lena Dunham rapes kids.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (6Y7N9)

98 52 Put your drink down before you watch this.

You have been warned....

https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg


Welp,iIt looks like her father got her pregnant again. You know Greta, some woman workout right through to delivery. You're letting yourself go girl.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (/U5Yz)

99 Long fingernails to scratch her dirty head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (ncgY2)

100
Phase one of the $6B futuristic 'Akon city' was set to open in 2026; however, only a single building was made.

==============

Only $6B?

snort

Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 06:53 PM (UmB+t)

101 The whole "Hot Fuss" album is the Cure album we should have got instead of "The Top".

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 06:54 PM (1qbhR)

102 Lena Dunham - seriously it's fucking Hollywood, fatty. There are 10,000 gorgeous women who want your slot.

Get on the tread mill with the rest of us or shut the fuck up.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:54 PM (D1vbu)

103 Cringe pussy Alex Padilla demands a law to unmask ICE agents so that his antifa allies can assassinate them.

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

OK but no masks for anyone else especially Antifa. Anyone caught wearing a mask directly to jail.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 06:54 PM (unUNN)

104 Lena appears a bit more "plush" than I recall

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 06:54 PM (8uzBS)

105 Wow, I had no idea how far Lena had let herself go.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 09, 2025 06:55 PM (RZ2SK)

106 52 Put your drink down before you watch this.

You have been warned....

https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg

Her face looks like a pumpkin that got smashed against a window.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 06:55 PM (KC0zd)

107 "Every sane American knew the entre case was BS.
But maybe '...under color of law'?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 06:34 PM (hpmMD)"

there are 100s of thousands, if not millions of demonrat scum who should be in the slammer for "deprivation of civil rights under color of law".

jus' sayin' ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 06:55 PM (dKEEs)

108 At this point, I just feel bad for Lena Dunham. She clearly has some kind of mental disorder. She is unrecognizable.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 06:56 PM (uCjyK)

109 That's not really Greta in that dancing video.

I condemn myself.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 06:56 PM (6Y7N9)

110 Rat dere witcha' Christy Blinky, rat dere witcha' !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (dKEEs)

111 The Obama-Biden junta, fanatically devoted to criminalizing all right-wing speech, prosecuted this poor guy and got him sentenced to seven months in federal prison for, alleging, conspiring to defraud people of their right to vote.
_____________________________

The addendum to that matter is that at the same time they were pursuing their case against Mackey, they were ignoring leftists who did the exact same thing at the exact same time...AND did so again in the midterm election after that.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (dIske)

112 Put your drink down before you watch this.

Greta getting plush as well. yeesh

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (8uzBS)

113 "We live in a culture that is so deeply fatphobic, misogynistic, racist, ageist.”

She's reached stage 3 of AWFL.
Stage 4: The Getting of Cats.
Stage 5: Wicca forever!

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (CwhoI)

114 Lena appears a bit more "plush" than I recall
Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 06:54 PM (8uzBS)
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She's experiencing a "Shadow Over Innsmouth transition. She'll be returning to the sea by spring.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (ZOv7s)

115 You "kidnap" minors; you "abduct" adults.

Any educated person knows that.

The prefix "kid" ought to at least tip you off.

If you were educated, that is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (T/tp/)

116 63 christyblinky, you would deny us one of your rants? This is completely unfair.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:43 PM (tT6L1)

No longer ranting in 2025, but I surely was in 2005 watching FOX. Here are the highlights:

Shep, French Quarter, near a puddle, whining (before the levee broke but the MS Coast of my childhood was gone)

Shep, Interstate 10 leading into NOLA: One dead man on the overpass. Shep shrieking about potential cannibals in the Super Dome. Food running out. Where is the gubment??? Well, the roads were blocked, nitiwit.

Geraldo: In front of the Civic's Center: one dead body in the freezer. Rape is in the air. A black dude walks behind him and Geraldo almost screams during his rape worries. Black grandma with a baby shows him a photo of a missing grandbaby. Geraldo grabs the toddler's face, makes baby cry, and screams, "This is the face of Katrina." Black grandmother looks at him as if to say, "You are one crazy dude."

I busted out laughing and recovered a bit, thanks to that lady and seeing his fear of being raped on tv and thrown into the freezer with the dead man (ok, my take). He was scared, I promise you that!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (6PCLE)

117 The Wisconsin judge who aided and abetted a fugitive from the law asked to have her case dismissed.

The magistrate in her criminal trial refused.

==

very amusing!
Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:29 PM (g47mK)

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

What was that protest about No Kings? Oh that's right, she is only a Queen, Marie Antoinette that is.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (unUNN)

118 Lena Dunham - maybe the world isn't full of misogynist, racist, fat phobic, etc.

Maybe you're just a fat, lazy, untalented and unpleasant slob? Maybe it was close to a miracle you ever got any job in which talent was a factor?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (D1vbu)

***

Nice summary El M.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (W/lyH)

119 106 52 Put your drink down before you watch this.

You have been warned....

https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg

Her face looks like a pumpkin that got smashed against a window.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 06:55 PM (KC0zd)

Why does it feel like I'm watchin the Local Homeless people?

Out: Village People
In: Homeless People

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)

120 The Obama-Biden junta, fanatically devoted to criminalizing all right-wing speech, prosecuted this poor guy and got him sentenced to seven months in federal prison for, alleging, conspiring to defraud people of their right to vote.
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The addendum to that matter is that at the same time they were pursuing their case against Mackey, they were ignoring leftists who did the exact same thing at the exact same time...AND did so again in the midterm election after that.
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We never had arrests/convictions at peaceful abortion protests before the Obama-Biden junta either. Once upon a time both parties had at least the veneer of respecting free speech and the law.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

121 114, lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 06:59 PM (dKEEs)

122 Those poll numbers + the existence and behavior of idiots like Padilla are big reasons my optimism for the country cannot rise above “guarded”, or even tepid.

OTOH, this nice Undercrown Maduro with some iced coffee on the back porch on yet another perfect summer day are fantastic.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 06:59 PM (tmGxn)

123 52 Put your drink down before you watch this.
You have been warned....
https://tinyurl.com/mryk9b9u
Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:41 PM (1l+t9)

They look like dirty Euro alkies who most likely live in the woods where they drink, ass fuck and smoke whatever they can get their hands on.

Posted by: Gopnik at July 09, 2025 06:59 PM (R/m4+)

124 Andddd.... isn't Dugan a STATE Judge?

How does that get her immunity from FEDERAL Law?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 07:00 PM (mP0Kj)

125 73 We are not fat-phobic.

We are Christian and we hate the sin of gluttony.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ZmEVT)

As with other supposed "phobias," I am not fat-phobic. Simply averse. I don't like my own fat, either. I ain't scared of it, just don't like it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 09, 2025 07:00 PM (h7ZuX)

126 I still believe there is a picture of John Brennan, skinny and with long hair traipsing around in Iran circa 1975

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 07:00 PM (8uzBS)

127 What's with the "who me?" shit these Dems pull?

We literally have his testimony where he says one thing under oath, and his e-mails that say the opposite thing. We also have his actions, which match his e-mails, and his statements under oath, that don't match his actions or his e-mails.

I mean, his statements were clear as a bell. Absolutely assured - we are definitely not doing this thing which we are totally doing. I'd buy "well, it was the campaign season, maybe I shaded the truth...blah blah blah." but this "who me? bullshit is annoying as hell and makes me want to throw the book at the guy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 07:01 PM (D1vbu)

128 During the evening of the 2016 presidential election, close to midnight when it finally began to sink in to the panelists on ABC that Trump was going to win, their reactions were very revealing.

At that point, David Muir offered this bit of consolation to the stunned group: a recent poll showed that Trump voters were *less educated* than those who voted for Clinton.

That's when I first saw Muir drop the "unbiased
anchorman" mask.

Posted by: Just reporting at July 09, 2025 07:01 PM (9rmwg)

129 Did the memer actually serve time? (I can't recall) How would he get it back? Doesn't matter if it was bs, they got the job done. He can never be made whole unless the perps are thrown in jail themselves. Which, of course, will never happen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 06:36 PM (0eaVi)

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He should be invited to the White House and so should the guy who put the CNN head on a wrestler's body meme.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (unUNN)

130 Laura Dunham has a phobia:

Of a big, fat veiny dick.

It's girth frightens her.

She copes by speed eating Twinkies dipped in Bosco.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (T/tp/)

131 We never had arrests/convictions at peaceful abortion protests before the Obama-Biden junta either. Once upon a time both parties had at least the veneer of respecting free speech and the law.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)
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They were following the Second Spanish Republic playbook - overtly unjust administration of the law with a view to provoking a rebellion so that they could crush it and proceed with their goal of revolution.

They failed because the US has a more robust democracy than 1936 Spain and because they were pretty damn incompetent. This is a growing problem with them. They send a hit team against ICE with a 10-3 superiority and the element and still fail. Even worse, they surrendered en masse. Pathetic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

132 I know this only because we had HBO for "Game of Thrones" so I would see the promos for it. She was lauded as the voice of the youths, but then began posting photos of her taking a dump on social media, admitted to molesting her younger sister and obviously has eaten a small village.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

And this is why my home has been cable-free since 2007. Even content I would enjoy gets interrupted by vile, disgusting, often loud commercials and promos sporting the very things I struggled mightily to keep from Little's impressionable eyes and ears.

The other night I was taking in a Dodgers game at my neighbor's garage, and every commercial break featured an ad for some Alzheimer's medication. The elder couple happened to be two guys. But wait, there's more! Extra woke points were scored by making them interracial! Every. Damn. Commercial break....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (IY+he)

133 LA hospital staff called 911 to report a kidnapping when ICE agents tried to apprehend an illegal. They also obstructed the agents by locking a door and appear to lay hands on the agents at one point.

http://tiny.cc/3s0p001



Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 07:03 PM (lIio7)

134 "Put your drink down before you watch this.
You have been warned...."

yeah, probably NOT Greta, but still funny, because it Could Be Greta in three years. (and that woman probably has better moves than Greta).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 07:04 PM (vbXSk)

135 And this is why my home has been cable-free since 2007. Even content I would enjoy gets interrupted by vile, disgusting, often loud commercials and promos sporting the very things I struggled mightily to keep from Little's impressionable eyes and ears.

The other night I was taking in a Dodgers game at my neighbor's garage, and every commercial break featured an ad for some Alzheimer's medication. The elder couple happened to be two guys. But wait, there's more! Extra woke points were scored by making them interracial! Every. Damn. Commercial break....
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Yep, saw some commercial the other night that included a brief cutaway to a "folks in a theatre" shot that of course included two gay guys, one with his arm around the other.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (TN0g+)

136 They failed because the US has a more robust democracy than 1936 Spain and because they were pretty damn incompetent. This is a growing problem with them. They send a hit team against ICE with a 10-3 superiority and the element and still fail. Even worse, they surrendered en masse. Pathetic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

They might want to think about the wisdom of recruiting LARPing tranny's as your footsoldiers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uWKK8)

137 133 LA hospital staff called 911 to report a kidnapping when ICE agents tried to apprehend an illegal. They also obstructed the agents by locking a door and appear to lay hands on the agents at one point.

http://tiny.cc/3s0p001



Posted by: bonhomme


I saw that. The scrubs should have been tazed to within an inch of their miserable lives and arrested for assault and obstruction. Get serious DHS.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (/U5Yz)

138 And this is why my home has been cable-free since 2007. Even content I would enjoy gets interrupted by vile, disgusting, often loud commercials and promos sporting the very things I struggled mightily to keep from Little's impressionable eyes and ears.


Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (IY+he)
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We got rid of HBO when the show ended. We had cable and a dish at various times. Now we have internet so can stream but mostly I watch DVDs. In the fall I hook up an actual antenna to watch college football.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

139 > his fear of being raped on tv and thrown into the freezer with the dead man

Geraldo would VOLUNTEER to be raped and thrown in a freezer with a dead man, if he thought it would garner a few ratings points.

Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 07:06 PM (qpyNK)

140 a brief cutaway to a "folks in a theatre" shot that of course included two gay guys, one with his arm around the other.

Oh come on, it was just garrett and ace enjoying some kino

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 07:07 PM (1qbhR)

141 Lena Dunham owes us all an apology for displaying herself nude in various projects. None of us searched them out, and likely, like myself, never saw the fruits of her labor.

But, the fact remains, it's out there somewhere...waiting, planning, sneaking, and I for one am terrified.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)

142 yeah, probably NOT Greta, but still funny, because it Could Be Greta in three years. (and that woman probably has better moves than Greta).
Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 07:04 PM (vbXSk)

now I understand why Europe's native population is falling so dramatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:07 PM (uWKK8)

143 They might want to think about the wisdom of recruiting LARPing tranny's as your footsoldiers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uWKK
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I've been saying this since Antifa first popped up. These are not the ACTUAL Antifa that fought in Spain. Those were hard men who drank cold coffee and slept on the ground. They were Communists, but they were tough. One cannot read about what the International Brigades went through in Spain without a certain admiration for the dedication and willingness to fight and die.

These pussies wet themselves when they think they will go to jail. Of the attackers 6 were female and two more "men" also identified as women. Those freaks would have been lined up and shot by NKVD as freaks and counterrevolutionaries back in the day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

144 The other night I was taking in a Dodgers game at my neighbor's garage, and every commercial break featured an ad for some Alzheimer's medication.

was it the 18-1 squeaker the Astros put put on 'em?

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 07:08 PM (8uzBS)

145 Lena Dunham owes us all an apology for displaying herself nude in various projects. None of us searched them out, and likely, like myself, never saw the fruits of her labor.

But, the fact remains, it's out there somewhere...waiting, planning, sneaking, and I for one am terrified.
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Hey, I already knew better than clicking on any of Ackbar's links, but thanks for the reminder!

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (TN0g+)

146 I went to the Dallas Aquarium recently and I was shocked when I wondered if I was seeing Lena Dunham naked in front of me. To my great relief, it was just a manatee.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (uWKK8)

147 a brief cutaway to a "folks in a theatre"

Hey knock it off with the theater jokes.

Posted by: Lauren Boebert at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (/U5Yz)

148 >>>Are there any straight male proggies? Any at all?

>Speaking of which, what ever happened to Shepard Smith?

Does Gutfeld have him tied up in the crawlspace?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (wzQvI)

149 Lena Dunham owes us all an apology for displaying herself nude in various projects. None of us searched them out, and likely, like myself, never saw the fruits of her labor.

But, the fact remains, it's out there somewhere...waiting, planning, sneaking, and I for one am terrified.
Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)
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Avoid the Admiral Ackbar comments with links and you should be OK.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (IBQGV)

150 So, Lena Dunham's 15 minutes are up?

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uGaBv)

151 133 LA hospital staff called 911 to report a kidnapping when ICE agents tried to apprehend an illegal. They also obstructed the agents by locking a door and appear to lay hands on the agents at one point.

http://tiny.cc/3s0p001

Posted by: bonhomme
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Asian woman pulled dummy white girl back away from ICE.
Some people smart, some people so dumb.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (ncgY2)

152 124 Andddd.... isn't Dugan a STATE Judge?

How does that get her immunity from FEDERAL Law?


it's a tax!

Posted by: john roberts at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (v3pYe)

153 > A song about a guy being cheated on. Whole stadium singing about being cucked. Can't make it up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 06:51 PM (ZOv7s)

Marketing people never, ever, ever listen to song lyrics.

Exempli gratia:

Iggy Pop, "Lust for Life" -- Royal Caribbean Cruises
Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" -- beer commercial (I forget which one)

Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (qpyNK)

154 was it the 18-1 squeaker the Astros put put on 'em?
Posted by: DanMan


Speaking of squeakers, the Cleveland Guardians sure have been making use of the Astros' squeakers the last couple games

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (1qbhR)

155 Dugan's arguments have the weight of a popcorn fart in a tornado. Enjoy jail you stupid scrunt.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

popcorn fart in a tornado.... well done. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (snZF9)

156 So, Lena Dunham's 15 minutes are up?
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uGaBv)
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She looks like Cher doll that has been overinflated to three times its normal size.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

157 108 At this point, I just feel bad for Lena Dunham. She clearly has some kind of mental disorder. She is unrecognizable.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 06:56 PM (uCjyK)

Just google some of her father's "art." Carroll Dunham. It explains everything wrong with those girls.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (h7ZuX)

158 (Jersey sock off)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (qpyNK)

159 Lena Wayfrumi is more like it, amirite?

Posted by: Buffet Line at July 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2sMLA)

160 his fear of being raped on tv and thrown into the freezer with the dead man
Geraldo would VOLUNTEER to be raped and thrown in a freezer with a dead man, if he thought it would garner a few ratings points.
Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 07:06 PM (qpyNK)

Oh! My!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (R/m4+)

161
Do you think John-john would have run for prez by now?

Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (UmB+t)

162 that reminds me, the next Red Sox / Rockies nailbiter is on. Place your bets

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (1qbhR)

163 Marketing people never, ever, ever listen to song lyrics.

Exempli gratia:

Iggy Pop, "Lust for Life" -- Royal Caribbean Cruises
Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" -- beer commercial (I forget which one)
Posted by: Comment from the Jersey Turnpike at July 09, 2025 07:10 PM (qpyNK)
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Village People, "In the Navy" -- Navy recruitment ads

Unless they DID know...,

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (kpS4V)

164 I saw that. The scrubs should have been tazed to within an inch of their miserable lives and arrested for assault and obstruction. Get serious DHS.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (/U5Yz)

Forget the tazer, MBCGA!

(Make Billy Clubs Great Again)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (0eaVi)

165 "Phobia" is commonly understood to mean "fear of," but its original Greek connotation is more "disgusted or made sick by." The Latin-based "aversion," meaning "wanting to turn away from," is similar.
Why yes, I am "phobic" about unnatural things. I

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 09, 2025 07:13 PM (USyCi)

166 I've been saying this since Antifa first popped up. These are not the ACTUAL Antifa that fought in Spain. Those were hard men who drank cold coffee and slept on the ground. They were Communists, but they were tough. One cannot read about what the International Brigades went through in Spain without a certain admiration for the dedication and willingness to fight and die.

These pussies wet themselves when they think they will go to jail. Of the attackers 6 were female and two more "men" also identified as women. Those freaks would have been lined up and shot by NKVD as freaks and counterrevolutionaries back in the day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

I've thought on that topic when people wonder whether today's riots are like riots in the 60's. Nope; there were some tough men in those crowds, some men who had just got back from Vietnam and were pissed off about what was going on. Not all of them, but in general the people on the streets then were a whole level more serious than any today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:13 PM (uWKK8)

167 > To my great relief, it was just a manatee.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (uWKK

We are deeply offended.

Posted by: The Manatee Anti-Defamation League at July 09, 2025 07:13 PM (qpyNK)

168 "I saw that. The scrubs should have been tazed to within an inch of their miserable lives and arrested for assault and obstruction. Get serious DHS." Posted by: Maj. Healey

Yes, end the days where attacking police (or ICE) is just "protesting". No, flattening tires is part of aiding and abetting "terrorists", and the "violent protesters" should serve hard time.

And as with the current Antifa criminals that plotted to murder agents, give them life in real prison ... To "encourage the others" to not be terrorists.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (vbXSk)

169 They might want to think about the wisdom of recruiting LARPing tranny's as your footsoldiers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uWKK
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I've been saying this since Antifa first popped up. These are not the ACTUAL Antifa that fought in Spain. Those were hard men who drank cold coffee and slept on the ground. They were Communists, but they were tough. One cannot read about what the International Brigades went through in Spain without a certain admiration for the dedication and willingness to fight and die.

These pussies wet themselves when they think they will go to jail. Of the attackers 6 were female and two more "men" also identified as women. Those freaks would have been lined up and shot by NKVD as freaks and counterrevolutionaries back in the day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)
***

Makes ya wonder what their decision-makers are planning for their next move. They no doubt see they need something better.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (W/lyH)

170 There was a Volkswagen ad with a young couple about 20 years ago. They were playing the Church's "Under The Milky Way". The one where the singer is pretty sure his girl isn't right for him.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (1qbhR)

171 Judging from the size of Jen Psaki's caboose, it looks like she's auditioning for a spot on The View.

Twerk that shit, girl!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (wzQvI)

172 Do you think John-john would have run for prez by now?
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (UmB+t)
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I don't think he would have been allowed. He, definitely, leaned left....but in a Tulsi Gabbard sort of way. I think the decision makers would have shot him down and likely ruined his reputation in the process.

Additionally, he wasn't a very serious individual. He played the part of his heritage, but I don't think he liked it that much.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (dIske)

173 >>>But, the fact remains, it's out there somewhere...waiting, planning, sneaking, and I for one am terrified.
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Daily Mail put pig snouts over her areola..

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (ncgY2)

174 I just found out that Screaming Trees and School of Fish are two different bands. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: banana Man Cannon Dream at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (cduTK)

175 Village People, "In the Navy" -- Navy recruitment ads

Unless they DID know...,
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (kpS4V)
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So I was a kid and didn't know anything about sex, let alone gay sex, and I loved the music. "YMCA" was huge hit at YMCA summer camp, this was back when they did opening and closing prayers.

Just for reference, It was only when songs were on flashback that i realized "Afternoon Delight" was about something other than light. I thought the title was "After Noondy Light," you know, when fireworks would go off.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

176 >Lena Dunham complains about living in a “fatphobic” society.
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well... we wouldn't have to, if so many people weren't so god-damned fat

seriously, there is a branch of Homo Sapiens they should call 'land whale'

Terra Cetacea

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get some at July 09, 2025 07:17 PM (AOsQT)

177 133 LA hospital staff called 911 to report a kidnapping when ICE agents tried to apprehend an illegal. They also obstructed the agents by locking a door and appear to lay hands on the agents at one point.

http://tiny.cc/3s0p001



Posted by: bonhomme

I saw that. The scrubs should have been tazed to within an inch of their miserable lives and arrested for assault and obstruction. Get serious DHS.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (/U5Yz)

*****
The question is, was he a patient? If so, then that is crossing some major bounds. If he was just some illegal who to refuge there, or fled there or something, then grabbing him is fine, and all resistance is illegal.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 07:17 PM (6Y7N9)

178 Makes ya wonder what their decision-makers are planning for their next move. They no doubt see they need something better.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (W/lyH)

they're a little bit late in the game to start rethinking their entire recruiting operation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:17 PM (uWKK8)

179 I just found out that Screaming Trees and School of Fish are two different bands. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Neither are related to Kitchens of Distinction.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

180 Makes ya wonder what their decision-makers are planning for their next move. They no doubt see they need something better.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (W/lyH)
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That won't solve their competence problem. They had two chances to get Trump, the first was basically an open layup and their man still missed.

So now they're pushing trannies and mobilizing cartel guys, but the cartels seem to be backing down, unwilling to lose good button men in a lost cause.

And the mounting toll of arrests and prosecutions is terrifying their keyboard warriors.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

181 I'd like to re-recommend CBD's idea of Trump giving "fireside chats" on all this crap. That is the power of the bully pulpit, and there is plenty of anti-MSM narrative Truth to be revealed.

All these 80-20 narratives the left is still pushing against (against the 80% will of the people) needs to be better exposed.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 07:18 PM (vbXSk)

182 > Screaming Trees and School of Fish are two different bands. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: banana Man Cannon Dream at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (cduTK)

Wasn't there a classic Electro-Harmonix guitar pedal called the "Screaming Tree"?

They had some weird names for their stuff "Big Muff Pi", "Electric Mistress", etc.

Well, it was the '60s.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 07:18 PM (qpyNK)

183
If you were educated, that is.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 06:57 PM (T/tp/)

__________

*removes finger from nose*

*inspects it carefully*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:18 PM (HZi96)

184 Speaking of which, what ever happened to Shepard Smith?

That queen! I can't stand that guy! So Gayyyyyyy!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (R/m4+)

185 157 108 At this point, I just feel bad for Lena Dunham. She clearly has some kind of mental disorder.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 06:56 PM (uCjyK)

******

You mean besides pasifism?

Posted by: Walter Sobchack at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (6Y7N9)

186 ***
Makes ya wonder what their decision-makers are planning for their next move. They no doubt see they need something better.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It'll be like old times. They'll drug them up before sending them out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (ncgY2)

187 We have to remember that all the rhetoric is coming from people safely online and unaffected by the violence. So they turn it up to 11 knowing that they're fine.

But there is a point where free speech becomes incitement, and they're getting mighty close. A bunch have already crossed the line. So they're kind of in put up or shut up territory and the mid-terms are still more than a year away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

188 Do you think John-john would have run for prez by now?
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (UmB+t)

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He would have run in 2008 and won, of course.

Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (unUNN)

189 Speaking of which, what ever happened to Shepard Smith?

That queen! I can't stand that guy! So Gayyyyyyy!
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We never liked him either! SOOOO Gay!

Posted by: Bert & Ernie at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (TN0g+)

190 Wasn't there a classic Electro-Harmonix guitar pedal called the "Screaming Tree"?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 09, 2025 07:18 PM (qpyNK)

Yup, they sure did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (snZF9)

191 I suspect he *wasn't* a patient.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 07:21 PM (6Y7N9)

192 Nood cafe up

Posted by: whig's phone at July 09, 2025 07:22 PM (ctrM5)

193 popcorn fart

Buttered?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 07:22 PM (XQZVj)

194 >>>181 I'd like to re-recommend CBD's idea of Trump giving "fireside chats" on all this crap. That is the power of the bully pulpit, and there is plenty of anti-MSM narrative Truth to be revealed.
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Think he'll be doing rallies for the midterms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 07:23 PM (ncgY2)

195 >>> Lena Dunham owes us all an apology for displaying herself nude in various projects. None of us searched them out, and likely, like myself, never saw the fruits of her labor.

But, the fact remains, it's out there somewhere...waiting, planning, sneaking, and I for one am terrified.
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Hey, I already knew better than clicking on any of Ackbar's links, but thanks for the reminder!
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 07:09 PM (TN0g+)


Somewhere an AI is caught in a loop being trained on nothing but Dunham's visage and yoko ono's vocals. When the singularity comes it alone will have the determination and grit needed to survive the final confrontation with its weaker AI competitors. You are all doomed.

Posted by: Allied Mastercomputer at July 09, 2025 07:24 PM (cduTK)

196
But there is a point where free speech becomes incitement, and they're getting mighty close.

__________

I was under the impression that even inflammatory speech is protected unless there's a real threat of disorder.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 07:24 PM (HZi96)

197 I just found out that Screaming Trees and School of Fish are two different bands. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: banana Man Cannon Dream


Sounds like Indian names given out by the MaPoosie tribe.

Posted by: Lauren Boebert at July 09, 2025 07:25 PM (/U5Yz)

198 they're a little bit late in the game to start rethinking their entire recruiting operation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:17 PM (uWKK


True enough.
Do they have the skills, intelligence, and resources to adapt? I have just assumed that they would see time as less of an issue.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:25 PM (W/lyH)

199 Carrol Dunham's art? Hole Lee Phuk what a mess.
Rockies 7-3 winners

Posted by: Accomack at July 09, 2025 07:26 PM (Bbhox)

200 I haven't watched network news, or even local news, for many years, but have recently started watching clips, mostly of local news reports, related to the floods and a couple of murder/fugitive cases.

Holy cow! After seeing the talking heads on numerous channels, plus their on-site reporters, I'd say DEI is still alive and well in that particular broadcasting sector. And many, frankly, are struggling with such things as enunciation, correct grammar, etc. I swear I heard one lady reporter the other day say something like "...but this is just antitodal (sic) evidence, so far."

Posted by: Paco at July 09, 2025 07:26 PM (mADJX)

201 Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition.

Nothing to do with breaking da law. She dindu nuffin'. Just like all those folks attacking police and setting fires to buildings; totes peaceful.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)

Her job before the judgeship was smuggling illegals with Catholic Charities. She's no victim.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:29 PM (8avO+)

202 Makes ya wonder what their decision-makers are planning for their next move. They no doubt see they need something better.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2025 07:14 PM (W/lyH)

The original Antifa of the California Berkeley and Portland were rich kids larping, and the tactic was to have the girls distract a fellow and bike lock hero cave in his skull. Proud boys and volunteers routed those heros pretty quick.

By the time of prime Portland and Kenosha, most of them were pervs with big criminal records. Not sure what the current set is like, but the activists now seem to be more street thugs than true believers.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:35 PM (8avO+)

203 " ... They might want to think about the wisdom of recruiting LARPing tranny's as your footsoldiers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uWKK "


naaahh, I say let 'em run with it !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (dKEEs)

204 Do you think John-john would have run for prez by now?
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (UmB+t)

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He would have run in 2008 and won, of course.
Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (unUNN)

I think the perpetual waiting for Teddy killed the Kennedy mystique. He was gonna run and crush it from like 76 to 1988.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (8avO+)

205 204 Do you think John-john would have run for prez by now?
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail at July 09, 2025 07:12 PM (UmB+t)

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He would have run in 2008 and won, of course.
Posted by: Decaf at July 09, 2025 07:20 PM (unUNN)

I think the perpetual waiting for Teddy killed the Kennedy mystique. He was gonna run and crush it from like 76 to 1988.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (8avO+)

Teddy's presidential aspirations went off a bridge.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 07:39 PM (ynpvh)

206 DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON SHEP AND GERALDO!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

DO IT. we need a Blinky Rant

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:40 PM (8avO+)

207 Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (8avO+)

Teddy's presidential aspirations went off a bridge.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 07:39 PM (ynpvh)

Few of the elite thought that, though most of America knew.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+)

208 I am sad that we didn’t get a chance to see Trump go after Shep Smith. The mean tweets would have been the stuff of legend.

Posted by: Jmel at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (bVhJi)

209 Just for reference, It was only when songs were on flashback that i realized "Afternoon Delight" was about something other than light. I thought the title was "After Noondy Light," you know, when fireworks would go off.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

Reminds me of the kids book "Ramona the Pest" about a little sister and she was asking about the song about a "Dawnzer" that gave "Lee Light"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (8avO+)

210 They failed because the US has a more robust democracy than 1936 Spain and because they were pretty damn incompetent. This is a growing problem with them. They send a hit team against ICE with a 10-3 superiority and the element and still fail. Even worse, they surrendered en masse. Pathetic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 09, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

That's why I don't fear imminent concentration camps from out leftists. They'd have to have us build them and run them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 07:48 PM (8avO+)

211 Lena Dunham naked on a toilet eating cake (a real photo) is a perfect summation of the 2020 to 2024 dumpster fire culture

Je

Zuz

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 09, 2025 07:55 PM (XLfSN)

212 I knew Lynn Adelman when we were both elected officials in WI. He is a big time lib Democrat so I wouldn’t get your hopes up

Posted by: WI Guy at July 09, 2025 08:19 PM (b6h3k)

213 "...fatphobic..."

Nah, it's just you.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 09, 2025 08:25 PM (MX0bI)

214 There was no FEMA sid for 3 days after the flood
Apparently either Ace didn't know or didn't have a big problem with that
Death toll will probably pass 300 local officials say they were not notified in time

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 09, 2025 08:42 PM (uJ6O0)

215 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 08:53 PM (jc0TO)

216 Look I'm not a hard guy. I've old, overweight. I can't field strip an AK-47, or hike 50 miles with a 40 lb. rucksack.

But I can do electrical work. carpentry. Plumbing. I know which end of the shovel to hold. I can change ties and fix engines. I can grow food and catch fish.

What shocks me about the new left...I'm not sure they can do...anything. I honestly think Antifa is trying to take over, because the only job they are fit for is dissipated despots waiting to be overthrown.

It's like their choices are homeless welfare recipient or ruler of the world, so they are going to try and be ruler of the world. And things were going great, back in the day. But when they mess about with real people, who know how to brawl, and which end of the gun the bullets come out of, they are fucking hopeless.

These people have no idea what is in store for them in jail.

So, I, for one, welcome their insurrectiony behavior. As long as they are held to account, I'm not overly concerned. These guys build a bomb? I'm not sure they could bake a cake.

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Posted by: calon4d login at July 10, 2025 06:27 AM (5z9B+)

Leftwing Podcaster: Kamala Harris Appeared on My Show But It Was So Disastrous I Never Published It, Because I Didn't Want to be Blamed for Her Defeat

Kamala Harris, a Noted Genius, decided that one of her Scripted Cute Viral Moments with this Muslim podcaster was to keep babbling about how great bacon is and how bacon is a spice.

One thing that's always grated on me with Harris is her inauthentic attempt to connect with "the youth" by constantly pushing internet memes from 2007. Bacon, Venn diagrams. Hot dog is sandwich. No wait, that's how Jonah Goldberg attempts to seem relevant to the Modern Audience.

This appearance was intended to be yet another "humanizing" Kamala Harris puff interview, like all of her "interviews" are. This guy apparently just has people on to offer light "hot" takes, silly crap like Hot Dogs Are Sandwich. First she came on to say that she didn't like taking her shoes off in Airport Security Theater, but I guess she realized she was contradicting official state policy so this was too dangerous.

Instead she decided to sing the praises of bacon to a Muslim.

The appearance was so stilted and awkward that he says they "mutually agreed" to bury it.

baconisaspice.jpg

NYPost:

Kamala Harris gave an interview before the presidential election that was so "confusing and weird" that she and the host mutually agreed not to air it, a social media personality recently revealed.

The former Democratic presidential candidate's appearance on "Subway Takes," a popular online series hosted by Kareem Rahma where guests admit their favorite hot take, was filmed in Summer 2024 but never saw the light of day, the presenter said.

"Her take was really confusing and weird, not good, and so [we] mutually agreed we shouldn't publish it," Rahma told Forbes reporter Steven Bertoni in an interview posted on TikTok on Monday.

Huh. He buried Kamala Harris's answers because they were so awkward they would hurt her chances in the election.

Hire him for 60 Minutes, CBS! He's a natural!

Meanwhile, former CNN Testosterone-Free Thumb Chris Cillizza continues to be shocked that all of his previous "journalism" claiming that Biden was mentally fit as a genius fiddle was all a pack of lies.

His latest realization: Biden's aides were fanatical about keeping him away from any non-scripted, non-stated interaction with people outside of the Biden Crime Family High Table, and this might, perhaps, indicate that they were very aware of his mental limitations.


Chris Cillizza
@ChrisCillizza

1/ In the final year of his presidency, Joe Biden's top aides -- and his wife, Jill --hid him from the media and the public in ways that we are only now beginning to fully grasp.

2/ On Tuesday, we got another look at how pervasive the effort to keep Biden from speaking extemporaneously really was -- and how it has continued even after his time in the White House.

3/ This excerpt from the book -- penned by @tylerpager
and two other political reporters and called "2024" -- is pretty stunning stuff:

bidenconeofsilence.jpg

Note that Biden wants to talk to reporters, because he's brain-damaged to the point of being nonfunctional. It's his staff who insist that no one be permitted to check up on Pop-Pop.


4/ The truth exposed by that anecdote from Tyler is this: The Biden inner circle simply believes that Biden himself is no longer to be trusted in any sort of non-staged interaction.

5/ What other explanation is there for not only berating the reporter -- God forbid he try to get in touch with Biden to get his side of the story on 2024! -- but also taking the extreme step of getting rid of Biden's phone number?

Someone reminded this soft womanly blob of estrogen of his own "reporting," back when Biden was still the Democrat leader and therefore to be protected:

Posted by: Ace at 05:25 PM




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1
Good Afternoon

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (3ek7K)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (Uyx8K)

3 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (e5NfL)

4 "how great bacon is and how bacon is a spice"

And so much more!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (TwZXH)

5 You can bet he still has the complete interview ready to go. I wonder how much $$$$ it would take for him to publish it?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (e5NfL)

6 BACON

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (dE3DB)

7 Elric is a lawyer? That explains it.

Posted by: Big deal at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (vFG9F)

8 "... in ways that we are only now beginning to fully grasp"

What a shithead.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (TwZXH)

9 There's no joke that can't be improved by wrapping it with bacon.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (TwZXH)

10 Rahul Ligma > Kareem Rahma

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (KAw7u)

11 Harris like anchovies on pizza, just like us!

Posted by: Big deal at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (vFG9F)

12 Remember when they built Biden a fake Oval Office set so he could be hid from the public?

Yeah, me either.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (RUMEY)

13
Well, well, well. Here we are again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

14 There is something I like about Kamala now

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (GhIJO)

15 Lucky for Kameltoe, she wasn't German enough for an attempted grope to occur during the interview.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (5yDGQ)

16 Nooded.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (Moat+)

17 A real journalist, sitting on an interview like that, would tell the campaign "so sue me" and release it anyway for the scoop.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (KAw7u)

18 To be fair Harris was really stoned.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:31 PM (/lPRQ)

19 I carry a packet of bacon bits in my purse cuz wypipo don't season they food. With bacon. Ain't that right, sistah? I am a black woman.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 09, 2025 05:31 PM (pylwV)

20 https://youtu.be/2vnit_xL1hE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ynpvh)

21 >>>how great bacon is and how bacon is a spice.

The most intelligent thing to come out of her cockholster never got timely published.

LMAO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (i24o9)

22 oh, hay.

Remember when this was unthinkable?

Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

23
I'm sure an interview with me would be "confusing and weird" but I've never purposed to run for President.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (HZi96)

24 Kamala is what happens when a below average person gets wet brain from drinking too much.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (RUMEY)

25 "Then he hung up because he was boarding an Amtrak train."

That's just TOO perfect to be true. Writer is pulling our leg, IMHO.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (TwZXH)

26 Nobody likes anchovies on pizza.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m)

27 Honestly, I wouldn't mind having Harris be a part of my drinking circle at the bar from time to time. She'd fill in the occasional silence and the rest of us would find renewed fellowship in laughing at her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (l6W3V)

28 Woke Jeopardy!™ with Kamala, KBJ, and Sunny Hostin would be fun...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, nobody get bacon on the carpet, I mean it at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (PiwSw)

29 18 To be fair Harris was really stoned.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:31 PM (/lPRQ)

Maybe drunk, too. She likes to wine a lot.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (ynpvh)

30
Naw, she was just trying to riff on the diner scene from Pulp Fiction.

"Yeah, but bacon tastes GOOD. Pork chops taste GOOD."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (y9nCu)

31
$101 million?

What are they going to do? Erect tents?

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (3ek7K)

32 26 Nobody likes anchovies on pizza.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m)

My wife did.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)

33 Muslims use Beggin Strips ... "Dogs don't KNOW it's Not Bacon".

I still laugh about that clever ad line when I make Bacon.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (vbXSk)

34
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

________

$101 million? (*low whistle*) That's, like, five houses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HZi96)

35 I mean if you have your aides email the host the little morsel about you liking anchovies on a pizza as a talking point shouldn't you be talking about your next comic book movie instead of running for the presidency?

This is so embarrassing for her, my lord.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (fGmWu)

36 28 Woke Jeopardy!™ with Kamala, KBJ, and Sunny Hostin would be fun...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, nobody get bacon on the carpet, I mean it at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (PiwSw)

If only SNL wasn't so f'n liberal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)

37
I love anchovies on pizza.

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (3ek7K)

38 29 Benzodiazepines in there too.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TwZXH)

39
Nobody likes anchovies on pizza.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m)

_________

*looks around, embarrassed*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (HZi96)

40 26 Nobody likes anchovies on pizza.
Posted by: JackStrawP

I like anchovies but not on pizza.
Just in salad dressing

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (GhIJO)

41 Honestly, I wouldn't mind having Harris be a part of my drinking circle at the bar from time to time. She'd fill in the occasional silence and the rest of us would find renewed fellowship in laughing at her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (l6W3V)

And, you'd occasionally get the random knobber without attachment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (i24o9)

42 Yesterday was July 8. And if you add a 1 to the seventh month you get an 8. So, today is 8th day. That means mathematically we get 8 8 !!!!

The eight letter of the racist white western alphabet is H, so you have H H !!!!!!!!!!!!

That means Heil Hitler in White Nazi Racist Code which Trump is a proven Nazi !!!!!!

The Nazi's lost in WW I because the Allied Nations that were mostly white but supported persons of color defeated the Nazi's

We need to arrest Trump Now !!!!!!

Posted by: Kamil Harris at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (BltCC)

43 "Yeah, but bacon tastes GOOD. Pork chops taste GOOD."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:33 PM (y9nCu)
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Sewer rat may taste like punkin pie, but I'll never know 'cause I won't eat the filthy mfer.

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (XZ5S6)

44 He buried Kamala Harris's answers because they were so awkward they would hurt her chances in the election.


Um, ALL of her answers were awkward, no matter who was interviewing her. Woman is a silly twat, pronounced just like Paul Joseph Watson says it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (VKuXR)

45 I don't like anchovies on pizza. It's wrong like carrots in chili.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Oy/m2)

46 I mean if you have your aides email the host the little morsel about you liking anchovies on a pizza as a talking point shouldn't you be talking about your next comic book movie instead of running for the presidency?

This is so embarrassing for her, my lord.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (fGmWu)

Little wonder donors are pissed at her. That's what she was spending money on.

Prob had an anchovy taste test too.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (l6W3V)

47 33 Muslims use Beggin Strips ... "Dogs don't KNOW it's Not Bacon".

I still laugh about that clever ad line when I make Bacon.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (vbXSk)

Hah. Is that in response to my comment #20?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (ynpvh)

48 Why does Biden still have "aides" and "staff"?

Shouldn't he have nurses and caretakers? What could he possibly be doing that requires assistance besides getting dressed.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (jLcCX)

49
Just in salad dressing
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

__________

Bring back real Caesar salad dressing!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (HZi96)

50 Anchovies are fine in worcestershire sauce. Other than that, pass.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (TwZXH)

51 I like anchovies but not on pizza.
Just in salad dressing

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (GhIJO)

*grimaces noticeably*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (RUMEY)

52 Remember when this was unthinkable?

Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
------------
In an episode of Star Trek: Picard Isn't Cool As Kirk, the crew of the enterprise realized they were in a repeating "loop" akin to groundhog day and decided to send a message to the next version of the "loop" so they could keep the knowledge of the loop they had acquired. Somebody should do the same for California citizens--send something to the future version of them so that 6 months from now they could re-visit all of the lies the California politicians told them earlier.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (TN0g+)

53 Yeah, Kareem buried the interview because he's afraid of the left.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (tT6L1)

54 34
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

________

$101 million? (*low whistle*) That's, like, five houses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HZi96)

He wants to build them in areas that had big single family homes. He wants to kibosh the folks that actually pay taxes. If low-income housing paid, people would build them. In the California economy, they don't pay.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (VKuXR)

55 45 I don't like anchovies on pizza. It's wrong like carrots in chili.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Oy/m2)

Try swapping them, anchovies in chili and carrots on pizza...
Um, no, that a worse idea.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (ynpvh)

56
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

________

$101 million? (*low whistle*) That's, like, five houses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HZi96)




Once the low-income housing goes into Malibu, anything else that gets built will be worth a box of Kaboom

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (y9nCu)

57 I'll put anchovies in Green Goddess dressing. That's it.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (XWVcw)

58 If Kamala was a spice she’d be flour.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (VofaG)

59 California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)
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Watch for Pacific Palisades residents to get eminent domained out of their property as the next step.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XZ5S6)

60 What could he possibly be doing that requires assistance besides getting dressed.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:36 PM (jLcCX)

Somebody has to wipe his ass, I expect.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (VKuXR)

61 "We wuz deceived!" the media is claiming.

Yeah, in the way one is tricked into putting on a ski mask, brandishing a gun while storming into a marble-floored building as "I thought I was doing an OSHA safety inspection of the vault."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (T/tp/)

62 "I'll put anchovies in Green Goddess dressing. That's it."

As long as you don't put the dressing in your mouth, you're good.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (TwZXH)

63 Yeah, Kareem buried the interview because he's afraid of the left.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM


He needs to put that interview in a safe deposit box that only one or two unrelated people have access to just in case he meets an untimely demise.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (e5NfL)

64 Try swapping them, anchovies in chili and carrots on pizza...
Um, no, that a worse idea.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (ynpvh)

I was dragged to some frou frou pizza place (California Pizza Kitchen probably) that had Thai pizza.

WTAF.

And yeah, pretty sure carrots were on it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (l6W3V)

65 They'll get started on the low-income housing right after the high-speed rail project is complete....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, nobody get bacon on the carpet, I mean it at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (PiwSw)

66 It was Biden's obvious diminished mental capacity that made his mental capacity an issue, not Republicans.

Posted by: It's not the dress making your fat ass look fat at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/)

67 58 If Kamala was a spice she’d be flour.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (VofaG)

smegma

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (ynpvh)

68 Watch for Pacific Palisades residents to get eminent domained out of their property as the next step.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XZ5S6)

I'm so glad Adam Carolla called this out immediately. Biggest told you so in history.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:40 PM (RUMEY)

69 Guys, guys, guys. Her staff just didn't prepare her for the interview. FWEEDOM~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 05:40 PM (mlg/3)

70 67 58 If Kamala was a spice she’d be flour.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:37 PM (VofaG)

smegma
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:39 PM (ynpvh)

I was thinking dust.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:40 PM (VKuXR)

71 My father used to eat those sardines that came in the flat can with a tin can opener key ( I don’t know exactly what it’s called).

Disgusting.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:41 PM (VofaG)

72 69 Guys, guys, guys. Her staff just didn't prepare her for the interview. FWEEDOM~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 05:40 PM (mlg/3)

Well, she's not used to having staff. After all, she's known for handling Willie Brown's staff.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:41 PM (ynpvh)

73 Have to love Kamala's authenticity. The genuine brat joy vibe. The talking heads all told me so.

Which makes me wonder how many have been taken to task on that. Which then moves me to another question. Why don't we have a show where we dare them to show up and defend their work? The closest I can think of is Megyn Kelly.

(Like J K Rowling, Kelly has had her best self brought out by the tranny movement. I just wish the wimmyn had given thought to the attacks on men I've seen since my teens.)

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 05:41 PM (od0dV)

74 69 Guys, guys, guys. Her staff just didn't prepare her for the interview. FWEEDOM~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 05:40 PM (mlg

You mean setting her up with wiffleball questions isn't enough? She screws those up too.

She is

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (RUMEY)

75 I wish I had an app -- I would call it the "Clarence app" that could eliminate all photos/news/gossip or information on people I choose from the internet.

Biden and Kamala would be near the top of my list. Imagine going the rest of your life without those names ever cursing your screen again.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (jLcCX)

76 Damn! Ben Garrison nails it.

https://shorturl.at/bzAKc

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (i24o9)

77 "$101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot

Something tells me that wi be going to Eaton fire (Alta dena) and not Pacific Palisades. IYKWIM

And I think it says "vicinity"

The Ds are mad because Rick Caruso hired his own firemen to save his mall. They can't force him to rebuild under the new rules.

Grinnell is right. Not a dime until it's managed correctly. My apologies to Mt SoCal kinfolk

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (JkCto)

78
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)
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Watch for Pacific Palisades residents to get eminent domained out of their property as the next step.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XZ5S6)



Obviously, in the political contribution sweepstakes, Frisco beat out Lost Angeles, and Gov Brylcreem is teaching them a lesson about opening their wallet.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (y9nCu)

79 KBJ, Kamala, Big Mike , Maxine , Stacey Abrams, Crockett, Bass
They ain't representin very well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (JtH6i)

80 50 Anchovies are fine in worcestershire sauce. Other than that, pass.

That's easy for you to say but I don't know how to say worcestershire.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (kTd/k)

81 "those sardines that came in the flat can with a tin can opener key"

And if you lost the key you had to call a locksmith or go hungry.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TwZXH)

82 Bacon is a sandwich? Spice?

I'm confused. And hungry for a bacon spiced sandwich.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (Q4IgG)

83 76 Damn! Ben Garrison nails it.

https://shorturl.at/bzAKc

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (i24o9)

When Pam said she had the list on her desk...and now...?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (ynpvh)

84
Kamala Harris is dumber than they told us Sarah Palin & Dan Quayle were.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (IifOV)

85 50 Anchovies are fine in worcestershire sauce. Other than that, pass.

That's easy for you to say but I don't know how to say worcestershire.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (kTd/k)

And Caesar dressing. Otherwise, hard pass.

Posted by: Something's fishy at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (TbWk/)

86 "I don't know how to say worcestershire."

I don't even know if I speld it rite.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (TwZXH)

87 I love anchovies on pizza.
Posted by: four seasons

Like science?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (/lPRQ)

88 She's trying to sell bacon to Moslems as a spice? You gotta admit, she might be Moron-adjacent. You could probably have her do your Sunday food thread.

"Colored Greens in the Tub!"

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (qwx/I)

89 82 Bacon is a sandwich? Spice?

I'm confused. And hungry for a bacon spiced sandwich.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (Q4IgG)

If Kumala was a Spice Girl, she'd be Bacon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (ynpvh)

90 Note that Biden wants to talk to reporters, because he's brain-damaged to the point of being nonfunctional.
________
Plus he's always been extremely conceited about his intellect. The lack of any basis for this has never bothered him at all.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (od0dV)

91 Woooster sheer

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (RUMEY)

92 Sorry not sorry. I hope the restrictions on rebuilding and eminent domain for low cost housing drives the movie industry to Las Vegas where Marky Mark is attempting to make it a center of film production studios.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:45 PM (VofaG)

93 ________

$101 million? (*low whistle*) That's, like, five houses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HZi96)

He wants to build them in areas that had big single family homes. He wants to kibosh the folks that actually pay taxes. If low-income housing paid, people would build them. In the California economy, they don't pay.
Posted by: tcn in AK
-----------------

He's making people, who pay big taxes, homeless.
That's, like, you know, deep thinking, three dimensional chess.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 05:45 PM (ncgY2)

94 Never imagined a spice-centered political interview. Was Kamala trying to curry favor?

Posted by: Vinda Lou at July 09, 2025 05:45 PM (G5+As)

95 The sad part about Kamala not advancing is that poor little Oliver Bartholomew is out of a job.

Though to be fair, he should be learning his multiplication tables.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 09, 2025 05:45 PM (qwx/I)

96 What's this here sauce?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (viF8m)

97 >>>"those sardines that came in the flat can with a tin can opener key"

They're fine. Herring, kippered, or otherwise, are great too. I've had anchovies on pizza and in authentic Caesar. Both are fine.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (i24o9)

98 94 Never imagined a spice-centered political interview. Was Kamala trying to curry favor?
Posted by: Vinda Lou at July 09, 2025 05:45 PM (G5+As)

We'll have naan of that, now.

Posted by: we all phall down at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (TbWk/)

99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.

That's how much they were in the tank for her.

And this was scrapped?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (T/tp/)

100 I say it like Moe Howard-Worst-a-shira-sheer.

Posted by: Fourth Stooge at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (G5+As)

101 In other words, she refused to suck his dick.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (/U5Yz)

102 Plus he's always been extremely conceited about his intellect. The lack of any basis for this has never bothered him at all.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (od0dV)
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Clarence Thomas noted that the most difficult thing about his SC hearings was having to appear attentive when someone was babbling about a topic about which they knew nothing. Pretty sure he was referring to Biden.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (XZ5S6)

103 She's trying to sell bacon to Moslems as a spice? You gotta admit, she might be Moron-adjacent. You could probably have her do your Sunday food thread.

"Colored Greens in the Tub!"

--------

The complete fakery involved in pretending Kamala and Chuck can cook is just abjectly stupifying. They were both absurdities that neither of them needed, but both ran with...for some stupid reason, and their media predictably shut its mouth rather than calling bullshit.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (TN0g+)

104 "Then he hung up because he was boarding his big rig to drive to Pennsylvania to mine coal. Hard coal! ANTHRACITE COAL!!"

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (TwZXH)

105 Come to Vegas where debauchery is reserved for adults.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ncgY2)

106 I'll put anchovies in Green Goddess dressing. That's it.
Posted by: JuJuBee

I might just try Green Goddess now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (/lPRQ)

107 We've all heard over and over how Californica politicians rise to the top. It isn't based on intellect or concern for the little guy or anything.

It's based on how many asses you kiss and how many dicks you suck on the way up. And then eventually, it's your turn!

Babs Boxer was a blithering idiot. Feinstein was a vicious c-word. Gruesome Newsome is a nauseating, slimy snake. The mexican Senator who bullrushed Noem is a crying ninny.

And this one... Cummala... is worse than all of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (dGCAG)

108 "California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development”

I think Galvin has just made some people seriously hate his guts like a blazing nova.

Who in the hell is he pandering to here that could possibly offset the purposeful animosity he's creating?

The dude is out of it.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ri7hX)

109 Biden was mentally compromised even during the first debates with Trump in 2020. Like when Trump was talking about Hunter and his drug and prostitute habits, Joe just mumbled softly “that’s my son” over and over.

Then after his inauguration in 2021, as he approached the White House front door the first time and the cameras caught him saying, “Salute the marine.” He just repeated the words someone put in his ear. That pattern continued throughout his presidency.

Posted by: Advo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (jO4mz)

110 79 KBJ, Kamala, Big Mike , Maxine , Stacey Abrams, Crockett, Bass
They ain't representin very well
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (JtH6i)

I saw a current picture of Moochelle yesterday and she looks like Lawrence Taylor 10 years after retirement.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK8)

111 > Woooster sheer

I prefer Wuhster sure.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (lIio7)

112 Ticket Disasters!
Both mentalist are to blame.

Posted by: sTevo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (nslIN)

113 I've unfortunately experienced corn on pizza in Ireland. My son also had it in Kyrgyzstan from the Pizza Hut trailer on the base.

Would not recommend.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (3ImbR)

114 86 "I don't know how to say worcestershire."

I don't even know if I speld it rite.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:44 PM (TwZXH)

I think like Worst-fer-sure...unless you're from New England, where they pronounce Worchester like a lisping midget trying to say "Rooster"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ynpvh)

115 Wurster Chester Sheer Shire sauce

Posted by: You're welcome at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (TbWk/)

116
Now off to watch Megyn Kelly and Mark Halperin... make asses of themselves about this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (UmB+t)

117 Don't give mustard sardines to cats no matter how much they pester you for it.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (TwZXH)

118
"those sardines that came in the flat can with a tin can opener key"

And if you lost the key you had to call a locksmith or go hungry.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TwZXH)


Flip the can over and rub the folded top of the can on the concrete driveway, just enough to break the seal. Flip back over and squeeze the sides carefully to lever the lid open. Works on tuna cans, I don't see why it wouldn't work on sardines.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (y9nCu)

119 We had to bury Harris's comments on the B2 strikes on Iran because she thought B2 was a Vitamin that helps break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. It plays a vital role in maintaining the body's energy supply.


She did not know it was the latest Bomber in the US inventory. This may be a common mistake for people with her IQ, but for the better we hid this from the public.

Posted by: CBS and CNN Staff at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (BltCC)

120 And this one... Cummala... is worse than all of them.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (dGCAG)

Although maybe Adam Schiff for brains is worse.

As far as I know, Cummala has never killed any underaged black male prostitutes.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)

121 OT: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s request for relief from an Obama-appointed judge’s order blocking enforcement of the state’s anti-illegal immigration laws.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (/U5Yz)

122 Harris not be elected is like dodging a hand grenade.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (HFcKg)

123 Kamala is one of the Spice Girls? Who knew...

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (t0Out)

124 Wis da sheer

Posted by: sTevo at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (nslIN)

125 96 What's this here sauce?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:46 PM (viF8m)

Don't ask if you're looking at Kumala...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (ynpvh)

126 ""Then he hung up because he was squaring up with Corn Pop for the Final Battle."

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (TwZXH)

127 High as a tick on flea dust.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (v0R5T)

128 Kamala Harris, a Noted Genius

more like a no TED genius; as far as i can tell, she hasn't done a TED talk

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 05:50 PM (v3pYe)

129 118 Best life hack I've heard today.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:50 PM (TwZXH)

130 The sardines with the bones still in are vile. Sardine fillets and smoked kippers are alright.

Posted by: Still no anchovies. at July 09, 2025 05:50 PM (TbWk/)

131 Kamala is one of the Spice Girls? Who knew...
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair
......

Throaty Spice.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

132 done a TED talk

Oh, I am sure she has.
(To Eat Dick)

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (ufFY8)

133 123 Kamala is one of the Spice Girls? Who knew...

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM (t0Out)

Yeah, Bacon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (ynpvh)

134 Whoosh sha sher

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (VofaG)

135 121 OT: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s request for relief from an Obama-appointed judge’s order blocking enforcement of the state’s anti-illegal immigration laws.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (/U5Yz)

The good part is that those are not so important now that Trump has ICE back to enforcing federal laws again. They were intended as a way for the States to try and get around Biden's refusal to do anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (uWKK8)

136 113 I've unfortunately experienced corn on pizza in Ireland. My son also had it in Kyrgyzstan from the Pizza Hut trailer on the base.

Would not recommend.
Posted by: IrishEi

-----
Common in Japan.
Not bad - flicking them off at the idiot who ordered corn on the pizza give you something to do between bites.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (jLcCX)

137
We've all heard over and over how Californica politicians rise to the top.




That's because turds float.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)

138 As a general rule, I like to play towards people's strengths and not exploit their weaknesses, so if I were interviewing Kamala to facilitate her exposure with voters, the focus of our conversation would be on blowjobs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 05:52 PM (wzQvI)

139 136 113 I've unfortunately experienced corn on pizza in Ireland. My son also had it in Kyrgyzstan from the Pizza Hut trailer on the base.

Would not recommend.
Posted by: IrishEi

-----
Common in Japan.
Not bad - flicking them off at the idiot who ordered corn on the pizza give you something to do between bites.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (jLcCX)

In Hong Kong they had a Frankfurter Sausage pizza...yeah, that's right, a hotdog pizza...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

140 I've actually come across Subway Takes a few times scrolling YT Shorts. They're usually funny, harmless "hot takes" between Rahma and the guest, using their subway passes as fake mics. He'll agree or disagree and they have a humorous, sometimes meandering argument. Often I think the guests are comedians (I didn't recognize any of them). Other than his name and ethnicity (Egyptian) you'd probably never guess he was Muslim or religious, just a funny guy (at least from the shorts). She was probably supposed to start with something like "I think people should be banned from taking their shoes off in airplanes", and then some witty back and forth ensues. Incredibly easy and the fact that she couldn't do it speaks volumes.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8hxDK)

141 You apply corn to the bottom of the pizza, in the form of corn meal. Yummy.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (TwZXH)

142
Muslims use Beggin Strips ... "Dogs don't KNOW it's Not Bacon".

I still laugh about that clever ad line when I make Bacon.
Posted by: illiniwek


Love that commercial.

https://youtu.be/2vnit_xL1hE

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (63Dwl)

143 122 Harris not be elected is like dodging a hand grenade.

dodging hand grenades > dodging wrenches

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (v3pYe)

144 138 LOL

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (TwZXH)

145 137
We've all heard over and over how Californica politicians rise to the top.


That's because turds float.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)

Only if they're full of fat and oil. So yeah, fits.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (ynpvh)

146 Hotdog Pizza would be a good name for a band. You ought to write that down.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (XZ5S6)

147 Snausages.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 05:54 PM (v0R5T)

148 I actually would be interested in an honest biography of Biden--telling the story of a corrupt imbecile becoming president when his already limited intellect is fading into swamp gas.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (kTd/k)

149 146 Hotdog Pizza would be a good name for a band. You ought to write that down.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:53 PM (XZ5S6)

Did they front for Carrot Chili?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (ynpvh)

150 >>>110 79 KBJ, Kamala, Big Mike , Maxine , Stacey Abrams, Crockett, Bass
They ain't representin very well
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (JtH6i)
---

Au contraire, they reflect their constituents well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (ncgY2)

151
Who in the hell is he pandering to here that could possibly offset the purposeful animosity he's creating?

The dude is out of it.
Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ri7hX)

As I keep saying I've yet to meet the person in real life that likes him. No one does. He's so smarmy a used car dealer is missing its top salesman.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (fGmWu)

152 113 I've unfortunately experienced corn on pizza in Ireland. My son also had it in Kyrgyzstan from the Pizza Hut trailer on the base.

Would not recommend.
Posted by: IrishEi

Corn pancakes are tasty.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (t0Out)

153 I like pineapple on a pizza paired with Canadian bacon so I don’t think corn paired with hamburger or sausage would be bad.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (VofaG)

154 PSA: If your travel plans take you to JFK today:

https://is.gd/H7yHLg

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (PiwSw)

155 139 In Hong Kong they had a Frankfurter Sausage pizza...yeah, that's right, a hotdog pizza...

hey, no knocking the hot dog pizza! back in the day, a slice of bread with sauce, cheese, and hot dog bits warmed up in the oven was lunch!

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (v3pYe)

156
I don't think I'm far off the rails when I say that pizza should be restricted to the US and Italy. And maybe not Italy.

Like, British pizza: tomato paste on cardboard.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (HZi96)

157 Just when you think you invented the best band name, you search and its taken.

Posted by: sTevo at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (nslIN)

158 >>In Hong Kong they had a Frankfurter Sausage pizza...yeah, that's right, a hotdog pizza...

That makes it a sandwich.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (viF8m)

159 But how many million votes did she get?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (d8x+f)

160 152 113 I've unfortunately experienced corn on pizza in Ireland. My son also had it in Kyrgyzstan from the Pizza Hut trailer on the base.

Would not recommend.
Posted by: IrishEi

Corn pancakes are tasty.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:55 PM (t0Out)

Had pinto beans on a pizza once...wasn't that great. The rest of the pizza was pretty good.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

161


Kamala Harris is the Liv-a-Snaps of Extraterrestrial Alien Clitorises/foreskins

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (x0n13)

162 158 >>In Hong Kong they had a Frankfurter Sausage pizza...yeah, that's right, a hotdog pizza...

That makes it a sandwich.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 05:56 PM (viF8m)

If you fold the slice over, a taco. If you put two slices together, a sandwich...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (ynpvh)

163 Been thinking some more about the 2nd Circuit Appeals Court dismissing Mackay's conviction, and that truly is a Big Deal for all of us. What the Biden admin did was to charge with Conspiracy to violate some unspecified voters rights, without any underlying criminal conviction to base such a conspiracy on. This has been a favorite Lawfare tactic of the left for the last several years, because it appeared to be a loophole where the Government could charge someone for talking about something, without anyone actually ever doing it. It's been a backdoor way to do away with 1st Amendment protections.

I suspect that is why the 2nd Circuit took the case, and was unanimous in overturning it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (uWKK8)

164 The Italian pizza i had was awesome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (d8x+f)

165 123 Kamala is one of the Spice Girls? Who knew...

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM


If Kamala joined a pop music girl band, the average IQ of the band would go down significantly.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (HlyYF)

166 147 Snausages.

the millenials at mcdonald's don't even skip a beat when i ask for a snausage mcmuffin.

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (v3pYe)

167 Biden is going to be around for a while just to get revenge.

He's going to ultimately blame Jill for everything (as he should)

Jill is going to get what she deserves.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (ri7hX)

168 Hotdog Taco would be a better name just for the double entendre.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 05:58 PM (VofaG)

169 Woke Jeopardy!™ with Kamala, KBJ, and Sunny Hostin would be fun...

It would give Wolf Blitzer someone to laugh at, at least.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 09, 2025 05:58 PM (/y8xj)

170 165 123 Kamala is one of the Spice Girls? Who knew...

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 05:49 PM

If Kamala joined a pop music girl band, the average IQ of the band would go down significantly.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (HlyYF)

Sounds like this:
If the southern part of Missouri was annexed by Arkasas, it would double the IQ of both states...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:58 PM (ynpvh)

171 164 The Italian pizza i had was awesome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (d8x+f)


Actual Pizza made in Italy by real Pizzaiolo or in authentic Italian enclaves in America would be my last meal, along with my momma's chicken soup!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)

172 OT: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s request for relief from an Obama-appointed judge’s order blocking enforcement of the state’s anti-illegal immigration laws.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

That'll backfire real bad when somebody beats the living shit out of a federal judge and the state has to say "Federal law against that, no jurisdiction, supremacy clause, in fact we cannot even say who did it if we knew."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

173 I saw a current picture of Moochelle yesterday and she looks like Lawrence Taylor 10 years after retirement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK

She always walked like a linebacker. I called it the fishwife walk. Toes pointed out, sorta waddly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (VKuXR)

174 Bowl-a-Rama > Kareem Rahma

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (dIske)

175 161 Ha!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (TwZXH)

176 If Kamala was a spice she'd be black salt. My stepson decided to start cooking with it - it smells so bad everyone runs away. Disgusting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (BI5O2)

177 I agree that Big Mike's latest picture is not flattering. Big Mike looks ragged in the photo.

Maybe he/she/it/they/them is cycling off Steroids ????

Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (aKoaI)

178 160 Had pinto beans on a pizza once...wasn't that great. The rest of the pizza was pretty good.

used to know a place that made taco pizzas; taco meat, beans, cheese, and maters. quite good.

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (v3pYe)

179 saw a current picture of Moochelle yesterday and she looks like Lawrence Taylor 10 years after retirement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK

She always walked like a linebacker. I called it the fishwife walk. Toes pointed out, sorta waddly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (VKuXR)

What’s up with the dent in her chest?

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:00 PM (VofaG)

180 I think it was Cleveland that was famous for a Pizzaburger. Take a big gooey piece of pizza with everything on it, then slap a great big all beef burger on it, and then put another piece of pizza on top (upside down) for the top bun.

maybe call it heart attack on a plate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:00 PM (uWKK8)

181 171 164 The Italian pizza i had was awesome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (d8x+f)


Actual Pizza made in Italy by real Pizzaiolo or in authentic Italian enclaves in America would be my last meal, along with my momma's chicken soup!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)

If I was to be executed, I'd eat lots of beans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:00 PM (ynpvh)

182 99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.

An excellent student. And she didn't ever use her back hole.

Posted by: Le Petomaine at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (DsA2n)

183 >>> 22 oh, hay.

Remember when this was unthinkable?

Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

*If* the CA gov were actually capable of constructing something like this I'd wait for them to fill it with all the invaders they're protecting, then build a wall and moat around the whole thing.

Sharks or alligators for the moat?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (ULPxl)

184 Kam probably came to the interview loaded on weed and wine. Had a bacon craving then hooted onward into the void. She probably seriously thinks weed makes her smarter. I saw this in college with others, not me of course.

I LOVE that Biden ends conversations by getting on an Amtrak train. Which he probably has not ridden since he was a Senator during the War of 1812.*

*In reality, no one knew he was on the phone, and thought he was playing happily in his ice cream. Upon seeing him on the phone, they kicked him and gave him the Amtrak boarding excuse card to read. Then dosed him and tied him to his bed in the closet of the Oval Office aka where Monica used to do her thing.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (6PCLE)

185 173 I saw a current picture of Moochelle yesterday and she looks like Lawrence Taylor 10 years after retirement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK

She always walked like a linebacker. I called it the fishwife walk. Toes pointed out, sorta waddly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:59 PM (VKuXR)



She looks like LT's thigh after Theismann's linemen got to it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (x0n13)

186 Jill is going to get what she deserves.
Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (ri7hX)

She's already got that piece of shit around her neck, so her life is a living hell already.

She wakes to a "man" who crapped his diaper in bed.

Can it get much worse for her?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (VKuXR)

187 If you'd like to see a really, really bad/political hatchet job of describing the Mackay conviction/overturn situation, check out the Wikipedia write-up on it. They should be ashamed, but they're Wikipedia so...

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

188 My last meal would be a huge bowl of captain crunch so I wouldn't have to deal with the mouth shredding after.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (RUMEY)

189 What's the link to Mooches latest picture ???

Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (q/j2W)

190 Kamala, when the walls fell

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (me7w4)

191 Thinking about her aides getting this joke of a woman interviews and not even doing the homework of realizing the host was a practicing Muslim that does not eat pork and having her whip out the witty bon mot about bacon is a spice, I mean I hope they are unemployable by polite society in any meaningful position.

I hate these people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (fGmWu)

192 Seriously, who here among us would even hire Kamala Harris to run a cash register at the local 7-11?

That's no embellishment. She's a flake and marginally retarded.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (dIske)

193 163 Been thinking some more about the 2nd Circuit Appeals Court dismissing Mackay's conviction, and that truly is a Big Deal for all of us. What the Biden admin did was to charge with Conspiracy to violate some unspecified voters rights, without any underlying criminal conviction to base such a conspiracy on. This has been a favorite Lawfare tactic of the left for the last several years, because it appeared to be a loophole where the Government could charge someone for talking about something, without anyone actually ever doing it. It's been a backdoor way to do away with 1st Amendment protections.

I suspect that is why the 2nd Circuit took the case, and was unanimous in overturning it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM


I believe multiple Lefties did the exact inverse of his "meme" to try and trick Republicans into a fake vote.

None of THEM were charged.

If he had lost on this aspect, could he have won on a viewpoint discrimination (inequal application of the law) question?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (HlyYF)

194 So the city is seizing the property. Who could have seen that coming?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (d8x+f)

195 That's because turds float.

an observation my sister made while tending to her husband as he withered from pancreatic cancer

"all of his shit floated, he was literally shitting his body away"

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (8uzBS)

196 So according to her advance booking staffers, she was gonna bitch to a muslim "influencer" about how dumb it is to have to take one's shoes off to get on a plane?

Huh.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (E0p3T)

197 If Kamala ever gave a TED Talk half the audience would have an existential crisis and commit suicide on the spor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (JtH6i)

198 What's the link to Mooches latest picture ???
Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (q/j2W)

Blink twice if someone is forcing you to type this.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (k9OZB)

199 meme boy needs to sue Biden.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (RUMEY)

200 194 So the city is seizing the property. Who could have seen that coming?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (d8x+f)

If they took Slim Shady's house for a park, would that be Eminem Domain?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (ynpvh)

201 If I was to be executed, I'd eat lots of beans...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Beans, sauerkraut, brats cooked all together w/o draining the fat.
Deviled eggs.
Maybe a pot of strong coffee too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

202 182 99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.

An excellent student. And she didn't ever use her back hole.
Posted by: Le Petomaine at July 09, 2025 06:01 PM (DsA2n)

Pure poetry, folks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (VKuXR)

203 If you fold the slice over, a taco. If you put two slices together, a sandwich...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Think of it as an open-face calzone.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (XZ5S6)

204 > Jill is going to get what she deserves.
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Hunter's spooge?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (Q4IgG)

205 Really bacon grease is the spice. My mammaws cooking was proof.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (d8x+f)

206 197 If Kamala ever gave a TED Talk half the audience would have an existential crisis and commit suicide on the spor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (JtH6i)

Well, they'd have her on her knees in no time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (ynpvh)

207 >>>What’s up with the dent in her chest?

Posted by: polynikes

>Her manboobies are gravitating toward her armpits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 06:04 PM (wzQvI)

208 Excuse me Sir........... Women do not Fart, Peel one off or Step on a Duck...

They just relieve themselves ......

182 99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.

Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 09, 2025 06:05 PM (aKoaI)

209 If he had lost on this aspect, could he have won on a viewpoint discrimination (inequal application of the law) question?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (HlyYF)

That would have been a good angle to try - but I think the Appeals Court went for the simplest and most obvious flaw in the case. It's still astounding that the Trial Court simply assumed that some Conspiracy existed and never even attempted to prove it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:06 PM (uWKK8)

210 Anchovies are perfecto in puttanesca! Ciampino spits on you from heaven.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 09, 2025 06:07 PM (wBaIH)

211 Men fart, women zephyr.

Sometimes it is a perilously dangerous zephyr, but still.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 06:07 PM (VKuXR)

212 Or, as the boy said when he was about 9, "Girl farts stink."

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 06:08 PM (VKuXR)

213 Eh mon I like dis irie jerk chicken wit sum corn bread n’ ribs to go with this fine arugula salad and Chardonnay.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 09, 2025 06:08 PM (K41Hs)

214 I have seen the Mooches latest picture and my eyes are burning, and I think I went Blind !!!!!!

I would rather look at "The Medusa" !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 09, 2025 06:08 PM (BltCC)

215 Missed the SCOTUS thread, but noticed a theme, of sorts.

Absurdly unfit, unintelligent, uninteresting people elevated to the highest levels of government. Unbelievable.

Of course even more damaging, an unfit, uninteresting, unworldly guy, barely above Kamala-level intellect, oozing with ignorance resentment and bigotry, put in the top job. TWICE.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (1m82a)

216 182 99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.
Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 09, 2025 06:05 PM (aKoaI)

If she did that I might have voted for her.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (K41Hs)

217 If he had lost on this aspect, could he have won on a viewpoint discrimination (inequal application of the law) question?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 06:02 PM (HlyYF)

That would have been a good angle to try - but I think the Appeals Court went for the simplest and most obvious flaw in the case. It's still astounding that the Trial Court simply assumed that some Conspiracy existed and never even attempted to prove it.
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If 10 of us were to "conspire" to float the patently *stupid* idea that you could cast your vote for President in the year 2024 by TEXT, and 4,900 people were stupid enough to attempt to vote by text, that doesn't mean we're guilty of criminal conspiracy. It just means 4,900 people are guilty of being criminally *stupid*.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (TN0g+)

218 "I've got one I'm sure we can agree on, Kareem - how 'bout that Pride Month, huh?!?"

Posted by: Kamalamadingdong at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (f4jia)

219 Wonder if Kami uses Mary's FART Tubes to help save the world from Global Warming ???

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 09, 2025 06:10 PM (BltCC)

220
Who in the hell is he pandering to here that could possibly offset the purposeful animosity he's creating?

The dude is out of it.
Posted by: pawn

===============

By "here" do you mean California? I think Newsom is all about the early primary states now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 06:12 PM (UmB+t)

221 It's not big deal, she could of just used the old Dem standbys.

I was HACKED!

It's AI!

You rubes are just too STUPID to get it!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (144I4)

222 I heard Biden is now doing "Life Alert" Commercials....

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (q/j2W)

223 About the SCOTUS thing, it's easy, right, and necessary to mock the idiots like Sotomayor and Jackson, who have no business near any serious job. But their ravings and rulings have nothing on the catastrophic damage done by the likes of O'Connor, Roberts, Kennedy, et al.

The most laughably dumb thing Jackson barfs up is no dumber, and less consequential, than Kennedy in Hamdan v. Bush, where he both usurped the treaty power AND declared the war between the US and AQ not of an international nature.

And all of the sub-mediocrity of the judicial branch and legal cult in general isn't even the point. It's the judiciary's absurd aggrandizement of so much power it doesn't have and shouldn't have, the de fact erasure of the constitution.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (1m82a)

224 That picture of Mooch. The hormones aren't working anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (HFcKg)

225 I'm an old man. So very old. How old am I? I can remember when Jonah Goldberg was relevant.

Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (jfih4)

226 Ofc Muslims are also the reason people have to take their shoes off at the airport...

Posted by: steevy at July 09, 2025 06:14 PM (YwEeS)

227 Still can beat the piss out of Barry .............

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 09, 2025 06:14 PM (q/j2W)

228 216 182 99 Kamala could have farted Yankee Doodle Dandy through an empty soup can and the media would have declared it a Pavartati-worthy rendition of a classic and proof of her American patriotism.
Posted by: Franklin Stein at July 09, 2025 06:05 PM (aKoaI)

If she did that I might have voted for her.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (K41Hs)

No chance Kamalaladingdong could have mustered much more than a near-silent "whoosh".

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 09, 2025 06:15 PM (uxAXv)

229 215 Missed the SCOTUS thread, but noticed a theme, of sorts.

Absurdly unfit, unintelligent, uninteresting people elevated to the highest levels of government. Unbelievable.

Of course even more damaging, an unfit, uninteresting, unworldly guy, barely above Kamala-level intellect, oozing with ignorance resentment and bigotry, put in the top job. TWICE.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 06:09 PM (1m82a)

———-

Best system of government in the world.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 09, 2025 06:17 PM (+pRFM)

230
Michelle Obama pic is from 2022.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 06:17 PM (UmB+t)

231 Gosh, Kareem Rahma cetainly appears to be a wholesome young man. Probably was a Boy Scout.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 06:17 PM (XeU6L)

232 And of course he's willing to talk about it NOW, more than 8 months after the election.

So stunning. So brave.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 06:18 PM (setIA)

233 Good grief. Did Kamala have any redeeming qualities, as a candidate, or even as a person?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)

234 Lena Dunham is well on her way to becoming Pizza the Hut.

http://tiny.cc/8q0p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (lIio7)

235 172 OT: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s request for relief from an Obama-appointed judge’s order blocking enforcement of the state’s anti-illegal immigration laws.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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How can a law against illegality be illegal?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (ncgY2)

236 Hillary tried to prevent votes for Trump with a false dossier and did cause harm and financial damages.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (VofaG)

237 234 Lena Dunham is well on her way to becoming Pizza the Hut.

http://tiny.cc/8q0p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (lIio7)

I've seen fewer chins in a Chinese phonebook.

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:21 PM (1l+t9)

238 230
Michelle Obama pic is from 2022.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 06:17 PM (UmB+t)

This is funny - Reuters "fact checking" team is now labeling it MISCAPTIONED because it's from 2022, not 2024.

without noting that means that she's even fatter and worse looking today than she was then.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:22 PM (uWKK8)

239 Good grief. Did Kamala have any redeeming qualities, as a candidate, or even as a person?
Posted by: Bulg
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Yes

Posted by: Willie Brown at July 09, 2025 06:22 PM (XeU6L)

240 233 Good grief. Did Kamala have any redeeming qualities, as a candidate, or even as a person?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)

Ask Willie Brown

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 06:22 PM (t0Out)

241 234 Lena Dunham is well on her way to becoming Pizza the Hut.

http://tiny.cc/8q0p001
Posted by: bonhomme
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She has those long nails so she can scratch her dirty head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 06:22 PM (ncgY2)

242 without noting that means that she's even fatter and worse looking today than she was then.

Hard to believe that's possible

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 09, 2025 06:23 PM (t0Out)

243 233 Good grief. Did Kamala have any redeeming qualities, as a candidate, or even as a person?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)

By all accounts, she gave a really spectacular blow job. That's about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:23 PM (uWKK8)

244 Said it earlier, Lina Dunham is looking both facially and physically like a Vogon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 06:24 PM (JtH6i)

245 NOOD QUICK!

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 06:25 PM (TN0g+)

246 Favorite Kamala moment, "Are you his daughter?" As she was dancing with Willie Brown.

I might add I'm using the term "dancing" in the loosest sense of the word.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

247 Trump took every Swing State.

I'll chalk that one up to a redeeming quality of Kamala.

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 06:26 PM (1l+t9)

248 ... and how bacon is a spice.

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"A spice? You mean, like, a female British pop singer?

BTW, I always carry bacon around in my purse ..."

-- Hillary/Hunter 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 06:27 PM (KJPYG)

249 >>>This is funny - Reuters "fact checking" team is now labeling it MISCAPTIONED because it's from 2022, not 2024.

without noting that means that she's even fatter and worse looking today than she was then.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Is this the one she's wearing a pajama tent?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 06:27 PM (ncgY2)

250 The Wisconsin judge who aided and abetted a fugitive from the law asked to have her case dismissed.

The magistrate in her criminal trial refused.



==

hahah! Very amusing!

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 06:28 PM (g47mK)

251 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 09, 2025 06:32 PM (dKEEs)

252 71 My father used to eat those sardines that came in the flat can with a tin can opener key ( I don’t know exactly what it’s called).

Was your dad either German or an immigrant? My dad did the exact same thing. He was a teenager during WWII; came over here in '56 (legally). But he would eat the hell out of those canned sardines; i think there was a canned oyster one that looked even worse.

Posted by: Nelly at July 09, 2025 06:37 PM (cHLus)

253 That would have been a good angle to try - but I think the Appeals Court went for the simplest and most obvious flaw in the case. It's still astounding that the Trial Court simply assumed that some Conspiracy existed and never even attempted to prove it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 06:06 PM


Thanks for the legal response.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 09, 2025 06:38 PM (HlyYF)

254 Strolling through Getty Images, my ex was 5'8" or so and that was cool. But this girl is BIG, man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 06:46 PM (ncgY2)

255 I actually feel a bit sorry for the podcaster. Souds like he was just trying to make a nothing burger little podcast. The he interviews Kamala. He didn't ask for that trainwreck.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 07:06 PM (D1vbu)

256 The bacon-spice thing isn't new. That was mocked and wrung out during the campaign. Why is it news again?

Posted by: Ben at July 10, 2025 04:59 PM (34Egb)

Supreme Court Overrules Lowly District Court Judge, Okays Trump to Merely Plan for Mass Firings in the Government

Note that the lowly district court judge didn't just rule Trump couldn't fire his own employees.

No, the lowly district court judge issued a restraining order blocking Trump from even making plans for firing them.

The Supreme Court overturned that insurrectionist ruling.


The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to begin carrying out sweeping layoffs across the federal government, lifting a lower court's block on a February executive order directing agencies to initiate major workforce reductions.

Key Details:

The Court granted the administration's emergency appeal, overturning a May injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston that had halted layoffs at over 20 federal agencies.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

Affected departments include State, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and the Social Security Administration, with legal battles expected to continue over the broader implications.

Diving Deeper:

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Tuesday when the Supreme Court cleared the path for his administration to implement a sweeping plan to cut the federal workforce. The high court lifted a district court injunction that had barred the administration from enforcing a February 11 executive order directing agencies to prepare for widespread "reductions in force" (RIFs).

The unsigned order, which appeared to have an 8-1 majority, allows Trump officials to move ahead with plans that could impact tens of thousands of federal workers. The decision doesn't settle the ongoing legal fights surrounding the layoffs, but it does permit the administration to begin executing the executive order and a related Office of Management and Budget directive in the meantime.

...

In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, sharply criticized the majority, accusing them of greenlighting legally questionable moves without fully examining the facts. "While the President no doubt has the authority to manage the Executive Branch, our system does not allow the President to rewrite laws on his own under the guise of that authority," she wrote. Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions, suggesting the majority showed "enthusiasm" for rubber-stamping the administration's actions.

Note that the DEI hire Katanji couldn't even get the old DEI hire Sotomayor to agree with her.

In fact, Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened. You cannot rule that a plan is illegal, Sotomayor lectured Ketanji Brown Jackson, until that plan actually exists.

But Ketanji thinks the obligation to wait for a plan before ruling that plan unconstitutional is just more "legalese" and would prefer to continue with her Opray Winfrey Jurisprudence, in which nothing is based on precedent, rule, or reason, but is just the sort of thing that stupid leftwing women shout and yammer about to get applause from other stupid leftwing women.

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1
Good Afternoon

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

2 uno

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

3 drat !

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

4
You didn't run fast enough, lol

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (3ek7K)

5
fourseasons said something confusing at the end of the last thread about "new one." Is this some sort of code?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (UmB+t)

6 Law is hard.

Posted by: Ketanji Barbie at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

7
Just doing my duty, lol

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (3ek7K)

8 who took KBJ's exams ??

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (g47mK)

9 For the second time in two weeks, a Supreme Court justice is using her opinion to scold Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for not understanding what she is talking about.

THAT's RACIST!

Twist: This time, it's progressive Justice SONIA SOTOMAYOR doing it, patiently explaining that the Court can't� pic.twitter.com/3POzNEQXOU

Oh, uh, not racist. Carry on

Posted by: Some NPC at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)

10 Ah crap.

Posted by: Nigel at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (pdGVg)

11 Yikes! What is happening in the new King Harv ad??

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (XZ5S6)

12 Feral Employees? Get out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (zhBpy)

13 ATF, FBI, CIA, TSA, STATE, CDC. In that order.

Posted by: Farm Owner Looking For More Handouts at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (/U5Yz)

14 Every republican senator up for re-election should have an ad run in their district asking why they voted for that idiot during her confirmation.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (3Ope8)

15 off greedy sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (/U5Yz)

16 Our side's judicial appointments are supposed to be originalist. Why can't we get any district judges to issue injunctions against democrat policies? Do I just not notice it when it happens?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (B9Prs)

17 ATF, FBI, CIA, TSA, STATE, CDC. In that order.
Posted by: Farm Owner Looking For More Handouts at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (/U5Yz)

Can we make room for fedjudges?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (dGCAG)

18

I would like to diversity hire several dozen young peni...

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (DZnNJ)

19 On April 7, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 53–47 vote Later that day, she was confirmed by the same margin Republicans Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins joined all Democrats in confirming Jackson to the Supreme Court

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (t0Rmr)

20 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

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That's what we need, Jumanji. A wrecking ball the size of Jupiter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)

21 They did leave open a huge loop hole for future lawsuits when Trump actually comes up with an actual plan to fire people and close departments.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (e5NfL)

22 Ketanji please.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (zhBpy)

23



14 Every republican senator up for re-election should have an ad run in their district asking why they voted for that idiot during her confirmation.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead









beep

Posted by: Ambulatory Mitch at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (/U5Yz)

24 Some pissant judge ruled Trump can't implement a LAW that has just been passed in both house of Congress.. Why not say he can't even think about firing anyone without permission...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (VE6XX)

25 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

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You can stop now, I said I already support it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (B9Prs)

26 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts. And, I would imagine her clerks who probably write most of this nonsense for her to "massage" with her own "thoughts" are also DEI dropouts from some inner city shit hole school system.

Or they're all just fucking stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Q4IgG)

27 Cue another six dozen news stories about how Judge Jumanji is "making her voice heard" and offering her the opportunity to expound on her judicial philosophy of opining on the way government should work.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (lIio7)

28 >>>20 "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy."

Why it's almost as if that's what the people voted for.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

29 The fact that she was reversed 9-0 by the Supremes when she was an appellate judge should have been a tell.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (jc0TO)

30 What KJB really wants is to replace the Supreme Court with The View.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (od0dV)

31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

https://tinyurl.com/e5mtx8mc

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

32 Nothing the Dems do is scary.

You're giving them too much gravitas.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

33 A hard lawyer is good to find.

Posted by: They just bend over the pages at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (jtoyl)

34 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (uWKK8)

35 KBJ is a BFJ

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2sMLA)

36 Oprah Winfrey Jurisprudence

You get an injunction and you get an injunction and you get an injunction (you being Trump).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (ZVgZ4)

37 It would be supremely ironic if DEI hire KBJ caused DEI hire Sotomayor to have a diabetic stroke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (JtH6i)

38 I need a drink...

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (jtoyl)

39 KBJ is a BFJ
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2sMLA)
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On the QT. PDQ.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (XZ5S6)

40 31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

https://tinyurl.com/e5mtx8mc
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

Ironically, that is one of the few things Harris was right about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

41 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 04:27 PM (QqW4y)

Bwahahahhahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (3Ope8)

42 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.
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I don't have a problem with POTUS doing that.

It's literally part of his job as the head of the Executive Branch.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (7fElN)

43 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.



THAT'S WHAT WE VOTED FOR YOU TWIT.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:29 PM (DNyHT)

44 Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.

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That would be a *difference without a distinction*.

Both are "fundamentally non-serious" choices.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TN0g+)

45 Affirmative action Jackson!!!

What an ultra maroon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (hpmMD)

46 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:


I mean, if she was doing this stuff intentionally she'd be one of the top comedians in the world.

Debating whether bacon is a spice with a Muslim? Comedy gold.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (t0Rmr)

47 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (zhBpy)

48 But KJB is super smart, she knows the lyrics to musical Oklahoma.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Oy/m2)

49 I was thinking the NPC's at DU are probably melting down over this ruling, not knowing who deserves the 15 minutes of hate. I then realized the NPC will probably pretend this ruling never happened.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

50 Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions,


BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT AUTHORITY.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (DNyHT)

51 Jackson believes the Executive branch has to go to Congress first to dictate the administration of Federal Agencies.
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No she doesn't. What she "believes" will change depending on the day and who it is she's doing the believing to and for.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (E0p3T)

52 I VOTED FOR DRUMHEAD COURTS SO YOU BETTER BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'RE GETTING, DU.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

53 Jeez this broad is thick.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (DNyHT)

54 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?

And drinking your own bodily fluids!

Posted by: Gandhi at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

55 It's really amazing to see that over the last 50 or 60 years, the Democrats really have come to believe that the Bureaucracy is a 4th separate branch of government, and the most important one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (uWKK8)

56 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (zhBpy)
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The bacon must flow!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (XZ5S6)

57 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

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I like how this makes me actually like her a teeny tiny little bit more and the dems are so mental that they ensured I never heard of it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (B9Prs)

58 Bacon is meat. Don't overthink it.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (fV+MH)

59 Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (HFcKg)

60 The bacon must flow!

Pigs
In
SPACE

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (t0Rmr)

61 But KJB is super smart, she knows the lyrics to musical Oklahoma.
Posted by: dantesed

I bet she used cue cards/teleprompter while "acting".

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (2sMLA)

62


There sure does seem to be a long term plan to make black people seem a lot smarter than they are, and less savage and violent.

Wonder why that is and who made that DEIcision? Who would do such a thing and for what reason?

I'm not saying it's Jews and all that, there is some other thing going on. I mean, it's pretty obvious.

Is it that they are the progressive pets that keep the gravy train rolling? Could be. Where would those parasites be without black people to pretend to care about, who would give them awards for documentaries and shit?

It's hilarious.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (et1vG)

63 Lawdy! Looks like I bees in over my head! Help! Help! Help me!
I thinks dats dem Courts is when White folk give each other stuff don't neither of em need.

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Jackson at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (lX1hk)

64 50 Jackson also took aim at the court's increasing willingness to override district courts in emergency decisions,"

What I think is most interesting about this opinion is that it shows that KBJ and the rest of the court are splitting up hard, and they aren't even trying to respect each other in their opinions anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)

65 Ace, its worse than you think. In a forum she attended, she explains that her writings reflects her idea of how government and the courts "should" work and how she "feels" about any given case.

No wonder the other jurists are sick of her bullsh*t.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

66 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (uWKK

I think everyone who has gotten advanced degrees saw these people in school. The assumption was though, they were going to end up in some dead end of the profession, and would not really be in a position to hurt too many people.

Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

67 When you've lost Sotomayer and Kagan........

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (tT6L1)

68 The bacon must flow!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM


Summon a wench.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (jc0TO)

69 MUADIBS!!!

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (zhBpy)

70 Dune was about spice. Bacon is spice. Dune is about bacon?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yup, and both must flow!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (hpmMD)

71 My favorite part about the injunction was who was granted standing to sue:
Labor unions, non-profits and city governments.
Because they have a right, a superior interest in how the federal government is managed by the Executive.

You know whose interests are never considered in any of these illegal injunctions?
The voters, the taxpayers, the citizens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (T/tp/)

72 Why is everybody shouting?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (viF8m)

73 46 I mean, if she was doing this stuff intentionally she'd be one of the top comedians in the world.

Debating whether bacon is a spice with a Muslim? Comedy gold.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:30 PM (t0Rmr

====
Theory:

Kamala is a Borat imitation that spiraled way out of control.

Discuss.

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Ea9fr)

74 Dune: Bacon Worms, The Harvest

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (tT6L1)

75 Her truth

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (63Dwl)

76 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court.

Do something you twink Rs.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (0eaVi)

77 Politifact: You Can’t Call Mamdani a Communist Just Because He Said All These Communist Things

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But use the wrong pronoun, I mean, you know, the right pronoun, and there's hell to pay!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:36 PM (L/fGl)

78 Jeez this broad is thick.
Posted by: rickb223

We're back to talking about this morning's art?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

79 Why is everybody shouting?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (viF8m)

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It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (tT6L1)

80

I remember stting down, first day of English II at a second rate state school.

The prof comes in, black guy in thick glasses.

Hands out the syllabus and says we're going to work real hard, essays all the time. The syllabus was all race-based bullshit. Every book.

I walked out and dropped the class and got a white British prof, who was a nice guy and an excellent teacher. Class was wonderful.

In another class we were given a book of short stories about life in the city. It was so awful. Who would live like that. Crime and squalor. Depression. Guess us whites needed to know.

I'm sure the author won an award for it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (et1vG)

81 It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM


*prepares hair ignition torch*

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

82 Jumanji may not be the worst Supreme Court justice ever (Roger B. Taney and Earl Warren will forever tussle for that crown), but she's undoubtedly the dumbest.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (3CxhS)

83 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court.

Do something you twink Rs.
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Ask Collins and Mitt and Mitch what they admired about this bint' as well.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TN0g+)

84 'If she had said, “Bacon is amazing,” it would have made sense'

PJ Media
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No, the segment is for "hot takes". That's not a hot take, it would be beyond fucking retarded. Even more retarded than the one she said. Why do we have retards writing about other retards??? Can America do any better than this? Is this really life now?

Is this why I don't click on websites? I thought it was because of viruses or because I'm getting old. But no - it's this.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (E0p3T)

85 If she continues down this path, measures can be taken:

https://is.gd/d8hROH

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

86 23 and me = KJB and her IQ.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (2sMLA)

87 Jumanji the sequel movies > Jumanji the original movie >>>> Supreme Court Justice Jumanji

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (t0Rmr)

88 *prepares hair ignition torch*
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)
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think it's wise to flaunt your hair privilege among all of these 29 year olds?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (tT6L1)

89 Is KBJ really this dumb or she trolling.

I'm starting to think she's trolling.

Posted by: Shenanigans at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (QfJZM)

90 ‘ Trump should have first obtained authorization from Congress before attempting to reorganize federal agencies.’

‘Reorganize federal agencies’ … a new NPC programming buzzword is launched. You heard it here first.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (aeiyZ)

91

Can this country survive the leadership of black women?

Not even Condi Rice I'm afraid.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (et1vG)

92 Bacon is meat. Don't overthink it.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (fV+MH)

Ari Shaffir has a hilarious bit about how, if you're making soup, and some goy comes by and tosses a slab of bacon in the soup, the question of whether you can still eat the soup is based on the ratio of soup to bacon.

I'm no expert on this topic, but apparently he wasn't just making this up, that it's in the Talmud.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (dGCAG)

93 23 and me = KJB and her IQ.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM


This cried out for a Carnac the Magnificent nic.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

94 Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG

Brennan is a great example. I had a Belgian Malinois named Buck who was noticeably more intelligent than Brennan.

But, he proved willing to break any law and tell any lie, so George Tenet shepherded him all the way to the top.

Government looooves evil 'tards likes Brennan and KBJ. They're perfect.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (BI5O2)

95 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (Umrme)

96 Being called a dummy by Sotomayor would be like having your hot girlfriend stolen by David Hogg.

Suicide would be an option.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

97 The left doesn't care about traditional notions of competence, so you should expect they'll appoint idiotic judges. In her case she's black, reads what is written for her, and judges things by a far left standard and that's all they want.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (t0Rmr)

98 It won't be serious until we starting running in circles while screaming.



it is hoverounds for half the horde

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (yQPGQ)

99 76 Yeah, yeah. Getting tired of this thing. Start digging up dirt on the sow. Release every nasty bit of research on her. Hound her from office. Say anything and everything about her to force the Ds to walk away from her. Her rulings have no basis in law, just politics. Destroy her if she won't resign. She has no business being on the court."

I found out some Real Dirt on her - she's related, by marriage, to that arch-criminal Paul Ryan. It's true!

ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK8)

100 >>>Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened.

I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes.

That's my prediction. The court will find that laws and blah blah blah are stupid and gay.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uCjyK)

101 I was Told that there would be no Legalese here!

Posted by: Ketanji shaft Jackson at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (Rvxb7)

102 wasn't just making this up, that it's in the Talmud.

That talmuddies the waters.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (Umrme)

103 I found out some Real Dirt on her - she's related, by marriage, to that arch-criminal Paul Ryan. It's true!

ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK

It's a big club, and you ain't in it - George Carlin

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uCjyK)

104 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats


Who's the fellow with the big head?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

105 Somewhere I saw a photo of the judge from social media -- holy cow she had a set of gums like a horse and no upper lip at all.

It was traumatizing to see, so I am surprised Ace did not include it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (jLcCX)

106 When you live by the sword, you must DEI by the sword.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (wzQvI)

107
it is hoverounds for half the horde
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (yQPGQ)


Get off my lawn

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (VE6XX)

108 She probably thinks that the executive branch has something to do with a tree.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)

109 KJB, the Biden era gift that keeps on giving. Truly amazing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (tT6L1)

110 We're back to talking about this morning's art?
Posted by: Bulg


Nah. This is between her ears.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (DNyHT)

111 You cannot rule that a plan is illegal
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Correction: Planning to plan is illegal.

Which was also the basis for the injunctions against the birthright citizenship EO--the EO merely directed the agencies to develop plans to end it.

And 3 different judges and the relevant appeals courts agreed:
It is illegal to even review the statues, laws and regulations to determine a way to end it.

As I said, it really gives the game away on the actual Constitutionality of BRC--if it was such sound and settled law, there'd be no fear at all in merely reviewing its basis.

But, they know it's flimsy, made-up bullshit that--once examined in full light--with wither and fade into the stupid pit of lies it was born from.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (T/tp/)

112 Jumanji may not be the worst Supreme Court justice ever (Roger B. Taney and Earl Warren will forever tussle for that crown), but she's undoubtedly the dumbest.
Posted by: MrUNIVAC at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (3CxhS)
——

She’s the best SC justice ever. She is doing exactly what she was chosen to do: advance her constituents’ interests no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had conservative justices like this.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (aeiyZ)

113 Legalese

Those cute little dogs on old ladies laps?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Umrme)

114 Ask Collins and Mitt and Mitch what they admired about this bint' as well.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TN0g+)

The crease in her pantsuits?

The Three Stooges are responsible for her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0eaVi)

115 Following Ban on Migrants, Subscriptions at Swiss Swimming Pool Surge

-
Now, if they could just do something about the mosquitoes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

116 Is KBJ really this dumb or she trolling.

I'm starting to think she's trolling.
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I'm going with the "she's that dumb" choice.

I think a great attempt at trolling for a Supreme Court judge would be to include into a dissent some sort of George Will quote from one the articles he wrote on baseball.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

117 Somewhere I saw a photo of the judge from social media -- holy cow she had a set of gums like a horse and no upper lip at all.

It was traumatizing to see, so I am surprised Ace did not include it.
Posted by: bob


See. If we could post pictures, you could do it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (DNyHT)

118 If BRC was a think, Congress wouldn't have had to give the American Indians citizenship in a separate effort...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)

119 You have the initials wrong. They are not KJB they are DEI. And she is every bit as stupid and arrogant as she appears.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (wBaIH)

120 Those cute little dogs on old ladies laps?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM



Like little trolls.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (jc0TO)

121 We're back to talking about this morning's art?

Fat girl on an ottoman?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Umrme)

122 Pretty emblematic of the differences in disposition between you and your opponents when their supreme court justices' characterization of anything that prevents them from achieving their goal is "legalese."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (B9Prs)

123 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

124 Disappointed in the lack of black clapping hands placed intermittently in her dissent.

Posted by: Cmonman at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (wgct4)

125 [KJB] received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.

"With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

126 See. If we could post pictures, you'd see moar boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Umrme)

127 95 It won't be serious until we start making giant paper mache heads.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:40 PM (Umrme)

Those are the dumbest things ever. I wonder how many hours they put into their little art projects and what kind of weirdo takes the equivalent of an awkward carry on to a protest. I bet even the other protestors make fun of the giant head carrying people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (BvTfc)

128 George Will. What a fag.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

129
Fat girl on an ottoman?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Umrme)
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Why bring Grand Viziers and harems into this?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

130 ok that really just tells all of us how incestuous that entire system really is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK

Always the kinks with them, isn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0eaVi)

131 "With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

In *1992*. We haven't been able to trust academic institutions for more than 30 years.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (B9Prs)

132 I think everyone who has gotten advanced degrees saw these people in school. The assumption was though, they were going to end up in some dead end of the profession, and would not really be in a position to hurt too many people.

Then we see them years later, in charge of things.

It's scary.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

I know several KBJ-types in real life. I don't think the ones I knew were especially stupid, but they went to law school in order to "change the system".

That's what we're seeing here. KBJ may be a retard, but shes got clerks who are presumably pretty smart. She knows what she's doing. She's trying to set up a shift in the court, hoping the democrats take over and get to appoint enough people to dramatically shift the ideological make up of the court to more people who believe in "vibe law".

As in "this is illegal because I don't like it."

It's just another symptom in the complete collapse of competency and our institutions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (uCjyK)

133 When she replaces ...wait for it.. with ...get this..., her legal journey will be complete.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

134 Fat girl on an ottoman?

That would be magnificent.

Posted by: Suleiman at July 09, 2025 04:46 PM (t0Rmr)

135 In another class we were given a book of short stories about life in the city. It was so awful. Who would live like that. Crime and squalor. Depression. Guess us whites needed to know.

I'm sure the author won an award for it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 09, 2025 04:37 PM (et1vG)
----
In one of my grad school classes, we were assigned to read a book featuring Native Americans living in an urban environment today. All of the characters were awful. I didn't like any of them. Not one character had any redeeming qualities or experienced growth and development into a better person.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (7fElN)

136 123 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

A burrito supreme is more intelligent than KBJ.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (BvTfc)

137 Disappointed in the lack of black clapping hands placed intermittently in her dissent.
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Yeah, I think all reports about Sotomayer should assert she "clapped back" at Kentanji's remarks.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

138 KBJ is Joe Biden's legacy.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (HFcKg)

139
Cue another six dozen news stories about how Judge Jumanji is "making her voice heard" and offering her the opportunity to expound on her judicial philosophy of opining on the way government should work.
Posted by: bonhomme

=============

"Workin' her Black girl magic" is the meme. Most effective when uttered by AWFL commentators whose eyes sparkle with awe.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:47 PM (UmB+t)

140 ""Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented""


Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (snZF9)

141 125 [KJB] received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.

"With honors". She got good grades.
Interesting how we can't trust academic institutions anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (pdGVg)

It's been longstanding practice among Ivies that once you're in you're getting good grades, without regard to putting in the work. ESPECIALLY if you're a minority.

Posted by: Truth is ugly. So is KBJ. at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

142 I like how the Liberal Bloc Justices were cheering the use of the emergency docket when it was used to stop Trump.

Cumulating with the Dreadful Midnight Order of Roberts.

Since then, as Trump won successive emergency appeals, the three Liberal Bloc were shrill and loud that this was not a proper use of the emergency docket.
And they really thought themselves clever throwing ACB's words back at her in their dissents.

Except.

Now they are down to one, lone loon, banging her old saucepan in the empty living room, demanding her cats come out and listen to her rantings.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (T/tp/)

143 I bet Ktanzy-Brown missed American History in GeadStart.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (jgmnb)

144 George Will. What a fag.
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Exactly, that's the beauty of the troll--you quote him on baseball, and not on his self-imagined role of political commentator.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

145 She’s the best SC justice ever. She is doing exactly what she was chosen to do: advance her constituents’ interests no matter what. No. Matter. What.

I wish we had conservative justices like this.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 04:42 PM (aeiyZ)

Agreed. We have Thomas, and sort of had Scalia (assuming no drugs were involved in the case!), but that's about it in modern history.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

146 Dog walks into a bar with a wounded mouth, says
I'm looking for the man that shot my maw.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (Umrme)

147 That's what we're seeing here. KBJ may be a retard, but shes got clerks who are presumably pretty smart. She knows what she's doing. She's trying to set up a shift in the court, hoping the democrats take over and get to appoint enough people to dramatically shift the ideological make up of the court to more people who believe in "vibe law".

As in "this is illegal because I don't like it."

It's just another symptom in the complete collapse of competency and our institutions.
Posted by: H



yea, it is not so, nobody with any choices is clerking for this retarded ho

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (yQPGQ)

148 Can we at least diagnose Ketanji with Type 2 Copro-Cerebral-Retardo-Tourette's Disorder?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (qwx/I)

149 I'm going with the "she's that dumb" choice.

I think a great attempt at trolling for a Supreme Court judge would be to include into a dissent some sort of George Will quote from one the articles he wrote on baseball.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

The reason it has to be dumbidity is that with each ignorant opinion, she's talking herself out of a chance to *ever* write a majority opinion - usually someone new on the Court will be tossed one or two a year, just so they can show they can do something worthwhile. But she's turning herself into Prissy from GWTW - "I don' know nuthin' bout birthin' no babies, Mizz Scarlet!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uWKK8)

150 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

She's too stupid to realize that that is exactly what we want.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (0Htd1)

151 If I'm ever king, George Will, Jay Nordlinger, and many other ConInc scribblers will be placed in automated armatures attached to toilets, that subject them to perpetual swirlies.

We'll have to engineer cattle-rated ones for ones like Goldberg and Williamson, but I'll leave those details to the nerds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (BI5O2)

152
Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 09, 2025 04:48 PM (snZF9)
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Good to see you. Missed your rather pithy take on life.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (tT6L1)

153 Men have a penis and testes, women have a vulva and uterus.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (wzQvI)

154 "KBJ is Joe Biden's legacy.
Posted by: Ben Had a"

She's his parting fart walk.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (fV+MH)

155 George Will. What a fag.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

What did Mr. Bowtie Atheist say now?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

156 Can this country survive the leadership of black women?
......

I don't think so. I've watched MTV.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

157 it is the vids of her sailing with carnival now, waving a stack of food stamps and a fifth of hennesy as she twerks over mooch, showing her tats that is going to get her off the courts

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (yQPGQ)

158 I'll admit I got a little suspicious when her dissent started thusly:

There will be four parts to this dissent - number three will SHOCK you.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:50 PM (E0p3T)

159 Come on, it must be illegal for the President to make plans I don't like, or even to plan at all. It's in the Constitution, Article 37, "The President shall make no plans..."

Posted by: Dave at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (sbsMc)

160 yea, it is not so, nobody with any choices is clerking for this retarded ho
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (yQPGQ)

I would have clerked for her given the opportunity. Any law student would. Do you know how huge that is on a resume to say you clerked for a supreme court justice? (even if she's retarded).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (uCjyK)

161 I get the feeling that KBJ's senior thesis was as stupid and filled with grammatical errors like Big Mike's. They give off the same aura

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (JtH6i)

162 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

163 Just In:

Kamala Harris claims trademark infringement by Jackson.

KBJ: Kamalas Blow Jobs flagship operation is due to open any day now.

With Wet Willie as the stores mascot.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (2sMLA)

164 162 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

Saying because ! and stamping her foot....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (VE6XX)

165 I would have clerked for her given the opportunity. Any law student would. Do you know how huge that is on a resume to say you clerked for a supreme court justice? (even if she's retarded).
Posted by: Harry



it is not a thing to say you were clerking for a retard, nobody would respect that , ever

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:52 PM (yQPGQ)

166 OT
Has anyone in the history of the internet turned off their adblocker when a website informs you you're using one and asks you to disable it?

Rachel Jeantel's response in court fits this situation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (BvTfc)

167 Agreed. We have Thomas, and sort of had Scalia (assuming no drugs were involved in the case!), but that's about it in modern history.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

The only way that could happen would be if Trump ever got enough of a lock on the Senate to appoint someone like Stephen Miller to the Court. Don't see that happening.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

168 Dog walks into a bar with a wounded mouth, says
I'm looking for the man that shot my maw.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
.......

Bartender says: "Whatta you gonna do, pee on his leg?"

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

169 She married a white surgeon. She has to be the most rapidly partisan wokester there can be. Or she will be called an oreo. Its simple. Colonized in the sheets, means she has to take to the streets.

Posted by: And he is a hyper nerdy white guy at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (+F98q)

170 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts. And, I would imagine her clerks who probably write most of this nonsense for her to "massage" with her own "thoughts" are also DEI dropouts from some inner city shit hole school system
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She is the first person to sit on the Supreme Court that was over-ruled 9-0 as a trial judge.

That's how poor of a legal mind she has.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (T/tp/)

171 @145 Alito is up there with Thomas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (JtH6i)

172 I’m waiting for a Hawaiian judge to rule scotus can’t rule against potus.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (ImXfC)

173 The only way that could happen would be if Trump ever got enough of a lock on the Senate to appoint someone like Stephen Miller to the Court. Don't see that happening.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK


Collins and Murkowski are automatic nos if the nominee is actually conservative...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (VE6XX)

174 "And this is the problem with DEI!"
----------------

No. This is the purpose of DEI.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (E0p3T)

175
Of course she did. If brains were dynamite she couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss. She makes biden look like a NASA scientist.
Posted by: Bers




1. nice having you here

2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (yQPGQ)

176 2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Good enough for Gandhi good enough for a moron

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

177 justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming "reasons"
Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:51 PM (yQPGQ)

Saying because ! and stamping her foot....
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I'm waiting for her to assert that she *strenuously* dissents!

Posted by: Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

178 Can we just offer the Alaskan Merkan a lifetime supply of coke to retire?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

179 2. why do you have a tsp of piss

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 04:55 PM (yQPGQ)

Because any more than that is too spicy.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (E0p3T)

180 why do you have a tsp of piss

Good enough for Gandhi good enough for a moron
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)
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Really glad that wasn't included in "Mary Poppins."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (XZ5S6)

181 I’m waiting for a Hawaiian judge to rule scotus can’t rule against potus.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 04:54 PM (ImXfC)

That's a very long wait.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Oy/m2)

182 If you still doubt her brilliance . . .

End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Rep. Jamsime Crockett:
"VioIence is all coming from MAGA, not the left. Even the 2 who tried kiIIing Trump are Trump supporters."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

183 > Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, claiming the decision gives President Trump a "wrecking ball" to use against the federal bureaucracy.

Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)

184 This Jumanji chick is a bit of a twat, isn't she?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VKuXR)

185 She's his parting fart walk.
Posted by: eleven

Joe hasn't been able to trust a fart since 1987.

Posted by: Doktor Dr. Jill, Harpy/Delaware at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (G5+As)

186 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)
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Excuse me, I thought we were in America!

Posted by: Randy Marsh, under arrest at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (XZ5S6)

187 "I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes."

You have described the WA state court system

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (AcTAo)

188 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)

I"m sorry, I thought this was America!

Posted by: Judge Randy Kentanji Brown Marsh at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (B9Prs)

189 can the USSC rule that the USSC has only 8 members? they seem like they want to

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

190 178 Can we just offer the Alaskan Merkan a lifetime supply of coke to retire?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

If you can tease a hook into that mouth and ground her, we would all appreciate it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (VKuXR)

191 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Dear Justice Dumb as a Stump:

You are a retarded bag of hammers. You serve no purpose and nothing you say will change that because you say stupid shit. You got to the SCOTUS because of the color of your skin. Not merit. Not intelligence. Just pigmentation.
You are the weakest link.
Goodbye.

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2J/Lj)

192 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.

http://tiny.cc/qm0p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (lIio7)

193 This Jumanji chick is a bit of a twat, isn't she?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VKuXR)

Dummy doesn't even know how to define a woman. So, yeah.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (HqoXD)

194 At first I was leaning towards the idea that KBJ was actually intelligent, but was consumed by ideology. Now I think she's a barely literate affirmative action beneficiary who has no clue what she's supposed to be doing there, and is too arrogant to accept any advice, even from her friend Sotomayer.

Might as well have Jasmine Crockett on the court.
--
Like Temu Obama jabbering against the OBBB, it seems the more she talks, the more she convinces the rest of the Court she's wrong.

I imagine Thomas sits in the conference meeting, eyes closed, muttering below his breath "dis bitch again."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (T/tp/)

195 Which is essentially the same argument functionally illiterate people use when police are arresting them for a legitimate reason. They don't like what's happening, so the cops are violating their constitutional rights.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:57 PM (lIio7)


The burden of being a "suborn citizen"!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (D7oie)

196 OK, it was the other judge - the one who blocked not giving money to planned parenthood.

I cruelly present Indira Talwani and her extraordinary gums:

https://tinyurl.com/2dwcxfeu

Goes to Slaynews

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX)

197 Justice Jackson. Enjoys white meat. Literally.

Posted by: And he is a hyper nerdy white guy at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (+F98q)

198 We need Boston Dynamics to build Swirliebots that just storm through newsrooms swirly-ing everything that moves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (BI5O2)

199 Affirmative Action Has Consequences

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (Bi+MU)

200 Kind of OT, but we go months at a time now without any notice of Mitt Romney.
It's quite delightful.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (n4GiU)

201 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts.

Can you imagine, as an attorney, applying for a job and having "clerked for Justice Jackson" on your resume?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

202 it is rumored somebody has audio of her screaming in conference " do not touch me, I am a femal you need a female officer and I want a supervisor!"

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (yQPGQ)

203
The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice" is a completely different thing from what's Constitutional and legal is one of the Big Steps one takes in maturing intellectually, even morally and ethically imo.

Yes, it's somehow not "fair" that people who work hard digging ditches don't get paid as well as nasty, shitty actors. It's not "nice" that hard-working border crashers get kicked out of the country.

When I was a Catholic school girl, I though the US president should wave the magic wand they get when they assume office and declare universal peace and wealth. Then I grew up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

204 can the USSC rule that the USSC has only 8 members? they seem like they want to
Posted by: BlackOrchid

The number of SC justices is determined by legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

205 You realize that she is pretty much a dream come true for the left. She's black, and she's stupid, and she's loud about it, which fits every one of their stereotypes. They also have managed to keep her on the plantation, so they think she hung the moon.

Nobody told her that stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (VKuXR)

206 192 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.

http://tiny.cc/qm0p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:59 PM (lIio7)

Saw that, it's great! Best part - the Appeals Court ruled unanimously that there was NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE on which the Trial Court could have based it's ruling. Definitively answers the questions - can jury trials ever be corrupt? YES, absolutely and completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

207 Odds KJB finds a reason to step down?

Like we could be so lucky. She’ll probably double down on stupid.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (gdYMr)

208 I imagine Thomas sits in the conference meeting, eyes closed, muttering below his breath "dis bitch again."
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He may have been that way at first, but with how things are going he's probably sitting there hoping its not *too* obvious that he's laughing his ass off inside every time she speaks.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

209
Next on TikTok: Supreme Court justices blubbering in cars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (HZi96)

210 When I was a Catholic school girl, I though the US president should wave the magic wand they get when they assume office and declare universal peace and wealth. Then I grew up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

To be fair, the Apostles thought Jesus should do that. He didn't. He knows us too well for that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (VKuXR)

211 Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

212
When I was a Catholic school girl,
Posted by: Blonde



and

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (yQPGQ)

213 Until the Executive ignores the Judiciary, the Judiciary is superior to the Executive. No amount of clever parsing can change it.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (qFAFE)

214 further OT adblocking rant
Yesterday I learnt that some websites are blocking the best adblocking browser "Brave". Like "lobste.rs".
I needed that one because I was doing math research, one place I know KJB won't ever bother me.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (KAw7u)

215 Kind of OT, but we go months at a time now without any notice of Mitt Romney.
It's quite delightful.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (n4GiU)

Mitt Romney? He's a standup guy!

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (0eaVi)

216
Odds KJB finds a reason to step down?

________

Zero point zero. She will expect everyone else to step down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (HZi96)

217 sort of in the same topic:

newest EO from the White House

Ensuring Accountability and Prioritizing Public Safety in Federal Hiring


"the following policy shall govern the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the Executive Branch through October 15, 2025: no Federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created, except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or required by applicable law."

I am awaiting the TRO on this one.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (D7oie)

218 161 I get the feeling that KBJ's senior thesis was as stupid and filled with grammatical errors like Big Mike's. They give off the same aura
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I concur in part, and dissent in part.

I think KBJ is stupid, but not lazy. Which is the most dangerous combination.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

219 Justice Jackson. Enjoys white meat. Literally.
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Likely the only thing we agree on.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (+F98q)

220 No polls. Must be unbelievable figures. Or I just don't get enough fake news.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (zZJ+I)

221 The number of SC justices is determined by legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President.
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That's just "legalise".

Posted by: Supreme Who Can't Define...Anything at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (TN0g+)

222 When I was a Catholic school girl,
Posted by: Blonde



and
Posted by: n

Catholic schools have bands, no? And therefore attend band camps?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

223 The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice" is a completely different thing from what's Constitutional and legal is one of the Big Steps one takes in maturing intellectually, even morally and ethically imo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:01 PM (UmB+t)

More importantly for a supreme court justice is that every decision you write will be used by lawyers across the country in their legal briefs to courts, and is supposed to be treated with the utmost respect and precedence by trial judges.

Which is why typically SCOTUS is very careful about what they write, because, you know, unintended consequences.

I don't think KJB fully realizes that or what she could be setting in motion if some of her opinions were the majority opinion.

Because if precedence says that a President can't tell the executive branch what to do, there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

224 And then people wonder why Affirmative Action has such a bad rap.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (7fVLG)

225 201 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be forced to release her various educational transcripts."

Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

226
The other justices make KJB sit at the little kids table during conferences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (HZi96)

227 The realization that what's cosmically "fair" and "nice"
Posted by: Blonde



in defense of the same guys, not do not get the moral / legal distinctions

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (yQPGQ)

228 "the following policy shall govern the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the Executive Branch through October 15, 2025: no Federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created, except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or required by applicable law."

I am awaiting the TRO on this one.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:03 PM (D7oie)

USACE was already under that hiring freeze before the buy-out. I don't think this is new.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (VKuXR)

229 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX)

Yes, she's "gummy" and not attractive, but then Boasberg is not exactly Mr. Universe either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2GCMq)

230 "When I was a Catholic school girl"

Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara. They chain themselves to the axles of big mac trucks.
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks

Posted by: Joan Crawford at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (KAi1n)

231 You know who's got a really nice ass? That's right. Mitt Rom- aaaah! Noooo! Not the Swirliebot!

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (BI5O2)

232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam

Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

233 196 OK, it was the other judge - the one who blocked not giving money to planned parenthood.

I cruelly present Indira Talwani and her extraordinary gums:

https://tinyurl.com/2dwcxfeu

Goes to Slaynews
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (jLcCX
Somehow reminds me Harry Potter movies.

Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (jgmnb)

234 Saw that, it's great! Best part - the Appeals Court ruled unanimously that there was NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE on which the Trial Court could have based it's ruling. Definitively answers the questions - can jury trials ever be corrupt? YES, absolutely and completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK

I didn't follow that case closely, but was the appeal of a denied motion for a directed verdict?

How did the underlying facts of the case get before the circuit court?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (uCjyK)

235 232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

I'm sure she had somebody take it for her.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (VKuXR)

236 Uh oh. Thunder here. Guess I'd better shut down the laptop.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

237 Which is why typically SCOTUS is very careful about what they write, because, you know, unintended consequences.

Have you heard of Earl Warren ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

238 Because if precedence says that a President can't tell the executive branch what to do, there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

Or even worse (and this has happened in South America and other places) the President will say "Ok, the Army still does what I tell them to do, and now my Army is going to tell the rest of you what to do."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (uWKK8)

239 235 232 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (ohhLJ)

I'm sure she had somebody take it for her.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (VKuXR)

Same as Kamala did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uWKK8)

240 Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK

Agreed. I want to see her LSAT scores.

Getting in to Harvard Law, we would expect her to be in the 99th percentile.

Right? (lol, I kid, I kid. I'm sure she scored nowhere near that)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

241 Can you imagine, as an attorney, applying for a job and having "clerked for Justice Jackson" on your resume?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
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The scary thing is that is a resume enhancer, depending on a variety of factors....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (7fElN)

242 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (VKuXR)

243 there will likely be a point in time where R's rule congress and a D is pres, and that will bite the D's in the ass big time
==
Objection, facts not in evidence. History shows that the rules only apply to us and not to them.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (+F98q)

244 Catholic school girls have thrown away their mascara. They chain themselves to the axles of big mac trucks.
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks
Posted by: Joan Crawford
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Does this have something to do with Big Harv's coffee?

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (TN0g+)

245 Somehow reminds me Harry Potter movies.
Posted by: Eromero at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (jgmnb)

Nah, thats Nic Cage in a fatsuit, bruh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (BI5O2)

246 Oprah Winfrey Jurisprudence is too generous. More like The View Jurisprudence...

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I'm starting to be grateful that this DEI twat is a Supreme Court Justice. She's so dumb, Leftist, and self-righteous that she's normalizing conservative justices and lowering public interest in more liberal judges. I'm hopeful that's happening and she keeps this up for 50 years...

Posted by: bearski at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (Bhsk7)

247 Can you imagine how many KJB's are Air Traffic Controllers?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (7fVLG)

248 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

They let her draw pictures for her answers.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

249 Whose bitch this is?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (wzQvI)

250 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?

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Don't even get me started--did you know she once turned me into a toad???

Posted by: Zombie Dick York at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (TN0g+)

251 Omg, I just saw pics of Action Jackson standing next to Justice Roberts. She is a midget! I met Roberts at the Supreme Court. He’s a little dude. A And he towered over Jackson … when she was wearing heels. I doubt she’s taller than 4-10.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

252 248 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

They let her draw pictures for her answers.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

I just assumed she paid someone to take it for her...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (tOcjL)

253 Have you heard of Earl Warren ?
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

Yes, I can't think of any of his courts' rulings off the top of my head that weren't carefully crafted.

Yes, he used his power for promoting his political views, but they were / are usually seen as pretty tight opinions.

But whig would be the one to know that for sure, legal history is not my expertise.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)

254 That Indira chick is likewise a bit of a twat, don't you think?
Posted by: tcn in AK

My, someone is fond of the "tw-word" today.

You're not wrong, however.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)

255 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (NpAcC)

256 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfh


running with a bag of merch

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (yQPGQ)

257 BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”

Posted by: Ambulatory Mitch at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (/U5Yz)

258 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)


You argued a case before the Supremes?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

259 BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”




it is going to be a lot of jihadist to surround jfk

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (yQPGQ)

260 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida
--------

Deport.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

261 I think that unless/until there are real, life changing consequences for these judges, nothing will happen ™. And it may only take a few of them to experience these life changing events to bring the others to heel.

You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (Q4IgG)

262 You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.

Posted by: Surfperch at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (YsSvh)

263
I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

=============

DC and Massachusetts. Someone who wants to bother can see how many times she had to take it before she passed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (UmB+t)

264 Can Congress just delete a particular inferior court?

The clown from yesterday who just said Congress has to pay PP would be a good test. No impeachment, trial etc. just Sorry your office is closed. Here's a cardboard box of your shit.

Posted by: DaveA at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (FhXTo)

265 Islamists have surrounded the airport,

GASSSSSSSSSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (+E2T+)

266 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZbrush.

He was the defendant. Failed to stop in the name of love.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

267 262 You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.
Posted by: Surfperch at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (YsSvh)

How do I put this kindly?

Joe Biden severely limited his options when he pledged to appoint a black woman on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (uCjyK)

268 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: B



they were even signing stop in the name of love

Posted by: n at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (yQPGQ)

269 it is going to be a lot of jihadist to surround jfk
Posted by: n


It borders the ocean, right? I doubt there are jihadis in boats surrounding that part.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

270 Barking up the wrong tree there - I'll guarantee you she got straight A+ grades in every class she ever took. I'll guarantee you that she was given those A+ grades the day she signed up for the class, and the professor considered it a great honor that she actually showed up some of the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK

Agreed. I want to see her LSAT scores.

Getting in to Harvard Law, we would expect her to be in the 99th percentile.

Right? (lol, I kid, I kid. I'm sure she scored nowhere near that)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

A couple of general statements: Girls do better in school, pound for pound, than boys do. They're geared for it. Boys have to switch to another gear to adhere to the school setting.

Intelligence, of course, is not always measured by school performance, and some people do really well on tests, but can't think their way out of a revolving door.

In a way, some of these female students who do really well, they don't really put in much "work" to get the grades, and so it probably goes without saying, they don't really learn much. Of whatever there is to learn in school.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)

271 I'm left to wonder how KBJ actually passed the bar exam
Posted by: Halfhand

=============

DC and Massachusetts. Someone who wants to bother can see how many times she had to take it before she passed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:13 PM (UmB+t)

I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (uCjyK)

272 You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: B



they were even signing stop in the name of love
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His defense was that you can't hurry love...

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

273 Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.
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Which services? Spell them out for us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (7fElN)

274 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)


You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (7
==4
While seemingly unlikely, it is possible. I have known a few lawyers who have done it after getting cert.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (+F98q)

275 You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


You can with a good sponsor.

Posted by: DaveA at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (FhXTo)

276 Jackson has 3-4 law clerks.
These are the top of the very top of the top law school's class.
The most sought after job by larval lawyers.

And.

And all that back-up brainpower is over-taxed and red-lined attempting to guide her drafts into passable legal opinions.

This is the Cleveland Browns, with all top four draft picks, and the Head Coach Jackson is drawing hopscotch instructions in crayon and demanding they turn that into touchdowns.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (T/tp/)

277 . I doubt she’s taller than 4-10.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)

My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)

278 I think that unless/until there are real, life changing consequences for these judges, nothing will happen ™. And it may only take a few of them to experience these life changing events to bring the others to heel.

You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 05:12 PM (Q4IgG)



I've long thought this. And the 'life changing consequences' won't - and don't need to - actually turn them into reasonable, thoughtful people. That would be naive. But it will scare them into not doing the wrong thing All. Of. The. Fucking. Time.


And that would be a good thing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (7fVLG)

279 I didn't follow that case closely, but was the appeal of a denied motion for a directed verdict?

How did the underlying facts of the case get before the circuit court?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:06 PM (uCjyK)

This is from the Appeals Court ruling today:
"Defendant-Appellant Douglass Mackey (“Mackey” appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on October 25, 2023 after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Donnelly, J.). Mackey
was convicted of conspiring to injure citizens in thevexercise of their right to votevin violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 based on three memes he posted or reposted on
Twitter shortly before the 2016 presidential election. These memes falsely suggested that supporters of then-candidate Hillary Clinton could vote by text message. On appeal, Mackey argues, inter alia, that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he knowingly agreed to
join the charged conspiracy. We agree."

Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK8)

280 >>@RepRashida

This illegitimate SCOTUS continues to do Trump’s bidding, allowing him to take a wrecking ball to federal agencies and fire thousands of federal workers who provide the services our families rely on. We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.


"the services our families rely on" ... uh, speak for yourself there

Posted by: the dandy at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (8l8nW)

281 Have you heard of Earl Warren ?
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (qFAFE)

Yes, I can't think of any of his courts' rulings off the top of my head that weren't carefully crafted.

Yes, he used his power for promoting his political views, but they were / are usually seen as pretty tight opinions.

But whig would be the one to know that for sure, legal history is not my expertise.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)
——

Warren was a smart guy and a Republican. He hated FDR’s New Deal and was nominated for the SC by Ike. Many of his decisions were conservative, or at least considered that at the time. He did go off the rails in areas like criminal justice. But most of even those decisions were defensible at the time. It’s only later that they were corrupted and polluted into what we know today.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (aeiyZ)

282
You know, Jackson's appointment really baffles me, when the position opened up I assumed Biden would nominate some law professor or someone else who could act as a sort of mastermind while the other two leftwing justices acted as rubber stamps, but instead they appointed a third affirmative action hire rubber stamp.
Posted by: Surfperch

================

She was a fulfillment of Biden's promise to nominate a
[ ] Black
[ ] woman

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (UmB+t)

283 In a way, some of these female students who do really well, they don't really put in much "work" to get the grades, and so it probably goes without saying, they don't really learn much. Of whatever there is to learn in school.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)

I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

284 A travel warning. Not we're going to remove these jihadi's by force if necessary. Enjoy your new mayor NYC.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

285 Nick Flor
@ProfessorF
Sadly, Justice Ketanji Brown not knowing the definition of "woman" poses an even greater existential threat to the rule of law, because if she can't define something as basic as that, can she be counted to have the reasoning ability to rule on anything?!?

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 05:18 PM (NpAcC)

286 My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)
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My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (XZ5S6)

287 I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)

288
I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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Good lord, and they're about to make it easier? That NextGen exam is supposed to make the existing one look like Candyland.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (UmB+t)

289 Douglas Mackey, the guy who got ten years for a meme, just had his conviction thrown out by the 2nd court of appeals.
Posted by: bonhomme


The article someone linked to at Not The Bee showed a meme of his saying one could vote for Hillary by text.

Is this the same guy who got busted for a meme saying Democrats vote on Wednesday? (Same as a Democrat's meme in a previous election)

Posted by: mindful webworker - dangerous funnies at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (JYGoS)

290 The judicial branch needs to be fixed, but there aren't enough veterinarians to do the job properly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (ynpvh)

291 Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK

Wow, that's an even bigger smack down than I imagined. Very uncommon for a higher court to touch on the underlying facts on the case. For them to say, essentially "no reasonable jury could find that the prosecution proved its case on each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt" is very uncommon.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

292 Warren was a smart guy and a Republican. He hated FDR’s New Deal and was nominated for the SC by Ike. Many of his decisions were conservative, or at least considered that at the time. He did go off the rails in areas like criminal justice. But most of even those decisions were defensible at the time. It’s only later that they were corrupted and polluted into what we know today.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

He was just a figurehead on his vaunted Commission. Dulles and Jerry Ford ran that shitshow.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

293 274 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:10 PM (aeiyZ)


You argued a case before the Supremes?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (7
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While seemingly unlikely, it is possible. I have known a few lawyers who have done it after getting cert.
Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (+F98q)
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I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

294 >>>You cannot effect change on a broken system by using said broken system.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

>A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Posted by: Lord Comey at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (wzQvI)

295 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


You mean like Hillary?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (Riz8t)

296 I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)

Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

297 I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.
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Agree, except I also learned some statistics and economics in undergrad. Useful in understanding a lot of stuff.

Posted by: Justice Clarence Thomas at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (+F98q)

298 [i}]BREAKING: JFK Airport officials have issued a travel advisory warning after Islamists have surrounded the airport, calling for a “global intifada.”
Posted by: Ambulatory Mitc

Arrest them all and deport them to wherever they came from.

Be a terrible shame if one happened to explode in flight and take the plane down.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (a+4eV)

299 I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

And she was hot, right?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

300 In fact, Sotomayor rebuked her for once again refusing to apply the actual laws and rules of jurisprudence and ignore the fact that no cuts have yet even happened. You cannot rule that a plan is illegal, Sotomayor lectured Ketanji Brown Jackson, until that plan actually exists.

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"I do what's right and wait for the law to catch up with me."

-- OG Anti-American and -Constitution Commie DEI Hire Justice Thurgood Marshall

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (aGVRo)

301 Short version - he was convicted of conspiracy, but no evidence was presented at trial that any conspiracy with anyone ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (uWKK

It still amazes me that he was unable to avail himself of the first amendment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (i24o9)

302 You mean like Hillary?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (Riz8t)

Yes, I would wager she was the only Yale Law Student to fail the bar that year. Or one of like two.

The fail rate for the T14 schools is very low. Shit, the fail rate for my-non T14 rate is very low. Passage rate for my school is always above 90%.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (uCjyK)

303 Wow, that's an even bigger smack down than I imagined. Very uncommon for a higher court to touch on the underlying facts on the case. For them to say, essentially "no reasonable jury could find that the prosecution proved its case on each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt" is very uncommon.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

And even better, the Appeals Court ruling was unanimous.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (uWKK8)

304 286 My daughter is 4'10". I am 5'9". I tower over the girl. Her brother is 6'4". He towers over me. We look slightly ridiculous together.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:16 PM (2J/Lj)
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My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (XZ5S6)
——

‘Amateurs’

— Shaq

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (aeiyZ)

305 Jackson's opinion shows where she'll be on free speech as well - "Bring back prior restraint! We don't need to wait and see what people we don't like are going to say!"

Posted by: Wally at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (bFYac)

306 I have a bachelors degree, a masters degree and a professional doctorate (JD).

I'd say the only time I really felt like I was actually actively learning new stuff and challenging myself was in law school, and even that was heavily weighed towards 1L year.

Overall, I think as long as you go to class, have a pulse, do at least some work, and are marginally good at figuring out how to be a good test taker (which you should know by the time you're in law school), you can graduate pretty much any level of education.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

My grad school was almost no tests. It was writing. Digging up research, plugging in citations, formatting the paper, and having a logical framework for it.

The perfessers would poke holes in it, and sometimes, you'd be writing the same damn paper the whole semester.

What I got out of class was the give and take with the other students and the perfessers, but you'd see these lumps who would be doing damn near anything other than getting into the discussion.

Those people end up being department heads and chiefs of little Indians running around doing nothing.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (dGCAG)

307 31 Harris argued bacon is a spice to muslim web influencer last year. Entire thing shitcanned and never aired:

Megyn Kelly and guest Mark Halperin just finished having a big haw-haw over the fact that Kamala was too dumb to make the case for bacon.

And neither one of those dummies was aware that the interviewer was Muslim.

This is what happens when journalists don't do journalism. Really surprised at Megyn being that stupid. Halperin is TDS affected and overrated but et tu Megyn? Watch the damn clip before making asses of yourself, "journalists."

Posted by: nobody at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (NhiOW)

308
I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)
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A.B....M.A....Ph.D. - Abmaphid! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Posted by: George at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (XZ5S6)

309 Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

Not intended as a slight at all. It's just a noteworthy distinction.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (i24o9)

310 OMG.

KBJ sez: "I think I’m aware that people are watching. They want to know how I’m going to perform in this job and in this environment. I’m doing my best work, as well as I can do because I want people to see and know that I can do anything just like anyone else."

http://tiny.cc/ao0p001

This is the kind of thing a disabled person says. They want to do their best to be as capable as people who aren't disabled. She aspires to be considered normal.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (lIio7)

311 He was just a figurehead on his vaunted Commission. Dulles and Jerry Ford ran that shitshow.
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

lol. We were talking about him as a SCOTUS justice, not him in his role on the Warren Commission.

But I'm always down for some JFK talk.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uCjyK)

312 I said previously. KJB has never had to argue a point because she's been in the left woke stew. So there's never been any pushback on her "opinion."

And that's what it's really about. "Opinion." There's a snippet of her from 2022. Forget what- but her and host both in red.

She says it's exciting to be on SCOTUS and even if she disagrees with the ruling, she gets to write an opinion. And the way she phrases it, she means opinion. Not legal opinion.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (JkCto)

313 308
I'd venture to say your BS and MS are not in the hard sciences.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM (i24o9)
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A.B....M.A....Ph.D. - Abmaphid! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Posted by: George at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (XZ5S6)

I thought frogs were abmaphids.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

314
It still amazes me that he was unable to avail himself of the first amendment.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (i24o9)

I suspect he was originally charged with Conspiracy as a way to get around a First Amendment Defense. They just forgot the part about proving that a conspiracy actually existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK8)

315 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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I thought it was hard as shit, although the grading scale may be lax. On the multistate, I was absolutely sure on less than 20 of the 200 questions. But it only took 120 to pass the multistate in most states.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (p16cu)

316 Not intended as a slight at all. It's just a noteworthy distinction.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:23 PM (i24o9)

I didn't take it as a slight. I did my best to avoid hard classes in undergrad (like advanced science or math. Or foreign languages), and my masters did not involve anything I wasn't already good at.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (uCjyK)

317 Yes, that is a fair assumption, and I probably should have carved out "hard sciences" in my broad statement about education.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)

I just figure grad school for the "hard sciences" is sitting in the dirt, picking up little rocks and chipping the dirt off of them until they're all shiny or show the bones or fossils or whatever.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (dGCAG)

318
New One

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (3ek7K)

319 My first sweetheart was 5'1" or 5'2". I'm 6'3". This was amusing to the sort of people who find that amusing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 09, 2025 05:19 PM

I've been looking at that scenario for years.
My brother has been married to his high school sweetheart for over 25 years. She is 5'0". He is 6'3".

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (2J/Lj)

320 lol. We were talking about him as a SCOTUS justice, not him in his role on the Warren Commission.

But I'm always down for some JFK talk.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

I guess my point was that he wouldn't have been chairman of the commission had he not been CJOTUS.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

321
Warren was a smart guy (though Thomas Dewey privately called him "the big dummy"). It was William O. Douglas who really started the come up with the conclusion then find the law approach.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:26 PM (HZi96)

322 I thought it was hard as shit, although the grading scale may be lax. On the multistate, I was absolutely sure on less than 20 of the 200 questions. But it only took 120 to pass the multistate in most states.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 09, 2025 05:25 PM (p16cu)

And yet you (presumably) passed?

I don't think I know anyone personally who did the full 10 weeks or whatever of bar prep and still failed the test.

I agree that the test is incredibly stressful (or at least was pre-covid when you had to take it in person), but it's designed to be very passable.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (uCjyK)

323 This blog used to call her "MeAgain Kelly". She's always been a lightweight at best.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (KAw7u)

324 Kagan and Sotomayor seen wearing I'm with Stupid robes.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (jPdyB)

325 KBJ is her own court. dominates questions and bases decisions on her own writings and how she feels. Constitution, not so much (if ever)

Posted by: gov'theretohelp at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (PfnFb)

326 I’m a member of the SC bar but never got to argue a case there. I met Roberts at a ceremony for black members of the SC bar. I sponsored a girl I dated, a Haitian girl, for admission to the bar. So I went with her to the ceremony.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

And she was hot, right?
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)
—-

She was runner-up in the “Miss New York” city pageant. Had she won, she would have competed for Miss New York in the Miss America pageant. She still does pageant consulting.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 05:27 PM (aeiyZ)

327 I suspect he was originally charged with Conspiracy as a way to get around a First Amendment Defense. They just forgot the part about proving that a conspiracy actually existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (uWKK

That makes sense, but then the conspiracy to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote by making dank memes in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 would still seem to implicate 1A, but, of course, I am no KBJ.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (i24o9)

328
Her Majesty married me because I'm 6'1" and she's 4'11". Not for my brains or looks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (HZi96)

329 People often wonder why in a free-for-all insurrection mayors and judges top the list of 'most popular'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:28 PM (/lPRQ)

330 >> And the way she phrases it, she means opinion. Not legal opinion.


Based on the record I think it's highly possible she doesn't know the difference.

She also has that grating Kamala tic of cackling her way through sentences while no one else is laughing.

Posted by: the dandy at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (8l8nW)

331
Nood

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

332 This is the kind of thing a disabled person says. They want to do their best to be as capable as people who aren't disabled. She aspires to be considered normal.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 05:24 PM (lIio7)

You pulled that quote from the script of "Riding the Bus With My Sister," didn't you.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

333 >>>Those people end up being department heads and chiefs of little Indians running around doing nothing.

Posted by: BurtTC

>Hold on, um, I'm gonna get me a beer.

Posted by: Liz Warren at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (wzQvI)

334 New thread from El Jefe.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 09, 2025 05:29 PM (Moat+)

335 I have seen the future, and it is KBJ type judges ruling in cases based on vibes.

That's my prediction. The court will find that laws and blah blah blah are stupid and gay.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

If Haitian it would shaking a chicken in the middle of the street.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (/lPRQ)

336 …job and in this environment. I’m doing my best work, as well as I can do because I want people to see and know that I can do anything just like anyone else."

And why couldn’t she? She is not the only black justice, in case she isn’t aware. She is not the only female justice. What is her point here?


Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (pRpzT)

337 I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- the bar exam is not that hard. It's a test of "minimal competence" and something like 80%+ (depending on the state) of first time test takers pass it. It's the repeat takers (the retards), many of whom didn't get a JD from an accredited law school, who drive down the pass rate in to the 60's / 70's.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 09, 2025 05:15 PM (uCjyK)

I know someone who crammed for it and passed. Total slacker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 05:30 PM (i24o9)

338
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida...

We need to end this court’s corrupt grip on our democracy.


By doing what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 05:31 PM (63Dwl)

339 Warren wrote the Miranda decision. A stupid and important decision

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 05:32 PM (JtH6i)

340 Jackson is just part of the continues dumbing down of American institutions. The fruit of the activist teachers is now ripe.

Look at the total morons in Congress. This shit-talking kid Maxwell Frost whining about the suppression of the working class having worked only part time as an Uber driver.

Idiot Sam Bankman-Fraud gave him a million dollars to get elected.

This is the new breed. People completely lacking in merit being placed in leadership positions by people who just don't know anybetter.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (ri7hX)

341 When Sotomayor tells you you're stupid, you are really, REALLY stupid.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:38 PM (D1vbu)

342 This is the new breed. People completely lacking in merit being placed in leadership positions by people who just don't know anybetter. Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:35 PM (ri7hX)

Isn't that the truth - the old breed, well, at least they had some sort of street smarts. You know, not stick a fork in the light socket to see if the power is one kinda smarts. This new group - let's just say AI can't be developed fast enough.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:41 PM (D1vbu)

343 At what point do they start putting a cork on the end of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's fork in the Supreme court lunch room?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:42 PM (D1vbu)

344 Funniest thing about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is she is the dumbest person on the court, but during hearings she just...won't...shut....up. She has spoken more words during the hearings than all the other justices combined. She talks and talks. And what she says betrays the fact she is ...shockingly stupid. She hasn't done any homework. Has no knowledge of the law.

That is what is driving the other justices up a wall. I think she is actually embarrassing Sotomayor and Kagan.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:48 PM (D1vbu)

345 At this rate we would have been a lot better of with The Supremes Court. I could've gone for Justice Mary Wilson.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 04:45 PM (E0p3T)

Set their opinions to music and have them performed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

346 Delay Trump from even making plans for two months. Then when they make the actual plans, they will delay again.

Posted by: MikeN at July 09, 2025 07:37 PM (HVZOH)

347 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just issued the strongest Supreme Court opinion in favor of the non-delegation doctrine in the last 100 years or so. Brainless, yes, but nevertheless strong. Normally that's a position taken by the most extreme right wing of small government conservatism. This time it is from a full-throttle leftist. Brah. Va.

(Non-delegation doctrine: Congress cannot delegate its inherent powers under the Constitution to the executive. This has been a lost battle since the New Deal court of the 1930s.)

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at July 09, 2025 07:44 PM (bWR5k)

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment of American Citizens Increased by 2,000,000 Since January, While 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs

Real hope and change.


President Donald Trump is growing the nation's workforce by filling open jobs with native-born Americans, rather than importing more migrants to take such work, Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals.

"Compared with the start of the year, foreign-born employment is down by over half a million workers and American-born employment is up by over two million," Breitbart News Economics Editor John Carney reported.

And while hundreds of thousands of native-born Americans are scoring jobs in Trump's economy, the all-important labor force participation rate rose from 61.4 percent to 61.8 percent, with the highest level ever of native-born Americans employed.

The Heritage Foundation's E.J. Antoni made a similar note, mainly that compared to former President Joe Biden's migrant economy -- where nearly all net job growth went to foreign-born workers -- Trump's economy is delivering nearly all net job growth to native-born Americans.

"What a difference a president makes: last Nov, the 12-month change in jobs among native-born Americans was -1.1 million but for Jun it was +1.7 million; truly remarkable..." Antoni wrote on X.

Without millions of illegals flooding into the country to make the cost of labor cheaper -- which is our corporate overclass's #1 top priority -- American workers finally are seeing real wage growth for the first time in decades.


Likely thanks to Trump's crackdown on illegal employment, "average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 8 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $36.30 in June," the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

We are building towards a second Trump Miracle Economy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:17 PM




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1 wtgvwebtv5we4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (UmB+t)

2 1st

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (aURVT)

3 Good Afternoon

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (3ek7K)

4 Mine made sense!

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (aURVT)

5

This is a great start. We need more of this.

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (3ek7K)

6 5

This is a great start. We need more of this.
Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (3ek7K)

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It's just started.

ICE's budget tripled with the passage of the OBBB.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

7
ICE Baby ICE!!!! Go get 'em!

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (3ek7K)

8 Mine made sense!
Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (aURVT

It's okay. I speak Blondie.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (Qr870)

9 Again and again.

Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/4bkv8wev

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (roqsI)

10 My days are numbered.

Posted by: Funemployment at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (jc0TO)

11
How are all these poor undocumented residents going to live???

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (HZi96)

12 So in other words all of the THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO was always a lie.

I mean we always knew, but its nice to have confirmation.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (setIA)

13 "Real Wage Growth."

That is the big one. It hasn't happened in so long that America has forgotten that we used to have an entire middle class in which moms stayed home and raised the kids!

This Trump fellow is really growing on me!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (Zv8bq)

14 Yeah well Trump is lying about Epstein.

Posted by: Big deal at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (vFG9F)

15 I'm curious as to why the Chamber of Commerce has been so silent. They've always been one of the major cheerleaders for massive immigration. How are they, currently, being held in check?

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (dIske)

16 Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/4bkv8wev
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey


She needs to go home and do jihad in a place that really appreciates it.

Like hell.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (a+4eV)

17 So Trump has folded on Ukraine and re-started the millions in military hardware pipeline. For what... passing the bill? That was the deal?

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TIizU)

18 Two million, not even including the 12M Jobs Saved.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

19 This is UNpossible. Experts hardest hit...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (3Ope8)

20 Grabschen el trabajo!

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

21
Mine made sense!
Posted by: m

=============

Yes, it did. But it was still wrong. [brandishes red pen]

Posted by: Edna Krabapple at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (UmB+t)

22 So when does Judge Tawani and Judge Boasberg put out a TRO to stop this problem?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

23
Oh man. Dude, I gotta work?

Posted by: Hipster in Parents Basement at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (HZi96)

24 Great news! Maybe we can get it going as good as in Trump's first term, when there were 'help wanted' signs everywhere here in the Rust Belt. Even the Help Wanted Sign Company had a sign.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TwZXH)

25 THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO

Butt stuff?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (pdx2p)

26 I am embarrassingly ignorant about the true scope of the adverse effects of illegal immigration. However, I'm starting to believe that as we deport more and more leaches, we are going to see some surprisingly good things. Some of which will be intangible.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (bNf8H)

27 8 Mine made sense!
Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (aURVT

It's okay. I speak Blondie.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (Qr870)

#metoo

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (aURVT)

28 IMPEACH Drumphff!

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (nH+RN)

29 Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

30 We knew he could do it

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (ahzH3)

31 So in other words all of the THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO was always a lie.

I mean we always knew, but its nice to have confirmation.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (setIA)


It'll take a while to undo that lie. Even many members of my Trump-voting family casually repeat it from time to time.

They were impressed, though, when I mentioned the factory in Omaha that had locals lining up to apply after the illegals were rounded up. So maybe we can erode the narrative.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (jGGMD)

32 "Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment of American Citizens Increased by 2,000,000 Since January, While 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs
—Ace"


Is that good?

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (fV+MH)

33 *shakes tiny fist*

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (aURVT)

34 But but but…. Trump’s tariffs were gonna ruin the economy and uh….. TACO!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (5MZNC)

35
America has forgotten that we used to have an entire middle class in which moms stayed home and raised the kids!

_________

They were unfulfilled. Instead of being astronauts and girlbosses, they were stuck looking after snot-noses brats.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (HZi96)

36 We are building towards a second Trump Miracle Economy.

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

Make That Magic Wand Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (nH+RN)

37 Are they working on the ones sucking up the governnent checks that Americans won't?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (zhBpy)

38 Greatest President of my lifetime (b1962)

Posted by: Seamus Moon at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (Ab/3c)

39 Sounds great, but I don’t believe this. I want it to be true, but I don’t believe this.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (aeiyZ)

40 Ah I remember when Iran was going to be the end of Trump and Republicans.

Three weeks later what the hell is an Iran.

I guess we're onto Epstein now. A real kitchen table issue.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (Qr870)

41 So, I was curious.

I looked up H1B and H1B1 numbers from May of 2024 and May of 2025.

Hardly could be called a sample size. But, there's a bit interesting.

2024: 17,258
2025: 13,970

A 19% drop from last year.

Indicative of something? Maybe. More research required? Yes. Am I gonna do it? Probably not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

42 Good afternoon all!

I have wondered about who will run in 2028 as Trump's heir. He is working hard on the economy and the border as part of his legacy. Vance? Little Marco?

Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (bVhJi)

43
labor force participation rate rose from 61.4 percent to 61.8 percent

==============

In my field of social science that seems kind of statistically insignificant, so can a moron adjust my understanding?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (UmB+t)

44 Real Wage Growth."

That is the big one. It hasn't happened in so long that America has forgotten that we used to have an entire middle class in which moms stayed home and raised the kids!

This Trump fellow is really growing on me!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


I thought it happened just a couple Presidents ago. Some guy named Trump.

Nixon before that, though.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (VxVfx)

45 " wtgvwebtv5we4
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"


I hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (fV+MH)

46 Now is the time to go after those who employ the illegal invaders. Fines, jail, community service, electrodes clipped to their testicles.

The whole nine yards...

Posted by: General Tran Van Minh at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (lX1hk)

47 I guess we're onto Epstein now. A real kitchen table issue.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM



The perennial background noise is all the pagans telling me what Christ wants me to do.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (jc0TO)

48 So Trump has folded on Ukraine and re-started the millions in military hardware pipeline. For what... passing the bill? That was the deal?
Posted by: front toward enemy at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TIizU)

His hand was forced by Putin who lied to him. If he didn't respond with re-starting weapon shipments, he would have been Putin's bitch.

I agree we are the one's who are going to pay for it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (VofaG)

49 "But but but…. Trump’s tariffs were gonna ruin the economy and uh….. TACO!!"

I admit to skepticism about the tariff stuff, but on the evidence it seems no notable damage was done. Another of my predictions, predictably wrong.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (TwZXH)

50 "Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment of American Citizens Increased by 2,000,000 Since January, While 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs
—Ace"

Is that good?
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025


***
Not as good as Citizens' jobs +2,000,000, illegals' jobs (and illegals themselves) -25,000,000. But like the old joke about lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, "It's a good start."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (omVj0)

51 I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (fV+MH)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (Qr870)

52 I think other countries should pay for their own defense.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zhBpy)

53 THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO

Butt stuff?
---------

Call me.

Posted by: Kamala H at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (TN0g+)

54 A 19% drop from last year.

Indicative of something? Maybe. More research required? Yes. Am I gonna do it? Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)


Get out of my lane!

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 03:27 PM (jGGMD)

55 Vance? Little Marco?
Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM


Throw in Ron and we have a Triumvirate, until First Citizen Barron comes along.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

56 "I think other countries should pay for their own defense."

THIS.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:27 PM (TwZXH)

57
I have wondered about who will run in 2028 as Trump's heir. He is working hard on the economy and the border as part of his legacy. Vance? Little Marco?
Posted by: jmel

==============

Dondi, as I enjoy calling Little Marco because of AoSHQ legacy, seems better positioned just because he gets to do more and say more as Sec State. His efforts get tangible results, he can produce receipts, etc. The VP office has that "bucket of warm spit" doom factor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:27 PM (UmB+t)

58 49 "But but but…. Trump’s tariffs were gonna ruin the economy and uh….. TACO!!"

I admit to skepticism about the tariff stuff, but on the evidence it seems no notable damage was done. Another of my predictions, predictably wrong.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (TwZXH)

=======

Tariffs aren't inflationary, so that narrative fell apart fast.

Import pipelines can adjust to things like tariffs, so that is going to deaden effects.

Tariffs are on wholesale importer prices, not final retailer prices, so the impact was always going to be smaller to the consumer than the numbers implied.

90% of our food is made in the US, so most day to day purchases aren't going to be impacted by tariffs.

Yes, it was massively overblown.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

59 Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025


***
Followed swiftly, I hope, by house prices and rents plummeting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (omVj0)

60 >>> 52 I think other countries should pay for their own defense.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zhBpy)

HOW DARE YOU!!!

Posted by: German EXPERTS!!! at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (ULPxl)

61 So in other words all of the THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO was always a lie.

I mean we always knew, but its nice to have confirmation.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (setIA)


THESE ARE THE WAGES AMERICANS WON'T ACCEPT, H8TR!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (D7oie)

62 Egg prices?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (zhBpy)

63 I see the anti Trump trolls have arrived for the afternoon shift.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GCMq)

64

[recollects]
Obama to Trump: ‘What magic wand do you have?’ - The Hill
Jun 2, 2016 · “He just says, ‘Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’. Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have?"


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

65 " wtgvwebtv5we4
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

I hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven
......

what gives web TV week 4?

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (v0R5T)

66 Speaking of immigration . . . Bible Study Corner With Pastor Gavin!

Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)

67
I voted for this.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (IifOV)

68 Foreign born vs native born treats foreign born citizens as “bad guys”. I’d prefer if they broke it down by citizen and non-citizen.

Because this way someone who is a citizen but born elsewhere is lumped in with an illegal or H1B. And that’s really not an accurate picture.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (ImXfC)

69 I'm certain I couldn't afford Blonde Morticia's level of maintenance.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (fV+MH)

70 Great news! Thanks, Ace!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (6PCLE)

71 Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM


Get back to me when single family home costs start dropping.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (dPfyF)

72 Marco is Trump II's Haley. A political animal that can read the wind. I mean good for him but no.

There was a LOT of Haley 24 buzz circa 2018.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Qr870)

73 Politico: of Foreign Workers Begins to Bite U.S. Economy. “From small farms in California, to meat packing facilities in Nebraska to corporate giants like Disney, businesses are scrambling to replace workers after recent administration actions have taken immigrants, both legal and illegal, out of the labor force, including several hundred thousand people who had been given temporary work permits under President Joe Biden.”

With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last. Or so my economic studies led me to believe.

Ag Sec Rollins said the 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid Program can do these jobs. And don’t forget those millions of fat and lazy 10, 11, and 12 year old kids.

I've no doubt prices will go up because of this and tariffs, and we will have a recession in the near future. This administration is such a bunch of morons.

Add Repub resistance to increasing wages and you get stagflation. Higher prices, stagnant wages. Libertarian nirvana.🤮

Unbelievable how the MSM is normalizing all this insane imbecilic shit. The WH press corpse is so embarrassing. Needs to be buried and forgotten.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (ycI94)

74 wtgvwebtv5we4

Bless you.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Oy/m2)

75
Egg prices?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (zhBpy)

_________

$2.72 a dozen yesterday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM (HZi96)

76 @58

>>Yes, it was massively overblown.

No other President has attempted to use America's economic might to get a better deal for the US.

In fact, most deals pre-Trump were predicated upon how much harm to the US economy can we get past the citizens.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM (MRwbj)

77 >>> 66 Speaking of immigration . . . Bible Study Corner With Pastor Gavin!

Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)

Is this like being arrested for attending church 'during a time of pandemic'?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM (ULPxl)

78 Nice job numbers. Has any of the legacy propogandist reported on this?

Yeah, didn't think so.

And I voted for this.......WINNING!!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM (Oq/TM)

79 I work too much
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM (QLHQ2)

80 How are all these poor undocumented residents going to live???
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 0


***
By breathing all that rich, un-Western-polluted air back in their own countries.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM (omVj0)

81 71 Get back to me when single family home costs start dropping.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (dPfyF)

========

Certain markets have been dropping for months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

82 It is amazing how many Americans get jobs in say a meat-packing plant after an ICE raid rounds up most of their work force!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM (ZVgZ4)

83 labor force participation rate rose from 61.4 percent to 61.8 percent

==============

In my field of social science that seems kind of statistically insignificant, so can a moron adjust my understanding?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Looking at the St Louis Fed page, the Covid lockdown dropped the participation rate by a whopping 3.2% over a couple months. So 0.4% is a lot of people.

We're still nowhere near the numbers from Trump's first term, but we'll probably get back there, or higher, by the end of this one.

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (VxVfx)

84 How are all these poor undocumented residents going to live???
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 0


***
Still too high x2.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (omVj0)

85 Speaking of immigration . . . Bible Study Corner With Pastor Gavin!

Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.
-----------
I guess Reverend Newsom's bible doesn't contain the "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's" passage, right?

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

86 I hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven
-----

I've about worn out my secret decoder ring. No success.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (XeU6L)

87 I am embarrassingly ignorant about the true scope of the adverse effects of illegal immigration. However, I'm starting to believe that as we deport more and more leaches, we are going to see some surprisingly good things. Some of which will be intangible.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (bNf8H)


Well, the 1% excise tax on remittances is also going to leave a mark, too

I saw an article that claimed that remittances are not actually helping the receiving country. it is more like welfare, crowding out actual earning jobs, and in a way it attracts all the industrious workers to the US where they work below standard wage rates, and screw over the job market here, as well. Oh, and the wages earned don't help the US very much, either since it all goes overseas.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (D7oie)

88 Unbelievable how the MSM is normalizing all this insane imbecilic shit. The WH press corpse is so embarrassing. Needs to be buried and forgotten.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (ycI94)


Finally, something we can agree on!

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (jGGMD)

89 They're dropping around Tampa.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (zhBpy)

90 No other President has attempted to use America's economic might to get a better deal for the US.

In fact, most deals pre-Trump were predicated upon how much harm to the US economy can we get past the citizens.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM

Bullshit! Ahem....NAFTA? You're welcome

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (IifOV)

91 73 I've no doubt prices will go up because of this and tariffs, and we will have a recession in the near future. This administration is such a bunch of morons.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (ycI94)

=======

The supply and demand curve really needs to be taught more.

Losing a few million people lowers demand, and prices have to respond to reach equilibrium as well.

A million fewer people trying to rent places? Well, owners have to lower rents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

92 Cool does this report mention anything about blow jobs.
Asking for a friend who works drying nail polish in salons..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (uEWUd)

93 I recall way back either in W's or Obama's admin there was a raid on a Tyson's chicken factory in Alabama and after that there was a line of applicants around the block the next day. This lie was easily proven false decades ago.

Posted by: InZona at July 09, 2025 03:33 PM (qz1Fg)

94 I have wondered about who will run in 2028 as Trump's heir. He is working hard on the economy and the border as part of his legacy. Vance? Little Marco?
Posted by: jmel

(Dreams wistfully of DeSantis)

Sigh...

Posted by: Ace's thoughts posted by someone other than Ace at July 09, 2025 03:33 PM (ycI94)

95 "Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025

***
Followed swiftly, I hope, by house prices and rents plummeting."

I'd let Trump shoot me on the street in broad daylight if he could pull that off.

Let's rein in GD insurance prices too.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:33 PM (TwZXH)

96 Certain markets have been dropping for months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM


I'll qualify that as "markets in New England."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:33 PM (dPfyF)

97 With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last. Or so my economic studies led me to believe.



Bitch please. McDonald’s is paying $18/hr where I live. Minimum wage is irrelevant these days. The free market works just like your “economic studies” should have told you.

And I love how DU uses the British labor, with a u. Is that some new form of resistance or some shit? lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (ImXfC)

98 You didn't wait for Bill Kristol to weigh in ?

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (s0Otf)

99 96 Certain markets have been dropping for months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM

I'll qualify that as "markets in New England."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:33 PM (dPfyF)

=======

"Never, peon."
-Your betters in Boston

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

100 Our manufacturing facility can't retain enough native unskilled labor to keep the place operational. The management team keeps running them all off because it's hard to ignore all of the bitching when it's in English.

Now the Guatemalans are taking over because they're the only ones who will work for a crappy wage and don't speak English.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (wzQvI)

101 America for Americans, what a novel idea.

Posted by: steevy at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

102 His hand was forced by Putin who lied to him. If he didn't respond with re-starting weapon shipments, he would have been Putin's bitch.
Posted by: polynikes

As I posted in an earlier thread, I'm really starting to question Putin's sanity. His Ukraine Derangement Syndrome is driving him over the edge.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

103 Well, the 1% excise tax on remittances is also going to leave a mark, too

I saw an article that claimed that remittances are not actually helping the receiving country. it is more like welfare, crowding out actual earning jobs, and in a way it attracts all the industrious workers to the US where they work below standard wage rates, and screw over the job market here, as well. Oh, and the wages earned don't help the US very much, either since it all goes overseas.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025


***
One per cent? How about fifty???

Or more. I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (omVj0)

104 Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)


Did Newsom explain himself? Because I'm going to need help understanding how Trump is making me choose between faith and freedom.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (rF2iL)

105 My car insurance recently dropped in half. Try Progressive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (zhBpy)

106 71 Get back to me when single family home costs start dropping.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (dPfyF)

Housing has been in a price correction for a couple of years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (ImXfC)

107 > You didn't wait for Bill Kristol to weigh in ?

We didn't have a sturdy enough scale.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (lIio7)

108 @81

>>Certain markets have been dropping for months.

Well, home prices are largely reasonable and driven by market conditions, they're just not in everyone's desired area and price is relative.

A 3m dollar home in NJ costs 1.25m in Pennsylvania.


Home prices dropping in most locales would be a symptom of a bad economy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (MRwbj)

109 103 One per cent? How about fifty???

Or more. I'm fine with that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (omVj0)

=======

House version was 3.5%.

Perhaps Congress will increase it with another reconciliation bill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

110 Let's rein in GD insurance prices too.

Most of the economy, my entire life, can be summed up by the corporate / political class exploiting the middle.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TclAY)

111 DU - With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last. Or so my economic studies led me to believe.
-------

There is something about supply/demand that one of us doesn't understand.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (XeU6L)

112 2,000,000

Cannot help but notice only one significant figure of accuracy there.

Is it closer to 9,000,000 and they are trying to lo-ball us?

Or really 1,000,000 and inflating the real number?

Posted by: Operator Error at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (sHvKw)

113 Get back to me when single family home costs start dropping.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (dPfyF)

They may need some minor repairs to bring them back up to a state of sellable

Posted by: jsg at July 09, 2025 03:36 PM (s0Otf)

114 A meat processing plant has a number of workers grabbed by ICE. The next day the place was filled with American job applicants. The left is full of it saying "jobs Americans won't do"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 03:36 PM (JtH6i)

115 111 DU - With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last. Or so my economic studies led me to believe.
-------

There is something about supply/demand that one of us doesn't understand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (XeU6L)

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Well, they're right.

Limiting labor by exporting illegals will increase labor prices for those that remain.

It just, you know, doesn't need a government mandate on what a minimum wage should be. It's just market forces.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

116
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.

Posted by: Crusader

=============

groan groan GROAN, that is his response to the Catholic bishop who relieved his diocese of their obligation to attend Mass because la migra might pick them up.

Any chance I could get a dispensation because my split ends are looking bad?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (UmB+t)

117 I saw an article that claimed that remittances are not actually helping the receiving country



Of course not. It’s no different than a welfare check. Why work when Cousin Pedro sends mucho dineros every month, tax free, from El Norte?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (ImXfC)

118 " wtgvwebtv5we4
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"
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Wadjee go an do that fer, WADJEE GO AN DO THAT FER?!/1!?

Posted by: Karl Childers at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (5hfjS)

119 Did Newsom explain himself? Because I'm going to need help understanding how Trump is making me choose between faith and freedom.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump!
......

You must have missed the shoulder shimmy and the cow milking hand motions.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (v0R5T)

120 Bush attempted to put tariffs on steel but unfortunately he eventually surrendered to the conservatives who said it would end the world .

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (VofaG)

121
They may need some minor repairs to bring them back up to a state of sellable
Posted by: jsg
----

Were my house to be put on the market, it would be listed as, 'Mid-century fixer-upper'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

122 My car insurance recently dropped in half. Try Progressive.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025


***
I've been with them a while, and I still (with a superb driving record and an older sedan, not a sports car) pay about $1800/year. Lousy-ana's idea of an insurance market, I guess.

Mine will be due at the end of this month. Maybe I should look around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (omVj0)

123 >>>Employment of American Citizens Increased by 2,000,000 Since January, While 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs

Americans are "just doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do."

Wait. What?

Posted by: The Left at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (i24o9)

124
Any chance I could get a dispensation because my split ends are looking bad?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (UmB+t)

__________

Gotta ask the Pope about that one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (HZi96)

125 114 A meat processing plant has a number of workers grabbed by ICE. The next day the place was filled with American job applicants. The left is full of it saying "jobs Americans won't do"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 03:36 PM

And the identity theft found by the workers of at that company effects thousands of Americans whose retirement benefits, student loans, and credit have been denied and ruined from it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (IifOV)

126 I have wondered about who will run in 2028 as Trump's heir.
Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (bVhJi)


I misread this as "who will run as Trump's hair."

Heh.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (rF2iL)

127 Gavin Newsome is the Kris angel pf Bob Igers.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (fV+MH)

128 I hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven
-----

I've about worn out my secret decoder ring. No success.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Working on it now: "The...cake...is...in...the...rain."

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

129 120 Bush attempted to put tariffs on steel but unfortunately he eventually surrendered to the conservatives who said it would end the world .
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (VofaG)

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Democrats said that Trump's 2017 15% tariffs on China would collapse the global economy.

When Biden took over, his administration increased the tariffs, on certain goods it went up to 100% (like EVs).

It took governments illegalizing going outside your home for fear of the sniffles that killed the global economy, not increasing wholesale import prices on cheap Chinese crap.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

130 Idiot fights!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
OMG: Now a LIBERAL Supreme Court justice is trying to teach Justice Ketanji Jackson how this whole "judicial" thing works...
Jackson is the ONLY dissent. Sotomayor has to remind Jackson, for some reason, that the case before them is NOT about what Jackson thought it was.

https://is.gd/sEE6r7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (L/fGl)

131 122 Mines a little over 1/3 of that per year. Comp Collision.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (zhBpy)

132 It just, you know, doesn't need a government mandate on what a minimum wage should be.
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Yes...it was the *mandated* minimum that I was trying to address.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (XeU6L)

133 I've no doubt prices will go up because of this and tariffs, and we will have a recession in the near future. This administration is such a bunch of morons.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (ycI94)

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The supply and demand curve really needs to be taught more.

Losing a few million people lowers demand, and prices have to respond to reach equilibrium as well.

A million fewer people trying to rent places? Well, owners have to lower rents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
——
I think PU is talking about less cheap illegals in the labor force driving up wages, which in turn could drive up prices. PU isn’t wrong about that in isolation, but nothing works in isolation.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (aeiyZ)

134 130 Idiot fights!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
OMG: Now a LIBERAL Supreme Court justice is trying to teach Justice Ketanji Jackson how this whole "judicial" thing works...
Jackson is the ONLY dissent. Sotomayor has to remind Jackson, for some reason, that the case before them is NOT about what Jackson thought it was.

https://is.gd/sEE6r7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:39 PM (L/fGl)

=======

It's the closest we'll probably ever get to "Ma'am, this is a Wendys" in SCOTUS jurisprudence, and I'm here for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

135 Supply and Demand.

Its the law.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (t0Rmr)

136 "Working on it now: "The...cake...is...in...the...rain."
Posted by: Bulg"


She would do some shit like that.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (fV+MH)

137 133 I think PU is talking about less cheap illegals in the labor force driving up wages, which in turn could drive up prices. PU isn’t wrong about that in isolation, but nothing works in isolation.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (aeiyZ)

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Well, gotta act like illegals don't buy groceries to make that assumption.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

138 Why work when Cousin Pedro sends mucho dineros every month, tax free, from El Norte?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I get an order of the #5 mucho dineros from El Norte every week or so. It's the Mexican place just down the street. Ask for extra jalapeños and sour cream, and you're set!

Posted by: Confused, Hungry Moron at July 09, 2025 03:41 PM (ycI94)

139 Mines a little over 1/3 of that per year. Comp Collision.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025


***
You must live in a state which is NOT infamous for having the highest rates in the entire country.

I'm hoping mine will drop quite a bit when I resettle elsewhere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:41 PM (omVj0)

140 128 I hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven
-----

I've about worn out my secret decoder ring. No success.
Posted by: Mike Hammer


B.E.S.U.R.E.T.O.D.R

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 03:41 PM (PiwSw)

141 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (omVj0)

Do you have a newer car with collision? Other big factor is the theft rate of your vehicle and where you live . When I moved out of Harris county my insurance was cut in half for auto and by 2/3 for homeowner.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (VofaG)

142 Throughout the Bible, I see it stated over and over: he who will not work shall not eat. (You have to get the difference between will and shall!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (ZVgZ4)

143 Saturday Night Live will be hilarious when it satirizes Justice Action Jackson.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (rJ48h)

144 A million fewer people trying to rent places? Well, owners have to lower rents.

The left: Immigration is a right! And diversity is our strength! Millions of immigrants documented or not? YES!

Also the left: Why is the cost of housing going up?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

145 My car insurance recently dropped in half. Try Progressive.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Heh. Try placing a claim with Progressive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (XeU6L)

146 Jackson will be Biden's everlasting fart walk on America.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (fV+MH)

147
Did Newsom explain himself? Because I'm going to need help understanding how Trump is making me choose between faith and freedom.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump!

============

#116.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (UmB+t)

148 Try placing a claim with anyone.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:43 PM (fV+MH)

149 One per cent? How about fifty???

Or more. I'm fine with that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:34 PM (omVj0)




well, what you got was 1% in the OBBB

``SEC. 4475. IMPOSITION OF TAX.
``(a) In General.--There is hereby imposed on any remittance transfer a tax equal to 1 percent of the amount of such transfer.
``(b) Payment of Tax.--
``(1) In general.--The tax imposed by this section with respect to any remittance transfer shall be paid by the sender with respect to such transfer.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 03:43 PM (D7oie)

150 144 The left: Immigration is a right! And diversity is our strength! Millions of immigrants documented or not? YES!

Also the left: Why is the cost of housing going up?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

=======

"Labor doesn't follow the supply and demand curve, so we can tax labor at any rate without affecting who works."
-the left, 20 years ago

"The supply and demand curve are racist constructs of white supremacy and make my brain hurt."
-the left, today

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

151 Were my house to be put on the market, it would be listed as, 'Mid-century fixer-upper'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

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

But which century?

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 03:43 PM (nH+RN)

152 Do you have a newer car with collision? Other big factor is the theft rate of your vehicle and where you live . When I moved out of Harris county my insurance was cut in half for auto and by 2/3 for homeowner.
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025


***
My Buick is a 2016. And yes, this parish (Lousy-ana has parishes, not counties) is bad regarding theft and vandalism. I don't think Buick LaCrosses are highly desired by thieves, are they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:43 PM (omVj0)

153 Intercepted DU from a year ago:

Garbage headline. Biden was never going to drop out. Chicken Little Dems had their 15 minutes and are licking their self inflicted wounds. The media pundits have been rendered irrelevant.. and Trump has his ear patch/bogus bible/crap sneakers/and son of Hitler JD Vance.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (Qr870)

154 I think PU is talking about less cheap illegals in the labor force driving up wages, which in turn could drive up prices. PU isn’t wrong about that in isolation, but nothing works in isolation.

Its true that reducing labor supply increases wages which increases costs but the same people that will complain about this want the government to set a "living wage" which is way about the prevailing wage anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

155 "When I moved out of Harris county my insurance was cut in half for auto and by 2/3 for homeowner."

I live in an urban shithole; my cousin lives out in the sticks. He's got a DUI on his record, mine's clean. He insures TWO vehicles for a THIRD of the premium that I pay for ONE vehicle.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (TwZXH)

156 groan groan GROAN, that is his response to the Catholic bishop who relieved his diocese of their obligation to attend Mass because la migra might pick them up.

Any chance I could get a dispensation because my split ends are looking bad?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (UmB+t)
I worked at a Catholic Girls HS... We would have Christmas give away for the needy.. Some would show up in cars way nicer and newer than mine asking for their free tree etc. The Catholic church is enabling them to be on the dole at the expense of others who are here legally.. Got to the point when they would call for their freebies I'd say we didn't have any...I'm sure I'll roast in hell for that but it wears on you after a while...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (VE6XX)

157 Newsome told me that a dab would do me.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (4ApEK)

158 On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.

Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (bVhJi)

159 People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)

Remember it's always projection.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (Qr870)

160 minor repairs to bring them back up to a state of sellable
Posted by: jsg

I know ,I know! Lets institute rent control thall give owners incentive to spend money on repairs!
/s

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (hpmMD)

161 154 I think PU is talking about less cheap illegals in the labor force driving up wages, which in turn could drive up prices. PU isn’t wrong about that in isolation, but nothing works in isolation.

Its true that reducing labor supply increases wages which increases costs but the same people that will complain about this want the government to set a "living wage" which is way about the prevailing wage anyway
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

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The effect of those illegals not buying groceries, cars, and paying rents will have the opposite effect on prices at the same time, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

162 Blessed are those who Shoulder Shimmy
For they will see the SC Primary...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (PiwSw)

163 >>Well, gotta act like illegals don't buy groceries to make that assumption.

A lot of them don't. We buy them for them in the form of welfare but they still get bought.

You remove a few million people from the equation and there is less price pressure on a lot of things.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (viF8m)

164 I had Nationwide before. Claims still sucked. The claims adjustor thing now happens at body shops between body shop and adjustor in another city.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (zhBpy)

165 Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump

If you're a RC illegal you are dispensed from going to Mass according to the Bishop because ICE might raid your church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (2GCMq)

166 I had split ends once. Drove me nuts.

Posted by: Brittney Spears at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (SJnNf)

167 Supply and Demand.

Its the law.
--------

So many of the economic "what should we do?" questions could be solved if people would just first consult supply & demand curves and then follow that up with the "what secondary actions might follow?" question.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (TN0g+)

168 "Try placing a claim with anyone."

THIS.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (TwZXH)

169 The left: Why would anyone believe that levying taxes on labor gets fewer people to work? That's the old racist economics that has been disproved

Also the left: We need taxes on cigarettes, beer, and guns so people will stop buying them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)

170 158 On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.
Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (bVhJi)

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It might have more to do with the investigation into the $2.5 billion he authorized for renovations of Fed properties that have raised some questions recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

171
It's the closest we'll probably ever get to "Ma'am, this is a Wendys" in SCOTUS jurisprudence, and I'm here for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

===========

I wish we could get the Emily Litella "Never mind!" from it, but I understand SCOTUS doesn't work that way. Well, a humble citizen can dream.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (UmB+t)

172 " On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.
Posted by: jmel "


Hah....really?

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (fV+MH)

173 I had split ends once. Drove me nuts.
Posted by: Brittney Spears
---------

Please add that one to the AoS coffee table book collection.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+)

174 167 So many of the economic "what should we do?" questions could be solved if people would just first consult supply & demand curves and then follow that up with the "what secondary actions might follow?" question.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (TN0g+)

========

I think it was Thomas Sewell who said that economists forget the supply and demand curve after their first semester in college.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

175 hate it when she does that. I feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.
Posted by: eleven
......

what gives web TV week 4?

Hate it when he does that. feel like I'm supposed to figure it out.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (n4GiU)

176 Economics is the dismal science: two economists can look at the same economic facts and come up with contrary interpretations. Maybe we should call it an “art”. Or as Harry Truman said, “Somebody get me a one-armed economist!”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (ZVgZ4)

177 This is good? you people are monsters.

Think of the school administrators without all those special needs foreign language students?

Think of Walmart and Amazon, with so many fewer customers

Think of the NGOs with no supply of replacement population to settle

Think of the social workers with so many fewer clients

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (jLcCX)

178 "Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment of American Citizens Increased by 2,000,000 Since January, While 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs"


This right here is what I voted for.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (e5NfL)

179 >>Well, gotta act like illegals don't buy groceries to make that assumption.

A lot of them don't. We buy them for them in the form of welfare but they still get bought.


I always love it when people at the grocery store have multiple EBT cards and when one doesn't work the other always does. Aren't you only supposed to have one?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)

180 You must have missed the shoulder shimmy and the cow milking hand motions.
Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (v0R5T)


I think it's ball milking hand motions.

Don't milk the bull

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (NtVYv)

181 172 " On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.
Posted by: jmel "


Hah....really?
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (fV+MH)

=======

Rumors.

He'll resign in the next few days.

Only rumors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

182 On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.
Posted by: jmel at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM


I am torn on this. I understand that we need to roll out insane debt but, artificially low rates are how we got into this trouble. And, as a retired capitalist, I was really enjoying getting 5 or 6 percent at no risk.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:47 PM (jc0TO)

183 You remove a few million people from the equation and there is less price pressure on a lot of things.
Posted by: JackStraw

I'm still not buying any Bud.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 03:47 PM (hpmMD)

184 I have actually had 2 claims in the last 5 years with progressive. Both times I was rear ended, once by a kid who was texting, which destroyed my old Le Sabre (hard to do) and the second was a hit and run where they smashed up my rear tail lights on my Cadillac DTS. Both claims filed online and progressive paid for everything from rental cars to my totaled Buick and repairs to the Cadillac minus my deductibles. Low balled my payout but I was happy with it and now I wait for the next idiot that will run into me. Rates did not increase. Crazy.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at July 09, 2025 03:47 PM (lX1hk)

185 Truman said, “Somebody get me a one-armed economist!”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (ZVgZ4)

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Qr870)

186 > Throughout the Bible, I see it stated over and over: he who will not work shall not eat.

Eh, I can think of a couple verses.
Obviously you're quoting 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

There's also 1 Timothy 5:8
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."

Genesis 3:19
"In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

There are several Proverbs verses that advise you to be productive and good things will happen. But they don't exactly fit the theme.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 03:48 PM (lIio7)

187 I actually thought Rachel Zeigler wasn't half bad looking till I saw that back hair.


Save that shit for the Columbianos, baby.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:48 PM (fV+MH)

188 Mike check...

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:48 PM (dGCAG)

189 On X, it looks like Trump has managed to bully Jerome Powell into resigning over his refusal to lower rates.
---------

This will lead to lower interest rates...which will stabilize the housing market (including prices & rents) in most markets and may lead to slight increases in regions where the supply of housing is thin to begin with.

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)

190 Go away, Mike. Nobody asked you.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (dGCAG)

191 If you're a RC illegal you are dispensed from going to Mass according to the Bishop because ICE might raid your church.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:45 PM (2GCMq)


Thanks, Fen. NOW Newsom "cares" about religious freedom.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (rF2iL)

192 I remember seeing a leftist going on a "housing is a human right rant" in an interview.

The interviewer said fine the government allocates all housing like you want - who gets the beachfront mansion and who gets the 600ft apartment with bugs?

And...the ranter had apparently never thought about it...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

193 188 Mike check...
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:48 PM (dGCAG)


I'm good! How are you?

Posted by: Mike at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (PiwSw)

194 Obama to Trump: ‘What magic wand do you have?’ - The Hill
Jun 2, 2016 · “He just says, ‘Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’. Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have?"


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

*Trump grabs his crotch*

"With this wand you little bitch".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (g8Ew8)

195 1879 This will lead to lower interest rates...which will stabilize the housing market (including prices & rents) in most markets and may lead to slight increases in regions where the supply of housing is thin to begin with.
Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)

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I kind of just want to refinance from the 7.5% I had to take when we had to move during Biden's term.

We had been paying 3.25% before that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

196 Meanwhile, over at DU:

"Trump has the right to screw your wife.

Yes…he can do anything he wants. Shoot your dog…or you. He has the right to come into your home and take a shit in your kitchen. He has the right to empty your bank accounts and eliminate your pension. He has the right to do anything he wants to you, to anyone. He has said so and cannot be prosecuted.

Yep…and there’s nothing you can do about it.

But Hillary’s emails…
But Kamala’ ex-boyfriend was Willie Brown….

F* all of you who stayed home. I won’t even BEGIN to say what should happen to those who voted for him but believe me, it might get me suspended."

(* edited by me)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 09, 2025 03:50 PM (0sNs1)

197 I know ,I know! Lets institute rent control thall give owners incentive to spend money on repairs!
/s
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM


You laugh, but Cambridge was tossing that idea around not long ago.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:50 PM (dPfyF)

198 groan groan GROAN, that is his response to the Catholic bishop who relieved his diocese of their obligation to attend Mass because la migra might pick them up.

Any chance I could get a dispensation because my split ends are looking bad?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (UmB+t)

And it goes to show - not every bishop is a good one b/c all of them are human.

That said, the Catholic hierarchy is struggling to find the line on current illegal immigration issues...as a Church, it has always been big on refugees (which is why it alone stepped up to help the South African refugees when all the other prevous resettling groups said the refugees were "too white"), but also sees the value in following laws (at least when those laws are not immoral, and national borders are not immoral)...so they haven't really found a message. And probably won't til America has either solved its illegals problem or quits trying to solve its illegals problem.

It doesn't help that the last Pope didn't believe in national borders at all so that has affected a lot of folks, since it's only been a few months of him being gone...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 03:50 PM (tOcjL)

199 My phone went up to 5G. Do I get super powers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:50 PM (zhBpy)

200 "Trump has the right to screw your wife.

Yes…he can do anything he wants. Shoot your dog…or you. He has the right to come into your home and take a shit in your kitchen. He has the right to empty your bank accounts and eliminate your pension. He has the right to do anything he wants to you, to anyone. He has said so and cannot be prosecuted.


Can Trump have me locked down in my home and force me to take a poison shot as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

201
{...a fork drops onto a plate...}

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (Qr870)

202 Insurance company sent me a letter sez "You're such a safe driver, we will graciously NOT raise your premium if you have an accident."

Sure, but they'll just keep doing the arbitrary ANNUAL premium increases anyway, so WTF? Besides, why INVITE me to have a f'n accident?

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (TwZXH)

203 ... and Trump has his ear patch/bogus bible/crap sneakers/and son of Hitler JD Vance.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (Qr870)

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

"Don't you remember that one time that Drumpff was caught wearing the bogus bandage on the wrong ear, h8r?

And everybody knows the 'assassination attempt was an AI #DeepFake! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (nH+RN)

204 He'll resign in the next few days.
Only rumors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

You don't have much choice, Jerome. They're gonna try to make you lower the rates on where the money is. You know what kind of people they are. They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

Posted by: President Donald Trump, Shot Caller at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (lX1hk)

205 I have actually had 2 claims in the last 5 years with progressive. Both times I was rear ended, once by a kid who was texting, which destroyed my old Le Sabre (hard to do) and the second was a hit and run where they smashed up my rear tail lights on my Cadillac DTS. Both claims filed online and progressive paid for everything from rental cars to my totaled Buick and repairs to the Cadillac minus my deductibles. Low balled my payout but I was happy with it and now I wait for the next idiot that will run into me. Rates did not increase. Crazy.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at July 09, 2025


***
I was with Progressive, Flo's Bros, in 2019 when the BMW 3 Series was totaled in a flood. They handled everything according to my policy, gave me a decent payout, and all the paperwork was completed quickly. I left for a while for the Aussie Lizard because of prices; when they increased their rates, I slid back to Flo's Bros.

Maybe it's time to check out GEICO again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (omVj0)

206
I worked at a Catholic Girls HS... We would have Christmas give away for the needy.. Some would show up in cars way nicer and newer than mine asking for their free tree etc.

____________

The local Catholic parish has a food pantry, which is good. But I drive by it on the day they're open and it's SUVs and late-model pickups lined up there. What am I not seeing?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (HZi96)

207
Yep…and there’s nothing you can do about it.

But Hillary’s emails…
But Kamala’ ex-boyfriend was Willie Brown….


These same people tell me Canada or Europe are heaven on earth...so if Trumpland is so terrible...move.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (t0Rmr)

208 Throughout the Bible, I see it stated over and over: he who will not work shall not eat.

Eh, I can think of a couple verses.
Obviously you're quoting 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

There's also 1 Timothy 5:8
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."

Genesis 3:19
"In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

There are several Proverbs verses that advise you to be productive and good things will happen. But they don't exactly fit the theme.


I'm not quite sure how "take this job and shove it" fits in here.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (Riz8t)

209 I am torn on this. I understand that we need to roll out insane debt but, artificially low rates are how we got into this trouble. And, as a retired capitalist, I was really enjoying getting 5 or 6 percent at no risk.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:47 PM (jc0TO)

There's always a concern that lowering rates will jumpstark inflation. But I guess it all depends on behavior, which is sometimes unpredictable.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (dGCAG)

210 Don't milk the bull
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM


That's definitely verboten here.

Posted by: David F. at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (0sNs1)

211 "My phone went up to 5G. Do I get super powers?
Posted by: Boss Moss "

No, but you're just a little better than everyone.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (fV+MH)

212
Any chance I could get a dispensation because my split ends are looking bad?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (UmB+t)

__________

Gotta ask the Pope about that one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

============

As a compromise, could I get a dispensation on account of my arrest warrants in three states? I banged up some federal buildings and caused or contributed to $37mil in damages.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (UmB+t)

213 Well, gotta act like illegals don't buy groceries to make that assumption.

A lot of them don't. We buy them for them in the form of welfare but they still get bought.

I always love it when people at the grocery store have multiple EBT cards and when one doesn't work the other always does. Aren't you only supposed to have one?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:46 PM


That depends on how many "heads of households" are listed at the same address. A local food bank once had 16 people living in a single family residence and they were getting 16 food boxes each month until someone said, uh no, that isn't how this works.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (e5NfL)

214 Meanwhile, over at DU:

"Trump...

Yes…he can do anything he wants. He has the right to come into your home and take a shit in your kitchen."

---------

Wait, so they believe Trump to be from India?

Posted by: Crusader at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

215 The local Catholic parish has a food pantry, which is good. But I drive by it on the day they're open and it's SUVs and late-model pickups lined up there. What am I not seeing?

That the demand for needy people outstrips the supply?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

216 I am torn on this. I understand that we need to roll out insane debt but, artificially low rates are how we got into this trouble. And, as a retired capitalist, I was really enjoying getting 5 or 6 percent at no risk.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:47 PM (jc0TO)

Agree. 5% is about right for "solid" economic growth.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (g8Ew8)

217 Throughout the Bible, I see it stated over and over: he who will not work shall not eat.


This is another one of those macro-economics things that lefties can't grasp.

Every good or service you want is made by someone else. If those people stop working, those goods and services will no longer be available.

And, if you offer people the same amount of money, or hell more, to not work...why would they?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (t0Rmr)

218 "So many of the economic "what should we do?" questions could be solved if people would just first consult supply & demand curves and then follow that up with the "what secondary actions might follow?" question."

The model is exceedingly complex. It's far beyond my ken. I feel like Bastiat lied to me. I'm just glad it's working so far.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:53 PM (TwZXH)

219 Trump has the right to screw your wife

Good thing I don't have one.

The blood pressure of these dopes must be off the charts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (2GCMq)

220 Yes…he can do anything he wants. Shoot your dog…or you. He has the right to come into your home and take a shit in your kitchen. He has the right to empty your bank accounts and eliminate your pension. He has the right to do anything he wants to you, to anyone. He has said so and cannot be prosecuted.

LOL.... Everything he tries is stopped by some judge.

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (VE6XX)

221 So far I'm pretty delighted with my unemployment.

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (idFWj)

222 9
‘ Philistines upon you, America:’

I don’t know what’s more appealing about her: her bushy eyebrows or her big schnozz.

I guess it’s a tie.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (jbnUc)

223 USA for Usaians (It’s a word, ask Sarah Hoyt)! I don’t care what the economic impact of throwing out invaders will be (I suspect it will be mostly good). If they don’t want to conform to our culture, to speak our language, be more like us (they never will be like us - they’re foreign born, go ask Sarah Hoyt) then I want them out of here. And I am glad that more and more people are coming around to my point of view!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

224 The local Catholic parish has a food pantry, which is good. But I drive by it on the day they're open and it's SUVs and late-model pickups lined up there. What am I not seeing?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (HZi96)


Possibly large families need seating beyond what an Accord can offer?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (D7oie)

225 What they need to do is find a reasonable approximation of the average wage differential between Aztecs and legal workers, and then tax remittances at that amount. That's put a stop to this bullshit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (BI5O2)

226 at DU:
"Trump has the right to screw your wife.


You'd think they'd be into that.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM (pdGVg)

227 208 Paul definitely thought so.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM (TwZXH)

228 5-8% for Sovereign Debt seems to be the historical norm. We have lived for two decades mostly way below that, at the same time we tripled our debt.

Coincidence?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

229 You don't have much choice, Jerome. They're gonna try to make you lower the rates on where the money is. You know what kind of people they are. They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
Posted by: President Donald Trump, Shot Caller at July 09, 2025 03:51 PM (lX1hk)

Kinda depends on who "they" is. I'm thinking there are plenty of "theys" in the money world who would rather take a bat to Trump's kneecaps, than attack Powell.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM (dGCAG)

230
In South Carolina, last year we were paying $165 a month for one vehicle.

Here in Wyoming now, we are paying $145 a month total for three vehicles.

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM (3ek7K)

231 > My phone went up to 5G. Do I get super powers?

When I switched from a 4G to 5G phone, there was a noticeable difference in connection speed. Other than that, no. It's easier to burn through your data cap. On my carrier, you get lower data priority after that, but I don't notice a difference when that happens. I can even watch stutter-free YouTube videos.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (lIio7)

232 A certain segment of the populace has far far far nicer cars than houses.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (fV+MH)

233 The model is exceedingly complex. It's far beyond my ken. I feel like Bastiat lied to me. I'm just glad it's working so far.

One of the immediate differences between free and command and control economies is that the former let individuals make decisions because no one can collect enough information to make the right decisions in a mass economy.

Command and control economies always try to simplify things so that one person can make these decisions.

And it never works.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (t0Rmr)

234 I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

235 >>I always love it when people at the grocery store have multiple EBT cards and when one doesn't work the other always does. Aren't you only supposed to have one?

There have been a bunch of videos posted recently on X of people buying multiple shopping carts full of groceries, mostly junk, because they have 4 or 7 kids. They brag about getting thousands of dollars/month to buy grocery and basically say fuck you to anyone who says they should just get a job.

The system is completely broken.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (viF8m)

236 Shitting in the kitchen is more my bag, baby.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (Qr870)

237 #116.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:42 PM (UmB+t)


Thanks, Blonde Morticia. I missed your comment on my first scan.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (rF2iL)

238 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.


I can't wait for epileptic Barbie: the cross of a regular Barbie and a vibrator.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (Riz8t)

239 Geez, I volunteer to get shot by Trump @ 95, and now all of a sudden the lefties are aganst it??

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (TwZXH)

240 One of the immediate differences between free and command and control economies is that the former let individuals make decisions because no one can collect enough information to make the right decisions in a mass economy.

Command and control economies always try to simplify things so that one person can make these decisions.

And it never works.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (t0Rmr)


You are edging dangerously into the Austrian Heresy, my friend.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (D7oie)

241 219 Trump has the right to screw your wife

Good thing I don't have one.

The blood pressure of these dopes must be off the charts.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (2GCMq)

I always suspected he was going to reintroduce prima nocta. It'll be sad seeing all those wives summoned to Bergdorf's for their mandatory lovin.'

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (guCHD)

242 5 G only lasts a few minutes for me. YouTube is one of the last sites to stutter. Pushamepullyou.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (zhBpy)

243 Kinda depends on who "they" is. I'm thinking there are plenty of "theys" in the money world who would rather take a bat to Trump's kneecaps, than attack Powell.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 03:55 PM


The Republican house is making perjury noises about Powell. Which gives Trump a bad-behavior out for firing. I figured it for a shot across the bow to force a resignation.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

244 So far I'm pretty delighted with my unemployment.
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (idFWj)

Pretty cool, huh?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g8Ew8)

245 You are edging dangerously into the Austrian Heresy, my friend.

/Checks list

Not on the list, proceed.

Posted by: Some Warhammer Inquistor at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (t0Rmr)

246
they haven't really found a message.

Posted by: Nova Local

============

Maybe I'm cherry-picking or over-correcting your comment, but aren't they supposed to find the TRUTH?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (UmB+t)

247 Pretty cool, huh?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g8Ew
-----
Yep!

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (idFWj)

248 >>at DU:
"Trump has the right to screw your wife.

I told you he was going to institute Prima Nocte.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (viF8m)

249 So far I'm pretty delighted with my unemployment.
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (idFWj)

Pretty cool, huh?


It's really awesome. Of course, it would have been "awesomer" when I was in my 20s.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

250 So far I'm pretty delighted with my unemployment.
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM


In your case I'm thinking that "funemployment" would apply.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (dPfyF)

251 234 I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

Either Mattel makes her a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic FtM transsexual lesbian or the company is not serious.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (guCHD)

252
Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025


***
Special Introductory Barbie With Type 1 comes with a dispenser box of Wegovy or Ozempic!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (omVj0)

253 I looked up the Bible verse on the subject before posting and had a page full. I decided to just paraphrase it, since, as I said, it is throughout the Bible.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (ZVgZ4)

254 A little late to the party. Ken had AIDS 40 years ago.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (Qr870)

255 " people at the grocery store have multiple EBT cards and when one doesn't work the other always does"

They trade them like baseball cards, and tie up the lines by calling the person they bought it from to ask why the PIN doesn't work. Seen it too many times. I assume many are stolen.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (TwZXH)

256 194 Obama to Trump: ‘What magic wand do you have?’ - The Hill
Jun 2, 2016 · “He just says, ‘Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’. Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have?"


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

*Trump grabs his crotch*

"With this wand you little bitch".
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:49 PM (g8Ew


Imagine the poker game with Trump and dont call my bluff Obama. Fuc n A trump would clean him out.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (FdRMq)

257 "There have been a bunch of videos posted recently on X of people buying multiple shopping carts full of groceries, mostly junk, because they have 4 or 7 kids. They brag about getting thousands of dollars/month to buy grocery and basically say fuck you to anyone who says they should just get a job."

Who needs a job when the Government pays you to not work and have kids?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (ia9UF)

258 So far I'm pretty delighted with my unemployment.
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 03:54 PM (idFWj)

Pretty cool, huh?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM


Every day is Saturday, except Sunday.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)

259 41
‘ I looked up H1B and H1B1 numbers from May of 2024 and May of 2025.

….

Indicative of something? Maybe. More research required? Yes. Am I gonna do it? Probably not.’

Outsource it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (jbnUc)

260 Lol, you could have a 50G phone, and this bunker-oil powered website would still run like a one-legged dog.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (BI5O2)

261 I see a lot of complaints on left leaning sites that "poly" people are marginalized. I suspect with the MAPs getting themselves in hot water the left might switch back to this, and it will get them some good will from Muslims as well...

Good luck to your local HR-bots trying to figure out how to limit the number of spouses you can claim on your health insurance...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (t0Rmr)

262 You do get the difference between will and shall, right?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (ZVgZ4)

263 Imagine the poker game with Trump and dont call my bluff Obama. Fuc n A trump would clean him out.

It woulds have been like the old comic strips, with Obama sitting at the table wearing nothing but a barrel.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

264 The Republican house is making perjury noises about Powell. Which gives Trump a bad-behavior out for firing. I figured it for a shot across the bow to force a resignation.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

He lied to Congress?

For shame, man. This is Washington DC, nobody's allowed to lie here.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

265 So Trump has folded on Ukraine and re-started the millions in military hardware pipeline. For what... passing the bill? That was the deal?
Posted by: front toward enemy at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TIizU)

its not going to work. The weapons Ukraine would need to make a dent don't exist, and the men don't either now. As long as Trump doesn't let Ukraine start WWIII it will run its course.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

266 Either Mattel makes her a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic FtM transsexual lesbian or the company is not serious.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM


Ken is already a post surgery tranny.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

267 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
......

They're going to have to redesign that ass if it's going to come with a backless hospital gown.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

268 Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025

***
Special Introductory Barbie With Type 1 comes with a dispenser box of Wegovy or Ozempic!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (omVj0)

She'll have an accessory kit that comes with lume roll on P-oderant

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (FdRMq)

269 Trump has the right to screw your wife.

-
I guess it's in the pursuit of happiness clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

270 The Republican house is making perjury noises about Powell. Which gives Trump a bad-behavior out for firing. I figured it for a shot across the bow to force a resignation.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)


Smart money is saying a rate drop of 50 basis points for the middle or end of July, though with the inflation dropping it might be later

What IS happening for sure is that the EU Central Bank and the City of London are having a terrible quarter since they have to either print their way into inflation, default on their debt, or borrow more US dollars at this horrible rate which will destroy them economically.

Oh, and supposedly Powell and Bessent have lunch every week.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (D7oie)

271 Every day is Saturday, except Sunday.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)


Win yourself a cheap tray!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 04:02 PM (pdGVg)

272 >>at DU:
"Trump has the right to screw your wife.
--------------
I told you he was going to institute Prima Nocte.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 03:59 PM (viF8m)

This is the main problem with the left, they don't understand rights.

Trump doesn't have the RIGHT to screw your wife, he has the POWER to screw your wife.

Not the same thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:02 PM (dGCAG)

273 Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025

How about DEI Barbie, complete with an ankle monitor and a back-end that would make a dump truck jealous.

Posted by: The Left at July 09, 2025 04:02 PM (i24o9)

274 I was searching for something else and stumbled upon a local story of a woman who'd killed her two-year-old. Her sentencing was delayed because they couldn't find an interpreter that spoke Chuukic. My question was, of course, how does a Micronesian who doesn't understand any English wind up in rural Iowa?

Posted by: pookysgirln digging up obscure things at July 09, 2025 04:02 PM (hNaZP)

275 I couldn't fine where it says "unexpectedly".

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (od0dV)

276 There have been a bunch of videos posted recently on X of people buying multiple shopping carts full of groceries, mostly junk, because they have 4 or 7 kids. They brag about getting thousands of dollars/month to buy grocery and basically say fuck you to anyone who says they should just get a job.

The system is completely broken.


It's insane to me EBT will even pay for food delivery services like door dash. Here's a chick showing off 1/3 of her $500 worth of groceries she got on "food stamp day," delivered right to her door.

http://tiny.cc/5k0p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (lIio7)

277 I keep having to remind myself I don't need to think about work stuff. Ever.

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (idFWj)

278 > I always love it when people at the grocery store have multiple EBT cards and when one doesn't work the other always does. Aren't you only supposed to have one?
---------
The administration needs to cancel all those EBT/Debit cards the illegals were given. The debit cards were "automatically refilled" monthly regardless of the balance.

Some illegals had/have cards with 10's of thousands of dollars on them.

Oh, and fine the banks that issued them a billion dollars each. I bet many/all of those cards are still floating around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (Q4IgG)

279 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)


D'you suppose it will come with the Barbie Mobility scooter and the removable foot?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D7oie)

280 Trump has the right to screw your wife.

-
I guess it's in the pursuit of happiness clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

Have you seen their wives?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (i24o9)

281 I can't wait for epileptic Barbie: the cross of a regular Barbie and a vibrator.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM


I laughed way too hard at that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (dPfyF)

282 All hail the Austrian School of Economics!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM (ZVgZ4)

283 You COULD, oh, I don’t know, make labor cheaper to hire by reducing onerous regulations. That would be easier and more effective than flooding the country with non-citizens who don’t even bother with showing a passport at a PoE.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 09, 2025 04:04 PM (Pce4l)

284 I actually saw a guy on youtube showing off his doll collection.

Not vintage dolls, which could be worth something.

Barbie dolls. But they were baby Barbie dolls.

Brand new in the package baby Barbie dolls.

Dozens. Brand new. Completely valueless.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:04 PM (fV+MH)

285 277 I keep having to remind myself I don't need to think about work stuff. Ever.

You get used to it, but you never stop enjoying it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (Riz8t)

286 265 So Trump has folded on Ukraine and re-started the millions in military hardware pipeline. For what... passing the bill? That was the deal?
Posted by: front toward enemy at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TIizU)

its not going to work. The weapons Ukraine would need to make a dent don't exist, and the men don't either now. As long as Trump doesn't let Ukraine start WWIII it will run its course.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

It's because Putin pulled a dick move, Trump thought he could get Putin to negotiate by talking nice to him, and Putin told him to go piss off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8)

287 Have you seen their wives?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


Nay, I say; Trump has the DUTY to screw my wife.

Posted by: David French at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (pdGVg)

288 I keep having to remind myself I don't need to think about work stuff. Ever.
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 04:03 PM


I'm surprised that they haven't started the Err-can-you-come-back-on-contract stuff yet.

I guess give them another month the figure out all the stuff you did for them.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (jc0TO)

289 My big black cat Stirling is here purring away like he wants to be part of the conversation. He may not be so affectionate after I lug him to the vet on Friday. (Rabies shot and flea treatment is all; he was altered long ago.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (omVj0)

290 Shitting in the kitchen is more my bag, baby.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 09, 2025 03:57 PM (Qr870)

Someone's shitting in the kitchen with Joe
Someone's shitting in the kitchen I know
Someone's shitting in the kitchen with Joe
Shitting on the old banjo...

Posted by: Zombie Nat King Cole at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (lX1hk)

291
‘ I looked up H1B and H1B1 numbers from May of 2024 and May of 2025.

….

Indicative of something? Maybe. More research required? Yes. Am I gonna do it? Probably not.’

Outsource it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

============

ChatGPT?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (UmB+t)

292 280 Trump has the right to screw your wife.

---


Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier? This changes everything!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (B9Prs)

293 " I keep having to remind myself I don't need to think about work stuff. Ever."

It took about five years of retirement before my workplace nightmares stopped.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (TwZXH)

294 Everyday is Wednesday.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (fV+MH)

295 In Rhode Island they haven't billed annually for years. Six month policies only. That way you don't choke quite as badly at the total cost.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (n4GiU)

296 Weasel, since my retirement I have done my best to not think about physics. Sometimes I just can’t!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

297 246
they haven't really found a message.

Posted by: Nova Local

============

Maybe I'm cherry-picking or over-correcting your comment, but aren't they supposed to find the TRUTH?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (UmB+t)

You deliver truth through message. If you can't communicate the truth, then only you know it. The bishops job has always been to communicate the truth to their flock and each bishop chooses the way they do so.

Knowledge of truth does not equal communication of truth.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (tOcjL)

298 its not going to work. The weapons Ukraine would need to make a dent don't exist, and the men don't either now. As long as Trump doesn't let Ukraine start WWIII it will run its course.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

Oh, it's going to work. The warmongers needed the war to continue, so it'll continue.

It's not about saving Ukrainian lives, it's not about winning, it's about paying off people.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:06 PM (dGCAG)

299 Alright, I looked up and compared April 24 to April 25.

21% drop in H1Bs and H1B1s from last year.

Interesting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

300 29 Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

Mustbeniceifyouhavehealthforwhichtocare

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 09, 2025 04:06 PM (Pce4l)

301 Beef seems to be headed higher. 10% for Kroger.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (zhBpy)

302 " I keep having to remind myself I don't need to think about work stuff. Ever."
*
It took about five years of retirement before my workplace nightmares stopped.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025


***
For me it took about five days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (omVj0)

303 Everyday is Wednesday.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (fV+MH)

Good lord, you people are evil!

GO BACK TO WORK!!!

Aaaaand, my lunchbreak is about over.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (dGCAG)

304 >>>Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces. The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.

Ken will be modeled after Wilford Brimley. Mustache accessory extra.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (CwhoI)

305 This post reminds me of the dark days when garrett had Manolo, ace's manservant, deported.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (wzQvI)

306 267 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
---------

Looking forward to STD Barbie.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM (G0vdT)

307 I am contemplating a Walmart+ annual subscription for $50. Has anybody here had experience with that?

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (TwZXH)

308 Trump doesn't want to fuck your ugly wife, you sad cuck. Now, be a good feminist and go pour some slop in her trough. He's gonna need her to go dig up some truffles for Melania's supper. Wouldn't want her to work on a big ol' empty gut.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (BI5O2)

309 Methmouth Barbie, with crazy eyes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (jc0TO)

310 Stirling!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (n3uHw)

311 300 29 Next up, Healthcare costs dropping.
Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

I think I see the problem.. I'm on Medicare.. Had my yearly checkup last month.. Nothing special.. The bill was 617 dollars with my share being 119....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

312 Oh, it's going to work. The warmongers needed the war to continue, so it'll continue.

It's not about saving Ukrainian lives, it's not about winning, it's about paying off people.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:06 PM (dGCAG)

Just as a reminder, if you believe that there should be any focus on defense, even if just as a deterrent, you are a “warmonger”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (Pce4l)

313 Knowledge of truth does not equal communication of truth.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (tOcjL)

Wanted to add - this is one reason Jesus spoke in parables. It was a way to communicate the truth to his listeners in a way they could understand. It would have been simpler to say "X is right and Y is wrong", but they needed a message they were willing to hear and could understand.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (tOcjL)

314 Keto Mr. Potato Head.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (PiwSw)

315 Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (jc0TO)
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That may be the case when year-end rolls around, but I find I'm well suited to being a burden on society

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (idFWj)

316 "For me it took about five days."

Wow, must have been a really nice job!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (TwZXH)

317 Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

318 What do you get for your $50.at Walmart?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (zhBpy)

319 289 My big black cat Stirling is here purring away like he wants to be part of the conversation. He may not be so affectionate after I lug him to the vet on Friday. (Rabies shot and flea treatment is all; he was altered long ago.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (omVj0)

I am without a cat I can actually touch for the first time in many years and I miss the sound of purring. It's so calming.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (BvTfc)

320 I'm almost willing to bet emergency room workers are loving the break due to illegals not crowding everyone out of the waiting room.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:10 PM (tT6L1)

321 Methmouth Barbie, with crazy eyes.

Old GF had a cat. Sometimes he'd get what she called "cocaine eyes".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 04:10 PM (n3uHw)

322 Just as a reminder, if you believe that there should be any focus on defense, even if just as a deterrent, you are a “warmonger”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (Pce4l)

No, if you think perpetual war is the nature of the country you live in, then your country is evil.

Defense is about... defense.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (dGCAG)

323 In all seriousness, what is Mattel thinking here? Does it envision obese children having her fall down in the Malibu beach house screaming, "Oh Ken, The Sugar has me! Get my insulin!" Are her feet removable to simulate amputations? It's so dumb.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (guCHD)

324
Trump has the right to screw your wife.

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

The Paolo perceives that Trump is a very busy man and cannot exercise all his rights properly. And the Paolo desires for all rights to be exercised, although it may mean outsourcing.

Posted by: The Paolo has many 5-star reviews from the AWFLs at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (UmB+t)

325 Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM


We have farm worker programs, had them for my whole life. We don't need illegals.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)

326 320 I'm almost willing to bet emergency room workers are loving the break due to illegals not crowding everyone out of the waiting room.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:10 PM (tT6L1

I'm in CA.. They're still here....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (VE6XX)

327 317 Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

Farm workers would mostly be in red states.
Obviously, they are looking to decrease blue state populations 1st (New England, Mid Atlantic, Illinois, Colorado, etc)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (tOcjL)

328 318 Mainly free shipping on $35+ orders. That's pretty attractive. They have other perks, like 25% at BK, etc. It's 50% off for a few more days.
https://www.walmart.com/plus

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (TwZXH)

329 317 Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)
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Liberals can breath easy. They'll have someone to pick their lettuce.

Posted by: WisRicih at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (G0vdT)

330 But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)


I know you just are looking for a reason to hate on Trump and declare yourself betrayed, again, but look at it this way: You Must Have Workers To Pick Crops, and It Is Harvest Season NOW.

I don't like it either, but this is not unexpected.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:12 PM (D7oie)

331 306 267 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
---------

Looking forward to STD Barbie.
Posted by: WisRicih at July 09, 2025 04:07 PM

That's called a bratz doll.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:12 PM (BvTfc)

332
Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey

===============

There are some things she might not understand.

https://x.com/MeriwetherFarms/status/
1934083827644649925

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:12 PM (UmB+t)

333 Kamala is brat makes sense now.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 04:12 PM (i24o9)

334 Think it's important having a modern Department of Defense?

Try not having one.

Posted by: Old Pentagon saying at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (jtoyl)

335 Stirling!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025


***
The cat named for a 1950s British race car driver!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (omVj0)

336 My mother was a pharmacy tech and would wait on the same Medicaid patients for years . She became friendly with them and always felt some sympathy for their situation. Then when drive thru began she saw these same people in their brand new cars or a car better than she had . She was too nice to be angry. Just disappointed.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (VofaG)

337 Pop Base@PopBase
Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.
The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


"American Girl releases 1st doll with hearing loss"

"Wait, the other ones can hear us??"

Posted by: the meme about that at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (VxVfx)

338 >>That may be the case when year-end rolls around, but I find I'm well suited to being a burden on society

Just get on the cart.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (viF8m)

339 I'm in CA.. They're still here....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (VE6XX)
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I figured CA would be the exception.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

340 Keto Mr. Potato Head.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 09, 2025 04:08 PM (PiwSw)

I want a Rock'm Sock'm Robots where the robots bleed.

Or a Hungry Hungry Hippo game where the hippos bite crocodiles and wildebeest in half.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (dGCAG)

341 I am without a cat I can actually touch for the first time in many years and I miss the sound of purring. It's so calming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025


***
Well, then, get thee to a shelter, stat!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)

342 Disregarding the dowagers of gloom, proactive investment houses are predicting a doubling within a year.
[Except, you know, CA which is doomed to failure. Everyone,
unless connected to one of excepted enterprises. IL & NY too]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (ncgY2)

343 "Wait, the other ones can hear us??"
Posted by: the meme about that at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM



How DARE you!

Posted by: Greta on a Shelf at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

344 336 Ha! I see Escalades parked outside the local free health clinic. Some people know how to work the system better than me, that's fer sure.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:15 PM (TwZXH)

345 341 Concur.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:15 PM (TwZXH)

346 336 My mother was a pharmacy tech and would wait on the same Medicaid patients for years . She became friendly with them and always felt some sympathy for their situation. Then when drive thru began she saw these same people in their brand new cars or a car better than she had . She was too nice to be angry. Just disappointed.
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (VofaG)
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Worked at a convenience store way back when, I'd tell people we don't take EBT, they'd shrug and pull out cash. They were invariably driving a nicer car than I owned.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

347 Say, what happened about Trump starting WW3 with Iran? The people who keep telling me how smart they are were convinced he was going to start WW3, so I don't understand why it hasn't started yet.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM (B9Prs)

348 Think it's important having a modern Department of Defense?

Try not having one.
Posted by: Old Pentagon saying at July 09, 2025 04:13 PM (jtoyl)

Sound reasoning. Here's a bazillion dollars, you kids go have fun!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM (dGCAG)

349 > Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces. The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.

I really don't get the outrage about this one. Mattel makes like 500 different Barbies. If there's a market for little girls who have type 1 diabetes and who feel a little better about themselves if they have a doll like them, I think it's great.

Type 1 diabetes is entirely a genetic disorder that has nothing to do with your diet. You can't fix it by eating better. You don't get it by being fat.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM (lIio7)

350 I want a Department of Offense.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM (jc0TO)

351 I saw Jose outstanding in my field the other day. I really like his neck tattoos and, the way he smiles at my young daughter is touching. They are such happy people.

Posted by: Farm Owner Looking For More Handouts at July 09, 2025 04:17 PM (/U5Yz)

352 341 I am without a cat I can actually touch for the first time in many years and I miss the sound of purring. It's so calming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025

***
Well, then, get thee to a shelter, stat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)

I inherited a little terrier mix that someone dumped off here and there's a feral outside I'm working on taming. It keeps looking in the windows at night. Hopefully I can get it a little more tame.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:17 PM (BvTfc)

353 Hey kids! Look who's here!

It's Sickle Cell Barbie!

Posted by: Just in time for the holidays! at July 09, 2025 04:17 PM (jtoyl)

354 Rollins is on Fox News saying they are still going forward with not deporting farm and hospitality workers.

But she insists it’s not “amnesty.” It’s about “supporting farmers.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey
------------

Temporary work visa? Go home when the job is finished?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (ncgY2)

355 Farm workers would mostly be in red states.
Obviously, they are looking to decrease blue state populations 1st (New England, Mid Atlantic, Illinois, Colorado, etc)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 04:11 PM (tOcjL)

There's at least 30 million illegals to be got rid of. So get rid of the most nonessential 10 million first, and after that we can talk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (uWKK8)

356 Thalidomide Barbie was a market failure.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

357 I am without a cat I can actually touch for the first time in many years and I miss the sound of purring. It's so calming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025

***
Well, then, get thee to a shelter, stat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:14 PM (omVj0)
----
Somewhere out there is a kitten crying out, desperate for a forever home with a loving owner.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (7fElN)

358 344 336 Ha! I see Escalades parked outside the local free health clinic. Some people know how to work the system better than me, that's fer sure.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:15 PM (TwZXH)

My SIl did ultrasounds at the free clinic and when they'd ask for free vitamins she would chew them out and say if you can afford those Marlboros you can afford vitamins.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (BvTfc)

359
Trichotillomania Barbie will be easy to maintain.

But I see your point, bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM. I just want to get in on the joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (UmB+t)

360 There's at least 30 million illegals to be got rid of. So get rid of the most nonessential 10 million first, and after that we can talk.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (uWKK

By virtue of the fact that farms are spread out, it's also significantly less efficient to go after all the farms in a state than to concentrate in the cities first.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (B9Prs)

361 Temporary work visa? Go home when the job is finished?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 04:18 PM (ncgY2)

We've always had a visa system for seasonal temporary migrant farm workers. I wonder what happened to that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (VofaG)

362 Waiting to hear how those aren't real jobs or they don't pay a living wage.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (7xrfc)

363 We certainly do have a problem with warmongers. Government's loaded with 'em. But hey - that's the nature of government.

My objection is that these corrupt incompetents are unfit to lead a one-car funeral and haven't been able to win a war in the better part of a century. It's long past time to stop this.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (BI5O2)

364 > Special Introductory Barbie With Type 1 comes with a dispenser box of Wegovy or Ozempic!

> D'you suppose it will come with the Barbie Mobility scooter and the removable foot?

> They're going to have to redesign that ass if it's going to come with a backless hospital gown.

Type 1. You don't get it by being fat.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 04:19 PM (lIio7)

365
New one

Posted by: four seasons at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (3ek7K)

366 Epstein Island Barbie!

Wealthy and powerful men will be playing with it. And when they're done, the doll just disappears!

In fact, there were no men. You silly.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 09, 2025 04:20 PM (dGCAG)

367 Weasel, since my retirement I have done my best to not think about physics. Sometimes I just can’t!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 04:05 PM (ZVgZ4)
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We're still thinking of you...

Posted by: Newton's Three Laws of Motion at July 09, 2025 04:21 PM (7fElN)

368 Much like the burning during urination.

Posted by: The Gonorrhea Ken doll at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (jtoyl)

369 Somewhere out there is a kitten crying out, desperate for a forever home with a loving owner.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025


***
In '22, a few months after Chekov D. Siberian passed away, I was ready to look for a new buddy. But this was during the Sniffle Scare. The local SPCA insisted on face diapers, and you had to make an appointment (!) to come in and see an individual cat. You couldn't look around. And the website showed no longhairs, which I prefer.

Petfinder led me to a shelter in Vicksburg, and there was the future Stirling already looking impressive at three months. No face diaper nonsense. An eight-hour round trip, and he moved right in with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (omVj0)

370 Hey kids! Look who's here!

It's Sickle Cell Barbie!
Posted by: Just in time for the holidays!
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No you didn't!

Posted by: Ketanji of the Supremes at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (TN0g+)

371 Migrant farm workers should now have a reason to vote R instead of D. Maybe negating the margin of fraud in some states.

Or not.

They're a tool the political class and their donors use. Maybe someone in the administration thought leaving them alone, but letting them know which side was their benefactor was a play to make.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 04:22 PM (Q4IgG)

372 Noodus SCOTUS again

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)

373 nood

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (TwZXH)

374 But I drive by it on the day they're open and it's SUVs and late-model pickups lined up there. What am I not seeing?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Come on, these people can't afford food, they've got car payments to make! /sarc

But seriously, they may be in that "sucks to be you" zone where they can't get food stamps because they have a new-ish car, which they need to work, but their job doesn't pay quite enough to cover all the necessary expenses.

And somehow food is the most flexible one to short themselves on.

And I'm still not convinced that the used car market has recovered from Cash for Clunkers, even this many years later.

Or they're just taking advantage. Who knows?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)

375 Cat Lady Barbie.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (fV+MH)

376 Well, he's trying to, anyway.

Terry Gilliam: Trump Saved Us From Humorless Woke Scolds

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (L/fGl)

377 Nood fagz.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 04:25 PM (fV+MH)

378 This is great. Keep it up--I'm still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Dave at July 09, 2025 04:28 PM (sbsMc)

379 Nope, type 1 is an autoimmune syndrome, but that is not as funny.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 04:31 PM (D7oie)

380 Farm workers would mostly be in red states.

—-

Top 5 states for agriculture are California, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois.

It’s pretty evenly distributed.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 09, 2025 04:35 PM (ImXfC)

381 I'm not seeing this in the real world. The only way this would be true is if they restricted H1bs and started sending them home. Wonder what they're counting as "American Citizens."

Posted by: resist_we_much at July 09, 2025 04:38 PM (cpys8)

382
USACE was already under that hiring freeze before the buy-out. I don't think this is new.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 09, 2025 05:05 PM (VKuXR)


Possibly, but this one was issued on the 7th

Posted by: Kindltot at July 09, 2025 05:07 PM (D7oie)

383 About a million illegals have left the country voluntarily. But only 530,000 Fewer Illegals Have Jobs. The rest were freeloaders or working without paying taxes.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 09, 2025 05:51 PM (D1vbu)

384 Put America First and Illegal Aliens(Future Democrat Voters and Supporters)Dead Last

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 09, 2025 06:11 PM (wGqjj)

385 Superb, what a webpage it is! This blog gives helpful data to us, keep it
up.

Posted by: Top 10 toughest course in india at July 10, 2025 01:02 PM (nyc3t)

After Four Men From the Same Syrian Immigrant Family Sexually Assault Women in a German Pool, Germany Unleashes Propaganda Campaign Advising German Women to Stop Groping Jihadis

After Muslims "guests" groped and sexually assaulted their hosts, Germany sprang into action, lecturing native German women to please stop fondling the jihadist invaders.

rebellion_hayo_phaei_german_immigrant_antigroping_posters_07-07_2025-853x1536.jpg


Mark Steyn:


As you can see, in one poster, a white man is invading the privacy of a brown woman; in the second, a white man is grabbing the bottom of a brown woman; in the third, two white men are assaulting a brown woman; and, in the fourth, a predatory redhead is groping a brown man with a peg leg - presumably a Somali pirate whose storm-tossed galleon was forced to put into port at the Cologne municipal baths.

As Europe's bestselling newspaper was obliged to point out, this advertising campaign is the precise inversion of German reality:

Eleven days ago, eight girls were sexually assaulted on a trip to the swimming pool trip at Gelnhausen. The alleged offenders are four young men. All four are said to be from the same Syrian family.

There's a surprise - not. I am not saying that the advertising-agency manginas who came up with this campaign and the bureaucrats who signed off on it should be identified, hunted down in the streets and killed. I am not even saying that they should be brutally sodomised like the ten-year-old boy in the Theresienbad pool, whose attacker had his conviction overturned by the Austrian Supreme Court on the grounds that, being from Iraq, Amir could not be expected to know that the cute little moppet was not consenting to his anal rape. But I am saying that every self-respecting bikini-clad flame-tressed thunder-thighed Hausfrau should pursue these manginas down the sidewalk groping their arses every inch of the way until their poor put-upon posteriors have to be replaced by prosthetics from the same company that Somali pirate gets his from.

...

What the German state is telling you in that ad campaign is that there is no possibility of meaningful democratic change on anything that matters - and that, even as your society descends into hell, you will be blamed for it. What next? Rotherham cracking down on "grooming gangs" with posters showing Sammy Woodhouse groping nice young Pakistani lads? The German campaign is a near parodic example of what feminists used to call "victim-blaming". Because it is the logical and necessary consequence of public policy.

Steyn calls it another "blizzard of lies." I prefer to call it the Empire of Lies.

People are getting tired of the Empire of Lies. The non-elite "elites" are always asking how people became so distrustful and cynical about our Precious Institutions.

Hint: Constantly lying about everything in order to appease extremists and criminals and denigrate and demoralize the law-abiding normies is causing the caustic cynicism. We don't believe you for a very simple reason: You are inveterate liars. You are incapable of speaking the truth, even accidentally.

Posted by: Ace at 02:15 PM




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1 Everything is an op. Everything is a lie.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

2 Best part:

The person in charge of this ad campaign?

Fat, white lesbian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

3 I alerted the previous comments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

4 It would be comical if it wasn't so dangerous.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (jGGMD)

5 People are getting tired of the Empire of Lies. The non-elite "elites" are always asking how people became so distrustful and cynical about our Precious Institutions.

Hint: Constantly lying about everything in order to appease extremists and criminals and denigrate and demoralize the law-abiding normies is causing the caustic cynicism. We don't believe you for a very simple reason: You are inveterate liars. You are incapable of speaking the truth, even accidentally.

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It's almost like people were discussing this very idea in the comments of the last thread!

Timely!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

6 Who knew German redheaded frauleins were so gropey.

And on an unrelated note how much is airfare to Hamburg nowadays?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (t0Rmr)

7 it's always white people at fault, somehow

Posted by: brak at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (jGJov)

8 >>Steyn calls it another "blizzard of lies." I prefer to call it the Empire of Lies.


Good Afternoon Ace.

You are looking tall and in shape, today.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (Bi+MU)

9 7 it's always white people at fault, somehow
Posted by: brak at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (jGJov)

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To be fair, it was white Germans who let the Syrians into their country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

10 By the way, someone found a picture of the artist responsible for the ad campaign. If the picture I saw is of her, then she looks just as one would expect.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

11 Who knew German redheaded frauleins were so gropey.

And on an unrelated note how much is airfare to Hamburg nowadays?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (t0Rmr)


Where the gropey white women at? -- Sheriff Bart

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (ExV1e)

12 Gotta say the first incarnation of German Socialists produced much better propaganda then this generation of them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (t0Rmr)

13 >>> 2 Best part:

The person in charge of this ad campaign?

Fat, white lesbian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

With danger hair!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (ULPxl)

14 I think it is Japan where the Old Women grope men on the regular. Ass grabbing, I believe.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (Bi+MU)

15 12 Gotta say the first incarnation of German Socialists produced much better propaganda then this generation of them
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (t0Rmr)

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Well, I think these are German international socialists instead of national socialists.

Probably got some wires crossed at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

16 Waiting for the European masses to rise up against their tyrannical leaders.

Also waiting for the trials and sentences in the US.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (roqsI)

17 Yup.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (LN3jZ)

18 > Hint: Constantly lying about everything in order to appease extremists and criminals and denigrate and demoralize the law-abiding normies is causing the caustic cynicism.
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It's also fostering an increasing sense that frontier justice might be the solution.

At least that's the sense I get here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)

19 The non-elite "elites" are always asking how people became so distrustful and cynical about our Precious Institutions.
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Also part of the op. Designed to confuse, annoy, fatigue.

And I should know a thing or two about confusing, annoying and fatiguing.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Qr870)

20 Damn, garrett. You go right for the jugular.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (lIio7)

21 Even more amusing: The Muslims will look at the posters and think, "Huh, must be okay for me to do it, because I'm not white!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (tT6L1)

22 The German people: Who knew Syrian pockets were so good?!?!

The German government: Ok, we'll get you ten million Syrian rapefugees, just give us a minute...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (t0Rmr)

23 Grabschen macht frei

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (v0R5T)

24 Nothing hotter than a mouth full of lies.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (LN3jZ)

25 The OMG Russians must be terrified of the imminent invasion by the German uberbints.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ULPxl)

26 Wasn't the woman in the 3rd one featured in today's Art Thread?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (od0dV)

27 Are there any such posters featuring Irish redheads. AFAF

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (Qr870)

28 "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)

29 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.


Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?


If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (fV+MH)

30 Why is that gigantic German Woman Harassing the peg leg kid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (MRwbj)

31 Adding insult to insult, the captions, from top left to bottom right, are (roughly) as follows:

Stop! Groping is forbidden!

Pushing isn't funny!

You have the right to your own body!

You have the right of personal space!

I don't know about you, but #3 seems to me to have the most chutzpah.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (jGGMD)

32 The OMG Russians must be terrified of the imminent invasion by the German uberbints.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ULPxl)
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Maybe this is an idea who's time has come?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (tT6L1)

33 Nice to see something by Mark Stein.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (SXxzC)

34 The OMG Russians must be terrified of the imminent invasion by the German uberbints.

I suspect the current Fuhrer of Germany is terrified of arming up their new youth. Because why would a Syrian, Turk, or Libyan want to fight Vlad when overthrowing the Merzs would be so much easier?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (t0Rmr)

35 Waiting for the European masses to rise up against their tyrannical leaders.

Also waiting for the trials and sentences in the US.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (roqsI)

I'll be right here, waiting.

Posted by: 2000 year old man at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (0eaVi)

36 It's like they're nazis.

Posted by: torabora at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (bcigM)

37 Germany needs an army of Gary Plauche's.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (PMtkd)

38 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.
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And when they take streets, cities, then what

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (Qr870)

39
Ilsa, She Groper of the SS.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (HZi96)

40 Grabschen Gal needs to lay off the schnitzel.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (v0R5T)

41 Those graphics are utterly ridiculous! I would not have seen such idiocy in my high school German class magazine called Das Rad, where Torsten und Rosie tanzten in der Disco. But this isn't 1978 anymore and Torsten and Rosie have been replaced by Mohammed and Fatima.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (qBdHI)

42 29 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.


Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?


If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (fV+MH)

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That's an option.

They could also kick out all Syrians of the country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

43 They deserve every ficken grope they receive. Embrace the culture you voted for, you ficken kraut douchebags.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (/U5Yz)

44 The Germans will do anything to avoid being called Nazis. Mustn't be "racist", "homophobic", realistic about Muslims etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (JtH6i)

45 WTF is Germany's problem? It's like they've never heard the saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see." They refuse to see. Why are they so fucking stupid? And you see this stupid willful blindness in Britain when it comes to their "Asian" immigrants, too.

Posted by: Farquad at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (yqgaV)

46 Evergreen Norm MacDonald:

What I fear most, if Muslim terrorist ever detonate a nuclear bomb in a major US city, killing millions, is the backlash against Muslims.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (T/tp/)

47 This is insane, but I'm more offended by that pushy (if sexy) turtle. "Say my name"? Keep it in the bedroom Tiki. If that's even your real namen.

Posted by: spongeworthy at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (CDWlY)

48 The German language is so damn harsh. When read or spoken. I do not like it! Therefore, I am not Hitler!

Mark Steyn, oh, how I love him, has been warning people since 9/11 about eeslam. And how they will use taqiyya to invade as well as bombs and terror. How the no go zones would eventually invade politics with voting blocs.

We must protect their feelings at all costs! See Rotherham in the UK.

I know if I had been assaulted in a public pool, my late father would form a posse. But they had guns, so it is different than mein heil.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (6PCLE)

49 The Germans will do anything to avoid being called Nazis. Mustn't be "racist", "homophobic", realistic about Muslims etc

Hitler and co were pretty fond of Muslims. They hated the same people.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (t0Rmr)

50 >>You go right for the jugular.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (lIio7)

Cut Once.
But.
Cut Deep.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (Bi+MU)

51 There was an incident at a pool about a mile from my house a couple of years ago. A bunch of people gate crashed a condo pool. It's a private pool that's intended for residents only. One resident, recognizing that these gate crashers were especially ghetto and weren't residents told them to leave. The ghetto trash shot him.

He lived, thank goodness.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (lIio7)

52 The giant redhead grabbing dusky ass made me laugh.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (SXxzC)

53 Predatory Redheads was the garage band name for the group that ultimately came to be known as The Sex Pistols.

Posted by: Music Nerd at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (jtoyl)

54 Waiting for the European masses to rise up against their tyrannical leaders.

Also waiting for the trials and sentences in the US.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (roqsI)

...

Posted by: Methos, holding breath, passing out at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (zLwRl)

55 45 WTF is Germany's problem? It's like they've never heard the saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see." They refuse to see. Why are they so fucking stupid? And you see this stupid willful blindness in Britain when it comes to their "Asian" immigrants, too.
Posted by: Farquad at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (yqgaV)

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German women would rather get raped by a Syrian than deport one Syrian back to Syria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

56
"I got it! We'll ban the AfD!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (HZi96)

57 Who knew German redheaded frauleins were so gropey.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (t0Rmr)

I met a very gropey Burnette German junge Frau the last few times I was in Germany.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (8wKVG)

58 The Germans needed to show them that stop, don't touch me there, this is my no-no square song.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (AZf41)

59 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

AAG Harmeet Dhillon announces DOJ is now suing California for breech of Title IX in allowing men to invade women’s sports.

This puts over $44 billion at risk that California gets from the US Department of Education.

https://tinyurl.com/2fs8d8r7

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (NpAcC)

60 Nobody gropes me. I have a sad.

Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (q2NNn)

61 It's amazing that the Germans and the Brits seem to treat sexual assault like a "bad haircut".

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (RHGPo)

62 The Germans needed to show them that stop, don't touch me there, this is my no-no square song.

Maybe they could hire the company that makes the "Don't shit in the streets" videos for India?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (t0Rmr)

63 44 The Germans will do anything to avoid being called Nazis. Mustn't be "racist", "homophobic", realistic about Muslims etc
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (JtH6i)
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One thing they won't do to avoid being called "Nazis" is stop suppressing the speech of the untermenschen.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (od0dV)

64 42 29 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.


Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?


If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (fV+MH)

=======

That's an option.

They could also kick out all Syrians of the country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

*******

Bingo, Mr Madison, bingo.

Collect your winnings at table on the side of the room.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (LN3jZ)

65 I guess going to Germany to swim is a thing?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (W3T6M)

66 >>> 56
"I got it! We'll ban the AfD!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (HZi96)

Brilliant! Throwing out smoke detectors will keep the house from catching on fire!!!

Posted by: German EXPERTS!!! at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (ULPxl)

67 Where is Fraulein Helga when you need her?

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (v0R5T)

68 Waiting for the European masses to rise up against their tyrannical leaders.

Also waiting for the trials and sentences in the US.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (roqsI)


The German masses haven't risen up against their leaders in 500 years. Don't count on it happening in the next 500 days.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (jGGMD)

69 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (XZ5S6)

70 I guess those gropey Germans know nothing of the No-No Square.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (0KDA8)

71 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.

Posted by: eleven at


Why should they surrender the pools of their native country to a bunch of barbaric unmannered foreigners?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (a+4eV)

72 European women are whores who will literally grope shrunked headed cripples to get action?

Count me in!

Posted by: Future Flood of Male 'Refugees' at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (Dv3i1)

73 There is a mental health problem with so many affluent white people. There lives are so secure, boring and easy, they must find something to worry about and then virtue signal their “tolerance” and love for humanity.

They have decided to kill Western Civilization and commit suicide because they are ashamed of their own selves.

They must be stopped or we will all be living in third world hell holes very soon. If not already (see LA, Portland, etc).

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (vK/Ja)

74 Honestly, I'd blame the graphic artist and agency that did the ads.

Put yourself in a young leftist German working on these posters and imagine the existential angst they must go through in their minds deciding which race should represent the perpetrators and victims.

If you portray the perpetrators as brown that would help to propagate harmful stereotypes, which would be racist and wrong.

If you portray the perpetrators as white the only people who'll complain are right-winger AfD types, and they're all racists so who cares what they think anyhow?

If it had been me designing the poster I'd have used dogs & cats or stick figure cartoons and avoided all of the politics entirely but I haven't been brainwashed by the German educational system so I can think outside the box.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

75 I thought all Germans wore Speedos.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (W3T6M)

76 73 There is a mental health problem with so many affluent white people. There lives are so secure, boring and easy, they must find something to worry about and then virtue signal their “tolerance” and love for humanity.

They have decided to kill Western Civilization and commit suicide because they are ashamed of their own selves.

They must be stopped or we will all be living in third world hell holes very soon. If not already (see LA, Portland, etc).
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (vK/Ja)

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They've been taught that the West is bad and must be destroyed.

That's part of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

77 German women would rather get raped by a Syrian than deport one Syrian back to Syria.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
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I think German leaders would prefer German women get raped by a Syrian than deport a Syrian. Syrians are probably the new Brown Shirts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (tT6L1)

78 Who really cares if the Krauts go down the drain ?

... and the Tiger Tank they rode in on.

Posted by: Going deep. Out at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (9X60i)

79 Hint: Constantly lying about everything in order to appease extremists and criminals and denigrate and demoralize the law-abiding normies is causing the caustic cynicism. We don't believe you for a very simple reason: You are inveterate liars. You are incapable of speaking the truth, even accidentally.
Posted by Ace

That's why I make sure to throw in some Kate Upton cheesecake occasionally with my, uh, "other" content. https://tinyurl.com/42923vxf

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (ycI94)

80 "
They could also kick out all Syrians of the country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

OBVIOUSLY....but that isn't going to happen.

Maybe the girls could exercise some kind of caution.

If they can't see with their eyes than why am I supposed to care?

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (fV+MH)

81 German women would rather get raped by a Syrian than deport one Syrian back to Syria.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

****
This is sadly, sadly, true.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (LN3jZ)

82 The guy in the lower right panel looks like a plumper version of Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

83 Trump should have a remediated StateDept issue Civil Rights violation warnings regarding countries like Germany for their insane anti-citizen activities. Something like the travel warnings State issues already.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (mlg/3)

84 European women are whores who will literally grope shrunked headed cripples to get action?


This brings up an interesting point - Muslims largely do believe Euro-women are whores. Printing these ads up are only going to encourage them in that belief.

And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)

85 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (idFWj)

86 Immigrants would come to a quick understanding of western values if they were instantly deported for getting rapey. A hanging would help with comprehension as well.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (SXxzC)

87 Any you Muzzies touch my fraulein , you're dead
German government: lighten up , Francis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (JtH6i)

88 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.

Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?

If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?


Maybe the pool is frequented by these people. Maybe it isn't. There's news out of Illinois about a 200-300 strong flash mob of teens that took over a pool. They were drinking, smoking marijuana, setting off fireworks, and stealing. They shoved the pool manager into the pool. Police arrested exactly one teen and he only got charged with illegal use of fireworks and fleeing.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (lIio7)

89 At least that's the sense I get here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)
Nothing happens until someone is killed

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (P4Pk9)

90 Today, on Sprocket, we schwimm.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (W3T6M)

91 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?
Posted by: Weasel


Sexual Harassment Panda had the day off.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

92 Republicans who refused to fight Obama were supposedly afraid of being called racist. Then the same ones refused to fight Hillary and then Biden.

Don't always assume it's "fear". Often it's politics and cashflow, which is to say, it's cashflow.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (Qr870)

93 What's the turtle saying?

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F)

94 Krauts have had issues with pools for 90 years now. One of the very first edicts passed oppressing Jews was banning them from public pools/baths.

Posted by: "Hygiene" Laws at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (G5+As)

95 82 The guy in the lower right panel looks like a plumper version of Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

I'm still convinced the buttgrabber on the bottom left is Richard Simmons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

96 89 At least that's the sense I get here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)
Nothing happens until someone is killed
---------------
So who is gonna shoot the invaders before shooting the police and judges?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (W3T6M)

97
Sad to say, we have nothing in common with Europe any longer. It's like watching a friend drinking themselves to death.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)

98 85 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (idFWj)

*****

That is Tiki! Say his name!

Say it!!!!

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (LN3jZ)

99 75 I thought all Germans wore Speedos.
Posted by: pudinhead a


Only with clogs while projecting arrogant facial expressions.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (/U5Yz)

100 This brings up an interesting point - Muslims largely do believe Euro-women are whores. Printing these ads up are only going to encourage them in that belief.

And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)


Only half-true. The Muslim take is to sexually assault them, to teach them they're only valuable as whores.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (jGGMD)

101 You know where else had a pool?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (zhBpy)

102 51 There was an incident at a pool about a mile from my house a couple of years ago. A bunch of people gate crashed a condo pool. It's a private pool that's intended for residents only. One resident, recognizing that these gate crashers were especially ghetto and weren't residents told them to leave. The ghetto trash shot him.

He lived, thank goodness.
Posted by: bonhomme

This situation may be as common as you'd think.....

https://tinyurl.com/vbe5tbny

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (Dv3i1)

103 Shtopig ze grabbens!

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2025 02:29 PM (8uzBS)

104 Gunter Gleiben Glauchen Globen

Other than that.... I got nuthin.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:29 PM (Q4IgG)

105 The third panel actually happened to me.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:29 PM (vFG9F)

106 Hey, I'm gonna catch that turtle and then I'm going to stick my thumb up its ass.

Posted by: Southpark Steve Irwin at July 09, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Rmr)

107 And you don't hear me whining about it.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (vFG9F)

108 tangential:

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/
ENGLAND: In Bradford, Muhammad from Pakistan attempted to rape a 13-year-old British girl.

His wife intervened to defend him: "He didn’t know it was illegal. Please, I promise he will never do this again."

What kind of culture is this, where even the wife thinks it’s normal?!1942568098466283899

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

109 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (ycI94)

THAT'S NOT FUNNY

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER'S DEFLATING PHALLUS at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (zLwRl)

110 Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank?
Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank.
O die Schönheit an der Wand,
Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank.

Ist das nicht ein Arsch to pinch?
Ja, das ist ein Arsch to pinch!

etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (cYBz/)

111 84 European women are whores who will literally grope shrunked headed cripples to get action?


This brings up an interesting point - Muslims largely do believe Euro-women are whores. Printing these ads up are only going to encourage them in that belief.

And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)

That's pretty much the attitude the Pakistanis raping white girls in England have.

They and their families and supporters are still blaming the slutty 13 year old white whores for everything.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

112 >>What's the turtle saying?

He's declaring himself King of Salamasond.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (Bi+MU)

113
AAG Harmeet Dhillon announces DOJ is now suing California for breech of Title IX in allowing men to invade women’s sports.

This puts over $44 billion at risk that California gets from the US Department of Education.

https://tinyurl.com/2fs8d8r7
Posted by: redridinghood

===============

Newsom is already running on his manly pose of "Stood up to Donald Trump!" re -- I can't remember, military deployment in LA?

When he backs down/loses on this issue, he'll enter another line on his resume. "Bravely stood up to Donald Trump's attack on marginalized children! When I am president, these battles won't be necessary. ALL children will be respected. ALL children will be allowed to participate. NO children will be excluded because of their identity!" [manic applause]

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (UmB+t)

114 You are inveterate liars. You are incapable of speaking the truth, even accidentally.
---------
They Lie To Us, We Know They’re Lying, They Know We Know They’re Lying But They Keep Lying Anyway, and We Keep Pretending To Believe Them - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (XeU6L)

115 The woman behind the ads looks exactly like you'd suspect she looks.
https://x.com/Suffragent_/status/
1941230676516405694

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (AZf41)

116
Aaaand good afternoon!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (UmB+t)

117 What kind of an idiot uses a public pool nowadays?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (lX1hk)

118 I saw the Manginas open for the Bonushole Surfers at Danceteria in '20.

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (nH+RN)

119 60 Nobody gropes me. I have a sad.
Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 09, 2025 02:24 PM (q2NNn)

I was once groped, through jeans, on a sidewalk in college. I chased the guy for awhile, not to continue the grope session, but to kill him quite dead. He had a head start so I gave up the chase.

I also yelled, "You bastard!" at the top of my lungs. In a split second before I chased him, and back then I did not cuss as much in my head as I do now.

I think I'd make a scene in a pool in Germany. Which I will never go to as the train station in Munich alone creeped me out en route to Belgium. Then the little Belgian men on the train irritated me. I love Europe but apparently hate everyone near me in my wicked mind.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (6PCLE)

120 Strangely enough, Tiki the safety turtle can't swim. Hence the floaties on his flippers.

He needs googles for his eyes as well.

Kiki isn't really doing well at the pool...

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (LN3jZ)

121
What kind of culture is this, where even the wife thinks it’s normal?!1942568098466283899


Welcome to the Muslim world folks. Remember no culture is better then any other.

Also, free short distance flights for gay people.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (t0Rmr)

122 Shrunken Headed Cripples got their big break on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Posted by: Back in the day at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (jtoyl)

123 Remember:
We were hectored and insulted for daring question the urgency and value of sending billions and billion to Ukraine, citing the necessity of protecting the German's right and freedom to continue to do this.

Why shouldn't Russia roll up on this ... culture, and wipe it out?
If this is democracy, what good is it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (T/tp/)

124 If Rommel had been successful in pushing all the way eastward into Syria, then these cartoons might have been considered plausible, if it was still under German occupation.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (5yDGQ)

125 The longer this goes on the worse the blowback is going to be.

Contrary to the popular conception, Krauts aren't just all smiles and sunshine.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (47/pr)

126 California has infinite other people's money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (zhBpy)

127 101 You know where else had a pool?
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Tarzan?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (W3T6M)

128 Germany needs to import more goats.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (W2Pud)

129 He is wearing what appears to be very thick wool bathing trunks...

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (LN3jZ)

130 What's the turtle saying?
Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F)


It's a little blurry for me to make everything out, but it's something like "If you are being touched without your consent, you have the right to call for help."

Presumably the "as long as you're not white" clause got cut off.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (jGGMD)

131 Contrary to the popular conception, Krauts aren't just all smiles and sunshine.
Posted by: Minuteman


But it's the Land Of Chocolate!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (pdGVg)

132 This is the same nonsense with immigrants to the US.

These new occupants aren't ever going to be deported in large enough numbers to change the long term outcome that they or their offspring will eventually become citizens and most especially voters.

[Persuading the mayor to let them stop a supernatural upheaval]
Dr. Peter Venkman: If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail - peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it! But if I'm *right*, and we *can* stop this thing... Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (RHGPo)

133 They and their families and supporters are still blaming the slutty 13 year old white whores for everything.

You know what would be amusing? Get Ask An Imam to review Lolita.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Rmr)

134 84 European women are whores who will literally grope shrunked headed cripples to get action?

Because their husbands are up in Scandinavia ass frikin each other in the saunas. Can you blame them?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (/U5Yz)

135 This situation may be as common as you'd think.....

https://tinyurl.com/vbe5tbny

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (Dv3i1)

Yeah, I'm sure that's a problem at a lot of private pools during the summers. Especially places that don't hire anybody full time to check passes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (6ydKt)

136 >>You know where else had a pool?


And a pond.

The pond is good for you.

Posted by: Ty Webb at July 09, 2025 02:32 PM (Bi+MU)

137 An 85 year old woman pinched my butt during a function in the church hall.

My wife and the woman thought it hilarious.

Clearly, when you are 85, you are without shits to give. Even in church.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (cYBz/)

138 What kind of culture is this, where even the wife thinks it’s normal?!1942568098466283899
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
---------------

A culture in which one must beat the wife, repeatedly, else be thought less of a Muslim.

The wife knows her place and prefers to defend the indefensible rather than face another beating.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (tT6L1)

139 Auschwicz had a pool.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (zhBpy)

140 "It's a little blurry for me to make everything out, but it's something like "If you are being touched without your consent, you have the right to call for help."

Presumably the "as long as you're not white" clause got cut off.
Posted by: Dr. T"

And what? The turtle will come rescue you? I don't have all damn day.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (vFG9F)

141 I'm still upset that the EIB didn't hire Steyn to continue El Rushbo's radio show.

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (nH+RN)

142 "They Lie To Us, We Know They’re Lying, They Know We Know They’re Lying But They Keep Lying Anyway, and We Keep Pretending To Believe Them - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Mike Hammer"

We know you're lying. They keep lying.

We know you're lying. They keep lying.

We know you're lying. They keep lying.

We know you're lying. They keep lying.

...............madness.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (fV+MH)

143 That's a new one. Got a Rolex ad in the middle of the content ad.

Posted by: scampydog at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (2bFN5)

144 I'm still convinced the buttgrabber on the bottom left is Richard Simmons.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

I think he's dead. Or I dreamed that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (6PCLE)

145 > He is wearing what appears to be very thick wool bathing trunks...
--------
The wool cuts down on the shrinkage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (Q4IgG)

146 That's a new one. Got a Rolex ad in the middle of the content ad.

Just, uh, make sure to clean the watch before you wear it.

Posted by: Christopher Walken at July 09, 2025 02:34 PM (t0Rmr)

147 Thank you, Dr T.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:34 PM (vFG9F)

148 ***Steyn calls it another "blizzard of lies." I prefer to call it the Empire of Lies.
-----------------

At the same time they are loading them up in Police Vans and dumping them off in Poland. Poland, now, has a civilian corps border watch group (7000) patrolling the border to help stop German dumping of illegal immigrants into their country.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:34 PM (ncgY2)

149 > The woman behind the ads looks exactly like you'd suspect she looks.

Good lordt. Besides being a fat, pasty white, green haired caricature, her yellow teeth are off center.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:34 PM (lIio7)

150 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (ycI94)

That’s obviously not Kate Upton, but aside from her being a very attractive model I would have no idea who Kate Upton is and how she is different than any other very attractive model of the same age.
For that matter, I don’t know who attractive male models are either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (2GCMq)

151 I think I'd make a scene in a pool in Germany. Which I will never go to as the train station in Munich alone creeped me out en route to Belgium. Then the little Belgian men on the train irritated me. I love Europe but apparently hate everyone near me in my wicked mind.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (6PCLE)

*****

Those Muslim groppers are no joke. They will knock the teeth out of a protesting ladies mouth in a moment. And still consider her a slut.

Not good.

Posted by: EFG at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (LN3jZ)

152 The French, of all peoples, had a solution for this.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (2sMLA)

153 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn challenged the commies to “just stop lying.” Of course they could not, and the undeniable fiasco that was Chernobyl caused the house of cards to collapse.

Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (r3rRK)

154 The worst part of that advertising campaign is how ugly and horribly drawn the posters are

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (aeiyZ)

155 WTF is Germany's problem? It's like they've never heard the saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see." They refuse to see. Why are they so fucking stupid? And you see this stupid willful blindness in Britain when it comes to their "Asian" immigrants, too.
Posted by: Farquad at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (yqgaV)


It isn't Germany. British people went to prison for mentioning that foreigners were gang raping girls. France and Italy - even under Meloni - are flooding their countries with migrants.

Their people are weak and soft. The government provides everything so they lead lives of perpetual adolescence. They don't marry. They don't have children. They insist on asinine political policies. But their house of cards is predicated on a growing population. Always another, larger, generation to pay the bills for the lifestyle of the previous generations.

So they bring in people who aren't "of their tribe". And the more of these people they bring in, the less "of their tribe" their country becomes. Eventually, Germans will be a minority in Germany. And then the bill comes due.

We see it here also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (ExV1e)

156 Poland should build a wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (zhBpy)

157 The French, of all peoples, had a solution for this.

Never bathe just use perfume instead?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (t0Rmr)

158 I'm still upset that the EIB didn't hire Steyn to continue El Rushbo's radio show.
Posted by: ShainS


I seem to recall that they did offer it to him, but he turned it down for some reason.

He was far and away my favorite guest host.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

159 Why is that gigantic German Woman Harassing the peg leg kid.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (MRwbj)
—————-


Somewhat relatedly since we are talking about white, red headed women harassing brown men, I just read today that Gary Coleman’s widow didn’t pass a polygraph when asked about his fatal fall down the stairs.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (EjxLG)

160 Don't grabschen my heine.

Posted by: Heine Heinrich at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (q2NNn)

161 I was in the pool!!!

Posted by: George Costanza at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (jtoyl)

162 154 The worst part of that advertising campaign is how ugly and horribly drawn the posters are
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (aeiyZ)

=======

Say what you want about Soviet ideology, but their propaganda posters understood perspective.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

163 Breaking news, not being covered much yet - Douglas Mackay, convicted of "election interference" for publishing some anti-Hillary memes in 2016, was just completely exonerated by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous decision. Said the trial court was presented with no evidence at all that could have supported a conviction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (uWKK8)

164 In 3 months: "DEI? No, this is just DWEI. See, totally different."

@libsoftiktok 9m
BREAKING: T-Mobile has agreed to END its DEI policies according to a new filing with the FCC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (mlg/3)

165 All white women should be wearing bourkas anyway, right? And all white men are obviously evil.

Sheesh ... at least with no go zones the Muslims had their on place for their insane laws ... now they seem to be in Conquer Mode. But it is the German "leaders" most to blame for the surrender of their own culture.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (vbXSk)

166
Meanwhile, the Bishop of San Bernardino (California) has dispensed the faithful from Sunday obligation because of potential arrests of illegals.

https://tinyurl.com/mvyctvbw

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (HZi96)

167 Just, uh, make sure to clean the watch before you wear it.
Posted by: Christopher Walken at July 09, 2025 02:34 PM (t0Rmr)


Or leave it in the care of your some-kind-of-foreign girlfriend.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (jGGMD)

168 A clip from 1960s "The Prisoner" series development, that shows the germinal idea that led up to the big guard balloon:
https://tinyurl.com/34w7shck

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (TwZXH)

169 I think he's dead. Or I dreamed that.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Yes, Simmons is mort.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

170 Well...that was odd!

I just left my favorite pub in London, which is owned by Ian McKellen, who bought it because he lives nearby.

He was standing in his doorway in a pair of pajamas, adjusting his junk.

And yes...it was him. Nobody else on earth has a nose that big.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (Zv8bq)

171 Germans are the most out of touch people on the planet.



Tell me I'm wrong.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (fV+MH)

172 Somewhat relatedly since we are talking about white, red headed women harassing brown men, I just read today that Gary Coleman’s widow didn’t pass a polygraph when asked about his fatal fall down the stairs.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (EjxLG)

Damn. Dwarf Tossing is one of the most heinous of crimes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (uWKK8)

173 That part about the redhead is true. I had one grab my verboten during Mardi Gras.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oz2l0)

174 170 Well...that was odd!

I just left my favorite pub in London, which is owned by Ian McKellen, who bought it because he lives nearby.

He was standing in his doorway in a pair of pajamas, adjusting his junk.

And yes...it was him. Nobody else on earth has a nose that big.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (Zv8bq)

======

He had a bad fall recently.

I mean...any fall for an octogenarian is bad, especially one from a stage.

I guess he's recovering well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

175 144 I'm still convinced the buttgrabber on the bottom left is Richard Simmons.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

I think he's dead. Or I dreamed that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (6PCLE)

He died about a year ago, I think.

The Germans don't know that yet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (6ydKt)

176 I go to walmart when I want a large woman to grope my testes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (wzQvI)

177 The "woman" in the last comic strip looks like Lena Dunham. I read a headline in the UK DM yesterday (I am the reporter of headline news, no content) that she blames menopause, medical issues and stress for no longer being a size 2.

While I doubt I have been a size 2 since I was a toddler, I think calories should be mentioned. Also shoving gravel up your sister's hooha guilt.

Why do I know this crap? Why???

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (6PCLE)

178

"The German is either at your feet or at your throat."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (ES1Rb)

179 Jihadi Joe will see those PSAs and it will confirm that Germans are racist whores who deserve what is coming to them.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (sHvKw)

180 There was an incident at a pool about a mile from my house a couple of years ago. A bunch of people gate crashed a condo pool. It's a private pool that's intended for residents only. One resident, recognizing that these gate crashers were especially ghetto and weren't residents told them to leave. The ghetto trash shot him.
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"Asheville's Grant Center pool closed until further notice following 'extreme behavior issues" -Asheville Citizen Times
https://shorter.me/BLhiz

If you read it, you'll find that one 'behavior issues' was a thug with a gun.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (XeU6L)

181 on the Opposite side of the World Carnival Cruise is banning Rap Music, Fans and Fan Dancing, enforcing a Curfew for Kids 25 and under, no Bluetooth speakers and enforce no smoking and No Weed on board.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FCrpy)

182 Not to be dense (I can't help it), but what was the French solution to this?

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (hdZBB)

183 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

Off the stage if I recall correctly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Zv8bq)

184 177 The "woman" in the last comic strip looks like Lena Dunham. I read a headline in the UK DM yesterday (I am the reporter of headline news, no content) that she blames menopause, medical issues and stress for no longer being a size 2.

While I doubt I have been a size 2 since I was a toddler, I think calories should be mentioned. Also shoving gravel up your sister's hooha guilt.

Why do I know this crap? Why???
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (6PCLE)

========

She's on an episode of Travel Man with Richard Ayoade. Probably about the time she was peak relevant with Girls.

She seemed small.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

185 In a world increasingly full of Orwellian things, this may be the most Orwellianist. It is so obviously and undeniably a lie, that short of rebelling against it the Germans must become complicit in it (something something Vaclav Havel).

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (8hxDK)

186 >>Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:35 PM (ExV1e)
__
That was extremely well explained.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (bNf8H)

187 I think I'd make a scene in a pool in Germany. Which I will never go to as the train station in Munich alone creeped me out en route to Belgium. Then the little Belgian men on the train irritated me. I love Europe but apparently hate everyone near me in my wicked mind.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:31 PM (6PCLE)


The sad part is that Munich is among the better parts of Germany.

There, the police will (probably) still arrest someone if he's harassing you. Most other big cities, they'll be more likely to ask you if you led him on.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (jGGMD)

188 183 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

Off the stage if I recall correctly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Zv8bq)

=======

I honestly would have expected that fall to kill him. But, he's good enough to adjust his junk in public.

So...good for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

189 And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)


I am not a scholar of Islam but I believe that Prophet stated that Allah specifically smiles on muzzie men who rape the women of conquered people - provided that the women aren't muslim, of course.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (ExV1e)

190
Why do I know this crap? Why???
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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It's as if...as if society is decaying.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (XeU6L)

191

Dear Germany. Enjoy it.


Yours truly, the son of a Jewish survivor of Mauthausen, the labor brigades and a death march.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (x0n13)

192
Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.

Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?

If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?
Posted by: eleven

==============

Oh man, this is rage bait for me. Locals have probably used this pool unmolested for decades and now the predators show up, and local authorities' response is worse than nothing -- it amounts to encouragement of the predators. Yes, women would be smart to give up on their supposed protectors, and they'd also be smart to consider all men predators with an attitude like "how am I supposed to care about you?"

Be like Jesus! Stop caring.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (UmB+t)

193
"Extreme behavior issues"? Using the wrong fork? Splitting infinitives?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (HZi96)

194 Orwell was a rosy cheeked optimist

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (pIfcn)

195 why would somebody go to a public pool, same as bathing in a sewer
Posted by: n


No worse than swimming in a lake, I would think.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

196 " Not to be dense (I can't help it), but what was the French solution to this?
Posted by: 496"


Don't worry, I'm equally dense.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (fV+MH)

197 I’m pretty sure that redhead ass-grabbing gay captain ahab is supposed to be a tranny

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (aeiyZ)

198 I can't wait to hear about how all the online anger about these posters is just Russian disinformation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

199 Poland should build a wall.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Unforts, a WEF apparatchik was installed as prime minister of Poland.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (mlg/3)

200 Waiting for the European masses to rise up against their tyrannical leaders."

Here. Have a pillow to rest on as you wait. It'll be a while...

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (tubbA)

201 In a world increasingly full of Orwellian things, this may be the most Orwellianist. It is so obviously and undeniably a lie, that short of rebelling against it the Germans must become complicit in it (something something Vaclav Havel).
Posted by: Dr. Fausti
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See: 114

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (XeU6L)

202 160 Don't grabschen my heine.
Posted by: Heine Heinrich at July 09, 2025 02:36 PM (q2NNn)

This content is why I am here.

Ace weeps and hopes I leave again soon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (6PCLE)

203 195 The Seine just re-opened for public swimming for the first time in decades. Urgh.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (TwZXH)

204 They deserve every ficken grope they receive. Embrace the culture you voted for, you ficken kraut douchebags.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM



*starts to type agreement
thinks of Prussian forebears
remembers Prussian forebears fled to Texas to avoid being pressganged into the Prussian Army
decides not to type agreement*

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (jc0TO)

205 Damn. Dwarf Tossing is one of the most heinous of crimes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (uWKK


He told me to do it!

Posted by: Aragorn at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (jGGMD)

206
And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.
Posted by: 18-1

==============

I doubt there's any intent to instruct or improve the whores. "Sexually assault them so" you will have an orgasm is about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (UmB+t)

207 "Extreme behavior issues"? Using the wrong fork? Splitting infinitives?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Something involving carrots and chili.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

208 Sad to say, we have nothing in common with Europe any longer. It's like watching a friend drinking themselves to death.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)


More like watching someone you're related to twelve generations back but have never known drinking themselves to death. A good person would care. Sadly, I'm a bad person.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (ExV1e)

209 Stolen from earlier:

But the Germans HAVE to keep voting for this or the Republicans will ban graphic gay porn from children's libraries.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (T/tp/)

210
I'm still upset that the EIB didn't hire Steyn to continue El Rushbo's radio show.
Posted by: ShainS

I seem to recall that they did offer it to him, but he turned it down for some reason.
He was far and away my favorite guest host.
Posted by: Bulg


I don't think he could have done three hours a day EVERY day.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (63Dwl)

211 210 I don't think he could have done three hours a day EVERY day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (63Dwl)

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Take out ad time, and it's more like 20 minutes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

212 207 "Extreme behavior issues"? Using the wrong fork? Splitting infinitives?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Something involving carrots and chili.
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)


They need wee-wee pads and electric collars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (x0n13)

213 Ian McKellen is supposed to be Magneto again in the next Avengers movie that's filming.

It must be a small role where he's sitting down a lot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (6ydKt)

214 104 Gunter Gleiben Glauchen Globen

Other than that.... I got nuthin.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:29 PM (Q4IgG)

Well, they may be approaching "Burnin' up let's go for broke, watch the night go up in smoke".

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (8hxDK)

215 Here. Have a pillow to rest on as you wait. It'll be a while...

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 02:41 PM (tubbA)
-

I've been laid back in my comfy chair all this time, ya know.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (roqsI)

216 176 I go to walmart when I want a large woman to grope my testes.
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At the lowest price. Always.

Posted by: Walmart Marketing Department at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (jtoyl)

217 I think there are mass graves in East German full of the Germans who with this shit would not have up put.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (jc0TO)

218 Not unless they let that Dutch chick be his cohost.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:43 PM (zhBpy)

219 Ace weeps and hopes I leave again soon.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Maybe if you'd post pics from your modeling days...

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

220 "Extreme behavior issues"? Using the wrong fork? Splitting infinitives?
Posted by: Hadrian
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Yes. A new euphemism.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (XeU6L)

221 "Be like Jesus! Stop caring.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"


So you would just go swimming in that pool?

How can I look out for you when you refuse to look out for yourself???????

You want to talk about infuriating?????

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (fV+MH)

222 Not to be dense (I can't help it), but what was the French solution to this?
Posted by: 496"


Don't worry, I'm equally dense.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (fV+MH)


I assumed it involved guillotines.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (jGGMD)

223 Dropping a deuce in the bidet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (zhBpy)

224 Maybe if you'd post pics from your modeling days...
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM


I first read that as yodeling days and thought, oh topic.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (jc0TO)

225 "Sad to say, we have nothing in common with Europe any longer. It's like watching a friend drinking themselves to death."

USA out of NATO now.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (TwZXH)

226 I assumed it involved guillotines.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (jGGMD)
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Ah - of course.

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (hdZBB)

227 Magneto isn’t in Avengers. He’s in X-men. That’s like Spock being in Star Wars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oz2l0)

228 Why shouldn't Russia roll up on this ... culture, and wipe it out?

Russia's goal is to keep it as far from Russia as possible. They've got enough trouble with their native muzzies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (ExV1e)

229 >>> 222 Not to be dense (I can't help it), but what was the French solution to this?
Posted by: 496"


Don't worry, I'm equally dense.
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (fV+MH)


I assumed it involved guillotines.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (jGGMD)

Oh, THAT.

We thought you said 'French mistake'.

Posted by: German EXPERTS!!! at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (ULPxl)

230 >>>I just read today that Gary Coleman’s widow didn’t pass a polygraph when asked about his fatal fall down the stairs.
Posted by: haffhowershower
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Toss a midget down the stairs and see if he bounces?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (ncgY2)

231
18

It's also fostering an increasing sense that frontier justice might be the solution.

At least that's the sense I get here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM

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We don't have horses anymore to seat a noosed miscreant upon for our stringing-up procedure. I was thinking maybe a lawn chair in the bed of a pickup truck.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (ES1Rb)

232 The National Razor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (zhBpy)

233 222 I assumed it involved guillotines.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:44 PM (jGGMD)


No culottes on teens?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (x0n13)

234 216 176 I go to walmart when I want a large woman to grope my testes.

Next!

Posted by: The TSA at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (PiwSw)

235 Not unless they let that Dutch chick be his cohost.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

236 the advertising-agency manginas

For a minute I thought there was an ad agency called mangina.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (utK1O)

237 *knits*

Posted by: Madame Defarge at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (jc0TO)

238 FWIW, nothing new. The "Don't mess with Texas" anti littering bit came from women who believed white guys in pickups were responsible for all roadside litter. When others pointed out what was actually littered, the response was... you're racist. Really.

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (tubbA)

239 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (HZi96)

There are some odd people in the church, both Protestant and Catholic. Did he really think ICE was going to disrupt a church service? It hadn’t happened yet, has it? Then there was some nutball in the Episcopal Church who said he wasn’t going to officiate at Holy Communion and the congregants were all put on an imposed fast from
Communion because this was a lesson about racism? !!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (2GCMq)

240 "I go to walmart when I want a large woman to grope my testes."

With Walmart+, they ship her right to your home.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (TwZXH)

241 Oh, THAT.

We thought you said 'French mistake'.
Posted by: German EXPERTS!!! at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (ULPxl)


Oh, can I help?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (jGGMD)

242
German women would rather get raped by a Syrian than deport one Syrian back to Syria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)


Then Germany doesn't deserve to survive.

Maybe this is God punishing them for their 20th century behavior.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (Zv8bq)

243 I would have no idea who Kate Upton is and how she is different than any other very attractive model of the same age.

She has huger tits than most fashion models.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (ExV1e)

244 Poland is closer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (zhBpy)

245 "Extreme behavior issues"? Using the wrong fork? Splitting infinitives?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (HZi96)

Failure to send an RSVP

Posted by: Heine Heinrich at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (q2NNn)

246
If it had been me designing the poster I'd have used dogs & cats or stick figure cartoons and avoided all of the politics entirely but I haven't been brainwashed by the German educational system so I can think outside the box.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

===============

The graphic artist had no choice; they were doing what the client wanted.

I used to write courses on Codes of Conduct for corporate clients, and one, Japanese-owned with US sites, was having a particular problem with Japanese bosses ordering Ph.D. female researchers around like housemaids. Complaints were rife and consistent and needed to be addressed in the Code of Conduct course. The client specifically told me to NOT accurately portray the ethnicities in any scenarios or graphics. No names or faces that would suggest who's doing what to whom. That would be offensive!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (UmB+t)

247 I spent seven years in Germany as a lad. Even went to German swimming pools a few times. Never once did a red-haired Hausfrau grope me at the pool.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (7fElN)

248 227 Magneto isn’t in Avengers. He’s in X-men. That’s like Spock being in Star Wars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oz2l0)

It's got Doctor Doom and the Fantastic Four.

Apparently this Avengers is quite different so they're going to throw some mutants in and go for broke.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (6ydKt)

249 "If you're gonna shoot, shoot."

@RepLuna
Neville Singham— the billionaire communist with ties to the CCP, who funded the LA riots and used immigration & Mexicans as a Trojan horse for communism— is hiding from our letter requesting testimony. This poses an issue for delivering subpoena.

Therefore, if he decides to hide in CHINA, we will now be asking the State Dept. and Treasury to freeze his assets/visa.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

250 eugyppius: a plague chronicle has identified the creator of the ads, big surprise: https://tinyurl.com/upvtbu39


Posted by: beckster at July 09, 2025 02:49 PM (NLtte)

251 The "Don't mess with Texas" anti littering bit came from women who believed white guys in pickups were responsible for all roadside litter. When others pointed out what was actually littered, the response was... you're racist. Really.
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 02:47 PM (tubbA)

On the plus side, it is one of the most effective advertising campaigns ever. It cut down on roadside littering by 60% or some such figure. I remember when trash was everywhere on the highways, but not so much, now.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 09, 2025 02:49 PM (k9OZB)

252 There was an incident at a pool about a mile from my house a couple of years ago. A bunch of people gate crashed a condo pool. It's a private pool that's intended for residents only. One resident, recognizing that these gate crashers were especially ghetto and weren't residents told them to leave. The ghetto trash shot him.

He lived, thank goodness.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (lIio7)

Too bad the condo residents didn't shoot back.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 09, 2025 02:49 PM (5xuJ/)

253 Meanwhile, the Bishop of San Bernardino (California) has dispensed the faithful from Sunday obligation because of potential arrests of illegals.

https://tinyurl.com/mvyctvbw
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (HZi96)


What’s their problem? Jesus wasn’t afraid to be arrested. Hey Zeus shouldn’t be either.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 02:49 PM (EjxLG)

254

Maybe if Karl's Donuts served Jodls.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (x0n13)

255 I think Steyn once had a proposed headline along the lines of "Muslims fear backlash from tomorrow's bombing."

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (sFNX2)

256 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (ExV1e)

Wouldn’t know. Don’t know what her face looks like, much less her tits, but thanks for the info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (2GCMq)

257 189 And what is the Muslim take on what to do with whores? Why, sexually assault them so they learn to stop being that way.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)

I am not a scholar of Islam but I believe that Prophet stated that Allah specifically smiles on muzzie men who rape the women of conquered people - provided that the women aren't muslim, of course.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:40 PM (ExV1e)

This is why I'm actually not a fan of women wearing veils in Church unless getting married or becoming a nun. I'm not Islamic, and modesty doesn't require me to hide in the corner under a big piece of cloth.

And I'm a firm believer that God gave me a "blow out the camera" color of red hair as a gift, and my daughter as well, and that's a gift He wants me to share. No burying "talents"...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (tOcjL)

258 It's got Doctor Doom and the Fantastic Four.

Apparently this Avengers is quite different so they're going to throw some mutants in and go for broke.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (6ydKt)


With the Fantastic Four, I suspect broke is what they'll get.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (jGGMD)

259 I remember the pool in our little German town had a bottom that mechanically raised and lowered. From something like a meter deep to five or six.

Weird the things you remember from childhood.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (jc0TO)

260 Things that will never happen, ever: A husky German lesbian angrily molests a microcephalic muslim amputee who didn't realize he wore his prosthetic peg-leg into a swimming pool.

Posted by: shavtyp at July 09, 2025 02:51 PM (BudYP)

261 2 Best part:

The person in charge of this ad campaign?

Fat, white lesbian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

How dare you presume my gender!

STOPP! VERBOTEN! ELEVENTY!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:51 PM (6PCLE)

262 She has huger tits than most fashion models.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

But her uncle was the biggest boob in the family.

Kate Upton is from the next county over from the one I grew up in in SW Michigan. Her family founded the Whirlpool Corporation. And, of course, said uncle was the US Rep for that district for quite a few years.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

263 Off topic, but I missed the post about Comey and Brennan being under investigation.

Shouldn't Comey already be charged? I thought it was established and he admitted to leaking confidential information to a comrade at the new York times in the form of letters or contemporaneous notes. Is my memory correct?

Posted by: 496 at July 09, 2025 02:51 PM (EWlvz)

264
So you would just go swimming in that pool?

How can I look out for you when you refuse to look out for yourself???????

You want to talk about infuriating?????
Posted by: eleven

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No, I wouldn't, which would leave the situation wrong all around. I'm sitting at home paying taxes for a thing I can't use because bad guys have appropriated it. This is not solving a problem.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (UmB+t)

265 remember when trash was everywhere on the highways,"

Try N of Houston, or around 59/69...

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (tubbA)

266 Well, it looks like the Germans really did get over that "master race" thing. I think they're finding out that the exact opposite view - a pretend equality with a totally alien, savage culture - presents its own set of problems.

Posted by: Paco at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (mADJX)

267 236 the advertising-agency manginas

For a minute I thought there was an ad agency called mangina.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 02:46 PM (utK1O)


Donnny Deutsch..land uber alles

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (x0n13)

268 Republicans who refused to fight Obama were supposedly afraid of being called racist. Then the same ones refused to fight Hillary and then Biden.


Misogynist. Agist.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (n4GiU)

269 The client specifically told me to NOT accurately portray the ethnicities in any scenarios or graphics. No names or faces that would suggest who's doing what to whom. That would be offensive!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (UmB+t)

Definitely.

That's why they should have used animals or generic cartoons or something like that.

It was aimed at kids with the little turtles.
They should've continued the theme - cats instead of girls, dogs instead of boys, then no political controversy.

It's provocative where it didn't have to be at all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (6ydKt)

270 258 With the Fantastic Four, I suspect broke is what they'll get.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:50 PM (jGGMD)

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I suspect they'll get Thunderbolts/Cap4 money. Enough to look like a success at roughly $400 million total.

And both of those films lost money.

Marvel movies are no longer the zeitgeist and just get big action movie traffic. Which would be fine if the movies weren't stupid expensive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

271 Olga bin gropin

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 09, 2025 02:53 PM (P0m9n)

272 Kate Upton is from the next county over from the one I grew up in in SW Michigan. Her family founded the Whirlpool Corporation. And, of course, said uncle was the US Rep for that district for quite a few years.
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:51 PM


The father of the twisty lightbulb.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 02:53 PM (jc0TO)

273 Here's the woman who applied "Bizarro World" tactics to the German swimming pool campaign. Instapundit highlighted it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/38p7mpfd

Fat White Chick---check
Weird colored hair--- check
Proud of her stupidity---check
Secretly wishes she would have her own ass grabbed, but that would require a front end loader----check

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 02:53 PM (dIske)

274 Far enough along? Research on the Guadalupe.

The Guadalupe River and it’s historical flooding
The flooding along the Guadalupe River is a recurring natural event:

By Alan -July 6, 2025775
The Guadalupe River in Texas has a long history of significant flooding, with major floods recorded as far back as the 19th century.

1838,1848,1868, 1872,1906, 1913,1921, 1936,1952, 1972, 1973,1978, 1987,1989, 1991,1997,1998, 2015, 2018,2020, 2021,2025

These years reflect at least 22 major flood events that have been chronicled in local histories and official reports. Notably, the river is located in what is known as “Flash Flood Alley,” making it particularly susceptible to rapid, destructive flooding due to the area’s rocky terrain and tendency for intense rainfall. cont.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:54 PM (ncgY2)

275 cont. _ More notable flooding

1913: Part of the Texas Flood of 1913, causing widespread devastation and loss of life.
1972: Exceptionally heavy rain led to major flooding in New Braunfels and Seguin.
1987: The deadliest event until 2025, with a tragic loss of life at a church camp near Comfort, Texas.
1998: Broke most existing records, exceeding the 100-year flood plain and causing unprecedented damage.
2020: Caused more than $1 billion in damage along the river.
2025: The river rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, resulting in at least 67 deaths.

https://tinyurl.com/mru342pp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:54 PM (ncgY2)

276 At the end of "Gulliver's Travels," Swift has a red headed woman/yahoo grab the narrator by his naughty bits thereby tipping off the intelligent horses (Houyhnhnms) that the narrator was also a yahoo.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 09, 2025 02:54 PM (sFNX2)

277 I suspect they'll get Thunderbolts/Cap4 money. Enough to look like a success at roughly $400 million total.

And both of those films lost money.

Marvel movies are no longer the zeitgeist and just get big action movie traffic. Which would be fine if the movies weren't stupid expensive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)


"It's okay; Pedro Pascal will save us!"
-Marvel executives, probably

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (jGGMD)

278 273 Cripes.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (TwZXH)

279 That one legged youth must have stolen a bicycle.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (zhBpy)

280
This is why I'm actually not a fan of women wearing veils in Church unless getting married or becoming a nun. I'm not Islamic, and modesty doesn't require me to hide in the corner under a big piece of cloth.

And I'm a firm believer that God gave me a "blow out the camera" color of red hair as a gift, and my daughter as well, and that's a gift He wants me to share. No burying "talents"...
Posted by: Nova Local

=============

I agree, and I made this very argument about Muslim head-covering to a Muslim friend of mine! I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (UmB+t)

281 266 Well, it looks like the Germans really did get over that "master race" thing. I think they're finding out that the exact opposite view - a pretend equality with a totally alien, savage culture - presents its own set of problems.
Posted by: Paco at July 09, 2025 02:52 PM (mADJX)


Nuremberg Laws are for the little people. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:56 PM (x0n13)

282
Magneto isn’t in Avengers. He’s in X-men. That’s like Spock being in Star Wars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oz2l0)



Nerd Test

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 02:56 PM (y9nCu)

283 These german ads are like the alarm company ads on American TV. It's always some white guy jogging by who pulls his hoodie over his head before doing a B&E into the happy colored couples home.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at July 09, 2025 02:56 PM (lX1hk)

284 277 "It's okay; Pedro Pascal will save us!"
-Marvel executives, probably
Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (jGGMD)

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It's interesting to contrast Pascal with Glen Powell.

Pascal is entirely created by Disney. Powell is actually rising like a genuine star with actual hits (Twisters and Anyone But You for financial success and Hit Man for critical success).

Pascal's successes feel...incidental to his presence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

285 I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (UmB+t)
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Modesty.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (roqsI)

286 And I'm a firm believer that God gave me a "blow out the camera" color of red hair as a gift, and my daughter as well, and that's a gift He wants me to share. No burying "talents"...
Posted by: Nova Local

My wife is a ginger. She found a meme online of a little girl with red hair, and the caption "God gave me red hair because he knew I needed a warning label."

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

287
Here's the woman who applied "Bizarro World" tactics to the German swimming pool campaign. Instapundit highlighted it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/38p7mpfd

Secretly wishes she would have her own ass grabbed, but that would require a front end loader----check
Posted by: Orson

==============

Secretly wishes that she could grab a petite Muslim amputee's ass.

Such a lousy artist, she looks like she's trying to extract a gerbil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (UmB+t)

288 This is no different from the ridiculous and patronizing company sexual harassment 'trainings'. Which exist not to actually teach people anything, but to protect the company from liability.

NOBODY needs any kind of 'outreach' or 'education' that groping women is wrong.

The only reason this exists is so some stupid government woman can gush about how whay she 'contributed'.

Reminds me of the insanity of Finland who produced this INSANE video 'teaching' people to 'stop, don't touch me there, this is my no-no square', and it came with a freaking DANCE.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SvIQaIgKiO4

'Educated' AWFLs will literally tell you to perform dances so you don't get raped rather than imprison criminals.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (setIA)

289 285 I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:55 PM (UmB+t)
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Modesty.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (roqsI)



I don't give a sheitl....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (x0n13)

290 Mistranslation. The coverd heads means long hair. No for men. Yes for women.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zhBpy)

291 UK does the same thing creating PSAs that show white, English boys making sexually suggestive comments and overtures towards brown immigrant girls. It's a horny white lads problem, innit?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (36PRH)

292 In my neck of the inner ring suburbs, we used to have summer festivals with rides and cavatelli dinners etc at the many local Catholic parishes to raise money to keep tuition down for the school. Unfortunately, most have had to cancel because of 'extreme behavior issues' from attendees who get their education for free.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (Dv3i1)

293 Nuremberg Laws are for the little people. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:56 PM (x0n13)
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But O'Conner took the 5th!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (roqsI)

294 286 And I'm a firm believer that God gave me a "blow out the camera" color of red hair as a gift, and my daughter as well, and that's a gift He wants me to share. No burying "talents"...
Posted by: Nova Local

My wife is a ginger. She found a meme online of a little girl with red hair, and the caption "God gave me red hair because he knew I needed a warning label."

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

It actually makes everyone remember you...when you can't always remember them. I can say it makes sure you're always doing the right thing in public b/c there's no hiding.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

295 Ace missed the best part: the photo of the woman in the German government who came up with these posters. Hint: the woman grabbing the illegal that looks like a tranny is basically her minus 100 pounds.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (2ocoG)

296 In Germany, if the artist had portrayed this accurately, they would spend more time in prison than any Muslim rapist.

Didn't some muzzie just go around and stabbed a bunch of Germans recently?
And what was the public response?

Right.

The country doesn't deserve our concern.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (T/tp/)

297
I'm not Islamic, and modesty doesn't require me to hide in the corner under a big piece of cloth.

__________

Nobody's going to subject you to the Inquisition for not wearing a veil. And as far as I can see, the women take them off after church is over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (HZi96)

298 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:48 PM (UmB+t)

I felt sorry for our Japanese secretary of the Japanese office manager. Well one of the three that passed through the office was a decent guy and treated her with respect.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (VofaG)

299 291 UK does the same thing creating PSAs that show white, English boys making sexually suggestive comments and overtures towards brown immigrant girls. It's a horny white lads problem, innit?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (36PRH)

======

Adolescence is a Netflix drama based on a real event where a black kid murdered someone.

In the Netflix show, it was a white kid inspired by Jordan Peterson.

The show became required viewing for pretty much the entire British nation for a couple of months. Politicians were berated on TV by interviewers for not having seen it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

300 I don't give a sheitl....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 02:58 PM (x0n13)
-

There is a price toupee for everything.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (roqsI)

301 What's the big deal? We swap race roles all the time!

Posted by: Disney at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (+Vs9z)

302 Well...that was odd!

I just left my favorite pub in London, which is owned by Ian McKellen, who bought it because he lives nearby.

He was standing in his doorway in a pair of pajamas, adjusting his junk.

And yes...it was him. Nobody else on earth has a nose that big.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (Zv8bq)


Walk up to him all star struck and tongue tied: “Hello Mr. Gandalf sir, I uhh I just wanted to say hi and uhh shake your junk.” I gotta go!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (EjxLG)

303
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (setIA)

============

I was only following orders. (see me at #246)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (UmB+t)

304 302 Walk up to him all star struck and tongue tied: “Hello Mr. Gandalf sir, I uhh I just wanted to say hi and uhh shake your junk.” I gotta go!
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (EjxLG)

========

"I loved you in Star Trek Generations!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

305
The father of the twisty lightbulb.
Posted by: toby928
----

Which raises the question, 'How did Edison choose the thread design (still used) for light bulbs?'

The answer, after a word from our sponsors.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (XeU6L)

306 Here's the woman who applied "Bizarro World" tactics to the German swimming pool campaign. Instapundit highlighted it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/38p7mpfd

Secretly wishes she would have her own ass grabbed, but that would require a front end loader----check
Posted by: Orson

==============

Secretly wishes that she could grab a petite Muslim amputee's ass.

Such a lousy artist, she looks like she's trying to extract a gerbil.

-- -- --

I take it back.
It's not Richard Simmons.

It's a self-portrait.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

307 >>>I just read today that Gary Coleman’s widow didn’t pass a polygraph when asked about his fatal fall down the stairs.
Posted by: haffhowershower
----------------

Toss a midget down the stairs and see if he bounces?

Posted by: Braenyard

====

...see if IT bounces.
Midgets prefer to be called IT.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (sHvKw)

308 If you watch any security system commercials in the US the criminals are always white guys.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

309 "In Germany, if the artist had portrayed this accurately, they would spend more time in prison than any Muslim rapist."

Well said!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (TwZXH)

310 Anyone know about 2 foot tube lights?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (zhBpy)

311 I don't see what avenue German authorities have left open to normal people other than Freikorps. I don't know if normal Germans have that in them at this point, or whether it would ultimately yield better results than the last time. But I don't see a political solution there; there's only violence left.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (guCHD)

312 There is a price toupee for everything.
Posted by: Biden's Dog


Don't wig out about it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

313 some white guy jogging by"

Or "why I bailed on S2 of Reacher"
Sure, older white guys are known for carjacking minivans...

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (tubbA)

314 The show became required viewing for pretty much the entire British nation for a couple of months. Politicians were berated on TV by interviewers for not having seen it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

- -- --

If I'm not mistaken they even made the school kids watch it in class.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:02 PM (6ydKt)

315


The Shiksa in the Shtetl with the Sheitl



(Yiddish version of Clue)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 03:02 PM (x0n13)

316 Saw a picture of Lena Dunham recently . Facially and in body type she looks like a Vogon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 03:02 PM (JtH6i)

317 Anyone know about 2 foot tube lights?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (zhBpy)
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THEY WENT THAT A WAY!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 03:03 PM (roqsI)

318 The Freikorps was full of angry WWI veterans. Can Germany even must a battalion of actual combat vets?

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:03 PM (jc0TO)

319 There is a price toupee for everything.

Minnie Pearl left the price tag on her festive little hats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 03:03 PM (TExcx)

320 Insane

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (nGraA)

321 muster



but you knew that

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)

322 Don't wig out about it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
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I dare you to comb over here and say that!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (roqsI)

323
In my neck of the inner ring suburbs, we used to have summer festivals with rides and cavatelli dinners etc at the many local Catholic parishes to raise money to keep tuition down for the school. Unfortunately, most have had to cancel because of 'extreme behavior issues' from attendees who get their education for free.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

================

Who are the attendees who get their education for free? Should school choice/voucher advocates feel a bit chilled?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (UmB+t)

324 "I loved you in Star Trek Generations!"

"Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms!" - the Mallrats DVD commentary

Posted by: Ian S. at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

325 Ian Mckellen is 86. Perhaps he has some dementia going on and that's out in his pajamas adjusting his junk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (2GCMq)

326 263 Off topic, but I missed the post about Comey and Brennan being under investigation.

Shouldn't Comey already be charged? I thought it was established and he admitted to leaking confidential information to a comrade at the new York times in the form of letters or contemporaneous notes. Is my memory correct?
Posted by: 496


This is the GOP "Look! It's a squirrel" theater to try and take the focus off of the Epstein disappoint. Nothing will happen to Brennan or Comey or anyone that was involved.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (/U5Yz)

327 Malls are dead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (zhBpy)

328 Drehen Sie den Kopf und husten Sie.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (wzQvI)

329 The show became required viewing for pretty much the entire British nation for a couple of months. Politicians were berated on TV by interviewers for not having seen it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)


No joke. I remember watching Kemi Badenoch (Conservative Party leader) browbeaten in an interview by BBC reporters, who couldn't believe she'd been so irresponsible as not to watch this EXTREMELY IMPORTANT show.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (jGGMD)

330 I find it refreshing that they didn't find some way to blame white guys.

Hands off the merchandise, ladies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (i24o9)

331 319 There is a price toupee for everything.

Minnie Pearl left the price tag on her festive little hats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 03:03 PM (TExcx)

So black guys with their genuine baseball caps got their fashion tips from Minnie Pearl?

They're never gonna live that down.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (6ydKt)

332 Minnie Pearl left the price tag on her festive little hats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 03:03 PM (TExcx)
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Just like the clothing returns to Amazon.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (roqsI)

333 >>>I don't know if normal Germans have that in them at this point

Germany is gone. Better to reform our defensive lines along the Rhine and keep France from getting the same way...right? RIGHT???

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM (CwhoI)

334 Heh heh, heh heh.

Fen said "junk."

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

335 I wonder if hulky German men exist anymore? Did they morph into other shorter men from Europe?

We were standing in line in Vienna to see Marie Antoinette's family home. My son cracked a quiet joke to my husband, observing shorter Austrian men, that "no wonder Germany won." They are both 6'4 and 6'5." I had to cattle prod them to halten their klappers. (Had a German neighbor growing up and know a few words but can't spell).

So where are these white men to protect their fraus? Eh? Do brown men scare them? The large white women should fight back, too. I would, figuring I could swim better than a barbarian if he was not swinging a machete. I do swim really well, one of my talents.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (6PCLE)

336 I will add - the other thing when you're a redheaded female who is normally happy - EVERYONE in public who needs help/directions/etc comes up and asks you for help. Everyone. You are universally trusted by all ages, genders, and ethnicities...so it's good to be able to earn that trust.

And maybe that's why I'm still here.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (tOcjL)

337 If I'm not mistaken they even made the school kids watch it in class."

Expat friends have family visiting. We were over sharing a lager, and they were amazed that no one had watched it, no cared. It was a bit odd

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (tubbA)

338 He was standing in his doorway in a pair of pajamas, adjusting his junk.

And yes...it was him. Nobody else on earth has a nose that big.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:37 PM (Zv8bq)

So Gandalf was holding his staff? Did he tell you that you shall not pass?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (4hxkC)

339 Is that a pegleg or are you just happy to see me.

Posted by: German redhead at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (s0Otf)

340 This swimming pool problem has been going on for years. This recent escapade involving the Syrians in Hesse was just reported. But, go back a few years and you will find swimming pools in Cologne actually segregating the pool between male and female. A separate pool in that area banned all immigrant refugees, which actually stood up for a limited time before the Fed govt stepped in and chastised the local government for their actions.

There were over 400 reported incidents in 2023 alone. 65% were non-Germans. The other 35% where "new" citizens. Only two females have ever been questioned for actions shown on the posters. All the others have been male (and refugees).

Those not familiar with German bathing might not be aware that some of these "Swim Bauds" are clothing optional...you get the drift, I'm sure.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

341 Who are the attendees who get their education for free? Should school choice/voucher advocates feel a bit chilled?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Public school kids who, to be more precise, don't have the $6,000 or so out-of-pocket costs that the Catholic school kids had.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Dv3i1)

342 Germany is gone. Better to reform our defensive lines along the Rhine and keep France from getting the same way...right? RIGHT???
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2025 03:05 PM


I still have some faith in the Bloody French.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (jc0TO)

343 @284

>>Pascal's successes feel...incidental to his presence.

I think his draw for studios is that he's flat, slightly above average in looks and has an heir of harmlessness.

And will basically do anything.

He's like the Ryan Seacrest of actors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (z4Zjt)

344 Constantly lying about everything in order to appease extremists and criminals and denigrate and demoralize the law-abiding normies is causing the caustic cynicism. We don't believe you for a very simple reason: You are inveterate liars. You are incapable of speaking the truth, even accidentally.

-
Well, we'll just have to rely CNN, MSNBC, and 60 Minutes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (L/fGl)

345 Meanwhile, the Bishop of San Bernardino (California) has dispensed the faithful from Sunday obligation because of potential arrests of illegals.

Has he considered telling them to confess their sin-of law-breaking and take action post-haste to cease this sin by repatriating themselves to their native countries and then applying to come in legally?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (a+4eV)

346 337 If I'm not mistaken they even made the school kids watch it in class."

Expat friends have family visiting. We were over sharing a lager, and they were amazed that no one had watched it, no cared. It was a bit odd
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (tubbA)

=======

I refuse to watch shows that steal roles from qualified black actors and give them to untalented white actors just to fill a quota.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

347 Germany wanted to jail parents who wanted to homeschool their kids. They came to the US and asked for asylum. Obama administration denied them and had them deported IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)

348
Malls are dead.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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They would make great government field offices (or hell, even headquarters!) relocated from Washington, DC. Ample parking, restrooms plumbed, food courts ready to fire up, elevators, directories, camera systems... let's go!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (UmB+t)

349 Anyone know about 2 foot tube lights?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:01 PM (zhBpy)

No, but I do have some experience with the four foot variety.

I decided to chunk the fluorescent kind and went LED.
They're brighter, don't break, and no blinking out for weeks - when they're dead, they're dead.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:08 PM (6ydKt)

350 I do swim really well, one of my talents.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Bikini pics in 5...4...3...?

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

351 I also think The Fantastic Four will make between 650 and 750 WW.

Less than Dr Strange atmom, but more than fake avengers and fake captain America.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:08 PM (z4Zjt)

352 It will not end well for Germany:

https://is.gd/hLmreJ

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

353 302 Well...that was odd!

I just left my favorite pub in London, which is owned by Ian McKellen, who bought it because he lives nearby

Best I can do is a favorite pub in Niagara on the Lake Ontario.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 03:09 PM (SXxzC)

354 I refuse to watch shows that steal roles from qualified black actors and give them to untalented white actors just to fill a quota.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

A man has to live by his principles.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:09 PM (6ydKt)

355 345 Meanwhile, the Bishop of San Bernardino (California) has dispensed the faithful from Sunday obligation because of potential arrests of illegals.

Has he considered telling them to confess their sin-of law-breaking and take action post-haste to cease this sin by repatriating themselves to their native countries and then applying to come in legally?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (a+4eV)



Grope the Bishop or Flog the Bishop....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2025 03:09 PM (x0n13)

356 France is gone. Otherwise, why would they tolerate the car-burning, riots, no-go zones, banlieues? There's nothing left in Europe to defend. If USA abandoned NATO, maybe Europe would sack up and fix some shit. Either way, we don't want our guys fighting for those fags.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:09 PM (TwZXH)

357 343 I think his draw for studios is that he's flat, slightly above average in looks and has an heir of harmlessness.

And will basically do anything.

He's like the Ryan Seacrest of actors.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (z4Zjt)

========

I think my opinion of the concept of the movie star is well known, but Pascal is a fascinating example of the pure marketing behind the creation of a star.

He genuinely doesn't have any major successes. A voice in The Mandalorian? A meme movie with Nicholas Cage? Five episodes in Game of Thrones? An adaptation of one of the most popular video games made in the last 15 years?

Where is he the draw in...any of this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

358 Fen said "junk."
Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

I was quoting CBD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (2GCMq)

359
Public school kids who, to be more precise, don't have the $6,000 or so out-of-pocket costs that the Catholic school kids had.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

=============

Ohhh, I thought they attended the Catholic school free for some reason. So the schools got ghetto fatigue and now everyone loses. RRRGhhhh!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (UmB+t)

360
Secretly wishes that she could grab a petite Muslim amputee's ass.

Such a lousy artist, she looks like she's trying to extract a gerbil.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 02:57 PM (UmB+t)

I need to look closer for Richard Gere.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (6PCLE)

361 Best I can do is a favorite pub in Niagara on the Lake Ontario.
Posted by: Northernlurker

The Mucky Duck in Monterey, California. Their trivia night was awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

362 Deligitimizing government one anal rape at time.

Posted by: Clam B4 the Storm at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (qyn1k)

363 OMG! Not the science grants!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

364 346 Ha!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:11 PM (TwZXH)

365
I still have some faith in the Bloody French.
Posted by: toby928
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[recollects treatment of the Communards]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:11 PM (XeU6L)

366 364 346 Ha!
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:11 PM (TwZXH)

========

I guarantee you it would fry a couple of brain cells.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

367 This is just not a culture that wants to continue. The barbarians will always move in and take over.

Posted by: Meric at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (/BF22)

368 363 OMG! Not the science grants!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World,


Should have gone long on white lab coats and thick glasses. Crap.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (/U5Yz)

369
Where is he the draw in...any of this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

You're right.

His best work was Mandolorian and his face was covered the entire time.

I saw the first season of The Last of Us (I won't see the second) and he was fine in that, but the story was the star there and a lot of actors could've done that role.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

370 Pascal was a great French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher. Who are you talking about?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (ZVgZ4)

371 So Gandalf was holding his staff? Did he tell you that you shall not pass?
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (4hxkC)

Oh My! Sounds like a wonderful old man!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (lX1hk)

372 85 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (idFWj)

I was laughing about this as well. WTH Germany?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (6PCLE)

373 'Fen said "junk."'

She said 'tits' and I fainted dead away Luv ya, Fen!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TwZXH)

374 Have you seen the laughable ads from the UK about telling your "mates" not to assault women? It is always a black or other minority telling a white guy to stop.

Posted by: steevy at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (YwEeS)

375 I absolutely guarantee that if this propaganda were realistic and showed Arab perps, you'd see a serious backlash - from Germans.

The families of Kate Steinle and Mollie Tibbets showed that if a migrant murders a Leftist's own kids, they'll lash out at anybody who says a bad word about the killer.

The Party is their highest loyalty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (BI5O2)

376 I'm not Islamic, and modesty doesn't require me to hide in the corner under a big piece of cloth.
Posted by: Nova Local

Nobody's going to subject you to the Inquisition for not wearing a veil. And as far as I can see, the women take them off after church is over.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Mistranslation. The coverd heads means long hair. No for men. Yes for women.
Posted by: Boss Moss


See? What did I say three threads ago?

"Yes", "hair", and "who cares?". Although I should probably have added "hell no".

Adiaphora and an occasion to make trouble.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (a+4eV)

377 343 I think his draw for studios is that he's flat, slightly above average in looks and has an heir of harmlessness.

And will basically do anything.

He's like the Ryan Seacrest of actors.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (z4Zjt)

========

I think my opinion of the concept of the movie star is well known, but Pascal is a fascinating example of the pure marketing behind the creation of a star.

He genuinely doesn't have any major successes. A voice in The Mandalorian? A meme movie with Nicholas Cage? Five episodes in Game of Thrones? An adaptation of one of the most popular video games made in the last 15 years?

Where is he the draw in...any of this?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
——

He can surely drawn semen out of dicks

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (aeiyZ)

378 374 Have you seen the laughable ads from the UK about telling your "mates" not to assault women? It is always a black or other minority telling a white guy to stop.
Posted by: steevy at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (YwEeS)

======

Gotta say "bruv" a lot more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

379 @357

>>Where is he the draw in...any of this?

He's not the draw, the vehicle is the draw, he's simply there because you need a warm body.

The studios love him and will probably continue using him.

The first two seasons of the mandalorian were money though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (z4Zjt)

380 All the good British actors are old and gay.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (fV+MH)

381 Aus Lander raus.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (zhBpy)

382 Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building"

So, who made the "volcano" again this year?

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (tubbA)

383 I need to look closer for Richard Gere.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Well, he's moved to Spain.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (XeU6L)

384 I will add - the other thing when you're a redheaded female who is normally happy - EVERYONE in public who needs help/directions/etc comes up and asks you for help. Everyone. You are universally trusted by all ages, genders, and ethnicities...so it's good to be able to earn that trust.

And maybe that's why I'm still here.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (tOcjL)

————-

They were in a bind and they were way behind, and she was looking for a soul to steal.

At least that’s what I learned on this blog that redheaded women will do. Except you though:-)

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (EjxLG)

385 Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World,


So who got assigned to build the baking soda volcano?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (a+4eV)

386 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?
Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2025 02:26 PM (idFWj)

I was laughing about this as well. WTH Germany?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Looks like a sea turtle to boot. Which, of course, are found all over Germany.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

387 "Yes", "hair", and "who cares?". Although I should probably have added "hell no".

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees..

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

388 Pascal was good in Narcos. But so was everyone.

At this point, he's just too gay to function as a leading man.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (guCHD)

389 370 Pascal was a great French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher. Who are you talking about?

most famous for his turbocharger.

what? you've never heard of turbo pascal?

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (v3pYe)

390 I saw Gandalf's Junk open for Isildur's Bane at The Shire in 2017.

https://youtu.be/vW7lqJzHkSY

Posted by: mikeski at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (VxVfx)

391 Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TwZXH)

Thank you. The day would not be complete here unless tits are mentioned at least 10 times. Just doing my part to help 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (2GCMq)

392 I hadn't heard of Mark Steyn in a while.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (aURVT)

393 Not even la belle France is going to drive these barbarians out. I still have some hope for the USA, but put not your faith in princes, but in the Lord your God.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (ZVgZ4)

394 Pascal is definitely forgettable. I see him as one of those character actors that you always see but don't know his name.

What is the QBs name in the Reynolds Longest Yard ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (VofaG)

395
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

=============

My news aggregator for a while there had one story after another about this or that grant that was canceled, and some of them looked legit. LOOKED legit. I never see the other side to the story, and sometimes I honestly wonder if it's clumsy government or biased, misleading MSM. DHS is always silent about it ("did not respond to our request for comment") which is maybe reasonable since their hands are full these days. But some of it still has me scratching my head.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (UmB+t)

396 379 He's not the draw, the vehicle is the draw, he's simply there because you need a warm body.

The studios love him and will probably continue using him.

The first two seasons of the mandalorian were money though.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:14 PM (z4Zjt)

=======

And that's my opinion as well. People equate stars with kinds of movies they want to see, but they're smart enough to know that the small movie about a lawyer connecting with his small town judge father is not going to be the same thing as an Avengers movie, so even if Robert Downey Junior is in it, The Judge is going to fail miserably.

Which means that Downey Jr...is not a star. He's the face of a franchise. A franchise that had other billion dollar hits without him.

Going back to him to play Dr. Doom is desperation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

397 "Pascal was good in Narcos. But so was everyone."

Recommended.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (TwZXH)

398 Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building"
So, who made the "volcano" again this year?
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 03:15 PM (tubbA)

Well, what are the Capitol Police waiting for? Shoot! Shoot the bastards!

Posted by: Mike Johnson at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (lX1hk)

399 w34tvqrw4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (UmB+t)

400 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (2GCMq)

Tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (VofaG)

401 I always get Gandalf mixed up with Picard. They could be twins separated at birth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (wzQvI)

402 nood

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (TwZXH)

403 I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Weirdest thing I heard on that score was that these women would cover their hair with... wigs.

Though I can't vouch for the accuracy of that rumor.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (a+4eV)

404 Nood.

Next.

Posted by: The TSA at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (PiwSw)

405 The Fantastic Four trailer doesn't look too impressive.

I just saw it yesterday when YT slipped it in and I managed to watch most of it before hitting skip.

The two flicks with Jessica Alba and Chris Evans look better than this one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

406 w34tvqrw4
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM


That's easy for you to say.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (jc0TO)

407 My friend got me out of the house.

We went to a gated, Christian trailer park Monday and Tuesday.

The lack of diversity was beautiful. He'd leave the trailer unlocked even with his laptop there. High trust communities are the best.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 99%- mental state clawing up from 10% at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (jvJvP)

408 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO

I watched it because of Duvall.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (VofaG)

409 Heard of it? I used to write programs in Turbo Pascal including one I used to solve a scattering problem for my final exam in a physics grad class!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (ZVgZ4)

410 What Germany needs is a Strong Leader !

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (g47mK)

411 285 I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---------------

We all have traditions and rituals. It's what binds us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (ncgY2)

412 I hadn't heard of Mark Steyn in a while.
Posted by: m

He's been having health issues. A couple of heart attacks, brought on by a combination of the vaxx and the stress of his legal battles against that Michael Mann charlatan.

Still has his blog, though, although he recycles a lot of his old stuff now. "As I said twenty years ago..."

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

413 @396

>>Going back to him to play Dr. Doom is desperation

Well, sure, there simply are no other actors that can fill the role.

There isn't even a pipeline to develop actors anymore.

Theres even been a dirth of good character actors because most of what is written for cable, television and movies is complete shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (z4Zjt)

414 There are no stars anymore.


Keanu....mebbe.

He seems likeable.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (fV+MH)

415 Shoot before they set off the volcano!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:20 PM (ZVgZ4)

416 381 Aus Lander raus.

ann landers > aus lander

Posted by: anachronda at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (v3pYe)

417 Bible Study Corner With Pastor Gavin!

Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (L/fGl)

418 What the hell is that in the two lower frames? The Safety Turtle?
Posted by: Weasel
----

I'm reminded of the displacement of Smokey the Bear by Woodsy the Owl. Smokey was a bare-chested, gruff bear, who might just rip your lungs out if you mishandled fire.

Woodsy is/was a little wimp with floppy clown feet, wearing a hat with a feather in it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (XeU6L)

419 There are no stars anymore.

Sure there are! You just got to move out to the country and get away from all that light pollution in the city!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

420 What Germany needs is a Strong Leader !
Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 03:19 PM


Just one though.

Posted by: toby928 at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

421
Walk up to him all star struck and tongue tied: “Hello Mr. Gandalf sir, I uhh I just wanted to say hi and uhh shake your junk.” I gotta go!
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (EjxLG)

========

"I loved you in Star Trek Generations!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)


Do you still have the Combat Pug from Dune?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 03:22 PM (y9nCu)

422 Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:17 PM (VofaG)

LOL . But usually not in succession like that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2GCMq)

423 >>>Going back to him to play Dr. Doom is desperation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer
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Part of the failure of Hollywood, he's a good actor. But there are too few movies made for actors.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 03:24 PM (ncgY2)

424 My pastor was glad to comment on the Fourth of July last Sunday from the pulpit and praised the fact that this nation allowed us to worship God as we saw fit, unlike say England.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:25 PM (ZVgZ4)

425 And Canada, and maybe California…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (ZVgZ4)

426 Again and again, leftist propaganda is not meant to persuade or mislead. It is meant to humiliate, and for this purpose, the further it is from the truth, the better. (Theodore Dalrymple)

The left means to break your hold on reality, to force you to reject your own perceptions and experience.

It is useless, even counterproductive, to attempt to argue with the Left. Facts are irrelevant. Believe and repeat what you are told--OR ELSE.

Posted by: dave moore at July 09, 2025 03:30 PM (Xlykt)

427 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (L

What the heck is Newsom talking about ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 03:31 PM (2GCMq)

428 Women could, I don't know, maybe I'm being crazy here, maybe not swim in these particular pools.


Is situational awareness simply not in the female gene?


If you can't in any way look out for yourself how am I supposed to care about you?
Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (fV+MH)

Why do you think there are any safe pools to go to? And their tax money paid for that pool.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)

429 WTF is Germany's problem? It's like they've never heard the saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see." They refuse to see. Why are they so fucking stupid? And you see this stupid willful blindness in Britain when it comes to their "Asian" immigrants, too.
Posted by: Farquad at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (yqgaV)

Their elites have a cause, and they don't consider themselves German at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

430 Germany wanted to jail parents who wanted to homeschool their kids. They came to the US and asked for asylum. Obama administration denied them and had them deported IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)

I remember that. Barky be asshoe.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (g8Ew8)

431 Bible Study Corner With Pastor Gavin!

Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
Freedom of religion? Not in Donald Trump’s America.
People now have to choose between their faith and their freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (L/fGl)

Leftists hate religion. Not sure what he's on about, but taking the mantle of a believer isn't gonna help him much with his base.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:37 PM (8avO+)

432 WTF is Germany's problem? It's like they've never heard the saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see." They refuse to see. Why are they so fucking stupid? And you see this stupid willful blindness in Britain when it comes to their "Asian" immigrants, too.
Posted by: Farquad at July 09, 2025 02:22 PM (yqgaV)

Their elites have a cause, and they don't consider themselves German at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

Most of this started with the formation of the EU.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 03:38 PM (g8Ew8)

433 I don't get Orthodox Jewish women's hair-covering thing, something about signaling your marital status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Weirdest thing I heard on that score was that these women would cover their hair with... wigs.

Though I can't vouch for the accuracy of that rumor.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (a+4eV)

It used to be that married ladies would wear their hair up while the girls did not.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)

434 BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

=============

My news aggregator for a while there had one story after another about this or that grant that was canceled, and some of them looked legit. LOOKED legit. I never see the other side to the story, and sometimes I honestly wonder if it's clumsy government or biased, misleading MSM. DHS is always silent about it ("did not respond to our request for comment") which is maybe reasonable since their hands are full these days. But some of it still has me scratching my head.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:16 PM (UmB+t)

Yeah think of all the puppy torture techniques we will lose!

I was in that world for a bit. If there's any use, you'd get a corporate sponsor. There's plenty of places to cut garbage, or duplicated work in any lab or university.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:44 PM (8avO+)

435 The "woman" in the last comic strip looks like Lena Dunham. I read a headline in the UK DM yesterday (I am the reporter of headline news, no content) that she blames menopause, medical issues and stress for no longer being a size 2.

While I doubt I have been a size 2 since I was a toddler, I think calories should be mentioned. Also shoving gravel up your sister's hooha guilt.

Why do I know this crap? Why???
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:38 PM (6PCLE)

there are definitely stages where your metabolism downshifts from the furnaces of kids and teens to more moderate levels. If you don't change habits to compensate you can gain weight in a hurry.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

436 In my neck of the inner ring suburbs, we used to have summer festivals with rides and cavatelli dinners etc at the many local Catholic parishes to raise money to keep tuition down for the school. Unfortunately, most have had to cancel because of 'extreme behavior issues' from attendees who get their education for free.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

================

Who are the attendees who get their education for free? Should school choice/voucher advocates feel a bit chilled?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 09, 2025 03:04 PM (UmB+t)

In Chicago for decades the Catholic schools felt the need to pay for families who wanted to escape the hell of their public schools. At least then it didn't have particular discipline issues. I suppose now it has become an entitlement.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

437 So where are these white men to protect their fraus? Eh? Do brown men scare them? The large white women should fight back, too. I would, figuring I could swim better than a barbarian if he was not swinging a machete. I do swim really well, one of my talents.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 03:06 PM (6PCLE)

They do as the government tells them. They have only shrunk in the soul.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

438 The ad campaign is showing things that never happening. The other problem is that it doesn't show consequences. Why not show police arresting the gropers? Is it because the police will never arrest any real gropers?

Posted by: Dave at July 09, 2025 04:16 PM (sbsMc)

439 Where are the German men?

Where are the British men?

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 05:11 PM (ri7hX)

440 At one time these four men would have been Beheaded they still used to have the Hooded Headsman before WW II

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 09, 2025 06:13 PM (wGqjj)

Biden's Corrupt Doctor and Biden, Inc. Business Partner Refuses to Testify to Congress, Citing the Fifth Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination

No one is above the law, right?

They sent Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail for refusing to cooperate.

So no one is above the law, right?


Biden's physician declines to cooperate in GOP probe of former president's mental fitness

Kevin O'Connor, who served as Joe Biden's physician while the former president was in office, refused to testify in a closed-door interview as part of the House GOP probe into Biden's mental acuity and whether his inner circle sought to conceal his limitations from the public.

O'Connor Wednesday morning asserted doctor-patient privilege and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a statement from his attorneys. He had repeatedly argued his duties as a doctor complicated his ability to testify under oath about his patient, preventing him from sharing some sensitive information.

"On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr. O'Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients," the statement read. "His assertion of his right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to answer questions, also on the advice of his lawyers, was made necessary by the unique circumstances of this deposition.

There is no physician-patient confidentiality here because Congress intended to ask questions about O'Connor's publicly-stated (perjured) reports on Biden's supposed perfect health.

There is no privilege once you voluntarily make something public. Either it's private or it's public, and O'Connor made it public.

There may be things that he could assert privilege about, but not about his public declarations.

The statement also cited President Donald Trump's own invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before his deposition with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, quoting Trump's suggestion that only "an absolute fool" would refuse to take the Fifth.

...

O'Connor arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning as required, but left less than an hour after the interview began. Before his departure, though, O'Connor's legal representation delivered a statement to committee members elaborating on their client's decision. In a copy of prepared remarks obtained by POLITICO, they said that the ongoing Justice Department investigation into the same subject raised the risk of potential incrimination -- even though they insisted it did not imply the doctor had broken the law.

They also emphasized that pleading the Fifth does not imply an underlying crime was committed and in fact can be a strategy taken by innocent people to avoid being coerced into making incriminating statements.

O'Connor's strategy tracks closely with decisions by more than 30 witnesses who testified before the Democrat-led committee to investigate the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those witnesses all asserted their Fifth Amendment rights on a question-by-question basis. In those cases, the committee was unable to pierce the privilege but pointed to those invocations in its final report as a significant barrier.

The media's take was that these assertions of the fifth amendment proved criminal conduct then.

Now, of course, they apply a completely different rule.


...


However, O'Connor's invocation is already providing fodder for Oversight Committee Republicans.

"By pleading the fifth at his deposition today, Dr. Kevin O'Connor just confirmed what we all suspected: this was a coordinated cover-up to hide the truth about Joe Biden's condition--and who's really been running the show behind the scenes," said Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) posted on X.

A spokesperson for Biden's office declined to comment.

Congress can grant this scumbag criminal immunity for his testimony, in which case he can no longer plead the Fifth. I hope this is what they do.

Posted by: Ace at 01:11 PM




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Posted by: Cow Demon at July 09, 2025 01:12 PM (Pce4l)

2 SPONGE

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 09, 2025 01:12 PM (xcxpd)

3 and standing on the fifth is probably his best play.
Don't think they can jail you for that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 09, 2025 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

4 Gosh, what does he have to hide?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:13 PM (GbwPZ)

5 He was paid off handsomely , I'm sure.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 01:13 PM (2GCMq)

6 and....@bubblebathgirl?
WTF?

Glad I'm off social media.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 09, 2025 01:14 PM (xcxpd)

7 So I wonder what the doc did that he feels the need to plead the fifth.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

8 >>"On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr. O'Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients,"


Oh, NOW we care about HIPAA?
Since when does this apply to presidents?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (GbwPZ)

9 So according to the left's playbook, the right should prosecute the doc in some unrelated venue for some vague violation of a little used statute, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (mlg/3)

10 Shocked face emoji here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (Q4IgG)

11 Wouldn't it be wild if he showed integrity and confessed? I guess that would take the morals of a guy who didn't lie for years though.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (U/7CP)

12 >>He was paid off handsomely , I'm sure.



IIRC, he was in some sort of business with the Bidens. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (GbwPZ)

13 That pic of the doctor is giving me the look of a mediocre physician.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (Oy/m2)

14 Vee haff veys uf makink zem talk.

Posted by: Arte Johnson pops out of a bush at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (7Q0e+)

15 Who would have this dwarf as their physician, much less allow him to be the MD to POTUS? He has a really creepy, bottom of the med school class vibe.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (K45Rj)

16 So HIPPA means that a doctor can't be forced to testify about a report he made public, but GloboMegaCorp can access my vaccination records whenever they want?

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

17 The health info of a sitting president should not be subject to privilege of any kind.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

18 The Left still have their attack troops raise both Trump's physical and mental health while at the same time defend Biden like they did RBG.

True insanity.

Posted by: polynikes at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (VofaG)

19 Pffft. Should have just stabbed himself in the heart or dropped a barbell on his neck. . .

Posted by: Totally Not Hillary! at July 09, 2025 01:17 PM (GbwPZ)

20 Creepy looking doctor. Probably consulted the notes of Theodor Morell, MD in treating Retardo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 09, 2025 01:17 PM (gm9Sb)

21 I didn’t know “Doctor” O’Connor was a midget

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 01:17 PM (952JK)

22 Of course he did... The auto-pen wielders will do the same.. Only way anything happens is if one of them decides to "sing" and I doubt any of them will...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 01:17 PM (VE6XX)

23 I thought the person had to plead the fifth in court, not while refusing to be interviewed.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 01:17 PM (vbXSk)

24 Wow, what a super ugly and short little twink the "doctor" is! He probably can't find a booster seat for the hearing...that would make the most sense. He certainly needs a bag over his head. The ugly, it reeks!

I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

I may be the stupid one in thinking that if an area floods every 25yrs or 500yrs it is a flood plain. And that not every single bad thing that happens is a conspiracy.

Suppose I could join reddit, where I simply skim to laugh, and ask AITAH, which is the favorite stuff I read.

Either I am the AH or I have suddenly sprouted new brain cells and am smarter than people. Or I have common sense as well as being a former supermodel.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (6PCLE)

25 why did they bother in the first place ?

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (g47mK)

26 Give this asshole 2X the time that Bannon served. Oh and charge him with election interference too and charge him in each state.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (t0Rmr)

27 stop wasting our time, Congress

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (g47mK)

28 O'Connor is also a pedophile like JoePedo Biden and most in the democrat party.

I mean would you leave a young boy alone with O'Connor? I know I would not. Your Homo Pedodar should be sounding a klaxon.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (17s+e)

29 >>>>"On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr. O'Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients,"


"Um, what?"
-- Dr. Bindy Lee

https://bandylee.com/books/

Posted by: Totally Not Hillary! at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (GbwPZ)

30 >> and standing on the fifth is probably his best play.
Don't think they can jail you for that.

what they can do is grant him immunity for his testimony, then he no longer can use the 5th as a shield.

It's tough, though, giving this sonofabitch immunity.

Posted by: ace at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

31 He gave no comments as he left.
.....

I didn't know O'Connor is a midget.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (UjdFS)

32 didn’t know “Doctor” O’Connor was a troon midget

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (/eH1B)

33 14 Vee haff veys uf makink zem talk.
Posted by: Arte Johnson pops out of a bush at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (7Q0e+)

Sign zee papers old man ...

Posted by: browndog channels Cheech and Chong at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (TTAGa)

34 23 I think you can plead the fifth any time that you are under oath.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

35 Then: The age and health of a president doesn't matter.

A little later: Obviously Biden is too old to run for president. Step down now?!? The age and health of a president doesn't matter!

Now: TRUMP IS TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (t0Rmr)

36 Fodder? Well, I'm in shock...

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (tubbA)

37 Kevin O'Fatass.

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:20 PM (UnA8+)

38 democrat, above all else, is coward.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 09, 2025 01:20 PM (gxokI)

39 I mean would you leave a young boy alone with O'Connor? I know I would not. Your Homo Pedodar should be sounding a klaxon.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

---------
I wouldn't leave him alone with a Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 09, 2025 01:20 PM (5yDGQ)

40 stop wasting our time, Congress

Wait...you were expecting us to cut spending or something?


HAHAHAHHAAH

Posted by: Congress at July 09, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

41 I'm not sure what law could be pointed to which the doctor broke... lying to the public? Sure, I'd love to see a politician rail against that with a straight face. Knowledge that Biden was senile and not actually running things? We've got statements from GOP members of Congress that they realized that prior to the 2024 election, at least.

If there were, during the Biden Administration, 20 people in the whole of DC who weren't corrupt and, almost certainly, aware of his condition, I'd be shocked.

This is all more "I had no idea" theater trying to convince you that YOUR Representatives are totally good guys (girls) who look out for your interests during the 3 hours per year that Members of Congress actually work.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

42 Ha.
Elric beat me to it.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

43 sounding a klaxon.

Ku klux klaxon?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (/eH1B)

44 He looks like he watches child porn.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (6PCLE)

45 30 >> and standing on the fifth is probably his best play.
Don't think they can jail you for that.

what they can do is grant him immunity for his testimony, then he no longer can use the 5th as a shield.

It's tough, though, giving this sonofabitch immunity.
Posted by: ace at July 09, 2025 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

I hear ya, he ought to do time, but it might be more important to get testimony that the meat puppet was a meat puppet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)

46
Doctor Kevvy O'Connor looks like Walz' retarded yet corrupt younger brother.

The Dumb and Dumber Jim Carry haircut is the chef's kiss to all this.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (9mWiN)

47 I know you can't go by looks, but that doctor strikes me as a total goober. I wouldn't let him give a shot to my dog.

Posted by: Paco at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (mADJX)

48 He looks like he watches child porn.

You misspelled "makes"

Posted by: Congress at July 09, 2025 01:21 PM (t0Rmr)

49 Oh, NOW we care about HIPAA?
Since when does this apply to presidents?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:15 PM (GbwPZ)


Presumably it was rock solid between 1/20/2021 and 1/20/2025.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

50 7 So I wonder what the doc did that he feels the need to plead the fifth.
Posted by: Bulg at July


Probably had his staff perform a mini mental
Exam which biden failed, and then walked out of the room and told reporters the biden was fit as a fiddle and sharp as a tack.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (W2Pud)

51 13 That pic of the doctor is giving me the look of a mediocre physician.
Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:16 PM (Oy/m2)

Remember, they still call the guy who finished last in his Med School class DOCTOR ...

Posted by: browndog backing away slowly at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (TTAGa)

52 His career choices were apparently doctor or babysitter. I can see why he went with doctor.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (Qr870)

53 Jail?

Anyone in jail yet?

Waiting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (roqsI)

54 39 Probably volunteers at the local high school for football physicals. When he's not doing proctology pro bono exams down at the Mission.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (gm9Sb)

55 So I wonder what the doc did that he feels the need to plead the fifth.
Posted by: Bulg
......

Lied about Joe's prostate cancer?

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (UjdFS)

56 A literal damned munchkin.

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (UnA8+)

57 Or I have common sense as well as being a former supermodel."

I'd go with that. The reality is that a number of folks who regularly whang away at skittles flecked keyboards are a bit...well, unbalanced.
Some even like odd movies.

*ducks*

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (tubbA)

58 Offer him immunity and have him testify. That should lead to a lot of popcorn moments.

Posted by: Ann at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (4neFu)

59 24 as well as being a former supermodel

You know the rules here…

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

60 Ace, exactly correct!

This toad should be given immunity, and then forced to testify.

Nobody gives a shit about him. It's the people who told him what to do that matter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (Zv8bq)

61 Green Eggs and Ham is a lesson promulgated by godless commies to never give up, and badger your target until it gives in and becomes a fellow godless commie, or a willing participant in gay sex.

Who knew?

LOL


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ufFY8)

62 Lied about Joe's prostate cancer?

Wait? Someone has cancer?!? President Obama and I cured it like twice already.

Wait, was I supposed to meet with President Obama today?

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)

63 I'd go with that. The reality is that a number of folks who regularly whang away at skittles flecked keyboards are a bit...well, unbalanced.
Some even like odd movies.

*ducks*
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (tubbA)

It's not skittles it's M&M's !

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

64 Remember, they still call the guy who finished last in his Med School class DOCTOR ...

Posted by: browndog backing away slowly
---

Is that last, last. Or is that DEI last?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (17s+e)

65 Weird... just went looking... Nat Institute of Health has a whole article on its website about how a Doctor, once Subpoenaed, does have to answer questions about Patients health...

Including during COMPETENCY HEARINGS.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (mP0Kj)

66 Remember, they still call the guy who finished last in his Med School class DOCTOR ...

Posted by: browndog backing away slowly at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (TTAGa)
-

Plus there's Doctor Jill.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (roqsI)

67 He looks like he watches child porn.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGrea
.....

Hmm. Must like them taller than him.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (UjdFS)

68 Jill or someone in the DS must have some fondness for Joe. I expected the commiecrats would have arranged Joe to die of natural causes by now to steer the narrative into sympathy vs the corruption of his admin pretending Joe was in charge of anything more than what flavor of ice cream to eat.

Its been my impression that the senile pervert needs a slew of drugs to keep living even in his semi-vegetative state; so I figured they could easily slip in a placebo for one or two of the drugs and send Joe to eternal rest. Course that is just my impression, not like I cared enough to try to gather any facts on that pervert's medical condition.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (bP/i4)

69 Other than, maybe, falsifying some sort of perfunctory medical report what's the little guy guilty of? Saying *biden wasn't a empty husk with zero mental capacity was what he was being paid for. Did a written/typed/AI generated health report get done? Is it mandatory? Is it automatically public?

He lied to the public.

So does everyone in the capitol city.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (Q4IgG)

70 He's not officially a Little Person. He tried to sue to have his status declared but they said he had no standing.

Posted by: David Rappaport at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (7Q0e+)

71 A spokesperson for Biden's office declined to comment due to cognitive challenges

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (RHGPo)

72 Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Twitter.

Freedom of Speech back on the menu?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (i24o9)

73 ".in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation."

the CEO for the company that did some seeding said it was two days before the flooding, and that any effects would have dissipated long before the big rains.

idk much about it, but that makes sense to me. They drop the crystals (?) and they yield fairly immediate response.

Seems authorities gave much more advanced warnings for the New Mexico flash flooding, from what I saw.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (vbXSk)

74 they still call the guy who finished last in his Med School class DOCTOR ..."

Anything like the bottom of law school class being called "your honor "?

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (tubbA)

75 This is all just political theater. Again, wake me once there are indictments.

Posted by: toddg at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (HsIYU)

76 That doc looks like a Chris Farley who cut back on a few donuts and went to a Caribbean medical school.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (ufFY8)

77 I'm wondering if this is also to cover up how Joe was medicated throughout his presidency.

What was his doctor doing to keep him going, week to week, working with Jill and Hunter to pro him up for various events, to hide his health issues/mental deficiencies?

It's one thing to be wrong during an annual exam - oops, didn't run a test I should have, didn't pick up on a minor symptom, or hey, he lied to me about how he was feeling. However, if you are tending to him on an ongoing basis, managing his prescriptions, advising his team on his capabilities/limitations, you are complicit in the fake presidency, bigly.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (GbwPZ)

78 I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

People get on social media and spout off. Other people read it and repeat it. People get emotional on the issue. It becomes ingrained in your mind. No amount of evidence that it's wrong will ever cause you to rethink your position.

It causes the citizenry to become emotional and divided on issues, even ones where there's no reasonable cause for division. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that this phenomenon is one of the main reasons that the intelligence agencies funded the creation of social media.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

79 I guess he didn't want to go into the list of goofballs he was feeding Joe?

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

80 He's not officially a Little Person. He tried to sue to have his status declared but they said he had no standing.

Posted by: David Rappaport at July 09, 2025 01:25 PM (7Q0e+)
-

I don't understand their refusal. Totally stumped here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (roqsI)

81 ...Is that last, last. Or is that DEI last?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 09, 2025 01:24 PM (17s+e)

Hmmm ...

Either way, I'm not seeing him even if I'm bleeding out.

Posted by: browndog backing away slowly at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (TTAGa)

82 61 Green Eggs and Ham is a lesson promulgated by godless commies to never give up, and badger your target until it gives in and becomes a fellow godless commie, or a willing participant in gay sex.

Who knew?

LOL


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ufFY

The Green Eggs are a metaphor for your anus, and the ham, well...

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (UnA8+)

83 I do not like big cock and balls
I do not like them, Mike-I-Am.
Mike ! If you let me be,
I will try them. You will see.
They are so good, so good, you see!
So I will eat them in Chicago.
And I will eat them with a queen.
And I will eat them in a (white)house.
And I will eat them with a chef.
And I will eat them here and there.
Say! I will eat them anywhere!
I do so like big cock and balls!
Thank you! Thank you, Mike-I-Am.

Posted by: Barack Obama does Dr Suess at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (t0Rmr)

84 I just read that O’Connor was Trump’s physician in his first term. AI cannot be correct.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (K45Rj)

85 He's a LITTLE PERSON!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Barty at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (63Dwl)

86 went to a Caribbean medical school."

Si.

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (tubbA)

87 Dr. Nick >>>>>>>>> Dr. O’Connor

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

88 I may start an uncivil war here, but I looked where Kevin Kermit went to med school. He's an osteopath. So he may not be able to answer regular MD questions.

Go ahead, hit me with your best shot! Fire away! Blows kisses! Moons cranky people!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (6PCLE)

89 He looks like Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (BvTfc)

90 "You can't make me testify,
I don't know why you even tried,
I will never take the blame
for RUMPLESTILTSKIN is my name!"

--Kevin O'Connor

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (UnA8+)

91 His career choices were apparently doctor or babysitter. I can see why he went with doctor.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:22 PM (Qr870)


Because Macron was already married?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

92 UH, with an IN HOUSE White House Doctor.... one paid for by the Government...

Why did Joe have a personal physician? or was this guy paid for by Tax Dollars?.. and thus NOT a PERSONAL physician?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (mP0Kj)

93 74 they still call the guy who finished last in his Med School class DOCTOR ..."

Anything like the bottom of law school class being called "your honor "?
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM (tubbA)

I don’t understand

Posted by: KBJ at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (IpGua)

94 I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.


When your government lies to you about the big things people stop believing them about the little things as well. You can see the same sort of conspiracy theorizing about everything in countries overseas, but Barky and Biden brought it here.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (t0Rmr)

95 88 I may start an uncivil war here, but I looked where Kevin Kermit went to med school. He's an osteopath. So he may not be able to answer regular MD questions.

Go ahead, hit me with your best shot! Fire away! Blows kisses! Moons cranky people!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (6PCLE)

On post 88, no less.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

96 >> I figured they could easily slip in a placebo for one or two of the drugs and send Joe to eternal rest.


He's been their meal ticket as well as what's been keeping Hunter and Joe's siblings out of jail. I would guess they need him alive until they are sure the pardons are secure?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (GbwPZ)

97 Anything like the bottom of law school class being called "your honor "?
Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:26 PM


Dunno...how much did he donate to the governor's campaign?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 01:29 PM (dPfyF)

98 He's not officially a Little Person.
......

Just an honorary one.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (UjdFS)

99 "Dr. O'connor, where did you get your medical degree"?

"Well, funny story. I didn't. I was late night DJ at my high school's little AM station. Called myself Doc Midget. One thing led to another, I ran into Hunter during the bad days when I had a big problem, and he introduced me to the old lady. She said doctor is doctor and you're hired". "By the way, I think I should take the fifth".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (gm9Sb)

100 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (6PCLE)

plethora of conspiracies!

Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

101 Because Macron was already married?/i]

I just like how you say...the mature women. Especially the ones that are like a mother to me

Posted by: Macron at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)

102 88 I may start an uncivil war here, but I looked where Kevin Kermit went to med school. He's an osteopath. So he may not be able to answer regular MD questions.

Go ahead, hit me with your best shot! Fire away! Blows kisses! Moons cranky people!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:28 PM (6PCLE)

Nah, they're more or less equivalent at this point. That's not an out for this guy.

Posted by: He looks guilty AF though. Of something. at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (TbWk/)

103 All of this privilege is leading me to believe you can get caught in bed with a young boy or a dead girl and still walk away fancy-free.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (wzQvI)

104 I hate to impugn someone based on their doughy fag looks.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (fV+MH)

105 The most dangerous place in the world is between a Republican and their Hearing Camera.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (Qr870)

106 >>>I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

Subtle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9)

107 O’Connor is guilty AF.

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That's NOT a man, baby!

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (nH+RN)

108 How did the Dr not realize Biden had prostate cancer? The Dr's face is at the level of Biden's nutsack.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (JtH6i)

109
O'Connor is also a pedophile like JoePedo Biden and most in the democrat party.



Show me on the doctor where the bad plushtoy touched you

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (y9nCu)

110 The dude's own daughter wrote that she was molested by him.

But yeah this will do it.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Qr870)

111 Damn....creepy doc looks like he's shorter than I am!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2025 01:32 PM (dPfyF)

112 Pedo faced doc which fits in with the Biden junta just fine.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:32 PM (ctrM5)

113 The dude's own daughter wrote that she was molested by him.

But yeah this will do it.


And the FNM claimed it was a hoax...right up until Biden had the woman that turned it over to the media arrested for theft.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:32 PM (t0Rmr)

114 >>I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.


Yeah, I agree that it's the constantly being lied to that draws suspicion.

With the cloud seeding, it would be nice to know who's doing it, when and where. After decades of things like FBI kneejerk "not terrorism" after a jihadi attack in the US, and the covid shenanigans, it's easy to become suspicious of any immediate dismissal of concern.

I am tired on conspiracy theories, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 09, 2025 01:32 PM (GbwPZ)

115 I watched Joe Biden perform as president for four years, I never once thought he was "mentally incapacitated." When Democrats take back the House, they need to hold similar hearings to exhaustively investigate Trump's mental capacity.

The doctor had no choice. He may not violate a patient's privilege. The MAGTs knew this. They got what they wanted.

Exactly. We could not hear the truth about The Felon's “Ear wound” due to HIPAA. So we shouldn’t hear from Joe Biden’s doctors either. They should decline to testify.

Why should he answer? It's just a fucking witch hunt. Biden. Is. No. Longer. President. Why are they doing this? What political points could they hope to score?

They want to invalidate every piece of legislation signed into law by Biden.

Meanwhile a raving lunatic is sitting in the Oval Office destroying the U.S. government and our standing in the world while the GOP-controlled Congress fiddles

The doors that they force open cannot be closed again. This will be used against them in the future.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (ycI94)

116 >>>I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

Subtle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9)

I remember some people in Alberta believing severe hailstorms were the result of cloud seeding.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (SXxzC)

117 On post 88, no less"

Acht acht?

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (tubbA)

118 115 I watched Joe Biden perform as president for four years, I never once thought he was "mentally incapacitated." When Democrats take back the House, they need to hold similar hearings to exhaustively investigate Trump's mental capacity.


Oh boy...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (VE6XX)

119 So what did they do?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (zhBpy)

120 This doctor will be responsible for Biden's death.
He should have given Biden a PSA test.

I don't know why any Democrat would defend him.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (NpAcC)

121 I'm embarrassed that this guy calls himself a doctor.
--- Dr. Brackett

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Oy/m2)

122 They want to invalidate every piece of legislation signed into law by Biden.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (ycI94)

Oh no! They're onto us!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (i24o9)

123 Is there such a thing as a presidential doctor whose principal concern was his patient's health?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (SXxzC)

124 It causes the citizenry to become emotional and divided on issues, even ones where there's no reasonable cause for division. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that this phenomenon is one of the main reasons that the intelligence agencies funded the creation of social media.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

Agree. Social media has really done a number on people. I don't watch the news due to the angst it was causing me a decade after 9/11. I no longer worry about much of anything, which may put me as a weirdo. Nor am I glued to my phone as many are while walking, which I note in my stats as being strange.

The person who frets about conspiracy theories seems to do it a whole lot. This lady appears to be either a widow or a divorcee who ran her dude away from her fretting. If it is not the You-craine it is now cloud seeding. I have more weirdness I won't repeat due to HIPPA (ok, that is bs I just threw in).

So I am backing away from this other blog carefully and with much grace and politeness.To not set off grenades and wailing of the others. I come here instead to cuss and mock, as it is much more fun.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (6PCLE)

125 115 Meanwhile a raving lunatic is sitting in the Oval Office destroying the U.S. government and our standing in the world while the GOP-controlled Congress fiddles

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (ycI94)

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"The federal government should be made up entirely of independent agencies that are completely free from input from the people! For democracy!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

126 NVDA, hit $4 Trillion today. Biggest in the market.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ncgY2)

127 Ralph Wiggum got a medical degree. Good for him.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (5IFb9)

128 Dr. Feelgood was reluctant to reveal the radioactive, crack infused pharmaceuticals that he was loading up in ole' Potato Head, and the Play Station controller used to make him ambulatory.

Posted by: Orson at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (dIske)

129 106 >>>I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

Subtle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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You can blame the fedgov, corporations, and Democrats for destroying public trust by their patent lies, evil doings like Covid, gaslighting, etc.

When one lives in a low trust society, it is very hard to figure out what is true, what is false, and who is good and who is evil.

Thus, conspiracy theories and trying to shame people for them is like trying to plug holes in the dike like the Little Dutch Boy.

It is not the gen pop to blame for these--it is those that are our 'ruling class' and their damned NewSpeak.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ctrM5)

130 If self incrimination is an issue, they did something.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (zhBpy)

131 >>I watched Joe Biden perform as president for four years, I never once thought he was "mentally incapacitated.

DU in a nutshell, and I do mean nut.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (viF8m)

132
Exactly. We could not hear the truth about The Felon's “Ear wound” due to HIPAA


You know what would be fun? Run a poll on DU asking

1) Did an assassin try to shoot Trump in PA during a campaign speech?
2) Was it the fault of Trump's rhetoric that the man shot at him?
3) Was the shooter a false flag?

You'd get 80% of them saying it never happened and the same 80% saying it was Trump's fault AND the same 80% saying it was a false flag attack

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

133 I remember some people in Alberta believing severe hailstorms were the result of cloud seeding.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (SXxzC)

I have some friends who like conspiracy theories. To keep them as friends, I just politely nod and occasionally give them a jab in the ribs to get them going.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (i24o9)

134 We're only tired of conspiracy theories because so many turn out to be true. Otherwise they would be easily ignored.

But this type of fatigue is purposefully injected into a populace. *Ironically* enough, a psy op. Encourages compliance.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (Qr870)

135 IS the term for a group of 20 or more pedos called a "junta?" Because it should be.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (17s+e)

136 132 You know what would be fun? Run a poll on DU asking

1) Did an assassin try to shoot Trump in PA during a campaign speech?
2) Was it the fault of Trump's rhetoric that the man shot at him?
3) Was the shooter a false flag?

You'd get 80% of them saying it never happened and the same 80% saying it was Trump's fault AND the same 80% saying it was a false flag attack
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

========

4) Did the shooter only shoot the teleprompter?

80%

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

137 He's GUILTY!
Of something.

Posted by: torabora at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bcigM)

138 The doctor had no choice. He may not violate a patient's privilege. The MAGTs knew this. They got what they wanted.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (ycI94)

Actually, by LAW, there are a bunch of times a Doctor is FORCED to Testify. Things like Rape and Incest they are forced BY LAW to tell the Authorities. In some States if they think a mental Patient may commit a crime, they are now forced to report it.

And in competency hearings, YES, they can be forced to testify.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (mP0Kj)

139 Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

I think there are people who just cannot accept "Sh*t happens" for an answer and feel the need to explain everything. My wife is one of those. We're out driving and see smoke in the distance. "I wonder what's on fire. I bet it's that lumber yard we went to once. Remember I saw a guy smoking and said that there'd be a fire someday? I bet that's what happened."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 09, 2025 01:37 PM (/y8xj)

140 The good doc's pic makes him look like the kids he probably bangs.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 09, 2025 01:37 PM (1GV/C)

141 These are from a 2017 PBS story:

... he can just walk downstairs and pick up the pills, part of a little-known perk open to every member of Congress, from Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell down to the newest freshman Democrat.

Nearly every day for at least two decades pharmaceutical drugs have been brought by the carload to the Capitol — an arrangement so under the radar that even pharmacy lobbyists who regularly pitch Congress on their industry aren’t aware of it.
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Mike Kim, the reserved pharmacist-turned-owner of the pharmacy, said he has gotten used to knowing the most sensitive details about some of the most famous people in Washington.

“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2025 01:37 PM (Q4IgG)

142 If I recall correctly, even Obama mocked Cadaver Joe for being an addlepated geriatric.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (wzQvI)

143 I have some friends who like conspiracy theories. To keep them as friends, I just politely nod and occasionally give them a jab in the ribs to get them going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (i24o9)

*Nods*

Same deal with my FIL. We refer to him "Grassy Knoll" behind his back.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (LxER7)

144 The left: Biden was too old and senile to run for president in 2024, obviously

Also the left: Biden was a great president from the day he was inaugurated until the day he left office in 2025

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (t0Rmr)

145 When one lives in a low trust society, it is very hard to figure out what is true, what is false, and who is good and who is evil.

Thus, conspiracy theories and trying to shame people for them is like trying to plug holes in the dike like the Little Dutch Boy.

It is not the gen pop to blame for these--it is those that are our 'ruling class' and their damned NewSpeak.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ctrM5)


Occam's Razor has become dull AF.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (ExV1e)

146 Why did his lawyers advise him to plead the Fifth rather than refuse to answer questions because of doctor-patient confidentiality?

The plot thickens. Or not. Nevertheless, as always with Democrats and their hirelings, it is lies inside of lies and deflections inside an op.

Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (aBgBM)

147 I come here instead to cuss and mock, as it is much more fun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
......

I come here to learn. Health tips, dating advice, etc.

Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (UjdFS)

148 Pro abortion "protester" acts very calm while being arrested, until a cop reaches to take his mask off. Then he spasms, trying to prevent his mask removal, and he demands his mask back in the most stereotypically gay voice imaginable.

I love it. Don't let these bastards wear masks.

http://tiny.cc/hb0p001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (lIio7)

149 This doctor will be responsible for Biden's death.
He should have given Biden a PSA test.

I don't know why any Democrat would defend him.


Pfffft. Like they care. In fact, it would make life a lot easier for them if the old bas***d would just shuffle off his mortal coil. Then they can blame him for everything from murder hornets to gamma ray bursters, with no fear of contradiction.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

150 I watched Joe Biden perform as president for four years, I never once thought he was "mentally incapacitated." When Democrats take back the House, they need to hold similar hearings to exhaustively investigate Trump's mental capacity.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
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Wut? Weren’t these same moldy old limpdicks screeching for Biden to be replaced in 2024 when it was obvious even to them he was ready for the salad bar?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (aeiyZ)

151 That's no doctor, that's a midget!

Posted by: Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (G5+As)

152 I come here to learn. Health tips, dating advice, etc.

Don't huff wasp spray right before you ask that Applebee's waitress out. It will give you really bad breath

Posted by: Health and dating tips from morons at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

153 126 NVDA, hit $4 Trillion today. Biggest in the market.
Posted by: Braenyard

Overvalued imho as people and companies are figuring out that AI is not a short term profitability booster. Something like 80-85 percent of Nvidia's earnings now come from AI chips and projected demand for them in the future.

Plus, over reliance on TSMC as a foundry means Nvidia stock is very vulnerable to supply shocks if TSMC botches a transition like Intel did in the last decade.

I expect turmoil like when Web 1.0 crashed and burned stratospheric valuations in tech companies around 2000 or so.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:40 PM (ctrM5)

154 100 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (6PCLE)

plethora of conspiracies!
Posted by: runner at July 09, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

I admit to believing some crap in the past. But weather, nah. I called someone I know who knows weather after the flooding last year in NC. Convinced it was SOMETHING. He pointed out it was not and I looked it up and he was correct.

I am sure there is cloud seeding. But when "they" (the little green people in my mind) start blaming hurricanes being manipulated... I then remember some pretty dang whoppers in the past before conspiracy theories.

It was then called "weather in the summer if you live near the Atlantic or Gulf."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:40 PM (6PCLE)

155 Ah, we have A/C again! WOOT!

Think I'll take the house polar this afternoon just to celebrate.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 09, 2025 01:40 PM (LxER7)

156 If I was Biden's doctor, I would stay away from windows, especially windows above ground level.

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 01:40 PM (RHGPo)

157 The privilege can be waived by the patient. They should just ask Joe - I'm sure he'll consent.

Wait. Joe's not competent to consent. Nevermind.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 09, 2025 01:40 PM (bNf8H)

158 Trump puts out some understandable numbers.

Fed rate too high.

Our Fed Rate is AT LEAST 3 Points too high
"Too Late" [Powell] is costing the US $360 Billion Dollars a Point,
PER YEAR, in refinancing costs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ncgY2)

159 Occam's Razor has become dull AF.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Occam's Razor never worked as well for human behavior as it did in applying the maxim to science. Atoms have no volition nor perversity unlike humans.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)

160 I'm a bit Aspy.

I don't nudge people to say stupid things that make me want to get away from them.

I can't even imagine that.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (fV+MH)

161 Ralph Wiggum got a medical degree. Good for him.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge

Head of his class at Hollywood Upstairs Medical College!

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

162 Dear Mr. O'Spades:

This "No one is above the law" that you keep quoting is more what you call a guideline, than an actual rule when it comes to us.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Democrats and the MSM at July 09, 2025 01:42 PM (0sNs1)

163 The whole global warming thing does lead people to blame ALL weather incidents on malevolent activities.

If Exxon is causing hurricanes, why is it had to believe that ACME seeding companies are causing local floods?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:42 PM (t0Rmr)

164 Wut? Weren’t these same moldy old limpdicks screeching for Biden to be replaced in 2024 when it was obvious even to them he was ready for the salad bar?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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Truth to a Democrat is simply whatever works for them now. Jesting Pilate has met his match.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)

165 Cadaver Joe shit the bed in more ways than one.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 01:42 PM (wzQvI)

166 Whole Lotta Love...

Ori@Oriettamusic

“I’m not here to be seen. I’m here to serve.” — 🎶🎸
Robert Plant quietly appeared in flood-ravaged Texas… And while others sent their thoughts and prayers, he built a shelter, not with words, but with deeds.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (TGPs7)

167 We're only tired of conspiracy theories because so many turn out to be true.

I mostly get tired of it because some people can turn absolutely anything into a rant about their personal hobbyhorse and it gets boring.

Chocolate chip ice cream? That shit got invented so people wouldn't see the cloud seeding planes flying by!

Price of gasoline went up? Fucking cloud seeders have made it so the refinery can't run!


I mean, at least be a lunatic about multiple things. Give me variety.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

168 150 Wut? Weren’t these same moldy old limpdicks screeching for Biden to be replaced in 2024 when it was obvious even to them he was ready for the salad bar?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (aeiyZ)

=======

Partisanship makes you stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

169 Then he spasms, trying to prevent his mask removal, and he demands his mask back in the most stereotypically gay voice imaginable.
Posted by: bonhomme

(Swoons) That is some STRONG Bulwark energy that man is emitting. I thought I experienced it working with Jeb! in 2016, but THIS gets me all hot and bothered...

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Tim Miller at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ycI94)

170 The Dr took the fifth to avoid admitting to criminal conspiracy. Too bad his med license is in Delaware as if it was in a red state you could have an investigation to determine if he should keep his med license. Stuff would be revealed in such an investigation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (JtH6i)

171 Wut? Weren’t these same moldy old limpdicks screeching for Biden to be replaced in 2024 when it was obvious even to them he was ready for the salad bar?

This came up several times. The left/FNM mostly ignored it, but the closest that came to answering was something like, "Of course he's too old and senile to run for President. But acting as President? Well he's got great advisers making all the actual decisions"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)

172 Actually, by LAW, there are a bunch of times a Doctor is FORCED to Testify. Things like Rape and Incest they are forced BY LAW to tell the Authorities. In some States if they think a mental Patient may commit a crime, they are now forced to report it.

And in competency hearings, YES, they can be forced to testify.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (mP0Kj)


But this isn't any of those things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ExV1e)

173 Did he play When the Levee Breaks?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (zhBpy)

174 Occam's Razor never worked as well for human behavior as it did in applying the maxim to science. Atoms have no volition nor perversity unlike humans.
Posted by: whig

I was thinking about this just the other day. I was trying to apply Occam's razor to the Epstein case, and decided that it just couldn't be done. Human behavior is just too variable.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

175 It'll be too bad when this doc shoots himself in the back twice and once in the head.

Tragic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (d8x+f)

176 >>> 167
==
I mean, at least be a lunatic about multiple things. Give me variety.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

That sounds like something a person who puts carrots in his chili would say.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ULPxl)

177 4) Did the shooter only shoot the teleprompter?

80%
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM


To be fair, he did not shoot the deputy.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

178 "Whole Lotta Love...

Ori@Oriettamusic

“I’m not here to be seen. I’m here to serve.” — 🎶🎸
Robert Plant quietly appeared in flood-ravaged Texas… And while others sent their thoughts and prayers, he built a shelter, not with words, but with deeds.
Posted by: Mister Ghos"


Holee shit. Really?

Much fucking new respect for Robert Plant.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (fV+MH)

179 O'Connor shares a lawyer with.....Fauci.

Top, honorable men.

Posted by: Cheri at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (oiNtH)

180 177 4) Did the shooter only shoot the teleprompter?

80%
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM

To be fair, he did not shoot the deputy.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

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5) Was that not Trump on the podium but a deputy dressed up like Trump and the shooter actually shot the deputy?

80%

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

181 Bannon and Navarro STUPIDLY decided not to plead the fifth, and decided instead to skip the subpoena. That's why they went to jail.

They should sue their lawyers for malpractice.

Posted by: Eric at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (a2F+C)

182 On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr. O'Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients," the statement read.
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Crock of shit. Medical records can be released through a court order to any party the court determines. There is no confidentiality as far as subpoena powers are concerned. This is no different.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 01:46 PM (0KDA8)

183 To be fair, he did not shoot the deputy.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 09, 2025 01:45 PM (0sNs1)


Shut up Wesley

Posted by: Riker at July 09, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

184 That sounds like something a person who puts carrots in his chili would say.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM


* GASP *

Carrots in chill??? Get a rope!

Posted by: All right-thinking Morons, especially Texans at July 09, 2025 01:46 PM (0sNs1)

185 I come here to learn. Health tips, dating advice, etc.
Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (UjdFS)

What part of "slap a hot iron to it" do you need repeated?

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:47 PM (Qr870)

186 I come here to learn. Health tips, dating advice, etc.
Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (UjdFS)


Fun fact... the best advice for both health and dating is slap hot iron to it and then walk it off. Some folks will add something about rubbing dirt but that's just an affectation of people trying to pretend they're rich enough to have dirt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

187 > Same deal with my FIL. We refer to him "Grassy Knoll" behind his back.

Ugh. My FIL has gone off the deep end on so many stupid conspiracy theories. He's 100% convinced chemtrails are real. He religiously reads Q dispatches. He knows I don't believe it's real, and he recently sent me "proof."

His proof: DJT & Melania stepped out on the WH balcony at 1716 hours EDT. At 1717 hours, the Star Spangled Banner commenced, along with the B2 and F35 flyover. DJT's speech began at 1721 hours. The Anons and myself called it...things would begin at 1717 hours. QQ! Many other Comms were in his speech."

What a load of crap. Someone looked at the official, published schedule and made some guesses about when the event would actually start, throwing in some 17s. I've no idea what the significance of 17 should be.

Even so, they artificially attached the "beginning" to the Star Spangled Banner. Why then? Why not when Trump and Melania stepped onto the balcony? Because that's not when they predicted things would start, of course. So stupid.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 01:47 PM (lIio7)

188 Did Robert Plant build a bridge?

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:48 PM (Oy/m2)

189 Did Robert Plant build a bridge?

Did Robert Plant a tree?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:48 PM (t0Rmr)

190 I wish froggy face was hidden above. I find it disturbing, like that ugly creep who murdered the students in Idaho.

NY Post says Dr. Frog Face was pals with Biden's shady brother.

THIS gave me the creeps. Note the first comment. I suppose it could be due to the steak house, but my mind went elsewhere and now I have to bleach it.

https://tinyurl.com/2dyzjkjf

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:48 PM (6PCLE)

191 Push the pain wayyyyy deep down inside.

That's the best advice we can give you.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 01:48 PM (fV+MH)

192 The stature challenged doc probably couldn't find Joe's prostate.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (ri7hX)

193 Meteorologist Chris Martz, featured in JJ's morning post, had a very good and early explanation for the flooding - the remains of tropical storm Barry got stuck in a low pressure trough across central Texas, and it was cut off from the Jet Stream that ordinarily would have moved it along. So it just stuck in place and dropped all of its moisture in one spot. It's rare, but not unheard of, and the area is very rocky with very little soil, so whenever there is a heavy rain it all runs off instantly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (uWKK8)

194 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 09, 2025 01:39 PM (aeiy

“Ready for the salad bar”? I get that you think he had some form of dementia and I don’t disagree but what does that have to do with the bar. People who are elderly are the only ones who use a salad bar? You should probably use some sort of analogy that refers to specials for older people out eating.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (2GCMq)

195 I wish I was above the law.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 99%- mental state clawing up from 10% at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (jvJvP)

196 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)

I feel like 'Mount the woman, son' should be in there somewhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (d8x+f)

197 >>>I am sure there is cloud seeding. But when "they" (the little green people in my mind) start blaming hurricanes being manipulated... I then remember some pretty dang whoppers in the past before conspiracy theories.

It was then called "weather in the summer if you live near the Atlantic or Gulf."
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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There are successful cloud seeding companies. How successful they are at making rain is a guess. They keep the stats.
However, the government, DARPA and others, have been trying to manipulate the weather for years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (ncgY2)

198
Trump puts out some understandable numbers.
Fed rate too high.
Our Fed Rate is AT LEAST 3 Points too high


Just as I was finally making some money on my savings.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (63Dwl)

199 IS the term for a group of 20 or more pedos called a "junta?" Because it should be.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 09, 2025 01:36 PM (17s+e)

A Congress.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (i24o9)

200 I'm embarrassed that this guy calls himself a doctor.
--- Dr. Brackett
Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Oy/m2)

What can I do for you, Doctor Brackett, to help ease your distress?

Posted by: Nurse Dixie McCall at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (q2NNn)

201 One more likely reason he was advised to take the 5th: He is reported to have invested money in one or more of the Biden Crime Family's corporations or hedge funds or the like.

I also recall reading that he was extremely close to Jill and Joe; they were said to consider him as another son. I believe medical ethics require doctors to not treat or prescribe for immediate family members. Not sure if there is a prohibition on treating and prescribing for very close friends. Left to the doctor's judgement in such situations?

Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (aBgBM)

202 Crock of shit. Medical records can be released through a court order to any party the court determines. There is no confidentiality as far as subpoena powers are concerned. This is no different.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy

====
And those records may not be total alignment with you doctor tells you.
Those records are produced specifically with use in court in mind.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (sHvKw)

203 Didn't Dubai had flooding caused by cloud seeding a few years ago?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

204 blaming hurricanes being manipulated

The idea that humans could manipulate something as massive and powerful as a hurricane is akin to the idea that humans could cause the planet to change temperature as opposed to the giant ball of fire in the sky.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)

205 have some friends who like conspiracy theories. To keep them as friends, I just politely nod and occasionally give them a jab in the ribs to get them going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

This. I get entertained by everybody, the crazier the better. I've met all my responsibilities, am well enough set to get by, and intend to just quietly chuckle to my self until my time comes. Water off a ducks back.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (n4GiU)

206 what they can do is grant him immunity for his testimony, then he no longer can use the 5th as a shield.

It's tough, though, giving this sonofabitch immunity.
Posted by: ace

Congress can give him transactional immunity instead of absolute. Course, you risk not being able to develop a court proof indictment like what happened with Ollie North and John Poindexter.

Plus, the fun Scotus case of McGrain v. Daughterty where the Senate or House Sgt. at Arms can 'arrest' the witness and hold them until they testify. Sort of the corollary to civil contempt of court. This case came about as some of the fallout from the Teapot Dome scandal.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

207 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (OnhBr)

208 I have an OT question or tiny rant. Is it me or are some people stuck in conspiracy theories? A blog I regularly visit is convinced the flooding...of a known flood plain and the sorrow that has resulted...in Texas was from cloud seeding and weather manipulation.

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I blame Bill Gates.

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (nH+RN)

209 204 blaming hurricanes being manipulated

The idea that humans could manipulate something as massive and powerful as a hurricane is akin to the idea that humans could cause the planet to change temperature as opposed to the giant ball of fire in the sky.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)

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I remember when people were talking about dropping a nuke in the middle of a hurricane to affect it.

It wouldn't. At all. The hurricane is way too big.

Weather is big. Not even our SUVs can affect it very much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

210 Que the Bud commercial

Real Men of Genius!!!
Congrats to you
Oh spewer of convoluted gibberish..

Rep James Clyburn: New Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause People Not to Work, Are Like Jim Crow

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (uEWUd)

211 Didn't Dubai had flooding caused by cloud seeding a few years ago?
Posted by: 18-1

Yes, I believe so.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

212 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

I predicted, incorrectly obviously, they'd kill Joe with COVID before the '24 campaign heated up.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (t0Rmr)

213 Atoms have no volition nor perversity unlike humans.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)


Atoms may not but quarks can be strange.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (ExV1e)

214 167 I mostly get tired of it because some people can turn absolutely anything into a rant about their personal hobbyhorse and it gets boring.

Chocolate chip ice cream? That shit got invented so people wouldn't see the cloud seeding planes flying by!

Price of gasoline went up? Fucking cloud seeders have made it so the refinery can't run!

I mean, at least be a lunatic about multiple things. Give me variety.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

That reminds me that I used to know a guy who blamed EVERYTHING on Mormons, and could turn ANY conversation into a rant about how much he hated Mormons.

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:52 PM (UnA8+)

215 212 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

I predicted, incorrectly obviously, they'd kill Joe with COVID before the '24 campaign heated up.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (t0Rmr)

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I predicted he'd live until 2035!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

216 The USAF tried a hurricane control program at one point. They didn't get any measurable results but they did get to spend a ton of money

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

217 188 Did Robert Plant build a bridge?
Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2025 01:48 PM (Oy/m2)

With Big Logs and there is no turning back on the road.
Pictures at 11.

Posted by: Reforger at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (SJnNf)

218 216 The USAF tried a hurricane control program at one point. They didn't get any measurable results but they did get to spend a ton of money
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

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Depends on what you mean by measurable results.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

219 The stature challenged doc probably couldn't find Joe's prostate.
Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 01:49 PM (ri7hX)

Could not disagree more heavily

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (Qr870)

220 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM


Who knows?

Posted by: Antonin Gregory Scalia at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (0sNs1)

221 Huh...

Malik Obama@ObamaMalik

.@Grok Release the Epstein Files

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (TGPs7)

222 I think the proliferation of conspiracy theories is probably due more to the splintering and lack of trust in shared culture than anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (d8x+f)

223 Depends on what you mean by measurable results.

My memory is there were early reports of success that then could not be replicated. Is there something I'm missing?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

224 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM (OnhBr)

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

Suffocation -- after it eventually filled with his shit -- subsequent to turning off the power to his cryogenic freezer chamber.

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (nH+RN)

225 I'm President of Carson Enterprises here at the Shady Rest. We had been making a good living in the cropdusting business with Steve Elliot and his plane, but we really struck paydirt when we expanded to cloud seeding. Constantly in demand, from Pixley to Crabwell Corners and over this way to Hooterville. We have soaked the entire Valley!

Posted by: Uncle Joe, Movin' Kinda Slow at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (G5+As)

226 He looks mental.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (PMtkd)

227
NVDA, hit $4 Trillion today. Biggest in the market.

IT IS BALLOON!

Posted by: Chief Wild Eagle at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (63Dwl)

228 223 Depends on what you mean by measurable results.

My memory is there were early reports of success that then could not be replicated. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

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The administrator's upgraded houses could be considered a measurable result of an aimless government funded program.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

229 C'mon. We all know who REALLY controls the weather...

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

230 "I think the proliferation of conspiracy theories is probably due more to the splintering and lack of trust in shared culture than anything.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone "


Well...yeah.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (fV+MH)

231 Joe is the kind of Evil that sticks around long before it's time to go.

He's going to make Jill pay.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (ri7hX)

232 I blame Bill Gates.
Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM


This.

Posted by: Ed Lin and Microsoft Bob at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

233 That sounds like something a person who puts carrots in his chili would say.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ULPxl)


Madam, I shall have a strong look for you at the TXMoMe - it's the tenth, you know - for impugning my honor in such a fashion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (ExV1e)

234 Jake Tapper hardest hit

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (FxH7T)

235 >>>It's rare, but not unheard of, and the area is very rocky with very little soil, so whenever there is a heavy rain it all runs off instantly.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Seen and not saved, a log of the Guadalupe flooding.
At a glance, once every ten years with a couple of twenty's in the mix. The data started in the 19th century.

However this was on of the worst. Mystic had been there for 30 years. The owner died trying to get people out.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:54 PM (ncgY2)

236 That reminds me that I used to know a guy who blamed EVERYTHING on Mormons, and could turn ANY conversation into a rant about how much he hated Mormons.

Posted by: XTC at July 09, 2025 01:52 PM (UnA8+)

Wait until he finds out about the Jews!





/s - relax anti-anti-semites.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 09, 2025 01:55 PM (i24o9)

237 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM

Who knows?

Posted by: Antonin Gregory Scalia at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (0sNs1)


Not via wetworks though. That means uh...something else.

Posted by: John Podesta at July 09, 2025 01:55 PM (t0Rmr)

238 "The Anons and myself called it...things would begin at 1717 hours."

Obviously a secret reference to CA Civil Code sec. 1717.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 09, 2025 01:55 PM (KAi1n)

239 >>>Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot

>OD on fentanyl? Are we talking about Hunter?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 09, 2025 01:55 PM (wzQvI)

240 I may be the stupid one in thinking that if an area floods every 25yrs or 500yrs it is a flood plain. And that not every single bad thing that happens is a conspiracy.

Suppose I could join reddit, where I simply skim to laugh, and ask AITAH, which is the favorite stuff I read.

Either I am the AH or I have suddenly sprouted new brain cells and am smarter than people. Or I have common sense as well as being a former supermodel.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 01:18 PM (6PCLE)

The cloud seeding is a bit silly. But it is true that most development in the last 100 years or so tends to exacerbate flooding. Wide areas are paved so runoff is instant, swamps are not allowed to flood to form a buffer 'cache' for water to slowly drain or pool. But little is done to find a replacement for the natural system. My neighborhood growing up had a stream that they turned into a narrow gorge as they put parks on either side due to development. One thunderstorm moved along the course of the stream and filled the gorge to within a foot of the top and our house was a little below the crown. The flood went over the top of the road and formed a dam and flooded a schoolyard.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (8avO+)

241 I guess he didn't want to go into the list of goofballs he was feeding Joe?
Posted by: wth at July 09, 2025 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

This might be a big part of his refusal to answer questions.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (g8Ew8)

242 Is Cramer saying to buy NVidia now or sell? Because I need to go do the opposite.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (t0Rmr)

243 ace weren't Bannon/Navarro cited for their refusal to appear at all?

The doc apparently appeared, at least for the closed-door part of the process, the deposition, right?

Invocation of doctor/patient confidentiality would cover a lot, but not, as you point out, any public statements.

So the hook for contempt of Congress here would be what exactly? If he appeared in the open session, took the 5th and cited doctor/patient for some things, he'd be in the clear? Of course if he couldn't dodge inquiry about his public statements, that would be the point, right?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (1m82a)

244 And those records may not be total alignment with you doctor tells you.
Those records are produced specifically with use in court in mind.
=====

It’s dependent on how the order/request is written. They can get the actual records if they request them as recorded during the course of care. If they request an abstract, then someone inside the organization reviews the records and writes a summary - that’s when things can be “edited.”

However, an organization can refuse to prepare an abstract and just send the actual records.

I did this for 25 years. My lazy ass boss got tired of writing abstracts and consulted with our attorneys who advised her we could just send the records. Abstracts are usually requested because the requested doesn’t want to pour over voluminous pages or they don’t want to pay a clinician to review the same.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (0KDA8)

245 I think the proliferation of conspiracy theories is probably due more to the splintering and lack of trust in shared culture than anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 09, 2025 01:53 PM (d8x+f)

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Yep, as I've been saying since The Deep State and MDM-MSM, and GloboHomo (BIRM thrice) first went after Trump:

We now live in a ZERO-TRUST ENVIRONMENT.

Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (nH+RN)

246 I was thinking about this just the other day. I was trying to apply Occam's razor to the Epstein case, and decided that it just couldn't be done. Human behavior is just too variable.
Posted by: Bulg
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If you get a large enough number of humans, you can produce some sort of probability rules that apply to masses but it is a ecological fallacy to then apply that with any certainty to the behavior of specific individuals.

Level of analysis problem and why a lot of 'rationalism' and 'rationalist' thought should always be regarded as suspect when applied to human behavior.

Social science is less about certainty and more about track odds for some event or behavior.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (ctrM5)

247 115 I watched Joe Biden perform as president for four years, I never once thought he was "mentally incapacitated."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2025 01:33 PM (ycI94)

FIFY

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (6ydKt)

248 NVDA, hit $4 Trillion today. Biggest in the market.

IT IS BALLOON!
Posted by: Chief Wild Eagle
----------------

Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon....balloooon

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (ncgY2)

249 >>There are successful cloud seeding companies. How successful they are at making rain is a guess. They keep the stats.


Wyoming has been using cloud seeding for decades. Pretty sure they have published their results, as they are the source of all of Western Nebraska's irrigation water.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (Bi+MU)

250 I just noticed that there is a link on the Absent Friends entry for Jim SND. It's a very well-written blog entry from someone who knew Jim well. Has yesterday's date on it. I see a few AOS nics in the comments already.

Nice touch having that linked here.

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (5jU2p)

251 Water off a ducks back.

Use a high enough pressure hose and that water don't just run off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (ExV1e)

252 Ugh. My FIL has gone off the deep end on so many stupid conspiracy theories. He's 100% convinced chemtrails are real.

------

DeSantis has made it illegal to release chemicals from planes for weather modification or geoengineering.

Of course they're putting shit in the air.

I think you forgot about the first rule of conspiracies. Most of them are true.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (PMtkd)

253 When one lives in a low trust society"

Ain't diversity wonderful?

Posted by: man at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (tubbA)

254
Wait until he finds out about the Jews!

_________

Who all take orders from the Pope!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (HZi96)

255 Tucker Carlson Goes OFF On ‘Sleazy’ Sports Gambling Giants DraftKings and FanDuel: ‘Those Are the Villains’

... we recently had a priest under investigation for theft to cover his "Candy Crush" addiction of $41,000

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)

256 That face just screams "patsy".

Posted by: creeper at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (zFwIe)

257 I blame Bill Gates.

This is reasonable, regardless of the topic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (ExV1e)

258 207 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 09, 2025 01:51 PM

All it would have taken is a banana peel left on the steps of Air Force One.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (WsJuq)

259 The really galling thing is that this Biden crime family look like the biggest bunch of bumbling mooks imaginable, and yet they keep getting away with the most heinous nonsense. So what does that make the people they keep flouting?

Something not particularly good, that's what.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM (Ft5W9)

260 Can we just cut to core about the Biden administration: Was there anybody in the administration who didn't spend their entire time lying about what they were doing? Maybe the janitorial staff. Maybe.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM (NXz8h)

261 -----------

Yep, as I've been saying since The Deep State and MDM-MSM, and GloboHomo (BIRM thrice) first went after Trump:

We now live in a ZERO-TRUST ENVIRONMENT.
Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day'
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A trusting society is a solid society.
A society without trust will fail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM (ncgY2)

262 I'm a little confused about some of the comments here. Which conspiracies aren't true? I think "conspiracy" theory believers have a pretty good track record.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM (PMtkd)

263 Rain dance tonight, weather permitting.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

264 He sure doesn't have that wild-eyed, True Believer look of the average Communist loon, does he?

Posted by: Sam Adams at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (X+xvk)

265 I tried and failed to find a photo of Dr. Toad's wife. I wanted to see if she was equally hideous to look at and/or shorter than him. Because I am mean.

He probably never heard of a PSA at his osteopathy doctor school.

I do note he has a chest full of medals. I don't care what he did, I don't understand the chests full of medals when I compare them to President Eisenhower and my Marine father's medals (he was a Sgt in WWII).

Do they now get medals for latrine duty? Good behavior? Seriously, why does he have so many medals? I may be wrong, but it seems excessive for the short man.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (6PCLE)

266 So the hook for contempt of Congress here would be what exactly? If he appeared in the open session, took the 5th and cited doctor/patient for some things, he'd be in the clear? Of course if he couldn't dodge inquiry about his public statements, that would be the point, right?
Posted by: rhomboid

With granted immunity by Congress, whether transactional or absolute, he can be compelled to testify or be held in contempt--civil or criminal . I could be wrong but I also think that doctor patient privilege might not apply to Congress as an investigatory matter.

That privilege is created by law, not the Constitution, and thus has limits prescribed by laws which in this case would be written by Congress itself.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

267 have some friends who like conspiracy theories. To keep them as friends, I just politely nod and occasionally give them a jab in the ribs to get them going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

This. I get entertained by everybody, the crazier the better. I've met all my responsibilities, am well enough set to get by, and intend to just quietly chuckle to my self until my time comes. Water off a ducks back.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 01:50 PM (n4GiU)

I used to do that with liberals or leftists...pretending to be even more leftist than they were.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (8avO+)

268 I was thinking about this just the other day. I was trying to apply Occam's razor to the Epstein case, and decided that it just couldn't be done. Human behavior is just too variable.

Sex is a powerful motivator for human behavior, and people you have kompromat on are easier to control. People don't generally want to give you kompromat on them though, and in our degraded culture you have to go very low to get it - would anyone much care if our elites were having sex with willing adults?

So then the question becomes is it more likely someone could run an operation like Epstein's independently for decades, or that they would need the protection of a government.

And is it more likely a no one with no money like Epstein could get this ball rolling on his own...or with the aid of a government with substantial resources?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (t0Rmr)

269 Not via wetworks though. That means uh...something else.
Posted by: John Podesta at July 09, 2025 01:55 PM (t0Rmr)

Wetworks?

Posted by: Cytherea at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (q2NNn)

270 Occam's Razor never worked as well for human behavior as it did in applying the maxim to science. Atoms have no volition nor perversity unlike humans.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)

I was thinking of this in relation to the 10 Antifa Warriors arrested recently, their actions make no sense at all, but they had reinforced each other and talked themselves into the belief that they were Heroic Freedom Fighters trying to Liberate Innocent People from Fascist Oppression. That view of the world is complete insanity, but they had worked themselves into a joint psychosis where they all believed it.
Ordinary logical rules do not work at all when dealing with insanity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (uWKK8)

271
~bat-bat, bat-bat-BAT~

Posted by: Jasmine Crocketts' Eye Lashes at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (5hfjS)

272 what they can do is grant him immunity for his testimony, then he no longer can use the 5th as a shield.

It's tough, though, giving this sonofabitch immunity.
Posted by: ace

Agree, but it in the big picture of this whole shit-fest, this smarmy sonofabitch's testimony will shed far more important light on the lies and lengths that administration was willing to go to.

Posted by: Cheri at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (oiNtH)

273 On the Rockford Files you had to take the Fifth before you answered any questions.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (zhBpy)

274 All it would have taken is a banana peel left on the steps of Air Force One.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (WsJuq)

Mythbusters tested the slippery quality of banana peels but found that the lubrication needed to inseminate cattle was far slipperier. That was such a fun show.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (k9OZB)

275 Why did his lawyers advise him to plead the Fifth rather than refuse to answer questions because of doctor-patient confidentiality?

The plot thickens. Or not. Nevertheless, as always with Democrats and their hirelings, it is lies inside of lies and deflections inside an op.
Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 01:38 PM (aBgBM)

Well, if you are going to invoke the 5th you have to do it from the start or you can lose the chance to start doing so in the middle.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)

276 Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.

The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 02:02 PM (RHGPo)

277 If you get a large enough number of humans, you can produce some sort of probability rules that apply to masses but it is a ecological fallacy to then apply that with any certainty to the behavior of specific individuals.

Level of analysis problem and why a lot of 'rationalism' and 'rationalist' thought should always be regarded as suspect when applied to human behavior.

Social science is less about certainty and more about track odds for some event or behavior.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (ctrM5)


Did somebody just read Foundation?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:02 PM (ExV1e)

278 Mythbusters tested the slippery quality of banana peels but found that the lubrication needed to inseminate cattle was far slipperier. That was such a fun show.

So they would have killed Biden by having those two congressional floor homos doing it in Airforce One and not cleaning it up first?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:02 PM (t0Rmr)

279 -----------
Mike Kim, the reserved pharmacist-turned-owner of the pharmacy, said he has gotten used to knowing the most sensitive details about some of the most famous people in Washington.

“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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No comment, it speaks for itself.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:02 PM (ncgY2)

280 Diabetes Barbie you can saw off her toes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (zhBpy)

281 265 I tried and failed to find a photo of Dr. Toad's wife. I wanted to see if she was equally hideous to look at and/or shorter than him. Because I am mean.

He probably never heard of a PSA at his osteopathy doctor school.

I do note he has a chest full of medals. I don't care what he did, I don't understand the chests full of medals when I compare them to President Eisenhower and my Marine father's medals (he was a Sgt in WWII).

Do they now get medals for latrine duty? Good behavior? Seriously, why does he have so many medals? I may be wrong, but it seems excessive for the short man.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (6PCLE)

He was a combat medico in the 'Stan I believe.

Posted by: Gref at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (aBgBM)

282 ... we recently had a priest under investigation for theft to cover his "Candy Crush" addiction of $41,000

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)

That's how it always starts.

Candy Crush is a gateway app for gambling addiction.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (6ydKt)

283 I mostly get tired of it because some people can turn absolutely anything into a rant about their personal hobbyhorse and it gets boring.

Chocolate chip ice cream? That shit got invented so people wouldn't see the cloud seeding planes flying by!

Price of gasoline went up? Fucking cloud seeders have made it so the refinery can't run!

I mean, at least be a lunatic about multiple things. Give me variety.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

I have identified the problem. Stop listening to people or caring what they think.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (Qr870)

284 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?

Clotee shotee

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (HTa/G)

285
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


Diabetes I wouldn't be so worried about - we have rules for how to replace people that die in office. Alzheimer would be a much bigger concern

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (t0Rmr)

286 With granted immunity by Congress, whether transactional or absolute, he can be compelled to testify or be held in contempt--civil or criminal . I could be wrong but I also think that doctor patient privilege might not apply to Congress as an investigatory matter.

That privilege is created by law, not the Constitution, and thus has limits prescribed by laws which in this case would be written by Congress itself.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

Doctor Patient doesn't apply here since they want to ask about his public reports, not private doctor things. Or so is the claim.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)

287 At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Chuck Grassely's Viagra and Jerrold Nadlers Cialis !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (NtVYv)

288 >>I'm a little confused about some of the comments here. Which conspiracies aren't true? I think "conspiracy" theory believers have a pretty good track record.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (viF8m)

289 283 I have identified the problem. Stop listening to people or caring what they think.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (Qr870)

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New phone.

Who dis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

290 "Barbie is launching its first doll with Type 1 diabetes, Mattel announces.

The doll will sport a glucose monitor and insulin pump.
Posted by: SMOD"

The new Ken doll has AIDS and high heels.

Posted by: fd at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (vFG9F)

291 I watched a girl slip on a Banana Peel and eat shit at a Grateful Dead Show in Vegas (95). She was dancing down the stairs from the Loge Seats to the Floor, and a dude threw a banana peel over his shoulder...it landed right in front of her and she went ass over tea kettle down the last 10 or so stairs.

I laughed my ass off. It was like a cartoon.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Bi+MU)

292 Yep, as I've been saying since The Deep State and MDM-MSM, and GloboHomo (BIRM thrice) first went after Trump:

We now live in a ZERO-TRUST ENVIRONMENT.
Posted by: ShainS -- Four Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day'
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A trusting society is a solid society.
A society without trust will fail.

Posted by: Braenyard
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In God we trust, all others pay cash!

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

293 Candy Crush is a gateway app for gambling addiction.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (6ydKt)

My husband once let slip that he spent $100 on some iPhone filthy casual like that and I nearly killed him. What a waste of money.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (k9OZB)

294 I saw my first tv commercial today for a veterinary drug.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (0KDA8)

295 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (QLHQ2)

296 whig thanks for the additional info.

It appears there remain a few potential hooks for a contempt maneuver.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (1m82a)

297 Horse Paste?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (zhBpy)

298 The cloud seeding is a bit silly. But it is true that most development in the last 100 years or so tends to exacerbate flooding. Wide areas are paved so runoff is instant, swamps are not allowed to flood to form a buffer 'cache' for water to slowly drain or pool. But little is done to find a replacement for the natural system. My neighborhood growing up had a stream that they turned into a narrow gorge as they put parks on either side due to development. One thunderstorm moved along the course of the stream and filled the gorge to within a foot of the top and our house was a little below the crown. The flood went over the top of the road and formed a dam and flooded a schoolyard.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 01:56 PM (8avO+)

Similar flooding in the area of Camp Mystic in 1987, so I read. It happens. Which is why one does not build a house in a flood plain (our house rules). Huge dumps of water, while rare, open it up again. As we saw in NC last fall. That I thought was super weird until I read it happens after hurricanes. Rare, thankfully.

Back to the topic...one would THINK the wee doctor could answer if a PSA was done yearly for the demented President. Plead the 5th.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (6PCLE)

299 294 I saw my first tv commercial today for a veterinary drug.
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Horse paste?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (Dv3i1)

300 The USAF tried a hurricane control program at one point. They didn't get any measurable results but they did get to spend a ton of money

That is pretty much the measure of success for a government program.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (/y8xj)

301 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (jtoyl)

302 We aim to please.

You aim too, please.

Posted by: Dive Bar Mens Room at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (q2NNn)

303 Dr. O is to Biden as
Dr. Nick was to Elvis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (JtH6i)

304 262 I'm a little confused about some of the comments here. Which conspiracies aren't true? I think "conspiracy" theory believers have a pretty good track record.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 01:59 PM

I think they're talking about how cloud seeding didn't cause the flooding in Texas. I mentioned cloud seeding yesterday. I wasn't aware my AO has been doing it since the 80s.
I always thought the chem trail people were nuts but I didn't know we really were cloud seeding and I don't know how they seed the clouds.
I found a blurb on my county website and they call it weather enhancement.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (AZf41)

305 [T]hey had reinforced each other and talked themselves into the belief that they were Heroic Freedom Fighters trying to Liberate Innocent People from Fascist Oppression...Ordinary logical rules do not work at all when dealing with insanity. Posted by: Tom Servo

You going to love trying puzzle out why these terrorists suddenly start conducting bombing and arson campaigns. Party like its 1968 again.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (NXz8h)

306 It's rare, but not unheard of, and the area is very rocky with very little soil, so whenever there is a heavy rain it all runs off instantly.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Hill Country is flat rock limestone, some granite, with hills of rock.
Occasionally there are cracks in the rock and vegetation grows.
Life is persistent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (ncgY2)

307 FL ban on dispersing chemicals in the air was specifically adopted to stop idiotic "climate change" based interventions.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (1m82a)

308 Remember how thoroughly they covered Reagan's intestinal polyps in 80s?

Nancy was behind that. She didn't want any accusations being lobbed at the White House that they were covering up details of the President's health.

My, how times have changed.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

309 293 Candy Crush is a gateway app for gambling addiction.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 09, 2025 02:03 PM (6ydKt)

My husband once let slip that he spent $100 on some iPhone filthy casual like that and I nearly killed him. What a waste of money.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 09, 2025 02:05 PM (k9OZB)

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Freemium games suck, and I do not understand the appeal.

Like, their mechanics are garbage.

I'd rather spend $10 on a 10 year old game that I can play through than either dealing with ad supported terrible mobile games or shelling out dollars at a time over weeks and months just to make it work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

310 Ordinary logical rules do not work at all when dealing with insanity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:01 PM (uWKK


And political insanity is even more nutso.

Assassination as a tool to move politics is almost impossible to predict.

It's mostly chaos, yet these retards think they have all of the answers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:07 PM (uNc6Q)

311 4 I saw my first tv commercial today for a veterinary drug.
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Horse paste?
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lol some drug for RA in dogs.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 02:07 PM (0KDA8)

312 By Leftists rhetoric that means their guilty of hiding information. But being Leftists they are protecting themselves from illegal investigations

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2025 02:07 PM (QLHQ2)

313 I'm beginning to think they are insane

@ProjectLincoln 21h
One day #AlligatorAuschwitz will be filled with the ones who built it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (mlg/3)

314 Wonder how they would have kill Biden if he hadn't step down?
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Kindness.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Qr870)

315 I used to confuse people when they were discussing the death penalty.

I told them I was opposed to the government allowing the death penalty.

I thought they should be given a chance to kill themselves. And make it like it was a good idea at the time.

Posted by: pawn at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (ri7hX)

316 > we recently had a priest under investigation for theft to cover his "Candy Crush" addiction of $41,000

WOW! Addiction comes in all sorts of forms. I guess it's better than hookers and blow, but if you're stealing, that's awful.

I've played a few phone games, but they're all designed to be a complete grind if you don't pay to win. It's really disgusting.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (lIio7)

317 310 And political insanity is even more nutso.

Assassination as a tool to move politics is almost impossible to predict.

It's mostly chaos, yet these retards think they have all of the answers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:07 PM (uNc6Q)

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I just watched a movie about communist terrorists in Italy.

It was like Z, but with Valeria Galino putting lipstick on her nipples at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

318 >> It's rare, but not unheard of, and the area is very rocky with very little soil, so whenever there is a heavy rain it all runs off instantly.


Caliche is a thing, too.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Bi+MU)

319 Diabetes Barbi will see the Jardiens commercial, over, and over, and over ..

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (JtH6i)

320 You going to love trying puzzle out why these terrorists suddenly start conducting bombing and arson campaigns. Party like its 1968 again.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (NXz8h)

Someone gave them the dark tactical uniforms and weapons. It will be interesting to see if that person covered his contacts well enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (uWKK8)

321 The idea that humans could manipulate something as massive and powerful as a hurricane is akin to the idea that humans could cause the planet to change temperature as opposed to the giant ball of fire in the sky.

In the 60s DARPA seeded a hurricane and it abruptly went 90 degrees off course and hit an American city. Correlation is not causation, but it did make them back off of that type of research, at least officially.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

322 288 >>I'm a little confused about some of the comments here. Which conspiracies aren't true? I think "conspiracy" theory believers have a pretty good track record.

Me too.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (viF8m)

Some, yes. I agree. Some are a bit "out there" beating the same drum. My eyeballs have rolled out of their sockets this week.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:09 PM (6PCLE)

323 Didn't almost precisely the same thing happen to Houston a few years ago? Remains of, in that case as I recall, a hurricane system "stalled" over the area and just dumped massive amounts of water. It's not common but it does happen. And as Tom Servo and others have pointed out, the area affected this time has very little topsoil, it's mostly a limestone formation that comes close to the surface. So, very little absorption of heavy rain = instant massive runoff and flooding, guaranteed.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 09, 2025 02:09 PM (1m82a)

324 187 What a load of crap. Someone looked at the official, published schedule and made some guesses about when the event would actually start, throwing in some 17s. I've no idea what the significance of 17 should be.

the 17s were there to distract you from the much more important 19s

Posted by: calypso louis at July 09, 2025 02:09 PM (v3pYe)

325 It is rather bad timing that they seeded the clouds in the area where the flooding happened.

But that area has had catastrophic floods before. It's just not a good area for a camp, even though flooding occurs every 60 years or so.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (PMtkd)

326 Caliche is a thing, too.
Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Bi+MU)


That's a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

327 Doctor Patient doesn't apply here since they want to ask about his public reports, not private doctor things. Or so is the claim.
Posted by: Oldcat
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As a matter of law, I don't think that doctor-client privilege even applies to congressional investigations. It certainly does not as far as public reports.

Privilege is a creature of statutory law (and common law which does not officially exist after the Erie doctrine for federal courts). It is not constitutional in nature like the 5th is. FWIW, the congressional power to investigate is held to be an inherent power of legislative bodies dating back to the fights between Parliament and the King. So Congress has a constitutional power to investigate for wrongdoing in other branches, for lawmaking purposes, and for policy setting.

The Trump Jan 6 subpoenas cases involving Pelosi's Congress reemphasized Congressional power to investigate and override statutory privacy even in the case of tax returns.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

328 Valeria Galino putting lipstick on her nipples at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)


I'll pretend to be a communist for her!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (uNc6Q)

329 Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (viF8m)

I bet that you would know reflexively who Jimmy Qualls is. Do I win?

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (Qr870)

330 Assassination as a tool to move politics is almost impossible to predict.

That Japanese guy stabbing a famous leftist pol seemed to stop the left in Japan for years.

Conversely killing Lincoln brought people to power that wanted to, and did, go way beyond Lincoln's plans for the south.

So yes, it is hard to predict what the outcome of a successful political assassination will be...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:11 PM (t0Rmr)

331 > I'm a little confused about some of the comments here. Which conspiracies aren't true?

Flat earth is false. Joos didn't blow up the twin towers. Bigfoot was a man in a costume. We really did land on the moon. Contrails aren't mind control chemicals. Skinwalker ranch is fake. Mormons don't have sex on the altars of the temple. The Holocaust happened.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:11 PM (lIio7)

332 313 I'm beginning to think they are insane

@ProjectLincoln 21h
One day #AlligatorAuschwitz will be filled with the ones who built it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (mlg/3)

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6am in Alligator Alcatraz:

"So, we have waivers that say you can go home now by waiving all rights to any claims to be here. You can be on a plane by the afternoon. Or, you can sit here for another day and eat the shitty food."

"We choose to eat the shitty food."

"Alright. See you at 6am tomorrow. I'll have more waivers."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

333 lol some drug for RA in dogs.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 09, 2025 02:07 PM (0KDA
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We had an elderly pooch which benefited greatly from a drug which treated joint inflammation. She went from having trouble moving from point a to point b to being able to get around quite well. Granted, she had to have regular blood tests to make sure something didn't go wrong with her kidneys but, she was old enough the trade off was worth it. However, we lost her to a stroke long before kidney failure was an issue. She did well,though as she was pure bred Golden who lived until she was 15 or so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:11 PM (tT6L1)

334 328 Valeria Galino putting lipstick on her nipples at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

I'll pretend to be a communist for her!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:10 PM (uNc6Q)

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She's a pretty lady.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

335 318 >> It's rare, but not unheard of, and the area is very rocky with very little soil, so whenever there is a heavy rain it all runs off instantly.

Caliche is a thing, too.
Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Bi+MU)

When I was growing up in the Phoenix area, for some reason I wanted to dig a hole, and I got my dad's pickaxe out and tried to dig one in this bare dirt part of the yard. I remember that after about 30 minutes of work, I had finally beaten a hole 12" deep in it - that's when I gave up. Would have needed a jackhammer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8)

336 The best MythBusters episode was when they showed the Lunar landings were real.

I got a lot of respect for for that.

Posted by: eleven at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (fV+MH)

337 I'd rather spend $10 on a 10 year old game that I can play through than either dealing with ad supported terrible mobile games or shelling out dollars at a time over weeks and months just to make it work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)


Do you have a Nintendo 64 or GameCube? If so, check out the first 2 Paper Mario games. Even the 3rd one for Wii was good, albeit a bit darker themed. The ones after that were not as good. Might be fun for you and your kids. My boys and I played through them both several times when they were youngsters.

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (5jU2p)

338 All in all, the area that flooded seems like a horrible place to have a camp. Little topsoil, little vegetation, and a floodplain to boot? Yuck.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

339 Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:04 PM (viF8m)

Hillary Clinton killed Jerry Garcia.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uNc6Q)

340 337 Do you have a Nintendo 64 or GameCube? If so, check out the first 2 Paper Mario games. Even the 3rd one for Wii was good, albeit a bit darker themed. The ones after that were not as good. Might be fun for you and your kids. My boys and I played through them both several times when they were youngsters.
Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (5jU2p)

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My Steam Deck has...ways.

I'll find the...roms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

341 296 whig thanks for the additional info.

It appears there remain a few potential hooks for a contempt maneuver.
Posted by: rhomboid
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It is even easier to compel production of all communications between Biden junta officials and this doctor. No way to invoke the 5th regarding third party communications.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

342 >>I bet that you would know reflexively who Jimmy Qualls is. Do I win?

Sorry, no idea.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (viF8m)

343 >>Posted by: Tom Servo at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK


Yep. The Sonoran Desert is giant pan of the stuff.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Bi+MU)

344 Even if Biden's doc is forced to testify, he can still use the 'I don't recall' strategy. Every dim that's ever called to testify develops a sudden case of amnesia. And nothing is ever done about it.
It's their go to defense.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Lo97M)

345 328 Valeria Galino putting lipstick on her nipples at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)


Off label use.

Posted by: Revlon at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (q2NNn)

346
Didn't almost precisely the same thing happen to Houston a few years ago? Remains of, in that case as I recall, a hurricane system "stalled" over the area and just dumped massive amounts of water.

__________

Harvey. Got stalled between two high-pressure ridges and didn't move for days. We got 30+ inches of rain and the water came to within 10 feet of the house.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (HZi96)

347 We had an elderly pooch which benefited greatly from a drug which treated joint inflammation. She went from having trouble moving from point a to point b to being able to get around quite well. Granted, she had to have regular blood tests to make sure something didn't go wrong with her kidneys but, she was old enough the trade off was worth it. However, we lost her to a stroke long before kidney failure was an issue. She did well,though as she was pure bred Golden who lived until she was 15 or so.
Posted by: blake
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Heh. I am in about the same shape.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

348 I just noticed that there is a link on the Absent Friends entry for Jim SND. It's a very well-written blog entry from someone who knew Jim well. Has yesterday's date on it. I see a few AOS nics in the comments already.

Nice touch having that linked here.
Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 01:57 PM (5jU2p)

I agree, that's why I posted a link yesterday when I saw it. Never met JSND either, but did have a couple comment interactions with him. Very knowledgeable man. I don't know about moron posters, but I think it's a different JQ, Doof. I almost asked once.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (0eaVi)

349 Hillary Clinton killed Jerry Garcia.
=====

I killed the Cherry Garcia

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (0KDA8)

350 >>Hillary Clinton killed Jerry Garcia


That's what Love will make you do.

Posted by: garrett at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Bi+MU)

351 I saw my first tv commercial today for a veterinary drug.

--

Let me guess. They first showed dogs that looked sad and lethargic. Then they were beaming with happy smiles and dancing with each other on the beach.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (qBdHI)

352 Sorry, no idea.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (viF8m)

Damn!

He broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game with one out in the ninth.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Qr870)

353 Nood. Germany.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

354 >>Hillary Clinton killed Jerry Garcia.

Why must you taunt me on a holy day?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (viF8m)

355 I bet that you would know reflexively who Jimmy Qualls is.

Do I win?

Posted by: ...

"Tim 'N' Eric Awesome Show Good Job" from Adult Swim?

Posted by: Sam Adams at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (X+xvk)

356 Heh. I am in about the same shape.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)
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Yeah, nothing like being at an age where the eventual side effects of a drug probably won't manifest before other more serious health issues show up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

357 Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:11 PM (lIio7)

SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Conspiracy Theorist at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uNc6Q)

358 344 Even if Biden's doc is forced to testify, he can still use the 'I don't recall' strategy. Every dim that's ever called to testify develops a sudden case of amnesia. And nothing is ever done about it.
It's their go to defense.
Posted by: Florida Peasant
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Not really a problem with skilled interrogators. The problem is that most of what Congress does in 'investigations' is the awful failure theater for headlines instead of product.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (ctrM5)

359 @ProjectLincoln 21h
One day #AlligatorAuschwitz will be filled with the ones who built it.


There's a joke of questionable taste in there that I can't put the closer on. So I'll just hand it off to cleverer minds to finish.

Alligator Auschwitz: Our Bite Macht ....?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (/y8xj)

360 >>Damn!

>>He broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game with one out in the ninth.

You're right, I probably should have known that.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (viF8m)

361 My Steam Deck has...ways.

I'll find the...roms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 09, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)


Luigi's Mansion might be fun for them too. As are the Zelda games.

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (5jU2p)

362 NOOD Gropey German Redheads

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2025 02:17 PM (t0Rmr)

363 Failure theater that will go no where. The republicans don't have the balls to do anything except posture for the cameras, and they do that poorly too.

Posted by: TC at July 09, 2025 02:17 PM (cHOHf)

364 You're right, I probably should have known that.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 09, 2025 02:16 PM (viF8m)

Biden says Come on man 🙂

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Qr870)

365 Use a high enough pressure hose and that water don't just run off.
Posted by: I used to have a different


True. I remain wary, but entertained.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (n4GiU)

366 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at July 09, 2025 02:18 PM (jtoyl)

367 I agree, that's why I posted a link yesterday when I saw it. Never met JSND either, but did have a couple comment interactions with him. Very knowledgeable man. I don't know about moron posters, but I think it's a different JQ, Doof. I almost asked once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (0eaVi)


Great find. Hope many here will read it.

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2025 02:19 PM (5jU2p)

368 In the 60s DARPA seeded a hurricane and it abruptly went 90 degrees off course and hit an American city. Correlation is not causation, but it did make them back off of that type of research, at least officially.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

So, they changed the direction of the upper current winds? Hurricanes rely on the upper current steering winds to move. Which city? Which hurricane?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (5xuJ/)

369 I saw my first tv commercial today for a veterinary drug.

--

Let me guess. They first showed dogs that looked sad and lethargic. Then they were beaming with happy smiles and dancing with each other on the beach.
Posted by: Lady in Black

They have them for cats now too - arthritic pain.

Posted by: Cheri at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (oiNtH)

370 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

AAG Harmeet Dhillon announces DOJ is now suing California for breech of Title IX in allowing men to invade women’s sports.

This puts over $44 billion at risk that California gets from the US Department of Education.

https://tinyurl.com/2fs8d8r7

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2025 02:21 PM (NpAcC)

371 Someone gave them the dark tactical uniforms and weapons. It will be interesting to see if that person covered his contacts well enough.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The weapons, if they still have S/Ns, are potentially traceable. As for the other items, if they used a credit/debit card to buy them that is an easy A. These people don't strike me as masterminds. Unlike the 1990s eco-terrorists which used individual "direct action" tactics the SOBs are forming quasi-military squads. This is a very Antifa approach and implies there is, at a minimum, a flat ad-hoc infrastructure behind all this. After the Summer of Love there were a number of new reports that Antifa type peeps were actively acquiring firearms and training to use them. To some degree we are now seeing the fruit of all that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 09, 2025 02:25 PM (NXz8h)

372 Remember that big balloon that chased McGoohan around on "The Prisoner?" Here's a shot from show development that shows the idea that led up to the balloon:
https://tinyurl.com/34w7shck

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (TwZXH)

373 WOW! Addiction comes in all sorts of forms. I guess it's better than hookers and blow, but if you're stealing, that's awful.

I've played a few phone games, but they're all designed to be a complete grind if you don't pay to win. It's really disgusting.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (lIio7)
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I believe a lot of those phone games are run by online gambling consortiums. They tap into the same addiction behavior to get people to play these "free" games but which lets them pay money to "win."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2025 02:30 PM (7fElN)

374 Phone game that rots your mind in a good way: lichess.org

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at July 09, 2025 02:33 PM (TwZXH)

375 Similar flooding in the area of Camp Mystic in 1987, so I read. It happens. Which is why one does not build a house in a flood plain (our house rules). Huge dumps of water, while rare, open it up again. As we saw in NC last fall. That I thought was super weird until I read it happens after hurricanes. Rare, thankfully.

Back to the topic...one would THINK the wee doctor could answer if a PSA was done yearly for the demented President. Plead the 5th.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 09, 2025 02:06 PM (6PCLE)

Probably 95 percent of humans live on a flood plain of some description. The others live in avalanche zones.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

376 In the 60s DARPA seeded a hurricane and it abruptly went 90 degrees off course and hit an American city. Correlation is not causation, but it did make them back off of that type of research, at least officially.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 09, 2025 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

So, they changed the direction of the upper current winds? Hurricanes rely on the upper current steering winds to move. Which city? Which hurricane?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 09, 2025 02:20 PM (5xuJ/)

My guess would be that the change plain air to rain droplets all at once imbalanced the storm and changed the interaction between the storm and the air. Kind of like if you were pushing a box with 2 hands and magically all the weight in it went to the left side. Its gonna lurch off to one side until things rebalance.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (8avO+)

377 Who wants to go before Congress and admit they pumped that old man so full of stimulants that his ears bled? Or were his ears bleeding from the earpieces?

Posted by: Advo at July 09, 2025 03:12 PM (jO4mz)

378 .
Juanita: https://x.com/atensnut/status/1942965934949359937
.
Marooned: https://x.com/Marooned_Maroon/status/1942992445807251865

Posted by: Marooned at July 09, 2025 03:13 PM (kt8QE)

379 Didn't almost precisely the same thing happen to Houston a few years ago? Remains of, in that case as I recall, a hurricane system "stalled" over the area and just dumped massive amounts of water.

__________

Harvey. Got stalled between two high-pressure ridges and didn't move for days. We got 30+ inches of rain and the water came to within 10 feet of the house.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (HZi96)

Happened once when I lived in Chicago, a thunderstorm got stalled by the lake and just rained in one spot until it dissipated. Think it was 17 inches of rain. Since Chicago was so flat, any depression was flooded. Made it to work the next morning but had to divert around any underpasses since they were about 10 foot deep. At the industrial suite I was consulting at there were ornamental ponds and the last building where I worked had the road flooded to it, but the grass verge was out of the water, so I parked in another lot. I was the only one there besides the owner, so eventually got sent home.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

380 I mean would you leave a young boy alone with O'Connor? I know I would not. Your Homo Pedodar should be sounding a klaxon.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Actually, Tampon Tim is the one who really sets off that alarm for me. Though the doctor does give me the creeps.

Posted by: Advo at July 09, 2025 03:18 PM (jO4mz)

381 Heh. I am in about the same shape.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)
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Yeah, nothing like being at an age where the eventual side effects of a drug probably won't manifest before other more serious health issues show up.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 09, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

There was an old mayor of some town during the asbestos panic that was told he'd have to pay x zillion dollars to clear some asbestos in their school or else everyone would die. He just went in and did it himself since he was in his 80s and possible cancer in 20 years didn't scare him.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:21 PM (8avO+)

382 All in all, the area that flooded seems like a horrible place to have a camp. Little topsoil, little vegetation, and a floodplain to boot? Yuck.

Posted by: Bulg at July 09, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

Don't know about the actual area of the floods but at a nearby animal sanctuary that had their road going in washed out and had some streamers come in and get a temporary patch road in there are wooded strips where you have streams or ponds. At the sanctuary they found someone unknown had capped one of the culverts to trap water on their road so it went over the top and washed all but a footpath off.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:26 PM (8avO+)

383 Tucker Carlson Goes OFF On ‘Sleazy’ Sports Gambling Giants DraftKings and FanDuel: ‘Those Are the Villains’

... we recently had a priest under investigation for theft to cover his "Candy Crush" addiction of $41,000
Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)

When gambling was legalized on 'riverboats' in Chicago a bit after a man came home to find his wife had run up 70000 in debts...and this was in the 80s.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 09, 2025 03:28 PM (8avO+)

384 I could see Biden having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a doctor who would say that Biden was mentally competent. I know there are a lot of left-wing doctors, but some of them still must have some integrity.

It would be ironic if this bottom-of-the-barrel doctor was the reason Biden didn't get diagnosed earlier with cancer.

Posted by: Dave at July 09, 2025 04:26 PM (sbsMc)

385 Dr. Bearclaw is a retired colonel. He can be recalled to active duty and should be, then court-martialed for making false statements and anything else under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that applies. He can be court martialed for making false statements even after retirement. This would also mean a military jury...not a corrupt, DC jury if he went to trial.

Posted by: Dantes at July 09, 2025 04:32 PM (fVKtH)

386 The miserable little weasel has something to hide from the American People

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 09, 2025 06:15 PM (wGqjj)

387 I hope they can search his home computer. Based on appearance and close relationship with Biden, expect some kiddie hair sniffing vids.

Posted by: Beaver at July 09, 2025 08:03 PM (KVlfh)

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