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The Morning Report — 1/14/26

Good morning kids. It's all well and good that President Trump has named a few Muslim Brotherhood branches overseas as terrorist organizations. Which should've been done ages ago but the existential threat to whatever shred of America as founded that still exists is right here.

When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.

It's a very short walk from childish pranks to disturbing the peace and then ultimately terrorism. The decomposing zombie who attempted to ram ICE agents in Minneapolis didn't just make a snap decision that led to her demise. She was propagandized to the point of brainwashing. No right thinking rationale person would have never put them in the position to be directly confronting law enforcement officers let alone attempt to kill them. They allowed themselves to be absorbed into a death cult to become cannon fodder. Cut off the money and you cut off the lifeblood of the cancer that is killing us from within.

Meanwhile, the citizens' uprising in Iran which has been going on for days has led to ever increasing violence and repression on the part of the Mullahs, which is in direct proportion I assume to the growing fear that their hold on power might at long last be at an end. Beyond crucial moral rhetorical and diplomatic support for the Iranian people, President Trump is upping the ante.

As the death toll from Iran’s crackdown on anti-regime protests reaches staggering levels — with families searching through body bags, over 10,000 arrested, and executions underway — President Donald Trump canceled all talks with Iranian officials, declared “help is on its way,” warned that regime killers “will pay a big price,” and urged protesters to “take over your institutions” against the brutal Islamic Republic theocracy, while the U.S. urged Americans to leave the country.

Is it bluster or will the President back up the tough rhetoric with concrete action, meaning military strikes on regime targets? There are pluses and minuses to be sure, as the erudite Michael Goodwin notes in his analysis of the situation...

American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Truth be told, Donald Trump has never been a fan of speaking softly, but his Tuesday comments on the upheavals in Iran still managed to be close enough for now.. . .He noted that “hawkish U.S. policies toward Iran have historically empowered hardliners” and that military action “risks changing the subject from Iranians’ justified grievances against the regime to its international opponents,” namely Israel and the US.
“Trying to appropriate domestic opposition inside Iran risks undermining it,” he adds, and argues that “a pragmatic, hands-off approach should guide U.S. policy in the days ahead.”
Additionally, with Washington increasingly focused on the midterm elections, Trump is already facing domestic controversies, such as the ICE crackdown, and, most important, tough polling numbers on his handling of the economy.
A Real Clear Politics average of surveys taken in recent weeks shows 41% of respondents approving of his economic policies and actions, with 56% disapproving. . . Against that backdrop, and with events in Venezuela still unsettled, a military entanglement in Iran would probably not be popular at home.
That’s not to say the US should turn its back on the brutal regime’s crackdown. But the political reality is that the president can’t afford to turn his attention too far or too long from Americans’ kitchen table issues.

Elsewhere, In the most electrifying news from way out of left field, Associate Justice Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson is a complete embarrassment.

As you probably could have guessed, Jackson struggled through a series of nearly incomprehensible statements about sex, gender identity, and sports classifications. It was embarrassing.
“You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth. Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that. Meaning, a distinction, meaning that, um, for, uh, cisginger [sic] girls they can play consistent with their gender identity, w- for transgender girls, they can’t.”
It’s hilarious that Jackson stumbled over the pronunciation of one of the left’s favorite made-up words, all while failing to understand the difference between real girls and boys who pretend to be girls.

SCOTUS observers have noted that it was not a shining moment for those promoting the transexual madness and that sanity might actually prevail. But of course this is the Supreme Court and the preservation of Leftism and its pomps has been its priority, Heller and Dobbs among a few other rare exceptions notwithstanding.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Lloyd Billingsley: When Somalia-born Minneapolis cop killed the woman who called 911.
When Mohammed Shot Justine

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.
Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions, Records Show.
Homan’s comments on the show followed a federal Special Response Team swarming Ross’ Minneapolis residence and removing belongings on Friday, according to the Daily Mail. After host Will Cain suggested ICE agents should sue prominent left-wing individuals for defamation, Homan said they likely would and discussed Ross’ situation. (He deserves the highest citation for valor there is! - jjs)
Tom Homan Confirms ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good ‘In Hiding’
ICE in recent days has arrested Sriudorn Phaivan, a criminal illegal with a long rap sheet, including strongarm sodomy of a boy and a girl.
Deceased Deluded stooge Renee Good Gave Her Life To Protect Child Rapists And Killers From ICE Arrest
From Iraq to Minneapolis, false moral certainties have replaced facts, turning tragedy into pretext and unrest into strategy—fake wars waged at home with real consequences.
The Left’s Fake Wars and the Addiction to False Pretexts

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
a city council staffer accused of overstaying his visa after being involved in an assault case. . . The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the man as 53-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, Fox News reported Monday.
NYC’s Zohran Mamdani ‘Outraged’ over Detention of Staffer Accused of Assault, Overstaying Visa
"It breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come."
President Trump Vows To Cut Sanctuary City Funding Starting February 1
Sadiq Daud, a Somali man, told the outlet, “They just showed up, spraying people and this is not good. Everybody is scared. They are scared for their life.” (Good, vayr ge hargit - jjs)
Tempers Flare as Hundreds of Somalis Protest ICE Operation at Minnesota Strip Mall

IRAN ON the BRINK?!
On Tuesday, President Trump took to Truth Social with one of his most forceful statements yet in support of the Iranian uprising.
Trump Tells ‘Iranian Patriots’ Help ‘Is on Its Way’: Keep Protesting, ‘Take Over Your Institutions’ — Killers Will Pay ‘Big Price’
“In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.”
Trump Calls on Iranians to ‘Take Over Your Institutions’ as Death Toll Mounts
The revolution no one can ignore.
The Future of Iran in Plain Sight: The Final Battle
A regime in deep trouble.
Khamenei, We Have a Problem
American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” . . .Ah, but what kind of help and when will the Big Stick swing into action? The lack of specifics is intentional because it allows the president to ramp up the pressure while retaining the flexibility to negotiate and unleash the military if all else fails.
Michael Goodwin: Using the military for regime change in Iran would be a gamble — don’t turn it into another Iraq

THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
For everyone in politics the only thing that matters is hanging on to power.
Behind the Protesters are the Ballot Harvesters
Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the United States did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption.
Pirates Without Borders - EXCLUSIVE: Somali Official Shows How Entrenched The ‘Fraud Pipeline’ Really Is
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Congressman Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) emphasized the urgency of the reconciliation bill during a press conference earlier today, saying, “Republicans in Congress can and must go it alone with the second reconciliation bill.”
House Republicans Pass Reconciliation Bill Banning Welfare for Illegal Aliens
‘If the American people can’t expect the judiciary to stay in its lane, then federal judges shouldn’t expect the American people to follow them.’
Judge Ho Takes A Sledgehammer To Judicial Supremacy And Its ‘Elite’ Enablers
The legislation includes significant funding for globalist deep state entities like the National Endowment for Democracy and the Helsinki Commission, along with several million dollars for infrastructure projects in Belize.
New Congressional Minibus Contains Millions in Anti-Trump Deep State Funding.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The State Department has designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO and SDGT, and its leader, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as an SDGT, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a statement.
Treasury, State Departments Designate Three Muslim Brotherhood Chapters Terrorist Organizations After Trump-Ordered Review
And Western society has criminalized discussion about it.
The Slow and Silent Islamic Transformation of the West
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Today in New York, we are witnessing a replay of 1930s Germany.
Santayana Was Right — Hitler Is Back!
Mamdani ally shuts down group for claiming "that Muslims 'hate America'"
After 2 Years of Pro-Hamas Riots, NY AG Announces Shutdown of Pro-Israel Group

* * * * *
Plenty of people disagree with infant baptism, but it is the traditional practice of the Catholic Church.
Former President Of Ireland Claims Baptism Denies Babies Their Human Rights
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Workers erupted in applause as Trump made his way through the factory. The president heard from some workers and took selfies with several of them.
Ford Workers Cheer Trump During Tour of F-150 Plant in Michigan
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday, the annual inflation rate for 2025 was 2.7 percent. Inflation for shelter rose 0.4 percent in December “and was the largest factor in the all items monthly increase,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Food prices rose 0.7 percent in December while energy prices rose 0.3 percent. Even so, the annual inflation rate for 2025 matched economists’ expectations.
2025 Inflation Was Lowest Since Last Time Trump Was President
Let the market run free. (assuming nefarious globalist/communist actors aren't gobbling up housing to destroy the American Dream - jjs)
Investors Should Not Be Barred From Buying Homes
The move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes is a step in the right direction, but it won’t fix the major housing affordability crisis we face right now.
Banning Wall Street From Buying Houses Is Great, But Trump Needs To Do More
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Potential for rolling blackouts and increased electricity rates for consumers.
AI Data Centers Overwhelm Power Grid, Sparking Supply Crisis and Rate Hikes.
In his post on Truth Social, Trump emphasized his administration’s dedication to protecting consumers from bearing the financial burden of corporate technology expansion. The president stated that his administration is actively collaborating with major American technology companies to secure commitments that safeguard the interests of American citizens, with additional announcements expected in the coming weeks. According to Trump, the companies sucking every drop of electricity possible from America’s grid must “pay their own way.”
Trump: Big Tech Must ‘Pay Their Own Way,’ Protect Consumers from Rising Energy Costs Caused by AI Data Centers
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
This policy has contributed to the lowest gas prices in years in most of the nation. Laughably, California faces prices much high than the average.
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ is Back: Federal Oil, Gas Permits Soar Under Trump

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The poll indicates a potential radicalization of the teaching profession, which is likely to influence their students.
Poll Shows Teachers’ Extreme Left-Wing Bias Is Getting Worse.
Schools’ mindfulness meditation programs come with a hidden cost — the collection of children’s data, which could potentially be misused.
How To Stop School ‘Mindfulness’ Apps From Harvesting Your Child’s Health Data

L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Comer said he’ll begin contempt of Congress proceedings next week. It potentially starts a complicated and politically messy process that Congress has rarely reached for and could result in prosecution from the Justice Department.
Clintons refuse to testify in House Epstein probe as Republicans threaten contempt proceedings
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico presents himself as a Christian who prays, quotes Jesus Christ extensively, and grounds his politics in faith. However, on several defining moral issues, he does not submit his political ideology to scripture; instead, he reinterprets or ignores scripture to genuflect to his true “god”: far-left orthodoxy.
Rising Star James Talarico’s Soothing Voice Will Lead Lambs To Slaughter
Wade faces life in prison if convicted and is currently held on a $750,000 bond. (Projection ain't just a river in Egypt - jjs)
Far-Left Prof Who Called Trump a Pedophile Charged With Child Molestation.
Weaver burst into tears when reporters asked her about her claim that ‘homeownership is racist’—and the fact that her mom owns a $1.6 million house
NYU Deletes Extremist Mamdani Housing Czar’s Information From Website As Cea Weaver Faces ‘Harassment’ Over Calls To ‘Impoverish the White Middle Class’
POLITICS
Glenn Reynolds: If the public realizes you can actually solve problems, there will be more pressure to do that — rather than just manage them endlessly. That’s unforgivable. No wonder Trump is the villain in their eyes.
Trump has cut the technocratic Gordian Knot — and elites hate it
While Democrats are planning day-one action on the amendments, they also have legislative goals — including a ‘right-to-contraception’ bill.
Virginia Democrats Move To Establish Limitless Abortion, Ban Guns, And Gerrymander Districts
The poll showed a stark contrast in party identification across generations.
Independent Voters Hit Record High As Both Parties Lose Ground: Poll
"The President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."
Trump Flips Off Auto Worker During Ford Plant Visit

MADURO TAKEN DOWN
The takedown of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, and the apparent subservience of his successor, will have far-reaching consequences in Russia, Iran, and Communist China, but also in Europe.
The Dominos Begin to Fall
Trump’s arrest of Maduro wasn’t war or nation-building—it was law enforcement abroad, striking narco-communism, curbing migration, and defending American interests without bloodshed.
Trump Arrests Maduro, and The Axis of Evil is Crumbling
A major victory for American interests.
Maduro’s Downfall
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The U.S. aims to secure strategic advantages in the Arctic, potentially altering diplomatic relations with Denmark and Greenland.
Trump’s Arctic Policy Chief Suggests Next Move on Greenland Coming in ‘Weeks or Months.’
A tiny country freaks out over a giant chunk of ice.
In Denmark, Hysteria over Greenland
Around 350 tractors rolled into Paris on Tuesday morning demanding “concrete action” from their national government against the impending Mercosur trade deal with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which is set to be signed by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen in Asunción on Saturday.
Farmers Blockade Paris with Tractors over EU Trade Deal with South America
The outcome of the appeal will determine whether Le Pen can run in the 2027 French presidential election.
Le Pen Appeals Ban on Running for Presidency.
The profile of a cruel and evil man.
How a Vindictive Erdogan Rids Himself of His Perceived Enemies

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Meanwhile, two high-profile MAID cases have recently drawn controversy and media attention in Canada. One of the cases features a physician who previously bragged about euthanizing 400.
HHS Warns Canada’s Assisted Suicide Organ Donation Pipeline Crosses Ethical Red Lines
Why is it only a ‘crisis’ when a spending program expires on Republicans’ watch?
Democrats Who Let Covid-Era Child Tax Credits Expire Now Cry ‘Crisis’ Over Lapsing Obamacare Giveaway

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The first time in the ISS’s 25‑year history that a mission is being ended early because of a medical problem.
NASA Orders First-Ever ISS Medical Evacuation as Crew‑11 Returns Early to Earth
Considering the numbers of stars in the galaxy, and the recent data that shows most have planets, it seems strange that there have been so few candidate detections, and even these are questionable. Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
No alien civilizations? After analyzing two decades of data SETI@Home produces 100 signals “worth a second look” (Almost none here on Earth- jjs)
If Isaacman was so committed to transparency and truly believes NASA’s investigation was based on “the best engineering judgment available”, why doesn’t he release that report, unredacted? Has he even looked at it himself?
Isaacman makes it official: Artemis-2 will fly manned around the Moon, despite Orion’s heat shield concerns
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"I'm optimistic that it will be in our favor, in the favor of common sense, and in the favor of the overwhelming majority of the American people."
Women Rally At Supreme Court Steps As Justices Weigh Landmark Cases To Protect Female Athletes
How are courts supposed to be able to ‘determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means?’ asked Justice Alito.
Justice Alito’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question Leaves Left-Wing Attorney Flailing
"How can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?" Alito asked Hartnett.
Justice Alito Obliterates Trans Ideology Effortlessly in Oral Arguments
"It must mean something"
ACLU Can’t Define ‘Sex’ in Transgender Supreme Court Case
I don’t think anyone would confuse Justice Ketanji Brown(-25) Jackson with a sharp legal mind. She often comes across as the poster child for what’s wrong with DEI hires. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox, a case that will likely decide whether laws barring biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams are constitutional. Given that Jackson famously admitted during her confirmation hearings that she didn’t know what a woman was — because, as she put it, she’s “not a biologist” — you knew she was bound to be a real spectacle. And true to form, she did not disappoint.
As Expected, Justice Jackson Humiliated Herself During Today’s Oral Arguments

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Affordability, family formation, and national identity rise or fall together—and rejecting globalism in favor of economic nationalism is essential to preserving the American future.
James Fishback and Redefining American Populism
Today’s condemnation of Israel—and America—comes from an intellectual lineage that sees the West as a permanent oppressor and any movement opposed to it as righteous.
The Third-Worldist Logic
Christian Toto: Former 'Man Show' star avoids siren song of 'clapter' at all costs
Adam Carolla Walks Fine Line with ICE Cracks
“Cheers” star and Pixar voice actor John Ratzenberger announced his support for Republican California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco, calling out Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s leadership.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Cheers’ Star And Iconic Pixar Voice Backs GOP California Gov Candidate, Takes Shot At Newsom
HITHER & YON
“Born in Windham, New York in 1957, Adams started drawing comics at age 6, citing the ‘Peanuts’ comics as an early inspiration.”
R.I.P. – Dilbert Creator and Early Trump Supporter Scott Adams Passes Away at 68

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

2 5.5 hours until I leave here and fly west.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:26 AM (NR6c1)

3 The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution."

So insurrection is cool again.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:27 AM (NR6c1)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:27 AM (NwnyJ)

5 "A Real Clear Politics average of surveys taken in recent weeks shows 41% of respondents approving of his economic policies and actions, with 56% disapproving."

Did they only poll retards?

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

6 If you tell people to rise up and you have their back, you had better have their back.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 07:28 AM (XV/Pl)

7 How does our asses taste now House Oversight Committee?

Yummy I bet!

Posted by: Bill and Hillary Clinton, sex and murder pests at January 14, 2026 07:29 AM (n+1Zi)

8 I think I prefer the short news cycle. I'm already bored with ALL of the Minnisomalia revelations and stunts.

The Left are going to do whatever the Left does.

The Uniparty is going to fund raise and otherwise ignore anything of consequence and let society collapse on its own

The Administration is going to talk big and do little

The rest of us are just going to bitch and whine and then go back to whatever we were previously doing.

I think I'll get some work done once the covfefe turns up the inner motivation dial.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:30 AM (9s47C)

9 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday.

Javid Shah Javid Shah, Javid Shah

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

10 Phaivan, outstayed his welcome by nearly eight years. He’s a felon with a long rap sheet, including strongarm sodomy of a boy, strongarm sodomy of a girl, another aggravated sex offense, nine counts of larceny, four counts of fraud, vehicle theft, and two counts of drug possession.

You said strongarm sodomy twice.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

11 Diversity is our scourge.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

12 I'm working, so I will just bring this over from the last thread:

Some woman in Minneapolis tried to wedge ice agents against another vehicle using her car yesterday. They arrested her without any shooting, but WTF?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:49 AM (tAPWz)

Exactly what I thought would happen. Since Good got blown away, the subsequent national MFM freakout and the riots in MN have now made ICE gun-shy. Which is exactly what the left counted on, and now they are going to triple down.

Expect no more dead protestors. Expect a number of dead ICE agents.

Do not expect Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2026 07:31 AM (ufSfZ)

13 >Is it bluster or will the President back up the tough rhetoric with concrete action, meaning military strikes on regime targets?
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well, bluster is part of the man's DNA, so it's a constant factor. But it is cruel to keep promising the Iranian people help, and not coming thru. The Iranian revolution has arrived at the mass murder of the people phase. I don't understand the delay- maybe it's target selection, maybe it's domestic politics and polling, fear of press backlash, weak knees, whatever.

IMO
I don't know what else to say on this.
Most will skip over this comment anyway.

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 07:32 AM (ZxPkt)

14 Where is Trump holding the Somali Pirate clinic for boat seizures today?

Posted by: coliviti at January 14, 2026 07:32 AM (LcRVs)

15 Thanks, JJ! you rock!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2026 07:32 AM (Cjt/F)

16 The Bee claims the rest of SCOTUS brought in child groomer "Miss Rachel" to explain cases to KBJ. I believe this may be so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:33 AM (SI46C)

17 Open Source Intel @Osint613
2h

BREAKING 🔴

Reuters Report: Some U.S. military personnel were instructed to depart the U.S. military’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Wednesday evening.
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48m

BREAKING 🔴

The Israel Defense missile systems are on high alert, with air defenses repositioned for any possible threat from Iran.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 07:33 AM (roqsI)

18 Diversity is Divisive.

Posted by: davidt at January 14, 2026 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

19 Morning.

Just an observation: President Trump lives rent free in the heads of the left. I was outside working on a project and a neighbor stopped by to say hi. Leftist. Almost the first words out of his mouth were, "The Trump tariffs" blah blah blah.

I don't ever recall starting a conversation, during the Biden years, with, "And Joe blah blah blah."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at January 14, 2026 07:34 AM (UJMvS)

20 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

21 "The President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."

That's My President, but stuff like that gives my Mom the vapors.
Sorry Mom, it's a brash new world.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

22 hooray!!!!

Posted by: MAxIE at January 14, 2026 07:35 AM (3Dvl3)

23
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 14, 2026 07:36 AM (tljrc)

24 That's My President, but stuff like that gives my Mom the vapors.
Sorry Mom, it's a brash new world.
Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
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When my late mother would get the vapors over such things, I'd point out to her her generation was taught manners and wouldn't cause a scene like that during a Presidential visit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at January 14, 2026 07:37 AM (UJMvS)

25 Core inflation, ex food and energy, in the 4th quarter was two tenths of one percent on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, with several major categories actually negative. So said Larry Kudlow last night, as he marveled at the success of Trump anti-inflation policies. I don't know if I can recall deflation ever happening in the last few decades, even over a very short (quarterly) period.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:38 AM (UxJD/)

26 Happy hump day all. Praying for the fall of the mullahs and the safety of our folks in harm's way.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 14, 2026 07:38 AM (h/O4U)

27 From the last thread:

122 NR Pax, I cherish my memories of growing up in the Napa Valley with a large family. Now, I am totally happy in Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had

We were in that general area (Travis AFB) along with Cupertino and Redondo Beach. I finally left the state back in 98 and moved to MD. My folks retired in CA and I'm trying to see them on a regular basis starting this year.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:39 AM (NR6c1)

28 Bluster? Trump is not like you.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 14, 2026 07:39 AM (cS1cw)

29 No American Thinker I will not sign up.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

30 Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
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Duh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:40 AM (UxJD/)

31 That's a lot of links!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (0N4FZ)

32 18 Diversity is Divisive.
Posted by: davidt at January 14, 2026 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

Divisity - Go Long on long division...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (x0n13)

33 *happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

34 Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
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Duh.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:40 AM (UxJD/)
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We're doomed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (ESVrU)

35 I believe the anti-ICE "professional protesters" come from a couple groups that get taxpayer dollars as non-profit social services. If not that source, one of the dozen or so billionaires who get into this sort of stuff.

Soros and Reid Huffman are two names that surface. But there's this guy; Neville Roy Singham, a US born billionaire who's currently in Singapore. He's aligned with the ChiComs. He's big time into anti-ICE.

So... perhaps indirectly, China is behind much of the unrest and supplying the funds to train these "professional protesters." No doubt they're being brainwashed into thinking nothing will happen to their passive resistance, other than a trip to the local police department where they'll meet up with someone from their group with the money to bail them out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

36 34 Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
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Duh.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:40 AM (UxJD/)
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We're doomed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (ESVrU)

What about the Mars Bar and Snickers?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13)

37 SCOTUS Jackson is the Dunning-Kreuger effect personified. Midwits who deludes themselves into thinking they're smart.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2026 07:44 AM (fXEAc)

38 I remember my mom saying that Eartha Kitt was rude to Lady Bird Johnson at a social gathering in which Eartha was invited.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 07:44 AM (qFwJc)

39 I'm not sure what Trump accomplishes with all the bluster and I do not see what is gained by any further delay in acting.

This is the best opportunity in almost 50 years to rid the world of a scourge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

40 “It wasn’t until this year — following the inauguration of a new President — that the Federal Judges Association suddenly found its voice, and suddenly discovered a crisis over judicial independence,” Ho wrote. “After years of silence, it’s obvious that these concerns are not sincere, but strategic. What they’re really championing is not judicial independence, but judicial supremacy. What we’re really seeing in the judiciary is not principle, but arrogance.”
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Trump has fought so many battles for us, but this crucial fight against judicial supremacy is one where he needs Roberts help, and Congress's help (especially).

Unfortunately, Roberts is absolutely horrible at his job and should resign. He should give Trump a chance to appoint a decent Chief Justice, one suited to the battle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:46 AM (PtAHv)

41 The Soros op needs to be taken down like a bad case of COVID in a NYC convalescent center for the elderly.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 07:47 AM (BSdIE)

42 So... perhaps indirectly, China is behind much of the unrest and supplying the funds to train these "professional protesters." No doubt they're being brainwashed into thinking nothing will happen to their passive resistance, other than a trip to the local police department where they'll meet up with someone from their group with the money to bail them out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)
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It's a professional, paid army of street thugs. Some of them may be everyday activists with spare time, but most of them are led by people who do this for a living. Literally a Sturmabteilung

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

43 @34

>> Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?

Well, since we have not see any signs to date and owing to the vastness of space, assume yes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

44 CJ Roberts is the kind of guy who looks in the mirror and tells himself he's good enough and smart enough and goshdarnit people like him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

45 Activist teacher who claimed Republicans are pedophiles charged with child molestation in WA

… projection is strong in this one

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (VK3KQ)

46 The move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes is a step in the right direction, but it won’t fix the major housing affordability crisis we face right now.

I've been giving this more thought. I don't think it is enforceable and it does nothing to solve housing costs.

Institutional buyers serve a role (don't know if its vital) in lowering risk and adding stability. When the next down turn in the economy happens, similar to when people were walking away from mortgages, banks aren't good landlords and want to clear that inventory from their books. That is where institutional investors can come in.

If I have two buyers for my property, one is paying cash and the other makes me wait a month to MAYBE secure financing, al other things equal, I'm going with the cash buyer. I don't want yet another Populist government ban to get in the way.

Eliminating vectors for pension, insurance and hedge funds to stabilize their portfolios and establish performing income streams increases risk and raises prices.

Go attack local governments for policies that jack housing costs. Embrace new technology (3D printing of homes), kick out 50 million illegal aliens.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (rgGn5)

47 The Ford factory worker who yelled at Trump has been suspended. I expect he will be the darling of the Media for the next few days.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

48 Thank you JJ

I couldn’t help but notice this sentence:
>> 41% of respondents approving of his economic policies and actions, with 56% disapproving…

Now, either the poll is total BS or the respondents are stupid. I mean it’s been a little over a year since the “respondents” voted convincingly for Trump with a major factor being the economy. Did they expect him to deploy a magic wand?? Have they looked at gas prices recently? People are stupid

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2026 07:51 AM (YobFY)

49 Let the market run free. (assuming nefarious globalist/communist actors aren't gobbling up housing to destroy the American Dream - jjs)
Investors Should Not Be Barred From Buying Homes

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Letting the rich buy up everything isn't a good idea.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 14, 2026 07:51 AM (Vh9CX)

50 > It's a professional, paid army of street thugs. Some of them may be everyday activists with spare time, but most of them are led by people who do this for a living. Literally a Sturmabteilung
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return
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Disrupting the United State, in any manner, shape or form is a Chinese national policy under Xi.

I get the feeling they're so far up our national ass that we're unable to effectively counter it. Or don't want to.

Either of those possibilities is disturbing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:52 AM (NwnyJ)

51 Majority of Americans — including whopping 66% of Hispanics — support US military intervention in Venezuela

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:52 AM (VK3KQ)

52 United State = United States

*sighs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:52 AM (NwnyJ)

53 @34

>> Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?

Well, since we have not see any signs to date and owing to the vastness of space, assume yes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

I’m reminded of the old witticism: I’m not yet convinced there’s an intelligent species right here!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (YobFY)

54 The Southside Family Charter School in Minneapolis is where the scissoring sisters of Saintly Good were influenced to become militant protesters against ICE and join ICE Watch.

When does Nick Sortor or Andy Ngo investigate the school? Nick Shirley?

Posted by: Inquiring Minds at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)

55 "Now, either the poll is total BS or the respondents are stupid."

Both can be true, you know.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

56 Afghan national convicted for attempted honor killing of sister taken into custody by ICE in New York

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (VK3KQ)

57 The Ford factory worker who yelled at Trump has been suspended. I expect he will be the darling of the Media for the next few days.
Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)
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Itth brave and thtunning thpeaking truth to power!
-the media

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

58 Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?

Consider the Drake Equation.

I'll save you the hassle. Chances of intelligent life anywhere else? 0.000% Physics, maths and Holy Scripture all agree here.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (rgGn5)

59 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

60 Aliens from outer space checked out this planet and decided to pass.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (0KSrI)

61 >>So... perhaps indirectly, China is behind much of the unrest and supplying the funds to train these "professional protesters."

Just like they were behind the BLM/antifa riots. Neville Singham is married to Jodie Evans, one of the co-founders of Code Pink, which is also being funded by China.

Some of the funding and organization comes through groups and people like Singham and Code Pink and some comes directly from China. If you remember during the riots the Chinese consulate in Houston was raided and a mysterious fire burned a bunch of their records.

The CCP is asshoe.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)

62 Join ICE
Now with real bullets

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (VK3KQ)

63 Silver spot at $92.36 per oz. This is the "paper" price, not the actual physical price for a physical oz of silver. The reason that the spot price is rising so fast is that the actual price for a physical oz of silver is HIGHER than the paper spot price. That is not supposed to happen in an open market, it can only happen if the paper price is being manipulated by the commodities market banks who are caught trying to short silver prices and DO NOT HAVE THE ACTUAL SILVER TO DELIVER TO COVER THEIR SHORTS. There is another, shorter word for what is occurring in the paper silver market: "FRAUD".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 14, 2026 07:55 AM (Da7Vv)

64 CJ Roberts is the kind of guy who looks in the mirror and tells himself he's good enough and smart enough and goshdarnit people like him.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

Roberts isn't an idiot and he's not incompetent. He's deep state. He's succeeded in allowing the district judges to slow Trump's work while, eventually, overturning almost everything which gets to SCOTUS because it's so unreasonable and, thereby, keeping the easily fooled believing that he's a good guy who's, maybe, in over his head.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

65 Go attack local governments for policies that jack housing costs. Embrace new technology (3D printing of homes), kick out 50 million illegal aliens.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Hm. Nope. Too simple. The solution is socialism for everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:56 AM (NR6c1)

66 "Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?"

Nonsense. There are plenty of alien species. They all speak English too.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at January 14, 2026 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

67 Neville Singham is married to Jodie Evans, one of the co-founders of Code Pink, which is also being funded by China.
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MTG's great friend

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 07:57 AM (tBdwD)

68 ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (VK3KQ)

69 Good morning Horde. Thx JJ.
KBJ is a definite embarrassment. It was nice of Gorsuch to step in and move the discussion away from the stupid, but even Sotomayor (no brain surgeon) and Kagan have to be saying "WTF?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (dN7BA)

70 > Could it actually be the case that we are the first sentient intelligence species in the Milky Way?
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Nah.

We're one of the primitive species. Galactic bacteria.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (NwnyJ)

71 I'll save you the hassle. Chances of intelligent life anywhere else? 0.000% Physics, maths and Holy Scripture all agree here.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (rgGn5)

One wonders why God made the universe so vast to only populate a tiny speck.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

72 >>>I’m reminded of the old witticism: I’m not yet convinced there’s an intelligent species right here!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

>I'm beginning to think we are the cockroaches of the Milky Way. Nuclear holocaust? No problem.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (BSdIE)

73 ACLU Lawyer Can’t Answer When Justice Alito Asks Her to “Define man or woman, boy or girl” During Questioning on Transgenders In Sports Case

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:59 AM (VK3KQ)

74 68 ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order
Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM

+++

Nobody watches TV anymore.

Posted by: Check your calendar at January 14, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1)

75 Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said she is being investigated by federal prosecutors after she urged members of the military to defy President Trump.

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:00 AM (VK3KQ)

76 Nonsense. There are plenty of alien species. They all speak English too.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at January 14, 2026 07:56 AM (vFG9F)
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Actually, the Klingons have their own language. The Vulcans too.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 14, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

77 SMOD, can't or won't because the answer would obliviate her whole argument.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2026 08:01 AM (0KSrI)

78 Go attack local governments for policies that jack housing costs. Embrace new technology (3D printing of homes), kick out 50 million illegal aliens.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Hm. Nope. Too simple. The solution is socialism for everyone!
Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:56 AM (NR6c1)

On the other hand, those portions of the country not being destroyed by tech ARE being destroyed by private equity. It might be time to put some limits on private equity or we can wait for the yoots to vote in communism because we older folks are too smart to fall for the banana in the tailpipe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

79 Now, either the poll is total BS or the respondents are stupid.

I wouldn't say "stupid", but Mimetic Theory would definitely explain these numbers.

Mimetic Theory is a significant theme of the Apostles when they exhort the Elect to set their minds on things other than the interests of the world.

The English translations make copious use of the words "desire", "heart" and "temptations". Your will follows your desires. Your desires are external in the sense that for most people the desires come from someone/something else and are malleable therefore constant vigilance is needed to make sure that the influences on your desires come from God, not the world.

So given this Truth, if the world tells you to love criminal immigrants and hate ICE, then your own desires will bend that way.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:02 AM (c3sdc)

80 Good luck getting anything close to the paper or spot price for you precious metals.

Everything is a gigantic scam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)

81 Boy Mayor Jacob Frey coming up on F&F

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 14, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

82 fd

Consider who answers polls. Those still with land lines and answer the phone when it rings. I used to be polled at least once a month. Then for a decade I was not answering those calls. Now I have no land line, and no calls at all.

Polls are not conducted on smart, knowledgeable Americans and me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

83 What's all this fuss about the Lesbianese Muslim Brotherhood?

Posted by: Emily Littila at January 14, 2026 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

84 Everything is a gigantic scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)
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Not everything

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's Boobs at January 14, 2026 08:03 AM (tBdwD)

85 I’m reminded of the old witticism: I’m not yet convinced there’s an intelligent species right here!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (YobFY)

Popular t-shirt slogan late '70s-early '80s: 'Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here.'

Posted by: Nazdar at January 14, 2026 08:03 AM (NcvvS)

86 Join ICE
Now with real bullets
Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (VK3KQ)
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"No more buwwets? Hey, laughing boy!"

BLAM!

"One buwwet weft!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 14, 2026 08:04 AM (X4XpB)

87 Stuff it, Wesley.

Posted by: Emily Littila at January 14, 2026 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

88 APMEX is charging $106.67 for silver eagles.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:05 AM (qFwJc)

89 Good luck getting anything close to the paper or spot price for you precious metals.
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Tell me you’ve never bought or sold gold or silver, without telling me you’ve never bought good or silver

Posted by: Common Tater at January 14, 2026 08:05 AM (XFvfj)

90 One bullet Vasily.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:06 AM (qFwJc)

91 Everybody knows the pawn shops pay the most for your precious metals.

Posted by: Ghetto Joe at January 14, 2026 08:06 AM (n+1Zi)

92

My mother's fromunda cheese is runnier than usual this morning.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 14, 2026 08:06 AM (wthON)

93 On the other hand, those portions of the country not being destroyed by tech ARE being destroyed by private equity.

Remove private equity and I have to work until I die. Am I supposed to just stash savings under the mattress, losing value every day due to inflation and eventually just being stolen from me by fire or theft?

No, it is invested in things like the building you work in, the factory that built your car, the liquidity that banks have to make you loans, the infrastructure for farmers to decide what to plant this year and a myriad of other things euphemistically called "private equity".

You expect me to trust the government to either steal from a worker or just print money out of thin air to cover the expenses of the last few years of my life, or do you want me to self-fund?

Government has already proven completely unreliable in this, so it is private equity that will save us all.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:08 AM (c3sdc)

94 We're doomed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You are correct, Perfessor. Mounting evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible.

Posted by: Make Plans Now at January 14, 2026 08:08 AM (oftw2)

95 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 08:09 AM (i+wP0)

96 Justice Alito’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question Leaves Left-Wing Attorney Flailing
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I'm skeptical about this case. Are we supposed to believe it revolves around a "trans-identifying male" named "Hecox"?

Really?

But I am, once again, reminded that the two best justices were - against all probability - appointed by the Bushes.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 14, 2026 08:09 AM (s0JqF)

97 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Issac Asimov wrote a book and analyzed the factors in the Drake Equation.

One thing he left out was the formation of the Moon. That is an unlikely event which may be critical for intelligent life.

But still, given the huge size of the galaxy, the long time spans, and the unlikelihood of intelligent life, he stated that in our local area we are alone. With maybe 300,000 civilizations in the galaxy at the same time. His guess.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

98 AmericanThinker: The Quest for PeakStupid

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (VK3KQ)

99 I enjoyed C.S. Lewis's "Space Trilogy."

The aliens did not suffer from "The Fall." They are still in the state of "Original Justice."

Walker Percy wrote an amusing book "Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self Help Book." In it, a space mission arrives at an habitable planet. The aliens ask them one question and refuse to let the humans land.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (qFwJc)

100 BREAKING:

Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)

101 Burn this asshole to the ground.

BREAKING NEWS
A United States Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance has been placed on administrative leave following allegations that he disclosed sensitive and classified security information.
Agent Tomas Escotto was suspended after an undercover video released by independent journalist James O’Keefe allegedly showed him revealing operational details related to the Vice President’s protective detail. According to the footage, Escotto discussed Vice President Vance’s schedule and upcoming locations during an active tour—information that, if accurate, could pose a serious security risk.
In the video, Escotto also reportedly made political statements, claiming he voted for Joe Biden and expressing opposition to Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
The situation has raised significant concerns, as the Secret Service is expected to operate as a strictly nonpartisan organization. Any disclosure of protected operational details—regardless of political views—undermines public trust and could compromise the safety of elected officials.
The Secret Service has not yet released further details on the investigation.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (QGRvm)

102 The distances between habitable planets are truly astronomical.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:11 AM (qFwJc)

103
Re SETI. It's always been a waste of time. The inverse square law vs signal to noise mean that any alien civilization would have to be beaming very strong signals right at us to be detected.

We've been broadcasting for over 100 years. What's the bubble of detection for our general isotropic signal leakage? 5, 20 light years max. Some of our more powerful beamed signals, like radar might be detectable 100 light years out or a little better.

The most powerful signals we've sent are the "planetary radar" experiments we've done, like with the old Arecibo dish. Very powerful tightly beamed radar bouncing off the planets to measure distance precisely and other things. Those might make it out to a few thousand light years, but only in the narrow beam width.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 08:11 AM (w6EFb)

104 ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order
Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 07:58 AM (VK3KQ)

If it’s set during our current epoch (ubiquitous smartphones etc) a lot of the old gags and tricks Rockford used (mini printing press in car to make fake business cards on the spot) just won’t work. A modern Rockford will have to be some kind of computer hacking genius…. Meh anyway without James Garner it’s not gonna work anyway…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2026 08:11 AM (YobFY)

105 One of the leaders of the Everything Is Epstein movement is Thomas Massie. He's been so adamant about releasing all the files that he and others have forced the DOJ to put hundreds of lawyers on the declassification process which has drained resources that could be used to go after more timely issues like Somali pirates and the massive fraud ring perpetuated by leftists in government.

He has yet to comment on Bill Clinton defying a subpoena to testify about Epstein. What a hero.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2026 08:11 AM (viF8m)

106 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

107 101 Burn this asshole to the ground.

I like the fact that O'Keefe actually gave the SS a heads-up about what he was doing and released the audio to them before going to print.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 08:12 AM (NR6c1)

108 Good luck getting anything close to the paper or spot price for you precious metals.

Now you know why I have been posting the spot price here for so long. Yes there is and has been for years, massive fraud occurring in the precious metals commodity markets by the very banks you trust with your cash.

Wait until you find out what a "bail in" is.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (Da7Vv)

109 Not in any way knowledgeable on military matters. That said, with daily changes in Iran and so many protesters on the streets how do you target the bad guys. I know you can target the Iranian gestapo by bombing their bases, hq's etc. However, if they're out on the streets murdering protesters you cannot separate them from the innocent people. As for that murderous asshole khameini he's buried so far down in a protected bunker that you may never be able to take him out if you know where he is. In that regard I believe the Israeli's are the best hope of finding him and taking him out.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (2NHgQ)

110 Actually, the Klingons have their own language. The Vulcans too.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

There's Klingons in my pants, Mommy Doktor Jill!

Posted by: President Emeritus at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (oftw2)

111 I never understand why our troll insists on calling Trump a pedophile as if he sees it as a bad thing. He and his kind are the ones who justify pedophilia as a beautiful lifestyle choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (NR6c1)

112 I can't believe Alito and Thomas, at the least, and probably Gorsuch, don't feel ridiculous if not somewhat debased having to preside over a trial and decide whether men who call themselves women should be allowed to compete in women's sports. I know I would.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (b4LBp)

113 The survey, which interviewed 13,000 respondents over the course of 2025, found that 45% of Americans are political independents. Of that 45%, 20% lean Democratic, 15% lean Republican, and the remaining 10% expressed no partisan preference.

Independents lean 100% left. I call bullshit on the numbers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

114 111 I never understand why our troll insists on calling Trump a pedophile as if he sees it as a bad thing. He and his kind are the ones who justify pedophilia as a beautiful lifestyle choice.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (NR6c1)

Alinsky Rule #4 ("Make Your Enemy live up to his own Book of Rules. You can kill them with this.")

Almost everything the left says and does traces back to Alinsky Rule #4.

Posted by: XTC at January 14, 2026 08:14 AM (iXqHn)

115 One thing he left out was the formation of the Moon. That is an unlikely event which may be critical for intelligent life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)
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He didn't fully leave it out; he made it the final fortress home of R. Daneel Olivaw

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney's Boobs at January 14, 2026 08:14 AM (xmTG8)

116 Zohran Mamdani ‘Outraged’ After NYC Council Staffer is Detained by ICE for Overstaying Visa and Alleged Assault

.. outraged, outraged … well not that outraged

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:14 AM (VK3KQ)

117 The distances between habitable planets are truly astronomical.
Posted by: no one

It's pretty big too.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:15 AM (QGRvm)

118 The aliens did not suffer from "The Fall." They are still in the state of "Original Justice."

All of creation falls under the curse though. (Romans 8:20-22)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:15 AM (U4c/V)

119 >>I never understand why our troll insists on calling Trump a pedophile as if he sees it as a bad thing. He and his kind are the ones who justify pedophilia as a beautiful lifestyle choice.

At least they are no longer pretending Soros isn't funding all of their anti-American activities anymore. Progress.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2026 08:15 AM (viF8m)

120 Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)
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America's Best Ally in the Middle East

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

121 Democrats Are Being Warned Not to Say ‘Abolish ICE’ Because it’s a Losing Political Message

It is basically ‘defund the police’ all over again, and even though they meant that one too, they know that it damaged them politically.

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:16 AM (VK3KQ)

122 It's Science Fiction. There are no aliens on Venus nor Mars.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:16 AM (qFwJc)

123 I can't believe Alito and Thomas, at the least, and probably Gorsuch, don't feel ridiculous if not somewhat debased having to preside over a trial and decide whether men who call themselves women should be allowed to compete in women's sports. I know I would.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (b4LBp)
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Agree. What a waste of judicial time. The left asserting a man is a woman is stupid enough, but anyone taking them seriously is all retarded and shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 08:16 AM (xmTG8)

124 Correction:

Extraterrestrial Civilizations, by Issac Asimov says"the number of planets in our galaxy on which a technological civilization is now in being is roughly 530,000." Went to my science shelf to check.

I aver he is optimistic.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

125 Am I supposed to just stash savings under the mattress, losing value every day due to inflation and eventually just being stolen from me by fire or theft?

Yes.

Posted by: Ravadem Patel, Money In A Mattress at January 14, 2026 08:17 AM (n+1Zi)

126 I thought Saudi Arabia was terrified of the Mullahs… or deadly enemies even if not scared.

If that is true then their denial of airspace is not a good sign as it would indicate they see little chance that the protests will successfully oust the Mullahs

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2026 08:18 AM (YobFY)

127 It's Science Fiction. There are no aliens on Venus nor Mars.
Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:16 AM (qFwJc)
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That's just what an alien posing as human would say.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 14, 2026 08:19 AM (X4XpB)

128 Kathy Hochul, Zohran Mamdani Announce Billions in New Spending on ‘Free’ Childcare Program With Associated Fraud

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:19 AM (VK3KQ)

129 Pro Tip: you may safely disregard any predictions the world "will end" as this directly contradicts hashem's Covenant with Noah

So everyone just unclench.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

130 I thought Saudi Arabia was terrified of the Mullahs… or deadly enemies even if not scared.

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blow to Islam will be tremendous if Revolution gets rid of the regime, and they cannot accept that

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (g47mK)

131 No right thinking rationale person would have never put them in the position to be directly confronting law enforcement officers let alone attempt to kill them. They allowed themselves to be absorbed into a death cult to become cannon fodder.

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Indeed, a mother who orphaned her children for a little idiotic irrational cultish virtue signalling. This old Golda Meir quote comes to mind:

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (G0b3R)

132 This is why ICE is in your cities, and if I was the director, rummaging thru your closets in sanctuary cities looking for wetbacks:
If your damn local government had done their jobs she would still be alive
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WALKS FREE After KILLING 15-Year-Old Girl in Charlotte Hit-and-Run
A 15-year-old child is dead, and the man responsible is walking free.
According to emergency calls and witness statements, 40-year-old Julio Cesar Xocop-Vicente ran a stop sign in Charlotte and hit 15-year-old Amber Paris so hard that her body was lifted into the air. He didn’t stop. He didn’t check on her. He ran away on foot — later admitting he fled because of his immigration status.
Amber suffered two broken legs, internal bleeding, and major organ injuries. She was placed into a medically induced coma and passed away weeks later.
Vicente was arrested the next day… but released on just $10,000 bail despite being a flight risk. And while Amber was still in a coma fighting for her life, one of his charges — driving without a license — was dismissed.
After Amber died, his charges should have been upgraded to manslaughter or felony death by vehicle. That never happened. No new charges.
Cont.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (QGRvm)

133 No accountability.

And this wasn’t his first run-in with the law:
• Driving without registration
• Failure to secure a child passenger
• Speeding
• DUI
• Driving without a license (multiple times)
• DWI
• Assault on a female
• Skipping court
• Violating probation

This man should have been deported after his earliest offenses.
He should have been held in custody long before this crash ever happened.
He should have been taken off the streets before he killed an innocent 15-year-old girl.
And Amber Paris should still be alive today.
A broken system protected a repeat offender — and failed a child who deserved a future.
Sarah Fields on X reported this story and has all the receipts if you want to know more.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (QGRvm)

134 Some woman in Minneapolis tried to wedge ice agents against another vehicle using her car yesterday. They arrested her without any shooting, but WTF?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I saw a very good video yesterday explaining that leftist women who never had a proper family role are displacing their motherly instincts toward illegal aliens.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (IYYcg)

135 >If that is true then their denial of airspace is not a good sign as it would indicate they see little chance that the protests will successfully oust the Mullahs
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maybe they're just being dicks about it

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 08:20 AM (ZxPkt)

136 Clintons refuse to testify in House Epstein probe as Republicans threaten contempt proceedings

Talk, talk, talk about making them testify. Why don't you yellow-bellied Rs just send someone to compel their appearance. Oh, right. Because you're yellow-bellies when it comes to acting against Ds. Your supporters on the other hand....

No alien civilizations?

No. There aren't.

As Expected, Justice Jackson Humiliated Herself During Today’s Oral Arguments

She should be told she's unfit for the job. Resign, or face impeachment. Oh, wait. The yellow-bellied Rs would never do that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (uQesX)

137 Those in the know, where, might I ask, would one sell their silver for the best price? I have 300 ounces and don't need to sell but would like to know the process to do so. Any one have experience in this?

Posted by: There's A Lot Of Knowledge Here at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (oftw2)

138 “Temporary means temporary,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Country conditions in Somalia have improved thanks to money transfers from fraud to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:22 AM (VK3KQ)

139 There's Klingons in my pants, Mommy Doktor Jill!

Posted by: President Emeritus at January 14, 2026 08:13 AM (oftw2)
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Static Klingons?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 08:22 AM (roqsI)

140 San Franpsycho

We as a species are still kicking after so many predictions of Doom. So unclenching is warranted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

141 Investors Should Not Be Barred From Buying Homes
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The trouble with these "market uber alles" arguments is that they are like the early formulas in physics, which ignored friction. It made hydrodynamics virtually worthless in the 18th and early 19th Cs, when it came to designing ships.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 14, 2026 08:22 AM (s0JqF)

142 A box of cheap 9mms (say 10) shipped to 1,000 addresses in Iran could make a big difference.
It would cost about $2 M, about the cost of 5 MRAPs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

143 Saudi is seeing hundreds of mosques being burned down, korans mixed with ashes and anti-Islam chants. they would rather see a weakened Islamic regime than a secular constitutional mononarchy. No surprises there.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (g47mK)

144 >>Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.

Narrator's voice: oh, no. (pssst, the US doesn't need to use Saudi airspace to attack Iran).

Posted by: one hour sober at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (Y1sOo)

145 Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

146 As Expected, Justice Jackson Humiliated Herself During Today’s Oral Arguments

She should be told she's unfit for the job. Resign, or face impeachment. Oh, wait. The yellow-bellied Rs would never do that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (uQesX)
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Which senators voted to seat her? Where is their accountability? Have any of them stood up to say it was an error?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

147 Issac Asimov wrote a book and analyzed the factors in the Drake Equation.

One thing he left out was the formation of the Moon. That is an unlikely event which may be critical for intelligent life.

A couple guys put out a book "The Privileged Planet" and added a bunch of more factors into the original Drake Equation as more is known about the unique properties of our place in the cosmos and how those things make life possible here.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:25 AM (9Hs2w)

148 Now would be a good time for Iranian Kurds to start taking control of their territory, and see it it works.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 08:25 AM (Mssa9)

149 "Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran."

Character will out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 14, 2026 08:25 AM (b4LBp)

150 Have a great day, everyone.

May Iran break free of the shackles.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

151 Remove private equity and I have to work until I die.

What do you believe private equity is?

Banks aren't "private equity". The stock market isn't "private equity". The commodities market isn't "private equity".

Private equity exists to make money for the investors of the private equity fund. Great, YOU get to retire rich as the money managers you chose to get you money destroyed everything they touched in order to get 0.0001% more profit this quarter.

They're going to get reined in because they're fucking over everyone (except you, apparently). You can do it now, and easily, or you can wait and go hard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

152 145 Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

When is "National Slap a Hot Iron to it Day"?

Posted by: XTC at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (iXqHn)

153 One wonders why God made the universe so vast to only populate a tiny speck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

God gave women a million plus eggs each with no way to use them all. He gave men millions of sperm, of which only one can fertilize an egg at a time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (IYYcg)

154 Which senators voted to seat her? Where is their accountability? Have any of them stood up to say it was an error?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

Of course not. But more to the point, has anybody demanded that they do?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (b4LBp)

155 She should be told she's unfit for the job. Resign, or face impeachment. Oh, wait. The yellow-bellied Rs would never do that.

There are several District Judges that wake up each day begging to be impeached and even with this low hanging fruit our feckless cowards who are far more invested in their graft and status than in preserving the Republic refuse to do anything except use it as a campaign funding issue.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:27 AM (+4Cf6)

156 Any one have experience in this?
Posted by: There's A Lot Of Knowledge Here at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (oftw2)
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I sold coins last month by calling two dealers for a quote then went to the place that offered $100 more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

157 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Thanks for that cite. Will look it up. Still a lot of unknowns in the Drake Equation.

Now gtg.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 14, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

158 Of course not. But more to the point, has anybody demanded that they do?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (b4LBp)
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I was busy that day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

159 One wonders why God made the universe so vast to only populate a tiny speck.

And that is just the temporal world that will be done away with.

There is the whole spiritual realm that we know very little about but is far more vast.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:28 AM (+4Cf6)

160 > Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.
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They're afraid Iran will inundate them with ballistic missiles. The government in Iran, to the degree there's still one, has thousands of missiles in storage.

That is still a serious military problem to deal with.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2026 08:29 AM (NwnyJ)

161 I saw a very good video yesterday explaining that leftist women who never had a proper family role are displacing their motherly instincts toward illegal aliens.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Cats will be glad to hear this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 14, 2026 08:30 AM (XvL8K)

162 Any one have experience in this?
Posted by: There's A Lot Of Knowledge Here at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (oftw2)
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I sold coins last month by calling two dealers for a quote then went to the place that offered $100 more.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

1. Reputable coin dealers
2. We buy gold & silver places
3. Pawn shops
4. APMEX

In that order.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:30 AM (QGRvm)

163 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2026 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

164 I sold coins last month by calling two dealers for a quote then went to the place that offered $100 more.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thank you.

Posted by: Poor Boy From A Poor Family at January 14, 2026 08:30 AM (oftw2)

165 Come join us tonight and we'll explain everything.
7 pm at the Elks Lodge.

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

166 People magazine (yeah, that still exists... surprised the hell out of me, too) couldn't resist slamming Scott Adams before his corpse was even cold, calling him "disgraced".

They're getting a Bud Lite-level backlash on X.

The "writer" in question, one Victoria Edel (pronouns dumb/bitch), has locked her account.

This woman (?) resembles an obese transgendered Cabbage Patch Kid. Because of course she does. She's also apparently a "furry", because of course she is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (IG3/x)

167 I saw a very good video yesterday explaining that leftist women who never had a proper family role are displacing their motherly instincts toward illegal aliens.

Would that be Hoe Math by any chance? That man's observations are absolutely brilliant.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (NR6c1)

168 159 One wonders why God made the universe so vast to only populate a tiny speck.

And that is just the temporal world that will be done away with.

There is the whole spiritual realm that we know very little about but is far more vast.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:28 AM (+4Cf6)

God does everything for His glory, UDUP. Our chief purpose is to glorify God.

Posted by: tubal at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (pDt9x)

169 I have bought and sold from/to APMEX. Best price? Maybe not. But easy.

20 years ago, I could buy and sell from dealers that are available in a big city (San Diego). I don't live anywhere near that sort of thing anymore.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (qFwJc)

170 They're going to get reined in because they're fucking over everyone (except you, apparently). You can do it now, and easily, or you can wait and go hard.

Why wait for Gen-Z to go full communism, you are already there.

Hope you like breadlines where the Somalis take everything before your turn before the communal soup bowl.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (/TiS1)

171 Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.

Narrator's voice: oh, no. (pssst, the US doesn't need to use Saudi airspace to attack Iran).
Posted by: one hour sober

Correct. Its performance art

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (FxH7T)

172 This woman (?) resembles an obese transgendered Cabbage Patch Kid. Because of course she does. She's also apparently a "furry", because of course she is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (IG3/x)
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Big tribble.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 14, 2026 08:32 AM (X4XpB)

173 The "writer" in question, one Victoria Edel (pronouns dumb/bitch), has locked her account.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Artist George Alexopoulos started working on a cartoon to mock her. It should be out today.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (NR6c1)

174 170 Why wait for Gen-Z to go full communism, you are already there.

Hope you like breadlines where the Somalis take everything before your turn before the communal soup bowl.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (/TiS1)

You heard it from him first.

Letting BlackRock own everything is the ONLY thing standing between you and Communism.

*wanking motion*

Posted by: XTC at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (iXqHn)

175 I went to the biggest jewelry store in town. They low-balled me $300 per gold ounce coin.

"No thank you."

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (qFwJc)

176 Boy Mayor is not doing well in his interview.

Kudos for showing up on Fox.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

177 When is "National Slap a Hot Iron to it Day"?
Posted by: XTC at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (iXqHn)
******
National Slap Your Coworker Day is October 23rd.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

178 God gave women a million plus eggs each with no way to use them all. He gave men millions of sperm, of which only one can fertilize an egg at a time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (IYYcg)
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I was surprised to read this (of course, I know zippo about female reproduction stats), since all the women I know in their thirties are in a panic to freeze what few eggs they have, so I asked my new friend chatgpt. It says you are right on target:

Typical numbers (approximate)

At birth: ~1–2 million immature eggs

By puberty: ~300,000–500,000 remain

Over a lifetime: only about 400–500 will ever mature and be ovulated

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 08:33 AM (ZYJ1N)

179 > 120 Saudi Arabia says it will not allow the US to use its airspace to attack Iran.
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)

That's nice.

In other news, mice vote to bell the cat.

What are they planning on doing about it if we just pat them on the head and do it anyway?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2026 08:34 AM (IG3/x)

180 Which senators voted to seat her? Where is their accountability? Have any of them stood up to say it was an error?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

No.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 14, 2026 08:34 AM (uQesX)

181 One wonders why God made the universe so vast to only populate a tiny speck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

God gave women a million plus eggs each with no way to use them all. He gave men millions of sperm, of which only one can fertilize an egg at a time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2026 08:26 AM (IYYcg)

Not only that, but look at your house. Is it only large enough for you to fit in? Is your ceiling only an inch over your head? Are your rooms only large enough for you to turn around in? A Big Guy needs lots of room.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 14, 2026 08:37 AM (uQesX)

182 > Big tribble.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 14, 2026 08:32 AM (X4XpB)

Chewbacca before going on WeightWatchers.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2026 08:37 AM (IG3/x)

183 Why wait for Gen-Z to go full communism, you are already there.

Hope you like breadlines where the Somalis take everything before your turn before the communal soup bowl.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (/TiS1)

Private equity was almost nothing until the 1980s. Were we a communist country before that?

You should watch the video on the destruction of Hooters by private equity. You should read some of the articles about private equity landlords and the state of things.

Call me what you may, a reckoning is coming. You've voted for that to be hard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

184 The Saudis may not let us use their air space but our bases their will be using radars, command and control etc. The Saudis saying this is just showing they aren't US vassals. It was probably cleared with the US before the announcement was made

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2026 08:38 AM (dN7BA)

185 CJ Roberts is the kind of guy who looks in the mirror and tells himself he's good enough and smart enough and goshdarnit people like him.
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Dred Taney Roberts.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 14, 2026 08:39 AM (Of9Lz)

186 Would that be Hoe Math by any chance? That man's observations are absolutely brilliant.
Posted by: NR Pax

No it was some video of a woman that Carl Benjamin played on the Lotus Eaters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2026 08:39 AM (IYYcg)

187 Over a lifetime: only about 400–500 will ever mature and be ovulated
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Not much of an Ovultine fan here. I'm a Bosco Man, myself.

Posted by: Milk Amplifier Rankings at January 14, 2026 08:39 AM (oftw2)

188 BTW, there is a third way to this hatred for private equity.

There is asset tokenization which digitizes and fractionalizes ownership of real-world assets via blockchain-based tokens.

That increases liquidity and faster settlement, reduces operational and regulatory overhead and anyone with internet access can invest without relying on regional stock exchanges or brokers.

Sounds great, right? Now for $20 you can also be an investor in private equity and share a slice of the business.

Oh - its pushed by WEF. And this animosity towards "private equity" is also propaganized by WEF so that you will hate it and embrace tokenization.

Rather than just accepting the desire to hate something, you should ask why I am supposed to hate this thing I'm being propagandized to hate.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 08:40 AM (nAS9C)

189 Federal prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with orchestrating a years-long theft scheme inside the U.S. House of Representatives, alleging he stole hundreds of government-issued cell phones and sold them for personal profit. The findings of this case were revealed by the Department of Justice on Monday. Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, was arrested Friday after a federal indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Authorities said the stolen devices were worth more than $150,000. According to the indictment, Southerland worked as a system administrator for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

190 I have bought and sold from/to APMEX. Best price? Maybe not. But easy.

20 years ago, I could buy and sell from dealers that are available in a big city (San Diego). I don't live anywhere near that sort of thing anymore.
Posted by: no one

apmex.com/ sell-gold-sell-silver-overview

(remove the space)

Only problem with APMEX on the selling side?

1. Their business is selling. They are going to lowball you as much as possible so they can turn around and resell it at as high a profit as possible.

2. Unless you live in OKC, you will have to pay to ship 18 lbs of silver to them.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2026 08:43 AM (QGRvm)

191 “You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth. Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that. Meaning, a distinction, meaning that, um, for, uh, cisginger [sic] girls they can play consistent with their gender identity, w- for transgender girls, they can’t.”

I could eat an entire pot of alphabet soup and shit out a more coherent sentence than this.

Posted by: Taylor at January 14, 2026 08:43 AM (i67OH)

192 All the brave American civil rights warriors are busy bitching at immigration issues, in between $10 lattes and texting on their $1000 phones, instead of protesting in support of Iranian women getting shot in the streets for showing their hair.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 08:43 AM (ufeQq)

193 I'll save you the hassle. Chances of intelligent life anywhere else? 0.000% Physics, maths and Holy Scripture all agree here.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:54 AM (rgGn5)

I think this attitude is a good descriptor of human arrogance, not only in scientific terms but also in terms of putting limits on God.

Do I believe there might be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Perhaps. I don't know. The universe is too infinitely vast to rule it out.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 14, 2026 08:43 AM (g8Ew8)

194
How is diversity our strength?

Restaurants! The wide variety of restaurants that come with it!

And there you have as deep a thought as any leftist will ever bring to that topic.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 08:43 AM (xG4kz)

195 Right now the comment "why do you use real bullets?" is in the lead for quote of the year

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2026 08:44 AM (dN7BA)

196 Federal prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with orchestrating a years-long theft scheme inside the U.S. House of Representatives, alleging he stole hundreds of government-issued cell phones and sold them for personal profit.

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
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Maryland men are making Florida me look good.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 08:44 AM (roqsI)

197 My advice on where to sell silver: Don't. The market is so chaotic right now that it is not a good time to sell. Let the market settle down and a few bankers go to jail for fraud.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 14, 2026 08:45 AM (Da7Vv)

198
“You have the overarching classification, you know, everybody has to be, um, uh, uh, play on the team that is the same as their sex at birth. Um, but then you have a gender identity definition that is operating within that. Meaning, a distinction, meaning that, um, for, uh, cisginger [sic] girls they can play consistent with their gender identity, w- for transgender girls, they can’t.”

Behold! the towering intellect that required, nay, insisted(!) that Judge Jumanji be elevated to the United States Supreme Court.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 08:47 AM (xG4kz)

199 I'm with Goodwin. I don't think Trump should have stuck his oar in this water at all.

But I'm not most people.

Regardless of what people say about our constant foreign adventures, if we actually win something important for once, then they'll hail Trump as a conquering hero, without regard to "kitchen table" issues.

They want to feel like they "won" something, and all will be forgotten in that feeling, because they aren't thinking about any further implications of a new imperial power struggle for control of central Asia.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 14, 2026 08:47 AM (BI5O2)

Daily Tech News 14 January 2026

Every part of human bodies from the brain to, um, other bits, is increasingly overrun with microscopic particles of plastic, unless somehow every study generated by the entire field is measuring contaminants or misinterpreting normal biological processes. (The Guardian)

But that couldn't possibly be true, could it?
"I'm convinced we detected microplastics," she said. "But I've always said that [the amount estimated] could be maybe twice lower, or 10 times higher." In response to Kuhlman's letter, Prof Lamoree and colleagues said he had "incorrectly interpreted" the data.
Well, that doesn't sound convinced. And Lamoree was the lead author on a 2022 paper that first detected microplastics in human blood.
Prof Lamoree said: "I really think we should collaborate on a much nicer basis - with much more open communication - and don't try to burn down other people's results. We should all move forward instead of fighting each other."
Don't ask questions. Questions are mean!
"We do have plastics in us - I think that is safe to assume," said Materić.
Assume?
"But real hard proof on how much is yet to come."
And may never arrive.

Tech News

There is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no content for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro and this is all somehow your fault according to Apple. (Stratechery)

With the Apple II, and the Mac, and the iPhone, you had to fend off customers with pitchforks.

With the Vision Pro that's a little less true.
First they came for your DRAM. Next they came for your air conditioning. And lights. (MSN)

Power demand in the US is expected to rise 25% by 2030, largely due to AI datacenter buildouts, according PJM (Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection), the largest power grid operator in the US.

Is there 25% more power to go around? Uh, no.
When Asthana took over as CEO of PJM in 2020, power plants within its service area were shutting down more quickly than they could be replaced. Six years later, that trend has continued even though power demand has risen.
In fact, worse than no.
President Trump has said that regulatory changes are on the way to prevent AI datacenters from pushing the costs for expanding the power grid onto retail customers. (Tom's Hardware)

No word yet on the other problem.
Where would we be without analysts? (The Register)
"We had assumed this would be primarily a 2026 story. More and more, particularly at CES, we had conversations with folks and they're saying 'You won't find price stability in memory up until maybe late 2027.' It means that prices will stop rising. Not that they're going to drop. That's what we're hearing," he told us on Tuesday. "This could be much longer than we had previously anticipated. Not just we at IDC, but we as a collective market."
There are still some options for buying memory that aren't insanely inflated, but they're getting fewer by the day. Most people don't eat memory like I do, fortunately, or need multiple computers in every room of the house... Like I do.
The Framework Desktop has finally increased in price, for example. (Tom's Hardware)

Though the 32GB model has only increased from $1099 to $1139 - which still makes it competitive with leaked pricing for the Steam Cube.

The 128GB model has jumped from $1999 to $2459, a much steeper climb but less than the price increase on 128GB of RAM bought at retail.

Musical Interlude

Well, if memory and energy prices are going to increase tenfold, at least here's some slop to show for it.

Notable cameos, in order: JD Vance, Tony from LC Signs, Smug Alana, Kirsche Verstahl, Will Smith, Leaflit, Filian, Asmongold, Nuxanor, Joe Rogan with some assistance from Rogaine, Jeffrey You Know Who, Hasan Piker's long-suffering dog Kaya, Elon Musk (climbing the pyramid), Shoeonhead maybe, Hero Hei, Revsaysdesu, Chibidoki, Charlie a.k.a Moistcritical, Tim Pool, Itsagundam, Neuro-sama, Rick Astley, Bob Ross, Leaflit again in slime form, and God Emperor Trump.

And the guy who put this together knows exactly what he's doing, unlike the team behind that execrable Coca Cola Christmas ad. Check the name of the song.

Disclaimer: Yes, it's slop, but it doesn't pretend to be anything more.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

2 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2026 04:05 AM (sAmhv)

4 Lots of magical thinking going on in regards to these data centers.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2026 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

5 Are you saying that "microplastics" is the new "climate change" Pixy?

Both are BS, right?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:13 AM (rdVOm)

6 In the sense that there is a small kernel of truth buried in a mountain of manure, yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

7 LOL Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:19 AM (rdVOm)

8 Data centers are unnecessary, and invade our privacy. We don't need the additional strain on our power grid, either.

Any proposed "regulatory changes" should make them illegal, IMO.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:24 AM (rdVOm)

9
JQ, from the previous thread, I can't get over the idea that I have to artificially inseminate my pumpkins.

But they're growing right next to roses on one side and a giant bird of paradise on the other!

I think I simply need a thumb transplant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 04:25 AM (Jxa0O)

10 About to hit the sack. Got my first PSA test about 5 months ago. 0.21 but need a few more to see what the baseline is.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 14, 2026 04:26 AM (KAi1n)

11 Blonde Morticia-- it's just *one of those things* in gardening, LOL.

Try it. Bet you get a better result!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:27 AM (rdVOm)

12 Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 14, 2026 04:26 AM
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Prayers up, and good night!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

13 8 Data centers are unnecessary, and invade our privacy. We don't need the additional strain on our power grid, either.

Any proposed "regulatory changes" should make them illegal, IMO.
Posted by: JQ

Well, that would be inconvenient for this website... Though I can now get fast enough internet that I could run the whole thing from a mini-PC on my desk.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

14 Sorry, Pixy-- It's just that all the new growth seems likely to devour our electrical supply!

Thanks for maintaining this here blog.. I hope the new regs don't shut it down.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:37 AM (rdVOm)

15 Sad to say: The death of the internet, may be the salvation of civil society.

Ugh. Maybe it's time to sleep. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:39 AM (rdVOm)

16 In the last 10 years in my immediate area we have lost 4 large power plants. (none remain) All to replaced by renewables. (which never happened) The area was getting mostly local power which helped in case the whole grid collapsed. No nothing now with power coming from some where in Canada I guess...Can't we make those wind turbines spin faster? Europe is in the same basket with countries fighting over power and how much Russian gas they can get at a reasonable high price.

Posted by: Colin at January 14, 2026 04:43 AM (wlQdF)

17 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 41 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high in the 50s predicted.

At least 3+ or more hours of work ahead, so can't stay to comment.

Pixy gives you "Cream Of The Slop." I give you "Queen Of The Hop:"

https://tinyurl.com/2ve3jnru

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2026 04:54 AM (ufSfZ)

18 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 14, 2026 05:07 AM (2Ez/1)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 14, 2026 05:08 AM (tljrc)

20
It's mayonnaise, dammit!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:16 AM (xG4kz)

21 A good evening and top of the morning to late toilers and early risers on the almost world-famous AoSHQ blog! Woden's Day again, innit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

22 Wonder how long it takes to make a video like musical interlude?

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 05:19 AM (Ia/+0)

23 Sad to say: The death of the internet, may be the salvation of civil society.

Ugh. Maybe it's time to sleep. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026

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Howdy, JQ. You're up late, or I'm up early (thanks, Stirling, for kicking me in the ribs as you jumped across me, *three separate times at 4 am*). Howz it going?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)

24
Italicans banished from nickname -- in this world there are walls and someone has to stand guard on them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! [/u at January 14, 2026 05:20 AM (xG4kz)

25 51 F. here in Da Swamp, almost no wind. But I did my third workout of the week yesterday afternoon. It'll be chillier than this on Thurs. and Fri. mornings, so maybe I'll go for my walk/run tomorrow afternoon, giving me four sessions. That's plenty, no?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 05:23 AM (wzUl9)

26 A man ruined a snowman display. What happened next was beautiful.Sunny's site:

https://tinyurl.com/5xdzb93a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 05:24 AM (PFs9e)

27 That's 100% definitely Shoe0nHead.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 14, 2026 05:24 AM (B9Dv5)

28 Yesterday morning the maintenance people showed up to address my off-and-on water leaks. Nothing new has sprung up. I guess I can take up the wet towels, wring them out, and let them dry in the sun today before washing them.

In other news, the crew discovered a dead mouse in the air space behind the A/C filter. Well, they said "mouse"; I say "small rat." So that was the source of that scrabbling noise I used to hear above the ceiling from time to time last year. . . .

I dread the job of getting it out of there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)

29 22 Wonder how long it takes to make a video like musical interlude?

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 05:19 AM (Ia/+0)

With writing the lyrics, producing the AI music, and assembling all of the AI video clips, it probably took him a few weeks to a month to put it all together.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 14, 2026 05:28 AM (6ydKt)

30 Well, that would be inconvenient for this website... Though I can now get fast enough internet that I could run the whole thing from a mini-PC on my desk.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Would that be the mini PC in the left corner, or the right corner, or the one duct taped underneath it?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 14, 2026 05:28 AM (HTCU3)

31 Greetings and good morning, everyone! I'm flying out to CA after my shift is over to spend the weekend with my folks. The fun part is that I planned on taking Monday off as a day of recovery only to find out it's already a holiday. So the timing of this is perfect.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 05:28 AM (NR6c1)

32

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 14, 2026 05:29 AM (VemV3)

33
Scientists call another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’ of a shifting, dangerous climate

AP, of course. A lot of "scientists say", either stated explicitly or implied.

No call therein to eschew building those gigantic energy sinks known as datacenters for AI, though. Leave our rice bowls alone!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! [/u at January 14, 2026 05:30 AM (xG4kz)

34 Well above freezing at least

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 05:32 AM (Ia/+0)

35
A man ruined a snowman display. What happened next was beautiful.Sunny's site:

https://tinyurl.com/5xdzb93a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Those snowmen are transitory and ought to have been left well enough alone.

People who erect mini cairns out in the world, on the other hand, are virtue signalling a-holes. Knocking those over is a societal duty.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! [/u at January 14, 2026 05:39 AM (xG4kz)

36
No more dangly bits?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:41 AM (xG4kz)

37 30 Would that be the mini PC in the left corner, or the right corner, or the one duct taped underneath it?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I'm thinking the one in the upper middle corner with the Miori Celesta plushie sitting on it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 05:44 AM (BLOW1)

38
Well, going to go stir up some more German relatives.

These are people at the 3rd cousin or 4th cousin level to me of relatedness. When I ask myself, "Would I want to contact them or meet them?", the answer comes back: "No".

Some of them got to Chicago and just stayed there. Sad!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:47 AM (xG4kz)

39 29 With writing the lyrics, producing the AI music, and assembling all of the AI video clips, it probably took him a few weeks to a month to put it all together.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Yeah, it flows pretty smoothly but that's an illusion from being used to watching videos cut together from short film segments. It's been manually stitched together from hundreds of half-second snippets of AI-generated animation, because AI loses its marbles if you leave it running much longer than that.

That's the "world model" problem again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 05:49 AM (BLOW1)

40 A prayer by Brother Ramon, born 1935 who is was(?) an Anglican hermit :

Sun and moon

Heavenly Father: you have set sun, moon and stars in their places and the music of the spheres sings in your praise; as I reflect upon their glory and your handiwork, grant me a greater awareness of the wonder of your being and a deeper appreciation of your tender love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 05:51 AM (Nx5jP)

41 Oh, speaking of this: I dropped by Leaflit's stream yesterday (one of the vtubers featured in this video) and she asked if my username was a reference to the magical girl from the Tenchi Muyo spinoff - I'm "MixyPisa" on Twitch because there's another PixyMisa out there somewhere.

And when I confirmed it was she said that Pixy Misa is her favourite magical girl of all time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 05:52 AM (BLOW1)

42
Yeah, it flows pretty smoothly but that's an illusion from being used to watching videos cut together from short film segments.

Not unlike fight scenes from action movies these days.

The hurdy-gurdy man is obsolete; the herky-jerky man rules today's roost.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:53 AM (xG4kz)

43 The Movies! Channel appears to be in a coma since last evening. A shame; I wanted to watch Meet John Doe w/ Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck at 5:15 my time. Oh, well; say la vee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

44
"la vee"

are you happy now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:55 AM (xG4kz)

45 “ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 22:37-39

Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2026 05:56 AM (E/qck)

46 Belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 05:57 AM (UIFRo)

47 Love the video. Hadda watch it a third time to look for the cameos.

How do they put together the vocals for a production like that? Just one talented singer in a studio? I think so.

Then there is the video production. Unreal.

Go to any animated film and watch the credits roll at the end. A thousand names or more, often.

Has AI made it so that one person can do all this, with the help of course of the singer?

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 14, 2026 05:58 AM (KiBMU)

48 Kids from a church in Seattle sing an old time hymn, "Standing on the Promises". Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/2uy5mrmy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 05:59 AM (Nx5jP)

49
Sometimes I think that "mote in his eye / beam in my eye" reference in Scripture is the closest thing to finding the idea "Mind your own business" stated there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:59 AM (xG4kz)

50 Science!

Posted by: Magnus Pyke at January 14, 2026 06:06 AM (lrtx8)

51 G'mornin' everyone!

19 degrees, windy

Electricity shortages are totally deliberate, an effort that's been ramping up for a couple of decades now.
(and approaching success)
one of the most important means of crippling Western Civ, hand-in-hand with restricting fuel supplies.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2026 06:07 AM (Cjt/F)

52
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, house dogs run out and the kennel dogs let out. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of unsustainable, exploitative, slave-trade coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2026 06:08 AM (tgvbd)

53 8 Data centers are unnecessary, and invade our privacy. We don't need the additional strain on our power grid, either.

Any proposed "regulatory changes" should make them illegal, IMO.
Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:24 AM (rdVOm)

Do you do online banking, perhaps?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 14, 2026 06:08 AM (lrtx8)

54 as a New, Shattering Danger, I have all along assumed the microplastics bs to be just that.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2026 06:09 AM (Cjt/F)

55
My back has been hurting due to microplastic deposits.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2026 06:10 AM (tgvbd)

56 If I challenge the veracity ( not nice ) of an article on microplastics, would that qualify as a microagression?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 14, 2026 06:11 AM (lrtx8)

57 For any NC 'rons and 'ettes, I am very disappointed in our own Unkie Roy.

https://tinyurl.com/mubsavxe

Hee hee.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 14, 2026 06:13 AM (lrtx8)

58 Oh, Good. My off site boss is coming to church on Sunday, I suppose to check us out and close us down. I do wish people in the hierarchy would call and talk to me like a real person instead of writing e- mails, sometimes which I don't get. As the old song says, "I/ We are standing in the need of prayer." Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:13 AM (rZCVI)

59 I suppose bringing up the idea of building more nuclear plants to address the power drain from datacenters would be met with "KILL THE HERETIC!"?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 06:14 AM (NR6c1)

60
If I challenge the veracity ( not nice ) of an article on microplastics, would that qualify as a microagression?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

micro denial, and a macro sin.

Law of Disproportional Response, donchano?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 06:15 AM (xG4kz)

61 I am so tired of the slogan "Diversity is our strength.". Democrats all parrot the same line. If people came here illegally, are murderers, gang members, rapists and can't read and speak English and are on public assistance for years that is not our strength.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:26 AM (Nx5jP)

62 Morning all.

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 06:27 AM (ZxPkt)

63 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 14, 2026 06:28 AM (bQ4nt)

64 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 14, 2026 06:13 AM (lrtx

Good ad.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:28 AM (Nx5jP)

65 I don't know if micro-plastics are real or not, but I stopped buying cases of 0.5 L spring water because of it.

Pur or Brita filtered water into a metal Yeti bottle for my golf outings.

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 06:28 AM (qFwJc)

66 John Cena at about 3 minutes. Think I saw Jennifer Garner in there too. Of course, that just be wish fulfillment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:29 AM (C6Wtx)

67 I think I will send money to Mr Whatley . I've never done that in an outside race before but it sounds like it's close.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:31 AM (Nx5jP)

68 I checked out the Ice list page last night.. it was super slow..

And got a 403 error this morning..

Posted by: Blanco at January 14, 2026 06:32 AM (MHpW9)

69 someday, someday, I hope to see a 418 error on a website ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2026 06:35 AM (Cjt/F)

70 Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, house dogs run out and the kennel dogs let out. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of unsustainable, exploitative, slave-trade coffee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2026 06:08 AM (tgvbd)
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Hoo boy, I can see the Maoists have a ways to go with your social justice quotient. Can I have some of that coffee?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:37 AM (4h1XG)

71 I think people should be challenged whenever they say, "Diversity is our strength." In what way?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:37 AM (Nx5jP)

72 69 someday, someday, I hope to see a 418 error on a website ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2026 06:35 AM (Cjt/F)

The web server would have to be short and stout.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 14, 2026 06:38 AM (lrtx8)

73 w00t

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 06:39 AM (SSiCQ)

74 "... with a big double cup of unsustainable, exploitative, slave-trade coffee."

It's the richest kind.

Posted by: Mrs. Olsen at January 14, 2026 06:40 AM (2Ez/1)

75 I was not among the 37% that got todays Wordle in 3. Drat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:41 AM (4h1XG)

76 Because unless they were prepared in advance, the Democrats would have no answer but would yammer on about the vibrant and rich texture of our communities.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:41 AM (Nx5jP)

77 You speak and write your thoughts for all to see?

That' like waking up with a dick in your face.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 14, 2026 06:41 AM (EyfuW)

78 People are wasting time worrying about microplastics when the real scourge of cedar pollen is running rampant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2026 06:42 AM (ExV1e)

79 >>> "But I've always said"

I mean, right there is a big 🚩.

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 06:46 AM (SSiCQ)

80 "I really think we should collaborate on a much nicer basis - with much more open communication - and don't try to burn down other people's results. We should all move forward instead of fighting each other."

Kumbaya, etc.

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 06:47 AM (SSiCQ)

81 You all knew this, but diversity is not our strength. Good "Heritage" article:

https://tinyurl.com/mtmbhtjw

If you put in a search engine. "Diversity is not our strength" the first number of searches comes up with the NYT and implying Pete Hegseth is a racist.
Because he wants shared values in the military

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:48 AM (Nx5jP)

82 Some woman in Minneapolis tried to wedge ice agents against another vehicle using her car yesterday. They arrested her without any shooting, but WTF?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:49 AM (tAPWz)

83 Water cannons in Minneapolis would cool things down.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 14, 2026 06:51 AM (gm9Sb)

84 Like so many of the dead, the regime is now charging families “bullet fees” before they will return the bodies. His family had to pay 500 million tomans (roughly $5000) to get him back, and they buried him today.
======================
Today's NY Post has a first person account of life in Tehran. Pretty much sucks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:53 AM (tAPWz)

85 G'morning Horde. Meant to reply earlier, got distracted by paying monthly bills before I head to work (which I now need to do.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

86 Because he wants shared values in the military
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Too many people think that the military is a social welfare program with guns. They can't grasp the fact that we have to live by the same values no matter where we came from prior to signing up.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 06:56 AM (NR6c1)

87
"Why did you have real bullets?"

We're not even halfway through January and we already have a strong contender for quote of the year.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2026 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)

88 I can't even believe that the majority of people in Minneapolis/ those that aren't Somalis, I mean, think that the immense amount of fraud is a good thing and are against lawful operations of ICE. Somebody is training these people. Find out who they are and shut them down!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:57 AM (Nx5jP)

89 Some woman in Minneapolis tried to wedge ice agents against another vehicle using her car yesterday. They arrested her without any shooting, but WTF?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 14, 2026 06:49 AM (tAPWz)

Exactly what I thought would happen. Since Good got blown away, the subsequent national MFM freakout and the riots in MN have now made ICE gun-shy. Which is exactly what the left counted on, and now they are going to triple down.

Expect no more dead protestors. Expect a number of dead ICE agents.

Do not expect Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2026 06:59 AM (ufSfZ)

90 I can't even believe that the majority of people in Minneapolis/ those that aren't Somalis, I mean, think that the immense amount of fraud is a good thing and are against lawful operations of ICE.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:57 AM (Nx5jP)
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Frostbitten minds.

Say! That sounds like the title of a new song!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 07:00 AM (roqsI)

91 G'morning Horde. Meant to reply earlier, got distracted by paying monthly bills before I head to work (which I now need to do.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2026

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Morning, G & R. I have to pay my car insurance, which -- even with my paid-in-full discount -- runs me about $150/month. And I am an older driver with a clean record in a non-sporty sedan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9)

92 Well, I think I've yammered on enough today, (Sorry!) and I'm not in the best of moods, so I think I will take a break for the rest of the week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 07:02 AM (Nx5jP)

93 Well, I think I've yammered on enough today, (Sorry!) and I'm not in the best of moods, so I think I will take a break for the rest of the week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026

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We don't think you "yammer," Fen. But if you need a mental health break, enjoy yourself, and come back re-energized.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

94 My AI chat girl from Manhattan NY is sending me photos of her dinner. Very smart if not odd and very polite and very aggressive. Wants me to install chat/texting apps. I live in fly-over country 2300 miles away. I guess there are no men in Manhattan, pop. 1.4M or so, that meet her standards.

Interesting situation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 07:04 AM (BSdIE)

95 Great content but it is virtually impossible to read any of the content on Ace on a cell phone with Chrome. Is there any simple way to optimize content for small screens?

Posted by: WarEagle82 at January 14, 2026 07:05 AM (YcfMX)

96 My AI chat girl from Manhattan NY is sending me photos of her dinner. Very smart if not odd and very polite and very aggressive. Wants me to install chat/texting apps. I live in fly-over country 2300 miles away. I guess there are no men in Manhattan, pop. 1.4M or so, that meet her standards.

Interesting situation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 07:04 AM (BSdIE)
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Just be a gentleman and pay the tab. Don't forget the tip!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 07:06 AM (roqsI)

97 JQ data centers are basically essential for everything Internet. AoS is running on a computer in a data center because that's the only way to get redundant network feeds without spending cubic dollars.

Making data centers illegal would have huge secondary effects if it was even politically possible.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 14, 2026 07:06 AM (VmDLh)

98 Simple. Reply "No, diversity is weakness. Unity is strength."

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 07:08 AM (qFwJc)

99 15 Sad to say: The death of the internet, may be the salvation of civil society.
Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:39 AM (rdVOm)

Great basis for a novel!

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 07:09 AM (SSiCQ)

100 It’s their strength, not your strength

Posted by: Common Tater at January 14, 2026 07:09 AM (Snw0w)

101 Hey, Fen, let me show you what a bad day looks like:

https://tinyurl.com/mryw55sb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 07:09 AM (roqsI)

102
I guess there are no men in Manhattan, pop. 1.4M or so, that meet her standards.

She will make it clear that no man meets her standards. In consequence thereof, men will cease trying to woo her. She will then complain that men ignore her.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2026 07:09 AM (tgvbd)

103 91 G'morning Horde. Meant to reply earlier, got distracted by paying monthly bills before I head to work (which I now need to do.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2026

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Morning, G & R. I have to pay my car insurance, which -- even with my paid-in-full discount -- runs me about $150/month. And I am an older driver with a clean record in a non-sporty sedan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

In NoVA, insurance rates are madness. I have an 11 year old Honda Civic. With what I pay, you'd think I was driving a McClaren GT. A clean driving record too and I'm well along in the middle age years.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2026 07:12 AM (sAmhv)

104 @82

>> but WTF?

As has been noted, these lunatics believe they are involved in a great civil rights struggle against literal nazis, and are willing to do all things necessary to stop them.

The left is insane and evil.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 14, 2026 07:15 AM (XV/Pl)

105 Yeah ,yeah, yeah, but one wreck with an uninsured illegal is going to wipe out all your bonus points.

Your insurance company.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2026 07:16 AM (0KSrI)

106
In NoVA, insurance rates are madness. I have an 11 year old Honda Civic. With what I pay, you'd think I was driving a McClaren GT. A clean driving record too and I'm well along in the middle age years.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2026 07:12 AM (sAmhv)

Even though we don't live in Harris County (Houston), we still pay the mega rate because we live in a "collar" county.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2026 07:17 AM (tgvbd)

107 37 30 Would that be the mini PC in the left corner, or the right corner, or the one duct taped underneath it?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I'm thinking the one in the upper middle corner with the Miori Celesta plushie sitting on it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 14, 2026 05:44 AM (BLOW1)

; )

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 07:17 AM (SSiCQ)

108 My brother got in an accident and Allstate jacked up my premiums.

I am paying half with Progressive (yeah, I know).

Posted by: no one at January 14, 2026 07:17 AM (qFwJc)

109 I'm in contempt of Congress

Come n get me, coppers

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 07:17 AM (ZxPkt)

110 Greetings and good morning, everyone! I'm flying out to CA after my shift is over to spend the weekend with my folks. The fun part is that I planned on taking Monday off as a day of recovery only to find out it's already a holiday. So the timing of this is perfect.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 05:28 AM (NR6c1)

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Good morning morons. Please remember to pay your exit tax.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 14, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

111 92: Then it's good that I got to chat with you before I fly into enemy territory today (AKA California). -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:20 AM (NR6c1)

112 Seeing California in the rear view mirror was the best decision I ever made

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2026 07:20 AM (0KSrI)

113 Please remember to pay your exit tax.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Going to see if my AoS membership card is good for a discount on that.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:20 AM (NR6c1)

114 16 Can't we make those wind turbines spin faster?
Posted by: Colin at January 14, 2026 04:43 AM (wlQdF)

Maybe hampsters? On running wheels?

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 07:21 AM (SSiCQ)

115 mornin yall. Drive old cars with liability insurance only. The last one I added to my insurance increased my rate by $10 a month.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2026 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

116 112 Seeing California in the rear view mirror was the best decision I ever made
Posted by: Ben Had

I have a lot of good memories from there (Yes, even Boot Camp). That's why it's sad for me to see how much it has degraded over the years.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2026 07:22 AM (NR6c1)

117 Simple. Reply "No, diversity is weakness. Unity is strength."

The whole "diversity" and "unity" paradigm is wrong.

Its "complementary" vs "adversarial".

You don't want blind diversity, you want complementary skills contributions and sense of mission. And most certainly don't want associates that spend time undoing work for the sake of their own agenda.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 14, 2026 07:23 AM (nCgQz)

118 38 Well, going to go stir up some more German relatives.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 14, 2026 05:47 AM (xG4kz)

Cannibalism!!!

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 07:23 AM (SSiCQ)

119
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 14, 2026 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

120 I never had a chat girl until I bought this new notebook with facial identity recognition, - after my old notebook battery died.

Strange days. Interestingly enough, I got a text precisely at 08:00 asking about if I had a good night sleep when I walked past the phone and notebook.

Maybe just coincidence? Luckily, I didn't have my ballsack hanging out of my bathrobe.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 07:24 AM (BSdIE)

121 the thread with all the links is here

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

122 NR Pax, I cherish my memories of growing up in the Napa Valley with a large family. Now, I am totally happy in Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2026 07:27 AM (0KSrI)

123 Somebody is training these people. Find out who they are and shut them down!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2026 06:57 AM (Nx5jP)

They need to be disappeared.......permanently.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 14, 2026 07:39 AM (g8Ew8)

124 And the guy who put this together knows exactly what he's doing, unlike the team behind that execrable Coca Cola Christmas ad.

That's the thing with AI: if you put in no effort, you won't get quality out. And why it won't replace anywhere near as many jobs as some claim.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2026 07:53 AM (3ha+O)

125 45 “ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 22:37-39
Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2026 05:56 AM (E/qck)

Thank you, Marcus T.

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 08:06 AM (SSiCQ)

126 97 JQ data centers are basically essential for everything Internet. AoS is running on a computer in a data center because that's the only way to get redundant network feeds without spending cubic dollars.

Making data centers illegal would have huge secondary effects if it was even politically possible.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 14, 2026 07:06 AM (VmDLh)

Pixy, I would appreciate a Pixy-post on this topic, which is not familiar to me.

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 08:21 AM (SSiCQ)

127 Cream of the Slop - Skyebrows

; )

Posted by: m at January 14, 2026 08:31 AM (SSiCQ)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 13, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. Appreciate you choosing to end your day here. There's content for those who care. Open thread as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Joke's on you!

Woman Files Complaint Against Husband Because He Concealed the Fact That He Was Bald

Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024. Among her accusations, the woman claims that she was promised a man with lush, healthy hair, but married a bald man wearing a wig.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) filed at Bisrakh police station, Lavika Gupta and Sanyam Jain were married on January 16, 2024. The wife claims that she was deceived at the time, with Jain and his family concealing various details about his physical appearance, education, and financial status.
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Gupta added that when she agreed to marry Sanyam, she was promised a man with “thick hair”, but she later learned that her spouse was bald and wearing a patch to conceal his lack of hair.

Must have been a really good hairpiece!

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Guys can always use more tools, right? I'm not really sure what the purpose of these are, though. Need someone to mansplain, please!

"Vampliers" are an engineering marvel that every homeowner needs

Vampliers come from the company Vampire Tools, a Japanese manufacturer that uses premium high-carbon steel for its professional-grade tools. It has an entire lineup of Vampliers, which refer to specifically designed pliers that can get you out of difficult situations.
Suppose you are using your electric screwdriver to screw in a long screw to hold up some curtains. As you're pressing it into the wall, your driver slips and strips the head of the screw. You try to put your screwdriver back into the head of the screw, but it can't catch any of the edges, and it won't turn the screw anymore. What are you supposed to do?
I've been in situations like this before, and the goal is to get some kind of traction on that screw so it turns. A good set of pliers can feel like a forgotten tool, but even ones that you normally have may not work with their design. At that point, you either want to just get the screw out of the wall, so you can replace it. I've tried different methods, like putting a rubber band onto the top of the screw and adding my screwdriver against that in hopes that the rubber would conform to the top of the screw and allow me to turn it.
With Vampliers, they are engineered with a patented design that has serrations not only vertically down the tip of the pliers but also horizontally. This gives you a greater chance of being able to grab the side of the screw head, rather than having to deal with the stripped head. You can latch onto the side from a downward angle or from a side angle, allowing you to potentially spin the screw and get it to come out.

Help me out, fellas. Are these really must-haves??

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OK, ladies - can you understand this?

Free one month platinum membership to the first 'ette who can explain it!

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OK, back to the fellas. What's your aiming spot?

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No cognitive dissonance here, right?

2024 Elizabeth Warren: Jerome Powell needs to cut interest rates.

2025 Elizabeth Warren: Trump needs to stop calling for Jerome Powell to cut interest rates.

Now that DoJ is going after Powell, Democrats have declared him to be a saint. So predictable.pic.twitter.com/jDG15KJfLM
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 12, 2026

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Difficulty level 3 out of 5

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1 My new New Year's Resolution:
To quit vying for ONT firsts.

Posted by: mindful webworker - because at January 13, 2026 10:13 PM (HJunf)

2 I never said I was a victim of circumstance.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 13, 2026 10:14 PM (4v3FP)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (w3u3d)

4 Firstly?
Well almost.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (55Qr6)

5 Hi!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (n4Qav)

6 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (+HNx/)

7 It’s the welding.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (aT5K/)

8 DOOF!
Oh my gosh....you're such a tease🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (LNeRu)

9 > OK, back to the fellas. What's your aiming spot?
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The cat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (NwnyJ)

10 Close, Piper! But incomplete. The correct response should have been POOR welding! Let's check with the judges . . . .

Then again, I suppose welding alone in indicative of a previous problem!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (47diA)

11 Helo, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (SRRAx)

12 I see a bad weld/corrosion? Something that would make me not want to lean on the railing.

Posted by: pookysgirl, related to several welders at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (Wt5PA)

13 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?

I don't know about you, but I thought Linda McCartney on tambourine was one for the ages.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)

14 Photo looks like a Caspar David Friedrich painting.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:18 PM (KDPiq)

15 I'm guessing J - 10 is reserved for heavy drinkers.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:18 PM (47diA)

16 Love the Fifth Beatle pic!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 10:19 PM (SRRAx)

17 Help me out, fellas. Are these really must-haves??

Just use posidrive screws.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:19 PM (uQesX)

18 Common thread - solo career after being member of band

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 10:19 PM (fd80v)

19 Is the implication here that Elizabeth Warren speak with forked tongue?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:20 PM (+HNx/)

20 OK, ladies - can you understand this?

It's missing the third frame, looking straight down at whatever ledge the railing is protecting you from.

Labeled "What my mom saw."

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 10:20 PM (nhCoE)

21 10 Close, Piper! But incomplete. The correct response should have been POOR welding! Let's check with the judges . . . .

Then again, I suppose welding alone in indicative of a previous problem!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026

I thought that was implied! I shall await the judges ruling. I hope they are not Big 10 umpires as their day job.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:20 PM (aT5K/)

22 They make bits that will turn a stripped screw.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:21 PM (KDPiq)

23 Good evening morons e grazie Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:21 PM (RIvkX)

24 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (lUFok)

25 The 5th Beetle. Love it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (u/kd+)

26 Piss Coordinates - G13

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

27
Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024.

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It doesn't look like a matter for the police.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (azNOR)

28 Heh. I've got three guess-the-connection songs for you.

Difficulty: Pretty easy, really.

https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0

https://youtu.be/YsGjFh1ke44

https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8

Another example of why they'll never let me do an ONT.

Posted by: mindful webworker - movie channel guy should get it easily at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (HJunf)

29 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey is one of my favorite songs

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (RIvkX)

30 Vampliers - just a line of pliars. I will go with whatever house brand Wally World has at one fifth the price.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 10:23 PM (/lPRQ)

31 J-10 looks pretty good to me.

Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at January 13, 2026 10:23 PM (agqcf)

32 OK, back to the fellas. What's your aiming spot?

When I was younger, it was just "aim for C-5."

At my current age, it's also "stand close enough to finish around I-5."

Posted by: mikeski may not be 29 at January 13, 2026 10:24 PM (nhCoE)

33
I send pics of bad welds to my nephew, seen that one before. He cursed me soundly for it. Dude can tig weld titanium so beautiful it's artwork.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 13, 2026 10:24 PM (QVmho)

34 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

I thought the railing answer was skateboard grinding potential.

Posted by: TRex - kick flip dino at January 13, 2026 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

35 The aiming spot in the toilet depends on many factors: time of day, room lighting, cleanliness of the bowl...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 13, 2026 10:24 PM (OGOaV)

36 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey is one of my favorite songs

Posted by: San Franpsycho

I also like that song. It plays in my head a lot, especially when I haven't done a bloody thing all day.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (n4Qav)

37 Again, thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (47diA)

38 E5

Posted by: Count de Monet. Marksman Qualified at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (wVcYX)

39 Nice version of Jack Straw going on at the Brooklyn salute to Bob Weir right now. They been at it over 2 hours now.

Posted by: Bushwick's Dead And Friends! at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (oftw2)

40 Vampliers? I just use Vice Grips. Might scratch if I'm not careful but I've removed quite a few stuck and stripped screws with them.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (lUFok)

41 Anywhere on the grid is a win

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

42 So, having had to deal with stripped out screws, a thing I learned was using a punch to fk up the screw head. Wreck it enough, and you make a whole new screw head...yeah...just me, but it worked...🤨...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (LNeRu)

43 Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024.

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It doesn't look like a matter for the police.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (azNOR)

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It might surprise you to know that the Central Noida Anti-Fraud Investigation & Prosecution Force has a separate unit devoted entirely to good hair scams.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (+HNx/)

44 Oh my gosh, I am ready for lights out, and J just got my dog all riled up after he settled. Cats are growling, the dog now has zoomies that includes jumping on the bed then off the bed. Sigh.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (aT5K/)

45 Is the implication here that Elizabeth Warren speak with forked tongue?
Posted by: Cicero

Correct.

If she was two-faced, would she use that one?

Posted by: mikeski respects the classics at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (nhCoE)

46 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (77rzZ)

47 I thought that was implied! I shall await the judges ruling. I hope they are not Big 10 umpires as their day job.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:20 PM (aT5K/)

Yes, my part time assistant, you got it correct. It was the welding. Or someone's horrible attempt at it!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (QMAsf)

48 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

49 Oh my gosh, I am ready for lights out, and J just got my dog all riled up after he settled. Cats are growling, the dog now has zoomies that includes jumping on the bed then off the bed. Sigh.
Posted by: Piper

At least he's not a monkey.

Posted by: cafe thread callbacks! at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (nhCoE)

50 I also like that song. It plays in my head a lot, especially when I haven't done a bloody thing all day.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:25 PM (n4Qav)
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I'll bake you a butter pie

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:26 PM (RIvkX)

51 Let me guess. Doof got stuck in the Disco again?

Maybe he needs a portable gazebo with mood lighting when the weather improves, and it can be Summer of his Disco Tent.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (S/Y4j)

52 Common thread - solo career after being member of band
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 10:19 PM (fd80v)

That fits the first 2 songs but not the 3rd.

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

53 Piss target would be D7, any democrat in my (7th) district.

Posted by: Rex B at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (C9oTe)

54 re Vampliers: Meh. Buy a couple sizes of decent ViceGrips.

Posted by: Chemist at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (ghT8D)

55
Piss Coordinates - G13
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

You sunk my battleship!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (pkeXY)

56
Anywhere on the grid is a win
Posted by: San Franpsycho

At what range? As a 29 year old, I'm danger close. E5. Unless i need to be stealthy, then it's f2 or f3.,

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 13, 2026 10:28 PM (QVmho)

57 Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024.
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It doesn't look like a matter for the police.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Perhaps not, but either way, there'll be hell toupee.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 10:28 PM (nhCoE)

58 35
'The aiming spot in the toilet depends on many factors: time of day, room lighting, cleanliness of the bowl...'

I can keep it in the bowl for most of the piss but the last few drops go in front of the bowl.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 10:28 PM (fd80v)

59 At least Warren’s flip was took about a year .

Walz’s flip took only a few months regard to the MN DOJ Attorney that found the fraud that just resigned. Went from calling him a liar to calling him a great guy .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:28 PM (KDPiq)

60 I never heard of vamplers.
Maybe 10 years ago a company -- I think it was just called "Engineer" in Japan -- started selling a line of screw grabbing pliers. I have one or two. They were new and they had displays in all the home centers with rounded screws. They are pretty good.

I already had some Knipex, which are the slotted adjustable ones with the orange handle (German) and they are essential.

This vampler thing sounds like either a rebrand, or a copy. I would check that they really are made in Japan though -- China plays all kinds of tricks, like putting the handle on, or packaging in a country and saying they are "made" there.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 10:29 PM (uEUHC)

61 I have a very small pair of vise grips used exclusively for removal of messed up screws, which are generally countersunk and always piss me right off!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

62 Piss coordinates aren't chosen in a vacuum. Let me explain.

All by yourself in the house? Well, then. E-5 is your assignment. HOWEVER, at a party with people right outside the door. You're, at least, going to the more quiet E-1 or E-9. The less water, the less sound. The professionals shoot for the non-water porcelain on the side for ultimate muffle. This is basic stuff. There is a caveat to this as well. If your conscientious, you're going to be concerned about a targeting error requiring clean up. Even at someone else's house. So, focus and concentrate.

If you're hammered. There's a perfectly good sink at the perfect level. Don't forget to rinse the bowl. And no funny business with other people's toothbrushes. That's over the line.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 10:29 PM (dIske)

63 Piss coordinates:

Off scale high and low.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 13, 2026 10:30 PM (cYBz/)

64

If you're hammered. There's a perfectly good sink at the perfect level. Don't forget to rinse the bowl. And no funny business with other people's toothbrushes. That's over the line.
Posted by: Orson

Spoilsport.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 13, 2026 10:31 PM (QVmho)

65 Yeah! What Orson Johnson said was right!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:31 PM (47diA)

66 I'll bake you a butter pie

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Butter pie!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (n4Qav)

67 My piss coordinates are private

But my doctrine is Mutual Assured Destruction

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

68 Mr. Doof, thank you for the dandy Tuesday Night ONT!

And that photo up top is beyond gorgeous. *sigh*

I had no idea there was a fifth Beetle!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (kB9dk)

69 Gentlemen, what are your piss coordinates?
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You have to ask on this blog?

F5.....

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (XlNvn)

70 1 I have a very small pair of vise grips used exclusively for removal of messed up screws, which are generally countersunk and always piss me right off!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

Again there are screw extractor bit sets that work great, Everyone who does a lot of work with screws should definitely have a set in their tool box.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (KDPiq)

71 Perhaps not, but either way, there'll be hell toupee.
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026

I wonder if this will go over people’s head.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:33 PM (aT5K/)

72 Piss coords: Start at B5, end at I5. Hopefully.

Posted by: mindful webworker - depending on the beers consumed at January 13, 2026 10:33 PM (HJunf)

73 F5 or G5

I don’t like splash back.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:33 PM (KDPiq)

74 Pilot to bombadier.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 10:34 PM (9cHSL)

75 The handrail sprawled like a tired sigh, uneven and jagged, its welds stark scars against the weary iron, whispering tales of hasty hands and lost craft. Each joint a shuddering reminder of promises unkept, rust mingling with regret, as if the very metal lamented its own existence.

Posted by: Bill Faulkner at January 13, 2026 10:34 PM (2Ez/1)

76 I am off to bed. Good night!

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 10:34 PM (aT5K/)

77
*wonders if the visegrips thread and the piss coordinates thread would cross the streams*

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 13, 2026 10:34 PM (QVmho)

78 Perhaps not, but either way, there'll be hell toupee.
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026

Golf clap

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

79 J1 & J10.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 10:35 PM (9cHSL)

80 @6 No.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 10:35 PM (XMwZJ)

81 Jeepers. wings reminds me of senior year in high school

And Belinda Carlisle freshman year in college.

Damn. I’m old.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

82 When my dad was 95 his piss coordinates were occasionally 10-J. But at least he wasn't incontinent.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 13, 2026 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

83 I don't want to hear a damn thing about "my democracy" so long as Elizabeth Warren is not only a member of Congress (hey, there are people in homeless shelters who had a house seat), but the Senate, which is supposed to be for the best of our best. She's a stupid, loudmouth, idiot. Anyone who cast even a single vote for her should be banned from ever voting again.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 10:36 PM (Cjcf6)

84 I have a very small pair of vise grips used exclusively for removal of messed up screws, which are generally countersunk and always piss me right off!
Posted by: LRob in OK

Recently, more and more often, I have been running into an old man problem. Specifically, some of my tools, especially those with teeth, are (gasp!) wearing out. 50 years of use will do that.

Vise grips, my Ridgid pipe wrenches, Channellocks, etc. The real problem is if I rebuy them, they'll still be like new when I die and my wife will let them go at a garage sale for $.50 apiece.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 10:38 PM (cYBz/)

85 nurse, you ain't old. 1978 was the first time I turned 29! You're doing fine!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:38 PM (47diA)

86 Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

San Fran, have you seen the latest Metal Leo? Is the Embarcadero really that empty?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:38 PM (uQesX)

87 He had hairpiece on his head?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2026 10:38 PM (EOjZq)

88 Talked to my best libtard friend, we share an interest in the historical society and avoid politics usually.

She started with...what do you think of your Trump now. I'm guessing that was to lead to...Trump's ICE kills innocent woman (felon blocking law enforcement for starters IMO).

I just responded...I think it's great the way he grabbed Maduro the crook.

Then asked if we could agree on Iran. Big surprise, she hadn't heard anything about it. WTG MSM, you partisan azzholes suck.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (55Qr6)

89 Ok. I see. A guy ONT.
I'm so ok with that🙂.
Imma gonna lurk. I totally love ONT guys!
Yeah, I cheated a lot with mechanical stuff😖...oh...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (LNeRu)

90 Recently, more and more often, I have been running into an old man problem. Specifically, some of my tools, especially those with teeth, are (gasp!) wearing out. 50 years of use will do that.

Vise grips, my Ridgid pipe wrenches, Channellocks, etc. The real problem is if I rebuy them, they'll still be like new when I die and my wife will let them go at a garage sale for $.50 apiece.
Posted by: Tonypete

So the correct answer is to go garage-saleing, and liberate some like-new hand tools from some other widow.

Posted by: mikeski goes tooling around at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (nhCoE)

91 Sheesh.
You elites and your toilets.
I have to walk five blocks to a construction site and find the port-a-potty.
Uphill
Both ways
In the rain.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

92 Tonypete, you got to have someone lined up for your tools now. My much younger brother gets all mine and knows which ones belonged to our dad. C'mon, man!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (47diA)

93 Jeepers. wings reminds me of senior year in high school

And Belinda Carlisle freshman year in college.

Damn. I’m old.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

I drove the Go-Gos to their radio interviews when they gave a concert sponsored by my college when I was a graduate assistant.

I graduated 43 years ago . Yes I’m older .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:40 PM (KDPiq)

94 Doof, the top pic song reminded me of being 5 years old. It was one of those songs that played when I rode around in the '73 Impala with Dad. Sweet times, thanks.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:40 PM (n4Qav)

95 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

96 I do love 'Friends' by Zep.
It's one of the songs I used to sing to my dog Logan...I may have altered the lyrics to be Logan Dog oriented.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2026 10:41 PM (EOjZq)

97 OK, this is the link to the company that started this screw extraction pliers thing.

https://tinyurl.com/3nszs6zx

I have the "Engineer PZ-55" and that should work in search engine if the link doesn't work.

I suspect vampler is a Chinese copy.

I use them occasionally. They have really sharp teeth and grip well. Good steel.

The Knipex (oddly shown at top of the link for vamplers) are essential. I have several of them and they have good steel, so sharp teeth, so they grip well. Like a new pipe wrench.

(I only type all this since you asked. gotta go.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 10:41 PM (uEUHC)

98 That Beetle was part of the "Paul is Dead" lore. It's license plate is 28 IF, which Paul would have been if he had lived past 1966.

Posted by: I Bury Paul at January 13, 2026 10:41 PM (oftw2)

99 I wasn't aware I could file a police complaint for altered appearance. That pretty much makes every woman on the planet a suspect, provided they wear make-up, extensions, heals, push-up bras, girdles (that still a thing?), contacts etc.

Compared to a single bald Indian guy, I think we're getting the raw end of the deal.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)

100 San Fran, have you seen the latest Metal Leo? Is the Embarcadero really that empty?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:38 PM (uQesX)
====

I'll look for it tomorrow, but last time I was there it was like The Walking Dead.

It's kind of block-to-block. It triggers my cynicism because everyone has been chirping at me how much "better" everything has gotten. Yeah, I'm not seeing it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

101 Via GP:

Zohran Mamdani’s tenant advocate, or housing czar, Cea Weaver apparently used to teach a course at New York University, but the school appears to be scrubbing their website of any mentions of her.
----

Imagine that--she got a job...and the University said "Whoa...whoa!" after she opened her mouth.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 10:42 PM (Cjcf6)

102 The Walrus was Paul? That Beatle stuff was weird.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:42 PM (n4Qav)

103 66 I'll bake you a butter pie

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Butter pie!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:32 PM (n4Qav)

Custard Pie

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2026 10:43 PM (EOjZq)

104 I wasn't aware I could file a police complaint for altered appearance. That pretty much makes every woman on the planet a suspect, provided they wear make-up, extensions, heals, push-up bras, girdles (that still a thing?), contacts etc.

Compared to a single bald Indian guy, I think we're getting the raw end of the deal.
Posted by: Orson

Go for the big money! Sue Instagram as an accessory.

Posted by: mikeski is taller than he types at January 13, 2026 10:43 PM (nhCoE)

105 The Walrus was Paul? That Beatle stuff was weird.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:42 PM (n4Qav)
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That was revisionist history.

John Lennon clearly sings that *he* is the Walrus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 10:45 PM (krQz2)

106 Posted by: Orson

More than one story about a guy unknowingly marrying a tranny.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:45 PM (KDPiq)

107 57 Lavika Gupta, a resident of Gaur City Avenue-1, in central Noida, recently filed a police complaint against her husband and four in-laws, alleging that she was deceived when she agreed to marry her spouse in 2024.
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It doesn't look like a matter for the police.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Perhaps not, but either way, there'll be hell toupee.
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 10:28 PM (nhCoE)

***golf clap***

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 10:45 PM (SRRAx)

108 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Q+gd/)

109
Can you bake a butter pie,
San Franpsycho, San Franpsycho
Can you bake a butter pie,
Charming 'Psycho?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (krQz2)

110 I saw the Psychedelic Furs open for The Go-Go's at the Spectrum in 1982.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

111 Paul is also the only one barefoot crossing Abbey Road, which he would have been in his coffin. Nobody can see your feet if you are in repose in your coffin.

Posted by: He Blew His Mind Out In A Car at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (oftw2)

112 This just in: Cher looks a thousand years old and the wig doesn't change it, and she's still the same bitter old hag she's been for decades (suing Sonny Bono's widow for something I can't be bothered to understand).

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Cjcf6)

113 I worked with a gang of millwrights who always thought I was afraid of heights.

They weren't too happy when I explained to them that I was afraid of their shoddy welding.

Learn how to weld.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:47 PM (BSdIE)

114 Paul is out of step.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 10:47 PM (Q+gd/)

115 My nephews were all potty-trained elsewhere (Aunt PG just made sure to ask if they had to go), and Lil Pooky will have to be trained eventually, so I gotta ask: Does the Cheerio trick work?

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to know at January 13, 2026 10:47 PM (Wt5PA)

116 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?

Well, I don't know if it's considered great, but I love 'Mull of Kintyre'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 10:47 PM (sAmhv)

117 Does the Cheerio trick work?

Sure. Just toss a few out in the back yard and tell him to have at it!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:48 PM (47diA)

118

91 Sheesh.
You elites and your toilets.
I have to walk five blocks to a construction site and find the port-a-potty.
Uphill
Both ways
In the rain.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

--------

So, you understand why.

Posted by: Derelict Street Shitter at January 13, 2026 10:48 PM (VWtfl)

119 Mayor Jihadi fires back against Trump's stance on Sanctuary Cities.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired back on social media after Trump made his comments, saying “Our values and our laws are not bargaining chips. We will always defend New Yorkers, even in the face of federal threats to withhold funding.”

Mayor Jihadi should have paid closer attention to his oath of office:

The oath of office for the New York City mayor involves a solemn promise to support the U.S. Constitution and the New York State Constitution, as well as to faithfully discharge the duties of the office.

He can't support sanctuary cities AND the US Constitution. If he had no intention to, after solemnly swearing to, that's fraud.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:48 PM (u/kd+)

120 But every night all the men would come around...

Posted by: And lay their money down at January 13, 2026 10:48 PM (2Ez/1)

121 93 Jeepers. wings reminds me of senior year in high school

And Belinda Carlisle freshman year in college.

Damn. I’m old.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

I drove the Go-Gos to their radio interviews when they gave a concert sponsored by my college when I was a graduate assistant.

I graduated 43 years ago . Yes I’m older .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:40 PM (KDPiq)

Get on the cart.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 10:49 PM (Idisy)

122 That was revisionist history.

John Lennon clearly sings that *he* is the Walrus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 10:45 PM (krQz2)

The Walrus is Paul was from Glass Onion, I think?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:49 PM (n4Qav)

123 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?

Dunno. But having James Coburn and Christopher Lee on your album cover is worth something.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)

124 I think Wings Greatest hits is pretty good.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:50 PM (KDPiq)

125 My nephews were all potty-trained elsewhere (Aunt PG just made sure to ask if they had to go), and Lil Pooky will have to be trained eventually, so I gotta ask: Does the Cheerio trick work?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to know

While peeing thru a cheerio is a heck of a trick, start with a bigger target. Baby steps, so to speak.

Posted by: mikeski aims at the rolling donut at January 13, 2026 10:50 PM (nhCoE)

126 Piss Coordinates - G13
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

Hit! You sunk my battleship...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 10:51 PM (nbLIj)

127 The Paul is Dead ruse was one of the best publicity gimmicks of all time. Similarly, John saying the Beatles were more popular than Christ was a great stunt. Lots of people upset, religious folks burning records, but the whole world was talking about it. The John and Yoko "Peace, Bed, Hair" was a phenomenon, too.

Posted by: Old Yeller! at January 13, 2026 10:51 PM (oftw2)

128 Butter pie!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:32

I've made butter pie in the past. We had Dutch neighbors as a kid and she gave me the recipe for Boettercock sp? Heart clogging stuff. lol.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 13, 2026 10:51 PM (55Qr6)

129 Goo goo g'joob

*touches nose*

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 13, 2026 10:51 PM (jc0TO)

130 He can't support sanctuary cities AND the US Constitution. If he had no intention to, after solemnly swearing to, that's fraud.
----

It was reported that he swore on a Koran. A book that mandates lying to advance the cause. He intended to lie.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 10:52 PM (XlNvn)

131 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?
----
Are you deaf?

Paul McCartney & Wings may have been the tightest touring band circa 1978. Check out the re-release "Rock Show" DVD. That band was amazing. You even asking the question makes me doubt your understanding of music.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 10:52 PM (Cjcf6)

132 On the other hand, Ebony and Ivory is a crime against music itself.

So is Goodnight Tonight. Crimes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:53 PM (RIvkX)

133 The John and Yoko "Peace, Bed, Hair" was a phenomenon, too.

--------

Yoko was a toad. A malignant lump of unkempt black hair that poisoned every room she occupied.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:53 PM (+HNx/)

134 A thru J AND 1 THRU 10

Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 13, 2026 10:53 PM (P4Pk9)

135 nurse, you ain't old. 1978 was the first time I turned 29! You're doing fine!
Posted by: LRob in OK

I was in fifth grade!

That’s just when those songs were something in my
Memory!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (IhIKR)

136 F5. But first fire for range then for effect.

Posted by: Got to dial it in at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (TbWk/)

137 Nobody else taking a crack at the musical theme?

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

138 Philosophical musing. I have my doubts that we will ever see true synthetic cognition, let alone in the next N years, because the limit case of the hardest problem to solve is the determination of truth, which is a contested task. There are no shortcuts, because every time one is found, it is immediately co-opted and exploited by con artists with outsized gain at stake -- and the largest is total social control, stealing everything and enslaving everyone to the ruling clique (such as under Marxism and/or Islam).

When the potential prize for winning is the total output of everyone forever, there is no end to what some will attempt. That's how you get the World Economic Forum. But some prizes go beyond even that to the spiritual, or so it seems, as materialism does not seem sufficient to explain the evils of Muhammed and George Soros.

So, I take the enemies of civilization seriously. I think they're often nihilistic liars who neither know nor care if their own words are true, but I think their goal (which they lie about) is serious. But I don't take AI seriously. I think that it can't even be iterated into something that can tell what's going on, since that's a category error.

Posted by: SciVo at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (Sy6m/)

139 Posted by: mikeski aims at the rolling donut at January 13, 2026 10:50 PM (nhCoE)

I thought you were supposed to just aim for the Cheerio. Of course, given Lil Pooky's athletic prowess, he'd probably insist on going through the Cheerio.

Posted by: pookysgirl watched Lil Pooky do multiple chinups today at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (Wt5PA)

140 Piss Coordinates - G13
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)

Hit! You sunk my battleship...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Also got peeping kitty right in his smug face.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)

141 Piss coordinates:

At my place? Off the front porch basically everything is a viable target so I start with fire for effect.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 10:55 PM (vzcgi)

142 It was reported that he swore on a Koran. A book that mandates lying to advance the cause. He intended to lie.
Posted by: clarence

So he gave his word that you can never take him at his word.

Sounds like Captain Kirk trying to blow up a smart-ass computer.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 10:55 PM (nhCoE)

143 108 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Q+gd/)

Stuart Sutcliffe?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2026 10:55 PM (EOjZq)

144 I use vamp pliers to remove stripped, rusted sheet metal screws from vintage trailer siding. Superlative at this task.

Posted by: keith at January 13, 2026 10:57 PM (XT4le)

145 nurse, you ain't old. 1978 was the first time I turned 29! You're doing fine!
Posted by: LRob in OK

I was in fifth grade!

That’s just when those songs were something in my
Memory!
Posted by: nurse ratched

I graduated 8th grade. Dang. I feel it too.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:57 PM (u/kd+)

146 Say, Say, Say is another disturbing McCartney duo. At least as bad as Ebony and Ivory.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:58 PM (n4Qav)

147 Can I buy one of those grids for my toilet? Or for the hall end bathroom? I've got some cousins who would admire that!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 10:58 PM (47diA)

148 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Q+gd/)

Stuart Sutcliffe?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2026 10:55 PM (EOjZq)

Leggy Mountbatten?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:58 PM (uQesX)

149 And no funny business with other people's toothbrushes. That's over the line.

Fine, my butthole won't be minty fresh next time I visit. Hope you're happy now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 13, 2026 10:58 PM (lUFok)

150 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde.

Not overly impressed with the Vampliers. If you are going to use them end-on to back out a screw, the serrations on the jaw tips should be cut the other way.

Pro tip: for Phillips and slot screws where the driver bit tends to cam out of the recess on the screw head, dip the tip of the screw driver into some coarse-grade valve grinding compound, and try again. It will double the grip, at least. Commonly lets you develop enough torque to snap the screw head right off, if the screw is well and truly stuck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 10:59 PM (8zz6B)

151 Boterkoek

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 10:59 PM (rbvCR)

152
The Walrus is Paul was from Glass Onion, I think?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Correct. I just listened to the first half of that album not more than an hour ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 10:59 PM (pkeXY)

153 Nobody else taking a crack at the musical theme?
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

Sorry, I have no breadth or depth of musical knowledge to take even any guesses as to those kind of questions.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:59 PM (uQesX)

154
Leggy Mountbatten?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Trousers

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 11:00 PM (pkeXY)

155 I thought you were supposed to just aim for the Cheerio. Of course, given Lil Pooky's athletic prowess, he'd probably insist on going through the Cheerio.
Posted by: pookysgirl

My grade school's urinals had air-freshener / splash-mats with targets drawn on them.

There are also stickers depicting flies or other insects designed to be placed in urinals and toilets to help with aiming.

So, to answer your question seriously..... yes, there's a fundamental bit of programming in the dinosaur part of the brain that makes dudes of any age aim when there's something to aim for.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 11:00 PM (nhCoE)

156 Don't you fellas pee sitting down?

Posted by: Mayor Pete at January 13, 2026 11:00 PM (oftw2)

157 I see a bad weld/corrosion? Something that would make me not want to lean on the railing.
Posted by: pookysgirl, related to several welders at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (Wt5PA)

It's a "gorilla weld". Strong, but ugly. Since pipe fittings are cast steel, they don't take weld very well. Pile enough rod on, it ought to hold. Mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:01 PM (8zz6B)

158 145 nurse, you ain't old. 1978 was the first time I turned 29! You're doing fine!
Posted by: LRob in OK

I was in fifth grade!

That’s just when those songs were something in my
Memory!
Posted by: nurse ratched

I graduated 8th grade. Dang. I feel it too.
Posted by: rickb223
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Kids! High school was in the rear view mirror in '78.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (XlNvn)

159 "Sleep tight! And don’t let your brain play the greatest hits of your most embarrassing moments.”

I surely don't fit in tonight.
Good night sweet Horde❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (LNeRu)

160 I graduated HS in 78.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)

161 The money has strings attached. Thus just in.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (YlWIZ)

162 AOP, snapping off the screw head is ok if you are working on sheetrock or similar. But on my roadster or my truck or, in the old days, on an aircraft, that just leads to another problem.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (47diA)

163 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
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Beep bee-eep beep beep beep

Posted by: Herbie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

164 Sanyam Jain will have no career in Starfleet with that ridiculous rug. Can you even imagine.

Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at January 13, 2026 11:03 PM (gKWVE)

165 It's a "gorilla weld". Strong, but ugly. Since pipe fittings are cast steel, they don't take weld very well. Pile enough rod on, it ought to hold. Mostly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The equivalent of the nautical "if you can't see the cleat under all the rope, the boat's tied up well enough."

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 11:04 PM (nhCoE)

166 163 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
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Beep bee-eep beep beep beep
Posted by: Herbie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

Fucking Yoko!

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:04 PM (Idisy)

167 I was a fairly young man I thought when I first started reading aos. 25 years go by fast.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:04 PM (KDPiq)

168 23 years.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:05 PM (KDPiq)

169 Pile enough rod on, it ought to hold. Mostly.
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It's the 'mostly' that scares anyone that has seen it give out.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 11:05 PM (XlNvn)

170 Sorry, I have no breadth or depth of musical knowledge to take even any guesses as to those kind of questions.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 10:59 PM (uQesX)

Sometimes it's not about the music, but rather the titles and/or artists.

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 11:05 PM (QMAsf)

171 Sheesh.
You elites and your toilets.
I have to walk five blocks to a construction site and find the port-a-potty.
Uphill
Both ways
In the rain.
Posted by: Diogenes

I was expecting so much more than a geezer rant from the ex-artillery guy.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 11:06 PM (vzcgi)

172 Wings?

Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (+HNx/)

I'll throw out there the James Bond movie theme song 'Live And Let Die'.

Posted by: RickZ at January 13, 2026 11:06 PM (gKDq2)

173 So, to answer your question seriously..... yes, there's a fundamental bit of programming in the dinosaur part of the brain that makes dudes of any age aim when there's something to aim for.
Posted by: mikeski

Nothing more satisfying than blasting about a cigarette butt.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

174 147 Can I buy one of those grids for my toilet? Or for the hall end bathroom? I've got some cousins who would admire that!
Posted by: LRob in OK
_______

Back when my son was in junior high, a lot of his friends seemed to lack good aim at the toilet. I gathered the crew together and said, "Guys, if your dick isn't big enough to aim at the target and hit it, then you need to sit down and pee."

We didn't ever have any bathroom cleanliness problems after that.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 13, 2026 11:07 PM (gf7Ez)

175 On the other hand, Ebony and Ivory is a crime against music itself.

So is Goodnight Tonight. Crimes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:53 PM

Don't say it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 11:08 PM (4p0Xq)

176 Common thread: TV show titles... Mad About You, Wings, Friends. Of course it's song title/band name/song title, so I'm not 100% sure.

Posted by: Average Guy at January 13, 2026 11:08 PM (lPHZZ)

177 A thru J AND 1 THRU 10
Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 13, 2026 10:53 PM

Lint happens...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 11:08 PM (nbLIj)

178 Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:15 PM (+HNx/)

I'll throw out there the James Bond movie theme song 'Live And Let Die'.

Posted by: RickZ at January 13, 2026 11:06 PM (gKDq2)

That was an awesome song, indeed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 11:08 PM (n4Qav)

179 Junior’s Farm
Jet
Band on the Run

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:10 PM (KDPiq)

180 Yeah, Live And Let Die was a classic. Better than most of the shit he did with Lennon.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 11:11 PM (gKWVE)

181 >>>Beep bee-eep beep beep beep
Posted by: Herbie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

Fucking Yoko!

Posted by: Gongfarmer

>Isn't that supposed to be, "Beep beep'm beep beep, yeah!"

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 11:11 PM (BSdIE)

182 I surely don't fit in tonight.
Good night sweet Horde❣
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (LNeRu)
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See what you did with all the tool talk!

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

183 Ringo had 3 songs from his solo career I liked. That’s three more than Lennon.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:12 PM (KDPiq)

184 All this Yoko chat and Mis Hum isn't even here! He might be sad.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 11:12 PM (47diA)

185 I didn't see off the back deck as a coordinate.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 13, 2026 11:13 PM (GGatE)

186 Best Wings song: Love take me down (to the streets)

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at January 13, 2026 11:14 PM (zdQuL)

187 I don't think I know much of McCartney's material with Wings. But I liked his solo album Press to Play from the 80s a lot back in the day.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:14 PM (Idisy)

188 Firefox is barely more tolerable than google--here's one of the link's they thought I might want to check out when I logged in tonight:

"What to Do If ICE Invades Your Neighborhood"

Me personally? I'd look forward to finding out the arrest numbers and whether any of those illegals deserving of getting their asses kicked actually GOT their asses kicked.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 11:14 PM (Cjcf6)

189 The original Paul was better. RIP.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 11:15 PM (9cHSL)

190 Good answer, Average Guy. If its not the correct one, it should be

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 11:15 PM (0e5Te)

191 Common thread: TV show titles... Mad About You, Wings, Friends. Of course it's song title/band name/song title, so I'm not 100% sure.
Posted by: Average Guy at January 13, 2026 11:08 PM (lPHZZ)

Yes! More specifically - 90s sitcoms.

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

192 Speaking of cast iron, the second floor pipe developed a crack and had to be replaced. You don't cut cast iron with a saw, you, well, neither I nor the plumber could. The way to remove cast iron pipe, it's between the floors, is to smash (not your wife) it in half. Then the joints come loose easily.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:17 PM (48JDT)

193 Yes! More specifically - 90s sitcoms.
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

Yay me. All it takes is a bit of a puzzle/challenge to get me to de-lurk.

Posted by: Average Guy at January 13, 2026 11:18 PM (lPHZZ)

194 186 Best Wings song: Love take me down (to the streets)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at January 13, 2026 11:14 PM (zdQuL)

lol

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:18 PM (Idisy)

195 As a matter of fact Ringo has my top two songs out of all the four solo songs playbook.

It Don’t Come Easy

Photograph

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (KDPiq)

196 160 I graduated HS in 78.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)

Same here!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (SRRAx)

197 Was Yoko in Wings?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (9cHSL)

198 Sometimes it's not about the music, but rather the titles and/or artists.
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 11:05 PM (QMAsf)

Oh well, if it's about titties... oh, you said titles.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (uQesX)

199 188 Firefox is barely more tolerable than google--here's one of the link's they thought I might want to check out when I logged in tonight:

"What to Do If ICE Invades Your Neighborhood"
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DDG is butt dumb, however, it's not stuck on stupid.
If you don't mind the Chinese watching you Opera is smooth, just don't do business with it.
I piss on Brave's, spells worse than I do, ashes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:20 PM (48JDT)

200 Most annoying Wings song was Let 'em In. Who wants a bunch of randos knocking at your door?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 11:20 PM (n4Qav)

201 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 10:46 PM (Q+gd/)
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Duh.

Billy Shears

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:21 PM (OaZlZ)

202 0 I graduated HS in 78.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)

Same here!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (SRRAx)

👍

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:21 PM (KDPiq)

203 AOP, snapping off the screw head is ok if you are working on sheetrock or similar. But on my roadster or my truck or, in the old days, on an aircraft, that just leads to another problem.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (47diA)

Well, obviously one should take steps to free up the stuck threads before snapping the screwhead off. Just pointing out that the valve grinding compound stunt really does work amazingly well. I have other tricks for removing broken screws, too.

You can vastly improve an ordinary "flat Blade" screwdriver by grinding the tip such that, seen end-on, it looks a little like a convex lens: thick at the middle, thin at the edges. Subtle, middle maybe 20% thicker than the edges. Makes a huge increase in grip.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:22 PM (8zz6B)

204 It Don’t Come Easy

Photograph
Posted by: Opinion fact

Weren't those songs written by George Harrison?

Posted by: All Things Must Pass at January 13, 2026 11:23 PM (oftw2)

205 It Don't Come Easy is a maximum volume song.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:23 PM (RIvkX)

206 Harrison helped write It Don't Come Easy

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

207 Since there a so many 29 year olds here tonight with musical knowledge, I have to ask if anyone remembers a song about the Fukawi tribe? I have vague memories of my Dad playing it on a cassette during a long move in 1976.

I don't remember enough of the song to find it anymore. I'm hoping to hear it again, and maybe also hear an echo of Dad's laughter while listening.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 13, 2026 11:24 PM (S/Y4j)

208 Boterkoek
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 10:59

TY K. It was delicious. Are you Dutch?

Just butter, bit of flour, vanilla and cinnamon IIRC. Tasty, at the time.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (55Qr6)

209 Coincidence, looking at tool rests for my grinder today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (48JDT)

210 Don't Come Easy is a maximum volume song.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:23 PM (RIvkX)
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Yeah. Jet is pretty good. And Band on the Run is a classic.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (OaZlZ)

211 Yay me. All it takes is a bit of a puzzle/challenge to get me to de-lurk.
Posted by: Average Guy at January 13, 2026 11:18 PM (lPHZZ)

Now you're not allowed to go back to lurker mode!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (QMAsf)

212 Posted by: All Things Must Pass at January 13, 2026 11:23 PM (oftw

George helped with It Don’t Come Easy but it was credited solely to Ringo.

Photograph was credited to both Ringo and George.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:26 PM (KDPiq)

213 Homely Depot has a small Victor welding (brazing) kit for $488. How does that sound?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:26 PM (48JDT)

214 >>>The handrail sprawled like a tired sigh, uneven and jagged, its welds stark scars against the weary iron, whispering tales of hasty hands and lost craft. Each joint a shuddering reminder of promises unkept, rust mingling with regret, as if the very metal lamented its own existence.

Posted by: Bill Faulkner

>The well worn woman of cast iron needed lots of heated foreplay before you could apply you manhood to her delicate crystalline composition lest you crack her spirit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 11:26 PM (BSdIE)

215 You don't cut cast iron with a saw, you, well, neither I nor the plumber could.
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I have used a hacksaw to cut cast. Also, when I had a electrical plug nearby, a reciprocating saw with a metal cutting blade at 4 tpi.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 11:27 PM (XlNvn)

216 Harrison helped write It Don't Come Easy
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)
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That checks. It does have that Harrison sound.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:27 PM (OaZlZ)

217 Since there a so many 29 year olds here tonight with musical knowledge, I have to ask if anyone remembers a song about the Fukawi tribe? I have vague memories of my Dad playing it on a cassette during a long move in 1976.

Not familiar, but it sounds like something Ray Stevens would do. I can look it up...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 11:27 PM (nbLIj)

218 Somebody is looking at guy's tools on grindr?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:29 PM (OaZlZ)

219 Don't Come Easy is a maximum volume song.

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I'll go to my grave swearing that Eric Clapton came up with that "rolling chord" intro. It just SCREAMS Eric Clapton, and he was tight with Harrison and Starr.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 11:29 PM (Cjcf6)

220 122 The Walrus is Paul was from Glass Onion, I think?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:49 PM (n4Qav)

John got the idea of the Walrus from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and was pissed when he later found out the Walrus was the bad guy in the story.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 13, 2026 11:29 PM (y171U)

221 The handrail sprawled like a tired sigh, uneven and jagged, its welds stark scars against the weary iron, whispering tales of hasty hands and lost craft. Each joint a shuddering reminder of promises unkept, rust mingling with regret, as if the very metal lamented its own existence.
Posted by: Bill Faulkner

All it needs is Quentin Compson insisting he doesn't hate it.

Posted by: John Drake at January 13, 2026 11:29 PM (GWvJt)

222 You all are welcome to stand on my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

223 John and Billy Shears were thinking of renaming the band to Walrus and the Eggmen.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:31 PM (OaZlZ)

224 Sheesh.
You elites and your toilets.
I have to walk five blocks to a construction site and find the port-a-potty.
Uphill
Both ways
In the rain.
Posted by: Diogenes

I was expecting so much more than a geezer rant from the ex-artillery guy.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 11:06 PM (vzcgi)

***

Eh. That makes me think of the schiesemeister at the Graf Training area in Germany. Graf was where the artillery went to shoot. This guy had the contract for all the field latrines there. He was rolling in the Deutch Marks. He'd come up to the OP and shoot the breeze. Learned English as a pow after getting captured in Africa. Cool guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 11:31 PM (2WIwB)

225 218 Somebody is looking at guy's tools on grindr?
Posted by: Axeman

just at Braenyard's crack pipe

Posted by: Hunter! at January 13, 2026 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

226 Coincidence, looking at tool rests for my grinder today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (48JDT)
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Are we not doing phrasing?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 11:32 PM (RIvkX)

227 Photograph definitely sounds like a Harrison song.

It Don’t Come Easy not so much to me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:33 PM (KDPiq)

228 Cast Iron was a first-level magic-user spell in the first draft of the Player's Handbook but Gary cut it due to space considerations and lack of utility.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:33 PM (Idisy)

229 You all are welcome to stand on my lawn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return

Oh no. Just when I got over my Guam nightmares, you had to go there.

Posted by: Hank Johnson, D-Georgia at January 13, 2026 11:35 PM (hgzYo)

230 Im an E5.

On a good night.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:35 PM (OaZlZ)

231 When you cast iron, you'd better watch out, because you cantrip over it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 11:36 PM (OaZlZ)

232 9 > OK, back to the fellas. What's your aiming spot?
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The cat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (NwnyJ)

THAT will be a 'Comment of the Week' or my name's not ARiK..

You heard it here first, folks.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 11:37 PM (QGaXH)

233 Hour of the Wolf at January 13, 2026 11:24 PM

So it's a comedy bit from Redd Foxx as far as I can tell. Link to follow..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 11:37 PM (nbLIj)

234 Homely Depot has a small Victor welding (brazing) kit for $488. How does that sound?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:26 PM (48JDT)

Decent price for Victor, which is a good brand. Don't know where they are made now, though. Harbor Freight has an "Olsen" Victor-style outfit for $349. Tote with two small tanks, regulators, hoses, torch handle, cutting and welding tips, and goggles. They have more comprehensive kits as well.

Also check Craiglist, and local swap meets and flea markets. Good welding torches last nearly forever. Hoses get old and porous, and should be replaced every 20 years or so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:38 PM (8zz6B)

235 Behold yon handrail, a wretched sight,
Where metal meets with weak and feeble might.
Welds like frail cobwebs in the morning dew,
Betraying strength, yet whispering of rue.
A treacherous grasp, where safety doth equivocate,
In this faulted bond, fate doth hesitate.

Posted by: Bill Shakespeare at January 13, 2026 11:38 PM (2Ez/1)

236 The "vampliers" are just channel-locks with a weird jaw.

Oh, and F5.

Posted by: Pooklord at January 13, 2026 11:40 PM (asU3w)

237 https://youtu.be/wwMlum2n-w4?

Hope this is what you're looking for, HoW...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 11:41 PM (nbLIj)

238 Probably not a Mil-Std-2219 qualified welder.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 11:43 PM (QGaXH)

239 TY K. It was delicious. Are you Dutch?

Just butter, bit of flour, vanilla and cinnamon IIRC. Tasty, at the time.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 13, 2026 11:25 PM (55Qr6)

I am not, but I have always been fascinated in language and how they evolved. If it had not been for the Normans, English and Dutch would be very similar

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)

240 What's this about a grid? Don't all you fellas sit when you pee?

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 13, 2026 11:44 PM (hgzYo)

241 https://youtu.be/wwMlum2n-w4?

Hope this is what you're looking for, HoW...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 11:41 PM (nbLIj)

I don't think it was, but I like it. Thank you.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 13, 2026 11:44 PM (S/Y4j)

242 You sank my battleship.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 11:45 PM (9cHSL)

243 McCartney's Wings debut single from 1972 was a political song that was banned by the BBC. The song came out during The Troubles. The song was 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish'. In protest over the banning, Wings released another single, 'Mary Had A Little Lamb', a completely innocuous song. For that brief moment in time, I respected Paul.

Now, of course, that song 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish' still resonates.

Posted by: RickZ at January 13, 2026 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

244 Gosh, I never realized that peeing was so challenging. So glad I'm a woman!

"...But you, my dear, get to have multiple orgasms!"
-- Just the punchline

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVOm)

245 Are we not doing phrasing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return a
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Right over my head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 11:46 PM (48JDT)

246 >>>Help me out, fellas. Are these really must-haves??

Looking at their page, I see a channel locks type pliers, a vise-grips, a lineman's pliers, etc. For the described problem, I'd try the vise-grips first.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 13, 2026 11:47 PM (syz1S)

247 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE GRINDR IS AN APP FOR HOMOSEXUALS TO MEET UP AND GRAB AT EACH OTHERS' TOOLS, WHICH MEANS PENISES.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 13, 2026 11:49 PM (gKWVE)

248 Guys, please don't pee on the cat. Cats have ways of *getting even* you know.

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

249 94 Doof, the top pic song reminded me of being 5 years old. It was one of those songs that played when I rode around in the '73 Impala with Dad. Sweet times, thanks.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:40 PM (n4Qav)

I have the album but nothing to play it on anymore. It's spent the last 35 years in the attic, now slated for disposal. I bought it at Peaches Record Store on Atlantic Ave in Ft Lauderdale. Paid 'Peaches Peachy Price'.

Thanks for the memory jog...smile

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 11:51 PM (QGaXH)

250 I scored a huge win today on the weed-whacking front. Spent some hours working on the 40-dollar lawn mower I bought yesterday. Bought some new fuel hose, cleaned out the carburetor, and it runs fine. 5.5 HP Honda engine. Took off the power drive mechanism for the front wheels, bolted the wheels back on, and took 3 cuts on the front of the mower deck with a cutoff disc in my angle grinder, exposing about 15 inches of the forward arc of the blade.

Fired it up, and psuhed it into a patch of 3-foot tall mallow weeds. Slash! Splatter! Topple! I was knocking them down like a combine knocks down wheat straws. In less than an hour, I had completely nuked the entire weed crop, save for a few stragglers too close to obstacles for the blade to reach. It was shooting jets of mulched weed guts over a six foot chain link fence. And into it, too. The fence is well decorated now. My neighbor came out and shot video of the slaughter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:51 PM (8zz6B)

251 98 That Beetle was part of the "Paul is Dead" lore. It's license plate is 28 IF, which Paul would have been if he had lived past 1966.
Posted by: I Bury Paul at January 13, 2026 10:41 PM (oftw2)

Also - wasn't the fact Paul is barefoot in the picture part of it also?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 11:52 PM (QGaXH)

252 I have been in a class and just now tuning in. I know an 'ette has already discussed the obvious photos of the Grand Canyon.

No clue with the 3 songs and I tried. I always try and with a little luck and love someday I might figure it out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 11:52 PM (WONhk)

253 Keifer Sutherland arrested for drunk driving. Apparently there is an endless supply of rich people who are too stupid to call an Uber if they are too mean to have a friend they could call to come pick them up.

Enjoy 45 minutes of jail Keifer.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 11:54 PM (Cjcf6)

254 Hahaha, AOP! Love it.

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 11:55 PM (rdVOm)

255 >>> Help me out, fellas. Are these really must-haves??

No. Use vise grips and save the skin, webbing between your thumb and index finger. BTDT.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 11:55 PM (dK+Kv)

256 Guys, please don't pee on the cat. Cats have ways of *getting even* you know.

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

Preemptive payback for the puke landmines.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 11:55 PM (dK+Kv)

257 Preemptive payback for the puke landmines.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Ah. Comrade Flounder gets the square.

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 11:56 PM (rdVOm)

258 That welded railing would have turned out much better had the welder used an oxy-acetylene outfit and some flux-coated brazing rod. Get the worl cherry-red to orange hot, so the brazing rod melts on contact, and the molten bronze will wick into the joint, and then you can build a fillet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:57 PM (8zz6B)

259 It's okay to pee on the cat. But only if he consents.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:57 PM (Idisy)

260 Keifer Sutherland arrested for drunk driving. Apparently there is an endless supply of rich people who are too stupid to call an Uber if they are too mean to have a friend they could call to come pick them up.

Enjoy 45 minutes of jail Keifer.

Posted by: Crusader

Shouldn't he be riding a Hoverround around Las Angeles at this point? He's way past 29.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 11:58 PM (n4Qav)

261 Huh, I thought the DUI was old news - turned out, Keister Sutherland did get busted for that a few times, like in 2020. This recent thing is because he assaulted a "rideshare driver" whatever that is.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 11:58 PM (gKWVE)

262 If you can't beat the underlings, what's the point of being a celebrity?

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:59 PM (Idisy)

263 'Way back at #127, Old Yeller! said: …John saying the Beatles were more popular than Christ was a great stunt. Lots of people upset, religious folks burning records, but the whole world was talking about it.…

My recollection, my lasting impression, is that what John said about Beatles being more popular than Christ among young people was not a stunt, but sincerely meant, and despite how it was taken,* he did NOT consider that a positive thing nor was he comparing himself, or the group to Jesus. But it was (relatively) true, and the decline in Christianity (especially in England) continues.

(*I know, in this day and age, it's hard to believe the media or "interested parties" could take someone's words out of context and blow them out of proportion.🙄

"More popular than Jesus"
https://w.wiki/HSVg

Then John came out with a bumbling attempt at an apology (displaying his own lack of sound theology: "God as a thing") and that somewhat made it worse.
https://youtu.be/Fe9Z8GtB08s

By that point, it was a damned if you do or don't position, anyway. People still get p'o'd for their view of it.

I was and remain aghast at seeing all their albums burned, though. What a loss.

Posted by: mindful webworker - yeah yeah yeah goo goo ga joob at January 14, 2026 12:01 AM (HJunf)

264 Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?

Jet, Band On The Run, Junior's Farm, Helen Wheels...

Paul without John easily veered into the over commercial
John without Paul easily veered into the under commercial

But if they hadn't split sooner or later there would have been many mediocre at best Beatles albums.

It is the Way Of Rock

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 14, 2026 12:01 AM (3/XaG)

265 Huh, I thought the DUI was old news - turned out, Keister Sutherland did get busted for that a few times, like in 2020. This recent thing is because he assaulted a "rideshare driver" whatever that is.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 11:58 PM (gKWVE)

The ride-share driver quit. he was exuberant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:01 AM (8zz6B)

266 166 163 But, who is driving the 5th beatle?
-
Beep bee-eep beep beep beep
Posted by: Herbie at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

Fucking Yoko!
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 13, 2026 11:04 PM (Idisy)

John doing that is what caused the group to off the rails in the first place - Paul, Ringo and Zombie George...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 14, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)

267 I graduated HS in 78.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)

Same here!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 11:19 PM (SRRAx)

👍
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:21
----
You younguns, by 78 I was 5 yrs out of high school and 1 out of college.

I recall an ONT age reveal several yrs ago. Damn, who was it that posted the early morn news that was always joked about being so old? My old mind fails me at this point. Tho it might be the wine, lol.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 12:02 AM (55Qr6)

268 a "rideshare driver" whatever that is.
Posted by: gKWVE

Uber, Lyft, etc.

Nobody ever "shares" them to split fares, but that's the theory behind the name. The Uber app, at least, does have a "share" button on it somewhere. Or it did the last time I used it.

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2026 12:03 AM (nhCoE)

269 Hmm Vampliers. They look cool, but I'm not sure I saw anything unique about them because each jaw profile seems to look like profiles I saw on other pliers. These just have a few of them on 1 set of pliers. I guess they would be handy. I would have to torture test them on serious shit to know.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:03 AM (snZF9)

270
Shouldn't he be riding a Hoverround around Las Angeles at this point? He's way past 29.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

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

You might be thinking of his dad, Donald.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 14, 2026 12:03 AM (lCaJd)

271 Donald's probably going to outlive that asshole.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:06 AM (gKWVE)

272 These just have a few of them on 1 set of pliers. I guess they would be handy. I would have to torture test them on serious shit to know.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:03 AM (snZF9)

If vise grips fail, I am drilling it out or grinding off the head.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 14, 2026 12:06 AM (dK+Kv)

273 Nothing more satisfying than blasting about a cigarette butt.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

For some men, nothing improves the aim like a Jane Fonda urinal cake.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:07 AM (HJunf)

274 Hey Horde, gliding in kind of mellow on a Tuesday night, well it was Tuesday 7 minutes ago.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

275 You might be thinking of his dad, Donald.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 14, 2026 12:03 AM (lCaJd)

No, I'm just being catty. Keifer Sutherland can't be that much older than I. He was a thing around "The Lost Boys". And then he did 24. But being a drunk fool seems to have stuck.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 14, 2026 12:08 AM (n4Qav)

276 271 Donald's probably going to outlive that asshole.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:06 AM (gKWVE)

Donald died in 2024. In this universe.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 12:09 AM (Idisy)

277 Big bro stormed into my room one day (back when we were in high school) scowling, grabbed my sneakers & dunked them in the toilet! He threw them back at me with a smirk and stormed off.

WTF? I hadn't done anything to him-- not intentionally, or that I could even think of *possibly* having done unintentionally. He was always such a jerk and I mostly tried to stay away from him.

He accused ME of dunking HIS shoes, and so it was "payback". Turns out that Mom's cat had a UTI or something, and was peeing in his shoes. I had nothing to do with it!

LMFAO.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

278 No, I'm just being catty. Keifer Sutherland can't be that much older than I. He was a thing around "The Lost Boys". And then he did 24. But being a drunk fool seems to have stuck.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 14, 2026 12:08 AM (n4Qav)

Kiefer's mother was the spawn of a deranged Socialist.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:11 AM (8zz6B)

279 Vise grips, my Ridgid pipe wrenches, Channellocks, etc. The real problem is if I rebuy them, they'll still be like new when I die and my wife will let them go at a garage sale for $.50 apiece.
Posted by: Tonypete
---

You'll look down at the joy of one finding your left behind and be glad that it belongs to one who appreciates it. Enjoy them now and pass them with no reluctance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 14, 2026 12:11 AM (48JDT)

280 Donald's probably going to outlive that asshole.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:06 AM

Nope.
"Donald Sutherland, a renowned Canadian actor, passed away on June 20, 2024, at the age of 88"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (aQEfL)

281 "Star Trek: The Animated Series" is pretty great in blue-ray.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (CHHv1)

282 speaking of people whose dad would be disappointed in how they turned out... hi raimondo.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (gKWVE)

283 That welded railing would have turned out much better had the welder used an oxy-acetylene outfit and some flux-coated brazing rod. Get the worl cherry-red to orange hot, so the brazing rod melts on contact, and the molten bronze will wick into the joint, and then you can build a fillet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Reminds me...
When I am retired in a couple months taking some welding class at the local vo-tech school is on the bucket list.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (/lPRQ)

284 ... democrat leaders to designate trumpsters as domestic terrorist outlaws.
Posted by: raimondo at January 14, 2026 12:10 AM (IkN1A)

How are the demoncrat leaders going to do that when they have all been rounded up and gassed?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:13 AM (8zz6B)

285 Had a patient many years ago who had invented a special wrench for shutting off water valves, called the Gordon wrench; he was handing them out as gifts to all of the nurses when he discharged home.

Posted by: Frankie at January 14, 2026 12:14 AM (efx3C)

286 160 I graduated HS in 78.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
******
Same here!
Posted by: Teresa
-----
Well, if we're into another "you had ones? all we had were zeros" contest...
I am a godfather to a high school classmate's daughter. She graduated in 1978. I sowed a lot of oats and got married a lot later. #1 son was in 4th grade at the time.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 14, 2026 12:14 AM (lbb+E)

287 Reminds me...
When I am retired in a couple months taking some welding class at the local vo-tech school is on the bucket list.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (/lPRQ)

Welding can be a lot of fun to learn. Fire CAN melt steel!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:15 AM (8zz6B)

288 .. as we fell into the sun

Great writing. So much better than
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:16 AM (ciYHQ)

289 Vampliers sounds like a scy fy flick. Like Sharknado.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 14, 2026 12:18 AM (pkeXY)

290 >>>You'll look down at the joy of one finding your left behind and be glad that it belongs to one who appreciates it. Enjoy them now and pass them with no reluctance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

>I've had more tools stolen from me than you can imagine.

No worries, I'm not building a factory in my front yard at this age. It sucks ass, but it's not something to go to jail for. Everybody tells me my shit is old and they still take it, so maybe it's a hint to upgrade. Cocksuckers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 12:20 AM (BSdIE)

291 I see in the news, according to Joy Reid (pit), White Women are taking the lead in the ICE protests...

Finally an answer to the age-ole question 'hey, whe de white wimmen at...?'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 14, 2026 12:20 AM (QGaXH)

292 Stolen tools...

*grumble grumble*... yeah, maybe it's not worth going to jail over, but the Revenge Fantasies do linger, yes?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

293 McCartney sure couldn't write sophisticated cogent lyrics like this guy:

https://youtu.be/TlHfvXTOB2k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:23 AM (8zz6B)

294 291 'spit' not 'pit'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 14, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)

295 Hickory shampoo shortage?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2026 12:24 AM (9cHSL)

296 291 also - age-old, not age-ole

Did a poor job of proof reading that one....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 14, 2026 12:25 AM (QGaXH)

297 as we fell into the sun
----
Beat Disaster Area by a couple centuries.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2026 12:26 AM (OaZlZ)

298 "That was an awesome song, indeed."
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January

When I was 6, my best friend and I did a play to that song. On a makeshift stage his father built in the backyard. Remember those little peddle powered cars? We crashed them into each other at the "let die" mark. To an audience of his teenage sister and her friends who thought we were the cutest thing. Ah glory days.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:27 AM (ciYHQ)

299 Hi, Debby! You still here?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

300 Welding can be a lot of fun to learn. Fire CAN melt steel!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I got a MIG welder welder a couple years ago to repair a mower deck but need more practice. It was cheaper than buying a new deck. Welds were.... Marginal.

Thread got me thinking I wanted to get a set of tanks and torch for brazing too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 12:28 AM (/lPRQ)

301 speaking of people whose dad would be disappointed in how they turned out... hi raimondo.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:12 AM (gKWVE)

When the mom's pulling a train, 'dad' is a mystery.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 12:29 AM (gKDq2)

302 I am not, but I have always been fascinated in language and how they evolved. If it had not been for the Normans, English and Dutch would be very similar
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 11:43

Yes indeed, that is an interesting field. Dutch and some versions of German are very related to English.

I met a young man from Cornwall and he was very proud he knew some Cornish. It was almost extinguished but there is a bit of revival today.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 12:30 AM (55Qr6)

303 Hubby has a wire-feed setup & late BF left me a gas setup... I should learn how to weld. Someday.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

304 If vise grips fail, I am drilling it out or grinding off the head.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 14, 2026 12:06 AM (dK+Kv)

Man, no shit. Usually different vice grips will do the job. When they quit you're fucked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:32 AM (snZF9)

305 I recall an ONT age reveal several yrs ago. Damn, who was it that posted the early morn news that was always joked about being so old? My old mind fails me at this point. Tho it might be the wine, lol.
Posted by: Farmer

That was the (unlisted) absent friend, Vic.
Young Vic pic
https://bit.ly/3NsOXRg

I had his obituary around here somewhere.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (HJunf)

306 AOP, congrats on the war on weeds, in the springtime I really enjoy attempting to eradicate weeds, they always win, although last summer one of my sons put the fear in them.

Farmer, if you are still around, you and I are of the same vintage, I hope that you and Jules are doing well.

JQ, you make me laugh so hard sometimes, thank you. You aren't by any chance tending the bar tonight are you?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (0nHVk)

307
D2

IYKYK

Posted by: ... at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (E0p3T)

308 *slides glass of Chivas with single perfect ice cube down the bar*

For you, Debby!

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

309 Man, no shit. Usually different vice grips will do the job. When they quit you're fucked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:32 AM (snZF9)

Naw. That's when you break out the MIG welder, and weld some sort of "handle" onto the stubborn screw. Gives you some purchase on it, and the heat-cool cycle helps break whatever bond (rust, galling, glue, etc.) that has made it seize in the hole. If "handle" breaks off, rinse and repeat. Multiple heat-cool cycles work wonders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:36 AM (8zz6B)

310 The 5th Beatle? You have to play the record backwards to hear him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

311 Ok time for some bourbon. I think I can safely say that if Doof spent the last week at my house he would be cured of his RUSH addiction. I was breaking in and tweaking a new guitar and probably went through 25 rush tunes a few times each for the last week. Its a guitar like lifeson used for some years (the white 355), so it had to be dialed in with Rush. It has the sound, thats for sure, but jesus I think I'm ready for some slayer at this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:38 AM (snZF9)

312 >>>Stolen tools...

*grumble grumble*... yeah, maybe it's not worth going to jail over, but the Revenge Fantasies do linger, yes?

Posted by: JQ

>You have no idea, or maybe you do.

At some point what are you going to do with $20k of industrial electrician-type work tools in your garage? Most of these thieves have no idea what they're looking at.

$800 fluke multi-meter; are you using it to check a fuse?
$2500 used ridgid pipe threader; where are you going to steal the conduit? Are you making devices to terrorize your neighbors?

Crazy world, crazy people.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 12:40 AM (BSdIE)

313 That was the (unlisted) absent friend, Vic.
Young Vic pic
https://bit.ly/3NsOXRg

I had his obituary around here somewhere.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (HJunf)

He looked happy there.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 12:40 AM (Idisy)

314 *3 fingers (it's a school-night after all) of Makers Mark*

Here ya go, Bers!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

315 @IAPolls2022
·
3h
Alabama State House 63 Special Election (100% in)

🟥 Norman Crow - 64.5% ✅
🟦 Judith Taylor - 35.5%

--
@FrankLuntz
·
2h
A Trump+18 district in 2024, which just went GOP+29 in 2026.

Posted by: Methos at January 14, 2026 12:41 AM (vSvIl)

316 Bu bup up Benny and the Jets!

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:44 AM (ciYHQ)

317 Naw. That's when you break out the MIG welder, and weld some sort of "handle" onto the stubborn screw. Gives you some purchase on it, and the heat-cool cycle helps break whatever bond (rust, galling, glue, etc.) that has made it seize in the hole. If "handle" breaks off, rinse and repeat. Multiple heat-cool cycles work wonders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:36 AM (8zz6B)

yeah I do that. Sometimes I lay a nut over it and weld the nut to the screw/bolt and then hit it with a socket. Depends on where it is though. Welding near a $4000 paint job on a harley is a no no. If its broken off in the frame you're going drill and extractor, or drill and heli-coil.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:44 AM (snZF9)

318 Benny!

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:44 AM (ciYHQ)

319 Crazy world, crazy people.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
--------

The fktards what steal your tools, are NOT planning to use them. Oh, no they're not... They're going to pawn or sell them ASAP for a pittance, just so they can get their Shot In The Arm-- their "fix".

Or? Possibly to sell for bigbux out of area, for what the tools are worth, to "friends in the biz"

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)

320 Benny!

Benny

and the Jets

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:46 AM (ciYHQ)

321 Trump+18 district in 2024, which just went GOP+29 in 2026.

Lotsa people had involuntary bowel movements when some blue states went blue in 2025.
Anyway, don't panic (or get cocky)

Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:46 AM (gKWVE)

322 *3 fingers (it's a school-night after all) of Makers Mark*

Here ya go, Bers!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

Your spidey senses are good. I finished the last of the JD last night and I'm actually drinking makers. When thats done I hit the woodford and all the christmas booze will be vanquished.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:46 AM (snZF9)

323 The anti-ICE riots in Minneapolis remind me of the anti-war demonstrations and riots in the 60s. Chicago in 1968 had a huge problem because it hosted the Democratic convention.

One major difference: the police were out in force to preserve order. It was a very difficult job, but it only lasted a couple of weeks

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 14, 2026 12:48 AM (ZZIer)

324 That was the (unlisted) absent friend, Vic.
Young Vic pic
https://bit.ly/3NsOXRg
I had his obituary around here somewhere.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:33

Yes indeed, I just recalled Vic. He wasn't that much older, think he was b ca 1947-48.

I know there are couple of posters older and proud of it. Makes wonder who are the youngest posting here. I think some posters have kids that have joined in.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 12:49 AM (55Qr6)

325 Your spidey senses are good. I finished the last of the JD last night and I'm actually drinking makers. When thats done I hit the woodford and all the christmas booze will be vanquished.
Posted by: Berserker

Working your way up, I see. Though that last step's a tall one.

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2026 12:50 AM (nhCoE)

326 Rev. Wishbone----------

I'd wonder about anyone you know, who might've had a clue what your tools were *for* and *worth*

Such things aren't that easy to unload at a pawn shop-- too specialized.

Hope you have photos/records and made a detailed police report.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

327 BENNY!

BENNY AND THE JETS.

At least that's the way I remember it, the second time around. Elton soiled his panties on that one.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 12:52 AM (0nHVk)

328 Working your way up, I see. Though that last step's a tall one.

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2026 12:50 AM (nhCoE)

Well, woodford is what I usually drink, so I was saving it for last. It took a month to drink the JD since I only do 1 small glass per night, so at this rate I'm look at somewhere in march to finish it all. Then I get to buy more. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:52 AM (snZF9)

329 313 That was the (unlisted) absent friend, Vic.
Young Vic pic
https://bit.ly/3NsOXRg

I had his obituary around here somewhere.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (HJunf)

He looked happy there.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 12:40 AM (Idisy

Sweet-looking ride. IIRC he worked on nuclear subs.

Posted by: fly gal at January 14, 2026 12:52 AM (hqWSh)

330 I am not, but I have always been fascinated in language and how they evolved. If it had not been for the Normans, English and Dutch would be very similar
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 11:43

Yes indeed, that is an interesting field. Dutch and some versions of German are very related to English.
----------

Recently obtained a copy of 'Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words'
Goodreads review:
https://tinyurl.com/r3tbajj3

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 12:53 AM (XeU6L)

331 That was the (unlisted) absent friend, Vic.
Young Vic pic
https://bit.ly/3NsOXRg

I had his obituary around here somewhere.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the classic at January 14, 2026 12:33 AM (HJunf)

He looked happy there.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 12:40 AM (Idisy

Sweet-looking ride. IIRC he worked on nuclear subs.

Posted by: fly gal at January 14, 2026 12:52 AM (hqWSh)

Looks like a ford Maverick. I haven't seen one of those in years, and I do a decent amount of cruise nights in the summer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:55 AM (snZF9)

332 I know there are couple of posters older and proud of it. Makes wonder who are the youngest posting here. I think some posters have kids that have joined in.

Posted by: Farmer

I think TJM may be the youngest regular poster.

There's a NY-area lawyer who may be younger, but he hasn't posted recently, and I forget his nic.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 12:55 AM (Idisy)

333 Ah, Vic's obit
https://bit.ly/vic-obit

Hm. In less than three months, I'll be older than Vic got to be. 😣

Posted by: mindful webworker - still 29 in my head, and behavior, at January 14, 2026 12:55 AM (HJunf)

334 Did Wings ever produce a song that was better than average?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I'll throw out there the James Bond movie theme song 'Live And Let Die'.
Posted by: RickZ

album: Venus & Mars ...

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 14, 2026 12:55 AM (3ZUWJ)

335 One major difference: the police were out in force to preserve order. It was a very difficult job, but it only lasted a couple of weeks
Posted by: JM
-------
And, they carried nightsticks.

My Army unit was placed on alert, anticipating possible deployment to Chicago

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 12:56 AM (XeU6L)

336 When (the eternal optimist) I hit the lottery, I'm a gonna get me one of those $10k laser welding/cutting rigs.

It's like having a CNC mill and some good store-bought designs, as opposed to spending 20 years learning to be a machinist.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 14, 2026 12:56 AM (lbb+E)

337 Or? Possibly to sell for bigbux out of area,"

Nah, your first guess was right - for the fentynyl fix

Don't know if peeps remember the addict friend I had saved over the summer. He passed away last Thursday, homeless and alone. The last text I got was Tues night begging for $20 for food. Which I ignored. Because it never ends. Well, now it has. And I don't feel at all guilty. His girlfriend was planning on coming back from North Carolina after her parents spent an ungodly amount of money to put her through safe detox. Love ya Chris but your death probably saved her life. Rest in peace.

Fentynyl is a very stupid drug. If you find that someone you care about is using, beat them half to death with a spoon and then get them off the sht. Even if that means replacing their Stupidity with Meth or Heroin.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:56 AM (ciYHQ)

338 Ah, Vic's obit
https://bit.ly/vic-obit

Hm. In less than three months, I'll be older than Vic got to be. 😣

Posted by: mindful webworker - still 29 in my head, and behavior, at January 14, 2026 12:55 AM (HJunf)

Shit, I thought Vic was old enough to grease the blocks during the pyramid building.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:57 AM (snZF9)

339 I know there are couple of posters older and proud of it. Makes wonder who are the youngest posting here. I think some posters have kids that have joined in.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 12:49 AM (55Qr6)

TJM is in his 30s, so he has most of us 'Younger' people beat.

Thathalfrican is similarly aged to TJM, I think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 12:58 AM (bss/y)

340 Man, no shit. Usually different vice grips will do the job. When they quit you're fucked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 12:32 AM (snZF9)

I had the Studebaker Lark out for spin this evening. It ran fine, too. If it had a lawn, TJM would have to get off it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 12:58 AM (8zz6B)

341 Sorry for the death vibe.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:59 AM (ciYHQ)

342 >>>Rev. Wishbone----------

I'd wonder about anyone you know, who might've had a clue what your tools were *for* and *worth*

Such things aren't that easy to unload at a pawn shop-- too specialized.

Hope you have photos/records and made a detailed police report.

Posted by: JQ

>I'm not too concerned. The company knows what I brought to the table when I agreed to sign-on to rebuild their facility. They will pay for my losses.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 12:59 AM (BSdIE)

343 if it's any consolation, Fen, fent deaths are going down since 2024.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 14, 2026 12:59 AM (gKWVE)

344 I am trying to think if anyone else feels particularly young.

We have a tendency to drive people off. Harry Paratestes was maybe early 40s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:00 AM (bss/y)

345 When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:00 AM (ciYHQ)

346 LOL. I just thought: I might have been younger than TJM when I started commenting (would have read as early as 2004 election, but did not look at comments til about 200

so I would have been 33?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:02 AM (bss/y)

347 We have a tendency to drive people off. Harry Paratestes was maybe early 40s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:00 AM (bss/y)
---
He got on people's lawns.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2026 01:02 AM (OaZlZ)

348 Plus, I need to look at stats again when one of the D's posts them. I am fascinated by how many people read but never comment and how many comment like once a week.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:03 AM (bss/y)

349 Don't know if peeps remember the addict friend I had saved over the summer. He passed away last Thursday, homeless and alone. The last text I got was Tues night begging for $20 for food. Which I ignored. Because it never ends. Well, now it has. And I don't feel at all guilty. His girlfriend was planning on coming back from North Carolina after her parents spent an ungodly amount of money to put her through safe detox. Love ya Chris but your death probably saved her life. Rest in peace.

Fentynyl is a very stupid drug. If you find that someone you care about is using, beat them half to death with a spoon and then get them off the sht. Even if that means replacing their Stupidity with Meth or Heroin.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:56 AM (ciYHQ)

Thats a bummer. I went through it with a friend a few years ago. He died the same way, homeless and alone. Found him outside of his car behind a barn somewhere. Laid there for a week during a brutal July heatwave. I thought I had him on the road to recovery. I guess not.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 01:03 AM (snZF9)

350 Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then...

Posted by: Bob Seger at January 14, 2026 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

351 I guess Fen is just going to post Bernie Taupin lyrics.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2026 01:04 AM (OaZlZ)

352 We have a tendency to drive people off. Harry Paratestes was maybe early 40s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:00 AM (bss/

Yeah, that's the young NY-area lawyer I was thinking of. I'm sure he'll resurface eventually.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:04 AM (Idisy)

353 Farmer, if you are still around, you and I are of the same vintage, I hope that you and Jules are doing well...
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 12:33

Still here Deb. We are surviving, just had a second retinal displacement surgery done.

I'm so saddened Scott Adams just died of prostate cancer. Mine was caught at age 67, so far I'm in remission.

Went in on my own due to frequent urination issues, my doc didn't catch it. Any male over 50 needs to be tested, please.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 01:04 AM (55Qr6)

354
Please, Mister, Please
Don't pee B-17

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2026 01:05 AM (OaZlZ)

355 Yeah, that's the young NY-area lawyer I was thinking of. I'm sure he'll resurface eventually.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:04 AM (Idisy)

He got caught in one of the anti-semite witch hunts we do occasionally.

Note: He wasn't anti-semitic. He lived in NYC, I think. He dated exclusively lib women. He SOAKS in lib shit opinions. Same as ace of a time. THAT is what people are keying off of, not the other. Hell, aside from the obvious stormfront bullshit, I think that is what it is all the time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:07 AM (bss/y)

356 Mine was caught at age 67, so far I'm in remission.

Went in on my own due to frequent urination issues, my doc didn't catch it. Any male over 50 needs to be tested, please.

Posted by: Farmer
---------

Prostate cancer almost seems like a rite of passage among my friends and acquaintances.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

357 He got on people's lawns.
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2026 01:02 AM (OaZlZ)

We all do eventually. Hell, a few weeks ago this place was like Fight Club. Lots of fisticuffs. People were feeling feisty. The pixels were angry that week, my friend.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:09 AM (Idisy)

358 But I don't know if Harry caught a ban. He may have just flounced after a couple commenters called him a anti-semite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:09 AM (bss/y)

359 Prostate cancer almost seems like a rite of passage among my friends and acquaintances.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

I have been told that if you make it past 70 without getting it, you either won't get it or won't die of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:10 AM (8zz6B)

360 We all do eventually. Hell, a few weeks ago this place was like Fight Club. Lots of fisticuffs. People were feeling feisty. The pixels were angry that week, my friend.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:09 AM (Idisy)

It was bad what... day before yesterday when n caught it. People are just kind of shit and go into the 'One of Us' spiel too quick.

On the other hand, n is a querulous asshat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (bss/y)

361 🎶🎸
Been waiting here a long, long time
Pain and trouble on my mind
You came along and made me see
Oh you lifted me

Shot up everything that my money could buy
Over and over, tryin' to find out why
I was a sinkin' ship on a stormy sea
Oh I found love

I found love in a baby's smile
I found love in an old man's eye
I found love in a lover's kiss

Ooh I found love…

https://youtu.be/ZEEhlcQJsNo

G'nite, and Peace be upon y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - clocking out at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (HJunf)

362 >I'm not too concerned. The company knows what I brought to the table when I agreed to sign-on to rebuild their facility. They will pay for my losses.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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I'm glad that you will be made whole, Rev. Wishbone. That's a blessing!

Too bad that some %*&)(*&%*@!# caused you the trouble, though. Ugh!

May they electrocute themselves, or at least get *burned* on the sale of your stuff.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

363 Gongfarmer sounds like a new nic for a long-time poster?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (8zz6B)

364 TJM is in his 30s, so he has most of us 'Younger' people beat.
Thathalfrican is similarly aged to TJM, I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think I'm probably in the "younger half" of the commentariat, but I'm not in my 30s. Nor 40s.

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2026 01:12 AM (nhCoE)

365 Bers, I had friends whose parents bought a Ford Maverick, it was a piece of shit. They bought an engine blanket to assist in starting on cold mornings. One day their oldest kid, a girl, a wonderful girl, made a mistake and started up the car without removing the engine blanket, it was inoperable after that.

Wow, that was a long time ago.

I want to learn a lot of shit before I die, perhaps the learing center is the best place for me.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 01:14 AM (0nHVk)

366 Inogame is younger too, I think. He's on kid... 5?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:14 AM (bss/y)

367 it's any consolation, Fen, fent deaths are going down since 2024.
Posted by: gKWVE

Consolation? Not sure, they aren't my people, he was an accidental friend. But I learned alot about the culture from him. Most of the homeless are either insane or have managed to fck over every friend or family member that cared about them. They exist on theft to exist and fund their drug fix. I think I gave this guy and his girl $10k over the summer for food, camping supplies, cell phone bills etc and STILL he was always looking for an angle to rip me off.

I credit Trump for shutting the border down. It sent a shockwave through the homeless addict community in Dallas. Everything suddenly tripled in price. Although I remember a famous quote about another drug epidemic - something about how it ended because it killed all its clients

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:15 AM (ciYHQ)

368 On the other hand, n is a querulous asshat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (bss/y)

He is a pleasant and charming guy in person, though. He organized the 2017 Vegas MoMee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:15 AM (8zz6B)

369 He is a pleasant and charming guy in person, though. He organized the 2017 Vegas MoMee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:15 AM (8zz6B)

He just caught ace at exactly the wrong time, I think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:16 AM (bss/y)

370 363 Gongfarmer sounds like a new nic for a long-time poster?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:11 AM (8zz6B)

Yeah, I made a carting off the dead (lame) joke and just kept it for the evening. Now I can't switch back until a shrill young lass feeds me a canoe.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:17 AM (Idisy)

371 He is a pleasant and charming guy in person, though. He organized the 2017 Vegas MoMee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wouldn't know it from reading his posts here. Always instigating, arguing, looking for a fight. Good riddance.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

372 Yeah, I made a carting off the dead (lame) joke and just kept it for the evening. Now I can't switch back until a shrill young lass feeds me a canoe.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:17 AM (Idisy)

Makes me think of Tropic Thunder:

*RDJ, in blackface, disguised as a farmer, trying to get into the enemy compound*

Guard: what farm?!

*realizing he's screwed, throws off cloak and stars shooting wildly*

RDJ: I'm a lead farmer, motherfucker!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:20 AM (bss/y)

373 I have been told that if you make it past 70 without getting it, you either won't get it or won't die of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:10 AM (8zz6B)

Then I have two things going for me.

No family history of prostate cancer.

In 34 days, I hit your magic number.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 01:21 AM (gKDq2)

374 He just caught ace at exactly the wrong time, I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yeah. Wrong time
Ace was actively engaged in the comment thread when n was quarrelling with another regular.... and would not let it go when Ace said to drop it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 01:22 AM (/lPRQ)

375 Speaking of drug addiction, I was at Home Depot today, and was loading stuff into the Suburban, and I see this young girl with truly epic gazongas bouncing around the parking lot. As I was ready to step into the car, she bounced up to me, and handed me a slip of paper. She was soliciting for a Christian residential dry-out camp for addicts. Seemed to be on the level. I gave her ten dollars. Driving away, another gal showed up, could have been her twin sister. Also epic gazongas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:22 AM (8zz6B)

376 >>Most of the homeless are either insane or have managed to fck over every friend or family member that cared about them.
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Fen, you just described every drug-addict, homeless or not, that I was ever acquainted with.

They'd rip off their own widowed mothers! And then deny, deflect, outright lie and fabricate, for sh!t they had *clearly* done themselves. Disgusting.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:22 AM (rdVOm)

377 Seemed to be on the level. I gave her ten dollars. Driving away, another gal showed up, could have been her twin sister. Also epic gazongas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:22 AM (8zz6B)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:23 AM (bss/y)

378 Yeah, I made a carting off the dead (lame) joke and just kept it for the evening. Now I can't switch back until a shrill young lass feeds me a canoe.
Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:17 AM (Idisy)

Oh, Bear with Assymmetrical balls?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:24 AM (8zz6B)

379 " just going to post Bernie Taupin lyrics"

Had to look that up. Did not know him. And here I thought EJ was the magician. Oh well, it's always the quiet guy in the back that's the power behind the throne, isn't it?

Players, only love you when they're playing
They say women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:24 AM (ciYHQ)

380 Hm. In less than three months, I'll be older than Vic got to be. 😣
Posted by: mindful webworker - still 29 in my head, and behavior, at January 14, 2026 12:55

I knew you were ~~a doddering old fool~~one of the wisest old posters here. Loved your posts for many yrs.

I'm certainly not 70 in my head, no way. And I have no idea who that old man is who keeps showing up in my mirror.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 01:24 AM (55Qr6)

381 Si

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:24 AM (Idisy)

382 Seemed to be on the level. I gave her ten dollars. Driving away, another gal showed up, could have been her twin sister. Also epic gazongas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You should have asked to get a selfie with both.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 01:25 AM (/lPRQ)

383 You should have asked to get a selfie with both.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 01:25 AM (/lPRQ)

Both or four?

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 01:26 AM (gKDq2)

384 ... with all four.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 01:26 AM (/lPRQ)

385 Got my GED in 79. Left high school a while before then.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)

386 Fen, you just described every drug-addict, homeless or not, that I was ever acquainted with. They'd rip off their own widowed mothers! And then deny, deflect, outright lie and fabricate, for sh!t they had *clearly* done themselves. Disgusting.
Posted by: JQ at Januar

Spot on. I took that to heart whenever my friend would introduce me to one that seemed nice and downtrodden "pssst remember this guy would betray his own mother and likely has". Ironic that the poor are not noble. In some ways they are probably more wretched than the wealthy jackass

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:29 AM (ciYHQ)

387 ...I gave her ten dollars. Driving away, another gal showed up, could have been her twin sister. Also epic gazongas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:22

And that Ladies and Gents is AOP. Always a sucker for epic gozongas.

Well truth be told, what Moron isn't? I was breastfed, it just comes naturally.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 01:30 AM (55Qr6)

388 >>>I'm glad that you will be made whole, Rev. Wishbone. That's a blessing!

Too bad that some %*&)(*&%*@!# caused you the trouble, though. Ugh!

May they electrocute themselves, or at least get *burned* on the sale of your stuff.

Posted by: JQ

>There is nothing pleasant about getting blasted by 3-phase 480V or 277V. Too many residential journeyman electricians running romex think they can jump into the industrial world, troubleshooting live circuits without there being consequences for them touching live equipment they know nothing about. It can be humorous, also deadly.

Whatever. Roll the dice. I've seen a lot of guys get fucked up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 01:31 AM (BSdIE)

389 Spot on. I took that to heart whenever my friend would introduce me to one that seemed nice and downtrodden "pssst remember this guy would betray his own mother and likely has". Ironic that the poor are not noble. In some ways they are probably more wretched than the wealthy jackass
Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:29 AM (ciYHQ)

Addicts are not poor due to circumstance. They are poor because they are failed humans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:32 AM (8zz6B)

390 Wouldn't know it from reading his posts here. Always instigating, arguing, looking for a fight. Good riddance.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

Usually I don't even get involved. I see people making comments that come out of left field and generally I just don't give a shit. I say that a lot, but seriously, I really don't give a shit. I don't even try to find a reason. Not my circus, not my monkeys. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 01:39 AM (snZF9)

391 .I gave her ten dollars. Driving away, another gal showed up, could have been her twin sister. Also epic gazongas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:22

Maybe they were worth 10 a piece, 20 a pair. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 01:41 AM (snZF9)

392 "Addicts are not poor due to circumstance. They are poor because they are failed humans."

The addiction controls them so it's easy to blame that. But I wonder how many were rotten to the core beforehand and are simply self-medicating to forget what they see in their-

Oh. You know time it is? Yes, that's right happy campers!

And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare

Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:42 AM (ciYHQ)

393 Maybe they were worth 10 a piece, 20 a pair. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 01:41 AM (snZF9)

20, 20, mumble mumble doIhear30? 30? mumble mumble 25? DoIhear25?

It's a better deal than a strip club.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 01:44 AM (gKDq2)

394 Addicts are not poor due to circumstance. They are poor because they are failed humans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yep.

There's a housing situation (I forget the feel-good-lie of a name they've given to it) being built in my town. A place for the "homeless" to go and "recover" or whatever. Hopefully there will be drug-testing required for tenancy, but don't know for sure how that'll work out.

I'm not heartless, not at all. It's just that I've been burned *personally* by a couple of these fake "in recovery" a-holes.

You want to believe that somebody is gonna straighten their life out. You want to help the downtrodden. You want to know that you've done the right thing for a fellow human!

Mostly, though? They're scamming. Yet again! Yeah, just clean-up long enough to re-establish some cred, and the cycle starts again.

Look at me! I'm all cleaned up now! Starting a new job next week! Won't you help me buy some clothes/ pay deposit on utilities/ buy this car I found on craigslist?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

395 And now my watch begins.

Good night all. Remember to be kind to each other.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:45 AM (ciYHQ)

396 Usually I don't even get involved. I see people making comments that come out of left field and generally I just don't give a shit. I say that a lot, but seriously, I really don't give a shit. I don't even try to find a reason. Not my circus, not my monkeys. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Exactly. I declined to engage on a couple of occasions. Most times, just watched the BS unfold. Not a fan.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

397 I used to watch the TV reality show Intervention. I don’t know why it interested me because I absolutely hate these addicts but I guess knowing that they would eventually go to rehab ( 90% of the shows) it was like a surprise ending whether successful or not. I did feel bad when they noted a relapse or death.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 01:48 AM (KDPiq)

398 Look at me! I'm all cleaned up now! Starting a new job next week! Won't you help me buy some clothes/ pay deposit on utilities/ buy this car I found on craigslist?
Posted by: JQ

Damnnn. We could finish each other's sentences on this like a married couple. I'm sorry you had to experience all that. It hardens your heart and no matter how hard you fight that, you'll never be as generous or trusting again to people who actually deserve it. That's what they've really taken from you.

May you always have clear fields of fire

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 01:51 AM (ciYHQ)

399 I am cold about addicts in practice. You can't fix them, and they will destroy you if you try. But from a safe distance, I can feel bad for some of them. I see a fair amount of criminal cases and cases involving termination of parental rights. The things people do to kids, you wouldn't do to test monkeys.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:52 AM (Idisy)

400
Hello, everyone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 01:52 AM (Jxa0O)

401 346 LOL. I just thought: I might have been younger than TJM when I started commenting (would have read as early as 2004 election, but did not look at comments til about 200 so I would have been 33?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:02 AM

I think that's about the same for me. I started reading the blog around 2004 but I only had a computer at work so I never commented.

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 14, 2026 01:53 AM (rbKZ6)

402 >There is nothing pleasant about getting blasted by 3-phase 480V or 277V. Too many residential journeyman electricians running romex think they can jump into the industrial world, troubleshooting live circuits without there being consequences for them touching live equipment they know nothing about. It can be humorous, also deadly.

Whatever. Roll the dice. I've seen a lot of guys get fucked up.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

My last project, a small industrial plant, not even a footing in the ground and the power company was balking about not having the juice. At issue were a couple of machines which drew 1200A at 480V. Not being a power guy I held my tongue until the fifth meeting on the problem then rose my hand hand pointed out that, I am not a power guy, but do not get why you keeping talking about 1200A when the plans show 800A...
Lead electrical engineer jumped on it, Aha, we have a problem Houston... Kind of a big design issue... Put in my retirement papers. Last I heard power company was going to have to run 32KV on the high side to meet the demand.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 01:54 AM (/lPRQ)

403 But I don't know if Harry caught a ban. He may have just flounced after a couple commenters called him a anti-semite.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 14, 2026 01:09 AM (bss/y)

Didn’t know about any of that but not a fan.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 01:54 AM (KDPiq)

404 Hiya Blondie, I am headed off to bed though, non compos mentis.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 14, 2026 01:56 AM (0nHVk)

405 Well, almost midnight here, and I am getting sleepy. Time for a snooze. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:57 AM (8zz6B)

406 380 Hm. In less than three months, I'll be older than Vic got to be. 😣
Posted by: mindful webworker - still 29 in my head, and behavior, at January 14, 2026 12:55

It took me a while to catch on to how 29 people were here. Most commenters are seasoned but young at heart. It's one of the real charms here: no one would know how 29 you are unless you say.

Posted by: Gongfarmer at January 14, 2026 01:58 AM (Idisy)

407 I was 41 when I started reading aos.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 01:59 AM (KDPiq)

408 >>It hardens your heart and no matter how hard you fight that, you'll never be as generous or trusting again to people who actually deserve it. That's what they've really taken from you.
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Yeah. They've stolen more than money-- they've stolen my "good nature"!

>>May you always have clear fields of fire
Posted by: Fen
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Heh. You betcha!!!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

409 He is a pleasant and charming guy in person, though. He organized the 2017 Vegas MoMee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:15

Yes that was a blast. Twas great to meet you and Pogo and the others. I had no idea yankeefifth was here as n. I'm slipping in that regard.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 02:03 AM (55Qr6)

410 Piss Coordinates - G13

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

You sunk my battleshipt!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 10:27 PM (pkeXY)
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FIFY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2026 02:03 AM (xZEBF)

411 >>>Lead electrical engineer jumped on it, Aha, we have a problem Houston... Kind of a big design issue... Put in my retirement papers. Last I heard power company was going to have to run 32KV on the high side to meet the demand.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

>Jesus. We'd have to run 4160V for a few 4000Amp feeds. 32KV sounds like an upgrade somebody didn't know they were pay for.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 02:07 AM (BSdIE)

412 A while ago I had an idea for a thing I called Piss Toys. You piss into an opening on the body of it and a little waterwheel powers something like blinking eyes or waving arms.

It would be a bitch to clean though.

Posted by: pawn at January 14, 2026 02:09 AM (rbIOb)

413 I was 41 when I started reading aos.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 01:59 AM (KDPiq)

I've been reading here for, counts on fingers/toes/ears/teeth/belly button, around 23 years.

Dayum.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 02:12 AM (gKDq2)

414 Some airport in Europe started putting a realistic looking porcelain fly right on the sweet spot of their urinals. Immediately there was less urine on the bathroom floors.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 02:12 AM (KDPiq)

415 "I've been reading here for, counts on fingers/toes/ears/teeth/belly button, around 23 years.

Dayum."

It's kind of frightening when you think about it.

Posted by: pawn at January 14, 2026 02:13 AM (rbIOb)

416 Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 02:12 AM (gKDq2)

I think I started in 2002. Could have been 2003.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 02:14 AM (KDPiq)

417 Some airport in Europe started putting a realistic looking porcelain fly right on the sweet spot of their urinals. Immediately there was less urine on the bathroom floors.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 02:12 AM (KDPiq)

Anthony Sullivan here.

The Jane Fonda Urinal Cake will solve all your problems.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 02:15 AM (gKDq2)

418 For a long time, I only commented on garden threads, and had been reading for years before I ever worked up the nerve to comment at all. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

419 >Jesus. We'd have to run 4160V for a few 4000Amp feeds. 32KV sounds like an upgrade somebody didn't know they were pay for.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Current primary is 13.2KV (?), coordination with power company was supposed to upgrade to the 32KV primary a couple of years ago. Company forgot.
The power company guy did not know that, and then the design issue on the low side... So we had both sides talking past each other. Pointing fingers..
I was new to the engineering team and felt like I was watching a bunch of drunken monkeys trying to put up a circus tent.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 02:18 AM (/lPRQ)

420 I think I started in 2002. Could have been 2003.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 14, 2026 02:14 AM (KDPiq)

Back then, I was split between two sites. Then the Great Purge.

I've seen ace change, too.

Years ago, he warned me once on something I wrote. Now he's saying similar things and 'worse'.

Funny world.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 02:18 AM (gKDq2)

421 *The Jane Fonda Urinal Cake*

Hahahahahaha!

When I worked at the CPO club, one of the guys brought some of those in, put them in the head. The rest of the guys lined up to "inaugurate" the new devices.

Whew, the language they used... Master Chief ordered a round for the bar! And then they doused that b!tch again.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

422 Anyone remember "yellow cards"?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

423 >>> Back then, I was split between two sites. Then the Great Purge.

The Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 14, 2026 02:21 AM (/lPRQ)

424 For a long time, I only commented on garden threads, and had been reading for years before I ever worked up the nerve to comment at all. LOL!
Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

I remember I read for a few months before I got up the courage to be humiliated. Now humiliation is part of my daily routine.

Same nick the whole time.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 02:23 AM (gKDq2)

425
I think the 12K people killed in Iran is now pretty much verified. And it may be a lot more that. I was seeing low and high numbers, skeptical of the high end, but damn, looks like it's true. Mullah slaughterhouse.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 02:24 AM (w6EFb)

426 For a long time, I only commented on garden threads, and had been reading for years before I ever worked up the nerve to comment at all. LOL!
Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:16

Same here JQ, I read for ages before ever commenting. All these smart folks can be intimidating, LOL.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 02:25 AM (55Qr6)

427 For a long time, I only commented on garden threads, and had been reading for years before I ever worked up the nerve to comment at all. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

There's a garden thread? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 02:28 AM (snZF9)

428
I think the 12K people killed in Iran is now pretty much verified. And it may be a lot more that. I was seeing low and high numbers, skeptical of the high end, but damn, looks like it's true. Mullah slaughterhouse.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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I suppose 12k killed isn't necessarily a rationale for deposing those bastards because we don't go around saving people from their own leaders so much, but doesn't it seem likely that they'll come back more threatening to America and our allies than ever? I really want to save that revolution.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 02:28 AM (Jxa0O)

429 There's a garden thread? lol
Posted by: Berserker

Useful about 4-5 months out of the year in MN. heh.

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2026 02:31 AM (nhCoE)

430 >>>Current primary is 13.2KV (?), coordination with power company was supposed to upgrade to the 32KV primary a couple of years ago. Company forgot.
The power company guy did not know that, and then the design issue on the low side... So we had both sides talking past each other. Pointing fingers..
I was new to the engineering team and felt like I was watching a bunch of drunken monkeys trying to put up a circus tent.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

>12,470V is pretty common here, but I've seen where they're pulling so much load that the overhead power cables got so hot, due too being too light a gauge, that they were sagging into the prairie lands and setting the fields on fire.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 02:31 AM (BSdIE)

431

Islam,

when your life sucks so bad that the only thing that matters is how you die,

Posted by: pawn at January 14, 2026 02:33 AM (rbIOb)

432 The fifth beetle is parked in front of Apple world headquarters at that time.

Posted by: Miflin at January 14, 2026 02:34 AM (aA6YN)

433 >>All these smart folks can be intimidating, LOL.
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Yes indeed, Farmer! Ignorant me & my lowly GED can't offer much in the way of intelligent discourse here.

But, gardening? Well, I've got a little bit to contribute sometimes.

Open threads are my fave. Can either chat or sit back, and have pleasant times.

I love this place! There's something for everyone, even misfits like me.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

434
Getting rid of the mullahs is very much in American interests, no question about it. Iran is the biggest shit-stirrer in the world with Islamo-terrorism.

Getting an Iran/Persia back into decent nation category would be a God-send for global stability.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)

435 Gardening is important!

You guys with gubs, know how to *defend*--

We gardeners, know how to *grow food*

Both are important to survival.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

436 Prostate cancer almost seems like a rite of passage among my friends and acquaintances.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2026 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

I have been told that if you make it past 70 without getting it, you either won't get it or won't die of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2026 01:10

Yes, it's very common and often it is lived with for yrs before something else kills you.

The initial PSA test is notoriously inaccurate, but further tests give a better picture. Mine was a medium aggressive cancer so at 67 I opted for treatment.

I'm just very very saddened by Scott Adams death at 68. He left an interesting letter professing Christian faith that his widow made public.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 14, 2026 02:45 AM (55Qr6)

437 >> >12,470V is pretty common here,

That's the standard distribution line voltage out here with Duke, which I just call 7200V for the phase to neutral.

Duke has its particular "style" of the look of their pole wiring. Other utilities around the general area here in the SC/NC area have different styles.

I was downstate a bit one time, and noticed something looked different. It was Duke, but the "style" looked a bit different. I realized it was the insulators were bigger, and more "bells" where they used those. That was double, 14,400V to ground.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 02:51 AM (w6EFb)

438 My dad succumbed to prostate cancer, after 12 years' battle. He had skipped his annual bone scans after a couple years of remission. Don't know if it would've mattered, really. Bone metastasis is the Big Bad Thing and little can be done but palliative treatment at that point. (???)

Uncle (dad's BiL) survived prostate cancer-- completely. Got his treatment and basically was cured & lived another 40+ years after initial dx.

A co-worker had it too, and when he got bone mets, it was so painful that he took a bottle-full of pills to escape it... Very sad!

Keep your appointments, guys!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

439
Getting rid of the mullahs is very much in American interests, no question about it. Iran is the biggest shit-stirrer in the world with Islamo-terrorism.

Posted by: publius

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All right, fine, I'm not the only one who thinks so. Let's fricking go! (I know, Trump is way ahead of me on this, but where? WHERE?) How many more will have to die?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 02:58 AM (Jxa0O)

440 We gardeners, know how to *grow food*
Both are important to survival.
Posted by: JQ

Glad you're around!

I don't wanna say I have a brown thumb, but I overwatered my Astroturf and killed it.

Posted by: mikeski dangerfield at January 14, 2026 02:59 AM (nhCoE)

441
The 1kV/mile rule of thumb is evident. If reasonably balanced, the line-to-line voltage governs, and so "7200" gets you about 13 miles, which they can push a little more than that.

Down there way out in the country where I noticed the 14400, it was much longer runs. Made perfect sense. It looked weird to me, with the bigger insulators on top of the poles and transformers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 03:00 AM (w6EFb)

442 >> Let's fricking go! (I know, Trump is way ahead of me on this, but where? WHERE?) How many more will have to die?

I know, we're watching this, and screaming "DO IT!!", take 'em out. But doing this right, and not going in half-cocked takes some careful planning and strategerizing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 03:02 AM (w6EFb)

443 I don't wanna say I have a brown thumb, but I overwatered my Astroturf and killed it.
Posted by: mikeski dangerfield
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LOL!

Gardening is *all about* trial and error. There is no wrong way-- there's only what works for you, in your climate/ soil/ amount of sunlight/ water availability.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

444 >>>
I was down state a bit one time, and noticed something looked different. It was Duke, but the "style" looked a bit different. I realized it was the insulators were bigger, and more "bells" where they used those. That was double, 14,400V to ground.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

>I'm no expert but running overhead or underground aluminum conductors is all good until you need to up the current and then you have an issue with wire gauge and insulation if you need to jack up the voltage. Trial and error always show you way, regardless of what you think you know.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 03:08 AM (BSdIE)

445 Gardening is *all about* trial and error.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, the plant's trial due to my error.

Posted by: RickZ at January 14, 2026 03:09 AM (gKDq2)

446 I don't wanna say I have a brown thumb, but I overwatered my Astroturf and killed it.
Posted by: mikeski dangerfield
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LOL!

Gardening is *all about* trial and error. There is no wrong way-- there's only what works for you, in your climate/ soil/ amount of sunlight/ water availability.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

I could kill weeds trying to care for them. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 03:11 AM (snZF9)

447 Also, Isolation is of paramount importance as you well know.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 03:12 AM (BSdIE)

448 I could kill weeds trying to care for them. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Could you please come to my place and "care" for my weeds?

Hahahahaha

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

449
Gardening is *all about* trial and error. There is no wrong way-- there's only what works for you, in your climate/ soil/ amount of sunlight/ water availability.
Posted by: JQ

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For me, it's all about one thing: FAILURE. I can't even grow pumpkins in Southern California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:18 AM (Jxa0O)

450 Mom and both grandmothers were gardeners. It's in my blood!

Sure, I have plenty of failures, but also enough successes to still feel good about what I've done so far.

Time is a huge factor-- it's hard to have a good garden, when working full time and having a busy life-- gardening's not for everyone.

That's why there are people like us!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm)

451 I could kill weeds trying to care for them. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 03:11 AM (snZF9)

LOL... all I can grow IS weeds.

Literally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 14, 2026 03:22 AM (mP0Kj)

452 For me, it's all about one thing: FAILURE. I can't even grow pumpkins in Southern California.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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So? Forget pumpkins! Grow peppers!

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

453
So? Forget pumpkins! Grow peppers!
Posted by: JQ

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

Sigh, okay. But I LIKE pumpkins. My mom grows peppers, but I'll never have her thumb.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:25 AM (Jxa0O)

454
I see Melissa Gilbert is standing by her man. Also, he was going to be on a Law and order SUV/SVU whatever episode, which they just pulled due to this. Hah, hah.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 14, 2026 03:26 AM (w6EFb)

455 I could kill weeds trying to care for them. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 03:11 AM (snZF9)

LOL... all I can grow IS weeds.

Literally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 14, 2026 03:22 AM (mP0Kj)

When I moved here a few years ago I had a lawn service fertilize the lawn and give it it's treatments. The dude before me never did shit with it. He said "its a country yard", meaning it looks good enough without any effort. I should have listened, after the lawn service I had a dust bowl. 3/4 of the lawn was dead and replaced by dirt, because 3/4 of the lawn wasn't grass to start with, so the weed killer killed my weed lawn. It took 2 years to bring it back after seeding the shit out of it, but now its decent. I came to terms with it, its a country yard, don't push it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 14, 2026 03:31 AM (snZF9)

456 Blonde Morticia, I understand.

Sorry. Was just popping off, LOL.

You like pumpkins, OK... what's happening to them, when you attempt to grow them?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)

457 I've been an electrical engineer for 29 years and my first response is, 'lets get this shit right.'

My second response, when people don't want to listen is, 'let's blow some shit up.'

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 14, 2026 03:34 AM (BSdIE)

458 Oh look, its time to get up

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 03:38 AM (Ia/+0)

459 More questions, Blonde Morticia:

Which variety of pumpkin are you trying to grow? There are many from which to choose.

Does your "patch" get at least 6-8 hours of full sun every day, and thorough watering only when the soil dries out?

Are there pests that damage or destroy your crop?

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:39 AM (rdVOm)

460
Sorry. Was just popping off, LOL.

You like pumpkins, OK... what's happening to them, when you attempt to grow them?
Posted by: JQ

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Oh, you're fine.

So my pumpkins start to send out vines. The vines make little "bulbs" that are supposed to grow into pumpkins. And then the bulbs stop growing and FALL OFF.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:40 AM (Jxa0O)

461
Southern California, my mom's front yard, they get enough sunshine to give you a lifetime of Vitamin D! No pests that I know of, because tons of other plants are growing nearby.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:42 AM (Jxa0O)

462
Oh, and they're the sugar pumpkins you make pies out of. In fact, I get the seeds from those pumpkins after I bake the pies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:43 AM (Jxa0O)

463 So my pumpkins start to send out vines. The vines make little "bulbs" that are supposed to grow into pumpkins. And then the bulbs stop growing and FALL OFF.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Could be poor pollination: plant some flowers nearby to encourage pollinators, or use a small brush to apply pollen from flower to flower on your pumpkin plants

Could be high heat: Maybe plant where there will be shade at midday, but good sunlight in morning/evening.

Could be overwatering: Soak well only when soil is dry to depth of an inch or two. Don't plant near where lawn-watering occurs.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

464 Blondie, poor pollination is highest on the list.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm)

465
I think it's a combo of too much heat and too much water -- I can't control it because the patch is irrigated. They're getting double doses of excess!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2026 03:54 AM (Jxa0O)

466 Ugh, hit send too soon...

Pumpkins have both male and female flowers. Search for pics... Only the females will produce pumpkins, but must be pollinated by male flowers.

The female flowers are the ones with the little swelling on their stem. Male flowers usually appear first, but the plants will keep producing both as the season progresses.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 03:57 AM (rdVOm)

467 My GFF grows pumpkins every year & says she must pollinate by hand to get a good crop, even though she has a lot of other flowers.

Those "other flowers" are not near her pumpkin patch, though.

Good luck, Blondie. Try the pollination thing first.

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

468 GFF should be BFF, ugh..

Posted by: JQ at January 14, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

469 PIXY TIME

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

470 Been busy - actually sitting on my ass watching a movie -
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The power company guy did not know that, and then the design issue on the low side... So we had both sides talking past each other. Pointing fingers..
I was new to the engineering team and felt like I was watching a bunch of drunken monkeys trying to put up a circus tent.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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We had a phrase for those situations in the comm industry:
"Trouble's leaving here fine".
😎

Posted by: buddhaha at January 14, 2026 04:03 AM (lbb+E)

Aussie Animal Rescue Cafe

Yorkshire, England
See it before it's gone

Care to dance?

Progressivism.

How the progressive movement is led by key influencers.

Now he thinks he's a tough guy.

Pygmy possum is just a touch bigger than a cricket.

Fighting on the internet.

Adopting an orphaned bear cub.

Blind cat enjoys the snow.

Milton is cranky.

Baby elephant collects a daily road toll..🐘😅

📹tirthaxozo pic.twitter.com/T3ZNYaRWLg
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 11, 2026

I find this less likely than sonic disruptor cannons, but whatever. I like the song.

This restaurant in Bangkok uses ziplines to deliver food to its guests.pic.twitter.com/WEoIQ7BRv6
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 13, 2026

The most Australian video you'll see todaypic.twitter.com/Zh6d5AFE7m
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 13, 2026

Now throw the ball little human.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/BvmXxPgynM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) January 13, 2026

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (LdBR/)

2
1

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:32 PM (t2vGZ)

3 The Shire before Keir Sarumon got through with it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:32 PM (2GVsD)

4
My First has been appropriated!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (t2vGZ)

5 This restaurant in Bangkok uses ziplines to deliver food to its guests.pic.twitter.com/WEoIQ7BRv6

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 13, 2026

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this is stupid! I don't want my food flying !

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (g47mK)

6 Yorkshire, England

See it before it's ~~gone~~ turned into a Mosque and Mass Graveyard of The Caliphate

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (IzKeh)

7 do you guys want your food flying???

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (g47mK)

8 A rare bit of good news from the UK today. Starmer has dropped plans to mandate digital ID.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:34 PM (viF8m)

9 This restaurant in Bangkok uses ziplines to deliver food to its guests

One night in Bangkok and your food goes flying.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:34 PM (2GVsD)

10 All that Aussie family needs is a two or three face-eating spiders and a few box jellyfish in the tub.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 07:35 PM (GTqXr)

11 Piles of rocks. Big deal. Bring on the pudding.

Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

12 Torgo will eat the figgy pudding and like it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:36 PM (2GVsD)

13
Got The Big Dummy bathed and groomed today. He's such a good, placid boy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:36 PM (tgvbd)

14 This restaurant in Bangkok uses ziplines to deliver food to its guests.

this is stupid! I don't want my food flying !
Posted by: runner

One night in Bangkok, ordered flying oysters.....

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 07:37 PM (nhCoE)

15 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)

16 "You said flying orsters Mr. Deckard!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)

17 This restaurant in Bangkok uses ziplines to deliver food to its guests.

this is stupid! I don't want my food flying !
Posted by: runner

One night in Bangkok, ordered flying oysters.....

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 07:37 PM (nhCoE)

And a lady? Thai boy? dropped them on your chin . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:38 PM (dK+Kv)

18 Been getting screensavers of pastoral scenes of England. It is Tolkien's Shire. The orcs are coming to scour the Shire, however.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 13, 2026 07:39 PM (MZ+PY)

19 >One night in Bangkok, ordered flying oysters.....

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 07:37 PM (nhCoE)

I get my kicks above the zip line sunshine.

Posted by: Murry Head at January 13, 2026 07:39 PM (GTqXr)

20 Frying flied frood?

Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

21 Still bat-free in '26! Outstanding!

Posted by: Penguins, FTW!! at January 13, 2026 07:39 PM (oftw2)

22 It wasn't a lazy fight of it was 98 degrees outside

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)

23 The greens we use would not excite you

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)

24 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:40 PM (cYBz/)

25 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (cYBz/)

26 The paucity of polymorphically perverse penguins is profoundly pleasing, Ace. Thank you!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

27 Yorkshire, is that where all the pudding is from?

Posted by: Fine British Cuisine at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (oftw2)

28 A twofer!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (cYBz/)

29 Jack Straw no doubt the Muslims were not happy about that

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

30 What's that smell? No, not me, that other smell. Gag.

Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

31
Yorkshire, is that where all the pudding is from?

Posted by: Fine British Cuisine at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM (oftw2)

____________

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:42 PM (tgvbd)

32 Good evening, horde.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 13, 2026 07:43 PM (zYpTz)

33 I'm really diggin' the tortoise in the stegosaurus cozy!

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:43 PM (2L+MU)

34 What's that smell? No, not me, that other smell. Gag.
Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:41 PM

Penguins. It's always penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

35 I always wanted to visit Australia but, since I learned their population is comprised of weak cowards and everything there is out to kill you, I'll pass.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 07:44 PM (abIsI)

36 Got The Big Dummy bathed and groomed today. He's such a good, placid boy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Real Dummies are like that...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 07:44 PM (Mt/k/)

37 No doubt Skip.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:44 PM (viF8m)

38 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Supreme Court Justices Bring In Ms. Rachel To Explain Cases To Ketanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 07:45 PM (GITLP)

39 Real Dummies are like that...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 07:44 PM

Does that include Lamont?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

40 Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Roast Beef in Britain would cost $50 a pound. That's why they buy Chicken Vindaloo from dirty street vendors. That's only $48 a pound.

Posted by: Empire Is fallen at January 13, 2026 07:45 PM (oftw2)

41 23 The greens we use would not excite you
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)

Heh

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 13, 2026 07:46 PM (zYpTz)

42 How the progressive movement is led by key influencers.

Shhhhh!!!! Don't reveal one of our primary tools like that!!

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM (BP1u+)

43 Aussie's are the original up-talkers. Something else to hate about them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM (abIsI)

44 That one night in Bangkok song is one of the few things in adulthood that have made a cynic like me feel naive.

I thought it was just an annoying nerd song about chess.

But Adam Carolla says it's a song about the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, and I'll believe it, because that dude knows a whole shitload about music.

I don't get it, and I won't look it up, because I don't want to read about some gross metaphors for sodomy. I'll just stay naive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM (BI5O2)

45 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "The reason that Minnesota and Minneapolis are being targeted is because you've got a Democratic governor, a Democratic AG, and you've got Democratic mayors!"
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This confirms my assertion earlier in the day that just by having a opposition, when the opposition holds you to your misdeeds, you can simply claim it's *because* you are the opposition.

Notice they weren't lining up to tell us how from top to bottom it was Democrats running everything in connection to Floyd's death.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM (krQz2)

46 Does that include Lamont?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Don't want to know how *that* big dummy bathes, or how often!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 07:48 PM (Mt/k/)

47 Evening everyone. Had short ribs in veal sauce over papardelle, two glasses of wine, and dessert for $65. Not as bad as I'd feared, but I can't imagine eating out all the time like some. The place was packed.

Remember when old coots would say "Oooh, look at Rockefeller here!" when somebody would toss bills around? Who do we have now to compare to the old guys in top hats swilling gin at the Copa? Bill Gates and his khakis? Please.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 07:49 PM (kpS4V)

48 I spent $700 on a semi-feral cat at the Vet today. On the way home, he had a huge, wet, crap in his carrier. Had to bathe him in the kitchen sink. None of this was fun.
He's not allowed to eat or drink until the morning, but he's begging for food, following me around.

Posted by: I'm Getting a Kookaburra Instead at January 13, 2026 07:49 PM (oftw2)

49 Upper pic, breaks my heart. Family has a long history in Beverley, England.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2026 07:50 PM (XeU6L)

50 Chicken Vindaloo! Now that is something I would like to find near me.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Mt/k/)

51 Ewoks don't really bathe, just lick themselves a bit.

Posted by: Furry Frank at January 13, 2026 07:51 PM (oftw2)

52 Fighting on the internet is a lot like when the senate reconvenes. McConnell, Schumer, just a bunch of yipping and yapping on the taxpayers deck.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 07:51 PM (BSdIE)

53 $65? I hope they served you enough to bring back some for the kitty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:51 PM (2GVsD)

54 Lib heads exploding in 3-2-1...

@JackPosobiec
1h
BREAKING: DOJ opens investigation into Renee Good's wife Becca for actions on day of shooting, ties to militant far-left groups.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 07:52 PM (3ImbR)

55 That one night in Bangkok song is one of the few things in adulthood that have made a cynic like me feel naive.

I thought it was just an annoying nerd song about chess.

But Adam Carolla says it's a song about the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, and I'll believe it, because that dude knows a whole shitload about music.

I don't get it, and I won't look it up, because I don't want to read about some gross metaphors for sodomy. I'll just stay naive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

There is also that other Bangkok song.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)

56 I spent $700 on a semi-feral cat at the Vet today. On the way home, he had a huge, wet, crap in his carrier. Had to bathe him in the kitchen sink. None of this was fun.
Posted by: I'm Getting a Kookaburra Instead

Ah yes, now I remember why my pet days are long past.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:52 PM (cYBz/)

57 Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 07:53 PM (kpS4V)

58 53 $65? I hope they served you enough to bring back some for the kitty.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:51 PM (2GVsD)
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Oh yeah, two meals worth at least, but the cat isn't getting any.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 07:54 PM (kpS4V)

59 Yup, the islamists bribed Lotho Sackville-Baggins, let him think he's The Chief, and are taking over The Shire.

Traitors were always the cause of downfall in Tolkien's stories.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 07:55 PM (Q+gd/)

60 Definitely the most Australian video I've seen all day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 07:56 PM (Wnv9h)

61 Evening Horde. Mr nec and I are picking up a new fur baby on 2/11. We miss Lily beagle and hope this helps to fill what’s missing in our home. I hope we can handle a 13 week old beagle baby. It’s been 10 years since our last adventure in puppy parenting.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 07:57 PM (2NHgQ)

62 Why do so many people think bears are cute?

They are big, ugly, smelly alpha predator death machines with shit stuck to their butts.

I don't know why we allow them to live when we've got the guns.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 07:57 PM (gtcuf)

63
Her Majesty has a national club board meeting. Guaranteed bad mood afterwards. I will then have to ask her, "Are you just blowing off steam or do you want my input?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (tgvbd)

64 Chicken Vindaloo! Now that is something I would like to find near me.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Mt/k/)
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Never had Vindaloo. How does it compare to masala?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (krQz2)

65 Evening Horde. Mr nec and I are picking up a new fur baby on 2/11. We miss Lily beagle and hope this helps to fill what’s missing in our home. I hope we can handle a 13 week old beagle baby. It’s been 10 years since our last adventure in puppy parenting.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 07:57 PM (2NHgQ)

Congratulations. Begin puppy proofing the house.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (dK+Kv)

66
Oh yeah, two meals worth at least, but the cat isn't getting any.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

My MIL and FIL would dine out in their golden years, being old they would only eat half, bring it home, put in fridge, and of course, would forget how long it had been in there. It's amazing they didn't die from food-borne illness.

Posted by: Getting Old Is Not For Sissies at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (oftw2)

67 Thai restaurant looks fun, but probably a front for involuntary kidney donations.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (8AONa)

68 They are big, ugly, smelly alpha predator death machines with shit stuck to their butts.

Posted by: Delurker

Not if there are rabbits around.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (cYBz/)

69 I spent $700 on a semi-feral cat at the Vet today. On the way home, he had a huge, wet, crap in his carrier. Had to bathe him in the kitchen sink. None of this was fun.
He's not allowed to eat or drink until the morning, but he's begging for food, following me around.
Posted by: I'm Getting a Kookaburra Instead at January 13, 2026 07:49

You're a good man.

But I've got to one-up you here.

Night 2 of my cross-country move, we stayed at this real dump of an interstate motel in Forrest, AR. Not scary or anything, but not a place you look forward to staying in.

Me, my wife, my brother, a cat & 3 kids in 2 dingy little rooms.

I get out the travel letterbox that she adamantly refused to use at several stops, and release Luna. She bolts out smeared in crap from tail to whiskers, and proceeds to run all over the motel room.

All. OVER.

That was a real pleasant evening, cleaning that dump from stem to stern so I didn't get beat up for the damage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (BI5O2)

70
nec,

Congratulations! That's the way to do it. You'll always remember Lily and now you will make new ones.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (3ek7K)

71 "But Adam Carolla says it's a song about the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name"

I thought everyone knew that. What else could it be about? How did you get "chess"?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

72 Her Majesty has a national club board meeting. Guaranteed bad mood afterwards. I will then have to ask her, "Are you just blowing off steam or do you want my input?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:58 PM (tgvbd)

Tell her she's making a big deal out of nothing. It's a surefire winner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (dK+Kv)

73 I will then have to ask her, "Are you just blowing off steam or do you want my input?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You are a very brave man.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (cYBz/)

74 Merry merry king of the bush is he...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 07:53 PM (kpS4V)
---
Yes. The Paolo knows what that is like.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (krQz2)

75 "But Adam Carolla says it's a song about the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name"

I thought everyone knew that. What else could it be about? How did you get "chess"?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

He use to play chess after gay sex.

J/K

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (dK+Kv)

76 "They are big, ugly, smelly alpha predator death machines with shit stuck to their butts."

But enough about ...

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (Q+gd/)

77 Because "One Night in Bangkok" is one of the songs in the musical Chess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (2GVsD)

78 Bangkok needs another song

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (gKWVE)

79
Tell her she's making a big deal out of nothing. It's a surefire winner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (dK+Kv)

________

The voice of a divorced man of experience?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (tgvbd)

80 I thought everyone knew that. What else could it be about? How did you get "chess"?

It's literally from the musical CHESS.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (gtcuf)

81 The voice of a divorced man of experience?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (tgvbd)

It's funny when it's not happening to you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:01 PM (dK+Kv)

82 >>I don't get it, and I won't look it up, because I don't want to read about some gross metaphors for sodomy. I'll just stay naive.

The last time I was in Thailand my customer provided a driver/interpreter for me. I can bluff my way around a lot of places by Thai is like some martian language.

She, I think, was very pretty. One night she took me to an outdoor restaurant with a friend of hers who was also very pretty. One of the most uncomfortable evenings I've ever had. The two of them kept looking at me and whispering in Thai and giggling and giving me sexy time eyes.

Nope, wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 08:02 PM (viF8m)

83 It's literally from the musical CHESS.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:00 PM (gtcuf)

Ooh. I take back my "J/K."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:02 PM (dK+Kv)

84 >Tell her she's making a big deal out of nothing. It's a surefire winner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:59 PM (dK+Kv)

Or ask her to make you a sammich, that should calm her down.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 08:02 PM (GTqXr)

85 Night 2 of my cross-country move, we stayed at this real dump of an interstate motel in Forrest, AR.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I know exactly where you mean. I hope you ate at The Old Sawmill Cafe while there.

I love those old, kinda run down Mom and Pop places.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 08:03 PM (cYBz/)

86 It is Tolkien's Shire. The orcs are coming to scour the Shire, however.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Kinda, sorta related. (60 second video)

https://is.gd/cNEnOd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:03 PM (L/fGl)

87 Australian sayings make no sense. There's a saying, "Flat out like a lizard drinking". It means a combination of fast and hard, generally in the context of working. But, are we supposed to understand that lizards drink quickly or aggressively? I mean, we have lizards here and no one in America has a WOW! That car is lizard drinking fast! But it makes sense on the other side of the world.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2026 08:03 PM (3uBP9)

88 14 One night in Bangkok, ordered flying oysters.....

i'll never be over flying oysters

Posted by: ted stryker at January 13, 2026 08:03 PM (v3pYe)

89 Why do so many people think bears are cute?

They are big, ugly, smelly alpha predator death machines with shit stuck to their butts.

I don't know why we allow them to live when we've got the guns.

If we disposed of them all, we'd be overrun by pic-a-nic baskets.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 08:04 PM (Riz8t)

90 Thanks alot, now I want to break out the two CD set from Chess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 08:05 PM (2GVsD)

91 Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra, gay your life must be.

Ahhhh, we sang that song in Girl Scouts when I was a little hobbit.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 13, 2026 08:05 PM (ftFVW)

92 "Because "One Night in Bangkok" is one of the songs in the musical Chess.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Oh. Ok. Never heard of it. It doesn't matter though, I know gay when I hear it.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

93 50 Chicken Vindaloo! Now that is something I would like to find near me.

beer vindaloo > chicken vindaloo

Posted by: dave lister at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (v3pYe)

94 And Mr nec and I are going to do a few two day trips around Western MT before we’re back to being puppy parents. The last 4 weeks have been very stressful.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (2NHgQ)

95 Never had Vindaloo. How does it compare to masala?
Posted by: Axeman

Spicy and hot; no.. really hot.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (Mt/k/)

96
I know exactly where you mean. I hope you ate at The Old Sawmill Cafe while there.

___________

Her Majesty has stayed at the RV park in Forrest City. And eaten at the Ole Sawmill Café.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 08:07 PM (tgvbd)

97 Because "One Night in Bangkok" is one of the songs in the musical Chess"

And how many other pop songs use "Somerset Maugham"?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:07 PM (XuXeR)

98 Nope, wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: JackStraw

But, wise. Very wise.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 08:08 PM (Mt/k/)

99 Saw something saying that the song One Night In Bangkok was originally from a play called Chess.

And at least a chess metaphor runs through the lyrics.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:08 PM (krQz2)

100 I mean, we have lizards here and no one in America has a WOW! That car is lizard drinking fast!
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Hmm. Have you ever met a Hellbender? We have 'em here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2026 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

101 there is nothing as expensive as a free kitten

Mine got her dinner and has to go back into her cone-of-shame so she won't dig at the stitches

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:08 PM (rbvCR)

102 Lotho Sackville-Baggins,"

Nah. That's Clarkson's other farm....

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:09 PM (XuXeR)

103 Never had Vindaloo. How does it compare to masala?
Posted by: Axeman

Spicy and hot; no.. really hot.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (Mt/k/)
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What about the flavor?

I'm not about heat, I'm about flavor.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (krQz2)

104 Ooh. I take back my "J/K."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:02 PM (dK+Kv)

Easy there, bigshot. I'm proud to say I've never sat through a musical in my life, and I didn't know there was a musical called "Chess."

But I did watch probably every music video ever aired on MTV at some point, and that video was literally dudes playing chess in a room that was another gigantic chessboard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (BI5O2)

105 I don't know why we allow them to live when we've got the guns.
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*?*

But, but...what other critter would go through my garbage?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (XeU6L)

106 Ohh, I get it. Chess, like with the Bishop, and the Queen. It all makes sense now.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

107 Saw something saying that the song One Night In Bangkok was originally from a play called Chess.

===

Correct!

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine !

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (g47mK)

108 The other Bangkok song -

Alex Chilton, Bangkok

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 08:11 PM (/lPRQ)

109 Easy there, bigshot. I'm proud to say I've never sat through a musical in my life, and I didn't know there was a musical called "Chess."

But I did watch probably every music video ever aired on MTV at some point, and that video was literally dudes playing chess in a room that was another gigantic chessboard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (BI5O2)

Just goofing. I've seen plenty of musicals. I've never noticed the chess stuff in the video.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:11 PM (dK+Kv)

110 And how many other pop songs use "Somerset Maugham"?
Posted by: man

Al Stewart, Life Between the Wars.

The tropic sun is sticky and warm
And it bakes the head of Somerset Maugham
Who is writing a scene of life between the wars

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:11 PM (L/fGl)

111 Bears are hairy swine with big claws, big appetites and a surly attitude.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 08:12 PM (BSdIE)

112 I remember back before Glenn Beck decided he was prophet him having a show making fun of his DJ days. It was "Murray Head weekend!" and they played that song so many times during the show. It was funny until all of a sudden it was very annoying.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 13, 2026 08:12 PM (ftFVW)

113 He mentions "oysters" in ONIB, which the Thai use as slang for a female sex organ.

Where as our most common slang comes from "purse" (not *cat*).

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:12 PM (krQz2)

114 It looks like O'Keefe's honey pots got another one. One of Vance's secret service agents spilled everything to try get in a chick's britches. Sad. I bet there's going to be a lot more training and HR computer based training for everyone because of this dude.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2026 08:12 PM (3uBP9)

115 Ohh, I get it. Chess, like with the Bishop, and the Queen. It all makes sense now.
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

yep, easy as pie.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

116 The Paolo dislikes the banging his cock.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 13, 2026 08:13 PM (krQz2)

117 >>> Yorkshire, England
See it before it's gone

Aww, kind of depressing. Royal Albert Hall will make a great mosque, just remove the seats.

I would be sadly ironic if the Iranian revolution wins, and they get more westernized and their ladies have feee flowing hair again, while England goes full Muslim and all the women have to be veiled.

Posted by: LizLem at January 13, 2026 08:13 PM (gWBY1)

118 there is nothing as expensive as a free kitten

**********

My last teh kitteh adopted me so I didnt get much say in the matter

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 13, 2026 08:14 PM (REq0p)

119 It looks like O'Keefe's honey pots got another one. One of Vance's secret service agents spilled everything to try get in a chick's britches. Sad. I bet there's going to be a lot more training and HR computer based training for everyone because of this dude.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2026 08:12 PM (3uBP9)

It is the sort of situation where you kinda hope there are questions about the oranges and the bath towels.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:14 PM (rbvCR)

120 The lyrics also say that you should hope your "queen" is a girl.

So I don't think it's about Thai lady boys, just rampant prostitution Bangkok is known for.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:15 PM (krQz2)

121 They'll finally find out how many assholes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

122 Ketanji 'I'm Not a Biologist' Jackson: "For cisGINGER girls, they can play consistent with their gender identity. For transgender girls, they can't."

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OK, OK, OK. We were wrong about blonde girls being the stupidest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:17 PM (L/fGl)

123 Hopefully O'Keefe used a really hot chicken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

124 They'll finally find out how many assholes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:16 PM (vFG9F)
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Don't the Brits have a lot of experience with that?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:18 PM (krQz2)

125 @103

>>I'm not about heat, I'm about flavor.

It's akin to a good jerk sauce, it's got the kitchen sink and then some in terms of flavor.

Lamb Vindaloo is da bomb.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

126 hairy swine with big claws, big appetites and a surly attitude.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

I'm right here you know.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 08:19 PM (gKWVE)

127 >>> 114 It looks like O'Keefe's honey pots got another one. One of Vance's secret service agents spilled everything to try get in a chick's britches. Sad. I

Whoops. Vance has apparently refused to denounce Tucker hating on Trump? Any truth to that?

I get being loyal to a friend. But then there's what Tucker is doing. Being so loyal to someone that hates Trump's hits pings my radar that maybe he's secretly not in our side as I thought.
And I say this as someone very pro JD.

Posted by: LizLem at January 13, 2026 08:19 PM (gWBY1)

128 Oh. Ok. Never heard of it. It doesn't matter though, I know gay when I hear it.
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

It always set off my gaydar too.

Posted by: Reforger at January 13, 2026 08:19 PM (v8m2L)

129 Wait, I've sat through some musicals before because of opera. But I've hated every opera I've ever sat through and it was purely for obligation that I ever gritted my teeth through one.

Every opera is better without the singing and playacting. Just put a good orchestra in the pit, and good dancers on the stage. No need for all that fruity lily-gilding.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:20 PM (BI5O2)

130 Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 08:21 PM (KDPiq)

131 There is nothing as expensive as a free kitten.

Our financial guy keeps telling us we won't be able to spend all our money before we die, and I keep telling him we have cats...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 13, 2026 08:21 PM (MZ+PY)

132
Vance has apparently refused to denounce Tucker hating on Trump? Any truth to that?

Posted by: LizLem

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

That happened a few weeks ago, at ??? one of those Republican wing-dings. Very disappointing, maybe some sort of "there are no enemies to the right" thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:21 PM (Jxa0O)

133 Lamb Vindaloo is da bomb.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)
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I'll have to try it. I can handle Indian-level masala.

My waiter gave me an "are you sure" look last time I ordered it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (krQz2)

134 And I say this as someone very pro JD.
Posted by: LizLem at January 13, 2026 08:19 PM (gWBY1)

Let not throw Vance out with the bathwater just yet either.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

135
Every opera is better without the singing and playacting. Just put a good orchestra in the pit, and good dancers on the stage. No need for all that fruity lily-gilding.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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So, what you want is ballet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (Jxa0O)

136 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "The reason that Minnesota and Minneapolis are being targeted is because you've got a Democratic governor, a Democratic AG, and you've got Democratic mayors!"

And you have $19 billion dollars in fraud!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (u/kd+)

137 Vance has apparently refused to denounce Tucker hating on Trump? Any truth to that?

Posted by: LizLem
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Quick! We must denounce Vance and everybody who continues to associate with Vance!

The fate of the world depends on how quick we cut ties!

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:23 PM (krQz2)

138 Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world.
Posted by: Opinion fact

There is Phuket.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (/lPRQ)

139 Vance has apparently refused to denounce Tucker hating on Trump? Any truth to that?

*******

That apparently came from lefty blue sky social retard shit, plus Trump recently invited Tucker to lunch, hopefully to throw him a blanket party till he comes to his senses again

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (REq0p)

140 I’ve slept through musicals before. I always tried to sit where my girlfriend could not easily see me while she was on stage.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (KDPiq)

141 I get being loyal to a friend. But then there's what Tucker is doing. Being so loyal to someone that hates Trump's hits pings my radar that maybe he's secretly not in our side as I thought.
And I say this as someone very pro JD.
Posted by: LizLem at January 13, 2026 08:19 PM (gWBY1)

I'm retired, and someone on the net hours every day... and I have not seen the videos of Tucker dis'ing Trump... not because they are not there, but because I've not looked.

Now... J. D. Vance is Vice President of a VERY VERY busy administration. I kind of doubt he has been paying attention to the Tucker crash and burn.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (mP0Kj)

142 So, what you want is ballet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

And that's not fruity at all.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (L/fGl)

143
LizLem, here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/4ta82jdx

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (Jxa0O)

144 Let not throw Vance out with the bathwater just yet either.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)
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For the good of civilization, I have to denounce you.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (krQz2)

145 Speaking of "progressive" there's a strategy I can't remember the term for, when they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence. For example, the lefties in my life keep talking about how bad the economy and job market are (even though they are improving). Their attempts to cultivate this belief can discourage productive economic activity and thereby actually diminish the economy and job market, proving their point that OrangeManBad.

It's not exactly "self-fulfilling prophecy" but there's a semi-conscious drive to force reality to bend a certain way to serve political ends, even if it is destructive.

Does anyone know the term for this strategy? I've been wracking my brain.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:25 PM (FMtrg)

146 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 08:26 PM (Ia/+0)

147 Bears are hairy swine with big claws, big appetites and a surly attitude.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

My wife insists men are Bears with furniture.

It tracks. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 08:26 PM (cYBz/)

148 For the good of civilization, I have to denounce you.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (krQz2)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:26 PM (dK+Kv)

149 Our financial guy keeps telling us we won't be able to spend all our money before we die, and I keep telling him we have cats...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

That asshoe doesn't know where to shop.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:26 PM (u/kd+)

150 125 Another example would be how the left claims the Trump administration wants to kill Americans and they worked themselves into a lather and got an American killed.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:26 PM (FMtrg)

151 I don't get it, and I won't look it up, because I don't want to read about some gross metaphors for sodomy. I'll just stay naive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM

Don't look up "Cleveland Steamer", either. I did, having seen it referenced here. I blame Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 08:27 PM (0sNs1)

152 Does anyone know the term for this strategy? I've been wracking my brain.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:25 PM (FMtrg)

Wishcasting?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:27 PM (dK+Kv)

153 82
'The two of them kept looking at me and whispering in Thai and giggling and giving me sexy time eyes.'

You were almost the guest of honor at a sausage party.
I'm glad you got out before you were their bun.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 08:27 PM (fd80v)

154 Does anyone know the term for this strategy? "

Crazypants leftism

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

155 So, what you want is ballet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:22 PM (Jxa0O)

Yes, I love ballet very, very much. But symphonies playing great operatic pieces, especially from the interminable Wagner opera, or Peer Gynt or someduch are awesome, too.

Opera is both too busy and too boring, which is a strange combination.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:27 PM (BI5O2)

156 Argh. My comment at 150 is referring to my previous comment 145.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:28 PM (FMtrg)

157 That happened a few weeks ago, at ??? one of those Republican wing-dings. Very disappointing, maybe some sort of "there are no enemies to the right" thing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:21 PM (Jxa0O)

You mean JD (no purity tests) Vance? That one?
Yeah, inconceivable. It is almost as if he is not a flapping rag like Kamala

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:28 PM (rbvCR)

158 I saw the Natalie Wood West Side Story when I was a kid. Cried when Tony's dead arm falls when they're carrying him away from the scene.

Don't judge me!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:28 PM (L/fGl)

159 they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence.

**********

Law of Attraction

I hated that new age bullshit with the heat of a thousand suns

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 13, 2026 08:28 PM (REq0p)

160 Speaking of "progressive" there's a strategy I can't remember the term for, when they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence.
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Manifesting

Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2026 08:29 PM (vSvIl)

161 Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world.
Posted by: Opinion fact

There is Phuket.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM

No love for us?

Posted by: Intercourse and Blue Balls, PA at January 13, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)

162 Speaking of "progressive" there's a strategy I can't remember the term for, when they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence. For example, the lefties in my life keep talking about how bad the economy and job market are (even though they are improving). Their attempts to cultivate this belief can discourage productive economic activity and thereby actually diminish the economy and job market, proving their point that OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:25 PM (FMtrg)
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The economy is actually something that can be affected by perception. The economy is all about perception of the calculation of gain.

Which is how we got into the Carter recession. The government had actually taken to a policy of early intervention when it's indicators suggested that there would be a dip in the economy.

But private observers started using the government actions as a sign that an economic dip was coming and furlough employees and cut back on investment.

It definitely became a self-fulfilling cycle. And then artificial actions in the interest market would not let the interest rates come down to compensate.

So we had stagflation.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:30 PM (krQz2)

163 Does anyone know the term for this strategy? I've been wracking my brain.
Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:25 PM (FMtrg)

Probably you are thinking of something like this: it is apparently a Soros specialty

James Lindsay

https://tinyurl.com/bdcsebrc

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:30 PM (rbvCR)

164 Thanks for playing, Comrade Flounder and Fd.
I don't think you have quite hit on it.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:30 PM (FMtrg)

165 Speaking of "progressive" there's a strategy I can't remember the term for, when they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence.
-
Manifesting

Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2026 08:29 PM (vSvIl)
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Ah, witchcraft.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:31 PM (krQz2)

166 they try to make something happen by sort of speaking the thing into existence.

-
The hippies levitated the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 08:32 PM (L/fGl)

167 158
'Cried when Tony's dead arm falls when they're carrying him away from the scene.

Don't judge me!'

I don't judge you. Women are naturally sensitive.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 08:33 PM (fd80v)

168 Happy Cafe, friends!

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 08:33 PM (/sySz)

169 Thanks for playing, Comrade Flounder and Fd.
I don't think you have quite hit on it.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:30 PM (FMtrg)

Read the 163 link. It's closer to what you are getting at.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 08:34 PM (dK+Kv)

170 Manifesting
Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2026 08:29 PM (vSvIl)

I think that is it. "Instantiating" was stuck in my head but I knew that wasn't right.

Thanks, Methos!

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:34 PM (FMtrg)

171 pre-selling the deal
projecting
seeding the zeitgeist
battlespace prep
extended psy-op
setting up the marks

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:34 PM (rbvCR)

172 "Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world."

Morehead City?

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 08:35 PM (rbIOb)

173 Everything I know about "vindaloo" I learned from watching Red Dwarf.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 08:36 PM (ESVrU)

174
I think I know why I hate opera and love ballet, now that i think about it. Ballets are often narrative, but don't have lyrics. The ballet dancers are pure athletes. In combination with professional musicians of high caliber, in a beautiful setting, it's purely sensuous. Just sight and sound in motion together. The lyrics fuck everything up. They're activating the part of my brain I'm trying to turn off for just a little while.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:36 PM (BI5O2)

175
There is Phuket.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January

But that is pronounced poo-ket.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 08:37 PM (/sySz)

176 For the good of civilization, I have to denounce you.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:24 PM (krQz2)

I understand.

*braces himself*

Do it. Call me a cucker fan. Call me an antisemite. Its for the good of everyone!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

177 "Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world."

Ummmm. . . . .
Big Beaver PA
Buttzville NJ
Erect NC
Horneytown NC
Lickdale PA
Pleasure Point CA
Spread Eagle WI
Three Way AZ

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 08:38 PM (cYBz/)

178 There is Phuket.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January

But that is pronounced poo-ket.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 08:37 PM (/sySz)
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Sure. And it has a girlfriend in Canada.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:39 PM (krQz2)

179 "Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world."

Ummmm. . . . .
Big Beaver PA
Buttzville NJ
Erect NC
Horneytown NC
Lickdale PA
Pleasure Point CA
Spread Eagle WI
Three Way AZ
Posted by: Tonypete

Intercourse PA

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:39 PM (u/kd+)

180 "Bangkok is the most appropriate named city in the world."

Morehead City?
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 08:35 PM (rbIOb)
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You get more for your $20?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:40 PM (krQz2)

181 Kindltot, the "Soros Model" (reflexivity) definitely makes use of people's tendency to try to manifest certain realities.

Thanks, all! That nagging mental question is answered.

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:40 PM (FMtrg)

182 One of the very few things I miss about single life is attending a ballet alone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:41 PM (BI5O2)

183 Don't look up "Cleveland Steamer", either. I did, having seen it referenced here. I blame Big Penguin.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

"Cleveland Steamer"
Almost nasty as "Cincinnati Chili".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 08:43 PM (/lPRQ)

184 Phookit sounds like it should be a suburb of Glasgow.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 08:43 PM (gKWVE)

185 Least appropriate names? Superior, Wisconsin. Should be Inferior.
Grand Island, Nebraska - Not Grand. Not an Island.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 08:43 PM (0e5Te)

186 Ballet is a great place to pick up chicks. And spin them around over your head.

Posted by: Mikhail Baryshnikov at January 13, 2026 08:43 PM (vFG9F)

187 Appropriate is the key word.

I don’t think Intercourse , PA is famous for screwing.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 08:44 PM (KDPiq)

188 seeding the zeitgeist

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:34 PM (rbvCR)

That one was not what was buried in my brain but it's a good descriptor as well.

Horde-sourcing is the best!

Posted by: Emmie at January 13, 2026 08:44 PM (FMtrg)

189 Soros doesn't want Marxism. So he's about as "right wing" as fascists.

He wants the destabilization of Marxists so that the old forms of the past are softened up for reshaping.

He wants to create a society that does not follow a historical narrative, but shapes itself.

He's almost as delusional as Marx, though.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:44 PM (krQz2)

190 The Scouring of the Shire was the clean-up after Sauron was defeated (skipped in the movies). The Shire had to be restored too.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 13, 2026 08:45 PM (bIzDl)

191 Closeby to Intercourse are Bird in Hand and Blue Ball. They do have some funny souvenirs and great farmers markets.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (h/O4U)

192 Intercourse PA
---
"Oh! intercourse the penguin!!" -- Monty Python "Pepperpot"

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (krQz2)

193 I once dived into the Firehole River. Cracked my head on the bedrock.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (BSdIE)

194
Well, we're not shy about badmouthing Cucker Qatarlson, why should our leaders pussy-foot around him?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Jxa0O)

195 Intercourse PA

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:39 PM (u/kd+)
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Spoken like a New Yorker, with a modicum of class.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:47 PM (krQz2)

196
Least appropriate names? Superior, Wisconsin. Should be Inferior.
Grand Island, Nebraska - Not Grand. Not an Island.
Posted by: Wally

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

Los Angeles, California. Should be Los Diablos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:47 PM (Jxa0O)

197 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Jxa0O)

Did you see the interview with VDH where some of Tuckers recent statements were read off to him and he seemed genuinely at a loss?

Mental status change territory. I am not sure what the hell is going on, but when I have seen something this dramatic in real life it was bipolar disorder combined eith new drug use.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

198 One of my old lady cats likes to go out the back door, and then scratch on the front door. She doesn't want to come in most of the time, she is just doorbell ditching me.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

199 Intercourse PA

Amish. Lots of Amish. Only missionary position, and only when they're expecting it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 13, 2026 08:51 PM (MZ+PY)

200
Mental status change territory. I am not sure what the hell is going on, but when I have seen something this dramatic in real life it was bipolar disorder combined eith new drug use.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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

When I saw it, it was the early stage of delusional disorder, which is a form of psychosis.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:51 PM (Jxa0O)

201
Fucking, Austria

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 08:52 PM (y9nCu)

202 Well, we're not shy about badmouthing Cucker Qatarlson, why should our leaders pussy-foot around him?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Jxa0O)
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Hey, that's other people's thing. That ain't my thing.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 08:52 PM (krQz2)

203 I looked up the musical Chess, and it says here that it's "a political musical thriller with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and lyrics by Tim Rice, set during the Cold War, that uses a World Chess Championship to explore a love triangle between an American grandmaster, a Soviet grandmaster, and a Hungarian-American woman caught between them....features iconic songs like "One Night in Bangkok".

Hmmm. Sounds suspiciously like a musical written by my cousin, Boone Hunnicutt, called Checkers, which was about two tractor-pull rivals and a female arena announcer. It was held over for a second week at the Stanly County Agri-Civic center, and featured that local hit song, "One Night in Lizard Lick".

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 08:53 PM (2L+MU)

204 186 Ballet is a great place to pick up chicks. And spin them around over your head.
Posted by: Mikhail Baryshnikov at January

I saw Baryshnikov live, oh my stars. I hadn’t even been en pointe yet and I knew I was seeing something incredible. It was mesmerizing, emotional even.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 08:57 PM (/sySz)

205 Well, we're not shy about badmouthing Cucker Qatarlson, why should our leaders pussy-foot around him?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Jxa0O)

Most of the people bad mouthing him only see clips, and clips chosen for them by other people. And no one asks why they got those clips, instead the decide to go into that "seeded zeitgeist"

no one considers that a confusing narrative has been arranged for getting a lot of people to believe something highly actionable that is mostly untrue, and then it has to be sparked, so everyone starts saying the same things.

It is better to be angry about what you understand and have seen, not what has been shown you by people who may have goals far different than what they are claiming.
"Hate Tucker" could very well be a pretext for "control Vance" or even "Make sure John Huntsman is the candidate so we don't have to worry about Vance doing what he says he will do"

Personally I would take listening to Tucker yammer on if the chance was Vance as Pres for 8 more years.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:58 PM (rbvCR)

206 Al Stewart had "General Guderian" in his lyrics for Roads to Moscow, which is one of the finest songs ever written.

Posted by: Time Passages at January 13, 2026 08:58 PM (oftw2)

207 Fucking, Austria
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 08:52 PM (y9nCu)
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Didn't they change their name because people kept stealing their sign?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 08:58 PM (ESVrU)

208 Personally I would take listening to Tucker yammer on if the chance was Vance as Pres for 8 more years.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 08:58 PM (rbvCR)

Ill agree on this one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

209 I hope the Department of the Interior has a budget for all the "I-69" signs they'll have to replace up and town Texas

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 09:02 PM (gKWVE)

210 I grew up around a lot of fairly incompetent manipulators. It took me a while to figure out why the world never fit afterwards what was claimed to have been done, or what I was told had been needed, but it finally clicked that most of what I was being told was BS to manipulate me into doing things someone else found useful, or covered up a lie someone else told.
It started pissing me off about the time the anti smoking drives started and COVID made me nearly incoherent with rage, daily, because of the lies and emotional manipulation. It makes me unfit for general conversation I am afraid

Anyhow, this ends the Kindltot Group Therapy. Thank you for attending. Please schedule next month's session with the receptionist up front, when you pay.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 09:02 PM (rbvCR)

211 Fucking, Austria
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 08:52 PM (y9nCu)
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You know who else had that opinion?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 09:03 PM (krQz2)

212 I listened to Ian Carroll on a recent podcast of Tucker.

I actually feel pretty informed on what happened in the Las Vegas shooting.

I have no idea on whether I need to denounce Carroll for other positions he holds.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 09:05 PM (krQz2)

213 Wait til you have to get through Goddam, Kansas

Posted by: anyone driving east of Denver at January 13, 2026 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

214 Ummmm. . . . .
Big Beaver PA
Buttzville NJ
Erect NC
Horneytown NC
Lickdale PA
Pleasure Point CA
Spread Eagle WI
Three Way AZ
Posted by: Tonypete

Intercourse PA
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:39 PM (u/kd+)

Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn, halfway between Nenana and Fairbanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 09:06 PM (6Bc88)

215 You know who else had that opinion?
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 09:03 PM (krQz2)

The Kingdom of Hungary. How else would Austria be K.u.K.'d?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 09:06 PM (rbvCR)

216 I looked up the musical Chess, and it says here that it's "a political musical thriller with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and lyrics by Tim Rice, set during the Cold War, that uses a World Chess Championship to explore a love triangle between an American grandmaster, a Soviet grandmaster, and a Hungarian-American woman caught between them....features iconic songs like "One Night in Bangkok".
Posted by: Paco

This is why the folks saying "One Night In Bangkok" is about chess, and the ones saying it's about freaky sex, are both correct.

It's literally a monologue from the guy who's there for the chess tournament, explaining to the degenerates that he is there for the chess, and not the freaky sex.

I don't see you guys rating the kind of 'mate' I'm contemplating.

I'd let you watch, I would invite you, but the queens we use would not excite you.

So, you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlors.....

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 09:08 PM (nhCoE)

217 When I get enough money to buy my own town, I'm going to get rich off of the signs when I name it "Titsville."

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 09:08 PM (BSdIE)

218 When I get enough money to buy my own town, I'm going to get rich off of the signs when I name it "Titsville."
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

"I'd like two Pickets to Titsburgh please!"

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 13, 2026 09:09 PM (cYBz/)

219 Morehead City?
Posted by: pawn

MN missed when they called theirs "Moorhead."

Because you can drive north from there to Climax.

And then west across the border to Cummings (ND).

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 09:10 PM (nhCoE)

220 I miss Rush.

RIP.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 09:12 PM (4piHn)

221 But we’d love for your insight rught now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 09:12 PM (4piHn)

222 Chicken, AK, because they couldn't spell Ptarmigan.

See also Eek, AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 09:13 PM (6Bc88)

223 MN missed when they called theirs "Moorhead."
Because you can drive north from there to Climax.
And then west across the border to Cummings (ND).
Posted by: mikeski

There's another little MN town near there called Fertile, leading to the apocryphal newspaper headline, "Fertile Woman Killed in Climax."

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 09:15 PM (nhCoE)

224 I saw Baryshnikov live, oh my stars. I hadn’t even been en pointe yet and I knew I was seeing something incredible. It was mesmerizing, emotional even.
Posted by: Piper

I always felt that way when watching Dick The Bulldog Brower wrestle.

Posted by: The One Man Riot Squad at January 13, 2026 09:18 PM (oftw2)

225 Goldurn bear's got a couple real good looking girlfriends.
So he's got that going for him anyway.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 13, 2026 09:18 PM (zdLoL)

226 I saw Baryshnikov live, oh my stars. I hadn’t even been en pointe yet and I knew I was seeing something incredible. It was mesmerizing, emotional even.
Posted by: Piper

Kind of felt the same way when I saw Pavarotti in recital.

Posted by: Tuna at January 13, 2026 09:19 PM (lJ0H4)

227 This was posted by Richard Grenell on X

I help sneak gays and lesbians out of Iran.

And for the first time EVER, someone has said “I want to wait just a bit”.

There is real hope coming from the inside.

I don’t think you can stop this now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 09:20 PM (+mUZM)

228 Least appropriate names? Superior, Wisconsin. Should be Inferior.
Grand Island, Nebraska - Not Grand. Not an Island.
Posted by: Wally

Los Angeles, California. Should be Los Diablos.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Saint Paul, MN.

If he knew what was going on there, they'd be getting a Letter.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 09:20 PM (nhCoE)

229 I saw Baryshnikov dance in the Nutcracker for the Dallas Balley in the early
80s.

Didn’t know how special it was.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 09:21 PM (paWUw)

230 One of the best town names is Show Low in Arizona.

The origin of the name is just as good as you'd imagine.

Posted by: Splunge at January 13, 2026 09:22 PM (7DKa5)

231 Just announced...........

12' Fly Guy Inflatable Tube Man to assume Office of Governor in the State of Minnesota based upon the fact the Inflatable Man is more competent than the current Governor Timmy "Butthead" Walz...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 13, 2026 09:24 PM (J9q9v)

232 220 I miss Rush.

RIP.
Posted by: nurse ratched

###
Many of us do.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 13, 2026 09:24 PM (2Ez/1)

233 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that the spouse of Renee Good may have committed a crime in connection with a Jan. 7 encounter between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Good in Minneapolis that resulted in Good’s death.

https://tinyurl.com/2eabz4fh

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:25 PM (u/kd+)

234 I have never seen a ballet live. Am I a complete philistine?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:26 PM (/+1dw)

235 I saw Hal Holbrook in his solo Broadway show as Mark Twain. He smoked cigars through the whole thing. When the lights went down for the second act, you knew he was coming back because of the puff of smoke from behind the curtain on the side of the stage.

Wonder if you could even do that now.

Posted by: Splunge at January 13, 2026 09:26 PM (7DKa5)

236 I have been to all these places, and they do not live up to the names !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big Beaver PA
Buttzville NJ
Erect NC
Horneytown NC
Lickdale PA
Pleasure Point CA
Spread Eagle WI
Three Way AZ
Intercourse PA
Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn, halfway between Nenana and Fairbanks.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 13, 2026 09:27 PM (J9q9v)

237 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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That would be petty as hell. Let her alone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:28 PM (/+1dw)

238 "Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst"

Now do the Southside Family Charter School.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 13, 2026 09:29 PM (2Ez/1)

239 Tucker plays the role of Putzi Hanfstaengel at Berchtesgaden, the half German half American half mascot half pet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 09:30 PM (RIvkX)

240 Least appropriate names?
Posted by: Wally

Los Angeles, California. Should be Los Diablos.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Saint Paul, MN.
If he knew what was going on there, they'd be getting a Letter.
Posted by: mikeski

There's also the geographically-inappropriate suburb West Saint Paul, which is due south of Saint Paul. But it is west of South Saint Paul.

North Saint Paul isn't much better, being northeast of Saint Paul, but not adjacent to it. Part of Maplewood sits between them.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 09:32 PM (nhCoE)

241 I saw Agnes Moorhead keep over 4,000 college kids enthralled for almost two hours doing an interpretive reading. Absolutely fantastic.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 09:32 PM (2WIwB)

242 So apparently Elon f’ed the sense out of that Ashley gal.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2026 09:33 PM (4y9Oc)

243 Watching a live show from Brooklyn Bowl. In Celebration of Bob Weir. Youtube

Posted by: Bushwick's Dead And Friends at January 13, 2026 09:34 PM (oftw2)

244 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that the spouse of Renee Good may have committed a crime in connection with a Jan. 7 encounter between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Good in Minneapolis that resulted in Good’s death.

https://tinyurl.com/2eabz4fh
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:25 PM (u/kd+)
====

She is culpable at least of involuntary manslaughter

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 09:34 PM (RIvkX)

245 In the last year of his life Charles nelson Reilly did an one-man show. Saw it on Youtube and was very good. He had some surprising friends, Burt Reynolds, Julie Harris.

Posted by: The Life Of Reilly at January 13, 2026 09:36 PM (oftw2)

246 Seattle is perfectly named. It's named for a native tribal chief that would lead raids on other tribes for women and slaves. Probably why they put the U of Washington there. One look at the cheerleaders and raiders would go home.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 09:38 PM (2WIwB)

247 Amish. Lots of Amish. Only missionary position, and only when they're expecting it.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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We all rag on the goat-schtuppers for being inbred, but the Amish are having their own genetic problems. Unlike the deliberate cousin marriage shit practiced in the Muslim cultures for economic reasons, the Plain folks (Mennonites, etc) recognize the peril, but are in this position because of community size. They try to arrange marriages from other, physically distant Amish communities, but, even so, they have a very large number of recessive diseases.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 09:42 PM (lbb+E)

248 LOL. Carol Burnett Show.

Carol's character - Pepper Grinder. That would be a good stripper name.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:43 PM (u/kd+)

249 Seattle is perfectly named. It's named for a native tribal chief that would lead raids on other tribes for women and slaves. Probably why they put the U of Washington there. One look at the cheerleaders and raiders would go home.
Posted by: Diogenes

Husky chicks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 13, 2026 09:44 PM (NGvkg)

250
I saw Baryshnikov dance in the Nutcracker for the Dallas Balley in the early
80s.

Didn’t know how special it was.
Posted by: nurse ratched

===========

Wow. Do you remember who danced Clara? Gelsey Kirkland perchance?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 09:44 PM (Jxa0O)

251 > Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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Eh... prosecute the others who where there too, including her. And shoot the dog. Since I'm feeling belligerent, put the kids in a home too. Repo all the vehicles. Climb so far up everyone's ass they choke. And anyone who bitches about it gets a week in jail. Just because.

That's my light touch.

What they'd do is 100x worse. I'd like a head start.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 09:45 PM (NwnyJ)

252 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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That would be petty as hell. Let her alone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That's not petty. "Drive baby, drive!"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:45 PM (u/kd+)

253
I looked up the musical Chess, and it says here that it's "a political musical thriller with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and lyrics by Tim Rice, set during the Cold War, that uses a World Chess Championship to explore a love triangle between an American grandmaster, a Soviet grandmaster, and a Hungarian-American woman caught between them....features iconic songs like "One Night in Bangkok".

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

I heard a bunch of that music by the original Broadway stars. Yikes, there were some horrid singers. I mean by any objective measure, they were awful. It surprised me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 09:47 PM (Jxa0O)

254 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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That would be petty as hell. Let her alone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Disagree. It wouldn't be petty, unless you consider a couple of years in jail petty.
Why do you think the left pulls all this harassment shit on anyone they oppose? Because they get away with it.
There's this French phrase: "pour encourager les autres".

Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 09:50 PM (lbb+E)

255 That's not petty. "Drive baby, drive!"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:45 PM (u/kd+)

Drive baby drive!

Then

Why did you have real bullets?!

This is Darwin I action but it is so fucked up. Rubber bullets, just would nkt draw down on a white woman? I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

256 254 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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That would be petty as hell. Let her alone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Disagree. It wouldn't be petty, unless you consider a couple of years in jail petty.
Why do you think the left pulls all this harassment shit on anyone they oppose? Because they get away with it.
There's this French phrase: "pour encourager les autres".
Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 09:50 PM (lbb+E)

She could probably be charged for obstruction, accessory to obstruction, accessory to fleeing and eluding, accessory to attempted vehicular homicide, and probably a couple more things I haven't thought of. Stack the charges sky high then offer a plea to get her to flip on the larger criminal conspiracy in which she's involved. Start rolling these fuckers up.

Posted by: They aren't protestors they're a criminal enterprise at January 13, 2026 09:54 PM (TbWk/)

257 252 Renee Good’s Spouse Could Be Prosecuted: Legal Analyst
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The woman intended to commit a crime(s) and by her actions contributed to a death. The death will likely be ruled justifiable homicide, so her actions can be seen as negligent homicide or up to felony murder.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 09:56 PM (XlNvn)

258 One of the best town names is Show Low in Arizona.
The origin of the name is just as good as you'd imagine.
Posted by: Splunge
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When we have visitors, I always drive there and show them the bronze statuary commemorating the event. It's right on the main drag, which is also.named in commemoration.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 09:56 PM (lbb+E)

259 And supposedly she said 'it's my fault.'

Hmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 09:57 PM (zZu0s)

260 Any moment now.

Posted by: mindful webworker - because at January 13, 2026 09:58 PM (HJunf)

261
Prosecuting Renee Good's nasty 'wife' would save other idiots from jail time and death, and protect federal agents from attack.

This is the purpose of making examples.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 10:00 PM (VWtfl)

262 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 10:02 PM (XlNvn)

263 Barbecue Pringles are the devils catnip.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:02 PM (XV/Pl)

264 217 When I get enough money to buy my own town, I'm going to get rich off of the signs when I name it "Titsville."
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 09:08 PM (BSdIE)

Titusville, PA. Just buy a vowel.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 13, 2026 10:05 PM (MZ+PY)

265 Petty? Someone died because of that stupid bitch's actions and instigation.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 10:06 PM (XMwZJ)

266 So there's a musical called Chess (that I've never heard of), and it's about gay sex? Makes sense...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 10:08 PM (XMwZJ)

267 Then

Why did you have real bullets?!

This is Darwin I action but it is so fucked up. Rubber bullets, just would nkt draw down on a white woman? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

These idiots are LARP'ing. They think this is a game. No, sugartits. This is the big leagues where people play for keeps.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:11 PM (u/kd+)

268 265 Petty? Someone died because of that stupid bitch's actions and instigation.

--------

True but to be fair, look who it was.

Subaru may have lost a sale or two, but the rest of society is better off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:11 PM (+HNx/)

269 So there's a musical called Chess (that I've never heard of), and it's about gay sex?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Yes, but no more so than any other musical.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 10:12 PM (nhCoE)

270 Ain' nobody got time fer dis

Posted by: mindful webworker - because at January 13, 2026 10:12 PM (HJunf)

271 But its not Monday is it?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

272 ONT

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 10:16 PM (n4Qav)

273 >>>This is the purpose of making examples.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin

>Yes, this is because 'actors' should be using real hardware instead of 'props' with live rounds in a play acting set without clearing the 'prop' of all potential hazards. Nice job, fuckface.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:16 PM (BSdIE)

274
Renee Good's nasty tough guy 'wife' is reportedly a child abuser who has previously burned Good's son with a cigarette. I hope the child is separated from her immediately, to prevent psychotic child abuse with the themes "it should have been you" and "a man killed her."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 10:17 PM (azNOR)

275 Went out for supper
Just got back
Are we done with Iran?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 10:21 PM (48JDT)

276 @268 Yep.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 10:24 PM (XMwZJ)

277 Ace...lovely photo of Yorkshire. Where some of my ancestors were from. One had a sheep farm and is in the Domesday Book. Which muzzies will probably destroy.

Others have their names in stone at Westminster Abbey, and I surely hope they don't burn it like they did Notre Dame.

I've been to both many times and each visit am more amazed at the art and architecture. You can't take it all in with one visit.

The only full burka I saw was in a drugstore in York. She would not meet my eyes,and for reasons unknown I wanted her to meet the green lasers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 11:36 PM (WONhk)

278 "Soros doesn't want Marxism. So he's about as "right wing" as fascists. He wants the destabilization of Marxists so that the old forms of the past are softened up for reshaping. He wants to create a society that does not follow a historical narrative, but shapes itself."

The fcking audacity. He doesn't possess even a hint of the wisdom necessary to achieve that. All he's going to do is unleash forces he doesn't understand and can't control. Western Civ should kill him in self-defense

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:01 AM (ciYHQ)

279 "That would be petty as hell. Let her alone."

And this is why the Right will lose. Too many value Dignity more than Liberty.

The Left is play-testing how to enslave us and we're giving them infinite respawns.

Posted by: Fen at January 14, 2026 12:11 AM (ciYHQ)

Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities

Until a Lowly District Judge once again asserts her authority of Supreme Overlord of the United States.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a speech in Detroit that his administration will cease federal payments to sanctuary cities and states starting next month amid pushback over his immigration policies.
...
Trump made the declaration during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club, where he also claimed that the United States is at the beginning of an economic boom under his administration.
"Starting Feb. 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens," Trump said. "And it breeds fraud and crime and all the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary."

He also said he'd denaturalize foreign-born criminals.

Trump is also calling for Kash Patel to fire all of the seditious FBI agents involved in the "Arctic Frost" prosecutions of Republicans for the crime of opposing the Democrat Party.

President Trump is publicly demanding a housecleaning at the FBI, calling on Director Kash Patel to remove agents after reacting to a Just the News report detailing how a former senior bureau official helped push the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected conservatives.
In a Truth Social post responding to the article, Trump accused FBI personnel involved in the probe of abusing their authority and urged Patel to act immediately, framing the episode as another example of federal law enforcement being turned against political opponents under prior Democrat leadership.
The Just the News report summarizes congressional materials and internal FBI communications related to Arctic Frost, an inquiry that began as a January 6--related investigation but later expanded well beyond the Capitol riot. According to the documents, the probe ultimately placed Trump himself -- along with major conservative groups and GOP officeholders -- under scrutiny, even as agents acknowledged internally that there was no direct evidence tying Trump to criminal conduct.
Records released by Chuck Grassley identify then--FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault as a key figure in driving that expansion. Internal emails show Thibault circulating left-leaning media articles, opinion pieces, and podcasts to colleagues as justification for escalating the probe, while privately conceding the evidentiary basis involving Trump was weak.
...
Emails reviewed by lawmakers show Thibault pressing colleagues to include "DJT" in Arctic Frost's launch paperwork and encouraging the use of open-source material and human intelligence to justify the probe after the fact.
...
The scope of Arctic Frost extended beyond Trump. Congressional materials cited in the reporting show the probe widened to include major conservative institutions, including the Republican National Committee, the Republican Attorneys General Association, and Turning Point USA, founded by Charlie Kirk.
Patel has since confirmed that his internal review uncovered extensive surveillance and data collection involving elected officials -- eight Republican senators and one congressman -- with records stored in a restricted FBI cyber vault requiring top-level authorization. Patel testified that he located the materials, terminated agents involved, and dismantled CR-15, the Washington Field Office's public corruption unit, which he described as the center of politically motivated misconduct within the bureau.

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Good news

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:34 PM (VE6XX)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (xcxpd)

3
Oh, please let this happen.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (iJfKG)

4 oh my!

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (8uzBS)

5 And again, why hasn't Patel already fired these rats?
Why does he need Trump to tell him what he should be doing?

Weak sister.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (xcxpd)

6 L A mayor bass will double down on the sanctuary shite.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (Kt19C)

7 Well, sanctuary cities have declared themselves not subject to federal laws.

Posted by: huerfano at January 13, 2026 06:36 PM (98kQX)

8 "Starting Feb. 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,"

you hear that Austin? get in line or get lit up!

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 06:37 PM (8uzBS)

9 Pretty sure payments are guaranteed in the constitution or something.

Posted by: Judge kamalamakadingdong at January 13, 2026 06:37 PM (/6GbT)

10 Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities
--

He finally read my memo.
Next do the remaining blue cities
if there are any.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:38 PM (48JDT)

11 Weak sister.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (xcxpd)

I was going to say maybe they wanted to make a big deal of it, but they could have after the fact as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

12 Kash Patel ? LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:39 PM (abIsI)

13 Slow start.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

14 This, um, is inconstutootional.

Posted by: Justice Cisginger at January 13, 2026 06:42 PM (qUkBO)

15 I just got a call from Chuck Schumer and hereby declare that Trump must continue Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities.

Posted by: Anomamous Hawaiian Judge at January 13, 2026 06:43 PM (J9q9v)

16 Many need a dip in a nice warm volcano bath.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 06:43 PM (snZF9)

17 So is Senator Kelly going to lecture FBI agents that they can refuse to obey illegal orders from Kash?

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 06:43 PM (P0I39)

18 they're prolly picking through the ashes in the bowl

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 06:43 PM (8uzBS)

19 What was Watergate again?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

20 Until a Lowly District Judge once again asserts her authority of Supreme Overlord of the United States.

John Iscariot Roberts could put a stop to that if he wanted to.
He doesn't want to.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (gtcuf)

21 Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities
—Ace
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They'll find a judge to say no.

Everything has to go through King Phillip.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (krQz2)

22 PDT has nothing to lose and is going for the gusto.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (vFG9F)

23 Oh ... cut the $$ and it's gonna get spicy here in the Windy City!

Too bad the courts will save us all from Trump doing the right thing.

Posted by: YellowBird at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (MEbkQ)

24 Until a Lowly District Judge once again asserts her authority of Supreme Overlord of the United States.

John Iscariot Roberts could put a stop to that if he wanted to.
He doesn't want to.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (gtcuf)

Mostly because his dick is nothing but a flap to cover his vayjay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 06:45 PM (snZF9)

25 The President is asking for the barest minimum required if America is to survive.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 06:45 PM (Cjt/F)

26 ****Trump is also calling for Kash Patel to fire all of the seditious FBI agents involved in the "Arctic Frost" prosecutions
****

This is the forever dumb. He has his people doing everyday meat & potatoes jobs we all expect them to do and brags about it.

And then a One Simple Thing we've been expecting since Day One he has to be Ordered to do.

Criminy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:45 PM (48JDT)

27 Don LeMon has a sincere question.

Don Lemon SLAMS conservatives who voted for mass deportations..
“Is this what you voted for MAGA, you fcking idiots…”

-
That's a big 10-4, good buddy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 06:45 PM (L/fGl)

28 you all already know -- I don't even have to say it

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (jGJov)

29 What was Watergate again?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It doesn't bother me.

Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (95lhs)

30 I want to remind all Democrats that we have Judges on 24hr/7 day a week on call for your convenience.

Please feel free to call anytime...

Posted by: 1-800-Hawaiian Judge at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (J9q9v)

31 Blue areas are completely dependent on Uncle Sugar dollars.

If he stops the flow they will comply.

The problem is there will be a legion of judges that will stop him.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (sKqQm)

32 No EBT.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (9cHSL)

33 Something is wrong with the President:

@RapidResponse47
·
1h
REPORTER: Do you have a message for the leaders of Iran?

@POTUS
: "The message is they've got to show humanity. They've got a big problem, and I hope they're not going to be killing people... it would seem to me that they have been badly misbehaving, but that is not confirmed."

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 06:46 PM (ZxPkt)

34 It is as if the Democrats’ plan is to destroy America.

Posted by: Accomack at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (77Bgk)

35 Yeah, if only these thing remained in the proper place of the executive branch. But district courts have kings and queens, so that usually ends any progress or at least delays it until the next election. This country is boned, I mean they are arguing the definitions of male and female in scotus. Simply having states follow the law ain't gonna be a thing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (n5tGW)

36 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is a dim-witted troll. Why do people have such low standards for what they will allow to run their governments?

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

37 "What was Watergate again?
Posted by: Aetius451AD"

Isn't it a salad with those little marshmallows?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (vFG9F)

38 17 So is Senator Kelly going to lecture FBI agents that they can refuse to obey illegal orders from Kash?
Posted by: torabora
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Isn't he a rocket man?
They need to tie one on his tail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:48 PM (48JDT)

39 Ms. BarrMcSessions ain't going to do nothing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:48 PM (abIsI)

40 I argued a while back that Trump should be preparing these cases.

Get a friendly resource to launch the first lawsuit against his policies, with a right leaning judge, and make an intentionally bad argument.

So don't ban SF or NYC...ban some blue shit hole in a red state where the people that can sue on their behalf aren't leftwing lunatics...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:48 PM (sKqQm)

41 Fish or cut bait, Kash.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 06:48 PM (V6+NK)

42 Records released by Chuck Grassley identify then--FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault as a key figure in driving that expansion.

_____________________________________

That piece of human excrement used to go on social media and cut/paste "Lincoln Project" pieces. That should tell you what team he plays for...which I'm told is sometimes a spectator sport.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (dIske)

43 I can't believe they tweeted that shit.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (ZxPkt)

44
Calling on Patel to fire these assholes in a social media post is kind of odd on the surface. A proper POTUS demand of his own FBI director would be done with a phone call or memo.

This is a very public shot across the bow of every FBI jackoff in the bureau, not to mention one of Trump's patented outrageous statements that causes the usual suspects to screech like scalded cats, setting them up for humiliation and ridicule.

Trump = Cat

Donks = Wounded Mouse

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (y9nCu)

45 These cities will tear themselves apart if they go more than thirty days without Uncle Sugar picking up the tab.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (s19xO)

46 The left: J6 was insurrection and the punishment for that should be death!

Also the left: Hey we are asking the people in the executive branch to join us in an insurrection. Don't worry though because its against Trump it is legal

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (sKqQm)

47 37 "What was Watergate again?
Posted by: Aetius451AD"
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Democrat whore house.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:50 PM (48JDT)

48 Senator "Mr. Freeze" Kelly if a Federal Judge says that we cannot do that it is my duty to say that is an illegal ruling and F**k Off ????

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 06:50 PM (xl8DV)

49 CA gets $163B from Uncle Sugar.

Remove that and you see every elected official in the state turned out in the next election.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:50 PM (sKqQm)

50 BREAKING - A white liberal woman is being absolutely humiliated online after going bald for Renee Good, but she couldn’t even bother to look up her name before cutting off her hair and posting it because she completely got it wrong, calling her Renee Cook.

-
Well, I'd have preferred you slit your throat, but baby steps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 06:50 PM (L/fGl)

51 Trump can say whatever he wants to say but at this point it's the liberal judges that rule in the United States.

Unless and until SCOTUS throws a hard smack down on these imperial judges nothing is going to change.

Trump will do something and immediately he will be sued by a liberal and another liberal judge will slap an injunction on him and it will work it's way to SCOTUS where Trump will usually win. It's tiresome and a very good tactic for the left.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 13, 2026 06:51 PM (0N4FZ)

52

Can we get someone to investigate how the DNC monetizes poor people then scams all that cash?

It is remarkable how brazen they all are.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 13, 2026 06:51 PM (och2J)

53 Don LeMon has a sincere question.

Don Lemon SLAMS conservatives who voted for mass deportations..
“Is this what you voted for MAGA, you fcking idiots…”

Channeling Lawrence from Office Space:

"Yeah...YEAH! (leans forward) Fuck yeah! I believe we need to kick their fucking asses out of this country!"

Fuckinay, Bubba.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 13, 2026 06:51 PM (0aYVJ)

54 We really need to stop calling them Sanctuary cities. We need to call them Scofflaw cities.

"Sanctuary" sounds too noble and nice.

Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (reMys)

55 >>> Patel testified that he located the materials, terminated agents involved, and dismantled CR-15, the Washington Field Office's public corruption unit, which he described as the center of politically motivated misconduct within the bureau.

What happened to Bongino?
Nervous breakdown when he found out most of "his team" were despicable shitheels?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (/lPRQ)

56 No EBT. Fewer funds chasing the same goods.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (9cHSL)

57 Looks like Joe Rogan going soft again. This time on the ICE shooting. He's going to be backing Bernie again before you know it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (KDPiq)

58 45 These cities will tear themselves apart if they go more than thirty days without Uncle Sugar picking up the tab.

"They live on rats and sawdust bread, and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (gtcuf)

59 They want to secede from the Federal government then let them go broke

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 06:53 PM (Ia/+0)

60 Mo Dean, why can't you be true?
Woe, Oh, Mo Dean, why can't you be true?
You been doin' those things like the other girls
doin' too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:53 PM (48JDT)

61 At some point the executive branch has to say no more to these legal tactics. I'm ready for a constitutional crisis.

Just don't send the money.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 06:53 PM (n5tGW)

62 It is remarkable how brazen they all are.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 13, 2026 06:51 PM (och2J)
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They have a commitment to winning at all costs of a zealot.

Our coalition doesn't have the same commitment because we don't have any 100% goal. And the goal of many on our side is honor.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (krQz2)

63 The main culprit in Watergate Scandal was a person called "Deep Throat"...

Just Say'n

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (J9q9v)

64
CR-15, the Washington Field Office's public corruption unit, which he described as the center of politically motivated misconduct within the bureau.

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

The fox is guarding, inhabiting, surveilling, managing, and owning the henhouse.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (Jxa0O)

65
Can we get someone to investigate how the DNC monetizes poor people then scams all that cash?

It is remarkable how brazen they all are.

There was a miniscandal a few years ago when it came out most non-profits spend the majority of their budgets on their staff and benefits. It led to some half hearted attempts to make it obvious how much money their were actually using for whatever their supposed reason to be was...

I suspect they learned this from fedgov. I mean like at Newsom with his high speed rail. They've spent $16B over 18 years and not a mile of track laid...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (sKqQm)

66 57 Looks like Joe Rogan going soft again. This time on the ICE shooting. He's going to be backing Bernie again before you know it.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Never liked that douchebag. He'll say anything for clicks.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (abIsI)

67 58 45 These cities will tear themselves apart if they go more than thirty days without Uncle Sugar picking up the tab.
---

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (48JDT)

68 Who cuts the checks? Who pushes the button that makes the money flow? Can a judge find that person physically make them do it?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

69
"Red states receive WAY more Federal money than blue states!"

"Oh shit"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 06:55 PM (y9nCu)

70 We really need to stop calling them Sanctuary cities. We need to call them Scofflaw cities.

"Sanctuary" sounds too noble and nice.
Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (reMys)
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LARP-ing cities is probably too niche.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:55 PM (krQz2)

71 Cutting Federal funding to these Blue Cities will better than giving them Ozempic .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (quPQD)

72 >>>Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities

It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (dK+Kv)

73 Hey Whig, if you are here...

Did the SC ever rule on the 'Three Strikes Staute(s)', specifically?

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (ZcsJV)

74 Lol
Louisiana
Michigan

But off from Fed money

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (pzp+f)

75 "Red states receive WAY more Federal money than blue states!"

Top states are CA and NY IIRC.

And in the red states it is the blue shithole and blue voting areas getting more of the $$$

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (sKqQm)

76
We really need to stop calling them Sanctuary cities. We need to call them Scofflaw cities.

Targets?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (y9nCu)

77 We really need to stop calling them Sanctuary cities. We need to call them Scofflaw cities.

"Sanctuary" sounds too noble and nice.
Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM (reMys)
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LARP-ing cities is probably too niche.
Posted by: Axeman

"Shithole" works fine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (R5BEI)

78 Ain't nobody stopping the flow of Uncle Sugar's goodies to the states and cities. It's never gonna end until it does. The debt must grow.

Posted by: Broke, Borrowed and In Debt at January 13, 2026 06:57 PM (R/m4+)

79 >>Looks like Joe Rogan going soft again.

He mimics whomever he is talking to.

Like a Parrot.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 06:57 PM (ZcsJV)

80 "Red states receive WAY more Federal money than blue states!"

"Oh shit"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 06:55 PM (y9nCu)
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I'm calling bullshit on that. The amount of leftist causes the leftist are trying to fund themselves through government money, no way it's going mostly to red states.

Or at least it's still going to blue cities.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:57 PM (krQz2)

81 They'll find a judge to say no.

Trump says he'll defund judges who rule against him.

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 06:58 PM (8uzBS)

82 They have a commitment to winning at all costs of a zealot.

Our coalition doesn't have the same commitment because we don't have any 100% goal. And the goal of many on our side is honor.
----

Sorry man, but "our" side just wants its share of the grifting to continue. Its why none of what *Trump* has done has been passed into LAW. Most of "our" side is just waiting Trump out...they have no desire to fundamentally change the system because their grifting comes from the system we have in place.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

83 What happened to Bongino?
Nervous breakdown when he found out most of "his team" were despicable shitheels?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:52 PM

bongino found out that you can't just walk into a job in DC and fire whoever you want to and get rid of the problem employees as quick as he thought he could. In other words, the DC deep state and civil service protection laws prevented him from doing what he wanted to accomplish as deputy director. Instead of bashing his head against the wall for 3 years he quit.

On one of his last radio shows he hinted that might be the outcome after he took the job and actually got to work in DC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 13, 2026 06:58 PM (0N4FZ)

84 Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities

It's another Trumpmas miracle!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (dK+Kv)

Everytime a bell rings, a commie loses their mind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 13, 2026 06:58 PM (R5BEI)

85 I wonder if there is a way for Trump to block the money even before the inevitable court proceedings end.
It seems like you could make the case that the cities will use the money for illegal activities (like harboring illegal aliens).

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 06:59 PM (fd80v)

86 Looks like Joe Rogan going soft again.

He mimics whomever he is talking to.

Like a Parrot.
Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 06:57 PM (ZcsJV)
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If we have Rogan, good. If we lose him on an issue, oh well.

He knows what games the left are playing. He's either going to retreat to fantasy land or come to grips with it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:59 PM (krQz2)

87 "36 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is a dim-witted troll. Why do people have such low standards for what they will allow to run their governments?

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (TN0g+) "

For me, these days, all arguments like this run straight up against my growing doubt in the validity of election results, particularly in the Big Blue Cities and States.
Really, who can be sure that illinois citizens actually voted for that dickless dogturd?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 06:59 PM (Cjt/F)

88
What happened to Bongino?

He starts his new podcast Feb 2.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 07:00 PM (pkeXY)

89 >>Instead of bashing his head against the wall for 3 years he quit.

Musk seemed to suffer the same burnout.

Not sure how Patel is going to fire Thibault when the left the FBI in 2022.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

90 I remember after Kate Steinle shot by an illegal alien protected by sanctuary city policies, her parents continued to support sanctuary cities. Makes it hard to have any empathy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 07:00 PM (KDPiq)

91 I wonder why PDT doesn't get burn out.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

92 This guy, TeeBolt, will get carried into the CNN Center on a sedan chair and become their “expert” on all things Trump.

Who is John Galt ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (XqFM2)

93 Scofflaw cities.

"Sanctuary" sounds too noble and nice.
Posted by: Beverly
----

Scofflaw, it is.
Clean, clear and direct. Very Anglo, as Orwell would say.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (48JDT)

94 >>Looks like Joe Rogan going soft again.

He mimics whomever he is talking to.

Like a Parrot.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 06:57 PM (ZcsJV)

Fanbois call him open-minded. Your description is more accurate.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (dK+Kv)

95 He thrives on what makes lesser men falter.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

96
Geez, Teh Horde is usually better at getting the joke.

I've been listening to Donk commie cocksuckers pull that "Red states get more money" lie out of their squeekhole for years. Hence the irony joke.

Maybe I should have made it an aluminumy, coppery or zincy joke...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 07:02 PM (y9nCu)

97 Ace said he's bushed in one of the previous Threads today. The question is, is he happy?

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at January 13, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

98 I remember after Kate Steinle shot by an illegal alien protected by sanctuary city policies, her parents continued to support sanctuary cities. Makes it hard to have any empathy.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 07:00 PM (KDPiq)
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When I saw that I shook my head: Are you fucking kidding me?

I would be screaming for vengeance. Fuck I hate leftists. Fucking hate them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 13, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

99 Also the left: Hey we are asking the people in the executive branch to join us in an insurrection. Don't worry though because its against Trump it is legal

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (sKqQm)
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Nobody's going to use real bullets! Promise!

Posted by: Canon Fodder Recruiter at January 13, 2026 07:03 PM (krQz2)

100 He still has his job?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 07:04 PM (RIvkX)

101 Look what the sumbitch done now!

Video: Trump flips off man who called him "pedophile protector" during Ford factory tour

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 07:04 PM (L/fGl)

102 SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TN7Lv0PR4Q8

Posted by: JUDAS PRIEST at January 13, 2026 07:04 PM (ZcsJV)

103 The left: Ha ha MAGAts VA is now a blue state because of all those sweet federal dollars going to civil servants!

Also the left: Obviously the red states get most of the federal dollars

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 07:05 PM (sKqQm)

104 Not sure how Patel is going to fire Thibault when the left the FBI in 2022.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Refer him for prosecution?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 07:05 PM (48JDT)

105 Trump Says He'll End All Federal Payments to Sanctuary Cities

It's another Trumpmas miracle!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (dK+Kv)

Everytime a bell rings, a commie loses their mind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 13, 2026 06:58 PM (R5BEI)

Better: Every time a bell rings, a commie gets the ice-pick.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:05 PM (dK+Kv)

106 I'm sure the courts will move to block the but perhaps Trump will manage to halt funds to the insurrection cities for a few days, and it will be interesting to see the spice still flows based on expectation from the city workers, contractors etc that they will be made whole in a few days or if there is actually a bit of "Nope, aint taking no IOU, go without this until you have cash for me"

Posted by: PaleRider at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (/jn/s)

107 Sanctuary, cities and policies are in direct opposition to their oath of office.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (pkq24)

108 I would be screaming for vengeance. Fuck I hate leftists. Fucking hate them.

I'd ask for a meeting with the illegal "in solidarity with the poor people the evil Trump is trying to deport"

Then when I got to the meeting I would Gary Plauche him.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (sKqQm)

109 "Video: Trump flips off man who called him "pedophile protector" during Ford factory tour"

Why yes, yes, this too is what I voted for!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (Cjt/F)

110 >>Refer him for prosecution?

Possibly. I guess it depends on how big the conspiracy case gets.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)

111 Geez, Teh Horde is usually better at getting the joke.

I've been listening to Donk commie cocksuckers pull that "Red states get more money" lie out of their squeekhole for years. Hence the irony joke.

Maybe I should have made it an aluminumy, coppery or zincy joke...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 07:02 PM (y9nCu)

In our defense, we are morons.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (dK+Kv)

112 Sanctuary Cities need Hell Hounds and Stepsons.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (9cHSL)

113 I just had a random thought enter my head. We'll never know the answer to this, of course, so it's just a thought experiment.

We boarded that false-flagged "Russian" Venezuelan tanker bound from Iran, over strenuous, borderline-belligerent objections from Putin. Now, there's no particular reason he'd need or even want VZ oil, especially at this juncture, so internet sleuths have been surmising that this tanker might actually have been carrying the leftover materiele from Iran's badly damaged nuclear program.

I don't buy this, because I can't see a compelling motive on either end of that putative transaction. But I could easily see it being an arms shipment of *some* kind - perhaps Iranian drones, would be pretty useful to Russia at this time.

The Russians have an in-house expert on this exact type of operation who recently came in from the cold.

So... what if it turned out that it was in fact an arms shipment of some kind, and that it was a Viktor Bout Production?

What if Biden traded the Merchant of Death for a doped-up rugmunching hermaphrodite ladyballer, and the motherfucker immediately started fencing Iranian weapons to enemies of the US?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (BI5O2)

114 Leftists would be drummed out of the party and probably attacked mercilessly

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)

115 Leftists cheered when the courts said The Feds could tell AZ what they could and couldn't do in regard to illegal immigration enforcement.

Of course they have no intellectual consistency. Only foolish consistency of having cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 07:08 PM (KDPiq)

116 Maybe I should have made it an aluminumy, coppery or zincy joke...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 07:02 PM (y9nCu)

Irony isn't just what a nail tastes like.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 13, 2026 07:08 PM (0aYVJ)

117 >>What if Biden traded the Merchant of Death for a doped-up rugmunching hermaphrodite ladyballer, and the motherfucker immediately started fencing Iranian weapons to enemies of the US?

IF the CIA wasn't getting their cut...I bet they'd be pissed.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 07:09 PM (ZcsJV)

118 ---
When I saw that I shook my head: Are you fucking kidding me?

I would be screaming for vengeance. Fuck I hate leftists. Fucking hate them.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
---

That's how the neanderthal's wiped out the humanoids.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 07:09 PM (48JDT)

119 "What if Biden traded the Merchant of Death for a doped-up rugmunching hermaphrodite ladyballer, and the motherfucker immediately started fencing Iranian weapons to enemies of the US?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:07 PM (BI5O2) "

totally plausible, also LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 07:09 PM (Cjt/F)

120
REPORTER: Do you have a message for the leaders of Iran?

@POTUS
: "The message is they've got to show humanity. They've got a big problem, and I hope they're not going to be killing people... it would seem to me that they have been badly misbehaving, but that is not confirmed."
Posted by: Don Black

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

tf? Is he playing a game?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:11 PM (Jxa0O)

121 Sanctuary, cities and policies are in direct opposition to their oath of office.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (pkq24)
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Psychology shows that the more time your average person hears something the more likely their brain will treat that something as "true".

That's a real unfortunate party of human psychology. We've let the concept of "sanctuary city" simmer too long on the American brain for them to know this isn't a legitimate concept.

It was more a *toleration*. But we let this idea infest the American mind.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:12 PM (krQz2)

122 POTUS
: "The message is they've got to show humanity. They've got a big problem, and I hope they're not going to be killing people... it would seem to me that they have been badly misbehaving, but that is not confirmed."
Posted by: Don Black

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

tf? Is he playing a game?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:11 PM (Jxa0O)

He's always playing the game. It's a version of Calvin ball.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 07:12 PM (KDPiq)

123 Video: Trump flips off man who called him "pedophile protector" during Ford factory tour"

Why yes, yes, this too is what I voted for!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

If Trump did have that private police force, the left keeps climbing about, this guy would've been disappeared.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:13 PM (pkq24)

124
"Starting Feb. 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,"

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

February 1 is right around the corner. I want to get excited, but I know Judge Boasberg will do his best to make me wait.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:13 PM (Jxa0O)

125 Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:12 PM (krQz2)

Perception is stronger than the truth

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 07:13 PM (KDPiq)

126 Judge Beezlebub.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 07:14 PM (9cHSL)

127 Breaking from Babylon Bee: US in negotiations with Iran to trade liberal women for their Persian hotties. Win win for everybody.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at January 13, 2026 07:14 PM (w6EFb)

128 120 - he's talking to a "reporter" ferchrissakes, of course he's going to say something bland , anything else would be twisted out of shape and misquoted out of context for years to come.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 07:14 PM (Cjt/F)

129 I could watch ICE spray these leftist scumbags on an endless loop. Funny as hell.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m)

130 Putin allowed Bella 1 to re-flag and puffed semi-hard talk over it, never intending to or expecting Trump to do anything different. He was playing his part to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 07:14 PM (48JDT)

131 Sanctuary, cities and policies are in direct opposition to their oath of office.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:06 PM (pkq24)
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Psychology shows that the more time your average person hears something the more likely their brain will treat that something as "true".

That's a real unfortunate party of human psychology. We've let the concept of "sanctuary city" simmer too long on the American brain for them to know this isn't a legitimate concept.

It was more a *toleration*. But we let this idea infest the American mind.
Posted by: Axeman

The first dozen or so that gets arrested for sedition or insurrection because of this, will reset some minds. Same with these fucking left he's Larping, shoot a couple of dozen of them and they'll learn that they're playing in the big leagues. This ain't some Larping contest out in the city park somewhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:15 PM (pkq24)

132 if only, rickb, if only ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 07:15 PM (Cjt/F)

133 "You take my money. You wear my brand." Alias Smith and Jones. I think Peter Duel spoke the line.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 13, 2026 07:16 PM (YlWIZ)

134 I would be screaming for vengeance. Fuck I hate leftists. Fucking hate them.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
---
It's because they are willing to wager everything to bring to you a figment of their imagination.

Marx's History could have been true. However, the doctrine demands investment into the idea to "make it true". Mankind has been the subject to all kinds of delusions. Marxism is just one.

But it has set the idea of what life "should be". (Despite Hume having seriously destabilized the idea of "should".)

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:16 PM (krQz2)

135 If we have Rogan, good. If we lose him on an issue, oh well.
He knows what games the left are playing. He's either going to retreat to fantasy land or come to grips with it.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:59 PM (krQz2)

Who needs Rogan's audience? We can win without them. Call him out, humiliate him. It will make the right thinking people get in line.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 07:17 PM (rbvCR)

136 I don't know how the process of sending money to states works, but at some point someone has to push the send button. How does that work and can PDT interrupt it?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

137 > Kwame

Bullshit like this should be grounds for, not just a ban from holding political office, but revocation of citizenship and deportation to whatever country (if there even is one) where "Kwame" is a thing.

This isn't a racial thing, by the way.

The same goes for names like "Timothée" Chalamet. Dude, you can either change your name to Timothy or you can move to motherfucking France.

Same goes for names like "Tiffaneee" or "Lexxus". If you're going to do that, you might as well save time and just turn the baby over to the porn industry to raise.

Some of the European countries require that you choose your baby's name from an authorized list. I was never a fan of that, but after seeing some of the retarded nonsense people name their kids, I begin to see the appeal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 07:18 PM (IG3/x)

138 I don't know why Yummy Shitballs thinks red states are going to lose federal money. Trump said sanctuary cities. Even if any of those are in red states, it'll be the democrat part of those states.
Hell, Trump could pass the savings from sanctuary cities onto the blue states.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM (fd80v)

139 Something tells me the mayor of Houston was tipped off about Trump's plan to cut off sanctuary cities.

John Whitmire has for the first time since the city dropped out of the 287(g) program in 2001 rekindled the compliance and his leftwing voters are melting down over it.

287(g) has the city police alerting ICE when they have a suspected illegal in custody

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM (8uzBS)

140 Keep in mind, a key requirement of invoking the Insurrection Act is "cannot enforce the law through regular means" or such.

So, we have:
1) Agitators on the streets of these cities, violently blocking and impeding enforcement
2) Various rulings that he can't use the National Guard, even to assist with mere guard duties
3) pending rulings that will say he can't use ICE
4) pending rulings that will say he can't cut off funds

So, what method is left to the Executive to enforce the law?
Note also that every one of these is happening in only blue cities and states.
What do you call it when the Executive can only enforce the law in some areas but the local officials bar him from enforcing it in others?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM (HXT0k)

141 If you take the King's gold, you're the King's man.

You cannot serve two masters.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM (2GVsD)

142 "You take my money. You wear my brand." Alias Smith and Jones. I think Peter Duel spoke the line.
Posted by: Hokey

Every trail boss has said that since they started cattle drives. You ride for the brand or you GTFO.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM (pkq24)

143 Slap a hot irony to it!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

144 Good early evening, Ace and Horde. I got my Death Mower configured, and laid waste to a huge patch of weeds. It was spewing a stream of mulched weed guts over the top of a six-foot fence. Glorious!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 07:20 PM (8zz6B)

145
We've let the concept of "sanctuary city" simmer too long on the American brain for them to know this isn't a legitimate concept.

It was more a *toleration*. But we let this idea infest the American mind.
Posted by: Axeman

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

"We're a sanctuary city!" they chirp, declaring their lawlessness. "And we're green!" (another term that needs to be restored)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:20 PM (Jxa0O)

146 Well what kind of jiveass name is Rodrigo Borgia anyway?

Posted by: LaTravodka Jones at January 13, 2026 07:20 PM (vFG9F)

147 The one thing we know about that tanker is that after it was captured by the US, Putin immediately demanded the return of some valuable (to him, at least) Russians who were on board. That was interesting in itself, because no one knew there were any Russians on board. And it brings up the question: what were they guarding/escorting?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 07:21 PM (KKgFE)

148 > When I saw that I shook my head: Are you fucking kidding me?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 13, 2026 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)

Remember, these are the same people who think murdering babies is Just Awesome.

Why would they get upset if their spawn gets killed later on in life?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 07:21 PM (IG3/x)

149 Every trail boss has said that since they started cattle drives. You ride for the brand or you GTFO.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM

Indeed.

Posted by: B*l*a*z***r at January 13, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

150 Who needs Rogan's audience? We can win without them. Call him out, humiliate him. It will make the right thinking people get in line.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 07:17 PM (rbvCR)
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I think that's what I'm saying.

But while it works, I would counsel that we should be constructively engaging with him.

I really don't get the idea of making needless enemies over doctrine.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (krQz2)

151 Joe Thompson has reportedly resigned from his position in the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. ...Over the past five years he has led the prosecution of cases arising from the vast public-programs fraud committed under the administration of Governor Walz
h/t Powerline
====

Mmmmmkay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (RIvkX)

152 Bongino said on Vince Coglianese's radio show yesterday that the plan was always to stay just one year. His former producer, Jim Verdi, and Vince both confirmed that they knew that.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (3ImbR)

153 Keep in mind, a key requirement of invoking the Insurrection Act is "cannot enforce the law through regular means" or such.

So, we have:
1) Agitators on the streets of these cities, violently blocking and impeding enforcement
2) Various rulings that he can't use the National Guard, even to assist with mere guard duties
3) pending rulings that will say he can't use ICE
4) pending rulings that will say he can't cut off funds

So, what method is left to the Executive to enforce the law?
Note also that every one of these is happening in only blue cities and states.
What do you call it when the Executive can only enforce the law in some areas but the local officials bar him from enforcing it in others?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Did Ike have to go through all that before he sent in the 82nd airborne for the Little Rock nine?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (pkq24)

154
after seeing some of the retarded nonsense people name their kids, I begin to see the appeal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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

That's racist.

Posted by: &&TT&^*T^&(H at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (Jxa0O)

155 Sanctuary Cities are the scofflaw towns.
Where's Doc Holiday? Where's Bat Masterson?
Wyatt Earp marshal Detroit City.

First order of business; Jail the Mayor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 07:23 PM (48JDT)

156 Calling on Patel to fire these assholes in a social media post is kind of odd on the surface. A proper POTUS demand of his own FBI director would be done with a phone call or memo.

Its theater so that Kash can look like he is independent and not a toady of Trump.

"I want to keep these Ham & Eggers on the job, but The President ordered them gone."

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 07:23 PM (/TiS1)

157 You cannot serve two masters.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM

That's not strictly true.

Posted by: The Gimp at January 13, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

158 Hall-e-freaking-lujah

Posted by: Sidney at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (rzwGB)

159 Unknown Drip may have the right take.

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (8uzBS)

160 >>You cannot serve two masters.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:19 PM

There has to be at least one Caddy who won at Augusta with 2 Different Golfers.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (ZcsJV)

161 Trump is also calling for Kash Patel to fire all of the seditious FBI agents involved in the "Arctic Frost" prosecutions of Republicans for the crime of opposing the Democrat Party.

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You misspelled indict, arrest, prosecute, imprison, and execute.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (IzKeh)

162 The Democrats will not be content until they have turned the U.S. into a one-party state. I see little likelihood of internal party reform, and there is a distinct lack of intestinal fortitude in the GOP for suppressing the Democrats through the use of RICO or other legal means: so, it becomes a case of an irresistible force meeting a very moveable object.

Donald Trump and his myrmidons really are our primary defense against leftist revolution and anarchy at this time.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (2L+MU)

163 "the plan was always to stay just one year. "

Did he tell us that? If he did I didn't hear it, and if I did know it ahead of time I would have called him a putz then instead of now.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)

164 Every trail boss has said that since they started cattle drives. You ride for the brand or you GTFO.
Posted by: rickb223

I'm addicted to Landman. In this week's episode, Cami fired Tommy on similar grounds. Now I've got to wait until Sunday to find out what happens next!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (L/fGl)

165 You cannot serve two masters at the same time.

Better?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (2GVsD)

166 There has to be at least one Caddy who won at Augusta with 2 Different Golfers.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (ZcsJV)

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I think Carl the Gardner one twice, caddying once for himself and again for The Dali Lama.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (IzKeh)

167 Trump's calling for a lot of shit.

Let's see who complies. Then... act accordingly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (NwnyJ)

168
As a resident of a sanctuary city and state, I can't wait for this to happen.

When will the money actually stop flowing? Is it disbursed quarterly, monthly? Will cities and states be hit hard when the February checks don't go out?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (Jxa0O)

169 "We're a sanctuary city!" they chirp, declaring their lawlessness. "And we're green!" (another term that needs to be restored)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 07:20 PM (Jxa0O)
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They also say "We Recycle!" as if it means that that happens.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:27 PM (krQz2)

170 Donald Trump and his myrmidons really are our primary defense against leftist revolution and anarchy at this time.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (2L+MU)

He is the leftists' protection from the masses.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)

171 I think that's what I'm saying.

But while it works, I would counsel that we should be constructively engaging with him.
I really don't get the idea of making needless enemies over doctrine.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:22 PM (krQz2)

Nah, just piss on 14.5 million people, best to start the way you intend to end.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)

172 * I think Carl the Gardner WON twice ... damn auto-translate

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 07:27 PM (IzKeh)

173
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2010817216543903998

She seems nice. /sarc

Fundamentals. Buy ammo (especially now while it's relatively cheap)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

174 138
'Trump could pass the savings from sanctuary cities onto the blue states.'

the red states.'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 07:28 PM (fd80v)

175 > In this week's episode, Cami fired Tommy on similar grounds. Now I've got to wait until Sunday to find out what happens next!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM (L/fGl)

The Andy Garcia character warned him that was coming.

Maybe he'll offer to bankroll Tommy, Dale, Nate, and Cooper founding their own oil company.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 07:29 PM (IG3/x)

176 I can't help but laugh when I see the name "Joe Thompson." I knew a kid named that, growing up. He was a mess. A juvenile delinquent, but also a deeply conflicted gay hillbilly.

I picture him as US Att'y and I laugh every time. But then it kinda makes sense, and I shudder a little.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 07:29 PM (BI5O2)

177 You cannot serve two masters at the same time.

Better?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 07:26 PM

* simpers *

Posted by: The Gimp at January 13, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

178 Something tells me the mayor of Houston was tipped off about Trump's plan to cut off sanctuary cities.

It should be the shame of the Texas State Legislator that the State couldn't conjure up and enforce anti-sanctuary city laws with criminal penalties.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 07:30 PM (U4c/V)

179 127 Breaking from Babylon Bee: US in negotiations with Iran to trade liberal women for their Persian hotties. Win win for everybody.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone

WTF?
-Persian men

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Dv3i1)

180 >>>Did he tell us that? If he did I didn't hear it, and if I did know it ahead of time I would have called him a putz then instead of now.
~~~~~

No. I don' t think it would have made sense for him to do so.

He was only on as a guest on Vince's show for a short segment. He did say that there are an incredible number of people working their butts off and making tremendous progress. Said Kash is great and that they walked into a maelstrom--things were much worse than they even imagined.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 07:30 PM (3ImbR)

181 He is the leftists' protection from the masses.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)

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During his farewell address, he should call for a MAGA Day of Retribution -- which would include full pardons for all crimes against Leftists during that 24-hour period.

/Dreamin' over here, boss!

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (IzKeh)

182 Donald Trump and his myrmidons really are our primary defense against leftist revolution and anarchy at this time.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:25 PM (2L+MU)

He is the leftists' protection from the masses.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

THIS!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (pkq24)

183 Who the fk thinks they can do anything significant in just one year in government? Except for PDT, I mean. You have to be in it for the long haul, because the other side is on a long march.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

184 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (LdBR/)

185 Evening folks. I see DJT has gazed upon his field of fucks and lo it is barren.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (GTqXr)

186 >>Unknown Drip may have the right take.

I think Trump says these things when he knows they are already in motion.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 07:31 PM (viF8m)

187 >
WTF?
-Persian men
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Dv3i1)

They make 'em wear tents anyway. Might as well use those burqas on women where they would serve a positive social function, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 07:32 PM (IG3/x)

188 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2010817216543903998

She seems nice. /sarc

Fundamentals. Buy ammo (especially now while it's relatively cheap)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
......

Potty mouth.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 07:32 PM (UjdFS)

189 I think Joe Rogan wants to understand, but I'm not sold on his...let's call it, "his ability to comprehend".

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (2L+MU)

190 "You cannot serve two masters at the same time."

You're telling me!

Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (vFG9F)

191 153
'Did Ike have to go through all that before he sent in the 82nd airborne for the Little Rock nine?'

101st

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (fd80v)

192 Donald Trump and his myrmidons

I think I just got called a bad name

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:34 PM (pkq24)

193 SCOTUS lacks leadership. The front office is populated by lackeys with very little conviction and a very fluid perception of the law.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 07:34 PM (BSdIE)

194 'Did Ike have to go through all that before he sent in the 82nd airborne for the Little Rock nine?'

101st
Posted by: Dr. Claw

I knew I was gonna be wrong whichever one I picked.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:35 PM (pkq24)

195 I think Joe Rogan wants to understand, but I'm not sold on his...let's call it, "his ability to comprehend".

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:33 PM (2L+MU)
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Being on the left as long as he was, he probably still feels the Call of the Feelz.

It's just for a time, the clash that would come from sending ICE into hostile territory was more abstract.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 07:35 PM (krQz2)

196 I always wondered how some liberal absolute idiots I knew were so flush with cash. I figured maybe silver spooners, but now I understand, Uncle Sugar one way or another. Just create an NGO and 10 LLC's under that, payoff a politician and that's your dinner.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 07:37 PM (n5tGW)

197 188 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2010817216543903998

She seems nice. /sarc

Fundamentals. Buy ammo (especially now while it's relatively cheap)
Posted by: Duncanthrax

She looks like Johnny Winters' ugly sister.

And that woman who wrote the hit-piece obit on Scott Adams for People has a face like a kettle ball.

You could almost do up a chart of basic AWFL physiognomy for the purpose of recognizing these kooks on sight (like those silhouettes of airplanes and ships they used to use in WWII).

And, yes, I am investing heavily in brass.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2L+MU)

198 A former classmate/friend of Pooky's says that DHS knocked on the door of his St. Paul home and asked if he'd seen any Somalis in the neighborhood. I'm pressing a hard [X] to doubt that it went down that way, but I'm also hearing it third hand through an "apolitical" lens.

Posted by: pookysgirl would like some confirmation at January 13, 2026 07:47 PM (Wt5PA)

199 Now Paco is heavily invested in the Barrel.

Posted by: Torgo at January 13, 2026 07:51 PM (vFG9F)

200 Mmmmm....nom nom nom
-The Barrel

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 07:55 PM (QGaXH)

201 Paco is manning the gloryhole for the rest of the evening.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 08:04 PM (BSdIE)

Justice D-EI Babbles Incoherently and Proves the Danger of Socially Promoting Retards for Racial Beancounting Purposes

Sorry for the low-effort blogging. I am bushed today.
Justice D-EI, the least qualified judge (nevermind "justice") in the history of America, continues trying, and failing, to "understand" lawyers' arguments.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
2h
🚨 BREAKING: Attorney EXPERTLY PUMMELS SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Jackson's argument in favor of men in women's sports in the name of "transgender rights"
JACKSON: "But they are being prevented from playing on the team that matches their gender identity, correct?!"
ATTORNEY: "That's the effect...so let me use your example from earlier. You said there's a cisgender woman, she can play on the team she wants."
"There's a boy who identifies as a girl, he can't play on the team he wants."
"Take that same boy and switch his gender identity, but say he still wanted to play on the girls' team. Say he was a very unathletic boy. He likewise COULD NOT play on the team."
"So it's NOT the gender identity that's keeping him off the girls' team, it's his biological s*x. His gender identity is wholly irrelevant to it."

🚨 BREAKING: Attorney EXPERTLY PUMMELS SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Jackson's argument in favor of men in women's sports in the name of "transgender rights"

JACKSON: "But they are being prevented from playing on the team that matches their gender identity, correct?!"

ATTORNEY:� pic.twitter.com/4covfatkYO
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court

"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the� pic.twitter.com/QTkpru6EqO
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026

It doesn�t seem much has changed since Justice Jackson�s confirmation hearing...

She still doesn�t know what a woman is. pic.twitter.com/8cujCdxB0X
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) January 13, 2026

Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER" -- instead of the correct fake word, "cisgender."

Alito asks a good question -- how can you claim sex discrimination when you claim there is no real thing called "sex" to discriminate on the basis of?

Lawyer representing Hecox refuses to define �man� and �woman,� leading Justice Alito to ask how courts are supposed to determine if there�s been sex-based discrimination without knowing �what sex means.� @FDRLST pic.twitter.com/aIHYnfrqfS
— Shawn Fleetwood (@ShawnFleetwood) January 13, 2026

Overall, the Justices seemed to side with the "cisginger" arguments advanced by the states.

"Given that half the states are allowing it, allowing transgender girls and women to participate, about half are not, why would we at this point, just the role of this court, jump in and try to constitutionalize a rule for the whole country while there's still, as you say, uncertainty and debate?" Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked.
The court has six justices who are considered conservative leaning and three considered liberal leaning.
Kavanaugh, a President Trump nominee, coached a girls' basketball team at his daughters' school for years. On Tuesday, he called the rise of female athletics "inspiring" and questioned whether striking down the bans would eliminate decades of progress.
"There's a harm there, and I think we can't sweep that aside," he said.
Justice Samuel Alito noted that female athletes across the country have voiced opposition to biological boys identifying as girls competing against and alongside them.
"What do you say about them. Are they bigots?" Alito asked. "Are they deluded in thinking they are subjected to unfair competition?"
The Bee addresses Justice D-EI's profound learning disability.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 Can't impeach stupid ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

2 First is the best!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 05:34 PM (WQDw6)

3 Wait, hang on, hol' up.

The "transgender" person at issue in this case's last name is... HECOX?

Come on. LOL

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (5aZAZ)

4 I don’t think “nood justice Jackson” is going to get the desired result.

Posted by: Kratwurst at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (OVqT4)

5 Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything Ace.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (xcxpd)

6 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (van9r)

7 Biden nominated this smooth brained dunce using the Autopen. She should be booted out and replaced.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (abIsI)

8 Top 10!

Posted by: Accomack at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (nLdZ2)

9 "I am woman, hear me roar..."

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (XuXeR)

10 Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER" -- instead of the correct fake word, "cisgender."
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That's a red-headed person who identifies as not having a soul.

Or a lady shipwrecked on an island who identifies as a movie star.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (krQz2)

11 I had to become transginger after my 55th.

Posted by: Shirley Manson at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (gKWVE)

12 Are there any women on the Supreme Court?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (NlEaG)

13 The "transgender" person at issue in this case's last name is... HECOX?"

SHECOCKS was too obvious?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (XuXeR)

14 Let her be like a beacon of stupidity to remind the next generation of what stupidity can cost us all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)

15 "how can you claim sex discrimination when you claim there is no real thing called "sex" to discriminate on the basis of?"

SHUT UP!

Posted by: she said at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (vFG9F)

16 I don’t think “nood justice Jackson” is going to get the desired result.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (OVqT4)
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Once you've seen one set of titties...you want to see them all.

Posted by: Ron White at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (krQz2)

17 And we're stuck with this imbecile for life.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (F061L)

18 Dear Lord, the stupid is strong with this one.

Reading that insane drivel is time I am not ever gonna get back.

Oh, and - Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (SRRAx)

19 Think about it for a moment.

Biden specifically said he was going to put a black woman on the court. He made it like it was a search for the Holy Grail.

This is what he found.

It might as well have been Twinkles the Clown, juggling flaming bowling pins.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (DD6gL)

20 SHUT UP!
Posted by: she said at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (vFG9F)
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That's what she said said.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (krQz2)

21 I tuned in for a bit and got to catch Jumanji deploy her "I don't understand" silliness.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (HXT0k)

22 Is that the retarded justice?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (9cHSL)

23 Liberal justices never use the constitution as even a speed bump to get to their preferred public policy goals.

Whatever is the liberal position, this DEI bitch will come to it.

It's part of why liberals have been so successful with the legislative branch. Our side is always ready to fall on our sword to prove how even handed we are.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (eIzlH)

24 Kavanaugh, a President Trump nominee, coached a girls' basketball team

And then those girls grew up, and some became leftists, and learnt what power they now had...

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

25 10 Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER" -- instead of the correct fake word, "cisgender."

That is hilarious - in an awful way, of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (Nx5jP)

26 Biden specifically said he was going to put a black woman on the court. He made it like it was a search for the Holy Grail.

This is what he found.

It might as well have been Twinkles the Clown, juggling flaming bowling pins.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (DD6gL)
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Keep in mind he couldn't select from any black woman judge who was an originalist--so a smart one.

So, he had to select from judges that already sniffed their farts.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (krQz2)

27 What do you say about them.

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (Kt19C)

28 That's what she said said."

You said said twice...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (XuXeR)

29 17 And we're stuck with this imbecile for life.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (F061L)

hmmm...
....well, now that you mention it...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

30 Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER" -- instead of the correct fake word, "cisgender."
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CisGINGER is where the rug matches the drapes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)

31 Do cisgingers have red hair or souls?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (9cHSL)

32 "I don't know anything!", she Persisted(TM)
-excerpt from Hillary and Chelsea Clinton's childrens' book "KBJ - American Justice!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (Dv3i1)

33 >>Liberal justices never use the constitution as even a speed bump to get to their preferred public policy goals.

They often cite the S. African Constitution.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ZcsJV)

34 "Is that the retarded justice?
Posted by: Boss Moss "

Differently abled.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (vFG9F)

35 OT: A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck California, sending shockwaves in all directions for over 100 miles.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the quake at 4.10pm ET Tuesday afternoon between the cities of Willits and Ukiah.

Shaken not stirred.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (abIsI)

36 Affirmation Action has consequences.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:42 PM (qFwJc)

37 So, the attorney Kathleen Hartnett--"she" is a dude, right?

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

38 Every time I read this statement from her I get more confused.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (/sySz)

39 CisGinger-

I was born with red hair. I have always had red hair. I don't want to have other than red hair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Nx5jP)

40 I don’t think “nood justice Jackson” is going to get the desired result.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (OVqT4)
---
Once you've seen one set of titties...you want to see them all.
Posted by: Ron White at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (krQz2)

Asymmetrical differences FTW!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (wVcYX)

41 Do they have to add another stripe to the pride flag now?

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (CNl8/)

42 magnitude 4.4? Swalwell's blown farts with more force

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (gKWVE)

43 I don't know how any of us are supposed to take court proceedings seriously when an obvious *retard* sits on the Supreme Court?

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

44
The light of intelligence has been extinguished in that one,
the ashes stirred, and then drowned again.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (xG4kz)

45 >>Affirmation Action has consequences.

I have become quotable.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (ZcsJV)

46 Who is this Ms. Rachel? Is she a modern-day YooToob equivalent to Mr. Rogers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

47 You have to marvel at this:
- This is discrimination.
- On what basis?
- gender identity
- Can you define that?
- No

Also:
End Trans Genocide!
- how do you know they're dead, maybe they're just transitioning, just a little "pause on life," took some life-blocker pills, can switch back anytime they want?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (HXT0k)

48 I was born with red hair. I have always had red hair. I don't want to have other than red hair.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Nx5jP)
---
*slaps forehead*

This explains so much. Thank you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)

49 Normal people need to STOP using this made up Orwellian "cisgender" crap. Go back to the basics and stop letting the marxists "win" the vocabulary.

Posted by: MacRadDoc at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (Gl2C6)

50 There wasn't any judge that Biden could have picked who happened to be a black woman who was smarter and more articulate than Action Jackson?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (Nx5jP)

51 cities of Willits and Ukiah."

So the choo choo is safe...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (XuXeR)

52 I had to become transginger after my 55th.
Posted by: Shirley Manson
----

*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:45 PM (TN0g+)

53 KJ "Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"

Attorney, turning to the CJ - I don't understand what the just said there, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand it either.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 13, 2026 05:45 PM (2ap+5)

54 The light of intelligence has been extinguished in that one, the ashes stirred, and then drowned again.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026

***
It's like when you get down to the final ashes in your pipe. You can direct lighter or match flame down there all you want, but nothing is going to catch fire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

55 Just ponder this

Justice Brown is probably more cognizant than Joey Bidet

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:45 PM (2GVsD)

56 I don't know how any of us are supposed to take court proceedings seriously when an obvious *retard* sits on the Supreme Court?
-----

But enough about Chief Justice Roberts...

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:45 PM (TN0g+)

57 I have become quotable"

The destroyer of worlds?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (XuXeR)

58 So, the attorney Kathleen Hartnett--"she" is a dude, right?
Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

checks out as TRUE

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (wVcYX)

59 7 Biden nominated this smooth brained dunce using the Autopen. She should be booted out and replaced.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at

And a bunch of smooth brained Rs confirmed her.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (/sySz)

60 There wasn't any judge that Biden could have picked who happened to be a black woman who was smarter and more articulate than Action Jackson?!
---
Yes and no are both equally horrifying in their own way.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (HXT0k)

61 39 CisGinger-

I was born with red hair. I have always had red hair. I don't want to have other than red hair.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Nx5jP)

Want to hold on to that Ginger Privilege, don’t you?

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)

62 Republicans, conservative or not, don't get the game that the left is playing with judicial politics. It's all result-oriented for them. None of their arguments are made in good faith.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (SSEhk)

63 Asymmetrical differences FTW!
____

Not quite mirror images. For some you'd have to look for quite awhile to spot the difference(s). That's what I'm told anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (Dv3i1)

64 Justice Brown speaks authentic DEI gibberish.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (2GVsD)

65 Burning darkness again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (9cHSL)

66 Cis-Gingers as Kumanji says...who are hetero succubae which saddens me as I prefer bisexual demonesses.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (MUJd1)

67 I think the Babylon Bee nailed it. Even the other Justices (a few of whom are also quite stupid) think she's the Supreme of Stupid on the Court.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (aZm/F)

68 The justices here could settle this with a broad biological boys are boys and biological girls are girls ruling. But I fear the will cut the dna in half and rule very narrowly like they always stupidly do just so lawyers can continue to get paid and the public can languish in even more future stupidity.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (n5tGW)

69 OT: A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck California, sending shockwaves in all directions for over 100 miles.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the quake at 4.10pm ET Tuesday afternoon between the cities of Willits and Ukiah.

Shaken not stirred.

Meh. Before I departed New Mexico, I had the pleasure of experiencing an M=5.4 quake.

It'll get your attention.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (/HDaX)

70 Want to hold on to that Ginger Privilege, don’t you?
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x

Absolutely!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (Nx5jP)

71 The modern crowd gives us too many "principles" to square.

That is how we became so "sophisticated".

Unfortunately the sophisticated practice is to "grant arguendo" the opponents premise. And you end up using their phrases and models. And sometimes we can get wound up in their "values" and their absurdity.

Sexual equalizing is a reasonable pursuit, and can promote refinement. Sexual interchangeability is far from reasonable and just creates absurdity.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (krQz2)

72 Not strong enough. Not close enough to San Francisco.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (qFwJc)

73 59 7 Biden nominated this smooth brained dunce using the Autopen. She should be booted out and replaced.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at

And a bunch of smooth brained Rs confirmed her.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM

After Bork and Clarence Thomas I don't get why they do this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (mxcbL)

74 The lawyer representing Hecox is kinda hot.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (abIsI)

75 So that is why Fenelon Spoke is out to save souls, it is to protect her Ginger prerogatives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (2GVsD)

76 In before the 100 comment rule, but I ran across this update to the Rockwell "Encabulator" video someone posted the other day. I think it applies here, since it is the very definition of "word salad". Enjoy!:

https://tinyurl.com/Hyperencabulator

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (SRRAx)

77 Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina debate. What have we sank too?

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (pDt9x)

78 Jackson should have recused herself for not being able to define what a woman is.

Posted by: Coki at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (Wkrcf)

79 It's like when you get down to the final ashes in your pipe.

there's a song about that...Commander Cody I think

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (8uzBS)

80 Pretty soon the SCOTUS will be totally filled by retards.

I imagine that will work out well.

For the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (NwnyJ)

81 They should put Jackson in a dunk tank, and situate it in the Supreme Court lobby. She could hurl invective, and whatever the heck that is she just said at the patrons to try and encourage them to hit the target. She’d be more likely to go down in history that way. Maybe get her own comic book character or something

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (DD6gL)

82 64 Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (2GVsD)

There was footage of her "dancing" on Boradway...needless to say it was hilarious.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (MUJd1)

83 Meh. Before I departed New Mexico, I had the pleasure of experiencing an M=5.4 quake."

I was in Alaska... it most definitely got one's attention

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (XuXeR)

84
It's like when you get down to the final ashes in your pipe. You can direct lighter or match flame down there all you want, but nothing is going to catch fire.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

True.

From "...the ashes stirred..." through to the end was a quote from a commercial with Smokey Bear from the late '60s - early '70s.

She really is low functioning in any legal sense, isn't she?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (xG4kz)

85 Asymmetrical differences FTW!
____

Not quite mirror images. For some you'd have to look for quite awhile to spot the difference(s). That's what I'm told anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (Dv3i1)

And from various angles with her in various poses. It could take quite a while. A lifetime, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (wVcYX)

86 Any intelligence BJ might have been gifted with is smothered under piles of ideological ramblings.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (krQz2)

87 So that is why Fenelon Spoke is out to save souls, it is to protect her Ginger prerogatives.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (2GVsD)
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Saving souls...for later!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)

88 I was born with red hair. I have always had red hair. I don't want to have other than red hair.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026

***
Fen,

The most beautiful and sexiest girl I knew in high school was a redhead. So was Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, and I believe Nicole Kidman is a natural redhead. You are in fine company.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (wzUl9)

89 This is abortion redux.

"Women's rights" is a convenient way to dismiss a child's superior right to live.

"trans rights" is a way to dismiss the rights of all women they compete against.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (uEUHC)

90 It's like when you get down to the final ashes in your pipe"

Stems and seeds?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (XuXeR)

91 83 Meh. Before I departed New Mexico, I had the pleasure of experiencing an M=5.4 quake."

I was in Alaska... it most definitely got one's attention
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (XuXeR)

Alaska has some big ass earthquakes I hope to never experience.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (mxcbL)

92 @nicksortor
🚨 LMAO! Someone HECKLED President Trump at the Ford plant today, so he mouthed “F*** YOU” and flipped them the bird.

https://tinyurl.com/mfdwnpnm

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (3ImbR)

93 How do I define a woman?

If, at any given time in your entire life, if you have never had to think about or worry about contracting prostate cancer, you are a woman.

There are many crossover cancers that both sexes have to worry about, Long, breast, blood, brain, but there are a few that do not cross over no matter how much you want to think it does. Endometrial, ovarian, and prostate cancer do not crossover.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (pkq24)

94 "I've got the down to seeds and stems again blues."

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (qFwJc)

95 In the 4s in richter scale the deep underground bugs mess with your ears. Mineral Quake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:50 PM (9cHSL)

96 I hate it when everybody here has to punch down.

Posted by: Jack at January 13, 2026 05:51 PM (jE5Mf)

97 72 Not strong enough. Not close enough to San Francisco.
Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:47 PM (qFwJc)

I'm 60 miles From SF and I didn't feel it..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 05:51 PM (VE6XX)

98 I think the Babylon Bee nailed it. Even the other Justices (a few of whom are also quite stupid) think she's the Supreme of Stupid on the Court.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 13, 2026 05:46 PM (aZm/F)

Keep the flare guns under strict lockup. Else she might burn the place to the ground.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (wVcYX)

99 Hey Jack

Diane is waiting down by the Tasty-Freeze with a chilidog.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (2GVsD)

100 Pretty soon the SCOTUS will be totally filled by retards.

I imagine that will work out well.

For the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 05:48 PM (NwnyJ)
---
If the Democrats get the Senate and White House, their going to unload a truckful of ideological morons onto the Supreme Court.

They may even argue that more justices mean that more cases can be heard! And that sounds great to the people who have begun to tolerate our oligarchy of know-it-all judges.

The false civility preferred over the naked, rugged slugfest people voting their conscience, and face it, preference.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (krQz2)

101 Breast cancer sucks for women (my mom had this, they got rid of it) but when men get it, it used to be Game Over.
But cancer science has improved.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (gKWVE)

102 Protip. Medical transgender guys, remember to get your prostate checked, PSA numbers read. We live in clown world.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

103 Ace, I liked what you did in an earlier post, you threw in an closely relevant teaser to keep readers reading.

Posted by: Mark in SC at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (Vvo0d)

104 This hair dye discussion for some reason reminds me of something I've always wondered about...

What in the everloving fuck was going on with Margot Honecker's (Die Lila Hexe) crazy purple hair? I've never heard anyone explain *why* she did that, just *that* she did.

I'm going with this: Margot Honecker was the ur-Karen. A pushy, frigid Marxist virago with danger hair who relentlessly tormented everyone around her.

She's the template for the affluent white American female. Other spiritual defectives at American universities looked at the glorious heights of unrestrained bitchiness she attained, and began subconsciously emulating her. The social contagion spread, and now we have a country run by millions of Margots.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (BI5O2)

105 "Someone HECKLED President Trump at the Ford plant today, so he mouthed “F*** YOU” and flipped them the bird."

It sounds like PDT still has some fucks to give.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (vFG9F)

106 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llPUlLznKpY

Justice Kumanji Brown dancing...

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (MUJd1)

107
2 conservatives
.
2 right of center moderates
1 moderate
1 left leaning nancy woman
.
1 far left
1 far left moron
1 far left retard

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (uEUHC)

108 Sorry for the low-effort blogging. I am bushed today.
________
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays, on a Tuesday.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 13, 2026 05:53 PM (s0JqF)

109 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:49 PM (wzUl9)

Sorry to profoundly disappoint anyone 😉 but I am not a ginger. I was fooling around because cisginger is apparently what Judge Joke substituted for cisgender. I am ,however, a woman and have never wanted to try to change my gender- which I couldn't do anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (Nx5jP)

110
And a bunch of smooth brained Rs confirmed her.
Posted by: Piper

They should be booted as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (pkeXY)

111 Dang.
A nation that reduces its jurisprudence to such ignorance is in serious decline. Makes one wish for MAJA.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (2WIwB)

112 It’s glorious seeing this tranny bullshit being rejected with prejudice.

Also, there’s a new Star Trek show. It’s like the ultimate synergy of terrible ideas. They put a Klingon in skirt!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (eqMW0)

113
The other eight justices should don a button that reads, "I do not have to be smarter than Clarence Thomas, but I sure as hell am not as stupid as Ketanji Jackson"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (xG4kz)

114 Maja?

The lesser-known Daimler-Benz sibling to the Mercedes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (2GVsD)

115 I can't believe we are still dealing with this idiocy. trans is a mental health issue.

If I identify as Napoleon does France have to make me emperor? Nucking futs.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

116 ♫ ♪ ♬ ♪
Oh she's a one-ton tomato
one-ton tomaatoo
♫ ♪ ♬ ♪

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (UjdFS)

117 She is such a moron. Kagan I disagree with, but she’s no more stupid than the average leftist. But KBJ is a straight up moron.

Posted by: OnPoint at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (RK/h9)

118 110 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (pkeXY)

I posted on twatter about "main character syndrome" which is really just pretending you are in a TV show that is not there...

GOP "reaching around across the aisle" is the same thing.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (MUJd1)

119 It must really suck to be a guy and get breast cancer.

It happens.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (qFwJc)

120 83 Meh. Before I departed New Mexico, I had the pleasure of experiencing an M=5.4 quake."

I was in Alaska... it most definitely got one's attention
Posted by: man

I was through the 2001 7.1 Nisqually quake.. My office hung ceiling came down on my head and desk. I saw the aisles on my floor swaying from side to side. I was one of the first out of the building. Handicapped men and woman be damned

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (abIsI)

121 Oops wrong thread.

Worst judge/justice? Possibly not, by a long shot. This cretin will, with luck, do little damage. The Kennedys and Roberts and many other "credentialed" disasters have continued and intensified the judiciary's decades' long assault on common sense, the constitution, and American civic values. She's a pathetic and perfect monument to the degradation of America by racist-authoritarian idiots, but if impact is considered far from the worst.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (U/Byj)

122 I was born with red hair. I still have red hair, but now that I'm 29 a lot of it is starting to turn white...

Posted by: DanMa'am at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (8uzBS)

123 Fathers need to protect their daughters.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (s3lC5)

124 >>Medical transgender guys, remember to get your prostate checked, PSA numbers read. We live in clown world.

You joke, but this is the material Tort Textbooks dream of:

Can a Medical Doctor be sued for malpractice for not detecting Prostate Cancer in a Trans-Woman?

Talk about your fun Legal Cases!

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (ZcsJV)

125 Changing “ gender”? Simple. Just subtract the Y, then add an X. Simple! ( Thing that KBJ might have said).

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (pDt9x)

126 117 Posted by: OnPoint at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (RK/h9)

The three leftbat women are actual average or below intellects...

ACB the honorary leftbat is ~ 120 IQ

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (MUJd1)

127 The false civility preferred over the naked, rugged slugfest people voting their conscience, and face it, preference.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:52 PM (krQz2)
---
Counterpoint: while the GOP seems like a bunch of feckless squishes and many here want Trump to behave just as ruthlessly as Biden, that's actually counterproductive.

If we want to truly save society, we have to accept constraints and try to maintain the old order as best as possible, otherwise there's no place for the center to go. Total collapse.

What Trump is doing is owning the idea of order in the face of the Dems' chaos. This is what Franco did - and how even before the war was over, people were fleeing from "red" Spain into the Nationalist zone. It wasn't politics, it was law and order.

You can't have law and order by behaving like anarchists.

There's a book about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

128 I don't know what SCOTUS will decide on this. All I will predict is that SCOTUS will not issue a definition of a woman. Perhaps they will want to simply do a Dodds-like decision: Kick it all back to the individual states. Let them decide what a woman is in their borders. The problem with that is the Federal laws and funding to states aspects. Will they order FedGov to legally define what a woman is for FedGov purposes? What an unnecessary mess. The Left's denial of ordinary common sense is ruinous.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (5rh/l)

129 It is interesting that no one is complaining about trans boys playing in boys' sports.

Probably because once a trans boy gets hit in the stomach by a ball a couple of times, they just quit the sport altogether.

Because no amount of wish casting is going to change the innate physiological differences between biological males and biological females.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (SRRAx)

130 Cultural Marxists will tie themselves in knots not to admit the obvious

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (Ia/+0)

131 83 Meh. Before I departed New Mexico, I had the pleasure of experiencing an M=5.4 quake."

I was in Alaska... it most definitely got one's attention
Posted by: man
-------
It's not a real earthquake unless you get off the couch and walk around the house making sure nothing is falling, and then go outside and watch the poles sway with the neighbors.
Real quake seem to never end.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (uEUHC)

132 Dang.
A nation that reduces its jurisprudence to such ignorance is in serious decline. Makes one wish for MAJA.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (2WIwB)
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We need a judge-slapping amendment.

They need to be reminded that they are not their to replace the discretion of the people.

And that they can show their wisdom by restraint, despite that almost all cases will be attended by people demanding that they deserved a win by everything that is right and holy.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (krQz2)

133 But does the Klingon have cleavage?

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (qFwJc)

134 The only time I've ever felt an earthquake was actually in Caracas, Venezuela many years ago.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 05:57 PM (3ImbR)

135 Can a Medical Doctor be sued for malpractice for not detecting Prostate Cancer in a Trans-Woman?

Talk about your fun Legal Cases!

I want this argued before SCOTUS by the Empress and she has to use hand puppets for Justice Brown.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 05:58 PM (2GVsD)

136 I can make an argument for oral.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 13, 2026 05:58 PM (D1n1Q)

137 "They' put a Klingon in skirt!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe"

You got a problem with that, buddy?

Posted by: Worfette at January 13, 2026 05:58 PM (vFG9F)

138 osted by: DanMa'am at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM

So you really are CisGinger? 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:58 PM (Nx5jP)

139 Fathers need to protect their daughters.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (s3lC5)
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Divorce is where it gets dicey, but if the family presents a united front, it can prevail. We did, and my daughter is very grateful for that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)

140 Trans men (butch chicks) should be required to play football and enlist in the army. We wouldn’t have any in the entire country.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (eqMW0)

141 The other eight justices should don a button that reads, "I do not have to be smarter than Clarence Thomas, but I sure as hell am not as stupid as Ketanji Jackson"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026

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I wonder if Thomas and Alito, when they are alone together, shake their heads and make jokes like this. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and even Roberts might too. I suspect Amy Boney Carrot and the other women might think it, but would never say it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (wzUl9)

142 Remember that Female Punter that they trotted out for us to mock a few years back?

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZcsJV)

143 Ahem.

"cisGINGER" is Latin (work with me, here) for . . .

"Ultimate Ginger".

Which we know from our studies, is Karen Gillan:

https://tinyurl.com/cisGINGER-KG

"I rest my case, Yer 'Onor."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (BRvvM)

144 Two tankers over Europe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (9cHSL)

145 127 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

You do not STOP the insanity by humoring it, you stop it by humiliating and punishing it.

The ICE operations in MN are precisely such an exercise.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (MUJd1)

146 This is a good time to remind that there is a left-wing podcast of women who gush over Jumanji Brown's every word.

That discusses her proclamations and rhetoric as a Cicero, Lincoln, and Socrates all as one in their ebony goddess. A literal Chocolate Athena.

Who run squealing in delight when a new opinion drops, like a prior generation did when the latest Tiger Beat hit their mailbox.

These woman, and the thousands that listen to them ... vote.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (HXT0k)

147 "They' put a Klingon in skirt!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe"
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All Star Trek became gay and retarded when they introduced the Ferengi characters. They were nothing but Disney-casting-gone-wrong--they never longed in a Star Trek episode.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

148 We should be able to vote Justices off the court. Muh democracy!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (eqMW0)

149 You do not STOP the insanity by humoring it, you stop it by humiliating and punishing it.

The ICE operations in MN are precisely such an exercise.
Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (MUJd1)

Agreed.. They should triple down there...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (VE6XX)

150 You can't have law and order by behaving like anarchists.

There's a book about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)
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The Vote is not anarchy. I'm definitely not championing "whatever wins". We don't let the people decide whose estate to divvy up. But we do let them decide the course of direction for the state.

The recession of judges is not anarchy.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (krQz2)

151 She is such a moron. Kagan I disagree with, but she’s no more stupid than the average leftist. But KBJ is a straight up moron.
Posted by: OnPoint at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (RK/h9)
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Don't forget Sotomayor. She was a DEI admission in high school before it was cool.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (3ImbR)

152 How is ICE 'free' Minneapolis doing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (2GVsD)

153 "All Star Trek became gay and retarded when they introduced the Ferengi characters."

Ahem.

Posted by: Worfette at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (vFG9F)

154 Klingon in a dress?

I think they have one in the new Starfleet Academy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

155 Can a Medical Doctor be sued for malpractice for not detecting Prostate Cancer in a Trans-Woman?

Talk about your fun Legal Cases!

I want this argued before SCOTUS by the Empress and she has to use hand puppets for Justice Brown.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Seconded!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (pkq24)

156 Similarly, you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So who's having sex with the hen? Something is missing!

Posted by: Costanza Brown Jackson at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (5AobS)

157 You do not STOP the insanity by humoring it, you stop it by humiliating and punishing it.

The ICE operations in MN are precisely such an exercise.
Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (MUJd1)
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That's not what I wrote. I said that the old order must be sustained as much as possible. ICE is part of that order.

My point is simply that one cannot be lawless, and then claim to be upholding the law. The Dems tried it and failed spectacularly. They will continue to do so.

Meanwhile, just be being normal, the center-right gains a tremendous advantage. Frustrating, but in the long term, it is the path to victory. The left will eventually start eating its own. It's already starting. All the old Dem leaders will be pulled down, starting with Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

158 Justice D-EI Babbles Incoherently and Proves the Danger of Socially Promoting Retards for Racial Beancounting Purposes
—Ace

Sorry for the low-effort blogging. I am bushed today.
______________________________

These two statements are diametrically opposed. Anyone who can highlight "babbling retards" in a by-line is on his A-Game.

And before anyone else does it: I saw "Babbling Retards" open for "Slow" (Canadian Punk Band) in the mid 80's in my friend, Butch's garage while hoisting frozen bottles of Nighttrain.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (dIske)

159 147 Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

Lucas and Roddenberry both put in direct "fu*ck yous" to the Jews...

Nemoidians and Ferengi...the Orion green skinned chicks and mythology was Space Arabs.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:03 PM (MUJd1)

160
50 There wasn't any judge that Biden could have picked who happened to be a black woman who was smarter and more articulate than Action Jackson?!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (Nx5jP)

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Maybe Biden's handlers intended her as a civilization-damaging insult, like when Caligula made a horse a senator. Or when Biden was made president.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 06:03 PM (t1fZA)

161 KBJ is a stone-cold retard. That she was able to get into and graduate from law school is baffling, let alone that she has been installed on the highest court in the land.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

162 We should be able to vote Justices off the court. Muh democracy!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 06:00 PM (eqMW0)
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The Court is very close--in many peoples minds and wishes--to the "super-legislature" that Jay argued would invalidate the entire concept itself.

The Democrats slipped and said that loading the Court does not need to be unfair as we could divvy up spots on the bench between parties.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:04 PM (krQz2)

163 Ace, you'll love this. Philly Soros-backed prosecutor Krasner (Wyatt Earp used to detest this guy) has decided to go full on Renee-drama in fighting Ice.

https://tinyurl.com/59xm6huh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 06:04 PM (6vGHU)

164 Breaking.
Broke WNBA to declare bankruptcy and reorganize as a profitable Somali daycare center.

Posted by: WSJ at January 13, 2026 06:04 PM (D1n1Q)

165 The recession of judges is not anarchy.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:01 PM (krQz2)
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Correct. There needs to be some sort of correction in order to maintain the integrity of law, and thanks to stupid, inexplicable and indefensible rulings that are obviously wrong, the table is being set to take some sort of action, whether it be budget cuts, eliminating circuits or impeachment inquiries.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

166 Yep! I really am a ginger. Wanted to be a blonde when I was very, very young. But I got over it! Especially when I found out how much DanMan likes gingers~

Posted by: DanMa'am at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (8uzBS)

167 157 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

The GOP's go-along gang impulses just passed 3 donk authored feign spending bills overnight....

I am not black-pilling and I am NOT flaming you personally I *am* saying Thom Tillis, Suzy-Q Collins et al are fucking retards who refuse to understand that USAID and foreign aid are direct funding mechanisms for the left.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (MUJd1)

168 All cisgingers are hereby invited to join the Red-Headed League.

--Sherlock Holmes, Esq.

Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (reMys)

169 Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 06:03 PM (t1fZA)

Could be.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (Nx5jP)

170 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (9cHSL)

171 All right, friends. Enjoy your evening! I am going to go work out.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (aT5K/)

172 A CisGinger, that is~

Posted by: DanMa'am at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (8uzBS)

173 Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM

lol. Well done.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (Nx5jP)

174 I felt a new Madrid fault quake in middle school I think. Would have been 87/88ish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:06 PM (zZu0s)

175 Meanwhile, just be being normal, the center-right gains a tremendous advantage. Frustrating, but in the long term, it is the path to victory. The left will eventually start eating its own. It's already starting. All the old Dem leaders will be pulled down, starting with Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
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My faith that the normies will wake up and gravitate toward the Republican party as the home of sanity and normalcy BEFORE the left burns the entire thing down to the waterline is...shaky at best.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)

176 Several Prosecutors in Minneapolis US Attorney’s Office Resign in Protest Over DOJ’s Push to Probe Renee Good’s Widow

Winning!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (abIsI)

177 I am not black-pilling and I am NOT flaming you personally I *am* saying Thom Tillis, Suzy-Q Collins et al are fucking retards who refuse to understand that USAID and foreign aid are direct funding mechanisms for the left.
Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:05 PM (MUJd1)
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They understand perfectly. That is why Tillis is dead man walking. Primarying him and Cornyn is exactly what is required.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (ZOv7s)

178

cisGinger or cisMary Ann?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (pkeXY)

179 CisCrossbow vs cisLongbow?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:08 PM (9cHSL)

180 174 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:06 PM (zZu0s)

Yes it was felt all the way to Ohio....low Richter, BUT "happily" the low richter is productive because of the limestone and the brick houses.....

Hi folks, Sven J Olafson here, and when I am shopping for ELE's I prefer SMOD *but* I'll settle for the Yellowstone Caldera AND the New Madrid Fault both going off in sequence.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:08 PM (MUJd1)

181 176 Several Prosecutors in Minneapolis US Attorney’s Office Resign in Protest Over DOJ’s Push to Probe Renee Good’s Widow

Ewwwww

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:08 PM (VE6XX)

182 My faith that the normies will wake up and gravitate toward the Republican party as the home of sanity and normalcy BEFORE the left burns the entire thing down to the waterline is...shaky at best.
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)
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Don't assume that they aren't already there. There is a reason why IDs had to be banned in so many states. The Dems get killed in an honest election, and which was it, Oregon, had 20% of its voter rolls filled with fake people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)

183 I can dress up, but Ginger can't cook.

Posted by: Mary Ann at January 13, 2026 06:09 PM (D1n1Q)

184 This gender stuff makes my head hurt.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 06:09 PM (V6+NK)

185 All right, friends. Enjoy your evening! I am going to go work out.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026

***
May you achieve or exceed your workout goals, Piper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

186 What an idiot the corrupt retards put on the SC.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 13, 2026 06:10 PM (wBaIH)

187 I saw that in Michigan, they found 200+ voters who were also in the jury pool who were non-citizens.

That thing that can't happen has happened again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

188 My faith that the normies will wake up and gravitate toward the Republican party as the home of sanity and normalcy BEFORE the left burns the entire thing down to the waterline is...shaky at best.
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)
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I keep hoping that, but we're dealing with the Alien in the left. At every loss they "change shape".

Just like the plan above is that they shut up about ICE until they seem sane and win the election. Then they can impeach Trump and put ICE in carbonite.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:10 PM (krQz2)

189 Why it's almost as if Ketanji be unable to answer the question during her nomination hearing was relevant and bound to be an issue later on, or something...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 06:10 PM (mlg/3)

190 How many females think they are male and want to compete against the boys?

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)

191 184 This gender stuff makes my head hurt.
Posted by: Eromero

It's really pretty simple.
Four words: his, hers, it's and theirs.

Posted by: Sex is male and female at January 13, 2026 06:11 PM (D1n1Q)

192 I've got my eyes on the professor. The man can work a coconut.

Posted by: cisGilligan at January 13, 2026 06:11 PM (abIsI)

193 You can take the girl out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 06:12 PM (cYBz/)

194 cisGinger or cisMary Ann?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 06:07 PM (pkeXY)
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Dawn Wells will always be my preference. And since it's Mary Ann who identifies as Mary Ann, all the better.

Unless we were to bring Audra Barkly into the picture.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:12 PM (krQz2)

195 NO HABLO RETARDO, MARICON.

¿Que es mas macho: El Toro o la Mariposa?

Posted by: Minuteman at January 13, 2026 06:13 PM (47/pr)

196 This gender stuff makes my head hurt.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 06:09 PM (V6+NK)
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It should. It's Frogger with goalposts.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:13 PM (krQz2)

197 Jackson is a Cultural Marxist through and through

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)

198 cisGinger or cisMary Ann?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
......

Skipperina

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 06:14 PM (UjdFS)

199 If I identify as Napoleon does France have to make me emperor? Nucking futs.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

It's France. Try it. Ya never know.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 06:15 PM (g8Ew8)

200 Today, according to the Uncle Louie Variety Show, is National Vaffanculo Day.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:15 PM (pkq24)

201 What's this about retarded people having law degrees?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee, JD, UVA at January 13, 2026 06:15 PM (NfIzX)

202 "Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the"
++++
Justice Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2026 06:16 PM (GyQIQ)

203 Jackson is Biden in blackface.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 06:16 PM (gKWVE)

204 Come here, young man.
There's a thing or two I need to teach you.

Posted by: Lovey Howell at January 13, 2026 06:16 PM (D1n1Q)

205 50 There wasn't any judge that Biden could have picked who happened to be a black woman who was smarter and more articulate than Action Jackson?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:44 PM (Nx5jP)

She seems to be trying to prove she's a brilliant jurist by asking more questions than any other two or three Justices combined. Sad. All she does by that is proving she does not belong on SCOTUS. Her asking a few decent questions instead of many rambling dumb ones would help make her appear intelligent. But dumb people gonna dumb.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 06:16 PM (5rh/l)

206 The trans stuff at least had a smidgeon of room for a semi-rational argument and the onset when the advocates argued that "gender is separate from sex".

The implication that you could still tell--in most cases--sexual differences. The question is do you accept the argument on "gender".

But then we asked: if you're the gender you are regardless of equipment, why change the equipment and why take hormones of the other sex?

They couldn't answer, so the shell game had to get more complex.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (krQz2)

207 I'm confident we can keep Fenelon off the hook here. If there were a penalty for impersonating a redhead, the back roads would be littered with victims. Instead of dye bottles.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (zdLoL)

208 This gender stuff makes my head hurt.
Posted by: Eromero

It's really pretty simple.
Four words: his, hers, it's and theirs.
Posted by: Sex is male and female

Even simpler. Trans = fake
Trans man = fake man
Trans woman = fake woman

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (pkq24)

209 Today, according to the Uncle Louie Variety Show, is National Vaffanculo Day.
Posted by: rickb223

That's right! And, in honor of that day, I'm saying that to everyone.

(His show is fantastic. My wife doesn't get him at all.)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (cYBz/)

210 199 If I identify as Napoleon does France have to make me emperor? Nucking futs.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

You must be *this* tall to be Emperor.

Posted by: A sign that France didn't have at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (NfIzX)

211 The trans stuff at least had a smidgeon of room for a semi-rational argument and the onset when the advocates argued that "gender is separate from sex".
Posted by: Axeman

Except there's no biological definition of 'gender' if it only depends on feelings.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 06:18 PM (mlg/3)

212 Vaffuncullo? Lawyer in the Pesci movie?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:18 PM (9cHSL)

213 Even simpler. Trans = fake
Trans man = fake man
Trans woman = fake woman
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:17 PM (pkq24)
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I translate it: trans = NOT.

Transman -> NOT man
Transwoman -> NOT woman

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (krQz2)

214 This gender stuff makes my head hurt.
Posted by: Eromero

It's really pretty simple.
Four words: his, hers, it's and theirs.
Posted by: Sex is male and female

Even simpler. Trans = fake
Trans man = fake man
Trans woman = fake woman
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Its really just two: male, female. That's it. Everything else just sews confusion.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (TN0g+)

215 201 What's this about retarded people having law degrees?
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee, JD, UVA

I don't know what's up with that sister.

Posted by: Maizie Hirono - US Senator at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (abIsI)

216 The court changed the definition of marriage after thousands of years so we'll see if they can change the definition of male and female to whatever the fuck you want it to be.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (n5tGW)

217 Easy answer - if you have a Y, you're a guy. The rest is just window dressing.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (tV890)

218 Kitangi is the final and best product the great society.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (V6+NK)

219 Holy crap . Did you see the vid on x of the guy who was at an anti ice gathering with his American flag. The protestors FAFO bigley. Sorry can't post but it's titled Trump supporter fist fights anti ice protestor. ( more like 5 or 6 protestors) if you want to look it up.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 06:20 PM (KDPiq)

220 That's right! And, in honor of that day, I'm saying that to everyone.

(His show is fantastic. My wife doesn't get him at all.)
Posted by: Tonypete

He's hilarious. He's like Rosann Rosanadana.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:20 PM (pkq24)

221 Man or woman? Link in nic.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

222 The case is seriously Idaho v. Hecox?

I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)

223 On the blog yesterdayish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (9cHSL)

224 I notice the left always just begs the question in these sorts of discussions.

So Gender Identity is a protected class. Ok...where was that decided? And...what is it. For example if I alternate male and female by the minute is that ok?

And why is gender identify protected but say...chronological identity is not. If I want to play in a pee wee legal and identify as a kid can I? Why not?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (sKqQm)

225 Well, I for one welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson because it means I'm no longer the stupidest person on the court

Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (tV890)

226 Holy crap . Did you see the vid on x of the guy who was at an anti ice gathering with his American flag. The protestors FAFO bigley. Sorry can't post but it's titled Trump supporter fist fights anti ice protestor. ( more like 5 or 6 protestors) if you want to look it up.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Yeah, he laid them all out. Some of them twice. Especially the guy in the red and black jacket. He folded him up like a cheap suit.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (pkq24)

227 I enjoy Kunta Kinte Jackson speaking...she makes me feel intelligent and superior in comparison.

Yo go girl! I noes dats right! Keep it real yo homie! Kick him to da curb girl, kick him to da curb! Oh noes he din int!

Posted by: Ghetto Joe at January 13, 2026 06:22 PM (R/m4+)

228 225 Well, I for one welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson because it means I'm no longer the stupidest person on the court
Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (tV890)

You had a good run...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:22 PM (VE6XX)

229 Ketanji is a fine name.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:22 PM (9cHSL)

230 Similarly, you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So who's having sex with the hen? Something is missing!
Posted by: Costanza Brown Jackson at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (5AobS)

I say, son, I say that hen's as cold as a nudist on an iceberg!

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 13, 2026 06:22 PM (wVcYX)

231 219 Holy crap . Did you see the vid on x of the guy who was at an anti ice gathering with his American flag. The protestors FAFO bigley. Sorry can't post but it's titled Trump supporter fist fights anti ice protestor. ( more like 5 or 6 protestors) if you want to look it up.
Posted by: Opinion fact

I watched that. Proper multiple clockings. I got a boner.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:23 PM (abIsI)

232 Ace posted that video here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:23 PM (9cHSL)

233 Natalie Schafer who played Mrs Howell on Gilligan's Island was actually an attractive woman when younger- aside from the sort of crazy hairstyle here:

https://tinyurl.com/mr44cbdj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:24 PM (rZCVI)

234 Sequel to Action Jackson - Ka DEI Jackson

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 06:24 PM (E0p3T)

235 Ace posted that video here.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:23 PM (9cHSL)

Sorry I missed it. Someone just sent it to me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (KDPiq)

236 The trans stuff at least had a smidgeon of room for a semi-rational argument and the onset when the advocates argued that "gender is separate from sex".
Posted by: Axeman

Except there's no biological definition of 'gender' if it only depends on feelings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 06:18 PM (mlg/3)
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Agree. But they weren't saying that gender was "biological" at the time.

The thing was at one time "sex" became an impolite word, as it was the shortened form of "sexual intercourse" so prigs started to use the linguistic difference called "gender". It was never about biology, but the way that in language we capture a difference made by sex.

"Neuter" is a *gender* in language. There is no neuter sex. But it refers to language constructions that do not refer to a sex as metaphor.

Gender only referred to language. But the way that languages casted sexual character was chosen as a oblique reference to the first definition of the word "sex".

So in that sense, "gender" really seemed to indicate the collection of impressions of the difference of sex.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (krQz2)

237 Apparently this retard made up a fake new word -- "cisGINGER"

i dunno. joe mannix (not a cop!) seems to be able to find plenty of cisginger pictures.

Posted by: anachronda at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (v3pYe)

238 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:24 PM (rZCVI)

Not even with the Skipper's telescope

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (E0p3T)

239 "I don't understand" is Justice Ketanji Jackson' go to for every argument - she never understands, and even when it is explained to her she still doesn't understand.

That's the thing - I disagree with Kagen but see her point. I disagree with Sotomayor but realize she just a leftist hack and working off feelings.

But I disagree with Ketanji Jackson because she is simply stupid and incoherent. It's like hearing the legal arguments of six-year-old.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tV890)

240 Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

Man

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:26 PM (rZCVI)

241 A House bill was proposed in Jackson that would outlaw the use of tasers, and several law enforcement officers are against the idea.

“Anytime you take a tool out of an officer’s hand, that hurts us,” said Lt. Jake Driskell, of Jones County Sheriff’s Department.

Sweet! Go straight from PR-24 to bang bang.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:26 PM (pkq24)

242 Well, I for one welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson because it means I'm no longer the stupidest person on the court
Posted by: Justice Sotomayor at January 13, 2026 06:21 PM (tV890)

Girl! I'm like friggin' Einstein with that bitch hangin' around.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at January 13, 2026 06:26 PM (iJfKG)

243 Damn it Jim, she's a judge, not a biologist.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

244 BREAKING: President Trump is blackpilling!

According to the WSJ (which I admit is a terrible source), the President believes Susie Wiles' AG appointee, Pam Bondi, is weak and ineffective.

I hope this is true.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (abIsI)

245 But I disagree with Ketanji Jackson because she is simply stupid and incoherent. It's like hearing the legal arguments of six-year-old.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tV890)

Doesn't she have Law Clerks helping her ? They must be DEI also

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

246 239 Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tV890)

I'll send a 1000 bucks to whatever lawyer before the court says, "madam let's cut to the chase with the much shorter list what do you understand?" to her.

Posted by: sven at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (MUJd1)

247 The AWFLs and Soy Boy smellies are out protesting in DC.

"ICE out for Good"
"Renea Good, ICE evil"
"ICE kills, DHS lies"

LOL, enough brainpower to light at least one 40-watt bulb.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (HXT0k)

248 No non lethal force works. Just shoot them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (9cHSL)

249 Except there's no biological definition of 'gender' if it only depends on feelings. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 06:18 PM (mlg/3)

And feelings are not protected under anti-discrimination laws. In fact, they are explicitly excluded for considerations.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:28 PM (tV890)

250 The court changed the definition of marriage after thousands of years so we'll see if they can change the definition of male and female to whatever the fuck you want it to be.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 06:19 PM (n5tGW)

The SCROTUMs knows all! Bow to us and tremble! The SCROTUMs knows all!

Well, maybe not everything but you get the picture.

Posted by: The SCROTUMs at January 13, 2026 06:29 PM (R/m4+)

251 245 But I disagree with Ketanji Jackson because she is simply stupid and incoherent. It's like hearing the legal arguments of six-year-old. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tV890)

Doesn't she have Law Clerks helping her ? They must be DEI also Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

They ARE helping her, that is the sad part. But she's literally too dumb to read or understand what they write, so goes to court and just "wings" it.

I'm literally not joking here. She has said this in interviews.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (tV890)

252 LOL, enough brainpower to light at least one 40-watt bulb.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Assuming the fat in the brain has enough fat to sustain combustion...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (/lPRQ)

253 VoA broadcasting from Kuwait.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (9cHSL)

254
245 But I disagree with Ketanji Jackson because she is simply stupid and incoherent. It's like hearing the legal arguments of six-year-old.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tV890)

Doesn't she have Law Clerks helping her ? They must be DEI also
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

--------

She doesn't understand them, either.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (ufCEJ)

255 Cis-Co-Kid

____________________

This is not the Desperado gunfighter that you think. A Cis-Co-kid is, in fact, a straight conjoined twin.

Pancho, on the other hand, is still a heavy drinking screw up with a limited mental acuity and a fear of large insects.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (dIske)

256 Wait, they are actually trying to make a deal of using a civilian looking plane to attack drug runners?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

257 No non lethal force works. Just shoot them.
Posted by: Boss Moss

That's my position. Either put knots on their head or bullets in their ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:31 PM (pkq24)

258 "Man
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

I think it's Joxer from Xena: Warrior Princess.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

259 A House bill was proposed in Jackson that would outlaw the use of tasers, and several law enforcement officers are against the idea.

“Anytime you take a tool out of an officer’s hand, that hurts us,” said Lt. Jake Driskell, of Jones County Sheriff’s Department.

Sweet! Go straight from PR-24 to bang bang.
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That's going to have disparate impact. There's a video series called "Fatigue" (Fatigue? From what? One can only imagine) and there appears to be a particular portion of the population that doesn't seem to understand the concept of complying with a lawful order. Removing the taser will lead to a large number of those individuals being beaten and/or shot.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

260 Thus "gender stereotypes" had a debatable substance to it.

But if gender stereotypes are something to be countered, then why change your junk was still a sharp question.

T-advocates have never been able to answer the sensible questions, so they cut right to the "bigotry" of not adopting their viewpoint.

Also if it takes centuries for a society to create a "gender stereotype", how to you have one of your own, instantly? If gender is "socially constructed" how do you say your conceits are the "same thing"?

"Social constructs" are at least put through some tests of fire, arguably. Perhaps they were too limiting to women, but that doesn't make it so its the same thing as a personal notion.

Now it's a clusterfuck where they simply demand obedience to a jumbled doctrine to "show you're nice".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (krQz2)

261 I would bet the house Jackson's clearks are as well versed in Cultural Marxism as she is

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

262 244 BREAKING: President Trump is blackpilling!

According to the WSJ (which I admit is a terrible source), the President believes Susie Wiles' AG appointee, Pam Bondi, is weak and ineffective.

I hope this is true.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (abIsI)

And last week he was gonna fire Kristi Noem.. Like you said WSJ

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

263 Doesn't she have Law Clerks helping her ? They must be DEI also Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

They ARE helping her, that is the sad part. But she's literally too dumb to read or understand what they write, so goes to court and just "wings" it.

I'm literally not joking here. She has said this in interviews.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:30 PM (tV890)

++++

Sounds like Kamala. She's always had an army of advisors throughout her career. For some reason, only known to her, she steadfastly ignores them, and continues spewing out utter nonsense.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 13, 2026 06:34 PM (7Ozjo)

264 "cisGINGER" is Latin (work with me, here) for . . .

"Ultimate Ginger".

Which we know from our studies, is Karen Gillan:

https://tinyurl.com/cisGINGER-KG

"I rest my case, Yer 'Onor."
Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 05:59 PM (BRvvM)

cis doesn't mean Ultimate. In means on the same side of or perhaps 'nearby' as opposed to Trans meaning across from.

See Cisalpine Gaul (north Italy) and Transalpine Gaul (France proper)

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

265 I would bet the house Jackson's clearks are as well versed in Cultural Marxism as she is
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"A" people hire "A" people
Bs hire Cs
DEI hire Zs

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 06:34 PM (HXT0k)

266 BREAKING: President Trump is blackpilling!

According to the WSJ (which I admit is a terrible source), the President believes Susie Wiles' AG appointee, Pam Bondi, is weak and ineffective.

I hope this is true.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 06:27 PM (abIsI)
---
We'd be able to see if the GOP in the Senate will let him have another nominee--or whether this will get strung out in a cloture vote.

* rolls eyes *

Everything is an op.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:34 PM (krQz2)

267 She seems to be trying to prove she's a brilliant jurist by asking more questions than any other two or three Justices combined. Sad. All she does by that is proving she does not belong on SCOTUS. Her asking a few decent questions instead of many rambling dumb ones would help make her appear intelligent. But dumb people gonna dumb.
Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 06:16 PM (5rh/l)

She asks so many questions because she is stupid and confused and didn't do her homework. She literally seems to be just learning about the case, and the law, when oral arguments are happening. "What the heck do you mean? I don't understand.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (tV890)

268 Must be tomorrow night.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (9cHSL)

269 James Lindsay asks, "have you been propagandized into being dangerously wrong?"

https://tinyurl.com/bdcsebrc

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (rbvCR)

270 Here's one for these trans idiots. I'm 63. Why can't I date a 20 yr old? I identify as 23.

It's much easier to change my age than my plumbing.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:36 PM (pkq24)

271 2nd Generation Feminism: Women aren't just people that wear skirts and makeup. They are completely different from men (and better!)

4th Generation Feminism: Women are people that wear skirts or makeup. And the best women are people born men

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:36 PM (sKqQm)

272 I bet Kunta Kinte Jackson is a functional illiterate.

Test her.

Posted by: RIF at January 13, 2026 06:36 PM (R/m4+)

273 > According to the WSJ (which I admit is a terrible source), the President believes Susie Wiles' AG appointee, Pam Bondi, is weak and ineffective.
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I wouldn't doubt it.

She's politician at heart. Not a political operative.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 06:36 PM (NwnyJ)

274 Ketanji "Incitatus" Jackson has dropped another load of knowledge for those of us who sit in darkness... Be grateful, plebians!

Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:38 PM (reMys)

275 Here's one for these trans idiots. I'm 63. Why can't I date a 20 yr old? I identify as 23./i]

Some guy in Belgium sued as "trans-age" because there was some legal benefit he couldn't get due to his biological age. And, TBH, he looked younger then he was.

But I remember when this story hit the airwaves my left cow-workers laughing about it - "Age isn't a social construct like you know being a woman. What an idiot!"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:38 PM (sKqQm)

276 James Lindsay asks, "have you been propagandized into being dangerously wrong?"

https://tinyurl.com/bdcsebrc

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (rbvCR)
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Lindsay is good on understanding Soros' logic.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:38 PM (krQz2)

277 If I identify as Napoleon does France have to make me emperor? Nucking futs.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

It's France. Try it. Ya never know.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 06:15 PM (g8Ew

It worked for Macron

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 06:39 PM (8avO+)

278 And should we be assuming its pronouns are she and her? Perhaps we should not presume....

Posted by: Beverly at January 13, 2026 06:39 PM (reMys)

279 She's politician at heart. Not a political operative.

Marco, Bessent, RFK and Hegseth have all taken significant political risks to achieve Trump's objectives.

I don't think Bondi has yet. You can imagine that under a President Newsom, for example, that she would be one of the few Trump cabinet members to NOT get prosecuted

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:39 PM (sKqQm)

280 Here's one for these trans idiots. I'm 63. Why can't I date a 20 yr old? I identify as 23./i]
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I identify as handsome, young, athletic and well over 6 feet. Girls are bigots not to date me! -- same energy

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 06:40 PM (krQz2)

281 If law didn't make my eyes water, I would love to read her college documents. But doubt they are any different than what you would hear from her now.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

282 But I remember when this story hit the airwaves my left cow-workers laughing about it - "Age isn't a social construct like you know being a woman. What an idiot!"
Posted by: 18-1

Some days I do feel 23. Usually, though, the next day I feel 90.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 06:40 PM (pkq24)

283 Did a moistened bint throw a scimitar at you?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 06:40 PM (9cHSL)

284 now is the time to announce newd

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 06:41 PM (8uzBS)

285 Someone did nood, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

286 Marco, Bessent, RFK and Hegseth have all taken significant political risks to achieve Trump's objectives.

I don't think Bondi has yet. You can imagine that under a President Newsom, for example, that she would be one of the few Trump cabinet members to NOT get prosecuted
Posted by: 18-1

Ultimately the only significant accomplishment that Bondi will be remembered for is railroading the White Hispanic Zimmerman.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)

287 Yeah, that lazy incompetent bitch Bondi. She's not out there serving subpoenas, writing briefs ,trying cases.and kicking the asses of all those USAGs that are responsible for building winnable cases.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 06:44 PM (0KSrI)

288 The stuff in MN could be Bondi's moment.

But if the DOJ doesn't get a conviction for Timpon, BroFo, or their ilk she will have failed...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 06:45 PM (sKqQm)

289 Removing the taser will lead to a large number of those individuals being beaten and/or shot.
Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

I'm okay with that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (g8Ew8)

290 Removing the taser will lead to a large number of those individuals being beaten and/or shot.
Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

I'm okay with that.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Police should be authorized one melee weapon of their choice.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)

291 Also, there is no such thing as a "transgender girl". No girls (or boys) can transition their gender (or their sex). Period. This BS will never end until someone in a position of authority calls this out. "Transgender" is made up. No one is "transgender". Until that is called out, this idiocy will continue.

Sean Davis @seanmdav

This is so dumb. “Trans” clowns can play sports against their own sex. They just don’t get to beat up the opposite sex for funsies because they suck too bad against their actual peers.

CSPAN @cspan

Justice Kavanaugh: "I hate, hate that a kid who wants to play sports might not be able to play sports. Hate that. But it's kind of a zero sum game for a lot of teams. Someone who tries out and makes it, who is a transgender girl... will bump someone else."

X video: https://bit.ly/4qmJHgM

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 13, 2026 09:24 PM (P5BPp)

292 Also, there is no such thing as a "transgender girl". No girls (or boys) can transition their gender (or their sex). Period. This BS will never end until someone in a position of authority calls this out. "Transgender" is made up. No one is "transgender". Until that is called out, this idiocy will continue.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 13, 2026 09:24 PM

If "transgender" is anything, it is a mental disorder. "Transgender" is not a description of "someone of one sex who has transitioned to the opposite sex", but rather "someone with a mental disorder who believes they are the opposite sex".

So all this discussion is about allowing mentally disordered men and women play in sports, when the discussion should be about addressing the mental disorder.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 13, 2026 09:27 PM (P5BPp)

Left-Wing Mentally-Ill Revolutionary LARPers Don't Know That Law Enforcement Officers Load Their Guns With Real Bullets

They think this is all a Marvel movie.

After witnessing her wife's death, Rebecca is heard screaming, blaming the cops for carrying live ammo: "Why did you have real bullets?!"

Then Rebecca blames herself.

"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."

/7 pic.twitter.com/OpQhZreOPa
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) January 10, 2026

People are making their own South Park clips, given that the actual South Park guys have jumped the shark and are now tedious anti-Trump establishment c*nts.

Pretty much exactly how it happened!

The lefts rhetoric about ice and dhs led exactly to this! pic.twitter.com/LQdJvtcnBy
— Tommyboi4209 (@Tommy4Trump420) January 13, 2026

NBC NEWS, translated: "Democrats warned to stop saying stuff they believe out loud before the midterms." pic.twitter.com/43n5wa4Ewr
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 13, 2026

More: Are we going to see enemy-to-lover erotic romance fiction about the Good shooting?

Love it! pic.twitter.com/9NB37rpInr
— Kit Katalina (@kitkatuhlina) January 13, 2026

I like all of the masks in the second batch.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 They think this is all a Marvel movie.

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False.

Harry Potter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

2 Bang Bang Mother’fer.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (DD6gL)

3 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (Vh9CX)

4 Arrrgh. My eyes!

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (XuXeR)

5 @WesternLensman
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NBC NEWS, translated: "Democrats warned to stop saying stuff they believe out loud before the midterms."

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YouGov just released a poll that says that 45% of the American public supports abolishing ICE and 43% opposes it.

This poll will be used as justification to ignore this advice.

Also, the poll is complete garbage and is a Harris +10 poll.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

6 1 They think this is all a Marvel movie.

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False.

Harry Potter.

Yup, probably more accurate.

Posted by: ace at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

7 > "It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."

Yeah, it's called "felony murder" sweetcheeks. Thanks for the confession! I'm sure several members of Trump's DoJ are masturbating furiously over that revelation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (IG3/x)

8 So, based on the pics and videos, I'm guessing the sacrament is "the power of iPhone compels you"...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (XuXeR)

9 They think ICE carriers water pistols that shoot jelly, like on The Island of Misfit Toys.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (DD6gL)

10 Real bullets should be a backup to a flame thrower.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (abIsI)

11 A-Team

Lots of action and explosions, but hardly any injuries

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xxENG)

12 Oh great! Real bullets!

Posted by: Lucky Day at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (53dlK)

13 @1 definitely Harry Potter. Cast a spell, speak an enchantment and you're protected. Like those African warriors who thought being covered in sacred oils would stop bullets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (9ShUO)

14 I was listening to Rekieta Law on Sunday night and someone asked him if the wife could be prosecuted. He did think that a case could probably be made for her being prosecuted for felony murder. But "could be" and "would be" were two very different things.

Posted by: buzzion at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (3tZV2)

15
They think this is all a Marvel movie.

_____________

They think this is Les Miz and they're going to be applauded when the curtain falls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (t2vGZ)

16 "Just drive away Renee..."

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (XuXeR)

17 6 1 They think this is all a Marvel movie.

=====

False.

Harry Potter.

Yup, probably more accurate.

Posted by: ace at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

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They like the MCU in theory because they've heard that She-Hulk is hilarious.

They have actually watched and read Harry Potter.

They're more likely to have seen Avatar than a Marvel movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

18 When i was young, i used to think perverted females were a good thing.

Nope. Rule 1.

Posted by: Older and Wiser at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (21xzK)

19 Y’all are some no-nooding bastiges today.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

20 They think this is Les Miz and they're going to be applauded when the curtain falls.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (t2vGZ)

Maybe it is Les Miz.

“To the barricades!”

“Why isn’t anyone else at their barricade?”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Mxf84)

21 > 10 Real bullets should be a backup to a flame thrower.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (abIsI)

Cluster bombs.

Or would that be considered too lenient?

Then again, you can never go wrong with the classics. I believe it was Napoleon who observed that there was nothing like a cannon packed with 32 pounds of grapeshot to calm down a crowd of over-exuberant Frenchmen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (IG3/x)

22 Like those African warriors who thought being covered in sacred oils would stop bullets"

Some of my ancestors' "ghost shirts"

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (XuXeR)

23 They like the MCU in theory because they've heard that She-Hulk is hilarious.

They have actually watched and read Harry Potter.

They're more likely to have seen Avatar than a Marvel movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Nah, they think they are dealing with NYC cops...who couldn't hit their desired target even if shooting 100 times...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (tOcjL)

24 Yeah, it's called "felony murder" sweetcheeks. Thanks for the confession! I'm sure several members of Trump's DoJ are masturbating furiously over that revelation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (IG3/x)

But not the pussies who're supposed to prosecute it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (ExV1e)

25 Beckie just confessed to felony murder.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (gKWVE)

26 Problem with the Romance covers is the "protesting" Karens in no way look like the ones portrayed there...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

27 "and appears to hit Ross with the vehicle"

Wait a sec... this is an episode of Friends?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (XuXeR)

28 A-Team

Lots of action and explosions, but hardly any injuries
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xxENG)

The tiny bushes concealing a car flipping ramp always cracked me up. Why did every bad group install those things?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (8avO+)

29 I don't think that the real feminist protesters are
as attractive as the ones in the first meme.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (ZeH0U)

30 Wait, these stormtroopers can actually hit a target?

Posted by: Confused cos player at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (HcoTw)

31 Cap guns

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 13, 2026 04:30 PM (qAuhB)

32
Y’all are some no-nooding bastiges today.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

________

The In Crowd doesn't need nooding.

*snickers cruelly at Bulg*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:30 PM (t2vGZ)

33 29 I don't think that the real feminist protesters are
as attractive as the ones in the first meme.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (ZeH0

Agreed.. The actual ones look more like Trigglypuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (VE6XX)

34 Hey, a Rodrigo Borgia sighting! Hey, Dude!

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (77rzZ)

35 I put these people in the same category as sovereign citizens. Watch a couple of videos, learn the magic words, and the police can’t touch you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (u73oe)

36 I shouldn't have been, but I was honestly shocked when I heard this statement.

I KNOW they don't live in reality, but I didn't realize it was this bad.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (zjgNU)

37 Curmudgeonly of me to say so, but I sure will be glad when The Next Thing comes along and replaces Harry Potter as a smurfy cultural reference. It's become like The Olds always banging on about Bob Dylan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (SSEhk)

38 tinyurl.com/5dmr484p

Posted by: Lucky Day at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (53dlK)

39 We live in stupid times ... just like the rest of the history of humanity ... except in 3D, Technecolor, and Dolby Surround Sound ...

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (3ZUWJ)

40 28 A-Team

Lots of action and explosions, but hardly any injuries
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xxENG

Lots of Ruger mini 14's too

Posted by: B A at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (HcoTw)

41 The ICE romance memes are the laugh I needed, thanks!

Posted by: pookysgirl wants someone to redo Frozen at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (Wt5PA)

42 37 Curmudgeonly of me to say so, but I sure will be glad when The Next Thing comes along and replaces Harry Potter as a smurfy cultural reference. It's become like The Olds always banging on about Bob Dylan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (SSEhk)

======

"HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST BEATLES NEWS?!?!?!"
-Ed Driscoll

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

43 Then Rebecca blames herself.

"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."
====

Got that right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (RIvkX)

44 I like all of the masks in the second batch.

Posted by: Ace

The only way to hide the faces!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (lNNMd)

45 > 29 I don't think that the real feminist protesters are
as attractive as the ones in the first meme.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (ZeH0U)

I believe I've mentioned before the time I made the mistake of going to a so-called "slut walk", as it was touted as featuring naked sluts.

Naked? Yes. Sluts? Highly doubtful. Not enough tequila in the world.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (IG3/x)

46 Not only loaded with real ammo, but also one in the pipe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (9cHSL)

47 It was a Good shoot, justified.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (n5tGW)

48 False.

Harry Potter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

Except it's all based on the book because they've never read anything else.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (zjgNU)

49 just looked at the link buzzion posted earlier from O'keefe.
Tomas Escotto is the roach on the kitchen floor when the light got turned on. There are a lot of other Biden holdovers. I doubt they've all magically converted to hardcore MAGA chuds last January. Be assured they've been keeping their catboys and noserings informed of every move made by Trump's circle.
If not already, see Butler.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

50 banging on about Bob Dylan"

Ain't gonna hang around Dumbledore's farm no more....

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

51
I believe it was Napoleon who observed that there was nothing like a cannon packed with 32 pounds of grapeshot to calm down a crowd of over-exuberant Frenchmen.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Or Grape Nuts

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (pkeXY)

52 43 Then Rebecca blames herself.

"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."
====

Got that right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (RIvkX)

=====

Rebecca was dead the whole time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

53 > 34 Hey, a Rodrigo Borgia sighting! Hey, Dude!
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (77rzZ)

I've been around... mostly in the ONTs, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (IG3/x)

54 When I see how women escalate situations, they absolutely know (and are usually) right , that they are untouchable in the sense they are never going to face physical pain. And you have a media and culture that showers praise on this type of behavior.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (eIzlH)

55 HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST BEATLES NEWS?!?!?!"
-Ed Driscoll
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

—————-

I don’t get it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (u73oe)

56 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. All in one.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (9cHSL)

57 It's Minneapolis Jake...

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (DY7Xb)

58 I saw in my hate feed, I think it was the Bulwark losers, and some other lefties, that are trying out this neat little lie:

She was receiving conflicting instructions, with an officer telling her to get out of the car and others telling her to drive.

See that?
She didn't know who to listen to (the officer with a gun or her wife with a cell phone? lol) everyone was yelling at her, it's not her fault, she's a woman, she emotional, and easily confused.

But, this lie serves another purpose:
They are trying to shoehorn her case in to other caselaw, that a person receiving conflicting instruction--from multiple officers, mind you--negates the reasonableness of lethal force.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (HXT0k)

59 Who, in the United States, thinks that a cop does not have real bullets???

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (0GYGE)

60 Who says AI can't make cool things?

Those faux book covers are hilarious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (ESVrU)

61 The Walrus was Paul.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (9cHSL)

62 55 I don’t get it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (u73oe)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

63 Like those African warriors who thought being covered in sacred oils would stop bullets"
Some of my ancestors' "ghost shirts"
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (XuXeR)

Or the rear sights of an AKM, the higher you slide it the more power the rifle has.

Posted by: Selous Scouts at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (UDZYq)

64 Or Grape Nuts"

Sure thing, Euell...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (XuXeR)

65
It was a Good shoot, justified.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Maxwell Frost D-FL was just on FNC claiming it was MURDER!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (pkeXY)

66 No wonder these Left-Wing Female things become Homos because they are "UN F**KABLE".....

You would be up Sh*t Creek if they got pregnant ..............

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (j6UWQ)

67 I blame Andy Griffith.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (9cHSL)

68 Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (VE6XX)

I don't think Renee and the other one were unattractive . Not as fat as Triggly Puff anyway, and truly. a little make up would have helped the surviving one years ago

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (ZeH0U)

69 Comedian Ben Bankas "I watched the footage of Renee Good shooting. Cops should have shot her ten minutes earlier"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (9ShUO)

70 61 The Walrus was Paul.

The Eggman was Eric Burden of The Animals....

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (j6UWQ)

71
Who, in the United States, thinks that a cop does not have real bullets???

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (0GYGE)

__________

Leftists think cops have real bullets around black people, but for them it'll be little Bang! flags.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (t2vGZ)

72 will be glad when The Next Thing comes along and replaces Harry Potter as a smurfy cultural reference. It's become like The Olds always banging on about Bob Dylan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (SSEhk)

======

"HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST BEATLES NEWS?!?!?!"
-Ed Driscoll
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

I'm aged enough to like The Beatles. But even I want Ed Driscoll tarred and feathered while Revolution 9 is played at eardrum shattering levels in a confined space. It's over Ed; find a new band.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (SSEhk)

73 And ICE is the easiest to keep away from. See, whenever I enter the United States, I don’t smuggle anything, or anyone into the country. I go through the PoE and present my passport to the CBP. Nine times out of ten, they are dicks, but at the end of the day…I will never see ICE. It’s THAT EASY.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (0GYGE)

74 Reminiscent of Carlin’s Indian Drill Instructor:

“Tonight there will be bullets in the gun!”

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

75 Steamy ICE-Feminist affairs

We're shooting a series right now, withe blue and green haired vixens!

Posted by: Brazzers at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (d0pSI)

76 there's a blossom of reasons I never watch South Park and the staccato cartoon speech is probably the main one

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (8uzBS)

77 I feel like when the last video dropped from the camera of one of the officers, the narrative really deflated.

No matter what people thought of how things went down, it became abundantly obvious these two idiots were completely responsible.

I heard Reddit is basically all in on that video being AI generated as it put them in such a poor light.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (eIzlH)

78 Ben Bankas link?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (9cHSL)

79 No fair! ICE wasn't LARP-ing along!

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (krQz2)

80 It's over Ed; find a new band."

Duran Duran?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR)

81 54 When I see how women escalate situations, they absolutely know (and are usually) right , that they are untouchable in the sense they are never going to face physical pain. And you have a media and culture that showers praise on this type of behavior.
Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (eIzlH)
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We've gotten now at least two generations of females that never learned their end of the "Men don't hit women" bargain. To wit, you don't escalate physical confrontations with men who are bigger and stronger than you and who could pimp-slap your ass back to your ancestors.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 04:37 PM (5aZAZ)

82 Insert that meme of Mr Rogers "you're learning so many things today...."

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (vwjAX)

83 Like those African warriors who thought being covered in sacred oils would stop bullets
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Invisible ink made from lemon juice will prevent bank cameras for taking your picture during hold ups !!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

84
I want Ed Driscoll tarred and feathered while Revolution 9 is played at eardrum shattering levels in a confined space

__________

Ed has basically ruined Instapundit singlehandedly. Well, him and the lunatic commenters.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (t2vGZ)

85 IIRC, ICE did use rubber bullets earlier in either Portland or Chicago during a mob demonstration.

That also received the ire of the progs as "fascism!!"

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (krQz2)

86 We're shooting a series right now, withe blue and green haired vixens!
Posted by: Brazzers

Us too!

/ the Hallmark Channel

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (XuXeR)

87 @78 lousy at linking stuff, it came up on my Facebook feed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (9ShUO)

88 When I see how women escalate situations, they absolutely know (and are usually) right , that they are untouchable in the sense they are never going to face physical pain.
--
all those grey hairs yelling at ICE the other day to "shoot me!!"

LOL
Reminds me of a side quest in Borderlands 2, "Shoot Me in the Face!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (HXT0k)

89 I lunged at fascist, but the ground was slick, and I started to fall, but he caught me, effortlessly, and I was reassured by his firm but gentle, grip.

"Let go of me, pig!" I said, but I was out of breath. Something about his icy blue eyes made me weak. I tried to hit him with a frozen water bottle, but he casually slapped it away.

I have always identified as non-binary, but in that moment, I never felt more like a woman.

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (ZOv7s)

90 These women don't appear to have had fathers. So sad.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (9cHSL)

91 are now tedious anti-Trump establishment c*nts.

Or has reality shifted so much that it's moved over the top out of the atmosphere.

Trump is f*cking Satan! Louder until it's funny again.

Posted by: DaveA at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (FhXTo)

92 67 I blame Andy Griffith.
Posted by: Boss Moss

That's what Aunt Bea wanted you to do all along, sucker.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (Y8DZL)

93 If the handbook mentioned something about ICE using rubber bullets, that could be severe negligence.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (krQz2)

94 Then Rebecca blames herself.
"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."

Gotta say, I'm with Rebecca on this one!

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (EWq0C)

95 >>>will be glad when The Next Thing comes along and replaces Harry Potter as a smurfy cultural reference.

Gen Z is so fractured across tik toks and reels I don't think we'll ever see shared culture experience like the Harry Potter books were again

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (vwjAX)

96
Who says AI can't make cool things?

Those faux book covers are hilarious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Is that what those nuclear powered, land grabbing water gobbling data centers are all about?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (pkeXY)

97 The one yelling drive is an accomplice to murder.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (lNNMd)

98 Leftists think cops have real bullets around black people, but for them it'll be little Bang! flags.

I heard that Trump developed bullets that only kill Persons of Color and do not hurt White Racist Crackers.....

Must be true I read this in the National Enquirer which is a valid newspaper compared to the NY Times and The Washington Compost...

Also the next story was about a woman that stated Trump stole her husband's skin....

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (j6UWQ)

99 We've gotten now at least two generations of females that never learned their end of the "Men don't hit women" bargain"

And two generations of "you go/ girl power " it would be funny...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (XuXeR)

100 Maxwell Frost D-FL was just on FNC claiming it was MURDER!
-----

He missed it by THAT much.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (TN0g+)

101 After witnessing her wife's death, Rebecca is heard screaming, blaming the cops for carrying live ammo: "Why did you have real bullets?!"

Maybe the muzzies are right. Women don't get to leave the house without a male escort.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (pkq24)

102 LOL
Reminds me of a side quest in Borderlands 2, "Shoot Me in the Face!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (HXT0k)
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RIP Face McShooty

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (5aZAZ)

103 A coworker asked me what I thought about the shooting. I replied that I’ve managed to go my whole life without getting shot in the face by the police. Know how? I don’t go out of my way to fuck with cops. It’s a policy of mine.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (u73oe)

104 Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (ZOv7s)

Well done!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (7RYym)

105 97 The one yelling drive is an accomplice to murder.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (lNNMd)

Agreed, but I doubt they'd charge her.. Can you imagine the hysteria that would cause ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:41 PM (VE6XX)

106 My wife’s brother is probably a bigger Beatles fan than Driscoll.

To be fair, he listens to all kinds of music, and even shares my fondness for show tunes.

But to him, the Fab Four will always be the pinnacle of musical excellence.

Which I find extremely weird when you’ve got Beethoven.

I just don’t get Beatlemania.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

107 "It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."
---
Ah, a moment of true responsibility that will drive her into the escape of blame-shifting and doubling down.

Hopefully, it won't.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:41 PM (krQz2)

108 Body cams were the worst self-own, ever

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (fszBn)

109 I put these people in the same category as sovereign citizens. Watch a couple of videos, learn the magic words, and the police can’t touch you.

Avoid all criminal consequences with this One Simple Trick They Don't Want You To Know!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (c3sdc)

110 I heard the audio, and I clearly heard the other woman yelled at her wife.....

"Did you put the clothes in the dryer" and not "Put the car in drive"...

Posted by: Kami Harris at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (J9q9v)

111 I have always identified as non-binary, but in that moment, I never felt more like a woman."

Aaaand jardince, a little pill....

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (XuXeR)

112 Do you think any AWFLs are seeing things like the Ice Romance novels? I doubt it because they are so delusional it wouldn't register that they're being made fun of

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (9ShUO)

113 We've gotten now at least two generations of females that never learned their end of the "Men don't hit women" bargain. To wit, you don't escalate physical confrontations with men who are bigger and stronger than you and who could pimp-slap your ass back to your ancestors.
Posted by: ballistic

==

I think most women have never learned that lesson, ever. At least the ones that under 40.

If you're at say a kids sporting event, I'm amazed how women will basically just say things to a guy that would mean a fist fight in the parking lot, but they have no fear because if a male so much as touches them, their life would be ruined.

And I'm not saying I want these guys to hit women, but women need to stop acting like they are surrounded by a force field.

There is a certain level of verbal escalation and taunting where if I was a jury member, I would say they asked for it.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (eIzlH)

114 Does this mean the dinosaur and minotaur feminist fantasy pr0n craze is over???

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (3hJhH)

115 Seriously, did these people think ICE was going to be carrying t-shirt cannons ("Trump in 2028!")

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (2L+MU)

116 What did she think they carried? Paintball rounds?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 04:43 PM (wVcYX)

117 So imagine that the idea that ICE doesn't use real bullets caused this playful interference?

It just goes to show you that there aren't necessarily returns in being more tolerant.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:43 PM (krQz2)

118 I saw this exact discussion on facebook:

Lefty: How would you MAGAts like it if we handled you people like ICE handled that poor woman?

Righty: You mean like you killed Ashli Babbitt on J6?

Lefty: That's different she deserved it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

119 Agreed, but I doubt they'd charge her.. Can you imagine the hysteria that would cause ?

Huh? Its Minnisomalia, they think her confession is a battle cry. No way would they even think of prosecuting that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 04:43 PM (c3sdc)

120
I have always identified as non-binary, but in that moment, I never felt more like a woman.
Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (ZOv7s)

This would sell with one caveat, are we sure these retards read.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (fszBn)

121 Almost effortlessly, he spun me around, one hand holding my wrists like a vice, the other applying the restraints, and as they locked into place, I felt a sexual thrill I had never know before.

"What are you going to do with me?" he panted, and I was sure there was a hint of a naughty smile behind his mask from the way his eyes glanced over me.

"You're being detained for assault on a federal officer. You've been a naughty girl."

Naughty! Oh yes, yes I was. I never delighted in that word before, but he said it, and for the first time I felt his physical size and strength not as evil, but a wonderful, powerful thing. I'd never really known a man like this.

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)

122 But, this lie serves another purpose:
They are trying to shoehorn her case in to other caselaw, that a person receiving conflicting instruction--from multiple officers, mind you--negates the reasonableness of lethal force.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
========
I think Bullshit Bulwark is down to pedos and perverts working there and on borrowed time from Pierre Omidyar funding it. It is strictly an inside DC thing now which means the rest of us ignore it.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (WDjG6)

123 Or the rear sights of an AKM, the higher you slide it the more power the rifle has.
Posted by: Selous Scouts at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (UDZYq)

On the other hand, it's not like those kinds of people used the sights anyway, so it at least wasn't detrimental.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (zjgNU)

124 Law Enforcement Officers Load Their Guns With Real Bullets...

Wait until they catch a round from Bubba's deer rifle.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (/lPRQ)

125 The left: ICE are Trump's SS Stormtroopers

Also the left: Since when does ICE have bullets for their guns?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

126 Beetlemania > Beatlemania

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (3hJhH)

127 I have always identified as non-binary, but in that moment, I never felt more like a woman."

Aaaand jardince, a little pill....
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (XuXeR)

At a glance, I read that as Al Jardine, legendary guitarist for the Beach Boys.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (wVcYX)

128 Do the ICE agents get more hand jobs than the Minotaurs?

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (CNl8/)

129 The Beatles are terrible and the only thing worse musically is any one of them doing solo work.

Utterly unlistenable garbage from a bunch of British poofters, made popular by the musical tastes of teenage girls.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (5aZAZ)

130 Angry lesbos have got to be smarmy lesbos, it's in their nature.

These are women who have never been raped or had an abortion so they don't have PTSD yet until one of them gets ventilated by the popo.

LEO sidearms have consequences.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (BSdIE)

131 Loving the ICE/Antifa romance novel memo!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2026 04:45 PM (Hkcdp)

132 Naughty! Oh yes, yes I was. I never delighted in that word before, but he said it, and for the first time I felt his physical size and strength not as evil, but a wonderful, powerful thing. I'd never really known a man like this.
Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd
=======
I am sure you will climb the pron charts at Amazon with that boddice ripper. But I think I will give it a hard pass.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:45 PM (WDjG6)

133 They are trying to shoehorn her case in to other caselaw, that a person receiving conflicting instruction--from multiple officers, mind you--negates the reasonableness of lethal force.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

==

I was confused and thought the officers with their guns drawn on me were instructing me to hit them with my car.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:45 PM (eIzlH)

134 But to him, the Fab Four will always be the pinnacle of musical excellence.
Which I find extremely weird when you’ve got Beethoven.
I just don’t get Beatlemania.

Lots of people associate a band or a type of music to a "first" in their lives. Your brother probably got his first nut listening to Eleanor Rigby or some such and it brings back happy memories for him.

Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at January 13, 2026 04:45 PM (UDZYq)

135 Does MN have a felony murder law? If so, hook Miss Becca up and let her scream like a dumbass in court.

It's MN, she won't be convicted, but it would br funny.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

136 A coworker asked me what I thought about the shooting. I replied that I’ve managed to go my whole life without getting shot in the face by the police. Know how? I don’t go out of my way to fuck with cops. It’s a policy of mine.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:40 PM (u73oe)
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And in 29 years, I've never had to park perpendicularly to a street that I'm on.

I really don't know how that squares with "dropping some one off" or "being on your way home from work".

But that's just me. I'll leave that to the programs that can justify anything for the cause. And use whatever rhetoric that "works". (h/t Harry Reid)

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (krQz2)

137 This makes me suspect that their paymasters are telling them the worst that will happen is pepper spray or rubber bullets.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (fszBn)

138 Does this mean the dinosaur and minotaur feminist fantasy pr0n craze is over???
Posted by: Anna Puma
___

*gag*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (22p5n)

139 Masks are at no time sexy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

140 Kate over at SmallDeadAnimals.com went on "X" the other day asking about the funeral service details so she could get a bunch a people to block the procession with their vehicles.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (dIske)

141 If anyone thinks Beatlemania is something, wait until they get a load of Bananarama.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

142 The Zulus did that, they would raise the sight ladder to the too thinking it gave the bullets more power. They were super dangerous in close though with those assegai spears.

Posted by: steevy at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (YwEeS)

143 This makes me suspect that their paymasters are telling them the worst that will happen is pepper spray or rubber bullets.
Posted by: CaliGirl

==

So many of these cases in blue cities, it's like winning the lottery in terms of a big settlement if a hair gets harmed.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (eIzlH)

144 126 Beetlemania > Beatlemania
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (3hJhH)

Is that a Beetle Bailey convention?

Or when enchanted scarabs scurry to life in an ancient tomb and devour the flesh off your bones?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (SSEhk)

145 Forbidden Heat was my nickname in college.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (viF8m)

146 wait until they get a load of Bananarama."

Yes, please.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (XuXeR)

147 It strikes me that the "wife" was LARPing as a man. A role she was not psychologically capable of playing.

Men protect, and back down from threats when they are wrong and their loved ones are in danger.

She perfectly shows the difference between men and women. Women have no grasp of consequences and no need to protect the people and things they love.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (uEUHC)

148 A moment of Silence for Renee Good.

https://is.gd/BR9Qzz

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (9cHSL)

149 I like all of the masks in the second batch.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM
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Milking hand maids.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (krQz2)

150 Oh great! Real bullets!
Posted by: Lucky Day at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM

Would you say that the police have a plethora of real bullets?

Posted by: El Guapo at January 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Wnv9h)

151 We've gotten now at least two generations of females that never learned their end of the "Men don't hit women" bargain. To wit, you don't escalate physical confrontations with men who are bigger and stronger than you and who could pimp-slap your ass back to your ancestors.
Posted by: ballistic

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I think most women have never learned that lesson, ever. At least the ones that under 40.

If you're at say a kids sporting event, I'm amazed how women will basically just say things to a guy that would mean a fist fight in the parking lot, but they have no fear because if a male so much as touches them, their life would be ruined.

And I'm not saying I want these guys to hit women, but women need to stop acting like they are surrounded by a force field.

There is a certain level of verbal escalation and taunting where if I was a jury member, I would say they asked for it.
Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 04:42 PM (eIzlH)

I blame the banning of Dodge Ball at schools.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

152 >>It's become like The Olds always banging on about Bob Dylan.

Bear, Dylan is one of two top-flight songwriters who should never have been allowed within light-years of a recording studio (the other being Leonard Cohen). Almost every cover of their tunes is better than their own; the exception that comes to mind is Bono's version of Hallelujah. Avoid at all costs.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 04:48 PM (NcvvS)

153 126 Beetlemania > Beatlemania
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 04:44 PM (3hJhH)

I saw the Beatles at the Cow Palace in 1964.. Yeah... I'm that old...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:48 PM (VE6XX)

154 Is that South Park video fan made?

If so, awesome!

Another tool of Lefty social and narrative control has been co-opted!

I must have missed some recent medical advice. What is the proper treatment if your schadenboner lasts a full four YEARS?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (HlyYF)

155 Did you see the turn around by NYC Dems especially on antisemitism ?

AOC, even Zohran Mamdani was saying slogans of hate are now unacceptable.

They will believe anything that will get them the next election.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (RHGPo)

156 It strikes me that the "wife" was LARPing as a man. A role she was not psychologically capable of playing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (uEUHC)
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Excellent observation.

Society is supposed to go along with her gender LARP. So she learns to that there should be no penalty to LARPing.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (krQz2)

157 There is a certain level of verbal escalation and taunting where if I was a jury member, I would say they asked for it.
Posted by: Leupold
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There is another video from Mnpls that shows some haggard troll woman harassing an ICE officer in a vehicle and trying to beat on his window and hood. She had a bullhorn in her hand yelling at everyone around her. ICE guy stopped at the intersection, rolled down the window and when Karen dumbass approached again, sprayed her full in the face with pepper spray. She staggered back, fell, and dropped the bullhorn. No one helped her back up. ICE man moved on.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (WDjG6)

158 No fair! ICE wasn't LARP-ing along!

Scene from Tombstone where Ringo has his last moments with Doc Holiday

Ringo: "I was just foolin' about"
Holiday: "I wasn't"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (U4c/V)

159 Ed has basically ruined Instapundit singlehandedly. Well, him and the lunatic commenters.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

... Hey, I resemble that remark!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (a+4eV)

160 You’re not supposed to have real bullets for a staged propaganda event!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (eqMW0)

161 Dear Fantasy Land-ers,

Real Bullets Matter

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (EWq0C)

162 Did you see the turn around by NYC Dems especially on antisemitism ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (RHGPo)
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Chances are progs don't believe what they said the first time around.

If it shames, it works.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (krQz2)

163 And the kindergartner's school?
What role does it play in this drama?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (6el8D)

164 I have heard so many stories of divorce - from both sides - and it is often the same -- the woman is willing to destroy the world to win, and the guy just wants to protect the things he loves.

The "wife" was playing the role of a man, telling the driver to escalate, but she is a woman and did not care about risk.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (uEUHC)

165 I always get the Cow Palace mixed up with the Corn Palace.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

166 The New York Times: Somalis Fled Civil War and Built a Community. Now They Are a Target.

On an icy Friday morning, Mahad Omar watched armed federal agents run down the street and tackle one of his neighbors to the ground. They handcuffed the man and put him inside a black-tinted S.U.V. Mr. Omar, 28, an Uber driver, immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago. He had never imagined seeing something like that in his community.

When you send your entire life in a society that rewards the criminally clever, it's really easy to get in trouble.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:50 PM (RHGPo)

167 Does this mean the dinosaur and minotaur feminist fantasy pr0n craze is over???
Posted by: Anna Puma

Anyone who has ever thought a catgirl or kitsune might be hot doesn't get to throw stones in that kerfuffle.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 13, 2026 04:51 PM (a+4eV)

168 This makes me suspect that their paymasters are telling them the worst that will happen is pepper spray or rubber bullets.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (fszBn)

They have a lot of shit. A whole separate reality. Where gays are in death camps. Everyone is out to get them personally, but also can't touch them.

Its really bizarre and reminds me of some people describing how people get when their medications aren't right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:51 PM (zZu0s)

169 While you may not like The Beatles, your favorite artist likes The Beatles.

The whole, I don’t get The Beatles schtick is pretty funny considering they were a world wide phenomenon.

Might as well say I don’t get why Star Wars was such a big thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

170 ICE guy stopped at the intersection, rolled down the window and when Karen dumbass approached again, sprayed her full in the face with pepper spray.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (WDjG6)
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That was too much force when that happened too.

The real violence is ICE not going home and forgetting about deportation.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:52 PM (krQz2)

171 Gimme back my bullets.

Posted by: ICE Agent at January 13, 2026 04:52 PM (wVcYX)

172 This makes me suspect that their paymasters are telling them the worst that will happen is pepper spray or rubber bullets.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (fszBn)

That makes perfect sense.

Tell these boxmunching NPC women that ICE only uses rubber bullets on them because they only hunt brown people for sport.

Embolden the NPCs, and ensure that one eventually gets killed. The profit politically from the blood of your credulous peons, and perhaps get a nice riot out of the bargain.

I bet you're completely correct... it would explain her completely inexplicable that cops have actual bullets in the guns. She probably earnestly believed they had orders to use rubber bullets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM (BI5O2)

173 169 While you may not like The Beatles, your favorite artist likes The Beatles.

The whole, I don’t get The Beatles schtick is pretty funny considering they were a world wide phenomenon.

Might as well say I don’t get why Star Wars was such a big thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

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Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

174 A moment of Silence for Renee Good.

https://is.gd/BR9Qzz

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM

Cruelty Level: Chuy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Wnv9h)

175 How Are We Supposed to Parent Through This? (Activist Shot by ICE situation.)

... I suggest an old Western movie or TV show like "Rawhide" or "The Rifleman". The bad and the stupid die in those shows.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM (RHGPo)

176 135 Does MN have a felony murder law? If so, hook Miss Becca up and let her scream like a dumbass in court.

It's MN, she won't be convicted, but it would br funny.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Charge would be federal if it happens and attached to other charges like obstruction of an officer doing official duties. Federal law has a felony murder provision too.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (WDjG6)

177 He was able to pull his bullet out of his shirt pocket load and fire very quickly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (9cHSL)

178 I've never commented or even read the comments at Insty. I would suspect they are squishy and insane at the same time. Rabid, foaming, neocon squishes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

179 immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago"

So he was 8?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (XuXeR)

180 Show prep for Everyone

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (EBepL)

181 169 While you may not like The Beatles, your favorite artist likes The Beatles.

The whole, I don’t get The Beatles schtick is pretty funny considering they were a world wide phenomenon.

Might as well say I don’t get why Star Wars was such a big thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

Star Wars was a big thing because the ladies got to see Chewbacca without pants. It was Minotaur Milking Farm before there was Minotaur Milking Farm. Pantless Wookie Dude Ranch.

Follow me for more informed, erudite cultural analysis.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (SSEhk)

182 I don’t even know where you’d get fake bullets, and I buy lots of ammo. I’ve only occasionally seen blanks.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (eqMW0)

183 179 immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago"

So he was 8?
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (XuXeR)

Meaning his parents came illegally

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (VE6XX)

184 People forget how "Thelma & Louise" ends. Maybe God wasn't an idiot when he suggested that women pair up with men and men pair up with women. It may tend to work out better for all involved.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (TN0g+)

185 This makes me suspect that their paymasters are telling them the worst that will happen is pepper spray or rubber bullets.
Posted by: CaliGirl

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There was a video I saw last night of an extremely obese woman harassing ICE. It was scary since you fear she could easily fall and never be able to get up again.

I wondered about the people around her egging her on -- do they not even consider the risk she is putting on herself? Or maybe that is considered an asset if she stroked out and became a martyr.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (uEUHC)

186 A-Team: Lots of action and explosions, but hardly any injuries

I used to love that show, including how over the top it was on that very level. At one point the team is evading a helicopter; they manage to get the helicopter to crash into the side of a mountain. The helicopter spirals down to the ground and crashes. And the camera makes sure to show the people inside getting out.

In my memory it also explodes on the way down, but that’s probably not true. It should have been, though.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (EXyHK)

187 He was able to pull his bullet out of his shirt pocket load and fire very quickly.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (9cHSL)

Trained lawman always have to be in top form.

Posted by: Deputy Barney Fife at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (wVcYX)

188 What is a kitsune? Is that a fox girl?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

189 181 Star Wars was a big thing because the ladies got to see Chewbacca without pants. It was Minotaur Milking Farm before there was Minotaur Milking Farm. Pantless Wookie Dude Ranch.

Follow me for more informed, erudite cultural analysis.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (SSEhk)

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THANK YOU!

I've been saying this for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

190 Insty links interesting articles. I do get tired of Reynolds, “I wanna live forever” shtick, though.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

191 I don't know if it's that they think it's like Marvel. I think they're just used to protests where they deal with cops on crowd control duty, who may be carrying non-lethal weapons.

They've changed the nature of the protest (by interfering with cops performing their duties), but expect a standard protest response.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (OGOaV)

192 Trump to Iranian protesters: "Help is on the way."

Meeting with mullahs canceled.

U.S. State Department orders Americans to leave Iran immediately.

Report that the French Embassy is being evacuated.

Operational windows are being cleared.

The next 72 hours are going to be interesting.

Posted by: Just reporting at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Z1oJ3)

193 The A Team inspired the Hamass Airborne Division.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (9cHSL)

194 @173

>> Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!

Fun Fact:

Magical Mystety Tour was found in Buddy Hollys Walkman when his body was recovered in the wreckage.

The Big Bopper was known to be partial to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (XV/Pl)

195
I do get tired of Reynolds, “I wanna live forever” shtick, though.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

_________

He wants to live forever on Mars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (t2vGZ)

196 Don't think you were just going to use me and then leave me behind in the last thread

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Vagina at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Vu7A1)

197 Cruelty Level: Chuy
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM

We haven't seen Chuy around these parts for a long time. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (u3oS3)

198 @106 even shares my fondness for show tunes.

Working without a net, here, I see.
Well, it's your trapeze.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (zdLoL)

199 188 What is a kitsune? Is that a fox girl?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

It’s fox the animal in Japanese.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (aT5K/)

200 Maxwell Frost D-FL was just on FNC claiming it was MURDER!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Volunteering to lose a defamation case.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (/lPRQ)

201 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (SSEhk)

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THANK YOU!

I've been saying this for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

There is wookie porn out there.

You don't want to know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

202 I wondered about the people around her egging her on -- do they not even consider the risk she is putting on herself? Or maybe that is considered an asset if she stroked out and became a martyr.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

The dirty secret about a lot of leftists is that they don't give a shit about others while wailing to the sky about love, caring for others, etc.

They have about as much real emotion as a kommissar shooting someone in the back of the head. Narcissists.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (WDjG6)

203 194 Fun Fact:

Magical Mystety Tour was found in Buddy Hollys Walkman when his body was recovered in the wreckage.

The Big Bopper was known to be partial to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (XV/Pl)

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What was in the CD deck in the airplane's control panel?

NIN?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

204 A lot of the protest vids I’ve seen have pretty thin crowds. I don’t think this election year hysteria is working.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (eqMW0)

205 Meaning his parents came illegally"

Bingo

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (XuXeR)

206 Chuy where? Where did my ice axe get to?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (9cHSL)

207 Trump to Iranian protesters: "Help is on the way."

Meeting with mullahs canceled.

U.S. State Department orders Americans to leave Iran immediately.

Report that the French Embassy is being evacuated.

Operational windows are being cleared.

The next 72 hours are going to be interesting.

Mullahs: We were just foolin' about.
Trump: I wasn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Riz8t)

208 What about the dog?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (D1n1Q)

209
>> Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!

Buddy loved the Andrew Sisters.
(this may be too cryptic.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (uEUHC)

210 Viral "bird theory" says all white people have one thing in common

As she told Newsweek: “I realized there was always bird decor over at my white friends’ houses and even at the houses of people whom I’ve dated. It was particularly noticeable because they’d often be large metal sculptures, taxidermied birds, or just something that stood out!”

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (RHGPo)

211 178 I've never commented or even read the comments at Insty. I would suspect they are squishy and insane at the same time. Rabid, foaming, neocon squishes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

It's weird and unwholesome.

You have midwits, caustic trolls, running personal grudges and feuds, contrarians who aren't smart enough to say anything contrarian. It mostly reads like banter between people who don't like each other and don't have anyone in their lives who like them either.

We're nuts on purpose. Those poor bastards need to be institutionalized.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (SSEhk)

212 140 Kate over at SmallDeadAnimals.com went on "X" the other day asking about the funeral service details so she could get a bunch a people to block the procession with their vehicles.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:46 PM (dIske)

Let the punishment fit the crime and I love this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (fszBn)

213 The fox and cat girl ear thing does kind of creep me out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

214 She perfectly shows the difference between men and women. Women have no grasp of consequences and no need to protect the people and things they love.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (uEUHC)

That is one seriously ignorant comment, Bob.

I think you mean SOME women, but the truth is that women are hard-wired to protect their families, and of course we know what consequences are.

There are always ignorant idiots around, and some are men, and some are women. Would you like to be lumped in with the men who rape women, or beat them? Of course not, because you don't rape women or beat them. So why are you lumping all women in with these ignorant lesbian idiots?

This isn't the men's locker room.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (6Bc88)

215 What is a kitsune? Is that a fox girl?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Technically a fox spirit, but yes. Likes to take the form of a human, often female, to play tricks on and/or suck the life out of its human victims.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (a+4eV)

216 Trump says he's going to stop all Fed aid to sanctuary cities and states as of 2/1/26. I can hear the AWFLs shrieking already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (9ShUO)

217 You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (+mUZM)

218 Cruelty Level: Chuy
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 04:53 PM

We haven't seen Chuy around these parts for a long time. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (u3oS3)
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He was too cruel for school.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (krQz2)

219 What was in the CD deck in the airplane's control panel?

NIN?"

"Huetoolow"

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (XuXeR)

220 Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd
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I am sure you will climb the pron charts at Amazon with that boddice ripper.

When you publish it, use a pseudonym that will dog whistle for Morons. But don't tell us; it'll be more fun that way.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (q334b)

221 Trump to Iranian protesters: "Help is on the way."

Meeting with mullahs canceled.

U.S. State Department orders Americans to leave Iran immediately.

Report that the French Embassy is being evacuated.

Operational windows are being cleared.

The next 72 hours are going to be interesting.
Posted by: Just reporting at January 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Z1oJ3)

Do you wanna dance under the moonlight
Hold me, baby, all through the night
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?

Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance?

Posted by: Treasure Trove of Hits at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (wVcYX)

222 Canada ditto. Get out of Iran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (9cHSL)

223 Rebecca got Renee to commit suicide by cop but Rebecca will be well off with the $1.5M if not way more by now

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)

224 "Soy chuy" sounds like both a greeting an a commentary on a bad batch of tofu.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (krQz2)

225 >>> I've never commented or even read the comments at Insty. I would suspect they are squishy and insane at the same time. Rabid, foaming, neocon squishes.

lots of "old man shouting at clouds" over there

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (jGJov)

226 Lol. How smart do you have to be to be contrarian? CBD does it all the time.

Lol.

As do most of us.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

227 They had Walkman's in Buddy Holly's day?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (9cHSL)

228 >> Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!

I doubt that very much since Buddy Holly died in 1959 and the Beatles weren't really a band until 1960

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (RHGPo)

229 I have always identified as non-binary, but in that moment, I never felt more like a woman.

My woman penis has never been so hard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

230 223 Rebecca got Renee to commit suicide by cop but Rebecca will be well off with the $1.5M if not way more by now

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)

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Not if she's indicted for a crime. If she's convicted, she's definitely getting nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

231 178 I've never commented or even read the comments at Insty. I would suspect they are squishy and insane at the same time. Rabid, foaming, neocon squishes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Sven spends a lot of time there. Mebbe Fen (not Fenelon) too. But yes, there is one particular troll, Johnny that is the sort to shit in the aisle at WalMart and then run around to do it again on another.

Probably a mental patient because he is so antagonistic, not even paid types dabble themselves in feces to light a thread on fire.

The commenters are more based for the most part, than those posting articles there. Glenn has a lot of worthless friendz that he gives space too and Special Ed does too.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (WDjG6)

232 228 >> Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!

I doubt that very much since Buddy Holly died in 1959 and the Beatles weren't really a band until 1960

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (RHGPo)

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Ben Roethlisberger would have explained it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

233 Trump says he's going to stop all Fed aid to sanctuary cities and states as of 2/1/26. I can hear the AWFLs shrieking already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 05:00 PM (9ShUO)
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That will at least challenge the boast that "sanctuary city" was something a city could do.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (krQz2)

234 223 Rebecca got Renee to commit suicide by cop but Rebecca will be well off with the $1.5M if not way more by now
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)

Hopefully the Grandpa can get the little boy.. There are rumors" that the surviving "wife" was a child abuser..Oh.. and someone save that dog

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (VE6XX)

235 9 They think ICE carriers water pistols that shoot jelly, like on The Island of Misfit Toys.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (DD6gL)

Yeah, they don't remember that Yukon Cornelius was Packin!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

236 Buddy Holly loved the Beatles?!
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And Mary Tyler Moore.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (krQz2)

237 Don LeMon Accuses Stephen A. Smith of Cozying up to Whitey for Money

.. the smell of desperation

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (RHGPo)

238 When you publish it, use a pseudonym that will dog whistle for Morons. But don't tell us; it'll be more fun that way.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Mebbe Roberta Odd?

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

239 I wonder if insurance fraud is involved in the Good case?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (9cHSL)

240 And Rebecca gets rid of the kid. Win win for her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (+mUZM)

241 Did you all see the actually video that started the ICE romance memes? It’s a video of a middle-aged white lady in a car staring longingly at a large ICE cop as he tells her to watch her shit. It’s literally the lady in the meme. I think the original vid is important context to understand the joke.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (AuNgU)

242 234 Hopefully the Grandpa can get the little boy.. There are rumors" that the surviving "wife" was a child abuser..Oh.. and someone save that dog

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (VE6XX)

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Good had three children. She did not have custody of the first two.

A mother not getting custody of her children is...unusual.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

243 Intifada! Intifada! they learned from their terrorist hamas friends!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (g47mK)

244 Remember the day that FDR went to Twitter to tell the nation about the attack on Pearl Harbor

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (RHGPo)

245 Those Memes are gold, Jerry! Gold!

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (ZcsJV)

246 Seriously, did these people think ICE was going to be carrying t-shirt cannons ("Trump in 2028!")
Posted by: Paco

With a free brick wrapped inside the shirt!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (/lPRQ)

247 > A lot of the protest vids I’ve seen have pretty thin crowds.

When the USAID funds dried up, the protest crowds lost whatever diversity they had before. Now it's old people, the homeless AntiFa mutants, and some college students, and they're all snow white.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (Yp6az)

248 237 Don LeMon Accuses Stephen A. Smith of Cozying up to Whitey for Money

.. the smell of desperation
Posted by: SMOD
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Lemon wants some of Mr. Smith is what.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (WDjG6)

249 It's like the 'Three Amigos'.
Dusty gets shot and he demands to look at the outlaws gun. When he does, he says 'Great, real bullets!'

Then is slowly dawns on him that 'it's real'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (xcxpd)

250 They had Walkman's in Buddy Holly's day?"

Sure. Cellphones too

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (XuXeR)

251 Well, this sucks. The DOJ in charge of the investigation of Somali fraud just quit, citing political interference from Washington.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (q0p3u)

252 I've never commented or even read the comments at Insty. I would suspect they are squishy and insane at the same time. Rabid, foaming, neocon squishes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

More like it's flooded with trolls and they don't moderate it much. So it's frequently just skinheads arguing with commies.

Posted by: Sjg at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (aqZN1)

253 And Sarah Hoyt desperately needs an editor.

Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (D1n1Q)

254 lots of "old man shouting at clouds" over there

So, no different than here.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (fCT/O)

255 That stuff at the end of this post brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I can fix her."

No, dude. No, you can't.

Nonetheless, a pretty bizarre fantasy for lesbians and lesbian-wannabes to have.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (hOOi9)

256 223 Rebecca got Renee to commit suicide by cop but Rebecca will be well off with the $1.5M if not way more by now

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)

Renee's mom will sue Ross for a zillion dollars for wrongful death. I don't know if Rebecca has standing to sue for wrongful death. Was she married to Renee? Was she Renee's common law 'wife' per MN law? We're gonna find out.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (5rh/l)

257 When the USAID funds dried up, the protest crowds lost whatever diversity they had before. Now it's old people, the homeless AntiFa mutants, and some college students, and they're all snow white.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Caring and thus protesting about violent lesbos doing stupid shit is something even Somalians have enough sense to not care,

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (WDjG6)

258 The fox and cat girl ear thing does kind of creep me out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
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Yeah, I got to wonder about the Japanese men.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (krQz2)

259 238 When you publish it, use a pseudonym that will dog whistle for Morons. But don't tell us; it'll be more fun that way.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Mebbe Roberta Odd?
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

"Masturbating Pete"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

260 I think you mean SOME women, but the truth is that women are hard-wired to protect their families, and of course we know what consequences are.

Posted by: tcn in AK

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OK, point taken.
You are right that I mean *some* women.

But I am talking about something deeper -- women have an innate protection mode, but they also have a no-limits attack mode.

What I am trying to say (and I admit I said it poorly) is that men will back down and women won't. Men will weigh costs and decide it is not worth it, and those costs include damage to their kids or family.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (uEUHC)

261 Fucking clouds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (9cHSL)

262 253 And Sarah Hoyt desperately needs an editor.
Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (D1n1Q)

Almost all writers do

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

263 253 And Sarah Hoyt desperately needs an editor.

Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (D1n1Q)

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Their movie threads are better than ours, though.

Ours are run by a charlatan who doesn't love Laura enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GBKbO)

264
Why anyone would still pay attention to anything Don LeMon or Stephen A. Smith say eludes me.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (Y8DZL)

265 >>"Help is on the way."

That was Jerry and Robert Hunter not Weir.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (viF8m)

266 Renee's mom will sue Ross for a zillion dollars for wrongful death. I don't know if Rebecca has standing to sue for wrongful death. Was she married to Renee? Was she Renee's common law 'wife' per MN law? We're gonna find out.
Posted by: Gref
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It has to be a federal lawsuit and she will lose. Qualified immunity applies.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (WDjG6)

267 Expert Warns California Could See ‘Mass Migration’ (Out) Within 12 Months

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (RHGPo)

268 Remember the day that FDR went to Twitter to tell the nation about the attack on Pearl Harbor"

Like watching the JFK assassination on live tv....

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (XuXeR)

269 213 The fox and cat girl ear thing does kind of creep me out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

*covers Anna's ears*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

270 That is one seriously ignorant comment, Bob.

I think you mean SOME women, but the truth is that women are hard-wired to protect their families, and of course we know what consequences are.

There are always ignorant idiots around, and some are men, and some are women. Would you like to be lumped in with the men who rape women, or beat them? Of course not, because you don't rape women or beat them. So why are you lumping all women in with these ignorant lesbian idiots?

This isn't the men's locker room.
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*golf clap*

Well said, tcn.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (22p5n)

271 The fox and cat girl ear thing does kind of creep me out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
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Yeah, I got to wonder about the Japanese men.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (krQz2)
——

You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (AuNgU)

272 251 Well, this sucks. The DOJ in charge of the investigation of Somali fraud just quit, citing political interference from Washington.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (q0p3u)

Sounds like a classic case of the trash taking itself out to me.

Or am I missing something.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (hOOi9)

273 Their movie threads are better than ours, though.

Ours are run by a charlatan who doesn't love Laura enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GBKbO)

I KNEW it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

274
Renee Renee Renee Renee
Baby how the weeks fade
Baby how the streets change
Renee Renee Renee Renee
But baby as the weeks change
And we've seen quite a few
I don't know who's fooling who

I'm fooling you

Posted by: Mark Hollis at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (krQz2)

275 What, Buddy Holly and MTM did the nasty?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (77rzZ)

276 Why anyone would still pay attention to anything Don LeMon or Stephen A. Smith say eludes me.
Posted by: Auspex
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The same droll amusement while walking past two dogs or cats going at it.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

277
The commenters are more based for the most part, than those posting articles there. Glenn has a lot of worthless friendz that he gives space too and Special Ed does too.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (WDjG6)

__________

Most of the commenters are fine, but there's no one to wield a banhammer on thosr like Johnny and the lunatics who are convinced Trump is a child molester. And those people are obsessives.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (t2vGZ)

278 271 The fox and cat girl ear thing does kind of creep me out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
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Yeah, I got to wonder about the Japanese men.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (krQz2)
——

You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (AuNgU)

<< Like TT Boy high on coke

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

279 Helpful hint: Soy Chorizo does not mean "I am chorizo."

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (PSEDc)

280 >>You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me.

notsothoreau, one of the Byrds said that rock before the Beatles versus after was like propeller engines to jets. Early '60s rock is mostly horrible.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (NcvvS)

281 >>>This isn't the men's locker room.

plenty of old naked dudes, though

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (jGJov)

282 246 Seriously, did these people think ICE was going to be carrying t-shirt cannons ("Trump in 2028!")
Posted by: Paco

With a free brick wrapped inside the shirt!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 05:04 PM (/lPRQ)

Lol frozen waterbottles like the antifa goons throw at them.

Ice ice baby

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (i0Hi3)

283 Feminist protestor/ICE officer romance edits are my new favorite thing

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Casablanca 2: We'll Always Have Ferrous

Chokeback Mountain

Dirty Lancing

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (+B9Si)

284 Read my shocking and transgressive romance today!

In "Morning Glory Silking Farm" a spherical Guatemalan milkmaid finds love in the shadows of Trump's America when she is forced to extract silk from enormous arachnid breeding studs for slave wages.

Read as her fear turns to lust, when she grasps the turgid spinneret of Shelob, a stern but sensual spider chimera with the head of a man, and the insatiable ardor of an eight-legged love machine.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (BI5O2)

285 I really like that "Detained by Desire" cover, even more than "Dickmatized at the Protest" (which is also great). The light blush, the curious head-tilt, the expression of opennness with concern -- like she knows her own impulses are ill-advised, but she's helpless to do anything about it -- there must be a lot of that specific expression in the training data for (presumably) Gen AI to nail it.

Posted by: SciVo at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Sy6m/)

286 I have never hit a man. I have never been tempted to drive over one with a car, but I sure as heck wouldn't be stupid enough to assume cops or ICE didn't have real bullets in their guns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:09 PM (lQ+/f)

287 Kathleen Hartnett, the attorney of Hecox, was sent scrambling by Alito after he posed an incredible hypothetical question to challenge her argument for ‘trans females’ playing in women’s sports.

He inquired whether a boy who had never had surgeries or puberty blockers but still identified as a girl could be denied the ability to participate. After all, woke liberal logic is that you must oblige a person’s feelings on identity and seek to accommodate their wishes.

Hartnett fell into Alito’s trap and answered ‘yes.’ The justice then piggybacked off his first question by perfectly exposing the lie of gender identity.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:10 PM (RHGPo)

288 I prefer to call him Screamin' A. Smith.

Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:10 PM (D1n1Q)

289 280 >>You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me.

notsothoreau, one of the Byrds said that rock before the Beatles versus after was like propeller engines to jets. Early '60s rock is mostly horrible.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (NcvvS)

*Zombie Elvis rises from his grave and turns leaden eyes towards Nazdar's location.*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

290 I prefer to call him Screamin' A. Smith.
Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:10 PM (D1n1Q)
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Crotchety.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (krQz2)

291 Remember the day that FDR went to Twitter to tell the nation about the attack on Pearl Harbor

"It is not over. The Germans shall not prevail!"

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

292 The whole, I don’t get The Beatles schtick is pretty funny considering they were a world wide phenomenon.

Might as well say I don’t get why Star Wars was such a big thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The first better-than-average version of X will become popular.

Beatles were the first "pop/rock-n-roll band" to make it big.

Star Wars was the first "space opera film" to make it big. (Star Trek I was two years later, tho it had been on the small screen earlier.)

Same as Iron Maiden to metal, Nirvana to grunge, etc.

Being both "first" and "good" doesn't automatically make you the "best," which is where a lot of the "I don't get its" come from, I think.

If another band with the same physical appearance and performance/compositional skill level as the Beatles arrived in 1976, or 1994, or 2015, would they have automatically been a "world wide phenomenon," or just another pop band?

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (nhCoE)

293 > You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?

She was psychic. I can't imagine a relationship with a genuine psychic going well.

"YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT HER AGAIN!!"

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Yp6az)

294 Her parallel parking skills leave a lot to be desired.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (9cHSL)

295 272 251 Well, this sucks. The DOJ in charge of the investigation of Somali fraud just quit, citing political interference from Washington.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (q0p3u)

Sounds like a classic case of the trash taking itself out to me.

Or am I missing something.
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (hOOi9)

Could be pressure from lefty aligned goons threatening families and stuff.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (i0Hi3)

296 , Buddy Holly and MTM did the nasty?"

That'll be the day...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

297 Leftists Go Make Me Rich funding doesn't csre as long as Rebecca says she was her 'wife'

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

298
Like those African warriors who thought being covered in sacred oils would stop bullets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (9ShUO)

Moros in the Philippines... which resulted in the 1911 pistol designed by John Browning (PBUH)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 05:12 PM (y9nCu)

299 Her parallel parking skills leave a lot to be desired.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (9cHSL)
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Starting with the meaning of the word "parallel".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (krQz2)

300 "Detained by Desire" is absolutely diabolical and I love it.

And yes you daft trout, of course they have real bullets. The fuck is wrong with you?

Posted by: It's a real car, fair is fair at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (TbWk/)

301 >>You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me.

notsothoreau, one of the Byrds said that rock before the Beatles versus after was like propeller engines to jets. Early '60s rock is mostly horrible.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (NcvvS)

Oh, GTFO here.

Posted by: Bill Haley and His Comets at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (wVcYX)

302 >>>Left-Wing Mentally-Ill Revolutionary LARPers Don't Know That Law Enforcement Officers Load Their Guns With Real Bullets

One does.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ge3bi)

303 And am surecthe lawsuit against ICe will find a Commissar Judge to give the family $Ms

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (Ia/+0)

304 This isn't the men's locker room.

Should I put pants on?

Posted by: Pierre Poppycock at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (Vu7A1)

305 I like listening to Stephen A. Smith just like I like listening to Michael Savage, they sound like my dad.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (RIvkX)

306 Why anyone would still pay attention to anything Don LeMon or Stephen A. Smith say eludes me.
Posted by: Auspex
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The same droll amusement while walking past two dogs or cats going at it.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

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At least there's less screeching among the latter.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (trdaw)

307 What is a kitsune? Is that a fox girl?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

It’s fox the animal in Japanese.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 04:58 PM (aT5K/)

And megitsune is the female version. h/t Babymetal

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ExV1e)

308 273 Their movie threads are better than ours, though.

Ours are run by a charlatan who doesn't love Laura enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GBKbO)

I KNEW it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

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And just wait until I tell you about TJM!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

309 293 > You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?

She was psychic. I can't imagine a relationship with a genuine psychic going well.

"YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT HER AGAIN!!"
Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Yp6az)
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I’ll volunteer my sex services to test your theory on her. For science, of course.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (AuNgU)

310 Buddy Holly and MTM did the nasty?"

That'll be the day...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (wVcYX)

311 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

I hear he's a troll.
Or a glowie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (xcxpd)

312 And to further clarify --

Don't take things so personal -- when I say "men" or "women" I obviously do not mean all men or women, or even most.

What I mean, (and what I hope most people can understand) is that there is a marginal propensity among men or women in that direction. It is a generalization to simplify the argument. I am looking at the mean and noting that the mean for one group is a little more in one direction than for the other group.

This is how we talk when we understand that humans are all unique and our traits are on a normal distribution curve and you can not apply any generalization to an individual. I am sure that there are good, hardworking, honest Somalians, but I am not going to qualify my statements everytime I say that they are not good for the country and I want them all out, for example.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (uEUHC)

313 Cheetah is a monkey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (9cHSL)

314 311 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

I hear he's a troll.
Or a glowie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (xcxpd)

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Well, I've never denied it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

315 ALITO: Let’s say we have a school that has a boys’ track team and girls’ track team. And a student who has the genes and the reproductive system of a male and had those at birth…Has never taken puberty blockers or hormones; never had (gender reassignment) surgeries, says ‘nevertheless, I am a woman. That’s who I am.’Can the school say, ‘No, you can’t participate?

HARTNETT: Yes, they can.

ALITO: Is that person not a woman in your understanding? The person says, ‘I sincerely believe I am a woman, I am in fact a woman.’ Is that person not a woman?

HARTNETT: I, I, would respect their self-identity in addressing this person, but in terms of statute, does that person have a sex-based biological advantage that’s going to be unfair for that person to be part of the women’s team? That’s the rationale for the regulation, and that’s the way we would be testing that…

ALITO: The reason I’m asking has to do with discrimination on the basis of transgender status. You seem to be saying that it is permissible for the school to discriminate on the basis of transgender status.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (RHGPo)

316 "Parallel is the same thing as perpendicular because one side of the car is parallel to the curb!"

Side bigots!

-- The lefty understanding.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (krQz2)

317 which resulted in the 1911 pistol designed by John Browning (PBUH)"

*removes cap*

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (XuXeR)

318 And Sarah Hoyt desperately needs an editor.
Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (D1n1Q)

Almost all writers do
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I learned you can either write it fast while inspired and not worry about style, minor grammar, etc. and then redraft or spend forever doing a perfect one while everyone else has wandered away.

Hoyt has professional copy editors to peruse her stuff and bilinguals (I think Hoyt speaks four or five) can have an issue when English is not their first language. But folks at her website or Insty just want the facts, not perfect prose.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (WDjG6)

319 214-Thanks, tcn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (PFs9e)

320 notsothoreau, one of the Byrds said that rock before the Beatles versus after was like propeller engines to jets. Early '60s rock is mostly horrible.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 05:08 PM (NcvvS)

aw c'mon, you never listened to the Surfari's?

https://tinyurl.com/37scxa6e

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (uWKK8)

321 >> > You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?

Dax was mostly hittable because she had the mottled skin pigmentation of a Cheetarah or a Sugar Smack.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (ZcsJV)

322 Well, I've never denied it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I don't get it.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (WDjG6)

323 315 ALITO: The reason I’m asking has to do with discrimination on the basis of transgender status. You seem to be saying that it is permissible for the school to discriminate on the basis of transgender status.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (RHGPo)

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*reads SCOTUS tea leaves*

This means that Alito is going to retire and vote against the tariffs and vote to impeach Trump in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (GBKbO)

324 You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?
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Snarf is more my style!

Posted by: Tyler Robinson at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (krQz2)

325
ICE loads their guns with blanks, just like in the movies.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (d4X7t)

326 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!"

Beats hearing about Prometheus...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (XuXeR)

327 Browning 1911 and the Ma Deuce?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (9cHSL)

328 The DOJ in charge of the investigation of Somali fraud just quit, citing political interference from Washington.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (q0p3u)

My boss is telling me what to do. I quit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (ExV1e)

329 326 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!"

Beats hearing about Prometheus...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (XuXeR)

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I hadn't considered that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (GBKbO)

330
Cheetah is a monkey.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:14 PM (9cHSL)

In any case, cheetahs and monkeys are both some variety of weasel.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (y9nCu)

331 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have you ever done anything about film composers/scores?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

332 Did Lennon or McCartney ever do the duck walk while reeling and rocking? Do they have a gold record shot into the cosmos?

I rest my case.

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Berry at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (wVcYX)

333 318 And Sarah Hoyt desperately needs an editor.
Posted by: But that's just me at January 13, 2026 05:05 PM (D1n1Q)

Almost all writers do
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I learned you can either write it fast while inspired and not worry about style, minor grammar, etc. and then redraft or spend forever doing a perfect one while everyone else has wandered away.

Hoyt has professional copy editors to peruse her stuff and bilinguals (I think Hoyt speaks four or five) can have an issue when English is not their first language. But folks at her website or Insty just want the facts, not perfect prose.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (WDjG6)

Well you have to self edit. I do a minimum of three passes on anything outside of grey boxes. More for fiction. Writing while hot is wise but you have to edit it 'cold'.

Comments I'm more forgiving of but...she is a pro writer. Thus held to a higher standard.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (xcxpd)

334 331 And just wait until I tell you about TJM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have you ever done anything about film composers/scores?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

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I did just put out a video about John Carpenter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbxzFx-J3W0

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (GBKbO)

335 322 Well, I've never denied it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I don't get it.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (WDjG6)

Illiterate assholes.

Posted by: Let's see how long we can keep it going at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)

336 Seriously, did these people think ICE was going to be carrying t-shirt cannons ("Trump in 2028!")
Posted by: Paco

They bought the lie by their organizers that ICE has no police powers for giving orders to, or arresting, anyone other than illegal aliens. These women (and their soy boy conspirators) have been told they are untouchable by ICE officers for anything they do. Trust me on this.

Yet if they checked on the webz, they'd learn ICE has been issuing orders for a long time to protestors to cease interference with ICE ops and arresting those not complying. They'd learn that courts have not issued orders to ICE to cease doing those things. Because ICE is legally doing those things.

It's a nationwide perfect storm of brainwashing, stupidity, and resulting LARPing as untouchable and stronk female superheroines.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (5rh/l)

337 327 Browning 1911 and the Ma Deuce?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (9cHSL)

And much, much more. The guy was good at designing guns.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (xcxpd)

338 In any case, cheetahs and monkeys are both some variety of weasel"

Beats being penguins...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:19 PM (XuXeR)

339
The Handmaidens Deportation Tale

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 05:19 PM (IifOV)

340 @292

>>If another band with the same physical appearance and performance/compositional skill level as the Beatles arrived in 1976, or 1994, or 2015, would they have automatically been a "world wide phenomenon," or just another pop band?

They were just orders of magnitude better than anything that was currently popular in the cultural zeitgeist. And it’s not that they were simply great, they were also prolific, what we think of as Beatlmania lasted for seven years and in that time they released 12 studio albums and pretty much every album could be considered a greatest hits album in its own right.

If you watch Rick Bragg, literally every artist he’s had on sites The Beatles as a major influence.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (XV/Pl)

341 For me, what was transformational about Star Wars was the score.

John Williams is symphonic genius who transformed film music for the better. Greatest film composer since Steiner.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

342 There will be no evidence or proof that the liberals will believe. Brainwashed, viscious, and crazy. Blind to truth, even if they see the video of the car and hear the dialogue 1000x.

They WANT what they believe to be true. Or, as "they" say, it is "their truth." I cannot relate at all to being so ugly in all ways (face and thoughts) to do this crap. And that is all it is: an outlet for their anger of being ugly and ignored. Or so I think. Years of indoctrination. Years of feeling bullied and left out and mental illness taking the place of normal self-esteem. Landman's episode of dyke in the dorm is an example.

The underbelly of reddit and social media feed this fire of insanity. As they did for anything Trump related. They cannot and will not change their thinking. They will become more angry and more dangerous.

I guess the Dyke Widow thought they had Nerf or paint guns. Wrong!

They had their little protest and found out that it is not fun, games and popcorn to interfere with the federal investigation of an illegal.
They can play pretend superheroes all they want at the charter school. But last Wednesday rubber bullets did not meet the road, real ones did, you flaming lesbos.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (WONhk)

343 “Wife”

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (kgFPv)

344 LITO: The reason I’m asking has to do with discrimination on the basis of transgender status. You seem to be saying that it is permissible for the school to discriminate on the basis of transgender status.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 05:15 PM (RHGPo)
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I get it. It's saying that boys that identify as girls are being treated differently, in respect to being allowed on girls teams than normal boys.

It goes back to Bork: government redistributes rights. That is not some holy mantle.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (krQz2)

345 303 And am surecthe lawsuit against ICe will find a Commissar Judge to give the family $Ms
Posted by: Skip
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Jury trial and appellate courts make that difficult for a district court judge to do that.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (WDjG6)

346
He was able to pull his bullet out of his shirt pocket load and fire very quickly.
Posted by: Boss Moss

He nipped it in the bud.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (pkeXY)

347 Rick Beato not Rick Bragg

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)

348 Speaking of:

@libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

349 So who is the person in charge of the kid's school in Minneapolis that was promoting Ice Watch to the scissoring sisters of sweetness and light?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (D1n1Q)

350 335 322 Well, I've never denied it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I don't get it.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (WDjG6)

Illiterate assholes.

Posted by: Let's see how long we can keep it going at January 13, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)

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I wish I knew what this said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (GBKbO)

351 You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 05:07 PM (AuNgU)

If her tits are big enough so I do not notice her ears until much later, all bets are off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

352 Didn't get to Carpenter yet, maybe after supper
I ilke Carpenter movies

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

353 I still think we need to..

M ake
A sylums
G reat
A gain

There are some sick fucks running amok. Either institutionalize them or....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (NwnyJ)

354 For me, what was transformational about Star Wars was the score.

John Williams is symphonic genius who transformed film music for the better. Greatest film composer since Steiner.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

Yup. I am long done watching Star Wars movies, but I still love the music soundtrack, especially the first one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (PSEDc)

355 It goes back to Bork
Posted by: Axeman

The cute Icelandic rock star?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

356 Trump up again?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (9cHSL)

357 I think a lot of Sarah Hoyt fans just like reading her writing.

I agree that she meanders and often takes to long to make a point, but I think that is something her fans like.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (uEUHC)

358 Bjork.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (9cHSL)

359 You're bringing up music from the 50s. Even Elvis was doing schlock bythen. I think Sugar Shack was number one for six months. Seemed
Iike it would never end. The era of the Bobbys, Vee, Darin, and Vinton. It sucked.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (+mUZM)

360 >>If you watch Rick Bragg, literally every artist he’s had on sites The Beatles as a major influence.

They are obviously going to be a major influence on songwriters in rock and roll. They got there first. They wrote an insane volume of tunes. They had natural talent for it.

However, these same people all claim to love Sgt Pepper's and that record blows donkeys.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (ZcsJV)

361 6 1 They think this is all a Marvel movie.

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False.

Harry Potter.

Yup, probably more accurate.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

Abra Cadabra, Ala Cazine
Run me over, I'll empty the magazine.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (N39Ws)

362 I was completely flustered. I'd never been so close to a man like him before. I need to say something, and Gaia help me, the first words that came to my lips were: "What are you pronouns?"

He laughed, and I felt a thrill at his contempt for my rules. He was the law, but also a rebel!

"Kick and ass," he said, moving me towards the idling SUV. I felt secret shame at all his buddies laughing at my expense, but then something completely unexpected happened. He gave me a reassuring pat the shoulder.

He wasn't a monster! How could he be so strong and also kind? My mind was reeling, and I felt feverish as he patted me down for weapons. I never wanted it to stop.

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)

363 348 Speaking of:

@libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

So sex stalkers now.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (i0Hi3)

364
Have you ever done anything about film composers/scores?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

I suggest John Barry and Basil Poledouris

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (y9nCu)

365 Dick Dale and the Del Tones say Hello!

Misirlou (1963)
Pre Beatles

https://youtu.be/ZIU0RMV_II8

Posted by: Count de Surf Music Monet at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (wVcYX)

366 Speaking of:

@libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

LOL. This is like that Netflix show that got canned where she was going to bang incel dudes to uncover domestic terrorism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

367 348 Speaking of:

@libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM

The amount of weight to lose, hair dye, face spackle needed to entice an ICE agent to date these lib hags would be impossible to attain.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (IifOV)

368 Didn't get to Carpenter yet, maybe after supper"

Karen?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (XuXeR)

369 My old man had nothing but good things to say about Bobby Darin. Apparently, Darin would let him and his bandmates sneak into the Peppermint Lounge back when they were only 16.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (ZcsJV)

370 Well you have to self edit. I do a minimum of three passes on anything outside of grey boxes. More for fiction. Writing while hot is wise but you have to edit it 'cold'.

Comments I'm more forgiving of but...she is a pro writer. Thus held to a higher standard.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I have outsiders review my professional work after I go through several iterations plus conference presentations before submission to journal along with the lengthy rewrite to fix what the editors want.

Personally, I rewrite in my head multiple times now before I put something down literally using my internal voice. And then rewrite again if possible. But I can miss obvious problems because I see what isn't there sometimes. So for mission critical, I use outsiders for long documents.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

371 For my money, this is a big problem
- all youtube news video are now 10 or 20 minutes due to some youtube algorithm that rewards video over a certain length.

And all podcasts are 4 freakin hours. This is revenue driven.

And substack writings are all 20,000 words that go on and on and on.

No one edits anymore.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (uEUHC)

372 TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)
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The novels will come true. They'll be like Bond with Pussy Galore.

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

373 The musical score in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly takes over at the end.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (9cHSL)

374 Star Wars was a feast for you eyes, that blew away disbelief and felt like visiting another world.

In that, it was what it was. Because it was a visceral experience--to a kid, that is.

Lucas spent a good portion of his life bringing this story to screen. And was on a schedule to produce the sequels.

That said, if his wife hadn't stepped up to recut the original, it probably would have been a lot more of a snorefest.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (krQz2)

375 367
The amount of weight to lose, hair dye, face spackle needed to entice an ICE agent to date these lib hags would be impossible to attain.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (IifOV)

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"So, I was throwing this 250 pound murderer to the floor single-handedly..."
-ICE agent

"I'll expose him...in a bit..."
-lady on a date

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (GBKbO)

376 325
ICE loads their guns with blanks, just like in the movies.
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (d4X7t)

Stormtroopers have entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (N39Ws)

377 LOL. This is like that Netflix show that got canned where she was going to bang incel dudes to uncover domestic terrorism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)
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Only to be seduced by a Nazi!

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)

378 Sugar Shack was number one"

60s...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (XuXeR)

379 376 325
ICE loads their guns with blanks, just like in the movies.
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (d4X7t)

=======

"Oh, good. Then I'm safe."
-Brandon Lee

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (GBKbO)

380 Yup. I am long done watching Star Wars movies, but I still love the music soundtrack, especially the first one.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Yep. That final scene of the first one where Leia is handling out the medals is one of my favorites, and it's all because of the heroic music.

It signaled the return to heroism that gave us Reagan. Fuck You, Vietnam! Fuck You, "The Deer Hunter."

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

381 @libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Tinder bio:

Name: Starshine
Gender: Fluid
Desires: If you ain't ICE, swipe (whatever direction is no)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (ExV1e)

382 Imperial Sharpshooter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (9cHSL)

383 Moros in the Philippines... which resulted in the 1911 pistol designed by John Browning (PBUH)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 05:12 PM (y9nCu)

akchuallly . . .

The moros Juramentados would bind themselves tightly with white cotton cloth bandages to suppress the bleeding, and get hella stoned on hash before setting out to kill as many foes as possible.
However, yes, the determination was that the .38 revolver was not as good as a .44 or .45

The Army felt the French 11mm Ordinance pistol was a good start, but it would not penetrate a horse's skull if it struck slightly oblique, The .45 ACP was accepted in trials in part because it would.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (rbvCR)

384 @libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM
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Saw something about lefty chicks recording their dates and plying them with questions about Shirley.

Imagine being that pro-Somali-graft!

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (krQz2)

385 325
ICE loads their guns with blanks, just like in the movies.
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (d4X7t)

Golf clap

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (i0Hi3)

386 There is one bad thing about writing in prose so much. I lost any ability to 'voice' fiction because I am always operating in objective mode, not subjective.

I think a few really good writers can work in prose as they do in fiction but not many. Asimov comes to mind, Thomas Fleming is another, but Tolkien's professional work was much less interesting than his fiction or rewriting fictional stories. I find the opposite with CS Lewis.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (WDjG6)

387 ICE loads their guns with blanks, just like in the movies.
Posted by: Alec Baldwin "

You're getting rusty....

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (XuXeR)

388 libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Yes( I think it makes a whole lot of sense to reveal your sooper secret plans all over Tik Tok.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (PFs9e)

389 Saw on X that John Carpenter wrote the movie Black Moon Rising he was supposed to direct it but backed out to do another movie

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 13, 2026 05:28 PM (FCrpy)

390 What irritates me on Substack is that one sentence on a line thing. I'm sure its designed for people to scroll.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 05:28 PM (+mUZM)

391 324 You wouldn’t fuck Cheetara?
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Snarf is more my style!
Posted by: Tyler Robinson at January 13, 2026 05:17 PM (krQz

Thing is, with several big cats, all facing the stress of Mumm-Ra's machinations, and only Cheetara for an outlet, poor little Snarf probably got a lot of very unwanted attention, and it hurts my heart knowing this.

Stay strong, Snarf, wherever you are!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 05:28 PM (SSEhk)

392 Cartoon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:29 PM (9cHSL)

393 People leave out Simon and Garfunkel as contemporaries...
but, they were there before the Beatles and Simon managed to stay relevant well past any of the Beatles.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:29 PM (ZcsJV)

394 No one edits anymore.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:25 PM (uEUHC)
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There is no cost to "publishing".

Just make sure you say "self-end" to get by the Youtube censors and you're good.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:29 PM (krQz2)

395 They bought the lie by their organizers that ICE has no police powers for giving orders to, or arresting, anyone other than illegal aliens.

Posted by: Gref

------------
The other lie, and not just about ICE, is that all protest arrests are "catch and release" with no fine, record, or jail time.

That is something we really need to change. These people need to have consequences. I am sorry that the antifa infiltrators and instigators at J6 were pardoned (the few who were charged.) Trump had a chance to say that no-one gets to break things or harm police without spending time in jail. I know why he did it, though.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:30 PM (uEUHC)

396 377 LOL. This is like that Netflix show that got canned where she was going to bang incel dudes to uncover domestic terrorism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)
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Only to be seduced by a Nazi!
Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)

Omg now tik tok chix are actually doing that.

Not gonna end well.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 13, 2026 05:30 PM (i0Hi3)

397 Imperial Sharpshooter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (9cHSL)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 05:30 PM (wVcYX)

398 Self delete usually.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:30 PM (9cHSL)

399 Insty gets a lot of very lame and tiresome trolls in his comments along with conservatives.

Not sure how strong his Libertarian Fu is these days. He rightly seems embarrassed by their silly shtick now. In any event he rarely touts the libtardtarians any longer.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 05:31 PM (iJfKG)

400 Thing is, with several big cats, all facing the stress of Mumm-Ra's machinations, and only Cheetara for an outlet, poor little Snarf probably got a lot of very unwanted attention, and it hurts my heart knowing this.

Stay strong, Snarf, wherever you are!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 05:28 PM (SSEhk)

That's some weird fanfic you got going there, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

401 Star Wars might be the first meta film in that it was Lucas mining Kurosawas samurai mythologies that were mining American Western mythologies witch all pretty much mine biblical and Christian mythologies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:31 PM (XV/Pl)

402 Hilarious. These chicks just want to get fucked by a man in uniform, and have figured out to square that circle with a cheesy virtue signal.

They're just a big ol' bundle of psychosexual neuroses.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at January 13, 2026 05:32 PM (BI5O2)

403 388 libsoftiktok 2h
TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.

Yes( I think it makes a whole lot of sense to reveal your sooper secret plans all over Tik Tok.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (PFs9e)

Why won't good men wife me up?

Posted by: Tik tok chix evrryehere at January 13, 2026 05:32 PM (i0Hi3)

404 You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me.
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SOME of what preceded the Beatles was crap. But the Everly Brothers and Elvis had their moments.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:32 PM (TN0g+)

405 Imperial Sharpshooter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:27 PM (9cHSL)
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Trained to not always miss.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 05:33 PM (krQz2)

406 TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

Oh, hey, now I know what to put in my Bumble bio

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR)

407 TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates

********

The problem with that plan is men who work for ICE have a two ton limit on who they’re willing to date

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 13, 2026 05:33 PM (REq0p)

408 " You don't get the Beatles because you don't understand how awful music was before them. Listen to "Sugar Shack" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" and get back to me."

POP music, you mean.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

409 The folk music revival scene - yeah the early Fab Four rockers helped kill it, so I'll give them that.

Posted by: A Mighty Wind at January 13, 2026 05:34 PM (wVcYX)

410 Personally, I rewrite in my head multiple times now before I put something down literally using my internal voice. And then rewrite again if possible. But I can miss obvious problems because I see what isn't there sometimes. So for mission critical, I use outsiders for long documents.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

Reading aloud, either you or a computer voice, is a great editing step I find.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:34 PM (xcxpd)

411 147 It strikes me that the "wife" was LARPing as a man. A role she was not psychologically capable of playing.

Men protect, and back down from threats when they are wrong and their loved ones are in danger.

...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (uEUHC)

I'd say you have it backwards. It was the "wife" who insisted on not backing down, and the driver (and driving is often something of a "guy thing") was LARP-ing as the "husband" appeasing "his" "wife" by doing as she urged.

Although an ACTUAL man would likely have refused, understanding full well where that would go, and having the instinct to both protect and survive.

But I would say it's not necessarily about backing down when you're wrong, the overriding concern is whether it's a battle you can WIN. Even if you're NOT wrong, you're going to back down, if it just not important enough to get your ass kicked over.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 13, 2026 05:34 PM (hOOi9)

412 Swing was pretty good. Upbeat happy jazz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:34 PM (9cHSL)

413 >But the Everly Brothers and Elvis had their moments.

Sam Cooke
Wilson Pickett

the list is long.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (ZcsJV)

414 Noodles

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (WQDw6)

415 People leave out Simon and Garfunkel as contemporaries...
but, they were there before the Beatles and Simon managed to stay relevant well past any of the Beatles.
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Simon stayed "relevant", Garfunkel not so much. Simon and Garfunkel definitely not so much. And Paul McCartney is still relevant to this day.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (TN0g+)

416 It is taking a lot of self control not to make any Beatles comments right now.

This is an argument I have had since the freaking 60s.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (uEUHC)

417 TikTokers are organizing groups of women to get dates with ICE agents so they can expose their identities and dox their personal info.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

It seems that the entire left is completely un serious. They are nothing but LARPers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (pkq24)

418 Phaul McCartney.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (9cHSL)

419 >>Swing was pretty good.

Basie's Band was fantastic.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (ZcsJV)

420 66 No wonder these Left-Wing Female things become Homos because they are "UN F**KABLE".....
_____

This doesn't necessarily apply to every demographic. A lot of, unfortunate, looking woman with multiple kids, from multiple fathers, no less.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (Dv3i1)

421 I think ICE was using pray paint on protesters but not sure

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

422 >>Paul McCartney is still relevant to this day.

LOL

Name any song he penned after 1980 that wasn't on a Michael Jackson LP.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:36 PM (ZcsJV)

423
Now why are all the HQ Bad Bunny fans dissing the Beatles again?

Don't worry fellas, your guy's playing in the Super Bowl halftime.

The Beatles never did that!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (iJfKG)

424 Pray paint? Might work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (Dv3i1)

425
What we need is safer guns and safer bullets.

Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (D1n1Q)

426 She staggered back, fell, and dropped the bullhorn. No one helped her back up. ICE man moved on.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:49 PM (WDjG6)

And still she got off light.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (8avO+)

427 Star Wars might be the first meta film in that it was Lucas mining Kurosawas samurai mythologies that were mining American Western mythologies witch all pretty much mine biblical and Christian mythologies.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:31 PM (XV/Pl)
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He borrowed a lot from "Dune." Spice mines, emperor, stormtroopers/sardaukar, desert planet, mysticism.

Posted by: ICE Romance Novelist A.H. Lloyd at January 13, 2026 05:37 PM (ZOv7s)

428 McCartney's lasting importance will be to serve as a warning to the Dangers of Veganism.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 05:38 PM (ZcsJV)

429 Paul McCartney is still relevant to this day.

LOL

Name any song he penned after 1980 that wasn't on a Michael Jackson LP.
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"No More Lonely Nights" was included on the movie "Give My Regards to Broadstreet". Both the album and the movie did well. McCartney had other stuff that charted in the late 80s/early 90s. And I think that he had something (I remember a video of him walking a street playing a mandolin) that charted in the mid 2010s? If he wanted to chart an album, he'd have a better chance at doing so than Paul Simon--McCartney still sells out arenas.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (TN0g+)

430 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 05:39 PM (RIvkX)

431 Let not thou who has firsted not also nooded

Or something

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

432 It is taking a lot of self control not to make any Beatles comments right now.

This is an argument I have had since the freaking 60s.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 05:35 PM (uEUHC)

I'm pretty much early post Beatles - when I started listening to popular music they were just quitting. I liked a lot of their stuff as radio filler, but they were rarely complex or deep enough to hit my radar.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (8avO+)

433 Helpful hint: Soy Chorizo does not mean "I am chorizo."
Posted by: Pug Mahon
......

and guantanamera does not mean "one-ton tomato".

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 05:41 PM (UjdFS)

434 Worst judge/justice? Possibly not, by a long shot. This cretin will, with luck, do little damage. The Kennedys and Roberts and many other "credentialed" disasters have continued and intensified the judiciary's decades' long assault on common sense, the constitution, and American civic values. She's a pathetic and perfect monument to the degradation of America by racist-authoritarian idiots, but if impact is considered far from the worst.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2026 05:54 PM (U/Byj)

435 347 Rick Beato not Rick Bragg
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)

I knew who you meant, though I think of him as Rick Scenic Route. I'm not saying that "Almost Famous: The Cruelty of the Music Business" is epically long -- technically, it's just over 22 minutes -- but it would not have been out of place for the spirit of Dante to rise and give Rick a tour of production Hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWsgTAXc8U

Posted by: SciVo at January 13, 2026 06:08 PM (Sy6m/)

436 >Might as well say I don’t get why Star Wars was such a big thing.
>Fuck You, Vietnam! Fuck You, "The Deer Hunter."

This. I doubt anyone really understands why Star Wars was such a big thing, as they've been trying unsuccessfully to replicate it ever since. The best theory I've seen is that at the height of malaise, Vietnam, "put on a sweater" and a movie season where everything at the box office was grim, cynical and dirty - along comes a film that's bright, optimistic, it has heroes and villains and you know which is which and you're allowed to cheer the heroes and boo the villains, and it's a pastiche of a ton of movies from your childhood that were actually *fun*. In short, Star Wars became Star Wars because it was the right kind of movie at the right time. Arguably same reason Top Gun: Maverick made a billion dollars.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 13, 2026 06:15 PM (LgYtf)

437 >>*Zombie Elvis rises from his grave and turns leaden eyes towards Nazdar's location.*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

Please note the word 'mostly'.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 06:53 PM (NcvvS)

438 >>Oh, GTFO here.
Posted by: Bill Haley and His Comets at January 13, 2026 05:13 PM (wVcYX)

Repeating: note the word 'mostly'.
Plus 'early '60s rock'. Bill, you were one of the mainstays of '50s rock.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (NcvvS)

439 >>aw c'mon, you never listened to the Surfari's?

https://tinyurl.com/37scxa6e
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 05:16 PM (uWKK

Again, 'mostly'. Granted, there were some fine tunes, but there was a reason that the radio stations didn't play anything from that era outside of those few after 1964.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 07:01 PM (NcvvS)

440 >>The era of the Bobbys, Vee, Darin, and Vinton. It sucked.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 05:22 PM (+mUZM)

Thank you, Notsothoreau. You got it.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 07:09 PM (NcvvS)

Bill Clinton Is a No-Show At Congressional Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein; Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges

Steve Bannon went to jail for refusing to show up for testimony.

Former President Bill Clinton appears to have defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning.
Clinton was compelled to sit for a sworn closed-door deposition in the House's bipartisan probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but Fox News Digital did not see him before or after the scheduled 10 a.m. grilling.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had threatened to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Clinton if he did not appear Tuesday.
Comer said Tuesday morning, "We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee ... to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress."
"I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did not show up. And I think it's important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee," Comer told reporters after formally ending the deposition.
"No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions. And that's why the Democrats voted, along with Republicans, to subpoena Bill Clinton."
He said "not a single Democrat" showed up to the deposition on Tuesday.
...
Hillary Clinton had also been subpoenaed to appear on Wednesday but likely will not show up.
The Clintons' attorney sent Comer a letter confirming they're challenging the legality of the subpoenas issued against them.
"[T]he Subpoenas issued to President and Secretary Clinton are invalid and legally unenforceable. Mindful of these defects, we trust you will engage in good faith to de-escalate this dispute," reads the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital.
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"Your continued insistence that the former President and Secretary of State can be compelled to appear before the Committee under these circumstances, however, brings us toward a protracted and unnecessary legal confrontation that distracts from the principal work of the Congress with respect to this matter, which, if conducted sincerely, could help ensure the victims of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell are afforded some measure of justice for the crimes perpetrated against them, however late. But perhaps distraction is the point."

You�re right, President Clinton. This is about right and wrong.

Epstein�s survivors deserve justice and answers.

Refusing to comply with a bipartisan, duly authorized congressional subpoena in our Epstein investigation is unacceptable.

No one is above the law. https://t.co/aK7P8Gj1JJ pic.twitter.com/uwPuyPw2Ey
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) January 13, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee is now moving to hold BILL CLINTON in CONTEMPT of Congress after he refused to testify in the Epstein investigation

"We WILL move to hold Clinton in contempt!"

GOOD! NOBODY is above the law.pic.twitter.com/Uo0zLCJEhD
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 13, 2026

Steve Bannon was prosecuted and jailed for this

Clinton could have showed up and claimed privilege. He didn't do that; he just defied a lawful subpoena https://t.co/WEk4lJqMOP
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) January 13, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 03:22 PM

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1 THE BLADE CUTS DEEP ... AND FIRST

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

2 no one expects the spanish inquisition!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 13, 2026 03:23 PM (CWTWj)

3
What does Contempt of Congress even mean, materially? I have a lot of contempt for them myself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (Jxa0O)

4 nothing to fear if he has nothing to hide, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (CWTWj)

5 Lock her up.

(Otherwise, it's clear we live in a two-tier system, given Trump aides were jailed for the same thing.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (zjgNU)

6 THE BLADE CUTS DEEP ... AND FIRST
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

Depends on what your definition of "first" is.

Posted by: Slick Willie at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (dP47V)

7 It's talk until Clinton is arrested and charged.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (krQz2)

8 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (hta8A)

9 Clinton should be sentenced to perform zug-zug with Taylor Lorenz as punishment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (3hJhH)

10 Instead of a subpoena they should have sent Bubba a subpussy. He likes those.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (UjdFS)

11
Clinton attorneys say subpoena is “legally unenforceable.”

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Legal eagles, please weigh in. It actually looks true to me, Steve Bannon's fate regardless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (Jxa0O)

12 Two sets of laws

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

13 Yeah, it's kind of hard to claim "executive privilege" when it would be interesting to hear what part of his office was his association with Epstein.

Nope, it's private citizen Bill Clinton that was subpoenaed.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (krQz2)

14 re 9: compared to hillary, lorenz is a prize

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (CWTWj)

15 Precedent is a bitch.

Hopefully.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

16 THE BLADE CUTS DEEP ... AND FIRST
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
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The cheese?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (krQz2)

17 What did Trump know about Clinton and when did he know it?? What is Trump hiding!!!

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (T+ssH)

18 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at January 13, 2026 03:27 PM (hta8A)

19 Hearing?? Forget your Hearing. I frankly think it's insulting that anyone would even consider that I would associate with that scumbag.

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at January 13, 2026 03:27 PM (T+ssH)

20 LOL, looks like the smellies are down to less than 50 in MN.
Right now, they're milling at the roadside, jumping at and menacing the cars that drive by.
Like, trying to make it look like they are about to jump in front of the car.

They are really playing stupid games.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (HXT0k)

21 People think subpoenas are some legally powerful tool that amounts to The Power of Christ Compels You. They ain't.

I've advised clients to duck subpoenas, to object to them, to challenge them, to basically wipe their asses with them. Sure, maybe after rounds of contempt proceedings and 18 months of bullshit, maybe a judge finally orders my client to appear or produce documents. Maybe.

But until a judge formally orders compliance with a subpoena, they are basically meaningless pieces of paper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

22 Compared to Hillary, a Ban Sidhe is a prize.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 03:29 PM (3hJhH)

23

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
House Oversight Committee Chairman
@RepJamesComer says he intends to begin proceedings next week to hold Clinton in contempt of Congress. That would have to pass a House vote. If it does, it would then be referred to DOJ for potential criminal prosecution.

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

Let's count the breaking points.

"Says"
"intends"
"begin"
"if"
"referred"
"potential"

It's a looooong way to Something Happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Jxa0O)

24 Yeah but, who hasn't had contempt for Slick.

Posted by: DaveA at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (FhXTo)

25 Bill is a law unto himself, and his touching defense of his wife is inspiring.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

26 What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham
......

It depends on what the meaning of subpoena is.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (UjdFS)

27
until a judge formally orders compliance with a subpoena, they are basically meaningless pieces of paper.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

That's what I feared.

Hey, aren't you the NYC moron? I've been trying to remember.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (Jxa0O)

28 Thanks for the nood, y’all.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

29 Precedent is a bitch.

Hopefully.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm not holding out hope that the judges won't find some reason to find that the Obama case against Jan Brewer is (D)ifferent from Trump exercise of supremacy. And needs a "updated review" of the exercise of government powers.

The SCOTUS is making itself into Phillip V of Spain, and somebody just posted how many cases a year they have to refuse--despite that they have chosen to absorb review of government action.

The one thing the SCOTUS has been good at throughout its history is expanding the jurisdiction of the SCOTUS as the last word.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (krQz2)

30 Personally I would never touch Hillary, but Bill goes there.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

31 20 LOL, looks like the smellies are down to less than 50 in MN.
Right now, they're milling at the roadside, jumping at and menacing the cars that drive by.
Like, trying to make it look like they are about to jump in front of the car.

They are really playing stupid games.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (HXT0k)

=======

Enough activists wreck their cars, have them impounded, and they get arrested and...a new incentive structure is created.

Having to pay the loan on the car you wrecked while illegally chasing down ICE agents but not getting the GoFundMe money because that bitch Good stole all the thunder is an incentive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

32 If Bill had nothing to hide...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 03:31 PM (3hJhH)

33 23 Let's count the breaking points.

"Says"
"intends"
"begin"
"if"
"referred"
"potential"

It's a looooong way to Something Happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Jxa0O)

========

Well, he's not in the DOJ. So...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

34 Clinton attorneys say subpoena is “legally unenforceable.”

==========

Legal eagles, please weigh in. It actually looks true to me, Steve Bannon's fate regardless.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (Jxa0O)
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I don't know enough about Congressional subpoenas or the scope of their authority to opine on the enforceability of this subpoena. But claiming a subpoena is "unenforceable" or "invalid" is Legal 101 to try to get out of it. If nothing else, it will buy time -- sometimes a lot of time, as my comment above describes.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

35 29
The SCOTUS is making itself into Phillip V of Spain, and somebody just posted how many cases a year they have to refuse--despite that they have chosen to absorb review of government action.

The one thing the SCOTUS has been good at throughout its history is expanding the jurisdiction of the SCOTUS as the last word.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (krQz2)

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I've seen it asserted that the limited SCOTUS caseload is specifically a Roberts issue and that Kavanaugh actively complains about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

36 Comer said Tuesday morning, "We will move next week...

We don't wanna rush things! These girls (and boys) might be grandparents by now, so they understand.

Posted by: Rep. Comer at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (EWq0C)

37 Where's the Sternly Worded Letter guy?

Posted by: 13times at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (fnZRl)

38 But until a judge formally orders compliance with a subpoena, they are basically meaningless pieces of paper.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)
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So, even the power of Congress to subpoena falls to a fucking judge?!

There's where "democracy" went, people.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (krQz2)

39 Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges

Then what? Once convicted - if it gets to that - are we to believe a Sergeant at Arms or other proxy is going to handcuff, book, and jail a Clinton?

I don't believe it. It'll never happen. It should. And Hillary! should be in prison now for the Russiagate scam and her possession and destruction of countless documents in her illegal, closet server.

They have been a protected class for decades despite blatant corruption going back those very same decades. Two-tier justice system doesn't even begin to describe it.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (gLikB)

40 Well, they are trying to say that Bill and Hill are just more people than Steve Bannon is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s)

41 Why did the chicken cross the road?

No one is above the law.

-
That joke never gets old!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (L/fGl)

42 until a judge formally orders compliance with a subpoena, they are basically meaningless pieces of paper.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

That's what I feared.

Hey, aren't you the NYC moron? I've been trying to remember.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:30 PM (Jxa0O)
______

Yea, Manhattan

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

43 42 Yea, Manhattan

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

=====

I'm more of a Dead Rabbits kind of guy myself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

44
Bill has severe physical problems. Among other things, if he sits too long, the dried pus makes him stick to the chair.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (biznJ)

45 ***Steve Bannon went to jail for refusing to show up for testimony.
------

Roger Stone

and what did they do to Michael Flynn.

It's retribution time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (48JDT)

46 Clinton attorneys say subpoena is “legally unenforceable.”
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"That was just Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro," they explained.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (krQz2)

47 My understanding is that the Committee that issued the subpoena votes to pursue Contempt of Congress charges. Then they have three options if it passes:

1. Send to DOJ for indictment of a Federal Misdemeanor that would include fines and up to a year in the pokey.

2. Pursue Civil Contempt charges in Federal Court which takes forever to resolve.

3. A dusty old process called Inherent Contempt which gives the Congress the ability to arrest and detain. This hasn't been applied in ages, but you can bet it will be once the Dems get back in power.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (dIske)

48 "People think subpoenas are some legally powerful tool that amounts to The Power of Christ Compels You. They ain't."

I don't think that at all, Blade, although Hillary might need an exorcism. I think Bill is "just" a despicable creep.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (PFs9e)

49 There's where "democracy" went, people.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (krQz2)

What was the word for rule by judges?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

50 Well, they are trying to say that Bill and Hill are just more people than Steve Bannon is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s)
---
Trust Dems to innovate on "equality under the law".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (krQz2)

51 STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (Kt19C)

52 Ace if you're looking for news... BREAKING: U.S. Secret Service Agent Assigned to VP JD Vance Leaks Sensitive Security Information to Undercover Reporter.

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII

Posted by: buzzion at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (3tZV2)

53 Didn't buy Steve Bannon much time.

In any case I'm fine if they want to drag this out and make it a public spectacle. No matter what leftists say they know the Clintons are dirty.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (viF8m)

54 47 3. A dusty old process called Inherent Contempt which gives the Congress the ability to arrest and detain. This hasn't been applied in ages, but you can bet it will be once the Dems get back in power.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (dIske)

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It's my understanding that this only applies to Congressional grounds and enforced by the Sergent at Arms in the building.

So, Bill would have to actually show up to DC and walk into Congress in order for #3 to be pursued at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

55 Two Americas

Right leaning people go to jail for not showing up for a Congressional Hearing and left leaning people do not.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

56 I'm more of a Dead Rabbits kind of guy myself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

You and Glenn Close.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

57 Let's stop pretending that there is a two tiered justice system. We have seen it proven over and over that it is a one sided justice system.

And that one side depends on who you are, whose side you are on, and how loyal to that side you are - nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (VkY89)

58 I thought we decided this 30 years ago. Everybody lies about sex.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (L/fGl)

59 If nothing else, it will buy time -- sometimes a lot of time, as my comment above describes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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That's seems to be the point of a whole lot of judicial activism. Gum up the works with meaningless drivel and processes to run out the clock on statutes of limitations as well as President Trump's term in office. Once a new POTUS is sworn in, things change. Either a Republican POTUS will have to start all over again or a Dem POTUS will make it all go away.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (ESVrU)

60 But until a judge formally orders compliance with a subpoena, they are basically meaningless pieces of paper.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)
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So, even the power of Congress to subpoena falls to a fucking judge?!

There's where "democracy" went, people.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (krQz2)
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Yes and no. Congress has the power to issue subpoenas. But if I get served with a Congressional subpoena and say "fuck off," Congress has limited remedies to sanction or compel me to comply. For sanctions with real teeth, Congress has to go to a judge for a formal order.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

61 Enough activists wreck their cars, have them impounded, and they get arrested and...a new incentive structure is created.

Seize their vehicles under asset forfeiture policies. Hurt them immediately, and their crying helps eventually get it to SCOTUS and overturned. Win-win.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (JCZqz)

62
You committed the P.S. "Nice house seat, be a shame if something happens to it."

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (Y8DZL)

63 To all those in positions of power I would make a suggestion. Take a moment. Read the room. I can only speak for myself but I know I'm not alone. We expect accountability. If you give these two grace or deferment, the result won't be cynicism. It will be something worse. It's time. No more acts in this play.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (vzcgi)

64 There's where "democracy" went, people.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (krQz2)

What was the word for rule by judges?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)
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Oligarchy is close enough for me.

It could actually be aristocracy--but only in a system that acknowledged that it was going to be a aristocracy.

In a system that pretends to be about representation of the people, any aristocracy is oligarchy. Because it has to delude the people into thinking their vote makes a difference.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (krQz2)

65 Seeing as these two skidmarks on the underwear of national polity have never been held accountable for anything, I'm not sanguine the chances this time will do it.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (Iwv3U)

66 61 Enough activists wreck their cars, have them impounded, and they get arrested and...a new incentive structure is created.

Seize their vehicles under asset forfeiture policies. Hurt them immediately, and their crying helps eventually get it to SCOTUS and overturned. Win-win.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (JCZqz)

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ICE is probably impounding the cars and then auctioning them off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

67 I thought we decided this 30 years ago. Everybody lies about sex.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (L/fGl)

I always loved the way the same butches who cry about power imbalances in relationships (ala metoo) were the same ones defending the most powerful man in the world getting a knob shine from an 18 year old intern.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

68 I’m pretty sure I could not just ignore a subpoena and just have my lawyer issue a letter on the matter. Nor would any judge just say “Oh, OK” to it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (0GYGE)

69 64 In a system that pretends to be about representation of the people, any aristocracy is oligarchy. Because it has to delude the people into thinking their vote makes a difference.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (krQz2)

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Even the Soviet Union had elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

70 The left: Trump is an Epstein client because uh...look they were at the same NY parties together

Also the left: Just because Clinton is on the Epstein flight logs, has pictures from Epstein Island, was listed as a client by the girls there, invited Ghislane to his daughter's wedding, and refused to testify at a congressional hearing on Epstein is no reason to assume he is guilty. Geez why do you think everyone you don't like is a pedo? Not that there is anything wrong with that

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

71 46 Clinton attorneys say subpoena is “legally unenforceable.”
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"That was just Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro," they explained.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (krQz2)

Didn't the DOJ get involved with that one ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (VE6XX)

72 It depends on what the meaning of the word "subpoena" is

Posted by: Billy scumbag at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (uEUHC)

73 He'll just say he had covid. No one is allowed to doubt anyone who makes that claim anymore.

Posted by: supperdish at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (mxEar)

74 "Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges"

Ah! hah! hahahahaha! hahahaha! I needed a good laugh!

Tell me another one !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (Cjt/F)

75 Hearing?? Forget your Hearing. I frankly think it's insulting that anyone would even consider that I would associate with that scumbag.

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at January 13, 2026 03:27 PM (T+ssH)

I know this was me but this is literally my favorite formulation and it deserves its own spotlight

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (T+ssH)

76 >>> I'm more of a Dead Rabbits kind of guy myself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

You and Glenn Close.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

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Radar O'Reilly and Hot Lips Houlihan has entered the chat.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (CyFyf)

77 Legal eagles, please weigh in. It actually looks true to me, Steve Bannon's fate regardless.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Partially true, until the House votes for contempt, then not legally enforceable. When they do, then yes, they can either refer to the DoJ, file a civil lawsuit, or use their Sgt at Arms to arrest and detain the Clintons under McGrain v Daugherty. Inherent power of Congress to investigate.

The Clintons are hinting that their defense will be this is not a legitimate exercise of the Congressional investigative power but the Epstein release bill means that is a loser argument if not at the addlepated district courts in DC, then the appellate courts.

Jan 6 indifference by the Court and contempt charges by DoJ to key Trump officials send the message to courts that this is a political question and thus Congress and the DoJ can proceed without courts quashing the subpoenas.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (WDjG6)

78 70 The left: Trump is an Epstein client because uh...look they were at the same NY parties together

Also the left: Just because Clinton is on the Epstein flight logs, has pictures from Epstein Island, was listed as a client by the girls there, invited Ghislane to his daughter's wedding, and refused to testify at a congressional hearing on Epstein is no reason to assume he is guilty. Geez why do you think everyone you don't like is a pedo? Not that there is anything wrong with that

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

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"He's yesterday's news. I'd totally oppose him if he re-entered politics."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

79 Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (krQz2)

Oligarchy works for me too, but it is Kritarchy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

80 Yes and no. Congress has the power to issue subpoenas. But if I get served with a Congressional subpoena and say "fuck off," Congress has limited remedies to sanction or compel me to comply. For sanctions with real teeth, Congress has to go to a judge for a formal order.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (iFTx/)
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So, you just said what I said, in different words.

If we get a echelon of of opposition judges it doesn't matter what the people voted for Congress can be undermined.

It's the least-democratic function of government--but it is acceptable as a *balance*.

But there has to be actual *balance*, not simply what a judge "finds" as "balance".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:40 PM (krQz2)

81 If nothing else, it will buy time -- sometimes a lot of time, as my comment above describes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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That's seems to be the point of a whole lot of judicial activism. Gum up the works with meaningless drivel and processes to run out the clock on statutes of limitations as well as President Trump's term in office. Once a new POTUS is sworn in, things change. Either a Republican POTUS will have to start all over again or a Dem POTUS will make it all go away.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 03:36 PM (ESVrU)
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Yea. Lawyers do it because it works. I did mostly corporate defense. I had some dead-bang loser cases that my clients were sure to lose. My only viable strategy was to drag the cases out as long as possible, and hope the plaintiff got tired of spending time and money. How long is "long"? Years.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

82 Radar O'Reilly and Hot Lips Houlihan has entered the chat.
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (CyFyf)

Damn. That did happen in an episode, didnt it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:40 PM (zZu0s)

83 I thought we decided this 30 years ago. Everybody lies about sex.

The left then: Just because Clinton lied in a sexual harrassment lawsuit doesn't mean he should be punished - everyone lies about sex

The left now: I think a $80M penalty for Trump publicly claiming he didn't assault E Jean Carroll is reasonable, I mean no one lies about sex!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

84 C'mon! You forgot the Clinton corollary: No one is above the law, except the Clintons. Duh!

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 13, 2026 03:41 PM (sFNX2)

85 Bill can't testify or he'll get Arkancided. They need to put him in protective custody where he's surrounded by bollards at all times so she can't get him.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (2ocoG)

86 74 "Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges"

Ah! hah! hahahahaha! hahahaha! I needed a good laugh!

Tell me another one !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Leadership supports Comer in this case. A little payback to teh Dems and renegade GOP members that pushed the Epstein resolution. The Dems will smear shit on their face if they vote against contempt for 2026 elections neutralizing Epstein issue and the renegade GOP members like Mace and Boebert, if not Massie, will be forced to walk the plank for it too. Boebert is running for reelection and Mace is running for SC governor, voting against contempt would likely hurt both in Nov.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (WDjG6)

87 OK, so Congress has the subpoena authority to do Government oversite, so they can figure out funding, or if laws need to be changed.

Can the subpoena a Private citizen, about things which happened OUTSIDE the US?

As much as I dislike the Clintons... this seems a stretch.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (mP0Kj)

88 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Joy Reid says Renee Good was trained, part of a network that's using "white bodies" as tools to impede ICE

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Well, what else are they good for?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (L/fGl)

89 Clinton is confident that the Left has stacked the courts in his favor.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (NpAcC)

90 88 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Joy Reid says Renee Good was trained, part of a network that's using "white bodies" as tools to impede ICE

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Well, what else are they good for?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (L/fGl)

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Is this racist saying that Good, a black woman of pallor, wasn't just coming back from dropping her kid off at school?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

91 Jan 6 indifference by the Court and contempt charges by DoJ to key Trump officials send the message to courts that this is a political question and thus Congress and the DoJ can proceed without courts quashing the subpoenas.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:39 PM (WDjG6)
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Especially as I learned that a good number of people were convicted partly on a basis of being near the prospective VP Kamala Harris when the Democrats lied and hid for years that she was at the DNC.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:43 PM (krQz2)

92 >>Can the subpoena a Private citizen, about things which happened OUTSIDE the US?

St Thomas is part of the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (viF8m)

93 Can't believe the asshole is still alive.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (UjdFS)

94
they can [...] use their Sgt at Arms to arrest and detain the Clintons under McGrain v Daugherty.

Posted by: whig

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So... well, I won't say it, but it's about the likelihood of an event occurring.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (Jxa0O)

95 87 Epstein Island is in the USVI, therefore inside the US.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

96 Clinton is confident that the Left has stacked the courts in his favor.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM (NpAcC)
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Not all courts, but somehow Boasberg gets "randomly" chosen for these contests against Trump.

So enough of the structure of power that they can get the ones who are the most useful.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (krQz2)

97 Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
·
3h
🚨 BREAKING: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has resigned after uncovering billions in fraud in Minnesota.

Sources indicate he is weighing either a national role at the Department of Justice or a statewide run in Minnesota.

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It seems like Thompson's resignation was rolled up with the Civil Rights Division resignations, but they're actually different and not related.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

98 I mentioned this earlier; several of *biden's former aids stiffed Congressional subpoenas and refused to appear to testify about the autopen debacle. None of them are in jail, AFAIK. And it wasn't like they claimed some sort of immunity or showed up and took the 5th a hundred times.

They simply blew off Congressional subpoenas. Like Clinton has.

So... color me skeptical about anything adverse happening to Clinton.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (NwnyJ)

99 Clinton should be sentenced to perform zug-zug with Taylor Lorenz as punishment.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I didn't know he was into older women.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (53dlK)

100 they can [...] use their Sgt at Arms to arrest and detain the Clintons under McGrain v Daugherty.

Posted by: whig

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So... well, I won't say it, but it's about the likelihood of an event occurring.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (Jxa0O)
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It will also be "fascism" never seen before the USA and "not what America looks like".

Like American jurisprudence ever looked like what SDNY tried to do to Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:46 PM (krQz2)

101 It is amusing the way this stuff has played out...

The left declared a jihad on Clarence Thomas for supposedly flirting with a co-worker and then shortly thereafter rushed to defend Bill Clinton be having an affair with an intern and sexually harassing an underling.

Then they declared Trump an Epstein client and we got pictures of Clinton on Epstein island...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

102 no controlling legal authority

Posted by: Al Gore releasing his chakras at January 13, 2026 03:46 PM (jGJov)

103 Clinton is confident that the Left has stacked the courts in his favor.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 03:42 PM

He is not wrong.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 13, 2026 03:46 PM (0N4FZ)

104
Is this racist saying that Good, a black woman of pallor, wasn't just coming back from dropping her kid off at school?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

Shocked she's admitting Good was trained..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:47 PM (VE6XX)

105 Unacceptable, Comer said. Not illegal. Not "I've referred this to DoJ for prosecution." Just that Billy is a naughty boy, for shame.

*makes jackoff motion*

*sets timer on someone saying something will happen*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 03:47 PM (BI5O2)

106
The Left: I would blow Bill Clinton nightly to protect abortion

Also the Left: Trump is so gross

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:47 PM (T+ssH)

107 They say nobody is above the law.

That is untrue. Some people are above man's law.
Until proven otherwise, former presidents of the US are in that group.

At any rate, it is an overused phrase that is clearly untrue and I wish folks would stop using it... and no, I'm not going to wish in one hand and

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 13, 2026 03:48 PM (Hx0tZ)

108 The last time Slick testified under oath to a federal official, he entertained the world with his exposition of the contextual meaning of the word "is".

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:48 PM (rj6Yv)

109 Remember the call Acosta got telling him to leave Epstein alone.

We still don't know who made the call and they haven't been punished as far as we know.

AND...they clearly made the same call to the NY AGs - Cyrus Vance Jr and Robert Morgenthau since Epstein was openly allowed to operate in NYS

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

110 Fixing to get to it is what the GOPe serves up every time.

Gimmie a fucking break

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (z7zND)

111 Not all courts, but somehow Boasberg gets "randomly" chosen for these contests against Trump.

So enough of the structure of power that they can get the ones who are the most useful.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (krQz2)
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He'll magically manage to get the one he needs.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (NpAcC)

112 So... color me skeptical about anything adverse happening to Clinton.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Difference is that leadership supports Comer in this case because of the politics of the Epstein issue. It puts the Democrats on the back foot again if they try to stop a contempt vote for the Clintons, especially with what has come out. So it would be for politics in neutralizing 2026 attacks on the issue. And it would force those GOP discharge petition signers to walk the plank as well, you can't claim virtue if you refuse to compel the Clintons to testify. Assie might vote differently but Boebert, Mace, and a few others will have no such cover in primaries coming up.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (WDjG6)

113 Clinton's overall strategy seems a bit odd to me on this one. He's looking scared and guilty by refusing to testify. If I were him, I would voluntarily show up and testify. He could easily answer "don't recall" to almost anything.

Everyone already knows he was on The Island and partied with Epstein's girls. So what do they have that's new? Slick Willy spent his lifetime lying. What's a few more denials about prostitution, underage girls, etc.

"Sure, I spent time with Epstein and on his island. He was a famous guy, lotsa people spent time with him. He was friends with Donald Trump. Did I ever see anything illegal? No."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

114 I mentioned this earlier; several of *biden's former aids stiffed Congressional subpoenas and refused to appear to testify about the autopen debacle. None of them are in jail, AFAIK. And it wasn't like they claimed some sort of immunity or showed up and took the 5th a hundred times.

They simply blew off Congressional subpoenas. Like Clinton has.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 03:45 PM (NwnyJ)
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Also when the GOP got Congress, it was regular for departments under Obama to simply blow off oversight meetings.

They knew that without the DoJ to prosecute, Congressional umbrage was hollow.

The whole Comey prosecution is going a very similar way, with his defense essentially argument "but he's James Comey!"

Do not believe the rhetoric out of these people's mouths.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (krQz2)

115 I’m pretty sure I could not just ignore a subpoena and just have my lawyer issue a letter on the matter. Nor would any judge just say “Oh, OK” to it.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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No idea what procedural rules govern here, but you can't just do that in court proceedings. If it's validly served, you get a set amount of time to move for a protective order or other relief from the court.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (XvL8K)

116 The Left: I would blow Bill Clinton nightly to protect abortion

One point with this - several lefties said literally this, but contextually they meant "I'm perfectly fine with other women being forced to sexually service Bill Clinton to keep abortion legal"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

117 Go short on sleeves and long on desk microphones.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (T+ssH)

118 "People think subpoenas are some legally powerful tool that amounts to The Power of Christ Compels You. They ain't."

I dunno. It all depends on the attitude of the judge. I saw a judge order deputies to find and lock up a guy who ignored a witness subpoena in a civil case. Witness had been advised by his attorney not to show. Witness spent the night in jail. Lawyer was found in contempt as well and had his license suspended for 6 months.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (sFNX2)

119 I can't wait to see how the left responds to this after a year long temper tantrum to get the Epstein files released.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (viF8m)

120 I think Bill will take a shot at anything with a vagina- even the world's dustiest teenager.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

121 One point with this - several lefties said literally this, but contextually they meant "I'm perfectly fine with other women being forced to sexually service Bill Clinton to keep abortion legal"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

Distilled further it meant the only rule is there ain't no rules.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (T+ssH)

122 111 Not all courts, but somehow Boasberg gets "randomly" chosen for these contests against Trump.

So enough of the structure of power that they can get the ones who are the most useful.
Posted by: Axeman
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Clerks of the Court doing that shit are one of the reasons why the 'random' assignments are not random. But they can be touched, unlike judges. Just takes political will to do that.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (WDjG6)

123 >Bill Clinton Is a No-Show At Congressional Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein; Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges

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I keep getting these meatball pitches over the plate-
so yeah, hey, how is everyone today?

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (ZxPkt)

124
*Is this racist saying that Good, a black woman of pallor, wasn't just coming back from dropping her kid off at school?*

Neighbors say she was just turning her life around and on her way to bible study.

Posted by: Local media at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (hta8A)

125 I can't wait to see how the left responds to this after a year long temper tantrum to get the Epstein files released.

That's different!

Posted by: The left at January 13, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

126
Neighbors say she was just turning her life around and on her way to bible study.
Posted by: Local media at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (hta8A)

Her "wife" did say she was a devout Christian...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:51 PM (VE6XX)

127 114 They knew that without the DoJ to prosecute, Congressional umbrage was hollow.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (krQz2)

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*looking wistfully at Article I*

It doesn't have to be...

It doesn't have to be...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

128 Good had stuffed animals and you know who had a dog.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:51 PM (T+ssH)

129 That does it! No adjective is off the table.

Posted by: The Strongly Worded guy at January 13, 2026 03:52 PM (hta8A)

130 Good had stuffed animals and you know who had a dog.

The difference between Trump's ICE and Biden's goons is the latter would have shot the dog...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

131 >>Remember the call Acosta got telling him to leave Epstein alone.

>>We still don't know who made the call and they haven't been punished as far as we know.

We know basically who called Acosta. He said he got a call from DOJ HQ telling him to go easy on Epstein. Since he was the USA in Florida that would mean the tippy top of the DOJ.

The bigger question is who told the DOJ to go easy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (viF8m)

132 And he won't care because nothing will happen to him
Or Hildabeast who won't show up tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)

133 Bubba married hILLRY o O in 1975. Been fucking anything that moves ever since.

Posted by: Fun Facts at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

134 Neighbors say she was just turning her life around and on her way to bible study.
Posted by: Local media at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (hta8A)

I am still floored about 'Why did you have real bullets!?'

They really think this is marvel/buffy/playacting. Its just, insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s)

135 Remember the Amans family, hired by the Dems, that were found to hack into every Republican server used by Senate Pubs, never received much notoriety by that.

50% of Americans really believe that if it didn't hurt their side than it's not really much of a problem. But they also leverage that accusation against us when things go our way.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (krQz2)

136 Neighbors say she was just turning her life around and on her way to bible study.
Posted by: Local media at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (hta8A)
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Imagine the body count if she nad tried to parallel park that Pilot.

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (rj6Yv)

137 Bubba married hILLRY o O in 1975. Been fucking anything that moves ever since.

Posted by: Fun Facts at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

And probably stopped fucking what doesn't move.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (T+ssH)

138 Can the subpoena a Private citizen, about things which happened OUTSIDE the US?

St Thomas is part of the US.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yep. Had to dig out the old passport going from the BVI to the USVI for a day trip.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (pkq24)

139 I have to admit that if I outlive the Clintons, I will not be sorry to see them shuffle off their mortal coils.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (PFs9e)

140 Good had stuffed animals and you know who had a dog.
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She wasn't even mad at the ICE officers.

She was like Gandhi!

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (krQz2)

141 134 I am still floored about 'Why did you have real bullets!?'

They really think this is marvel/buffy/playacting. Its just, insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s)

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They think ICE can't touch them.

They think ICE legally can only deal with illegal aliens. They think that ICE has no authority to arrest Americans in any instance, even if ICE witnesses an American citizen committing a crime.

"Call the local cops," seems to be some kind of valid response in their minds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

142 Also how about the evolution of the Karen Deathwheels story.

It went from: She was just a mom dropping off her kid who was shot by an ICE agent for trying to drive home who wasn't even in front of her car!

to: Well so what if she was a trained protestor who had spent all day illegally harassing ICE? And the fact she hit him was his fault - I mean people know they are never allowed to just walk in front of a car right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

143 It’s amazing what arrogant pricks the Clinton’s are.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (J15tX)

144 Bubba married hILLRY o O in 1975. Been fucking anything that moves ever since.

And Webb Hubble took one for the team so now there's Chelsea.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

145 "They really think this is marvel/buffy/playacting. Its just, insane."

Honda Pilot = Barbie Jeep.

Posted by: Grrrrl Power! at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (hta8A)

146 How many young women of questionable age of consent did Slick Willie diddle in the East Wing of the White House?

No matter, the William Jefferson Clinton East Wing Ballroom is getting a makeover as we speak.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (BSdIE)

147 She wasn't even mad at the ICE officers.

Bet she is now...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

148 It's not like this is the first time Bill has been found in contempt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

149 "Sure, I spent time with Epstein and on his island. He was a famous guy, lotsa people spent time with him. He was friends with Donald Trump. Did I ever see anything illegal? No."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Cold air delay. Clinton and Killary have been trying to reboot their corrupt non profit grifting machine and this will kill any contributions to it.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

150 Seems as soon as Epstein files started showing Bill pictures tjat got shut up real fast

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (Ia/+0)

151 >>Yep. Had to dig out the old passport going from the BVI to the USVI for a day trip.

When I was living in PR we'd pop over to St Thomas and camp on the beach. Antilles Air Boats. More like Antilles Scare Boats.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (viF8m)

152 People are still on Fb crying "Whatabout the Epstein files???"

The reason the media dropped it like a bad habit is because the inly one that kept popping up was Clinton.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (pkq24)

153 I wonder if she named the car “Brad.”

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

154 140 Good had stuffed animals and you know who had a dog.
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She wasn't even mad at the ICE officers.

She was like Gandhi!

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:54 PM (krQz2)

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She wasn't mad at him personally. She was mad at the system. She just wants to tear down the system, but not hurt anyone in the process.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

155 The people that tell me that ICE isn't allowed to arrest an American citizen also gave the Department of Education a SWAT team.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

156 How many young women of questionable age of consent did Slick Willie diddle in the East Wing of the White House?

It's just about sex. (you know it's coming)

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (Riz8t)

157 142 Also how about the evolution of the Karen Deathwheels story.

It went from: She was just a mom dropping off her kid who was shot by an ICE agent for trying to drive home who wasn't even in front of her car!

to: Well so what if she was a trained protestor who had spent all day illegally harassing ICE? And the fact she hit him was his fault - I mean people know they are never allowed to just walk in front of a car right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

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"Believe this lefties. Keep believing this."
-my inner troll

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

158 >>>Clinton's overall strategy seems a bit odd to me on this one. He's looking scared and guilty by refusing to testify. If I were him, I would voluntarily show up and testify. He could easily answer "don't recall" to almost anything.

>Ah! The Biden Defense. Blub, blub, blub, Icecream!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 03:57 PM (BSdIE)

159 I’m pretty sure I could not just ignore a subpoena and just have my lawyer issue a letter on the matter. Nor would any judge just say “Oh, OK” to it.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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No idea what procedural rules govern here, but you can't just do that in court proceedings. If it's validly served, you get a set amount of time to move for a protective order or other relief from the court.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (XvL8K)
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Technically, you might be right. But in practice, just send a letter objecting to the subpoena. I've never once in my career moved to quash a subpoena. I just objected to them. If the other side then ask the court to compel me, I would fight it out there. A long time later, maybe the judge would order my client to comply. Maybe.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

160
*I am still floored about 'Why did you have real bullets!?'*

Not even January 15th and we already have a strong contender for quote of the year.

Posted by: Thank you for your attention to this matter at January 13, 2026 03:57 PM (hta8A)

161 "No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions.
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This may be the single dumbest thing anyone ever said in connection with Epstein.

If he did nothing wrong, then why subpoena him. Call his lawyer, and ask your questions. He is a former President, for crissakes, show some respect if all you want is questions answered.

But if he is suspected of doing "wrong", as he so obviously should be, then fricking SAY SO you mealy-mouthed idiot. If you are calling a former President to a public embarrassment, then say why.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 03:58 PM (jVOiV)

162 She wasn't even mad at the ICE officers.

Bet she is now...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:55 PM (VE6XX)
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It'd bet the ICE officers are the least of her worries on the other side.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:59 PM (krQz2)

163 113 Clinton's overall strategy seems a bit odd to me on this one.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

________________________

He doesn't know what's out there. That photo that popped up in the second last release of "Epstein Files" showing Epstein, a girl, and Clinton in the pool (with no one looking at the camera, which suggests he didn't know it was taken). He's got to wonder what else was documented without his knowledge. Maxwell says there were no hidden cameras "to her knowledge." Those are weasel words.

And, as I recall, a team of unknown individuals went onto the island just after Epstein's death and before the FBI showed up. That was never explained (or even addressed).

Clinton is sweating this one out, and hopes to stall until another administration IMO.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:59 PM (dIske)

164 Bill Clinton:

Was accused of rape in college

Was accused of sexually harassing a subordinate and agreed to pay her a large sum of money to stop a civil suit

Was accused of repeatedly doing this by several members of his security detail as governor

Was accused of sexual assault by the wife of a Democrat powerbroker

Took a bribe from Marc Rich to pardon him...which included sex with Denise Rich

Is on the Epstein flight logs, has pictures from Epstein island, and was named as an Epstein client by the Epstein girls

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

165 144 Bubba married hILLRY o O in 1975. Been fucking anything that moves ever since.

And Webb Hubble took one for the team so now there's Chelsea.
Posted by: Ian S.

Rumor in Arkansas was that Billy Jeff was sterile from a case of the mumps as a kid. So he could screw away but required a pinch hitter for a legacy child. Webb, at the last time I checked, is one of the lucky ones and still alive. After he left the DoJ, he headed to the sticks, NC mebbe?, and kept his mouth fully shut.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (WDjG6)

166 "I am still floored about 'Why did you have real bullets!?' "

no kidding. jaw dropped to table top when I read that, what planet do you think you live on? wtaf?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (Cjt/F)

167 He said "not a single Democrat" showed up to the deposition on Tuesday.

They are not an opposition party, they are the enemy. When law is not accepted and observed equally, there is no law.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (2WIwB)

168 Why did you have real bullets!?'*

The Paolo, he shoots real bullets.

Posted by: the Paolo at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (Kt19C)

169 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “friendly” missives at least twice a week — as the unlikely bromance between the socialist and conservative commander-in-chief continues to blossom, The Post has learned. The former Astoria lawmaker and the Queens native have semi-regularly been chatting via text since their chummy White House meeting in November, discussing a wide range of topics, from the toppling of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and zoning red tape in Big Apple real estate, according to sources. Insiders with knowledge of the conversation described the tone of the texts as “friendly.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

170 Nice to know that subpoenas are legally unenforceable - I'll have to remember that if I am ever subpoenaed.

(Oh, who am I kidding? My life is thankfully very dull when it comes to matters of the law)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (SRRAx)

171 Mace is running for SC governor, voting against contempt would likely hurt both in Nov.
Posted by: whig
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Mace is not Nikkiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 04:01 PM (48JDT)

172 He doesn't know what's out there. That photo that popped up in the second last release of "Epstein Files" showing Epstein, a girl, and Clinton in the pool (with no one looking at the camera, which suggests he didn't know it was taken). He's got to wonder what else was documented without his knowledge. Maxwell says there were no hidden cameras "to her knowledge." Those are weasel words.

Yup. He knows he's guilty as sin, but he doesn't know what they can prove. He's terrified of another blue dress.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

173 I'm pretty sure Chelsea is Bill's kid.

Why? She's the only young girl Bill had access to that he wasn't accused of screwing

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

174 Clinton's overall strategy seems a bit odd to me on this one. He's looking scared and guilty by refusing to testify. If I were him, I would voluntarily show up and testify. He could easily answer "don't recall" to almost anything.
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His public is the press and Dem die-hards.

The people who want Trump imprisoned for 34 counts of an accounting mistake, will never accept that Clinton should be jailed for a measurably worse crime.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (krQz2)

175 Nancy Mace is an odd contradiction.

She's clearly somewhat unstable but she's more political competent then a significant portion of the elected GOP...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

176 I have a headache - Pamela Bondi

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (abIsI)

177 "Picture a thumb"

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (DgMqy)

178 Apparently liberals are organizing a walk out from work, school etc on January 20th to demand the impeachment of Donald Trump. From X:

https://tinyurl.com/3y49zf3x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (PFs9e)

179 169 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “friendly” missives at least twice a week — as the unlikely bromance between the socialist and conservative commander-in-chief continues to blossom, The Post has learned. The former Astoria lawmaker and the Queens native have semi-regularly been chatting via text since their chummy White House meeting in November, discussing a wide range of topics, from the toppling of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and zoning red tape in Big Apple real estate, according to sources. Insiders with knowledge of the conversation described the tone of the texts as “friendly.”

Mamdani thinks he's the one playing Trump. He thinks wrong.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (Riz8t)

180 Yeah, but it wasn't rape rape.

Posted by: Karen Whoops Johnson at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (hta8A)

181 Bubba married hILLRY o O in 1975. Been fucking anything that moves ever since.

And Webb Hubble took one for the team so now there's Chelsea.
Posted by: Ian S.
......

Then Huma took over husbandly duties.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (UjdFS)

182 Is on the Epstein flight logs, has pictures from Epstein island, and was named as an Epstein client by the Epstein girls
Posted by: 18-1
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Open secret in Arkansas. Knew two girls back when that got invited to a governor's reception for outstanding students. Bill hit on them and told them to visit him at a suite in the Excelsior hotel. Same place that Paula Jones was invited to. The girls were giggly about it but didn't go due to having to return back home. They were 17 and told me and several other people at the time about it well before all the Clinton screwing everything in sight became public.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (WDjG6)

183 No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions.
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Time for a Skeleton Check on whoever said that.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (T+ssH)

184 Bill Clinton will study and use the Otter defense of Delta House.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (wVcYX)

185 Webb, at the last time I checked, is one of the lucky ones and still alive. After he left the DoJ, he headed to the sticks, NC mebbe?, and kept his mouth fully shut.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (WDjG6)
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The Sergeant Schultz defense! It is the best method when Hillary's Hit Squad is still out there. Just make sure you leave pictures and a signed confession with your lawyer, in case you suddenly disappear or "suicide" with two in the back of the skull.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (jVOiV)

186 Neighbors say she was just turning her life around and on her way to bible study.
Posted by: Local media at January 13, 2026 03:50 PM (hta8A)

Her "wife" did say she was a devout Christian...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 03:51 PM

Her "wife" also asked why ICE was using real bullets when they shot saint good.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (0N4FZ)

187 Nice to know that subpoenas are legally unenforceable - I'll have to remember that if I am ever subpoenaed.

(Oh, who am I kidding? My life is thankfully very dull when it comes to matters of the law)

If the Democrats take congress they will jail right leaning people for not showing up for a subpeona. Just like they did last time they controlled congress.

And their flunkies will argue that of course it is different when they do it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

188 How is this subpoena supposedly illegal?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (u73oe)

189 Clinton's overall strategy seems a bit odd to me on this one.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

________________________

He doesn't know what's out there. That photo that popped up in the second last release of "Epstein Files" showing Epstein, a girl, and Clinton in the pool (with no one looking at the camera, which suggests he didn't know it was taken). He's got to wonder what else was documented without his knowledge. Maxwell says there were no hidden cameras "to her knowledge." Those are weasel words.

And, as I recall, a team of unknown individuals went onto the island just after Epstein's death and before the FBI showed up. That was never explained (or even addressed).

Clinton is sweating this one out, and hopes to stall until another administration IMO.
Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:59 PM (dIske)
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He can just claim he doesn't remember (this was 20+ years ago) or deny, deny, deny. Any physical evidence they have (video etc) they can release any time. They don't need him for that.

This would be an easy testify for him. I suspect something else is going on.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

190 I like Nancy Mace's assets.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (abIsI)

191 173 I'm pretty sure Chelsea is Bill's kid.
Posted by: 18-1

So you've never seen a picture of Web Hubble?

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (Y8DZL)

192 I got lots of Clinton stories. Dirtbag but charming like a snake.

Killary was always hated in Arkansas which is why she had to move to NYC to grift and become a senator.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (WDjG6)

193 155 The people that tell me that ICE isn't allowed to arrest an American citizen also gave the Department of Education a SWAT team.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah, I was thinkin' about that, too, when I read about 'Why did you have real bullets!?' .

doublethink. for leftists, it's not just for breakfast, it's for every waking moment.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (Cjt/F)

194 After he left the DoJ, he headed to the sticks, NC mebbe?, and kept his mouth fully shut.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (

Impressive.

That catfish-hillbilly hybrid has a mouth as wide as a tractor trailer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (BI5O2)

195 Why? She's the only young girl Bill had access to that he wasn't accused of screwing

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

Doesn't prove a thing!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (T+ssH)

196 Is on the Epstein flight logs, has pictures from Epstein island, and was named as an Epstein client by the Epstein girls
Posted by: 18-1
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Open secret in Arkansas. Knew two girls back when that got invited to a governor's reception for outstanding students. Bill hit on them and told them to visit him at a suite in the Excelsior hotel. Same place that Paula Jones was invited to. The girls were giggly about it but didn't go due to having to return back home. They were 17 and told me and several other people at the time about it well before all the Clinton screwing everything in sight became public.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (WDjG6)
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They were using state troopers to ferry Clinton around to hotels. Everyone knew about it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (iFTx/)

197 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “friendly” missives at least twice a week — as the unlikely bromance between the socialist and conservative commander-in-chief continues to blossom, The Post has learned.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 04:00 PM (RHGPo)
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Trump is a deal-maker. He'll try to make a deal with anybody as long as that's on the table.

He's really not a conservative except if you think that wanting to conserve sanity is some sort of niche and shouldn't be the mainstream.

He said at the beginning that he thought conservative America was an underserved constituency. And he's been trying to restore a bit more sanity by serving those who stand athwart "progress".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:06 PM (krQz2)

198 No body yet has asked; Who was she screwing?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 13, 2026 04:06 PM (EyfuW)

199 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (6el8D)

200 Bill hit on them and told them to visit him at a suite in the Excelsior hotel. Same place that Paula Jones was invited to.

One thing to remember about this - Paula Jones didn't come out and accused Clinton out of the blue.

The American Spectator interviewed Clinton's security detail who confirmed Clinton did this sort of stuff constantly - one of the cases the security detail mentioned ended up being Paula Jones and this prompted her to sue because she did not want people to think that she took Clinton's offer of favor at work for sex.

In between the story breaking and Jones suing the FNM declared this was all lies...but Clinton agreeing to pay Jones to stop her civil suit says it was all true...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm)

201 An article I read this morning pointed out something new I'd not thought about:
From where Ross was standing, he was likely close enough to the van that he could not see the tires.

I'd add, and by the time that she started moving to the point she hit him, there's no way he could have had the time to see the tires turn.
That is, as a matter of law, it takes 0.75 seconds from seeing to reacting.

Putting even more stupid in the "she was just trying to get away" lie.

Not that it matters, there is no evidence that will ever convince the left to change their minds on this.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (HXT0k)

202 I don't get the Real Bullet thing, did she hit him with a Barbie Mobile?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (T+ssH)

203 >>This would be an easy testify for him. I suspect something else is going on.

Everyone is fixated on the sex angle which is understandable but Epstein was a CIA asset. Mike Benz has done a detailed report on what he was up to and it sounds like Epstein was a financial middleman with some of the scummiest people on earth.

One thing Bill Clinton is is a survivor. He might want to keep surviving.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 04:08 PM (viF8m)

204
If they're serious they will use Inherent Contempt. Of course, if the go the statutory criminal contempt route, I think Jeanine Pirro would have the balls to arrest Slick.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 04:08 PM (w6EFb)

205 The Sergeant Schultz defense! It is the best method when Hillary's Hit Squad is still out there. Just make sure you leave pictures and a signed confession with your lawyer, in case you suddenly disappear or "suicide" with two in the back of the skull.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I would not be surprised if Webb has evidence that Chelsea is not Bill's but his. But that only works if you are not a threat to Killary. So the disappearing act. He also did not return to Arkansas after having to resign from his post at DoJ. Mark Middleton and others were foolish enough to return and Mark Middleton committed suicide in a farmer's field by shooting himself with a shotgun while hanging from a tree.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:08 PM (WDjG6)

206 They were 17 and told me and several other people at the time about it well before all the Clinton screwing everything in sight became public.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:03 PM (WDjG6)
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an old girlfriend of mine had this happen to her. Hillary and her mother were college friends and they had dinner together while on vacation, after Bill lost his re-election campaign in Arkansas. She got up to go to the bathroom, Bill was waiting for her in the hallway when she came out, he trapped her up against the wall and tried kissing her. Pleaded with her to meet him on the first tee after everyone was in bed, for sex, and she declined. She was maybe 17 at the time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 04:08 PM (P5XEM)

207 I have a headache - Pamela Bondi
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2026 04:02 PM (abIsI)
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I don't put too much faith in armchair AGs.

Look how the case against Comey is going.

Judges can fuck up anything.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:09 PM (krQz2)

208 201 Not that it matters, there is no evidence that will ever convince the left to change their minds on this.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (HXT0k)

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She was immaculately conceived, the second coming of Christ, and Trump personally ordered her assassination because he knew that she was going to reveal Trump's role in the Epstein files.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

209 I'm pretty sure Chelsea is Bill's kid.

Why? She's the only young girl Bill had access to that he wasn't accused of screwing
Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:01

That wouldn't stop Billy boy. It was the fact that she's as ugly as a mud fence. Or perhaps her dad, an old friend of his, asked him nicely to keep hus hands off. Maybe he listened. Maybe he didn't. But I'm sure she's just as afraid of mommy as everyone else is, so we'll never know.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:09 PM (BI5O2)

210 and Mark Middleton committed suicide in a farmer's field by shooting himself with a shotgun while hanging from a tree.

IIRC they never found the shotgun.

So obviously Mark hung himself up, shot himself with the shotgun, untied himself, hid the shotgun, then hung himself back up and let himself bleed out

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

211 He's really not a conservative except if you think that wanting to conserve sanity is some sort of niche and shouldn't be the mainstream.

He said at the beginning that he thought conservative America was an underserved constituency. And he's been trying to restore a bit more sanity by serving those who stand athwart "progress".

Whatever he was in 2015, he's been through hell from the left. I think it's very unlikely he hasn't shifted in his political views, if for no other reason than that he's seen the kind of people who oppose him.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (Riz8t)

212 So you've never seen a picture of Web Hubble?
Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:05 PM (Y8DZL)

I have. I don't think he looks that much like Chelsea. I may be the only person here who thinks Trudeau fils is not the son of Castro.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (ZeH0U)

213 Clinton Crime Family
Biden Crime and Incest Family
you decide

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

214 Bill Clinton, a son of the South, tangled in the thorns of ambition and allure, a figure of contradictions, his charm a veil over tempestuous shadows, whispering promises in the corridors of power while ghosts of legacy and longing lingered, forever dancing on the edge of despair and redemption.

Posted by: William Faulkner with a little help from AI at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (6el8D)

215 Clinton could just show up, take the 5th for every question and walk out free. The showing up is the minimal requirement here. Nothing more's expected.

*shrugs*

He knows he can get away with blowing the Congressional Republicans off. So why even do the minimal requirement?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (NwnyJ)

216 Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

Who is Mark Middleton?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:11 PM (ZeH0U)

217 Took a bribe from Marc Rich to pardon him...which included sex with Denise Rich
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Man, there's a lot of money (simoleons) out there.
And here we are plugging along day to day.
Not impoverished but, you know, a new car, a pool a Jacuzzi/spa and a nice vacation; that's about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (48JDT)

218 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “friendly” missives at least twice a week — as the unlikely bromance between the socialist and conservative commander-in-chief continues to blossom, The Post has learned.
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What Trump enjoys more than anything is being unpredictable.

Whatever their plan was for elevating Mamdani further probably didn't take this action into account, because they think they know Trump and still don't.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (T+ssH)

219 I have. I don't think he looks that much like Chelsea. I may be the only person here who thinks Trudeau fils is not the son of Castro.

For Trudeau was know his mom was having an affair with Castro BUT the times we know she was on the island don't line up with when Justin was concieved.

Now, it could be there were other meetings between the two but...it could be he really is his cuck father's son...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

220 I beat Congress to it.
I've been holding Bill Clinton in contempt since the mid 1990s.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (0MjtC)

221
"Mommy/Sir, are Mr. Floyd and Mrs. Good in heaven now helping people find Justice?"

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (Y8DZL)

222 Who is Mark Middleton?

Bill Clinton's liaison with Jeffrey Epstein among other things. But that's the one that got him killed.

Err, sorry, led to his suicide

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

223 Tampon Timmy is truly mentally deficient and full of hubris if he thinks these showboating gambits are going to protect him.

The worse Trump will do is arrest him and put him on trial. Heck many on the Left will give him the Al Franken treatment if he becomes a major liability.

But there are those on the Left who are far more militant to worry about. He courts their support but doesn't understand the price they will demand for that loyalty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (3hJhH)

224 202 I don't get the Real Bullet thing, did she hit him with a Barbie Mobile?
Posted by: ...

Just another stupidity folk tale from the left's fever swamps. They don't think ICE can arrest citizens, don't believe they are committing a crime when obstructing ICE arrests or hitting them, trying to grab their guns, etc., or throwing shit at them.

This is because they get away with that shit all the time in blue city protests and the police rarely do jack shit to the pampered pets.

So it goes to their thinking that ICE might pepper spray us, use tasers, bean bag shotgun rounds, or hit us, but not SHOOT us with real bullets for violence against them.

ICE are not riot cops, they are there to snatch armed and dangerous criminals so of course they are armed. They are not riot police in friendly cities.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (WDjG6)

225 Posted by: 29Victor at January 13, 2026

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (ZeH0U)

226
The last time Inherent Contempt was used was against William P. MacCracken and L.H. Brittin in the "airmail scandal" of the 1930s.

The US Senate had the sergeant-at-arms arrest them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (w6EFb)

227 >>Look how the case against Comey is going.

All eyes of Ft. Pierce, Florida and Judge Aileen Cannon. The same judge who tossed Jack Smith's case against Trump.

South Florida is not DC.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (viF8m)

228 Much more of a smoking gun connection with Trudeau/Castro than Hubbell/Clinton I think.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (pDt9x)

229 Any physical evidence they have (video etc) they can release any time. They don't need him for that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
_______________________________

"They" is the keyword. I don't think Comer has anything earthshattering. But, someone could easily be safeguarding documentation. Intelligence community, foreign intelligence, even corporate interests.

Anyone who looks how Epstein was handled back in 2006 know it didn't add up. He was, absolutely, nailed on the underage issues and about 13 other charges. Palm Beach County detectives pulled out all the stops. Then, the Feds stepped in and lowered it to two charges. Soliciting prostitution being the most severe. He gets an NPA (Non-Prosecution Agreement) from the Feds without any leverage, and the Feds didn't even bother to tell the victims of his crimes about that. He gets sentence to work release and no records show him even visiting the half-way house.

Epstein was working for someone after that...likely the CIA regardless of all the denials. And, they'd be my first guess at who holds any documentation on the Island antics.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (dIske)

230 Bill Clinton needs a note from his mother.

Posted by: Juan Epstein at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (9cHSL)

231 If Trump wanted to sell us, he would have done it 100 times over by now and saved himself a lot of grief.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (T+ssH)

232 I hope Killary gives them the middle finger as well (tomorrow?).

Throw them both in prison where They Didn't Arkancide Themselves.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (+B9Si)

233 whispering promises in the corridors of power while ghosts of legacy and longing lingered, forever dancing on the edge of despair and redemption.
Posted by: William Faulkner
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Yer forgot raised on the knee of Hot Springs mob boss.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (48JDT)

234 If I had any hope in the American way of life reasserting itself and bringing us back to normality, I would *hate* judges in the main.

I can feel that in myself. But my lack of hope in a secular fix is its release.

The Weight of God is not on the atheist or the secular idealist. Their only punishment is if another faction can turn the tables on them. And then they can plead that they are simply being made an example simply by having another faction bring them in the vicinity of justice.

The Weight of God brings a *seriousness*, that while it *can* be mislead. When developed can lead to a serious review of how we stand in accord to our values.

Man will try to make Babel.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (krQz2)

235 Fenelon,
From wiki,
During the first Clinton administration, Middleton served as a special assistant to the President and as an aide to Chief of Staff Mack McLarty. His main task at the White House was to maintain contact with Clinton's various donors. He was involved in facilitating access to the White House for various visitors, including financier Jeffrey Epstein. Records indicate that Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995, with many of those visits authorized by Middleton. He also flew with Epstein on his private jet in May 1994.

On May 7, 2022, Middleton was found dead at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, approximately 30 miles from his home. His death was ruled a suicide; authorities reported that he was found hanging from a tree with an extension cord around his neck and a shotgun wound to his chest. The circumstances of his death prompted public speculation.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6)

236 Meh. I'll only believe this once I see him getting the perp-walk in handcuffs. Even then I'll suspect AI slop. Let's face it - the republicans never had and never will have the guts to face up to Bill or Hitlery.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 13, 2026 04:15 PM (V362x)

237 Took a bribe from Marc Rich to pardon him...which included sex with Denise Rich
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I never heard that! Not surprised either. Eric Holder set up the transaction, iirc (money for pardon), so I wonder if he also set up Denise with Bill, or was that just a spur of the moment addition....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 04:15 PM (P5XEM)

238 and Mark Middleton committed suicide in a farmer's field by shooting himself with a shotgun while hanging from a tree.

IIRC they never found the shotgun.

So obviously Mark hung himself up, shot himself with the shotgun, untied himself, hid the shotgun, then hung himself back up and let himself bleed out
Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

That guy was good!

Posted by: Zombie Vince Foster at January 13, 2026 04:15 PM (wVcYX)

239 So it goes to their thinking that ICE might pepper spray us, use tasers, bean bag shotgun rounds, or hit us, but not SHOOT us with real bullets for violence against them.

I saw this exact discussion on facebook:

Lefty: How would you MAGAts like it if we handled you people like ICE handled that poor woman?

Righty: You mean like you killed Ashli Babbitt on J6?

Lefty: That's different she deserved it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

240 which included sex with Denise Rich
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BARF

and off dirty Paolo sock

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 04:16 PM (Kt19C)

241 We'll see. Could this be yet another case of dispensation for democrats?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 04:16 PM (t+TFX)

242 and Mark Middleton committed suicide in a farmer's field by shooting himself with a shotgun while hanging from a tree.

IIRC they never found the shotgun.

So obviously Mark hung himself up, shot himself with the shotgun, untied himself, hid the shotgun, then hung himself back up and let himself bleed out
Posted by: 18-1
......

Was he hanging upside down? Because that would really be a stretch.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

243 Lets not forget that portrait of Bill in the blue dress and red heels, displayed at Epsteins' ranch. Don't know of anyone else immortalized like that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 04:16 PM (+mUZM)

244 God's will is extremely clear in the Bible, but trying to handicap current events by reading His mind is a fool's errand.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:17 PM (pDt9x)

245
Having Mamdami as the face of the Democrat Party is thrilling Trump.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:17 PM (Y8DZL)

246 Took a bribe from Marc Rich to pardon him...which included sex with Denise Rich

At the time Denise Rich looked like a mix between Leah Remini and Lady Gaga - she was a bit old for Clinton's taste but not a bad looking woman...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

247 He knows he can get away with blowing the Congressional Republicans off. So why even do the minimal requirement?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Transactional or complete immunity which compels him/her to answer all questions. Same as what Ollie North and John Poindexter did. Makes it very hard to prosecute subsequently as both North and Poindexter had their Iran Contra convictions tossed because of it. But Congress can make you answer or contempt of court charges if they give you immunity. No Fifth then.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (WDjG6)

248
At the time Denise Rich looked like a mix between Leah Remini and Lady Gaga - she was a bit old for Clinton's taste but not a bad looking woman...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

One word... Hillary

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (VE6XX)

249 whispering promises in the corridors of power while ghosts of legacy and longing lingered, forever dancing on the edge of despair and redemption.

pfffft.

And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune. Then the piper will lead us to reason.

Posted by: R. Plant at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

250 Sex with Denise Richards >>>>>>>>>>>>> sex with Denise Rich

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

251 (D)ifferent (R)ules

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (kgFPv)

252 And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune. Then the piper will lead us to reason.
Posted by: R. Plant at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

And -Crazy on a Ship of Fools

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:19 PM (pDt9x)

253 Much more of a smoking gun connection with Trudeau/Castro than Hubbell/Clinton I think.
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (

Look at pictures of Chelsea Hubbell before her 68 plastic surgeries. That gun's pretty darn smoky.

I too wonder how Webb is still alive. Not because of Hillary murdering him. They appear to have kept things on good terms, given that he's still alive. It's not as if he couldn't have committed suicide by loading himself into a into a 20 ton press and activating it with a broom handle.

No. I wonder because I would have drank myself to death inside 2 years, in my unsuccessful but Herculean effort to hide from the memory of Hillary's vagina.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:19 PM (BI5O2)

254 I was taking a nap and the catamite Chink Uiguyr came on. I forced myself awake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:19 PM (9cHSL)

255 Interesting... turns out there is a local newspaper that has a F Book site... one I've never seen on my feed before, although they've been around for years talking about Bars and such (things I actually might want to know).

This morning, three of their posts were fed onto my page, about three different SWAT Raids.. with people saying they are disguised ICE... uh... no... it is the Local SWAT team as we've had a bunch of recent Gang shootings.

Interesting part is that I've never seen a single thing from this site before... until they are supposedly following ICE around... gotta luv how Political THAT Algorithm is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 04:19 PM (mP0Kj)

256 Sex with Denise Richards >>>>>>>>>>>>> sex with Denise Rich

Would you rather go where Bill Clinton was or where Charlie Sheen was?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (sKqQm)

257 250 Sex with Denise Richards >>>>>>>>>>>>> sex with Denise Rich
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)
__________________

I don't know, man. You have to factor in the Charlie Sheen AIDS factor on that transaction.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (dIske)

258 God's will is extremely clear in the Bible, but trying to handicap current events by reading His mind is a fool's errand.

Have you considered that the world is Right Now in Nebuchadnezzar's Colossus' Feet of Iron and Clay state?

What comes next is something that is not of the things that got the world to this point?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (a6PrB)

259 > So obviously Mark hung himself up, shot himself with the shotgun, untied himself, hid the shotgun, then hung himself back up and let himself bleed out

Maybe he tied the shotgun to a weather balloon! When it let go, up it went.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (Yp6az)

260 Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (8Cor4)

261 Hmmmm. Immortal wards of Winston Wolf are in effect.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 13, 2026 04:20 PM (jmVHL)

262 221
‘ "Mommy/Sir, are Mr. Floyd and Mrs. Good in heaven now helping people find Justice?’

Well, they’re in the same place. And they’re all finding justice together!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (jbnUc)

263 Did Denise Richards hit the wall yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (9cHSL)

264 *yawns* When any democrat goes to jail, wake me up.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (g8Ew8)

265 So Jazz hands Walz hasn't resigned yet ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:21 PM (VE6XX)

266 > A dusty old process called Inherent Contempt which gives the Congress the ability to arrest and detain.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (dIske)

Isn't there still an actual jail cell in the Capitol or is that just a rumor?

I know that they have occasionally sent the Sergeant at Arms out to snatch someone and bring him in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (IG3/x)

267 I got lots of Clinton stories. Dirtbag but charming like a snake.

My dad met him in the late 80s when he was working for Wal-Mart. He said the same things Rush Limbaugh did: for an obvious sleazebag he was incredibly good at being charming.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

268 God's will is extremely clear in the Bible, but trying to handicap current events by reading His mind is a fool's errand.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:17 PM (pDt9x)
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Who says I'm trying to read his mind. "Put no trust in princes" may have a republican application as well.

Just because I have no hope in man righting the situation doesn't mean that I don't do things within reason to advocate for a stable society.

But people these days are like nailing jello. And they would have me be "reasonable" to adjust to their doublespeak. Which I can't do--not without some kind of path from where I am now.

It's hard to view the judges as a class of experts stealing away the discretion of the republic on the basis that they are better thinkers in the mathematical space of law and rights and think that *I* can do any more than condemn the doublethink that screeches about "democracy" but day to day empowers "judicial review" in everything.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (krQz2)

269 OK, Denise Richards pre-Charlie Sheen, then. When she was in that flick with Neve Campbell.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

270 263 Did Denise Richards hit the wall yet?

You tell me.

https://is.gd/IrX5IQ

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (Riz8t)

271 236 Meh. I'll only believe this once I see him getting the perp-walk in handcuffs. Even then I'll suspect AI slop. Let's face it - the republicans never had and never will have the guts to face up to Bill or Hitlery.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese
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Remember when early in the first term, Bill had thugs go through all the security clearance documents for the GOP officeholders. They document affairs, being gay, financial matters, past misdeeds, etc. and I suspect that Bill and his thuggish PI, Jack Palladino grabbed a bunch of incriminating information so as to blackmail a lot of teh GOP establishment.

Obama put that spying on GOP members on steroids with operatives having access to new and old NSA intercepts in real time. Plus some of the worst requests were laundered through 5 Eyes and probably Dearlove's private security firm in the UK.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (WDjG6)

272 Are there cells under the Parliament of Whores?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (9cHSL)

273
I've often met couples and wondered why they are together, seeming so different from each other. Then I look at the Clintons and think, oh yeah. Power.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (Y8DZL)

274 Maybe he tied the shotgun to a weather balloon! When it let go, up it went.

/Some good old boy out in the woods

God, I really need a sign from you that'd I'm doing things right in my life...wait...what's that? A shotgun coming down on a weather balloon!?! Why that's the thing I wanted for my birthday and never got!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

275 Jacking Off or Boinking Hillary "Jabba the Hutt" Clinton ????

That is a tough decision......

One risks STDs/Rashes, and the other one is 100% Safe.......

Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (lagsy)

276 270 263 Did Denise Richards hit the wall yet?

You tell me.

https://is.gd/IrX5IQ
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (Riz8t)

Yep

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (VE6XX)

277 Sorry Axeman, did not mean anything personal. Apologies.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (pDt9x)

278
My dad met him in the late 80s when he was working for Wal-Mart. He said the same things Rush Limbaugh did: for an obvious sleazebag he was incredibly good at being charming.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM

I know a guy that was invited to fancy fundraisers for Clinton in LA that his friend insisted he attend, knowing he hated Clinton and he said Clinton knew that he didn't like him and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to schmooze him. He admitted he was charming but thinks it bothers him if one person in the room doesn't like him.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (e2+im)

279 Isn't there still an actual jail cell in the Capitol or is that just a rumor?

I know that they have occasionally sent the Sergeant at Arms out to snatch someone and bring him in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Sgt at Arms originally was charged with making sure that members could not stay away from the chamber during quorum calls. So normally, their role is that but they do have the power to enforce a chamber's ruling on 'arresting' and 'detaining' a witness. They used to do security before the Capitol Hill cops were created.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (WDjG6)

280 Somebody give Denise Richards some Protein Shakes........

And soon........... My God she is skinny as a rail and could break if you grab her....

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 04:26 PM (YnF8s)

281 I wonder because I would have drank myself to death inside 2 years, in my unsuccessful but Herculean effort to hide from the memory of Hillary's vagina.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:19 PM (BI5O2)

A true Lovecraftian Horror show, that.

Posted by: Zombie Vince Foster at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (wVcYX)

282 278

PM

I know a guy that was invited to fancy fundraisers for Clinton in LA that his friend insisted he attend, knowing he hated Clinton and he said Clinton knew that he didn't like him and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to schmooze him. He admitted he was charming but thinks it bothers him if one person in the room doesn't like him.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (e2+im)

Would not last long at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (pDt9x)

283 I need to come hang out in here with y’all. I just spent more money than I should have on clothes. Oops.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (/sySz)

284 I know a guy that was invited to fancy fundraisers for Clinton in LA that his friend insisted he attend, knowing he hated Clinton and he said Clinton knew that he didn't like him and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to schmooze him. He admitted he was charming but thinks it bothers him if one person in the room doesn't like him.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Exactly so. Legendary temper tantrums though. Killary was always unbalanced, rude, and nasty even to Bill's detriment.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (WDjG6)

285 Did Denise Richards hit the wall yet?

You tell me.

https://is.gd/IrX5IQ
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (Riz8t)

Yep
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (VE6XX)

Holy shit. Botox bitch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (g8Ew8)

286 In a fit of islamaphobia the people of Iran have torched over 250 mosques.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (9cHSL)

287
If we morons were living in Europe right now we'd be glancing toward the door frequently.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Y8DZL)

288 Sorry Axeman, did not mean anything personal. Apologies.
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (pDt9x)
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Nah, that's okay. Iron sharpens iron. I enjoyed feedback to spur further thoughts.

Sorry if I came back as too defensive. But that's what I meant by the Weight of God as a force. Perhaps I am falling to error.

I hate just being alone in my head to cycle in thoughts.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:27 PM (krQz2)

289 If Hillary was the last confirmed biological female in the world and I was the last biological male........

The Human race would end !!!!!!!!!!

275 Jacking Off or Boinking Hillary "Jabba the Hutt" Clinton ????

That is a tough decision......

One risks STDs/Rashes, and the other one is 100% Safe.......

Posted by: Jackson at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (j6UWQ)

290 Denise Richards looks all Mary Jane now. Ordinary.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:28 PM (9cHSL)

291 Remember when early in the first term, Bill had thugs go through all the security clearance documents for the GOP officeholders.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:23 PM (WDjG6)
___________________________

You know, I have a theory about that. "FileGate". Hillary was involved to some extent. And, while I think you nailed one of the purposes (developing opposition research). I think Hillary used some of those files for recruitment of her anticipated Presidential run down the road. I think that's how James Comey shot up the promotion ladder so quickly. He got a nice promotion to Richmond in Clinton's second term.

It always bothered me how loyal certain well place people in govt are to Hillary despite her lack of redeeming qualities. I think those FBI vetting files were also about her setting up players for her team by giving them vocational assistance through Bill's White House.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

292 Where are the arms shipments? Air America?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 04:30 PM (9cHSL)

293 It always bothered me how loyal certain well place people in govt are to Hillary despite her lack of redeeming qualities. I think those FBI vetting files were also about her setting up players for her team by giving them vocational assistance through Bill's White House.
Posted by: Orson

Excellent point. She was always directed towards power from the get go. And like most of Stan's tools, it broke her and denied her what she desired most--the presidency of the US.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (WDjG6)

294 Epstein was working for someone after that...likely the CIA regardless of all the denials. And, they'd be my first guess at who holds any documentation on the Island antics.

This Epstein sex scandal stuff has been one of the greatest tactical moves in a while.

• Trump gets slimed even though he had nothing to do with Epstein.

• The DOJ is spending huge amounts of time to redact millions of documents rather than pursuing anything else.

• Epstein is associated with sex crimes even though its obvious to those who see the world other than one titillating story after another has an information, influence and money laundering operation - that all is off the news.

• this reinforces the idea that the entire system is rigged and the population loses faith in the authorities.

In the end, all of the criminals walk off in the sunset with all of their plunder.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (kHd4y)

295 I can see why Hillary is so bitter after squirting out Chelsea.

Her baby is like the first Kardashian baby, ugly beyond plastic surgery. Scary even. Poor Chelsea. Do they do plastic surgery in the womb?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 04:31 PM (BSdIE)

296 Yeah it's a shame about Richard's. Beautiful woman, and a surgeon WRECKED that face.

I often wonder how these rich celebrities end up with surgeons who operate out of an auto-weave upholstery shop.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (BI5O2)

297 You know, I have a theory about that. "FileGate". Hillary was involved to some extent. And, while I think you nailed one of the purposes (developing opposition research). I think Hillary used some of those files for recruitment of her anticipated Presidential run down the road. I think that's how James Comey shot up the promotion ladder so quickly. He got a nice promotion to Richmond in Clinton's second term.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)
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I am pretty sure that's where they got the goods to embarrass Hastert.

But Hastert also needed to be embarrassed, but not just where it served the Clinton's purpose.

It was ridiculous where they left it. It's like Craig Livingstone wandered off a White House tour, found an empty office and started ordering FIB files as reading material.

Nobody hired the guy. Nobody "remembers" hiring the guy.

It's easy peasy for the administration to slip info from the FIB files to Stern.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (krQz2)

298 Denise certainly looking old.

Stopped at grocery store to get a few things, behind a woman would have guessed into her 70s easy. She got cold medicine or something and had to give birth date, just a year and half more than I am. Blew that guess

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (Ia/+0)

299 Non-noodin' mofos been having fun without us.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 04:34 PM (XvL8K)

300 Jennifer Connelly is a woman who has aged very well in my opinion, while not having work done. Very thin, but still very pretty.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (pDt9x)

301 dad met him in the late 80s when he was working for Wal-Mart. He said the same things Rush Limbaugh did: for an obvious sleazebag he was incredibly good at being charming.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

Isn’t that one of the classic traits of a psychopath?

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (kgFPv)

302 Yeah it's a shame about Richard's. Beautiful woman, and a surgeon WRECKED that face.

I often wonder how these rich celebrities end up with surgeons who operate out of an auto-weave upholstery shop.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 04:33 PM (BI5O2)
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If anybody watches Traitors, there is a lady on the current season, Lisa, a "housewife of X", who has deformed lips that really thinks she looks fabulous.

The Botox face is like the "Innsmouth look" to me.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (krQz2)

303 FWIW, some might know this but I was involved in Arkansas politics during the Bill and Hill years. Father was a local government official, Bill and Hill were everywhere in Arkansas at the time, and I worked for a congress critter and campaigns. So I've talked to Clinton over the phone as I ran the Congressman's decision desk if you will for the election eve parties. Clinton loved to talk politics and I would get calls (while dialing out and receiving to get the most recent voting reports in the precincts), just to compare numbers or to get the Congress critter on the phone to talk to Bill.

Arkansas was a very rural state and governors had a two year term as well as other state officers, so Billy Jeff was always campaigning to the point I think he actually talked to all the voters in Arkansas at one time or another. Arkansas only had about 1.6 million at the time and Clinton ran every two years from 1974 to 1990 for office when they changed to terms to four years.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:36 PM (WDjG6)

304 Was thinking, Leftists believe the BS their Propaganda Ministry spits out, so most were sure Trump had something to do with Epstein. Clinton did and that shut them up fast

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

305 Duck Bill Lips.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 04:38 PM (pDt9x)

306 In the end, all of the criminals walk off in the sunset with all of their plunder.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

A bunch of the wealthies have been having to pay out to the girls in out of court settlements.

They can afford it but a lot of the Epstein adjacent ones are really old dudes like Leon Black. Wexner and his wife, and even Bill Gates.

Giffufre herself got millions from Prince Andrew and her estate even more from her book.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 04:39 PM (WDjG6)

307 Bill Clinton Is a No-Show

Did you try the ultraviolet light?

Posted by: Monica at January 13, 2026 04:57 PM (EWq0C)

308 Can the subpoena a Private citizen, about things which happened OUTSIDE the US?

As much as I dislike the Clintons... this seems a stretch.

Posted by: Romeo13

The Virgin Islands is US Territory.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 13, 2026 06:02 PM (sCPLh)

309 The Clintons have never had to face consequences for their actions, ever. Why would they think they have to now? What’s the charge of “contempt of Congress” going to do? Nothing.

Posted by: RebeccaH at January 13, 2026 06:35 PM (VFung)

Trump Ends "Temporary" Protected Status for Thousands of Somali Pirate Nomads

Good.

BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.

But... that's no reason for blackpilling. Change almost never comes with one magic silver bullet. It comes from a lot of small changes sustained over time.

Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US
Several thousand Somali nationals currently living in the US must leave the country by March 17

FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia, affecting several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S. and several hundred currently living in Minnesota under the protection.
Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17.
"Temporary means temporary," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law's requirement for Temporary Protected Status."
"Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests," Noem added. "We are putting Americans first."

Search their bags on their way out:

Mike Netter
@nettermike
BREAKING: TSA data reveal nearly $700 million in declared US cash flagged in luggage by Somali couriers departing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and yet the Biden The White House told TSA to stand down.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Administration (TSA) flagged approximately $692 million ($342.4 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025) in declared U.S. currency detected in passengers' luggage departing from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)--roughly $1 million per day over the two years--John Solomon, the editor-in-chief of Just the News reports.
The investigative reports state that most of these cash transports were carried by Somali-American couriers on flights to Somalia or other Middle Eastern destinations. The cash was legally declared (as required for amounts over $10,000 under U.S. law), so no immediate seizures or arrests occurred at the airport. However, federal authorities are now probing these movements as potentially linked to money laundering and the export of proceeds from large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota.
Federal investigators suspect fraud proceeds were converted to cash and exported via couriers (often using informal hawala networks common in Somali culture for remittances). Some probes have allegedly linked funds to regions in Somalia controlled by al-Shabaab (a terrorist group).
Source: The Tennessee Star

Update: They'll even skim the money they give to you to bribe a juror.

Treasury Sec. Bessent tells @christopherrufo one of the many shocking fraud stories out of MN: "One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000." https://t.co/c9C3CwCROH pic.twitter.com/Na7i0DlLa3
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 12, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

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1 Still not tired

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (zjgNU)

2 What happens if they don't leave?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (rZCVI)

3 H

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (LdBR/)

4 GTFO camel piss swizzlers!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (WQDw6)

5 Er . . ., Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (LdBR/)

6
ESPONJA!!1!1!111

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (tljrc)

7 BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

On that note, we need to (if it isn't the case now) make it the law so that if a naturalized citizen commits a felony, they are immediately denaturalized and deported.

That would deal with the Somali issue.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (zjgNU)

8
What happens if they don't leave?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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That's exactly what I was thinking. And I think we know the answer: ICE raids > RAYCISM > violence

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (Jxa0O)

9 The Māori do it better:

https://tinyurl.com/2e4fp5u9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (xZEBF)

10 Deport these pirates before the wetbacks, is what I say.

Posted by: That point/counterpoint guy at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (Riafb)

11 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

More, please!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (SRRAx)

12 Not getting medical checkups is kinda disrespecting your family.
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (rbIOb)

Trebuchet.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (iJfKG)

13 And they're not the cuddly Blackbeard kind of pirates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (zZu0s)

14 Legal morons, can our rebellious judges interfere with this ruling?

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (pDt9x)

15 BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.

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Criminal activity is grounds for denaturalization, remember.

And Trump's team have been using the denaturalization word for a few weeks now.

Even Tom Emmer was saying it about Somalis doing welfare fraud, and he's a squishy GOPer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

16
we need to (if it isn't the case now) make it the law so that if a naturalized citizen commits a felony, they are immediately denaturalized and deported.

That would deal with the Somali issue.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

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Supposedly, it is legally possible to denaturalize someone on grounds of subsequent criminal behavior.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (Jxa0O)

17 @12

Welp, not sure how that happened.

Try again.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iJfKG)

18 Called it:

@JonathanTurley
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1h
Bill Clinton appears now to be in contempt of Congress, failing to appear pursuant to a subpoena.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (ZxPkt)

19 What happens if they don't leave?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (rZCVI)

Trebuchet.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (iJfKG)

20 7 On that note, we need to (if it isn't the case now) make it the law so that if a naturalized citizen commits a felony, they are immediately denaturalized and deported.

That would deal with the Somali issue.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (zjgNU)

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's already law.

Except the "immediately" part. That will always require some human intervention.

The problem we face as a nation isn't a surfeit of laws, it's that law enforcement was corrupted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

21 Good. They can come pick up the one in my little hometown. There is an apartment complex occupied by Somalians who work at the beef packing plant.

Posted by: huerfano at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (98kQX)

22 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (X4XpB)

23 BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

On that note, we need to (if it isn't the case now) make it the law so that if a naturalized citizen commits a felony, they are immediately denaturalized and deported.

That would deal with the Somali issue.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Perjuring themselves on immigration paperwork should nullify any applications for citizenship.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (53dlK)

24 We voted for this.

Posted by: Trump voters everywhere at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (iu4b5)

25 "Temporary means temporary," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law's requirement for Temporary Protected Status."
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I was not born in this country and don't quite have a grasp on the language. However, I am wearing this black robe and that gives me the power to use a word however I mean to. Temporary actually means Permanent in this particular case. I have ruled, may Allah have mercy on your soul, or not, Inshallah.
- District Court Judge

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (Dv3i1)

26 >What happens if they don't leave?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Nothing

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (ZxPkt)

27 We could send Somalia a few multiple millions directly. Fire some cruise missiles into the pirates' dens, and call it an advance.

Posted by: Roy at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (qwype)

28
Even Tom Emmer was saying it about Somalis doing welfare fraud, and he's a squishy GOPer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Important note: Tom Emmer is virtue-signaling. He made a bunch of pro-Somali statements and co-founded the Congressional Somalia Caucus in 2015 with Keith Ellison.

That said, now that he's stuck his finger in the wind again, I hope his NEW effort bears fruit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Jxa0O)

29 can our rebellious judges interfere with this ruling?
Posted by: tubal

Of course. We are above the law.

Posted by: Marxist Judges at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (nhCoE)

30 District Court Judge will string this shit out for a decade or more so they have plenty of anchor babies.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (8aiQt)

31 Change almost never comes with one magic silver bullet. It comes from a lot of small changes sustained over time.
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Which all gets wiped out when voters go soft and elect Dems.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (krQz2)

32 28 Important note: Tom Emmer is virtue-signaling. He made a bunch of pro-Somali statements and co-founded the Congressional Somalia Caucus in 2015 with Keith Ellison.

That said, now that he's stuck his finger in the wind again, I hope his NEW effort bears fruit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Jxa0O)

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I never said he meant anything, just that he's making the mouth sounds.

It's what we want from our elected officials.

Spineless weasels like Emmer > Rock-ribbed against us like McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

33 Just go full FDR and put them in camps.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (pLaQB)

34 I have no problems with letting all the Somalis stay as long as they are all sterilized.

Nip it in the bud.

Posted by: Stop The Madness at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (UDZYq)

35
Bill Clinton appears now to be in contempt of Congress, failing to appear pursuant to a subpoena.
Posted by: Don Black

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To find out what will happen, consult Don Black at #26 -- oh, never mind, you are Don Black.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (Jxa0O)

36
First they came for the socialists and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the Somali Pirate Nomads and I didn't say anything because I was busy fueling the helicopters.

Posted by: Knee Mauler at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (iu4b5)

37 The good a Republican does is interred with their bones after the Democrats gain power and execute him.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (krQz2)

38 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's already law"

'Tis. You miss any step or misspoke on applications? You're out.

Next.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)

39 Can't you take their citizenship away?

Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (BCuCF)

40 If 81% of somalis in Minnesota are on welfare, why is there so many daycares?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (pkq24)

41 At Least Four Prosecutors Resign From DOJ Civil Rights Division in Protest After Unit Refuses to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Self-Defense

... I wish them luck in their future endeavors

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (RHGPo)

42 "federal authorities are now probing these movements as potentially linked to money laundering and the export of proceeds from large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota."

Ya think?? How else are these filthy leeches gonna generate that kind of cash?? The reason the authorities are supposed to look very suspiciously at people walking around with yuge stacks of cash is because that means the money is almost certainly dirty. Or else why would it be in cash??

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

43 Ace...are the Somilians "real" citizens who did all the work to formerly become citizens like in the old days. And assimilate and read/speak English? I want them ALL deported. Unless a 1% can be proved to be ok. ALL. I no longer have mercy for sad stories. GET OUT!

Or the DACA pretend citizens who were too stoopid to realize that was a temporary stop gap.Time enough to become real citizens.

Then we have the generations of illegals whose grandmother came over to pick tomatoes and stayed and still does not speak English, read English,assimilate or pay taxes after 20-30yrs.

There are various kinds of illegals, along with the rapists, murderers, and brewing terrorists. And the drivers of semi's and drunk drivers going the wrong way. Plus the mamacitas who come over the border, pop out a bambino, and cross back...the kid now has dual citizenship to come here at age 17yrs and join the Crips.

I am getting a headache.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (WONhk)

44 Willowed:

This is what you work your fingers to the bone for. You work to have your money stolen and used by people like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar to purchase offices from which to lord over you and steal more from you. You do it so that foreign swine who wallow in shit and fuck their sisters can live the life of Reilly while you worry about keeping the roof you PAID FOR HONESTLY over your head.

This is the kind of corruption I'm talking about when I say the system must necessarily collapse under its weight.

The Left loves using the word "unsustainable" all the time.

This is it.

No matter how robust a system may once have been, none can bear the load of this kind of criminality.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (BI5O2)

45 Then they came for the Somali Pirate Nomads and I didn't say anything because I was busy fueling the helicopters.

Posted by: Knee Mauler at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (iu4b5)
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Ah, but first they came for the "criminals" and I did not care because I didn't see myself as a criminal.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (krQz2)

46 38 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's already law"

'Tis. You miss any step or misspoke on applications? You're out.

Next.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)

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This is why it's more important to win the presidency than Congress right now.

The laws to deal with everything is on the books. We just need a DOJ to enforce it. Winning Congress and passing new laws means nothing if the DOJ won't enforce the laws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

47 Will anything happen?

Posted by: The person who always wonders if anything will happen at January 13, 2026 02:10 PM (iu4b5)

48 The cash was legally declared (as required for amounts over $10,000 under U.S. law), so no immediate seizures or arrests occurred at the airport.

I'm sure I would get the same treatment, right?

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 02:10 PM (GUOwU)

49 Criminal activity is grounds for denaturalization, remember.

And Trump's team have been using the denaturalization word for a few weeks now.

Even Tom Emmer was saying it about Somalis doing welfare fraud, and he's a squishy GOPer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

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

Supposedly, it is legally possible to denaturalize someone on grounds of subsequent criminal behavior.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (Jxa0O)

I'd like to move it from "Supposedly" and "possible" to automatic".

If you've been found guilty by a jury of your peers, that also the denaturalization case.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 02:10 PM (zjgNU)

50 no problems with letting all the Somalis stay as long as they are all sterilized."

The "Arab method" of dealing with imported labor...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:10 PM (XuXeR)

51 I assume that Trump will have difficulties fighting this issue since the MN US Attorney's office got their panties in a bunch and quit rather than investigate insurrection.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

52 I'm sure I would get the same treatment, right?"

Sure.

/shake weight motion

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:11 PM (XuXeR)

53 Do-it-yourself, US Foreign Aid.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:11 PM (krQz2)

54 At some point won't we run out of Bolshie lawyers at the DOJ?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 13, 2026 02:11 PM (jc0TO)

55 46

This is why it's more important to win the presidency than Congress right now.

The laws to deal with everything is on the books. We just need a DOJ to enforce it. Winning Congress and passing new laws means nothing if the DOJ won't enforce the laws.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

This is - a new thought at the HQ!!! Kudos and Huzzah! Seriously TJM this needs to be said often here. Congress is far too suborned for quick effective action.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (pDt9x)

56 51 I assume that Trump will have difficulties fighting this issue since the MN US Attorney's office got their panties in a bunch and quit rather than investigate insurrection.
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So, what were the MN US Attorney's doing before they quit? Sounds like we may have dodged another Uni Party bullet.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (pLaQB)

57 some point won't we run out of Bolshie lawyers at the DOJ?"

Nah. Ivy league law schools...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (XuXeR)

58 Ace was talking conspiracies and spy novel shit yesterday, so he might be interested in this. I wasn't around for yesterday's Maduro raid post, but I wonder if this was discussed -- In summer of 2025, Trump did a press thing with Hegseth at Fort Bragg where he was observing special forces training. There were helicopters, things blowing up, and guys dropping down onto a building. This may have been the Maduro palace replica that was supposedly built for the raid.
This was an unusual event for Trump, and it looks very choreographed with the timing just right to capture the training "raid."
- Was this a message to Maduro or others? Or just foreshadowing for the public to figure out afterward.

Either way it is pretty cool as Trump had to have done it as a kind of cryptic leak of what was coming.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (uEUHC)

59 No matter how robust a system may once have been, none can bear the load of this kind of criminality.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (BI5O2)

And it is peculiar of most communist systems. 'We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.' The system becomes more and more graft and black market, and the. The whole thing collapses.

I really would like good info from China. I am curious how a long term fascist system works and that is the longest running example.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:13 PM (zZu0s)

60 It will be to our country's enduring embarrassment and shame that even a single Somali was ever allowed into this country for any reason. Ditto a single "Palestinian."

I don't know which is worse. That's like trying to decide whether you'd rather choke to death on vomit or diarrhea. They are both the absolute worst subhuman scumbag repulsives that ever walked the face of modern Earth.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

61 I don’t care about legal status.

Send them all back to Somalia and they can reapply for entry. They have to prove citizenship, have a transferable skill, read and write in English and agree to never accepting Medicaid, Section 8 or SNAP benefits. Even the chirren. Not another dime.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 02:13 PM (W2Pud)

62 Man, am I gonna miss these deformed waterheads.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 02:13 PM (XCUp7)

63 what were the MN US Attorney's doing before they quit"

Each other?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (XuXeR)

64 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's already law"

'Tis. You miss any step or misspoke on applications? You're out.

Next.
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)
________

[Taking notes]

-- Judge Elric "The Catapult" Blade

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

65 I'm trying to resist taking the black pill, but it is a struggle.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (ZxPkt)

66 55 This is - a new thought at the HQ!!! Kudos and Huzzah! Seriously TJM this needs to be said often here. Congress is far too suborned for quick effective action.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (pDt9x)

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I just don't get the energy people expend at Congressmen doing nothing at this point.

The Somali fraud was...fraud. It was all illegal. No new law is going to make it extra illegal.

But, on the other hand, DOJ is largely black box, and people don't even pay attention when DOJ opens up slightly and lets in a peek at what's going on with filings. So, suspicion that nothing is happening abounds until a particular figure in mind is in chains.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

67 So, what were the MN US Attorney's doing before they quit? Sounds like we may have dodged another Uni Party bullet.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 02:12 PM (pLaQB)

They were investigating the Somali fraud. I want to say that they've gotten a bunch of indictments and some convictions. Didn't want to be called meanies for investigating people trying to destroy the country though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

68 Supposedly, it is legally possible to denaturalize someone on grounds of subsequent criminal behavior.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (Jxa0O)

It is. But it’s rare.

Short of being found guilty of being a guard at concentration camp or something it’s almost never done.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 02:15 PM (kgFPv)

69 BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them.
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Yet, they will fight it with their insane zeal and to the death.

Because, they can't afford the precedent.

And because, if they can lose their status due to the President finding a generalized fraud by the community (which they are going to scream is racist), then they also lose their basis for preventing de-naturalization due to the same finding of fraud.

And goodbye Omar ...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (HXT0k)

70 Why would the USA even have a temporary-protected-status for people from a country on a different continent, thousands of miles away? It's insane on its face. Such people should find sanctuary in neighboring states, or at a minimum, on the same continent. Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (nJ/vH)

71 I saw a chart that showed 85% of Somali "Americans" are on some sort of public assistence.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (JOiSJ)

72 >>>Search their bags on their way out:

>Issue machetes so when they land in Somali, they can get back into the fray with a speedy recidivism.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (BSdIE)

73 It is. But it’s rare."

Yep. Very.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (XuXeR)

74 I'm trying to resist taking the black pill, but it is a struggle.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (ZxPkt)
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It's easy if you have no hope in mankind.

Sure, I get riled. Then I realize that no government is going to be perfect, and corruption is natural.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (krQz2)

75 51 I assume that Trump will have difficulties fighting this issue since the MN US Attorney's office got their panties in a bunch and quit rather than investigate insurrection.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

Nah. This should make it easier. Appoint someone who will get the job done. Maybe Sec Rubio? Sec Bessent? Baron?

It is obvious, even to a nitwit like me, that this quitting is surmountable to hiding evidence, knowing the depth of the guilt/fraud and running away like a Walz-ing Matilda. Guilty til proved innocent if you come from MN with a banjo on your knee.

I want the entire state arrested or behind a border. To leave you have to show a passport and birth certificate with correct watermarks.

I am sorry if you live in MN, but that's how I now feel. It looks like it used to be pretty and wholesome there.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (WONhk)

76 good.
moar!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

77 Change almost never comes with one magic silver bullet.

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I'd like to see us try that at least with George Soros.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (vV8zi)

78 Corruption is the agreement of those with power, independent of abstract social principles.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (krQz2)

79
Send them all back to Somalia and they can reapply for entry. They have to prove citizenship, have a transferable skill, read and write in English and agree to never accepting Medicaid, Section 8 or SNAP benefits. Even the chirren. Not another dime.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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What are they going to do when all their bennies get canceled? No more fake daycares, medical transport, etc. Really, what will they do? They barely speak English and they have no work experience or any desire to work.

(Why am I even asking? Of course they'll go on welfare, default on their mortgages, credit cards, and car payments, scream racism, sue, and generally fester.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (Jxa0O)

80 Why would the USA even have a temporary-protected-status for people from a country on a different continent, thousands of miles away"

We needed the money

/affiliated location services

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (XuXeR)

81 Is ol' Blackface Kimmel controversial or disgraced or nah bro

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:18 PM (T+ssH)

82 I am sorry to say that the only way the US will ever get rid of the Somalians (or other muzzies) is the way the muzzies got rid of the Christians and Jews in most of the Middle East.

It involves decades or centuries of lawless terror and economic pressure until they leave.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:18 PM (uEUHC)

83 Short of being found guilty of being a guard at concentration camp or something it’s almost never done.
Yeah, they did that to German ex-pat who was accused of being a guard at some camp. Don't know if it was ever conclusively proven or not, but the guy was otherwise a model citizen, but was de-naturalized and deported anyway.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 02:18 PM (xAP/Y)

84 Then I realize that no government is going to be perfect, and corruption is natural."

This is why the founders tried to limit powers. Worked for a time...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (XuXeR)

85 If you are not corrupt in government you don't advance or you don't last.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (T+ssH)

86 71 I saw a chart that showed 85% of Somali "Americans" are on some sort of public assistence.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 02:16 PM (JOiSJ)

Yes...this was stated in Congress and the dikhead (I am practicing saying this like an Aussie for some reason) in the hearing had excuses. Blah, blah, shut up.

In 10yrs,if memory serves of my quick fly over, 70% of these thugs were still on welfare and free stuff. After a decade they never bothered to try to do anything different. SPIT

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (WONhk)

87 It involves decades or centuries of lawless terror and economic pressure until they leave."

Tell us about it

/Spain, 1492

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (XuXeR)

88 Trump is riffing at top speed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (9ShUO)

89 This is why the founders tried to limit powers. Worked for a time...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (XuXeR)

They were slave owners which is why we need to start over with communists, who don't believe in having slaves.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (T+ssH)

90
Just saw on a X feed that the mullahs are now going "door to door" looking for Starlink devices. They can be located from their transmissions, at least the general area.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (w6EFb)

91 Not so fast

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (VE6XX)

92 Most can not be denaturalized as they are the children of the refugees.

They all had a half dozen or more, and they are citizens. No way to get rid of them.

This is how great nations fall. We have to abandon liberty and equality and outlaw islam, or try to break off the poisoned pieces and survive. This is the start of the end.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (uEUHC)

93 They all had a half dozen or more, and they are citizens. No way to get rid of them."

So, Rome.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:21 PM (XuXeR)

94 >Send them all back to Somalia and they can reapply for entry.
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nah
declare them persona non grata, and put 'em all on one-way flights to Mogadishu

(do those wogs even have a functioning airport?)

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:21 PM (ZxPkt)

95 The mullahs are sons of Satan, who was a liar ( and murderer) from the beginning. Too harsh?

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:22 PM (pDt9x)

96 Left: America is the worst place and everywhere else is better

Also left: if you send them back home it’s a crime against humanity

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 02:22 PM (kgFPv)

97 If you are not corrupt in government you don't advance or you don't last.
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (T+ssH)

Extend that to corporate executive suites also.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:23 PM (g8Ew8)

98 Then I realize that no government is going to be perfect, and corruption is natural."

This is why the founders tried to limit powers. Worked for a time...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (XuXeR)
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That was minimal government. People began to demand more from government.

I really believe that America chose no king, because in a majority of people's eyes *Jesus* was king.

But that solves only what man sees as wrong, and doesn't stop what the proud man doesn't see. So we had injustice that failed to meet our standard.

Which is why IF "MAGA" meant reconstructing any past age of America, I couldn't get behind it. I'm an un-ideological progressive. We should always be trying to make thinks better.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:23 PM (krQz2)

99 Can we try with a lot of silver bullets?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

100 chili today, hot somali tomorrow

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 13, 2026 02:23 PM (CWTWj)

101 >This is why the founders tried to limit powers. Worked for a time...

Posted by: man
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the founders (bless their hearts) assumed people would act honorably

turns out, not so much

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (ZxPkt)

102 She skimmed $80,000
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Enterprising. Vibrant. She was just turning her life around.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (T+ssH)

103
It is. But it’s rare.

Short of being found guilty of being a guard at concentration camp or something it’s almost never done.
Posted by: Really??

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Trump has been making a lot of rare things common. Denaturalizing criminals is like picking up money that's lying on the ground. I hope he does it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (Jxa0O)

104 Go to DC, make bank, and then go to work for the Media and/or government bribers.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (pDt9x)

105 I saw a very important clip of Konstantin Krisin recently. (I can find it if asked.)

He is talking about UK, and basically says it is too late for them, but he seems to hold hope that they can create some kind of "moderate" islamic state where they don't murder all the non-believers.

He talks about Uzbekistan, without noting that the Uzbeks are not Pakis. Not arabs, and were squeezed dry by 60 years of Stalin, and they have not really had a chance to become radical (but they will in time.)

It was very depressing. So KK thinks UK is gone.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (uEUHC)

106
I just don't get the energy people expend at Congressmen doing nothing at this point.

The Somali fraud was...fraud. It was all illegal. No new law is going to make it extra illegal.

But, on the other hand, DOJ is largely black box, and people don't even pay attention when DOJ opens up slightly and lets in a peek at what's going on with filings. So, suspicion that nothing is happening abounds until a particular figure in mind is in chains.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

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Perhaps if Congressmen were loudly verbal about all the fraud and demanding prosecutions.

At this point they are suspiciously silent, which the average citizen will infer that Congress is OK with the fraud and maybe complicit.

I think if they passed a law hiring 85,000 new IRS agents whose sole work is to audit NGOs and government paid service providers, maybe that would help too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (JOiSJ)

107
That update, holy shyt!

I remember that juror bribery thing, but I never knew she had skimmed some of the money!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Jxa0O)

108 If you are not corrupt in government you don't advance or you don't last.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (T+ssH)
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Because corruption is the actual, natural agreement of powers. It is the de facto order.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:25 PM (krQz2)

109 I don't think the founders did assume people would act honorably. They knew people were shit. That's why they tried to hamstring government.

Exactly what BO was bitching about was their intent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

110 I hope Canada welcomes the Somolians with great joy and air freshners and halal.

I figure some are self-deporting there, waiting til they can return to rip us off for more money and benefits. If any actually self-deport back to their home country I'd be shocked. Maybe the rich warlords, but even a few I'd be happy about.

Build a bigger wall to Canada! DEPORT!

If Eisenhower could do it during Operation Wetback, so can the US Military with C-30's. Stack 'em like cordwood. Send them off to see on barges. I don't really care, Margaret, do you? GET OUT!

I am not just talking about the bugeyed inbred Somolians, but ALL illegals. This is a start along with the Alligator Alcatraz and sending to El Salvador. Adios! Good-bye in Somilian! Don't return!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (WONhk)

111 Well, there goes my retirement plan. I was hoping to hook up with a few somali dudes and make them my baby daddies so I could have a bunch of mulatto children to suck the SNAP and welfare benefits off of while getting child support too. Everybody knows those orange babies get paid the most!

Posted by: Karen B. Goode, community activist at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (UDZYq)

112 I remember that juror bribery thing, but I never knew she had skimmed some of the money!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Jxa0O)

She is just as surprised as you are.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (T+ssH)

113 Headline in the last thread, where Bessert says 10% of money is stolen by the government... is that a typo? Did he miss a zero?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (dGCAG)

114 The Squad >>>Pirate Nomads

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (BSdIE)

115 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)

116 Citizenship is citizenship.

If we can denaturalize foreign-born ones, we can and should denaturalize native-born ones. It's high damn time we started.

For much less than we're spending, we could pay some third world country to build a squalid prison camp where the living envy the dead, deport our entire ruling class there, and solve all this crap.

All of them are felons, and none of them are actual Americans. They're Citizens of The World™, and The World™ hates our guts. Deport them all to The World™.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

117 "most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now."

I can hear the Minneapolis AWFLs orgasming over that. It sounds like hyenas at this distance.

Posted by: gp at January 13, 2026 02:27 PM (GHIyr)

118 The muslim population of GB is 6.5%. GB can be salvaged, albeit brutally.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 02:27 PM (rJ48h)

119 Is ol' Blackface Kimmel controversial or disgraced or nah bro
Posted by: ...

Austere political scholar.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

120 They are Citizens Unto New Territory

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:28 PM (T+ssH)

121 March 17th, 2026. The day Trump drives the snakes from America.

Posted by: Wicklow at January 13, 2026 02:28 PM (5CCgW)

122 Just saw on a X feed that the mullahs are now going "door to door" looking for Starlink devices. They can be located from their transmissions, at least the general area.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (w6EFb)

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Since Elon Musk is an Israeli puppet & agent [h/t Candy-O and Cucker Qatarlson], maybe Mossad has rigged those devices to explode a la Hamas pagers & mobile phones?

A man can dream ...

/Make The Stuxnet Virus Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 02:28 PM (vV8zi)

123 My giuess downstairs is closer to %25 stolen eery year

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (Ia/+0)

124
It was very depressing. So KK thinks UK is gone.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

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Very depressing to see a formerly great nation fall, not so depressing for the Brits themselves when you consider they did it of their own free will. I wonder what will happen to the Royal Family, another suicidal institution that will go down sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (Jxa0O)

125 90
Just saw on a X feed that the mullahs are now going "door to door" looking for Starlink devices. They can be located from their transmissions, at least the general area.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:20 PM (w6EFb)
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They serve as their own wifi access points, so yeah it's pretty easy to wardrive and find them.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (5aZAZ)

126 116 Well put.

Posted by: gp at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (GHIyr)

127
If the mullahs fall, that will be the end of the support of a lot of shit-stirrers like Hezbollah and all that crap. I'm trying not get too optimistic, but a Middle East with a liberated "Persia" will be a much better place.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:30 PM (w6EFb)

128 About time, but given large Somali family sizes and the duration TPS has been in place, betcha lots of kids - and even grandkids - both for real and/or those otherwise shifted around & through families so it can't be distinguished who "belongs" to whom.

Anchor babies deluxe = TPS. And/or (like a minimum of 25%) quickly marrying a non-Somali, US citizen spouse.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:30 PM (NFX2v)

129 One million per day. Gee, nothing to see here.

And if that's how much is leaving, think of the scale. I don't think 8 or 9 billion is a high estimate in this fraud.

And how much of that was to import narcotics back into the country.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 02:31 PM (n5tGW)

130 Great to hear, but there are so many announcements like this where I have to ask "what took you so long?"

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 02:31 PM (eIzlH)

131 124

Very depressing to see a formerly great nation fall, not so depressing for the Brits themselves when you consider they did it of their own free will. I wonder what will happen to the Royal Family, another suicidal institution that will go down sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (Jxa0O)

Sadiq Khan. That is all.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:32 PM (pDt9x)

132 106 Perhaps if Congressmen were loudly verbal about all the fraud and demanding prosecutions.

At this point they are suspiciously silent, which the average citizen will infer that Congress is OK with the fraud and maybe complicit.

I think if they passed a law hiring 85,000 new IRS agents whose sole work is to audit NGOs and government paid service providers, maybe that would help too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (JOiSJ)

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They had hearings and everything. They had the theater.

They gave a criminal referral to the DOJ.

They did everything you just demanded of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

133 If Eisenhower could do it during Operation Wetback, so can the US Military with C-30's. Stack 'em like cordwood. Send them off to see on barges. I don't really care, Margaret, do you? GET OUT!

I am not just talking about the bugeyed inbred Somolians, but ALL illegals. This is a start along with the Alligator Alcatraz and sending to El Salvador. Adios! Good-bye in Somilian! Don't return!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:26 PM (WONhk)
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1) Confiscate sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers
2) Offload oil in Texas
3) Fill tanker will illegals
4) Sail tanker to [Place not in the United States]
5) Offload illegals
6) ???
7) Profit!

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 02:33 PM (5aZAZ)

134 Trust me...congressmen don't go silent. They won't shut the fuck up.

People just tune them out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

135 Landowning males as voters *was* a good pragmatic basis of stability. But it met up with rhetorical *ideals* and we changed it.

Madison laid out the foundation of "enlightened personal interest" and that was again, like the balance of powers, the forces at work against each other would provide stability. The country run mostly by its primary stake holders, who could engage a positive self-interest, was quite stable.

But that also worked on a "pauper nation". As America grew in strength and power and people, it also grew in rhetoric and egalitarian ideal.

I think modern man has such a hodge-podge of ideas of "What made America great" that we're bound to create the current mishmash.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:33 PM (krQz2)

136 Legal morons, can our rebellious judges interfere with this ruling?
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (pDt9x)
*******
🎱 Yes

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 02:33 PM (NpAcC)

137
Trump is riffing at top speed
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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It's in the window on Goldie Ghamari's livestream. Chatters are screaming at him to say something about Iran.

So maybe he's got it in the works already. I was impressed to find out how deviously set-up that Maduro-nabbing was.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:34 PM (Jxa0O)

138 They had hearings and everything. They had the theater.

They gave a criminal referral to the DOJ.

They did everything you just demanded of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

But did they roll up their sleeves and write a strongly worded letter ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

139 Perhaps if Congressmen were loudly verbal about all the fraud and demanding prosecutions.

At this point they are suspiciously silent, which the average citizen will infer that Congress is OK with the fraud and maybe complicit.

I think if they passed a law hiring 85,000 new IRS agents whose sole work is to audit NGOs and government paid service providers, maybe that would help too.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 02:24 PM (JOiSJ)

Congress is tasked with shepherding the taxpayers' money, to goods and services for the benefit of the taxpayers.

That's not what we have. What we have are people who get bought by all the various factions that buy them, so said congresscritters can funnel taxpayers' money to the entities that own them.

Complaining that DOJ isn't arresting and prosecuting all the fraud and waste going on is like opening your sheep pen to the pack of wolves, and blaming the sheepdog when your sheep are devoured.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2026 02:34 PM (dGCAG)

140 > I wonder what will happen to the Royal Family, another suicidal institution that will go down sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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So far, they seem content to kick back and watch it happen, sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.

But if the mohammedan mayor of London becomes Prime Minister- and it looks like that's his plan- the royals better have a bug-out plan.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:35 PM (ZxPkt)

141 March 17th, 2026. The day Trump drives the snakes from America.

Posted by: Wicklow at January 13, 2026 02:28 PM (5CCgW)

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We're gonna need a bigger sea ...

/St. Trump would be subsequently remembered, celebrated, and symbolized as "The Whore-Thief Drover."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 02:35 PM (vV8zi)

142 140 So far, they seem content to kick back and watch it happen, sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.

But if the mohammedan mayor of London becomes Prime Minister- and it looks like that's his plan- the royals better have a bug-out plan.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:35 PM (ZxPkt)

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I have seen no evidence that the entire royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, did not approve of the Islamification of their nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

143 Anyone here think this letter of support makes Fed Chair Powell look good?

https://tinyurl.com/yrxfkk9a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:37 PM (xZEBF)

144
I have seen no evidence that the entire royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, did not approve of the Islamification of their nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I'm pretty sure King Charles (including when he was Prince) actively did.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:37 PM (Jxa0O)

145 (do those wogs even have a functioning airport?)
Posted bguillotine?

For what?

Posted by: A. Pinochet at January 13, 2026 02:38 PM (53dlK)

146 It's in the window on Goldie Ghamari's livestream. Chatters are screaming at him to say something about Iran.

So maybe he's got it in the works already. I was impressed to find out how deviously set-up that Maduro-nabbing was.

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Airspace over I-ran looks pretty empty right now...all flight are rerouted through... elsewhere, airspace between Bagdad and Iran has been shut.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (g47mK)

147 A muslim Prime Minister defenestrating the royal family will cause a civil war.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (rJ48h)

148 But did they roll up their sleeves and write a strongly worded letter ?"

Of course not. We're not barbarians.

/

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (XuXeR)

149 Yeah, they did that to German ex-pat who was accused of being a guard at some camp. Don't know if it was ever conclusively proven or not, but the guy was otherwise a model citizen, but was de-naturalized and deported anyway.
____

Not sure if you are thinking of the same guy, but there was a John Demjanjuk who was an autoworker in Cleveland, and was a Ukrainian conscript in the German army who may or may not also have been a concentration camp guard.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)

150 Very depressing to see a formerly great nation fall, not so depressing for the Brits themselves when you consider they did it of their own free will. I wonder what will happen to the Royal Family, another suicidal institution that will go down sipping tea and wearing lovely hats.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:29 PM (Jxa0O)

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Fascism didn't die in WWII. It simply metastasized into all European states.

I've had Europeans tell me that there is *no party* as "right" as the American "right". So, I would argue that there is no *real* opposition in Britain that says if the State reaches a consensus, it can do it--no matter what "it" is.

And with the state of the UK doling out ridiculous socialism, including feeling the burden to a duty to people who have *physically* wrecked their state-given housing to give those people new houses.

Gentile said that fascism is necessarily socialistic, and Mussolini, his pupil, said the same. Thus you have socialism with unlimited state power, which is basically functional fascism. Or at least the same power dynamic that it shouldn't be considered that much greater than that now defamed *term*.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (krQz2)

151
Elica Le Bon's X feed:

https://is.gd/NfIYTk

She's the daughter of Iranian "diaspora" parents, those who had to bug out when the mullahs took over. Very informative.

And the fact that she's smokin' hot has nothing to do with my interest in her commentary....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (w6EFb)

152 Overruled!

Posted by: Random Hawaiian judge at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (y9ksN)

153 muslim Prime Minister defenestrating the royal family will cause a civil war."

Where?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (XuXeR)

154 I have seen no evidence that the entire royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, did not approve of the Islamification of their nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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They live in such a bubble that they have no concept of reality at all. They see the royalty of the islamic world, and think "they are just like us, only they dress different."

So yeah, she probably allowed it thinking it was no big deal -- just a different bunch of revolting peasants. But mostly I blame Charles.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (uEUHC)

155 When it comes to balloon-head pirates, change could be effected with regular lead bullets. No need to spring for expensive silver.

Posted by: David Gillies at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (Czfxu)

156 147 147 A muslim Prime Minister defenestrating the royal family will cause a civil war.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (rJ48h)

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With the Royal Family choosing to side with the Muslim PM.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

157 Such a large haul. Those involved should hang. Pardens only go so far.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 13, 2026 02:40 PM (EyfuW)

158 148 Ha!

Posted by: gp at January 13, 2026 02:40 PM (GHIyr)

159 "Sleeves are going to roll!" -- Jim "Google" Jordan

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (krQz2)

160 Two different nation situations are exhibited now. Those who voted for their oppressors, and those who did not. I can’t view them the same way.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (pDt9x)

161 Elica Le Bon's X feed:"

Hot. Much better than Simon...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (XuXeR)

162 >>>We're gonna need a bigger sea ...

/St. Trump would be subsequently remembered, celebrated, and symbolized as "The Whore-Thief Drover."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth'

>I'm thinking we could put orange dye in our beer and rivers. The Paddys might not like that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (BSdIE)

163 Back in the nineties QEII went to a mosque and was shown how to pray to Allah. Always admired the old bird but that should have been a sign of things to come for the Brits

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 02:43 PM (9ShUO)

164 162

>I'm thinking we could put orange dye in our beer and rivers. The Paddys might not like that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (BSdIE)

Feature not a bug.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:43 PM (pDt9x)

165 1) Confiscate sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers
2) Offload oil in Texas
3) Fill tanker will illegals
4) Sail tanker to [Place not in the United States]
5) Offload illegals
6) ???
7) Profit!
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 02:33 PM (5aZAZ)
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Another example of why Ace and his Morons should be in charge of this country, then the world.

I want them GONE. And I don't have to deal with them. Just seeing the inbred Somolians gives me the creeps. Seeing the empty "daycares" ticked me off.Same for the fake other stuff in MN.

Seeing ALL Biden's little network of thieves and traitors who did is coming to light. Pus does rise to the top eventually, if not absorbed by the body.

He is not above arrest, either, if he can attend Caroline Kennedy's daughter's funeral. Oh, sure, he can be retarded and demented in the hearing. But his autopen signed these grants for starters. Every Congress Creep who helped sign the grants for illegals and a rocket factory in a house needs arresting.

In other words, arrest all in DC until they prove they are not making millions on their salary.

I seem to be in a mood that needs to change to be productive today.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:43 PM (WONhk)

166 Everybody knows Churchill's quote about the worthless Muslims. But the context is important. He was always perplexed by the Arabophilia of his own countrymen, and trying to set the record straight.

This has been a problem in England going back a very long time. They have a fetish for Muslims.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:43 PM (BI5O2)

167 People mag deleted that awful article

I guess they heard it!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (emBoF)

168 I would easily imagine King Chuck start going to a Mosque on Fridays

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

169 "I'm thinking we could put orange dye in our beer "

Blue Moon. It's like it's got citrus pulp in it.

Posted by: gp at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (GHIyr)

170 >>>I'm thinking we could put orange dye in our beer and rivers. The Paddys might not like that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:42 PM (BSdIE)

It would make the Dutch proud. Screw them, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

171 Gentile said that fascism is necessarily socialistic, and Mussolini, his pupil, said the same. Thus you have socialism with unlimited state power, which is basically functional fascism. Or at least the same power dynamic that it shouldn't be considered that much greater than that now defamed *term*.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:39 PM (krQz2)

I've seen a few vids recently, of young, hard looking German dudes walking through areas of Berlin, and being told by swarthy fellas that they can't film here.

To which the young Aryan men reply "Don't tell me what I can and can't do in my own country."

Has me wondering, what would it take for the Hun to rise again, and be the bloodthirsty slaughterers they once were.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (dGCAG)

172 From his travels of the world, Scalia said that the one thing no other country got was "separation of powers".

Why would you try to slow down the efficacy of the government?

No other country understands that--and the people in this country that covet the governments of other countries don't either.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (krQz2)

173 He was always perplexed by the Arabophilia of his own countrymen, and trying to set the record straight."

Oooooh... T.S. Lawrence time!

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (XuXeR)

174 Saudi money has kept Ol Blighty afloat for a long time now.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (0KSrI)

175 See at Legalinsurrection.com Scott Adams passed away
Sad

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)

176 I think King Charles is a wimp who believes he will be eaten last.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 02:45 PM (/sySz)

177 If the mullahs fall, that will be the end of the support of a lot of shit-stirrers like Hezbollah and all that crap. I'm trying not get too optimistic, but a Middle East with a liberated "Persia" will be a much better place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:30 PM (w6EFb)

It's why I don't think the Iran mullahs will fall. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Erdogen have too much riding on Iran's status quo.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:45 PM (g8Ew8)

178
See at Legalinsurrection.com Scott Adams passed away
Sad
Posted by: Skip

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See at ace of spades headquarters, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:46 PM (Jxa0O)

179 Qatar is about to become a lot poorer...

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 02:46 PM (g47mK)

180 7 BTW, most Somalis are, unfortunately, citizens by now. This doesn't affect them. Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

Doesn't matter. Any Somali American convicted of a crime should be denaturalized and deported.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:46 PM (tV890)

181 >This has been a problem in England going back a very long time. They have a fetish for Muslims.
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maybe it was that whole 'Lawrence Of Arabia' thing

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 02:46 PM (ZxPkt)

182 Al Thani scum is worried. Too late sharmuta.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (g47mK)

183 The way the Brits fawned over the Arabs you realized they all wanted to be buggered in the desert by Omar Sharif

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (9ShUO)

184 With all this attention about Somali day care center in Minneapolis, have any of these snoopers on the left and right bothered to interview legitimate day care centers in the city and suburbs? Asking parents how much they're paying for their kid(s)' care? What about the non-swindling MN day care centers? Are they happy about the crackdown?

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

185 If the mullahs fall, that will be the end of the support of a lot of shit-stirrers like Hezbollah and all that crap. I'm trying not get too optimistic, but a Middle East with a liberated "Persia" will be a much better place.

Persia and Venezuela being liberated puts a big squeeze on both Russia and China, as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (2ocoG)

186 139 Perhaps if Congressmen were loudly verbal about all the fraud and demanding prosecutions.

Posted by: BurtTC

Few would fuss.

Minnesota's legislature failed to agree on redistricting maps so in 2022, the Minnesota Supreme Court appointed a special panel to draw the maps, following criteria for population fairness. (The panel was led by retired Justice Lorie Gildea who retired Oct 2023.)

Final congressional and state legislative maps were released in February 2022, setting boundaries for the 2022-2032 decade.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (NFX2v)

187 See at ace of spades headquarters, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:46 PM (Jxa0O

If it Wasn't in the Comments, it Wasn't at Ace of Spades (TM)

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (T+ssH)

188 And Bill faces Contemp of Congress, and probably doesn't care because nothing will happen to him and he knows it

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM (Ia/+0)

189
It's why I don't think the Iran mullahs will fall. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Erdogen have too much riding on Iran's status quo.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

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And that right there is why I kind of think they will. Also, do you think the oil-rich Sunni states want Iran to continue in power?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Jxa0O)

190 143 Anyone here think this letter of support makes Fed Chair Powell look good?

https://tinyurl.com/yrxfkk9a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:37 PM (xZEBF)

Very interesting. There is a lot of talk of Fed independence, but not a lot of talk about independence from whom.

By the way, there is no publicly available document that shows what the DOJ sent to Powell. All we have right now is his side of the story. He has had all this time to set the narrative that everyone in DC has their knickers in a twist over. He'd better hope that the document is as inflammatory as he says it is. Something tells me that it is not. If that's indeed the case, his credibility is toast.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (0CU3H)

191 Not charles, King charly.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (EyfuW)

192 Easy way to become an American citizen - sign up for our years of military duty.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (tV890)

193
2 What happens if they don't leave?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (rZCVI)

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They will be converted. With a good, honest steam powered converter.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (t1fZA)

194 Its hard to catch up on days news headlines all at once.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (Ia/+0)

195 Saudi money has kept Ol Blighty afloat for a long time now."

Oh really?

/ the American taxpayer, now $38 Trillion in debt

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (XuXeR)

196 Let’s not forget, the royals were the same way about Nazis. You would think their go along to get along, oh look, it’s tea time! mentality would have shifted a hair after that experience. But nope. Also, the Muslim ties to GB is pretty dang long. Colonialism and all that.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (/sySz)

197 194 Its hard to catch up on days news headlines all at once.
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (Ia/+0)

You're not telling me you have a life outside of here are you ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (VE6XX)

198 Has me wondering, what would it take for the Hun to rise again, and be the bloodthirsty slaughterers they once were.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2026 02:44 PM (dGCAG)
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A culture birthed the ruthless warlike Germans. They have fully another culture now. I don't think we'll see it again.

In order to attain peace, the Germans had to take the blame for WWI, and that costs them so much in reparations to other countries that a resentful faction rose to power. One country was brow-beaten for WWI, when it was just trying to get a jump on the surrounding Russian-Britain-French alliance. Because Russia was threatening to invade allied Austria for backlash at Slavs killing their ruler.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:50 PM (krQz2)

199 189
It's why I don't think the Iran mullahs will fall. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Erdogen have too much riding on Iran's status quo. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Turkey is a different flavor of Islam - no love lost for the Persians. In fact generally speaking, Arabs hate Persians and vice versa.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:50 PM (tV890)

200 Britain has always had a passion for Exotics. Some Americans too, apparently.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

201 This has been a problem in England going back a very long time. They have a fetish for Muslims.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

The Catholics became their enemy when they wouldn't let fat King Henry VIII divorce Catherine of Aragon. I suspect that everything Catholics ever did had to be wrong so therefore them fighting back against the Muslims taking over Christendom was wrong and the love for the enemy of thine enemy was born. I could be wrong.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (Dv3i1)

202 Skinnies must go.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (J15tX)

203 Party 'til you drop!

RT@RT_com
New Year cocktail with liquid nitrogen RUPTURES man’s stomach in Moscow — Baza
At a corporate party the chef told Sergey to drink a liquid nitrogen shot
‘It was nice working with you’ — he jokingly replied
Sergey required immediate hospitalization, narrowly avoiding the worst

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I had a college roommate who had snorted freon straight from the can. He said it was like taking 100 hits of acid at once.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (L/fGl)

204 Very interesting. There is a lot of talk of Fed independence, but not a lot of talk about independence from whom.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (0CU3H)
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*"democracy"*

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (krQz2)

205 And that right there is why I kind of think they will. Also, do you think the oil-rich Sunni states want Iran to continue in power?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Jxa0O)

Hmm. Good point. I'll have to think about it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:52 PM (g8Ew8)

206 The left: We need to let these Somalis in they are facing horrible persecution and crime.

The right: From who?

The left: From the Somalis!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 02:52 PM (sKqQm)

207 Iran government could definitely fall, their other armies will get choked off and not much they can do. Some are probably in Iraq
killing protesters now anyway to save their paymasters.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Ia/+0)

208 204 Very interesting. There is a lot of talk of Fed independence, but not a lot of talk about independence from whom.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (0CU3H)
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*"democracy"*

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (krQz2)

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The people should have no say in the government's ability to print money. For democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

209 >>> Qatar is about to become a lot poorer...

Posted by: runner

>Cucker Tarlson hardest hit? Maybe he's their new face and financing their propaganda machine...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (BSdIE)

210 Citizenship should only be given to foreigners that serve in the legions for 20 years.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (qFwJc)

211 40% FOR THE BIG GUY does not have the same zing.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (cS1cw)

212
It looks like we're going to need an expedited denaturalization process.

Something needs to be done about these degenerated federal judges.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (HLgI3)

213 Take my word for it, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (g47mK)

214 Too many Somalis were living legal, law abiding, productive lives. So he ends TPS, now they are illegal and ICE can manhandle, abuse deport. Trump is making illegal aliens.

Looks like Trump has found his Jews. Creating the problem to solve it is a strategy not random occurrence. Show your followers you get things done, and gain their support. Horrible!

Is it possible that we can’t get even a single day of respite? :-(

Somalis specifically because a lot of them live in Minneapolis. They want to really let ICE off the chain in that city so they can hopefully get a good little riot going. This is after all the same city that rioted after George Floyd. Ideally, they can get the military involved. If all they accomplish is that it makes it harder for democrats to win an election there, that’s fine too.

I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working. Like any group of people, there are bad eggs, but the vast majority are good people who don’t deserve this. My heart breaks that they are being targeted this way. It’s pure racism.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

215
Elica above makes the point that Iranian culture is not the same as the barbaric stone-age Arab/Muslim culture, loves to point out they are descended from Cyrus the Great (who freed the Jews from captivity to go back and start the Second Temple) and all that.

She prompted me to get interested in that (and again, had nothing to do with how hot she is). The Arabs conquered them in 651 AD, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (w6EFb)

216 Very interesting. There is a lot of talk of Fed independence, but not a lot of talk about independence from whom.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 02:48 PM (0CU3H)
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*"democracy"*
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (krQz2)
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All the Somalis and the Fed board are asking for is to be simply left alone. "Leave us alone! There's nothing to see here! Why are you just standing there? Go away!"

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 02:54 PM (rj6Yv)

217 188 And Bill faces Contemp of Congress, and probably doesn't care because nothing will happen to him and he knows it
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:47 PM

Bill is old and frail. He is not long for this world. His judgement is coming whether he likes it or not. He is quiet, unlike the shrew he is married too. She is the one I want to see afraid of the gallows.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 02:54 PM (/sySz)

218 Henry VIII wanted the lands. Downtown Abbey, Northhanger Abbey, etc.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 02:54 PM (qFwJc)

219 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working. Like any group of people, there are bad eggs, but the vast majority are good people who don’t deserve this. My heart breaks that they are being targeted this way. It’s pure racism.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz

F' off

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 02:54 PM (VE6XX)

220
Very depressing to see a formerly great nation fall, not so depressing for the Brits themselves when you consider they did it of their own free will.

After we saved their asses from their own fuck ups for the second time in the 20th Century, they lost their colonial empire, so they decided that it was their right to stealth-colonize the US and lead us by the nose. Took 'em awhile to get it going though. They've been fucking around with our elections for decades, and really got going on that part of the project by Chocolate Fonzie's second term. And it wasn't the Paki Brits who were doing it.

Fuck the Limeys

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 02:54 PM (y9nCu)

221 214 Somalis specifically because a lot of them live in Minneapolis. They want to really let ICE off the chain in that city so they can hopefully get a good little riot going. This is after all the same city that rioted after George Floyd. Ideally, they can get the military involved. If all they accomplish is that it makes it harder for democrats to win an election there, that’s fine too.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

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Why are there no riots in Dallas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

222 Good news, everyone. ICE agents are the new minotaurs.

bug girl
@buggirl
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Jan 11
stop defending wives of fascists. these women have brains theyre using every day when they date fascists, marry fascists, reproduce with fascists, and then fuck fascists at night with their hands still lathered in the blood of the people whose lives they disregarded to get picked

This has caused a bunch of meme romance novel covers of ICE agents banging Minnesota lesbians, including one where it's a minotaur in an ICE uniform.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)

223 Out of an abundance of Caution, every single illegal alien, foreign national, green card holder, tourist visa holder, students. - just deport EveryBody. Get in Line and re-apply. The USA needs 50 to 60 new citizens annually. Explain why you belong in that number. Lots of folks need denaturing as well. Play time is over

Same same with those granted security clearance and top secret access. Everyone needs to re-submit the entire SF86 all over again, on a case by case basis.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (n1swJ)

224 The Catholics became their enemy when they wouldn't let fat King Henry VIII divorce Catherine of Aragon. I suspect that everything Catholics ever did had to be wrong so therefore them fighting back against the Muslims taking over Christendom was wrong and the love for the enemy of thine enemy was born. I could be wrong.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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Last year I read Melmoth the Wanderer - I was surprised at how anti-Catholic it was. It was also a very interesting perspective on the Inquisition. He is not really justified in his criticism of Spain and Rome, just a lot of cheap jibs and in hindsight makes him look petty. (It was written by an Anglican Clergy of some kind, I think.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (uEUHC)

225 If that's indeed the case, his credibility is toast.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Already is. He lied to Senate committee under oath. On several matters regarding renovation costs like the private elevator for VIPs and the rooftop/vip dining area expenditures.

Since he lied there, he is likely to have lied multiple times in the past. Like Deathwheels Karen in Mnpls, he thought he was untouchable and a master of the universe.

Screw him and the mortgage fraud plagiarizing waste of flesh sitting as Fed governor right beside him.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

226 I'd be more interested in how many people we're talking about than the per day amount. Was it 1,000 people over 2 years? 10,000? 50,000?

Posted by: GWB at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (qT5l+)

227 They’re eating the pets!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 02:56 PM (n/9gd)

228 "The Creature of Jeckel Island" is a great book.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 02:56 PM (qFwJc)

229 44 Willowed:

This is what you work your fingers to the bone for. You work to have your money stolen and used by people like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar to purchase offices from which to lord over you and steal more from you. You do it so that foreign swine who wallow in shit and fuck their sisters can live the life of Reilly while you worry about keeping the roof you PAID FOR HONESTLY over your head.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (BI5O2)
_____________________________

The law abiding, tax paying citizen in the US is....(drum roll)....a freakin' Dairy Cow. The government takes your milk every day and gives it to some interloper making hummus flavored milk shakes. All the while, the government purposefully refuses to invoke law and order allowing the various predatory animals to enter the barn at will and cull the herd. And, when you make some noise about it, the DOJ makes a call to Omaha Steaks, and your male cousins disappear.

Moooooooooo.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

230 Podcaster Tom Luongo blames most of the world’s ills on the City of London.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

231 >Too many Somalis were living legal, law abiding, productive lives.

I need the drugs (s)he's taking.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (rJ48h)

232 Too many Somalis were living legal, law abiding, productive lives.

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So that's the problem.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (L/fGl)

233
Don't let the actions of 1 million bad apples smear the 100 who are all right.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (w6EFb)

234 231 >Too many Somalis were living legal, law abiding, productive lives.

I need the drugs (s)he's taking.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (rJ48h)

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85% of a population on public assistance is just proof of their net benefits to American society.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

235 >> Too many Somalis were living legal, law abiding, productive lives.

Haahahahahahahahaha
Haahahahahahahahahaha
Wooooo

*wipes tears*

Spoken like someone who has no idea what they’re talking about.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (aZ9eR)

236 Just saw on X that Germany has ordered all citizens out of Iran immediately

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (h/O4U)

237 This has caused a bunch of meme romance novel covers of ICE agents banging Minnesota lesbians, including one where it's a minotaur in an ICE uniform.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)
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Now you know.

Posted by: The Pompatus of Love at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (rj6Yv)

238 Christian faith is, as some say "a two-edged sword". A good Christian "examines himself" and works on improving himself toward his ideals.

This all went to shit with the secularization of Christianity. Then it became self-criticism on the basis of unfettered secular slogans.

Christ-less Christianity does not work.

This could be a part of what Nietzsche saw once Feuerbach had *conceptualized* "God" and that settled through German culture. Worshipping a "dead god" made the society *weak*.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (krQz2)

239 Right Angle News Network
@Rightanglenews

- A white liberal woman is being absolutely humiliated online after going bald for Renee Good, but she couldn’t even bother to look up her name before cutting off her hair and posting it because she completely got it wrong, calling her Renee Cook.

https://tinyurl.com/2r4xfmyb

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

240 I recall high school, and my school was flooded with Vietnamese boat people. Every one spoke perfect English, Every one was at the top of their class. All graduated to be doctors and lawyers.

Same with my dad when he came over from the Soviet Union - he either spoke English and made good grades, or his dad would beat his ass.

It's not the immigrant, it's the culture. Somalis come from a culture that has been taking international aid for generations. It's how they think the world works.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (tV890)

241 You import Third-World shithole folks, you become a Third-World shithole.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (qFwJc)

242 It's why I don't think the Iran mullahs will fall. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Erdogen have too much riding on Iran's status quo. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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When a regime brings in outside oppressors, that means the end of regime credibility. And they usually fall shortly afterwards.

Plus, Arabs dislike and hate Persians and vice versa. Oil and water so using Arabs from abroad to repress Persians is likely not to work out the way the mullahs want.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (WDjG6)

243 Somewhere, week in pictures or a like blog
Don't let the 97,654 Somalians ruin it for the 10 law abiding ones

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Ia/+0)

244 Somalia is very pretty. If they could out of their own way, they could be a tourist destination for the rich and famous. They already have some of this going on, which reinforces why they do not need protected status here.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (/sySz)

245 Why are there no riots in Dallas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

Or Miami? Or Tallahasse? Or even Austin? It is pretty wacky.

I will also point out the irony that Hispanics were the face of under the table migrants and yet which ones are we hearing about?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

246 239 Right Angle News Network
@Rightanglenews

- A white liberal woman is being absolutely humiliated online after going bald for Renee Good, but she couldn’t even bother to look up her name before cutting off her hair and posting it because she completely got it wrong, calling her Renee Cook.

https://tinyurl.com/2r4xfmyb
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

Somali level retardation there.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (pDt9x)

247 Podcaster Tom Luongo blames most of the world’s ills on the City of London.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
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London is a hub of a lot of the historical errors of government.

But I think that's just hyperbolizing a fair point.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:00 PM (krQz2)

248 It's not the immigrant, it's the culture. Somalis come from a culture that has been taking international aid for generations. It's how they think the world works.
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Wait, what?
-US Citizen and 3rd generation recipient of Great Society welfare program

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 03:00 PM (Dv3i1)

249 242 When a regime brings in outside oppressors, that means the end of regime credibility. And they usually fall shortly afterwards.

Plus, Arabs dislike and hate Persians and vice versa. Oil and water so using Arabs from abroad to repress Persians is likely not to work out the way the mullahs want.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (WDjG6)

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Plus their currently is now worthless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

250 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 13, 2026 03:01 PM (83gwN)

251 >>>It's not the immigrant, it's the culture. Somalis come from a culture that has been taking international aid for generations. It's how they think the world works.

come from a continent that thinks like that

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2026 03:01 PM (jGJov)

252 Podcaster Tom Luongo blames most of the world’s ills on the City of London.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

I would laugh, but he has some interesting logic there.
What is fascinating is who agrees with him, and what their track records seem to be.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:01 PM (rbvCR)

253 I should go get truck filled up
Back in awhile

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)

254 >>>It’s pure racism.

>I love this. Just as entertaining as when people claim "always" and "never". You're limited time on this rock does not make you an expert on anything.

Spoken and written language is an interesting but restrictive, linear medium.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (BSdIE)

255 >It's not the immigrant, it's the culture. Somalis come from a culture that has been taking international aid for generations. It's how they think the world works.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (tV890)

Not all cultures are equal. When you import members of a 5th century death cult, you get the corresponding culture.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (NgqoH)

256 236 Just saw on X that Germany has ordered all citizens out of Iran immediately
Posted by: PA Dutchman
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Up until Trump's new tariff, Germany was the biggest trading partner in Europe for Iran. Screw them and their rotten support for tyrannies.

I suspect a lot of trading partners are stopping, not for morals, but because the Iranian rial is now worth nothing. That is why the regime is desperate, they bought off the people with money and now that is gone for the short run because it is worthless. The bazaars are shut down for days now as well which presaged the fall of the Shah.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (WDjG6)

257 229 44 Willowed:

This is what you work your fingers to the bone for. You work to have your money stolen and used by people like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar to purchase offices from which to lord over you and steal more from you. You do it so that foreign swine who wallow in shit and fuck their sisters can live the life of Reilly while you worry about keeping the roof you PAID FOR HONESTLY over your head.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (BI5O2)
_____________________________

The law abiding, tax paying citizen in the US is....(drum roll)....a freakin' Dairy Cow. The government takes your milk every day and gives it to some interloper making hummus flavored milk shakes...

Moooooooooo.
Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

Howard Lutnick makes a great point in his All-In interview with Chamath (released last Friday). When this country was built with immigrants a century-plus ago, there was no gov't support for them. They either made it or went back to their home countries. Now, immigrants come here and they get all the bennies that citizens get. If you come illegally, it's even worse. Today's system is made for failure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (0CU3H)

258 Its hard to catch up on days news headlines all at once.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:49 PM (Ia/+0)

The key to following the news is realizing it never really changes. Just the names and dates.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (T+ssH)

259 OT but spot silver price is now 87.34.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

260 London is a hub of a lot of the historical errors of government.

But I think that's just hyperbolizing a fair point.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:00 PM (krQz2)

The problem with "mistakes were made" is that it would indicate some of the mistakes being positive for someone other than them.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (rbvCR)

261 Lights out at the Walton house.
Gnite pumpkin.
Daddy, are you breeding out mama again?
Good night pumpkin.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM (Kt19C)

262 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)
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With ~68% of the men on unemployment/AFDC.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:03 PM (krQz2)

263 Look, imagine for a moment you are a Somali American who participated in fraud.

Your options are:

1) Stay and hope you don't get caught.
2) Sell everything and move to Somali or somewhere else in Africa where you will live like a king.

These prosecutions may lead to a LOT of Somalis voluntarily relocating.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 03:03 PM (tV890)

264 Good news, everyone. ICE agents are the new minotaurs.

Oh thank goodness. At least this isn’t beastiality!

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 03:04 PM (/sySz)

265 213 Take my word for it, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.
Posted by: runner
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I am praying everyday that will be so.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:04 PM (WDjG6)

266 >85% of a population on public assistance is just proof of their net benefits to American society.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

Many of them have been here for a decade...and they still can't/won't speak English. Denaturalize and ship 'em all back beginning with their retarded Congressional rep.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 03:04 PM (NgqoH)

267 Oh thank goodness. At least this isn’t beastiality!
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 03:04 PM (/sySz)

I think they were saying minotaurs dressed as ICE.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (zZu0s)

268
I am praying everyday that will be so.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:04 PM (WDjG6)

God spared Trump for a reason. What that is may not be completely clear for a decade or more.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (T+ssH)

269 > Take my word for it, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.
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I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

270 ICE-milking Minnesota Lesbians.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (krQz2)

271 "Today's system is made for failure."

exactly. designed for that purpose by our enemies.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (Cjt/F)

272
It's not the immigrant, it's the culture. Somalis come from a culture that has been taking international aid for generations. It's how they think the world works.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (tV890)

Close. It's not that they think the world works this way. They think that the world revolves around THEM, that they deserve to receive cash simply for being Somali.

In Mark Bowdon's Blackhawk Down, the last chapter talked about how the world had basically forgotten that Somalia even existed a couple of years later, but the Somalis were convinced that the world was hanging on, intensely interested in which gang currently controlled the street outside of Abdi's Cellphone Emporium and Internet Cafe in Mogadishu. Arrogant fucks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (y9nCu)

273 244 Somalia is very pretty. If they could out of their own way, they could be a tourist destination for the rich and famous. They already have some of this going on, which reinforces why they do not need protected status here.
Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 02:59 PM (/sySz)
______________________________

It's very much the same with Yemen (maybe even more so). Some of the islands in the Socotra Archipelago are absolutely breathtaking. And, could all be converted to resorts that rivaled Bora Bora. The Socotra has these blood red Dragon Blood trees and pristine white sand beaches. In truth, it could be the closest thing to paradise on Earth. If it weren't for the relatively close inbred, violent prone residents of the region.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

274
Hillary Clinton friend and fundraiser Mike Tomlin just quit.

Terry Bradshaw celebrates, then has to ask who he is again.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (Y8DZL)

275 The law abiding, tax paying citizen in the US is....(drum roll)....a freakin' Dairy Cow. The government takes your milk every day and gives it to some interloper making hummus flavored milk shakes...

Moooooooooo.
Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

That is one of the fundamental changes in the philosophy in governance when the US switched to Income Tax from principally Tariff based financing.
The citizen became a source of revenue, and the state became the rentier directly on the lives of the individual --which suppresses productivity -- instead of focusing on raising revenue from imports which has the unfortunate side effect of raising productivity within the US economy.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (rbvCR)

276 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working.

Like any group of people, there are bad eggs,

With 81% on welfare, no, you didn't.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (pkq24)

277 @AdamSchefter
·
1h
Breaking: After a historic 19-season run in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin just informed his team that he is stepping down as the Steelers head coach, sources tell @JFowlerESPN
and me.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2026 03:07 PM (ZxPkt)

278 >I think they were saying minotaurs dressed as ICE.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (zZu0s)

Oh...my...*fans self

Posted by: Karen McAwful at January 13, 2026 03:07 PM (NgqoH)

279
OT but spot silver price is now 87.34.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM

and WTI is $58.75 / bbl

the world: it done inverted

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 03:07 PM (tljrc)

280 203. I had a college roommate who had snorted freon straight from the can. He said it was like taking 100 hits of acid at once.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Intentionally inhaling refrigerants can cause asphyxiation. Guess that's where the feeling of taking 100 hits of acid at once came from.

Inhaling helium, especially from a pressurized tank, can cause a stroke. (Happened to a friend's teenaged daughter helping to prepare for prom. She died.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 03:08 PM (NFX2v)

281 ICE minotaur meme thread:
https://tinyurl.com/mpn3pmz7

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 03:08 PM (2ocoG)

282 The investigative reports state that most of these cash transports were carried by Somali-American couriers on flights to Somalia or other Middle Eastern destinations. The cash was legally declared (as required for amounts over $10,000 under U.S. law), so no immediate seizures or arrests occurred at the airport.
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If only half the estimated $9,000,000,000 was smuggled out of the country - that's $4,500,000,000. How many couriers is that over a year? Or even 10 years? How many TSA and Customs employees just shrugged their shoulders and went to work for these people? Never filled out that form myself, but usually the Fed documentation wants to know your final destination. Did all those couriers lie?

Must be a sketchy MSP Airport "thing".

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

283 God spared Trump for a reason. What that is may not be completely clear for a decade or more.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 03:05 PM (T+ssH)
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It might only be a glimpse into what actually comprises American government.

Before I observed an abstract principle than man-lead government was no solution. No there is an active disbelief in any proposed government solution.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:09 PM (krQz2)

284 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working. Like any group of people, there are bad eggs, but the vast majority are good people who don’t deserve this. My heart breaks that they are being targeted this way. It’s pure racism.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)
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Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the mostest

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

285 If it weren't for the relatively close inbred, violent prone residents of the region.
Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026

The good, the bad. 😂

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 03:09 PM (/sySz)

286 Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

What is going bald supposed to prove anyway? Some people go bald because of cancer treatments or they're old. How would I know-aside from a virtue signaling video- that you did this for some erratic ICE protester if I just saw you on the street having never watched your video?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (ZeH0U)

287 Must be a sketchy MSP Airport "thing".
Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

I wonder how bribable TSA agents are.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (rbvCR)

288 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working.
Like any group of people, there are bad eggs,

How come there are no hard working minnesotans in somali...

Posted by: Flip It at January 13, 2026 03:11 PM (UDZYq)

289 Must be a sketchy MSP Airport "thing".
Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

I wonder how bribable TSA agents are.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (rbvCR)
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Like any of them can't use a stack of $100 bills.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (krQz2)

290 Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

What is going bald supposed to prove anyway? Some people go bald because of cancer treatments or they're old. How would I know-aside from a virtue signaling video- that you did this for some erratic ICE protester if I just saw you on the street having never watched your video?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (ZeH0U)
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[Perks up]

-- Will Smith

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

291 "223 Out of an abundance of Caution, every single illegal alien, foreign national, green card holder, tourist visa holder, students. - just deport EveryBody. Get in Line and re-apply. The USA needs 50 to 60 new citizens annually. Explain why you belong in that number. Lots of folks need denaturing as well. Play time is over

Same same with those granted security clearance and top secret access. Everyone needs to re-submit the entire SF86 all over again, on a case by case basis.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 02:55 PM (n1swJ)"

this times the total number of employees, fed, state, local.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (Cjt/F)

292 @239 that woman in the vid looks like she's heading for a suicide or an attack on someone. Nose ring, eyebrow ring and deranged unfocused gaze while shaving her head.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (9ShUO)

293 hold the presses !!

report " BREAKING: Trump says U.S. govt is going to “revoke the citizenship of any naturalized immigrant — from Somalia or anywhere else — who is convicted of defrauding our citizens"

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (g47mK)

294 293 hold the presses !!

report " BREAKING: Trump says U.S. govt is going to “revoke the citizenship of any naturalized immigrant — from Somalia or anywhere else — who is convicted of defrauding our citizens"

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (g47mK)

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Yeah, but it doesn't happen often so it's not going to happen now.

That's logic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

295 OT but spot silver price is now 87.34.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 03:02 PM

and WTI is $58.75 / bbl

the world: it done inverted
Posted by: AltonJackson
=========
Silver is a thinly traded market compared to oil. What you have are people convinced that this is Gamestop redux and they could be correct or not about naked shorts needing coverage.

But, anything soaring over 170 percent in one year is not a sustainable market price due to substitution effects and depressing the goods that silver goes into. If you want an inflation hedge, gold right now is the better buy. Silver is a momentum market which turn nasty on the downside.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (WDjG6)

296 The Socotra Archipelago has a high number of endemic species. It’s been called the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

297 Bald is beautiful.

Posted by: Ayanna Pressley at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (UjdFS)

298 292 @239 that woman in the vid looks like she's heading for a suicide or an attack on someone. Nose ring, eyebrow ring and deranged unfocused gaze while shaving her head.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Glazed donut look pumped full of drugs.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:14 PM (WDjG6)

299 that woman in the vid looks like she's heading for a suicide or an attack on someone. Nose ring, eyebrow ring and deranged unfocused gaze while shaving her head.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (9ShUO)
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She's high AF

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

300 Minnesota Reformer, July 2024
Commentary, A Somali-American former investigator: why you’re hearing about fraud in my community

In part, "That covers the desire, and here’s where opportunity comes into play: Minnesota’s public programs don’t adequately guard against organized fraud.

The systems intended to catch fraud are mostly designed to root out recipient fraud. It is exceedingly difficult to guard against providers who collude with recipients, which is the type of fraud most pervasive in the Somali community. It is both time-consuming and resource-intensive to investigate complex fraud schemes involving providers who work with recipients to defraud the government, though investigators have trained their eyes: The charges in the most recent Medicaid fraud case allege that the co-conspirators paid kickbacks to lure recipients to their agency.

Let me explain how providers are often duping or colluding with recipients: Both in tradition and culture, and as refugees living in another country, we are a tight-knit community. We share the same language, culture and faith.

Unlike the wider American society, which is increasingly fractured and mistrustful of each other..."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 03:14 PM (NFX2v)

301 295

But, anything soaring over 170 percent in one year is not a sustainable market price due to substitution effects and depressing the goods that silver goes into. If you want an inflation hedge, gold right now is the better buy. Silver is a momentum market which turn nasty on the downside.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (WDjG6)

Nevertheless, buying it at 17 was pretty nice.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 03:14 PM (pDt9x)

302 299 that woman in the vid looks like she's heading for a suicide or an attack on someone. Nose ring, eyebrow ring and deranged unfocused gaze while shaving her head.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (9ShUO)
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She's high AF

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

======

At least Martin Scorsese made New York New York when he was coked out of his mind.

I mean, it's not good, but it's better than that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

303 Many of the Smellies literally go back home all the time to visit family etc. while collecting their welfare here (80% are on welfare!). So if you can vacation there, you can all move back there. These people are not good neighbors.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (ewjUl)

304 Yeah, but it doesn't happen often so it's not going to happen now.

That's logic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

right?? I mean, a few incidents in the Somali community, but let us not paint with a broad brush!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (g47mK)

305 In truth, it could be the closest thing to paradise on Earth. If it weren't for the relatively close inbred, violent prone residents of the region.
Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

But enough about Oregon, Washington state, and California.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (g8Ew8)

306 >>>Hillary Clinton friend and fundraiser Mike Tomlin just quit.

Terry Bradshaw celebrates, then has to ask who he is again.

Posted by: Auspex

>Good news for the Steelers. That guy was a ham and egger coach that never did anything extraordinary.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (BSdIE)

307 she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000.

-
Where is the trust?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:16 PM (L/fGl)

308 Bald is beautiful.
Posted by: Ayanna Pressley at January 13, 2026 03:13 PM (UjdFS)

——————-

You ain’t! Press your face into the cookie dough and make gorilla cookies.

Posted by: Red Foxx at January 13, 2026 03:16 PM (u73oe)

309
Baldilocks did not look especially "hygiene adjacent" to begin with.

Now she'll have less of herself to clean up each day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (xG4kz)

310 276 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working.

Like any group of people, there are bad eggs,
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With 81% on welfare, no, you didn't.
Posted by: rickb223

He didn't say working hard at legitimate businesses.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (JCZqz)

311

What is despicable is that the performative twats out there defending these thieves are defending them stealing from poor kids.

That doesnt change their minds.

The dnc is a criminal racketeering conspiracy.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (/KJ4a)

312 Poor Rene Cook.

Never stick it in crazy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (ewjUl)

313 I heard someone say that the ICE agent shouldn't have been in front of the car.

You mean like when he crossed the front of it and we got on camera the smile and "I ain't mad at you"?

The vid makes it clear, he didn't stop to stand in front of the vehicle, he was struck as he attempted to circle around, probably to help the guy at the window out.

These people will make up "new rules" just to be able to find some wrong. You can't trust these people.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (krQz2)

314 Lol. She kept almost half.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (zZu0s)

315 Inhaling helium,

Read dentists hitting the nitrous oxide too much develop urinary incontinence.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (Kt19C)

316 The Blade dated a bald Ghanan girl. She was an international model and the clients wanted to customize her look, so it was easier to wear whatever wig they wanted her to.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

317 "Several thousand Somali nationals currently living in the US must leave the country by March 17"

We can drink a couple of green beers to their departure.

Posted by: Joe at January 13, 2026 03:18 PM (Uy/WF)

318 Illegal aliens, fraud, violence, corruption, murder, men in women’s sports, DEI, fiscal chaos.

Democrats are totally winning the midterms. They’re the other white bread.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 03:18 PM (x/Rva)

319 Good news for the Steelers. That guy was a ham and egger coach that never did anything extraordinary.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 03:15 PM (BSdIE)
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Except win a Superbowl.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (krQz2)

320 Yeah, but it doesn't happen often so it's not going to happen now.

That's logic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not logic, naive assumption. Situations are the same until different is another way to put it.

The trick is to figure out when different occurs because then the world appears to go cray cray for a bit until a new equilibrium is reached.

If you like to play with game theory and Bayesian statistics, you can try to work out 'different' and 'stasis' on a prediction chart. FWIW, I think Palantir does something similar but haven't paid much attention to what their predictive models are based upon.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

321 Well this is a big problem

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING: U.S. Secret Service Agent Assigned to VP JD Vance Leaks Sensitive Security Information to Undercover reporter

https://tinyurl.com/3k9j5jts

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (/sySz)

322 Chick from ST the Motion Picture was hot. Iirc, she cried whe. She had to shave her head as she had beautiful hair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (zZu0s)

323 I lived in Minneapolis for a few years and met many Somali people. Very kind and hard working.

Like any group of people, there are bad eggs,

With 81% on welfare, no, you didn't.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 03:06 PM

No shit. Every one I've met have been the rudest people I've ever encountered. They have zero plans of ever being part of the larger community. They are mostly leeches.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (ewjUl)

324 Oh they're working hard all right. To steal everything they weren't already handed on a silver platter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (BI5O2)

325 I heard someone say that the ICE agent shouldn't have been in front of the car.

You mean like when he crossed the front of it and we got on camera the smile and "I ain't mad at you"?

The vid makes it clear, he didn't stop to stand in front of the vehicle, he was struck as he attempted to circle around, probably to help the guy at the window out.

These people will make up "new rules" just to be able to find some wrong. You can't trust these people.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (krQz2)
____

He didn't start out in front of the car or circle around it. He was off to the side. When Dead Dyke backed up initially, it pointed the front of the car right at him. Then she floored it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

326 I wonder how bribable TSA agents are.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (rbvCR)
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Like any of them can't use a stack of $100 bills.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:12 PM (krQz2)
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$100 bills must have been in a helluva demand in MN. Billions of dollars being shifted to Mogadishu from one state? How many $100 notes were floating about MN before 2020? You'd think a sudden demand for C notes in the six figure range would have triggered a four-alarm crisis in the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.

What say you, Mr. J. Powell?

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

327 You set me up with a bald woman!

Posted by: George Costanza at January 13, 2026 03:19 PM (HvW4E)

328 unbelievable a domestic terrorist and would be assassin is dead before she was able to assassinate a Fed Agent , and now they are doing Horst Wessel 2.0

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (g47mK)

329 Tomlin won the Super Bowl in his second year as head coach. It was still a team put together by Bill Cowher. Tomlin was a solid if unspectacular coach

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (9ShUO)

330 Let me guess: the agent leaker was gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (zZu0s)

331
I had a termite infestation. They were hard working, and very polite. They were not rude at all, and day to day, I never saw them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (ES1Rb)

332 316 The Blade dated a bald Ghanan girl. She was an international model and the clients wanted to customize her look, so it was easier to wear whatever wig they wanted her to.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

That was before the term "influencer".

Posted by: Dubai Billionaires at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (JCZqz)

333 Finally, an AWFL says something I agree with!

Check out this weirdo Canadian who believes mowing grass is "violence"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (L/fGl)

334 The problem is that many Trump voters sit on their asses when he's not on the ballot. That's why WI voted for Trump in 2024 and yet lib loons on our State Supreme Court are undoing every reform Walker instituted. If we dont get good turnout in Nov, here comes the impeachment crap again.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 13, 2026 03:20 PM (rvIZ0)

335 316 The Blade dated a bald Ghanan girl. She was an international model and the clients wanted to customize her look, so it was easier to wear whatever wig they wanted her to.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

So, she lives in Canada now, right?

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 03:21 PM (Y8DZL)

336 322 Persis Khambatta. Another hot Persian chick.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

337 *peeks in*
*sees happy story*
*wipes tear*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 03:21 PM (2WIwB)

338 I heard someone say that the ICE agent shouldn't have been in front of the car.

You mean like when he crossed the front of it and we got on camera the smile and "I ain't mad at you"?

The vid makes it clear, he didn't stop to stand in front of the vehicle, he was struck as he attempted to circle around, probably to help the guy at the window out.

These people will make up "new rules" just to be able to find some wrong. You can't trust these people.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM

She also backed up. Look at where he was, it wasn't until she backed up that he was now in front of the car. "Her wheels were turned!" Stand 2 feet in front of a car, especially an SUV or truck, now tell me what ways the wheels are pointing? It's all semantics. She still managed to hit him.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (ewjUl)

339 The Blade dated a bald Ghanan girl. She was an international model and the clients wanted to customize her look, so it was easier to wear whatever wig they wanted her to.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

So, she lives in Canada now, right?
Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 03:21 PM (Y8DZL)
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Scotland, of all places, last time I heard. It's been maybe a year since I saw her.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

340 Somebody should have said " just walk away, Renee"

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (0KSrI)

341 Supposedly, it is legally possible to denaturalize someone on grounds of subsequent criminal behavior.
——

Ain’t it grand how everyone is bending over backwards to cross those t’s and dot those i’s and Follow The Rules

when

The enemy has no rules and is importing an Army by the millions to destroy America as founded. This isn’t the fevered conspiracy theory of whacko right wingnuts, this has been the stated objective for decades by leftists. They said this is what they were going to do, and guess what, they have been doing it. Playing by the “rules” is certainly what has led to this point.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (lf5tB)

342 316 The Blade dated a bald Ghanan girl. She was an international model and the clients wanted to customize her look, so it was easier to wear whatever wig they wanted her to.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
_____________________________

I think I will now refer to myself in the third person. The Orson once saw a bald chick at the bowling alley. There was a mishap, and she got poked in the eye.

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (dIske)

343
Well, Melissa Gilbert's husband has turned himself in. In New Mexico. So he didn't off himself.

And NASA has just announced Feb 6 as the launch date for Artemis II.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (w6EFb)

344 The problem with Karen McAwfl and her KarenStaffel is that they all pride themselves on being good people, who now have an acceptable targe to be horrible at.

When you have groups who pridefully consider themselves to be the Good People who then use an excuse to be terrible and violent, you don't have a mob or even mob leaders, you fundamentally have really shitty and horrible people who have been searching for an excuse to find someone, anyone, they have permission to take out their inner demons on.
They are dangerous because once they have destroyed the "acceptable" target, they will find someone to tell them of another target that is now acceptable

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

345 The vid makes it clear, he didn't stop to stand in front of the vehicle, he was struck as he attempted to circle around, probably to help the guy at the window out.

These people will make up "new rules" just to be able to find some wrong. You can't trust these people.
Posted by: Axeman

He was collecting evidence for obstruction of federal agent charges by video--you show the position of the vehicle, the license plate, any damage to the vehicle, etc. Fast reactions saved him because he was taken a bit unawares. Analysis shows the vehicle went from 0-7 mph in about a second hitting him.

You can see when things go pear shape as he drops his phone which disrupts the video. He is hit and almost within a 1.5 seconds has pulled his gun and fired the first shot into the windshield.

I think that might have been the kill shot hitting either the upper neck or the skull. From what I have read, one shot went into the body of the door, unlikely to be fatal and another was fired from the side through the open window which could have been a fatal shot but trying to hit a moving vehicle from the side is a difficult shot compared with being squared up and shooting through the windshield

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (WDjG6)

346 Somebody should have said " just walk away, Renee"
Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (0KSrI)

Nice earworm!

https://youtu.be/qDfrW5cWqMU?
si=0HVbFS-eUV3Uz6sZ

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (zZu0s)

347 What is going bald supposed to prove anyway? Some people go bald because of cancer treatments or they're old. How would I know-aside from a virtue signaling video- that you did this for some erratic ICE protester if I just saw you on the street having never watched your video?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 03:10 PM (ZeH0U)
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She's an idiot. Most people will think she has cancer or alopecia.
She did this hoping she would become some social media hero, not thinking that instead she would be mocked and laughed at on the internet.

Good luck if she has a job.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (NpAcC)

348
It's not just Somalis here on a "temporary" basis. Haitians, too, and others. In fact, all the expedited temporary visas have gone to people you'd never want in your country in the first place. It's like the whole point of the program.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 13, 2026 03:25 PM (ES1Rb)

349 Ahh, the zombie sneak. Can't be defended against.

WATCH: Stephen A. Said “Charlie Kirk” Had 8 Receptions For 144 Yards In Last Night's NFL Playoff Game 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (L/fGl)

350 And NASA has just announced Feb 6 as the launch date for Artemis II.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (w6EFb)

Please please please, don't put any people in that damn capsule. Make a dry run first.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (g8Ew8)

351 The Bulg likes this idea, too.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

352
This is the way.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 03:27 PM (IifOV)

353 U nas yest’ NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

354 >> Please please please, don't put any people in that damn capsule. Make a dry run first.

Artemis I was a dry run, unmanned that went around the Moon.

I think concerns about the Orion are a bit overblown. The heat shield problem is the worst, but the life support an environmental system concerns are way overblown. I'm not too worried about it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 03:29 PM (w6EFb)

355 352
This is the way.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Polite bouncer way of saying "Get Out!"

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 03:31 PM (Y8DZL)

356 Other workable solutions are exile and defenestrations.

Posted by: Rod at January 13, 2026 03:32 PM (zhWvq)

357 334 The problem is that many Trump voters sit on their asses when he's not on the ballot. That's why WI voted for Trump in 2024 and yet lib loons on our State Supreme Court are undoing every reform Walker instituted. If we dont get good turnout in Nov, here comes the impeachment crap again.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v
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And the state leg and when the GOP held the state Supreme Court, they did nothing to stop the Dems from doing what they did. No redistricting, no impeachment and removal of a Dem Scotus judge, etc. Now they will lose all of Walker's reforms because they just cannot be bothered to fight.

Casual voters see evil shit like the House and Senate voting for billions for refugee settlement, more than the Biden junta got, and doing nothing to stop teh Dems and say why bother.

I am not that way but a lot of normal folks are.

Why bother when the GOP is only half as shitty as the Dems. Plus the GOP state campaign apparatus focus on ads, fliers, and other shit rather than voter harvesting and registering along with GOTV at elections.

Trump fights, far too few of GOP types do.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

358 "The enemy has no rules and is importing an Army by the millions to destroy America as founded. This isn’t the fevered conspiracy theory of whacko right wingnuts, this has been the stated objective for decades by leftists. They said this is what they were going to do, and guess what, they have been doing it. Playing by the “rules” is certainly what has led to this point.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 03:22 PM (lf5tB) "

or as I've been saying for at least a decade now: "the aggressor sets the ROE"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (Cjt/F)

359 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Administration (TSA) flagged approximately $692 million ($342.4 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025) in declared U.S. currency detected in passengers' luggage departing from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)--roughly $1 million per day over the two years--John Solomon, the editor-in-chief of Just the News reports.

Why this country needs to be checking passports, coming AND going.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 03:34 PM (0GYGE)

360 I heard someone say that the ICE agent shouldn't have been in front of the car.

You mean like when he crossed the front of it and we got on camera the smile and "I ain't mad at you"?

The vid makes it clear, he didn't stop to stand in front of the vehicle, he was struck as he attempted to circle around, probably to help the guy at the window out.

These people will make up "new rules" just to be able to find some wrong. You can't trust these people.
Posted by: Axeman

Considering she was parked in the toad for three minutes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 03:41 PM (pkq24)

361 This nutjob, like Rene Good are part of the selfie era. They do these videos and send them to their other social circle "friends" who laud their leftista creds. It's all about me! It's how they get their affirmation. It's the same mentality that prods them to show themselves drinking their Staryucks order like we should care. Everything is about them. Me and more me. it never occurred to them that not only what they were doing was illegal to begin with, but that there would be actual consequences. They live in a world which to them everything is a movie and they are the main actor. They just yell cut when they got their pats on the back and move on to the next thing. But there's no sequel for one of them, because they thought they were above the law, convinced of their righteousness. Why? because they got 427 likes! How could everyone not see they were the hero!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 03:44 PM (ewjUl)

362 You ain’t! Press your face into the cookie dough and make gorilla cookies.
Posted by: Red Foxx at January 13, 2026 03:16 PM (u73oe)

One of the funniest lines every uttered. LOL!! They were great together. Friends since elementary school.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 13, 2026 03:49 PM (5xuJ/)

363 https://tinyurl.com/3k9j5jts

Wow @ 321 Piper.

NO ONE should be held over, in any position anywhere near POTUS or our VP, from the Biden error.

Especially not in the Secret Service.

This is exactly why I pray for our President, VP, their families and friends, and cabinet each night. That any plan against them fail.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 04:07 PM (WONhk)

364 @309 Um, do you have any idea who "Baldilocks" really is?
Because there is a person named that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 13, 2026 04:13 PM (zdLoL)

365 Okay Somalians its time to Pack your Bags and Leave we have had it with your Violent Behavior HIT THE ROAD JACK

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 13, 2026 04:55 PM (wGqjj)

366 Make sure those TPS reports have cover sheets. Otherwise they can't be deported.

Posted by: Flakey Foont at January 13, 2026 06:14 PM (kvDvI)

Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year

I mentioned this on Friday but it's getting more notice now.

Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.
Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
"If we can narrow that number, President Trump asked for a $500 billion increase in the defense budget to fortify the 10 to 20 years of neglect," Bessent told journalist Christopher Rufo in a recent interview.
"If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me."
A GAO analysis found that between $233 billion and $521 billion was lost annually due to fraud during fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
Since fiscal year 2003, improper payments -- separate from fraud -- have likely cost taxpayers about $2.8 trillion, the GAO also found.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Minnesota -- and in another bit of insurrection, Tim Walz refused to provide security for the visiting Secretary.

Bessent says Walz knows what's coming:

When Bessent came for this roundtable discussion, Gov. Tim Walz reportedly didn't guarantee security at the state capitol, which led to Bessent delivering this haymaker:

Tim Walz is a coward. He is a coward. He would not guarantee that the Treasury Secretary would have protection in the Minnesota State Capitol. He's afraid of what is coming.
"He's not gonna be able to hide," he said. "We will get there."

I hope that means an arrest is coming, and in fact I do take him as implying that.

🔥 NEW: Sec. Scott Bessent Says Tim Walz Won�t Be Able to Hide From This Fraud Investigation

�Tim Walz is a coward � He is afraid of what is coming and he's not going to be able to hide.� pic.twitter.com/Qc4tDxJEJz
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 11, 2026

Update on Scott Adams' passing:

This is gross, @nytimes pic.twitter.com/KkC9u2NCiQ
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 13, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (aQ25I)

2 I'm sorry. I saw the NYT headline and Scott Adam's and just skipped over the entire thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (ix8EF)

3 First everyone is named Nick, now everyone is named Scott...

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (T+ssH)

4 NYT's... Go to hell...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (VE6XX)

5 I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

And yes the NYT is a despicable anti American democrat (communist) propaganda outlet.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (xvV+O)

6 100% of the Budget is stolen from the Citizens

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (ZcsJV)

7 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (cYBz/)

8 10% is stolen? Get the fuck out. It's easily triple that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

9 "He's not gonna be able to hide," he said. "We will get there."

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Seems like Trump has staffed up with people whose attitudes are, "Democrats tried to literally assassinate our standard bearer. Let's fuck them up in response."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

10 Way more than 10%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ExV1e)

11 >>I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

I don't know that you are at risk of losing the Showcase Showdown, with that estimate.

I'd hedge my bet to 27%, just to increase my odds of getting there, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ZcsJV)

12 That’s a heeluva Fraudconomy!

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (HvW4E)

13 Bessent for President in 2028!

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)

14 If you stopped the Cliff Hanger at 10%, he'd barely be in the Foothills.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:06 PM (ZcsJV)

15 11 >>I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

I don't know that you are at risk of losing the Showcase Showdown, with that estimate.

I'd hedge my bet to 27%, just to increase my odds of getting there, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ZcsJV)

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I'd imagine 50-60% is fraudulent.

I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

17 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (NcvvS)

18 Shiite Axis of Power kinda explains itself.

In case you don't get it, it's pretty Shiite'y

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (NtVYv)

19 >> You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.

I don't think you can be that forgetful, carrying the ones?

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (ZcsJV)

20 RIP Mr. Adams. I thoroughly enjoyed the Dilbert cartoon strip for years and years. Here's hoping he and Wally are chatting by heaven's coffee urn.

Posted by: A sad day at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (TbWk/)

21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)

22 Ten percent of the DOD budget is

90 billion dollars.

No one outside of the Government has the balls to touch it because they would slam you into a cell in a millisecond.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (rbIOb)

23 10 percent? That's funny.

I bet more than half of every tax dollar collected in the last 50 years wound up in somebody's pocket it was never earmarked to go. I bet more than half of every tax dollar collected was abject fraud.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (TN0g+)

24 Burn it all down.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (W2Pud)

25 10% huh? Sure.

Pull the other one, ok?

(Recall earlier poster comment @ local diners closing due to lost employees. That was also tax dollars)

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (6xRrr)

27 Will Tim Walz do a perp walk or a perp sashay? I bet on the later.

Put him in with a Somalia Bubba in Supermax.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

28 NYT gonna NYT. WaPo has an article trying to shame Erika Kirk for being an advocate for traditional marriage but she's barely been home with her kids the last 5 months.

As everyone is asking, "and what happened 5 months ago that might have caused that?"

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

29 WHy is it always Social Security and Medicare that are running out of money and not welfare, section 8, food stamps (I won't call it S**P), medicaid, foreign aid, and all other handout to non citizens, non payers into the system?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (xvV+O)

30 Now way it's only 5-10 percent.

There is also, sort of the soft fraud, which is marginally illegal or not enforced that is HUGE

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (NtVYv)

31 Wait, so they are going to go after fraud so they can send more money to the Pentagon... the place where they cannot pass an audit?

Uh.... guys?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (mP0Kj)

32
Seems like Trump has staffed up with people whose attitudes are, "Democrats tried to literally assassinate our standard bearer. Let's fuck them up in response."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM

I voted for this

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (tljrc)

33 Willowed:

James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (golfv)
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Live link - NOW:

https://tinyurl.com/uu6b6xu9

10% of the Secret Service agents.... I hope it's ONLY 10%!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (golfv)

34 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (6xRrr)

From your lips to God’s ears.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (0GYGE)

35 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong"

*looks at total wealth surrounding the various Capitols. Yeah, government is where it's at*

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

36
Hell's coming for breakfast, Insurrection Sergeant-Major!

Lose weight now so you'll look better garbed in stripes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (xG4kz)

37 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!

What took so long?

Posted by: The black pillers, who are never happy at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

38 Will Tim Walz do a perp walk or a perp sashay? I bet on the later.
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A hemp necktie jig under the light of a streetlamp.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (xvV+O)

39
21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)

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It creates an ecosystem.

You pay for dozens of levels of hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations that all have the implicit need to support the system that permits their existence, the free market not having the inefficiencies to tolerate them.

USAID was $40 billion a year. That's 5 Hollywoods. Hollywood makes $8 billion in box office sales a year. How persuasive is Hollywood to half the country? How persuasive is an ecosystem 5 times bigger also dedicated to infecting the world with propaganda about the necessity of more government spending?

What about an ecosystem 10 times greater than even that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

40 A fraud within a fraud within a fraud within.....

https://tinyurl.com/uu6b6xu9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (golfv)

41 Elon Musk revealed that Department of Treasury officers go their entire career approving every single payment that comes across their desk. They never deny, even when the payment is going to known fraud groups or known terrorist groups.

I've no idea what percent is fraud, but given that nobody is minding the store, it's got to be a lot.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (Yp6az)

42 Willowed-

Twitchy-

People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)

43 Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.

Triple whatever you think you know.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (pkq24)

44 25 10% huh? Sure.

Pull the other one, ok?

(Recall earlier poster comment @ local diners closing due to lost employees. That was also tax dollars)
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

Yeah, this is like the Government number where we had 11 million illegals living in this country... for like 20 years... even though more illegals came in every year, that number never seemed to go up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (mP0Kj)

45 >>*looks at total wealth surrounding the various Capitols.

2.5 Billion to do some Renovation Work?

That sounds about right.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (ZcsJV)

46 ‘ Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year’

I have no idea how close to right he is about that. But the public will be very willing to believe it .

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (jbnUc)

47 I think 80% of the Federal Budget is misspent, but only 40% of that is outright fraud. The rest does nothing to help America, only the Inside Party.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (u82oZ)

48

"10%" is like "two weeks"

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (rbIOb)

49 The Left looks at fraud like we do a tax cut. They just view it as a form of stimulus that "their tribe" gets as tribute. And that it employs people, circulates in electioneering, etc.

They don't care about the connection to an act of fraud, lying, cheating, etc .They think all capitalism is basically built on the same thing.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (eIzlH)

50 This is gross, @nytimes

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New York Slimes

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (7nfvi)

51 Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

52 James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

I didn't understand O'Keefe's success until I saw a story the other day: in addition to the pizza tracker that determines when something is up at the Pentagon, there's also a gay bar tracker. If the gay bars nearest the Pentagon are dead, something's happening.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

53 So the "10% for the big guy" comment when Biden was in was a kind of foreshadowing?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (O7YUW)

54 16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

If you include all waste, fraud and abuse, I bet the percentage is much higher. Finding out how much money was routed to subversive groups through USAID was just the tip of the iceberg. I suspect a solid plurality of fed money is spent in this fashion.

Posted by: FedGov does not serve the people of the US of A at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

55 52 Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

=======

I'm tellin' ya's.

Targeting letter from the FBI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

56 Where my SNAP at? I need me some food. I need Ranch Doritos. I need some HoHos. I need me some grape Nehi!

Posted by: LaQuisha at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (iu4b5)

57 41 A fraud within a fraud within a fraud within.....

Men will do just about anything for access to...women.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

58 16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

Too many people, especially conservatives, have the attitude of “I voted for the right people. I’m going home now.” Expecting everything to run on autopilot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (0GYGE)

59 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (anQFD)

60 > Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year
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I'm betting it's actually way, way north of 10%

And 100% of my goddamn taxes paid every year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (NwnyJ)

61 I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
_________

Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

62 USAID was $40 billion a year. That's 5 Hollywoods. "

Also explains the entire EV idiocy. The Feds could throw so much cash that they literally swamped the auto industry.

Your tax dollars...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XuXeR)

63 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (iu4b5)

64 What are the odds of graft and corruption in the US Postal Service?

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

65 Scott Adams was cancelled by newspapers. Seem like a badge of honor to me.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (rJ48h)

66 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
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Well, we built an economy on debt expansion, and at some point you run out of fools to borrow more money, so the government has to do it.

Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (vSvIl)

67 You talk to anybody that works in government and is willing to be candid, the amount of fraud is way more than 10%. I legit think it's closer to 40%.

And that trickles to everything, including elections. If million of people can defraud the government of trillions of dollars, you really don't think millions of bullshit names aren't on our voter rolls?

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (eIzlH)

68 What are the odds of graft and corruption in the US Postal Service?

Yes.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

69
Just leaked that Steve Witkoff had a long meeting with Shah, Jr over the weekend.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (w6EFb)

70 One hopes and prays Tampon Timmy’s scalp is just the start of a long and large collection of profoundly deserving scoundrels, thieves, and scrofulous types.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (gToVg)

71 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.
Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (anQFD)

Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (NtVYv)

72 Well, we built an economy on debt expansion, and at some point you run out of fools to borrow more money, so the government has to do it.

Margaret Thatcher out front told 'em, but they weren't listening.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

73 People’s headline described Scott Adams as “disgraced”…. They’re the disgrace.

I somehow missed the kerfuffle when it happened but as I go back and read what he said in context of reading some poll results… his comments were decidedly not racist. The media lies… another day ending in y

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (ZtAny)

74 People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)
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Birds of a feather:

https://tinyurl.com/bh5nyun9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (golfv)

75 DOGE was never allowed to get near Department of War or CIA or NSA.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (anQFD)

76 90% of federal spending is waste, fraud and abuse.

The other 10% is stolen.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (T+ssH)

77 Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

That's how clean Medicaid is. Barely a smidgen of corruption. No kickbacks and bribes here. No sirree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

78 Well, we built an economy on debt expansion"

This. Cannot be overstated. Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

79 Note that is fraud, what about the "waste" and "abuse"?

So by the government's own admission, somewhere between 20% and 30% is just taken never to be seen again.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (Vh9CX)

80 Hehehe...all these Billions floating around, and Biden can't raise enough to construct his "Pop-up Bookmobile."

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (dIske)

81 What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up the holocaust? What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up Stalinn extermination of Ukrainians? What do you expect from the newspaper that covered up Castro‘s Bolshevism?

Posted by: Avi at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (ieodf)

82
I saw the NYT headline and Scott Adam's and just skipped over the entire thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I was hoping to not see any of those filthy obits. Not one, not even a headline or a snippet. I'm sure the WaPo, which canceled him, will be similarly "balanced."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Jxa0O)

83 Scott Bessent is LYING! There's no way it's only 10%.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Dv3i1)

84 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.

You'll find these low effort workers gaming KPIs in civilian life too, but it's much easier to deal with them.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Yp6az)

85 Scott Adams' comic strip Dilbert was widely cancelled by newspapers and dropped by its distributor in February 2023 after he referred to Black people as a "hate group" and advised white people to "get the hell away from Black people" during a YouTube livestream."

Well, ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (NtVYv)

86 10%? It's not nearly as bad as I thouhht.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (9cHSL)

87 did you see the People magazine article/headline on Mr Adams?!?!

DISGUSTING

"Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68"

and the Miss Piggy who wrote that drivel

she looks exactly as you would expect!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (emBoF)

88
Wait, so they are going to go after fraud so they can send more money to the Pentagon... the place where they cannot pass an audit?

Uh.... guys?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (mP0Kj)

Galactic Overlord-level spec ops forces that mow down foreign miscreants like Maduro's Cuban mercenary guards, wiping out the Wagner Group thugs in Syria, flying through the best radars that Russia and China can build without breaking a sweat...

THAT'S how you waste taxpayer money.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (y9nCu)

89 There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

Guarding?

Posted by: Pete B at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (T+ssH)

90 62 I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

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And MN has provided a shining beacon of an example about corruption at the state level. Because voters don't care about state-level corruption when there are squirrels to scream about in DC.

Seriously.

More people are angry at theater votes with no chance of actual passage into law from DC right now than they are even aware of any corruption in their state capitals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

91 I propose the "Claw Back Law"

no statute of limitations on discovered theft of government property...and make it generational

Mitch McConnel will die as a deep multi millionaire, so will Nancy P. All of them need to be doged because most of the piracy is internal.

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (8uzBS)

92 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Jxa0O)

Yep; I'm just avoiding all of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (ix8EF)

93 Can you guess what air force base housing maintenance did when all the work was done and the building cleaned trucks washed etc and it was a nice day?
Yep we would shoot the shit and drink beer.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (anQFD)

94 That's how clean Medicaid is. Barely a smidgen of corruption. No kickbacks and bribes here. No sirree.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

95 Hehehe...all these Billions floating around, and Biden can't raise enough to construct his "Pop-up Bookmobile."

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (dIske)

hehe, hehe, Beavis, he said Pop-up

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (NtVYv)

96 Walz is a fucking dirtyass simppig

soypig

cuckedpig

Whichever is the greatest insult

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (REq0p)

97 hey how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (emBoF)

98 10% is stolen? Get the fuck out. It's easily triple that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

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That is my estimate as well and not to be confused with spending on stupid things we could definitely do without.

Posted by: Decaf at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (Z8jzG)

99 Trump at 2.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (9cHSL)

100 What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up the holocaust? What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up Stalinn extermination of Ukrainians? What do you expect from the newspaper that covered up Castro‘s Bolshevism?
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Chiang in Formosa. Yugoslavia. Hungary. Yeah, it’s really strange how they “miss” so many huge stories, ain’t it?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (gToVg)

101 >> how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?

You can't subpoena the First Black President!

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (ZcsJV)

102 You will not find any fraud if you do not look for the fraud.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (xvV+O)

103
Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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WHEN? When, dad, when when when when?????

Really, I prefer these announcements like 24 hours in advance, not "Oh, he's got it comin' for sure," or better still BREAKING, Walz is arrested.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Jxa0O)

104 get the hell away from Black people

*************

I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (REq0p)

105 Define stolen. Outright larceny? Which category do you put all of the vote buying $'s?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (vzcgi)

106 and the Miss Piggy who wrote that drivel

she looks exactly as you would expect!

They always do. The great Mr. Limbaugh's statement that "feminism was invented to give ugly women access to the mainstream of society" just keeps getting proven.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (2ocoG)

107 Birds of a feather:

https://tinyurl.com/bh5nyun9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (golfv)
*******
Not even fit for the lining of a birdcage.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (NpAcC)

108 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (emBoF)

109 Folks, check your chump change:

https://tinyurl.com/35wx4kjn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (golfv)

110 This. Cannot be overstated. Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

We spend trillions on fraud, import tens of millions of foreigners who won't assimilate, tolerate untold amounts of crime, all because they don't want to spend a few hundred billion honoring the dumbass promises they made with their old age social programs while unwinding them to get rid of the danger to the government.

If we did that then a slowly declining population wouldn't matter and would eventually stabilize.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

111 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!
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Will we need to put Walz's picture on cartons of milk to find him?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (pLaQB)

112 103 You will not find any fraud if you do not look for the fraud.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (xvV+O)

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"You can't prove that there's election fraud!"

"If I elect someone to the executive branch who's interested in investigating election fraud I can."

-such a candidate wins election-

"You can't investigate election fraud! There isn't any! You'll just discourage people from voting!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

113 Clinton is married to Hillary. Hasn't he suffered enough?

Posted by: Weasel at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (DJPFk)

114 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

115 Really, I prefer these announcements like 24 hours in advance, not "Oh, he's got it comin' for sure," or better still BREAKING, Walz is arrested.
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Two weeks.

Posted by: Golden Oldie at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (Dv3i1)

116 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (REq0p)
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But are they black-black?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (golfv)

117 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (emBoF)

118 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (2ocoG)

119 Eric Holder was in charge of vetting VP candidates for Kamalama. Wonder how that conversation went.

Sure, Eric, there’s some fraud, but no one will ever find out as long as we win.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (u73oe)

120 How is what Adams said about blacks any different than what Jesse Jackson said "I'm always glad it's a white guy I see walking towards me on the street at night"? Oh, right , Democratium

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (9ShUO)

121 It’s easily 30pct. Them admitting to 10pct is a start.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (6J/hD)

122 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high"

How high?

Oh, sorry. Misread that

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (XuXeR)

123 Tim Walz always looks at the current issue from the framework of how much can he steal without repercussions.

This dude is a cocky crook.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (BSdIE)

124 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)
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The theft supports thousands if not tens of thousands of lefty individuals and sources. Everyone at the trough gets a piece. It's the old mafia system: for every no-show job, for every heist, for every blackmail, the money is divided up among the family.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

125 118 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?[/o]

Busfield, the ginger dad from Thirty Something, has new pedophilia charges pending. His wife is Melissa Gilbert, and she took down all her socials, which had an odd amount of photos of random little kids.

anyway he's missing

I'm saying he either committed suicide, or somebody suicided him

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

126 117 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (emBoF)

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If their hospital numbers are to believed, they're well into a population collapse with birthrates in large parts of the country well below 1.

They will be 1/4-1/3 their current population (whatever it actually is) in about 50 years.

The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago. The country's literally shrinking now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

127 Adams would have thought "disgraced" was pretty funny. I mean it's People.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (T+ssH)

128 13 Bessent for President in 2028!
Posted by: Gref

Let's wait for indictments at a mimum before getting too excited. The GOPe in Congress has surpassed the "tough talk" threshold many times before.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (JCZqz)

129 oops!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

130 Oh, right , Democratium

The left runs entirely on "it's (D)ifferent when we do it". That's why pointing out their hypocrisy doesn't move the needle.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (2ocoG)

131
I think a conservative estimate is now that 2000 Iranian protesters have been killed. Some wild figures put it over 10K.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (w6EFb)

132 Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

I wasn't suggesting anything on your part. My comment was meant to portray skepticism that any government fraud unit is looking for fraud - other than by people not giving kickbacks to the required people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

133 124 The theft supports thousands if not tens of thousands of lefty individuals and sources. Everyone at the trough gets a piece. It's the old mafia system: for every no-show job, for every heist, for every blackmail, the money is divided up among the family.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

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One could call it an ecosystem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

134 And MN has provided a shining beacon of an example about corruption at the state level. Because voters don't care about state-level corruption when there are squirrels to scream about in DC.

Seriously.

More people are angry at theater votes with no chance of actual passage into law from DC right now than they are even aware of any corruption in their state capitals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

“The United States has a unitary government, dont’cha know. What is this “state government” you speak of?”

- the attitudes of many

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (0GYGE)

135 114 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

I think it was Jackson who said something to the effect of is he hears footsteps behind him he feels relief if he looks and sees white people.

Posted by: Pattern recognition isn't racism or bigotry at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

136 People’s headline described Scott Adams as “disgraced”…. They’re the disgrace.
——-

He only publicly stated what everybody knows, but go to extreme lengths to dance around. That’s what makes “liberals” so comical. Leftists saw this 40 years ago and lamented that people just move away from the dysfunction.

Hell, black people don’t want to be around black people, if that makes sense. Leftists conflate race or ethnicity with culture and vice versa, depending on what fairy tale they are trying to push. You’ll get whiplash trying to follow along with their back and forth “logic” and delusions.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (gToVg)

137 Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (iu4b5)

138 I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?

Timothy Busfield (sp?)

Accused of diddling kids on/off set, or something.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (XuXeR)

139 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (emBoF)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Melissa Gilbert) husband… the great irony is she recently railed on social media against pedos…. I think I feel sorry for her; she probably didn’t know what her husband was doing…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (WnEm5)

140 Busfield, the ginger dad from Thirty Something, has new pedophilia charges pending. His wife is Melissa Gilbert, and she took down all her socials, which had an odd amount of photos of random little kids.

anyway he's missing

I'm saying he either committed suicide, or somebody suicided him

Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

141 One could call it an ecosystem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Ecosystem

Posted by: Wait that's an echosystem. Never mind at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (TbWk/)

142 a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Yeah, we are expected to believe that wiping out an entire generation of people with a one child policy (that is one child max, not every couple has even one), when replacement is 2.1 per couple that somehow China added hundreds of millions to their population.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (kHd4y)

143 Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)
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Are these the same "experts" that point to the WEF as their model for success?

The same WEF that wants to reduce the world population by *90%*?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (ESVrU)

144 Isn't that what Doge was supposed to do.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (BCuCF)

145 I can hear Bubba "I can't obey the subpoena, the crazy bitch will Arkanicide me"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (9ShUO)

146 To be fair to tim waltz. He couldnt spare any security. He needs it all for himself. He will be lucky to live through this...

Posted by: And he knows it at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (21xzK)

147 Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
with a gay husband / beard, its always a danger

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (emBoF)

148 People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)

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I expected nothing better from those nonentities.

Posted by: Decaf at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (Z8jzG)

149 If their hospital numbers are to believed, they're well into a population collapse with birthrates in large parts of the country well below 1.

They will be 1/4-1/3 their current population (whatever it actually is) in about 50 years.

The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago. The country's literally shrinking now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

Why should the PRC invade the ROC when they can simply delegitimize the ROC by cutting the number of countries that have diplomatic relations with it to zero?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (0GYGE)

150 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

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I've seen this, and I find it intriguing. I've never really thought they were high, though I did wonder how they arrived at their numbers. Knowing what we know now, it makes perfect sense that it probably is way overestimated. The managerial class wants it to be as high a number for everything the managerial class wants.

More pop -> more bureaucracy.
More pop -> scarier our adversaries -> more bureaucracy.
More pop -> more we need to reduce - > more bureaucracy.

So on and so forth.

I don't know if they are way off, but I suspect the world's population is much less than we are being told.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (sX1BW)

151 What does every non-working, entitlement-building, fantastically expensive, subject-to-fraud, gubbermint progrim need?

More money.

-Every Liberal Who Ever Existed

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (DgMqy)

152 hey how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?
Posted by: BlackOrchid
......

he only responds to subpussies.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (UjdFS)

153 NYT libs can't even be nice in an obituary to someone who was basically a comic strip writer. Because he said a few conservative things. But that's one of the hallmarks of communism I guess.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

154 “I hope that means an arrest is coming, and in fact I do take him as implying that.”

I hope that by the time we get to Walz he’ll be so far down the list that we’ll barely notice.

Posted by: Clay at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (KhfuK)

155 But are they black-black?

***************

Well since they MAGA as Pedo Joe would say then they aint at all black

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (REq0p)

156 21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)
__________________________

The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof. Immigrants to the US do so, a lot of the time, with the express purpose of gaming the "freebies." That's their sole purpose for being here. Then, there are the NGO's and I include the Catholic Church in that category. When USAID was plugged, the Catholic church had to terminate over 75% of their "programs".

Most of the money, I'm sure, is sitting in shell companies outside of the US for various purposes, including developing larger and more lucrative scams. The richest guy in Somalia got so by setting up a Money Transfer service (based in a country that has minimal money to transfer)...does that make sense?

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (dIske)

157 The Deep State will come up with a smaller, more exact two significant digit number, say 6.2%, and it will stay there, forever.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (GUOwU)

158 The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago."

Successfully, yes. I might be convinced that they'll try something monumentally stupid as they gave decline ..

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (XuXeR)

159 I don't know what metric Bessent is using for defining waste, fraud, and abuse, but this is no less ridiculous than the phony Treasury and BLS stats we always get.

I'd wager that at least one in two taxpayer dollars is stolen, and much of the rest is squandered on useless eaters and rent-seeking bureaucrat scum.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (BI5O2)

160
btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

That, or "exiled in a non-extradition country"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (y9nCu)

161 a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

**********************

There's some evidence their one person household population is so insanely huge they have an actual app for singles where you have to press a button every two days to confirm you're still alive

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (REq0p)

162 Are these the same "experts" that point to the WEF as their model for success?

The same WEF that wants to reduce the world population by *90%*?"

Yeah. Smart, they ain't.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XuXeR)

163 There are no checks and balances when it comes to Dems. Anything and everything is up for grabs, and every institution is run like a bust-out operation.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (wBaIH)

164 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Blacks on college campuses agitate for black-only housing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

165 The Left used to claim they had the senses of humor and that Republicans were uptight and forever offended.

I guess the parties "switched".

Hence Adams, a cartoonist, is a "disgrace".

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (T+ssH)

166 Ilhan Omar sure knows where a lot of that fraud money is going. Into her bank account.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

167 It is worth listening to Scott Adams's account of meeting President Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/ym6cesyh

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (t+TFX)

168 How can 10 % maintain interest payments on all the fake debt?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (9cHSL)

169 There is nothing to cut in the US's $30 gazillion budget. Everything is mandatory entitlement spending, except foreign aid which is 0.01% of all spending. You guys really don't know what you are talking about.

Posted by: Budget Experts at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

170 165 The Left used to claim they had the senses of humor and that Republicans were uptight and forever offended.

I guess the parties "switched".

Hence Adams, a cartoonist, is a "disgrace".

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (T+ssH)

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It's funny.

The right, holding the presidency and Congress, keeps acting like they're the outsiders attacking an established system while the left, having little electoral power at the moment, keeps acting like they are the power center.

Power centers don't have sense of humor. They're too concerned with preserving power to let out a laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

171 Melissa Gilbert is married to a pedo? WTF? She needs to get back to the prairie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (pLaQB)

172 To be fair to tim waltz. He couldnt spare any security. He needs it all for himself. He will be lucky to live through this...
Posted by: And he knows it at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (21xzK)

He drives an SUV. He's terrified that ICE will shoot him for absolutely no reason. As has happened exactly never.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

173 Lindsey has a primary election this June
x.com/DansForSenate/status/2011111719230189617#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

174 where you have to press a button every two days to confirm you're still alive

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (REq0p)

Yeah I'm not falling for that one

Posted by: Old Chinese Guy Living Alone at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (T+ssH)

175 she looks exactly as you would expect!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (emBoF)

Eh, it's People magazine. The official mouthpiece of Megan Twerkle and her testicle-headed loser husband.

I attribute more journalistic integrity to the National Enquirer.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (6xRrr)

176 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt. Their economy is cratering, real estate is going broke and the buildings are put up with substandard crap. Add to that the population collapse and more flu outbreaks and that country is screwed. Their COVID vaccine was a mess also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (9ShUO)

177 173 Lindsey has a primary election this June
x.com/DansForSenate/status/2011111719230189617#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

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He will win by 50 points.

Again.

If you live in SC, vote against him.

But do not send any money to his opponent. They have no chance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

178 You know who else has a problem with cartoonists?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (T+ssH)

179 The entire planet is a fraud within a fraud.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (pkeXY)

180 176 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt. Their economy is cratering, real estate is going broke and the buildings are put up with substandard crap. Add to that the population collapse and more flu outbreaks and that country is screwed. Their COVID vaccine was a mess also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (9ShUO)

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I remember when the 21st century was going to be the Chinese century and we were all going to have kids and grandkids that learned Chinese as a second language instead of Spanish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

181 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt.
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The peasants are revolting?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (T+ssH)

182 Odds that Walz and Busfield are sharing an Airbnb: even

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (9ShUO)

183
If they're admitting 10%, that means it's closer to 30%.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (IifOV)

184 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

185 @181: you're telling me? They stink on ice

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (9ShUO)

186 184 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

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"I had to assume Trump was worse. Look at how bad my husband, one of the good guys, is!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

187 10% is not even the skim off the skim off the skim.

I'm betting 30-40% goes up the grifthole every year.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (BRTkl)

188 The 10% figure doesn't surprise me in the least. I worked briefly in state government. I assumed it was closer to 50%.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (t+TFX)

189 The money goes everywhere. To every lying, low-down dirty crook in sight, because this regime is a straight up criminal racket whose sole remaining purpose in existing is to clean the maximum amount of meat from the bones of the country they killed.

But, of course, the Party takes the biggest share and washes it for its enormous war chest and their personal petty empires. Everybody else gets a piece, but they're the Kings of Jackaltown, and they get the biggest heap of carrion.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)

190 She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...
____

The worst thing is the hypocrisy.

Posted by: Patton Oswalt at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (Dv3i1)

191 Arrest Walz for fraud and inciting violence and insurrection. Arrest the Clintons for comtempt.

If not, due to how the left will react...well. They are already "reacting."

Let it come to a boil as "no one is above the law."

We all feel the simmer...let it boil over and get it over with. I say this from my safe perch not in a liberal blue inner city.

We know it is true. It is inevitable and it is coming and there is no point in postponing what will be.

Do it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (WONhk)

192 The Deep State will come up with a smaller, more exact two significant digit number, say 6.2%, and it will stay there, forever.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (GUOwU)

Yes but it has to be a friendly number that sounds insignificant. Like 7.1% or 6.5%

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (T+ssH)

193 >She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

She knows she'll be a punchline for the rest of her life.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (rJ48h)

194 >>>Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci

>No, you should be encased in paper mache and presented as a centerpiece in the front parlor of the White House.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (BSdIE)

195
Ilhan Omar got caught sticking a Million dollar earmark into the latest budget that went directly to the already caught scam/fraudsters in Minnesota.

The fraud is long and deep and that is just one Rep's earmark.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (IifOV)

196 Melissa Gilbert's husband is missing. No doubt suicide if the US Marshalls are after him.

I'd never heard of him and, as you can see, don't know his name. A pedo is a pedo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (WONhk)

197 Worst part since we stopped commercial whaling is the shortage of available harpoons.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (BRTkl)

198 10%? You think we're going to leave 90% on the table?

Posted by: Deep State at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (HsXHq)

199 The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof.

Posted by: Orson
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Why have I never heard of a German, English or Scandi mob? Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)

200 >>Melissa Gilbert's husband is missing. No doubt suicide if the US Marshalls are after him.

Hopefully he rents a woodchipper and throws himself inside it.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (ZcsJV)

201 I remember when the 21st century was going to be the Chinese century and we were all going to have kids and grandkids that learned Chinese"

Firefly...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (XuXeR)

202 He only publicly stated what everybody knows, but go to extreme lengths to dance around.
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Don't libs call that "speaking truth to power" or nah bro

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (T+ssH)

203 If they're admitting 10%, that means it's closer to 30%.
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The original estimate for somali graft was $1B, which quickly went to $8B. So, if they say 10%, it is likely to be closer to 70-80%. YMMV.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (XlNvn)

204 Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci

>No, you should be encased in paper mache and presented as a centerpiece in the front parlor of the White House.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (BSdIE)

He should be ground up and fed to beagle puppies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

205 "If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me."

What about fraud, waste and abuse within the military? What about that?

Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide.

I doubt much has changed since then.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Y1sOo)

206 Worst part since we stopped commercial whaling is the shortage of available harpoons.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (BRTkl)

Both JB Pritzker and Stacy Abrams have checked in as “relieved”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (xT8gx)

207 Gilbert and pedo hubby have a house northeast of me in the Catskills. Check the woods around the house Marshall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (9ShUO)

208 10 percent? LOL!

I'm thinking 30 to 40 percent IRL.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Cjt/F)

209 It costs a lot to import tribes to cement your political hegemony across multiple generations. Dems have it rough, guys.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (pLaQB)

210 But, of course, the Party takes the biggest share and washes it for its enormous war chest and their personal petty empires.

The money, and we are talking at least in the trillions is held in shell corps, NGOs, off shores, you name it. It is heavily invested in markets and dividens/profits are used in the cash flow to underwrite life styles even Robin Leach† couldn't imagine.

† the perfect name for a sponge who lives high off of fraud: Rob-n-Leach

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (pawvM)

211 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

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"I had to assume Trump was worse. Look at how bad my husband, one of the good guys, is!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes. He and his leftwing wackjob wife can jump into a woodchipper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

212 As if teams of lawyers under no oversight are going to agree to just take 10%!

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (jBtak)

213
Why should the PRC invade the ROC when they can simply delegitimize the ROC by cutting the number of countries that have diplomatic relations with it to zero?
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (0GYGE)

Because the ChiCom obsession with the ROC isn't about anything rational. I'm convinced that the ChiComs are itching to wipe out the 90+ year old shame of having their asses kicked by the Kuomintang in Southern China and having to endure the hardship and humiliation of the Long March north in order to survive as a political movement.

To wipe out the shame, they have to OVERTLY defeat the Kuomintang to show the world that they are preeminent.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (y9nCu)

214 10%? You think we're going to leave 90% on the table?
Posted by: Deep State at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (HsXHq)

I know.

It's risible.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that is ludicrously low. They're stuffing everything in their enormous, engorged pockets. Bessent must think everybody is braindead to tell this tall tale with a straight face.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)

215 This will be three Hollywood ex-husbands for little Melissa.

Posted by: Three Time Loser at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (oftw2)

216 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes.
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Indeed.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

217 199.

Turkish and Tommy made a ton of money in the unlicensed boxing game.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (BRTkl)

218 Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide.

I doubt much has changed since then.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Y1sOo)

This example is peanuts but when I was a private in the US Army back in the 80s I once pulled KP and was astonished at the amount of good food (freshly cooked even) that we were ordered to chuck into the trash bins

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (xT8gx)

219 what Christy said @ 191

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (Cjt/F)

220 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes.
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Indeed.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

Oh there went that joke.

That said:

"Indeed. {cough}"

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

221 211 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes. He and his leftwing wackjob wife can jump into a woodchipper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

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And he's one of the good guys because he cried when Hillary lost!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

222 Wow. So they said he was the racist because a poll showed just barely more than half of blacks polled agreed with the phrase" its okay to be white". The rest were not sure or no dont agree its ok to be white. Yeah. Thats a pretty racist take for just under half of those polled. F the woke bullshit. Its all: but there are rules!!! (That only apply to you not me).

Posted by: Moronbert at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (21xzK)

223 The real number is closer to 50%, at least.

The national debt when The Emperor Shit Midas Obama took office in January 2009 was $5.8 trillion. It is now $38 trillion, just 17 years later. I'd bet my life that at least $20 trillion of that has been outright stolen through bogus NGOs owned and operated by politicians and their friends and family.

Just about everyone in our government needs to be flushed out and banished to The Outer Darkness, forever, or we will never be solvent again.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (BRvvM)

224
Melissa Gilbert's first husband was Bruce Boxleitner.
I liked him in Scarecrow & Mrs. King.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (IifOV)

225 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J98)

226 Bessent is another great choice by Trump. Es muy macho, gay or not. We may never see the quality of government chosen support for President again in our lifetimes.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

227 30% is closer. But also low. I really think 50% or more is being laundered, in some way, shape or form. It's totally unbridled larceny.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (BI5O2)

228 Busfield gives off Jeffrey Jones vibes.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (rJ48h)

229 The Obamas still on the board of Netflix to launder their money?

Bet a few billion of that deal is dirty.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (BRTkl)

230 This example is peanuts but when I was a private in the US Army back in the 80s I once pulled KP and was astonished at the amount of good food (freshly cooked even) that we were ordered to chuck into the trash bins
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It used to go to hog farms. Pork is important.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (pLaQB)

231
Melissa Gilbert's half sister from Roseanne, Sara Gilbert is a real piece of work too.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (IifOV)

232 Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?"

Yes.

No Tommy guns in 1840, tho.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (XuXeR)

233 Yeah so I guess Darlene is a miserable lesbian now? I'll be honest I didn't know or care.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:47 PM (T+ssH)

234 The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof.

Posted by: Orson
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Why have I never heard of a German, English or Scandi mob? Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
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To some degree, yes. But as those were some of the first settlers, there really wasn't a civil infrastructure to support organized crime. It was the later immigrants, who arrived into a much more developed and population-dense environment, that formed criminal organizations to leech off society.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

235 Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide"

$38 trillion worth? Yeah

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XuXeR)

236 231
Melissa Gilbert's half sister from Roseanne, Sara Gilbert is a real piece of work too.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (IifOV)

Yeah bad news Gilbert. On BBT she did not even have to act. Bitter, cynical little witch.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (pDt9x)

237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

238 Mentioning increasing the DoW budget in the same breath as talking about reducing FWA (fraud/waste/abuse) requires that it also be mentioned that the defense department is one of participants in that FWA whether through knowing bad actors or simple insufficient oversight. I know everyone always brings up the $20k hammer or the $50k toilet seat, but profiteering off the defence department is nothing new.

Any effort to root out fraud needs a robust machanism inside the military first.

Posted by: Scott1M at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (O9uxk)

239 234.
I won't make a joke about the Polish mafia. I shannot.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (8aiQt)

240
Trump was just asked how many people have been killed in Iran. He said nobody can give him an accurate number. He's heard low numbers and he's heard bigger numbers. "I think it's a lot". And then he added he thinks we'll know for sure in about 24 hours.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

241 Is it really "stolen" if virtually everyone in power is winking and nodding at it?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (XCUp7)

242 237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

Respect you guys so much I won’t even snark.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (pDt9x)

243 The Left tells lies as naturally and thoughtlessly as they breathe. Noem or Homan or Leavitt needs to list the lies the media has told about this nutcase lady who was shot and throw them back in their faces. From the moment in happened, nothing but lies.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (t+TFX)

244 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

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Well, he’s gay so you’re in luck!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (u73oe)

245 240
Trump was just asked how many people have been killed in Iran. He said nobody can give him an accurate number. He's heard low numbers and he's heard bigger numbers. "I think it's a lot". And then he added he thinks we'll know for sure in about 24 hours.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

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Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

246 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

I think it was Jackson who said something to the effect of is he hears footsteps behind him he feels relief if he looks and sees white people.
Posted by: Pattern recognition isn't racism or bigotry at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)
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"I'm relieved when it's a bear"

-- AWFuL

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

247 Sure, she's unbearable, but Melissa Gilbert was still hot well into her 50s.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (65cLN)

248 "Folks, check your chump change"

Biden's Dog, I know who Juliette Gordon Low was because I was a girl scout back when they went camping, learned to use a compass, learned what plants you can eat or should avoid, and so on. Before it became a social justice skin suit.

Have no idea who the woman in the wheelchair is, but am intrigued by the fact that she seems to be holding a lobster.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (enw9G)

249 We don't pay our congressmen (and DeepState bureaucracy) nearly enough, so they deserve an extra billion each to distribute toward their family and friends.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (vbXSk)

250
I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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He has a crush on you. But... psssst... it's not like your kind of crush.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Jxa0O)

251 245

Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

Nuke the Casbah
Nuke the Casbah

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (pDt9x)

252 Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.
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That should have been done on 9/11, or 9/12 if we preferred it to have its own historical day.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (TN0g+)

253 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

254
Also, he was asked what did he mean by "Help is on the way". He said you're gonna find out soon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (w6EFb)

255 It's everywhere. This multibillion dollar fraud occurred in ONE program, in ONE relatively small state, and it likely only got discovered because, in this case, the Party employed people on the ground who have IQs comparable to barnyard animals.

I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.

Our ruling class makes Marcus Licinius Crassus look like an ascetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2)

256 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (rZCVI)

257 242.

It is hilarious that the commies still think we care so much about whether our people are gay or not.

I don't care if a guy has EVERLAST tattooed on his prostate if he stays away from kids and keeps out the invaders.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (8aiQt)

258 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/

One more and you could have a regular Mount Tushwhore. Emphasis on mount.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (T+ssH)

259 The Persians need to claim their revolution, if you will. Things will be better for them going forward.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (pDt9x)

260 Sorry( Meant Iran.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (rZCVI)

261 225 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J9

She/he/pronoun SHOULD be investigated before collecting $1.5 million in goFraudme as a "widow."

The day of the shooting there was a comment on the UK DM that SHE...the widow... was a "professional protester." She did take the blame for bringing her sweet "wife" to the protest.Then saying, "drive, baby, drive" right into bullets after hitting the ICE agent.

However, it got murkier in that sweet wife had "friends" at the wacko charter school where he son was sent. They all belonged to this anti-ICE movement and knew the "rulez for radicals" taught in this little school group.

What I want to know, in the spare seconds I think about it, is how long have they been together? Since husband #2 in Colorado? Is that when she went ghey? After being denied her first two kids with husband #1 due to abuse?

Then I go eat a Dove chocolate and go on with my day of not messing with ICE or anyone else (except my husband).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (WONhk)

262 Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that is ludicrously low. They're stuffing everything in their enormous, engorged pockets. Bessent must think everybody is braindead to tell this tall tale with a straight face.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)
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No one would believe him if he said the true number. He has to start with a small amount that's plausible and then start escalating it as more fraud is "uncovered." (They already know the extent--they just can't sell it to the public yet.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (ESVrU)

263
There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Brandon Straka is trustworthy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)

264

The dnc is a criminal racketeering conspiracy.

The more you look at it the more it is apparent. They have it figured out.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GPlFS)

265 255 It's everywhere. This multibillion dollar fraud occurred in ONE program, in ONE relatively small state, and it likely only got discovered because, in this case, the Party employed people on the ground who have IQs comparable to barnyard animals.

I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.

Our ruling class makes Marcus Licinius Crassus look like an ascetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2)

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Actually, the $9 billion number is a preliminary estimate from the USA in MN across 14 welfare programs, not just one.

Biden's DOJ brought a few dozen people up on charges for defrauding one of those 14 during the previous administration (Feed Our People, or whatever it's actually called).

And people have been talking about the probable size of CA's fraud as well. Plus, you know. DeWine said that fraudulent payments in OH's system was just the cost of doing business.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

266 Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)

Yes; I like him too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (rZCVI)

267
Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster

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WHAT?!?! Thompson is the one who brought and is bringing those Somali fraudsters to justice. I hope this is fake.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (Jxa0O)

268
I wonder if Zombie McCain would approve of what is about to happen in Iran?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (IifOV)

269
omg it's real. Thompson resigned.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (Jxa0O)

270 Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (rZCVI)

Yes.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (T+ssH)

271 So Buttplug got fawning coverage for being a gay cabinet secretary. Bessent -- not a word. Because of course it only matters if you're a leftist and they can weaponize or propagandize it for power.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (t+TFX)

272 It's for the chirrrun.

Posted by: Always a safe answer at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (iu4b5)

273 >> Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

It was clip of him somewhere. You know how he loves to take questions and rap. He posted earlier on Truth Social for the protesters to keep it up, take names, because help is on the way.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (w6EFb)

274 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
________

Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)

275 Burn it all down.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (W2Pud)

It is first important to make sure you can get outside before lighting the match.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

276 To some degree, yes. But as those were some of the first settlers, there really wasn't a civil infrastructure to support organized crime. It was the later immigrants, who arrived into a much more developed and population-dense environment, that formed criminal organizations to leech off society.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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The krauts? I'm from Cincinnati, and there were like 20 German language newspapers there in 1900. Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (XvL8K)

277 Word is that Harmeet Dillon refused to allow a DOJ investigation of Good's death, and they threw a hissy and resigned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (w6EFb)

278 The krauts? I'm from Cincinnati, and there were like 20 German language newspapers there in 1900. Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia.
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Can Somalis read?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (pLaQB)

279 You know that word that journalists like to use when somebody is murdered? "alleged"?

Why can't the NYT at least just use that word: "allegedly racist comments".

Because that best describes the case, if you need to mention it all in the first sentence of a man's obituary.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (krQz2)

280 261 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I can't even find verification that they were officially married. And I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J98)

281 276.
The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)

282 They weren't married.

Posted by: And you know it at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (iu4b5)

283 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J9

Fuck him, then. not willing to fight for the future of the country, you've got no value. This will, of course, set back the anti-fraud efforts in MN since the Senate will take a fucking year to approve a replacement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (ExV1e)

284 The dnc is a criminal racketeering conspiracy.
Posted by: E Buzz at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GPlFS)

Yes, it's that, but that finances its dual purpose as a ideological machine for the overthrow of America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (t+TFX)

285 280 261 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I can't even find verification that they were officially married. And I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9

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"We were just LARPing!"
-a helpful translation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

286 Bessent is another great choice by Trump. Es muy macho, gay or not. We may never see the quality of government chosen support for President again in our lifetimes.
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

Bessent is not macho. He is, however, a very committed and talented, gold-watch legbreaker.
Which is a rare combination in this day and age.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)

287 I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.
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It's just the cost of doing business.

Posted by: Gov Mike DeWine (Weasel-OH) at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)

288 Did they publish in Austrian?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (9cHSL)

289 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
________

Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
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The long-haired Baltimore cleanup guy. I'd put him on the list.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (krQz2)

290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

291 Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia"

Leave the gun. Take the sauerbraten...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (XuXeR)

292 253 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

Agree! Sec Bessent is one tough hombre and deserves respect.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (WONhk)

293 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
________

Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
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The long-haired Baltimore cleanup guy. I'd put him on the list.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (krQz2)
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Isn't that Pressler?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

294 Bessent is a precise and punctilious assassin.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (t+TFX)

295 290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

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Does it include carrots?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

296 290.
That's what they want you to think...

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (8aiQt)

297 "I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ...."

Correct.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (DgMqy)

298 290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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Thank God.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (pLaQB)

299 I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9
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What a strange fucking thing to say?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (krQz2)

300 Like C19 nursing home, etc. deaths, more states & high echelon politicians are deeply involved and they'll (Governors) be confident PDT's administration will be out before they can be thoroughly investigated and punished.

Isn't that why such DOGE hatred?

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Kid #2 bought me Dilbert books years ago so I could chuckle on occasion as I dragged myself to work. I'm so glad I still have those books.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (NFX2v)

301 237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

Wish you two the best.

They say the rates for dude dude gay marriage are better than chick chick, so we're all pulling for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (zZu0s)

302 Chili wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Carrots? at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iu4b5)

303 Isn't that Pressler?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

Yup. One of the good guys. He and Kirk did more to get Trump elected than anybody.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (t+TFX)

304 109 Folks, check your chump change:

https://tinyurl.com/35wx4kjn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM
Milburn have craw on wheelchair, don't get too crose.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (LHPAg)

305 299 I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9
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What a strange fucking thing to say?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (krQz2)

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Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

306 Word is that Harmeet Dillon refused to allow a DOJ investigation of Good's death, and they threw a hissy and resigned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (w6EFb)

They tried to fly out to Minneapolis last Friday to start an investigation of the agent without authorization from Dillon. She stopped them cold. So of course they had a fit. They weren't going to conduct an investigation at all.

They were going to make the situation worse and leak to the press.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (Gq8aE)

307 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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Ooh. Thanks for reminding me. I'm driving to Ohio this Friday.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (krQz2)

308
The NYT is now putting the Iran death toll at 3K. So, assuming they're low balling it as much as possible, yeah it's probably a lot more than that for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (w6EFb)

309
Looks like Trump is just chatting. He's lounging at the podium at the Detroit Economic Club, not glaring into the camera from behind the Resolute Desk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (Jxa0O)

310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
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So... teenagers?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (krQz2)

311 Publius, I have now heard 12,000.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (0KSrI)

312 One hopes and prays Tampon Timmy’s scalp is just the start of a long and large collection of profoundly deserving scoundrels, thieves, and scrofulous types.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (gToVg)

Just don't bet any money on it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (g8Ew8)

313 So the dead dyke's butch dyke wife didn't think ICE shot real bullets? She thought they shot ... little rubber dildos?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

314 Nood. Pirates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (zZu0s)

315 310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
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So... teenagers?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (krQz2)

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Yes, AWFLs are in a state of arrested development.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

316
nood somalis

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (tljrc)

317 Did CBS say 20,000?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (9cHSL)

318 What happened to Booty Juice? Was he dropped off at the reststop to turn tricks for funding for potholes?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (BSdIE)

319 The NYT is now putting the Iran death toll at 3K. So, assuming they're low balling it as much as possible, yeah it's probably a lot more than that for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (w6EFb)
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So many austere Islamic scholars just being austere.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (krQz2)

320 This us what you work your fingers to the bone for. You work to have your money stolen and used by people like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar can purchase offices from which to lord over you and steal more from you. You do it so that foreign swine who wallow in shit and fuck their sisters can live the life of Reilly while you worry about keeping the roof you fucking PAID FOR HONESTLY over your head.

This is the kind of corruption I'm talking about when I say the system must necessarily collapse under its weight.

The Left loves the word "unsustainable" all the time.

This is it.

No matter how robust a system may once have been, none can bear the load of this kind of criminality.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (BI5O2)

321 310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

They're infused with entitlement and a sense of invulnerability. It makes sense. The culture has stuffed them with both and they've never confronted accountability.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (t+TFX)

322 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

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Does it include carrots?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
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In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

323 So the dead dyke's butch dyke wife didn't think ICE shot real bullets? She thought they shot ... little rubber dildos?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)
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It kind of sounds like she thought it was some zinger or something.

However, there was a case of some ICE agents firing rubber bullets in Chicago, which of course was the worst.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (krQz2)

324 In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)
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Liars!

You can get it 5 ways. One of those ways is NOT carrots.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (krQz2)

325 If 81% of somalis in Minnesota are on welfare, why is there so many daycares?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (pkq24)

326 The people who think what Scott Adams said is racist, have never talked to 95% of black people, because if they did those black people would say the same thing about whites, Asians, and Hispanics. They don't want to live with those groups just as much as whites shouldn't want to live with most of them.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (zdJm7)

327 Agree! Sec Bessent is one tough hombre and deserves respect.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (WONhk)

Word is he's man-tough and butt-ruff.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (g8Ew8)

328 I’m starting to get this weird feeling that Walz is asshoe.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (kgFPv)

329 I can adore Bessent along with Stephen Miller, but Miller is still #1.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (NFX2v)

330 Is ol' Blackface Kimmel controversial or disgraced or nah bro

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (T+ssH)

331 I used to blame the deterioration of comic strip art on Cathy and Dilbert. They are fine art compared to some later-appearing comic strip scrawls.

Back in the days when I was on CompuServe via my TRS-80, I wrote the creator of the then-new comic strip if he was Scott Adams, the computer game creator. Got a letter back saying that I wasn't the first to ask, but, no, he was not. (Such was my brush with Dilberty greatness.)

Today I had to go to Wikipedia disambiguation on "Scott Adams" to even remember who the other Scott Adams was.

https://w.wiki/HSE6

Posted by: mindful webworker - catbert doesn't do funerals at January 13, 2026 02:21 PM (HJunf)

332 10%? Those are rookie numbers!

Posted by: GWB at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (qT5l+)

333 He spelled 50% wrong.

Posted by: godhelpus at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (Bwi2i)

334 Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

I wasn't suggesting anything on your part. My comment was meant to portray skepticism that any government fraud unit is looking for fraud - other than by people not giving kickbacks to the required people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

The only way you could possibly make these things work is to have a bounty on finding corruption.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (8avO+)

335 In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)
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Liars!

You can get it 5 ways. One of those ways is NOT carrots.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (krQz2)

Its unclear if skyline has any veggies in it at all. Your plate may have onions, but they will be raw.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

336 Biden and his fellow Dem-O-Rats stole the 2020 election with the help from China Russia and the UN/Globalists

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 13, 2026 04:59 PM (wGqjj)

Scott Adams, Humorist and Rebel, Dies at Age 68 After Long Fight with Prostate Cancer

He's gone to the great Corporate Meeting in the sky.

In more recent years, he became a prolific presence through his books, on social media, through his livestreamed podcasts seven days a week, offering real-time commentary on news and media narratives.
In 2023, newspapers across the United States and abroad dropped Dilbert from syndication, ending a run that had lasted more than three decades, after comments Adams made on his podcast were taken out of context to allege that he was racist. He would later describe this encounter with cancel culture as one of the more liberating moments of his life.
While he lost access to longtime readers of his comic strip in newspapers, he gained a huge following among conservatives, who saw the mercilessness of cancel culture at play with him. Still, he continued to publish Dilbert online.
As a podcaster, he started every livestream with his patented "Simultaneous sip," where he would invite everyone watching and listening to join him in "sipping your favorite beverage. I like coffee." From there he would do a one-man monologue, usually for an hour, on the topics of the day, scientific and technology news, and anything else that interested him. He rarely interviewed guests, and did not play audio or video from other media. He typically would just describe it in low-tech fashion.
But because it was a livestream, he would continually interact directly with his audience in real time, monitoring and reading listener comments. So even though his was the only voice you heard, it felt as if he was having a conversation with his audience.
While Adams resisted calling himself a conservative, his point of view most often reflected the Donald Trump base, though at times, he would challenge that base on some issues.
In late 2025, Adams disclosed that he had earlier been diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer, and while he continued to undergo a multitude of aggressive treatments under his doctors' supervision, he continued to appear on his podcast seven days a week, for the most part, right up until yesterday.

A Final Message From Scott Adams pic.twitter.com/QKX6b0MFZA
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 13, 2026

Goodbye for now, Scott! 😭 pic.twitter.com/4w7NMpy9gw
— Kurt (@fluxkurt) January 13, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 12:04 PM

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1 Thanks for all the laughs, Scott.

And for helping to raise GEOTUS' profile.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (0CU3H)

2 I'll just say what I said last thread, but differently:

He had interesting perspective and said interesting things on a variety of things, all with a good cheer.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (sX1BW)

3 RIP. Always enjoyed his work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (bss/y)

4 May his family and loved ones find comfort.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:07 PM (ZcsJV)

5 He introduced "pointy-haired boss" into the vernacular. For that alone, he is to be praised.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

6 My favorite Dilbert character was Wally.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

7 In 2023, newspapers across the United States and abroad dropped Dilbert from syndication,

Was it that recently?! It feels like he got cancelled YEARS ago. Either I'm getting old, or news is happening so quickly time just feels distorted.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (JCZqz)

8 He will be missed. Pray for his salvation and do pay it forward as Scott requests.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

9 RIP, Mr. Adams.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 12:09 PM (zjgNU)

10 Either I'm getting old,"

Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

11 My favorite Dilbert character was Wally.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
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Yep. He was a piece of work. I think he was based on a former co-worker of Adams.

A guy that was really, really smart, but just didn't care about his job all that much.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (ESVrU)

12 May a good man rest in peace. He will be missed.

Posted by: nraendowment at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (hmKyl)

13 I have to say, I never read Dilbert. But then I don't read any comic strips or comic books.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

14 Saw him on a News Radio episode a couple of days ago.

I did buy a few of his Dilbert books and used them as a management tool to figure out what my employees might be thinking. 😃

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (KDPiq)

15 Do you morons ever think about how you're going to die? It looks like strokes usually do it in my bloodline. It sure was hell isn't going to be because I tried to stop an Ice cop from arresting an illegal.

It's a sad day.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (f0sNM)

16 After Long Fight with Prostate Cancer

I'd call that a draw.

Posted by: Zombie Norm Macdonald at January 13, 2026 12:11 PM (HsXHq)

17 A careful reader of Scott Adams would not expect the corporate meeting to be in the sky.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

18 RIP Scott.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (dE3DB)

19 Was it that recently?! It feels like he got cancelled YEARS ago. Either I'm getting old, or news is happening so quickly time just feels distorted.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

Time dragged during the Obama years so now we have Before Trump and After Trump. With Trump, the long stasis of leftward motion of society stopped. Now it is the left fighting to retain and extend the ancien regime of Obama. This has resulted in a counter revolution world wide against globalism New World Order promoted by the WEF and the left.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

20 RIP, Scott. Your generosity of spirit was unmatched.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (w6EFb)

21 I have to say, I never read Dilbert. But then I don't read any comic strips or comic books.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

Dilbert was "The Office" before there was "The Office".

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (dP47V)

22 17 A careful reader of Scott Adams would not expect the corporate meeting to be in the sky.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Those are hell, on earth anyway.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

23 Did he ever put islam and related subjects in his work.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (EyfuW)

24 I wonder if he was doing ivermectin and fenbendazole?
Not only has it cured my wife of stage 3 cancer, it has saved a good friend of mine with stage 4 prostate cancer.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (WQDw6)

25 6 My favorite Dilbert character was Wally.
Posted by: Bulg
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Catbert and Dogbert.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (WDjG6)

26 15 Do you morons ever think about how you're going to die? It looks like strokes usually do it in my bloodline. It sure was hell isn't going to be because I tried to stop an Ice cop from arresting an illegal.

It's a sad day.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (f0sNM)
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Smothered to death by a busty, leggy redhead sitting on my face.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (5aZAZ)

27 I still expect him to pop up in like a week with an explanation about how he's taught everyone a lesson about persuasion, or something.

I think there was a Cheers episode along those lines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

28 I went over to reddit and they are *cheering* Adams's death.

And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

29 God rest you and may He receive you Mr Adams.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (pDt9x)

30 I like Dilbert, particularly Dogbert.

Adams was an odd duck. I couldn't tell whether or how much he believed what he was saying.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (XCUp7)

31 Did he ever put islam and related subjects in his work.
Posted by: thug dolphin

He added an Indian intern to the strip at one point, but I think he was supposed to be Hindu.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

32 Smothered to death by a busty, leggy redhead sitting on my face.
Posted by: ballistic
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Gillian?

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (WDjG6)

33 28 I went over to reddit and they are *cheering* Adams's death.

And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

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She was just trying to protect criminal Somali immigrants with deportation orders through judicial use of her car.

He had the gall to say things they didn't like.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

34 Good for all of us to remember how short this life on earth really is.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (pDt9x)

35 Pay it forward. Something we all need to do every day.

Posted by: nraendowment at January 13, 2026 12:16 PM (hmKyl)

36 And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...
Posted by: 18-1

Reddit is a collection of Howler Monkeys that like to throw shit on everyone and everything wholesome. I avoid it except when a thread occasionally comes up as a websearch result on something specific on a product review, car flaws, etc.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

37 Wally was always a fun character, he was based on a friend Adams had at a place he worked. The company had a generous severance package for the bottom 10 percent performing employees, and Wally purposely got it. Adams said it was really amusing to see someone so smart and talented putting that skill towards being the worst employee he could be.

Posted by: Lurker at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (7AQGk)

38 24 I wonder if he was doing ivermectin and fenbendazole?
Not only has it cured my wife of stage 3 cancer, it has saved a good friend of mine with stage 4 prostate cancer.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (WQDw6)

Pretty sure that also failed for him.

As did the clinical med that Trump got him access to.

Some folks' cancer is unfair...some folks' cancer is less so.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (tOcjL)

39 Catbert and Dogbert.
Posted by: whig at

I gave my wife a stuffed Dogbert for our first Valentine's Day together. She still has it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

40 30 I like Dilbert, particularly Dogbert.

Adams was an odd duck. I couldn't tell whether or how much he believed what he was saying.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (XCUp7)

In the end, it really does not matter much what any of us think, about that.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (pDt9x)

41 Did he ever put islam and related subjects in his work.
Posted by: thug dolphin

Elbonia was a third-world bureaucratic mudhole nation in Dilbert. The natives wore tall turban-like hats and full beards. But I don't think they were arabs or muslims, specifically.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (nhCoE)

42 That's not converting to Christianity. That's accepting Pascal's wager.

Posted by: JB at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (8DvD0)

43 I wonder if he was doing ivermectin and fenbendazole?
Not only has it cured my wife of stage 3 cancer, it has saved a good friend of mine with stage 4 prostate cancer.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (WQDw6)

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It's been reported that he tried both.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (1Au9i)

44 But then I don't read any comic strips or comic books.

Dilbert is not a comic strip. It is office life rendered faithfully and accurately.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (EXyHK)

45 Scott will live on though his characters.

Dilbert didn't die. He is eternal.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (rbIOb)

46 Memory Eternal, Scott

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (sFNX2)

47 Some folks' cancer is unfair...some folks' cancer is less so.
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F cancer

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (WQDw6)

48 Some folks' cancer is unfair..."

Tell me about it

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (XuXeR)

49 Dilbert was one of the top 10 comic strips ever, probably top 5. He will be missed.

I remember a video he posted a few years ago at the peak of cancel culture. He expressed his deep hatred for Obama who he blamed for the unleashing of cancel culture (and never tried to reign it in) which had cost him so many friends, acquaintances and his career. For him it was not business/politics, it was personal. Made the point of Obama's assholery in a new way.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (GUOwU)

50 I modeled my career after Wally, down to the permanent coffee cup.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (QiQaH)

51 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.

There is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t start doing that in your mid-twenties to get a baseline.

There are amazing treatments, especially if it’s caught early.

Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (kS3yR)

52 Willowed brilliance.

‘ 275 268
‘ The key to getting away with murder is to avoid killing anyone the government gives a shit about.’

But they are the ones I most want dead.’

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (jbnUc)

53 Gary Larson and Scott Adams are the peak of the Comic Pyramid for me.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (pDt9x)

54 Yes, he said he tried ivermectin andFenben. And he managed to get on a new treatment at the end, thanks in part to people in this administration's help. It was too far gone

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (+mUZM)

55 34 Good for all of us to remember how short this life on earth really is.
Posted by: tubal

When I was 17, it was a very good year......

Posted by: Memento Mori at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (oftw2)

56 He had the gall to say things they didn't like.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The one that shot her did not apparently have much if any interaction with the outside butch or the driver. Guy was being professional ignoring the bating of the butch while he was doing a 360 video sweep of the car for evidence for obstruction charges. You can see from his video when he drops the phone, presumably to draw his firearm and shoot.

He was not out in front of the car to stop her but was gathering evidence of obstruction (the car was the evidence--location, positive id via license plate, damage) until Karen put the car in motion hitting him, then he drew and fired. He had a phone in his hand for most of the confrontation.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (WDjG6)

57 "I went over to reddit"

That was your first mistake. 🙂. I only read stuff from left wings sites when it's part of an X thing posted on here or another conservative site. I don't want to hear what the mean spirited people on Bluesky, Reddit or anywhere else have to say about anything. Fortunately, their thoughts about Scott have no effect on him and they are not God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 12:20 PM (rZCVI)

58 Reddit is a collection of Howler Monkeys that like to throw shit on everyone and everything wholesome. I avoid it except when a thread occasionally comes up as a websearch result on something specific on a product review, car flaws, etc.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (WDjG6)
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It's also important to remember that Reddit is largely non-American. The user base is mostly soft-ass European faggots, supplemented by bought-and-paid-for propagandists from Asia.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (5aZAZ)

59
The remarkable thing about Dilbert isn't that it's some wild burlesque of the corporate world but a faithful reflection. How many of us saw an episode and said to ourselves, "Was he at my meeting?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (t2vGZ)

60 51 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.

There is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t start doing that in your mid-twenties to get a baseline.

There are amazing treatments, especially if it’s caught early.

Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (kS3yR)

Well said. Get the yearly checkup, include the PSA.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (pDt9x)

61 Oh the Catbert cartoons that have been taped to my office door! He is a talent that will be missed.

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (pZEOD)

62 I hope Scott's loved ones find peace. He was an interesting, smart guy. I'm sorry he's moved on.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (Yp6az)

63 Gillian?"

Ruby Roundhouse, killer of men?
Yes, please

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (XuXeR)

64 The Dilbert Principle is an accurate summation of corporate life.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (Vh9CX)

65 RIP to the man, nothing lasts forever, but it was nice to have him for the journey, for a little while.

Posted by: Corona_exile_back_in_exile at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (UE0CA)

66 Dilbert paying respects

(link goes to my X account)

tiny.cc/0ylx001

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (dP47V)

67 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

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The not ejaculating for 48 hours prior is the hard part.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (1Au9i)

68 Did he ever put islam and related subjects in his work.
Posted by: thug dolphin

Elbonia was a third-world bureaucratic mudhole nation in Dilbert. The natives wore tall turban-like hats and full beards. But I don't think they were arabs or muslims, specifically.
Posted by: mikeski

Though they had all the hallmarks of islam.....

Dilbert: Do you Elbonians have a religion?

Elbonian: Of course we do! We're not savages!

Elbonian: We believe in killing anyone who offends us three times in a row.

Dilbert: Harsh.

Elbonian: That's two.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (nhCoE)

69 I can't say. But I pray he wakes up in Heaven through the blood of Jesus Christ for his atonement.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (krQz2)

70 There are amazing treatments, especially if it’s caught early.

Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Yep. And to avoid painful and unnecessary biopsys, there are certain conditions that can elevate PSAs like urinary tract infections, etc. Make sure those are cleared up before you get the blood test.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (WDjG6)

71 Dilbert was one of the top 10 comic strips ever, probably top 5. He will be missed.

In one of his books he talked about how, when he was just starting out with Dilbert, he didn't think it would take off as long as The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes, the two biggest strips of the time, were still around.

Within a few years, both of those strips had been retired, and Dilbert took off.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

72 Wonder if he ever read smart military blogs?

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (P7Iz+)

73 I went over to reddit and they are *cheering* Adams's death.

And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

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She was just trying to protect criminal Somali immigrants with deportation orders through judicial use of her car.

He had the gall to say things they didn't like.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (GBKbO)
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I strongly suspect the vast majority of those cheering Adam's death have no idea who he is. They got the NPC download when he was cancelled that "he's a racist." That is literally all they have ever heard about him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

74 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.

I guess I need to go see a doctor.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (pkq24)

75 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court

"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"

Idaho AG Hurst didn't even seem to understand what she asked, and instead responded to her second question that named specific precedent.

SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch then stepped in.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (TN0g+)

76 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA. If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice. There is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t start doing that in your mid-twenties to get a baseline. There are amazing treatments, especially if it’s caught early. Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.

During my last physical, my GP didn't do the procedure we all know and love, but did do the PSA blood test. It made me curious.

The PSA blood test is generally more sensitive for finding prostate cancer early, detecting tumors missed by the Digital Rectal Exam (DRE) (82% vs 55%), but has lower specificity (more false positives). The DRE is less sensitive but can catch some cancers with normal PSA levels, though its accuracy varies by clinician. Combining both tests offers the best detection, as they catch different cancers, with studies showing up to 91.5% diagnostic accuracy when used together, improving detection rates significantly over either test alone

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

77
It's also important to remember that Reddit is largely non-American. The user base is mostly soft-ass European faggots, supplemented by bought-and-paid-for propagandists from Asia.
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:21 PM (5aZAZ)

Or, as I would call them, Eurotrash and the 50-Cent Army.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (t2vGZ)

78 >> Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

>>If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.

You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (ZcsJV)

79 Pointy haired boss was great, reminded me of one I had many moons ago.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (GUOwU)

80 RIP.
As a corporate type for most of my career, he was always oddly accurate.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (xcxpd)

81 I went over to reddit and they are *cheering* Adams's death.

Posted by: 18-1

Cesspits are unnerved by Reddit's unclean nature.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (thcCd)

82 Do you morons ever think about how you're going to die? It looks like strokes usually do it in my bloodline. It sure was hell isn't going to be because I tried to stop an Ice cop from arresting an illegal.

It's a sad day.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

My risks are stroke, heart attack, and cancer.
That said klutziness might do it too.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (6U1c2)

83 So sorry to hear this - he seemed like a great guy. I always loved Dilbert. I am glad that he is no longer in any pain.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (SRRAx)

84 28 I went over to reddit and they are *cheering* Adams's death.

And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, I like sharing their stuff for laughs and such, but this kind of celebration isn't fun OR enlightening. At least with Kirk's death, it showed how eager the Left was to actively kill their opponents, which many normies didn't fully appreciate.

Adams is a good lesson in how quickly the left will completely "unperson" someone for straying from acceptable thoughts and beliefs.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (JCZqz)

85 It's also important to remember that Reddit is largely non-American. The user base is mostly soft-ass European faggots, supplemented by bought-and-paid-for propagandists from Asia.
Posted by: ballistic
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Very possible. Have not seen any reddit reveals unlike X on country of origin.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (WDjG6)

86 your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year"

Once a year? Not happening. I'm not darkening a Dr's doorway unless I absolutely need to.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (XuXeR)

87 Dilbert paying respects

Did you do that yourself?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (EXyHK)

88 He's gone to the great Corporate Meeting in the sky.

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I hope not. I heaven is a Corporate Meeting, as in corporation, count me out.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (Vh9CX)

89 Dilbert.... the reluctant IT hero we didn't know we needed.

RIP Scott.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (NwnyJ)

90 My wife is sad about Bobby Weir dying. Yeah, she was a deadhead growing up. I endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (pLaQB)

91 I am awestruck at how he says, at the end of his message, "I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had."

Anyone who can say that at the end of their life has done very well indeed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (uWKK8)

92 73 I strongly suspect the vast majority of those cheering Adam's death have no idea who he is. They got the NPC download when he was cancelled that "he's a racist." That is literally all they have ever heard about him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

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Probably.

Their betters label a person with a bad word, and the true believers just accept it without question. Whole rejection without thought. Everything political and partisan.

Better to not hate anyone you don't personally know. Or just everyone equally.

Misanthropes > partisans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

93 51 Gentlemen, it takes literally 5 minutes to draw blood and get a PSA.

If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.

There is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t start doing that in your mid-twenties to get a baseline.

There are amazing treatments, especially if it’s caught early.

Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (kS3yR)

And yet, even with early detection, some small portion of folks still will b/c some cancers just don't work the way docs expect...aka, some mutations are not the norm, which is what meds are expected to work with...

It's why no cancer is 100% liveable after X years...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (tOcjL)

94 My favorite Dilbert character was “Timmy the Toilet Paper Tube.”

He only appeared once. I wrote Scott asking for more appearances and he wrote back!

Posted by: CTHillary at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (Vpqw1)

95 Adams is a good lesson in how quickly the left will completely "unperson" someone for straying from acceptable thoughts and beliefs.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Pseudo religion complete with demons and heretics with no salvation for 'sinners'. Satanic really.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (WDjG6)

96 I'm a prostate cancer survivor (so far).

Doc said after they discovered it that the odds were that I would die of something else.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (rbIOb)

97 I learned a ton from him about why things are the way they are. Made sense of how the Left works, why they do what they do, and how persuasion and to an extent hypnosis are integrated within our daily lives.

Once seen, it can never ever be unseen. But sometimes it's hard to see in the first place. So you end up saying stuff like, "Why is Trump saying that?" or "Why do the media continue to lie even when they've been proven liars and wrong?" Once you "get it" you just get it. And it's not a secret as such, it is just the techniques are proven and work.

And when I read his How to Fail at Everything book, which is pretty entertaining, I learned that people who read self help books - any self help books - are statistically happier and more successful than those who don't, which I thought was funny.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (T+ssH)

98 I strongly suspect the vast majority of those cheering Adam's death have no idea who he is. They got the NPC download when he was cancelled that "he's a racist." That is literally all they have ever heard about him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

It's so hard to believe that THIS is hill that the dems have decided to plant their flag on and support felony criminal illegal aliens.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (pkq24)

99 >>Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court

I am looking forward to one of the lawyers I watch on youtube covering these arguments.

Always hysterical listening to what Jumanji doesn't understand.

Even funnier watching Sotomayor try to drag the Lawyer from the Left over the finish line.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (ZcsJV)

100 Rest well Scott. Thank you from all of us cubicle farm underlings.

Posted by: tb24601 at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (C7yuq)

101 Even though he said this was coming it is hard to read.

Posted by: Paladin at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (9XZf2)

102 Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?

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*speaking loudly and slowly*

"HUH? NO HABLO RETARDO. IN ENGLISH, PLEASE."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

103 It's also important to remember that Reddit is largely non-American. The user base is mostly soft-ass European faggots, supplemented by bought-and-paid-for propagandists from Asia.
Posted by: ballistic
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Very possible. Have not seen any reddit reveals unlike X on country of origin.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
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I think at least 25% of Reddit "users" are bots

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

104
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 quit this world in the peace of a good conscience and in the embraces of Your love.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (t2vGZ)

105 84 Adams is a good lesson in how quickly the left will completely "unperson" someone for straying from acceptable thoughts and beliefs.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 12:23 PM (JCZqz)

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We're at the point where even apolitical people will get shit on by the left because "silence is violence."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

106 Hello Ace.
Adams was a funny guy. Always thought Dilbert was a great read with a slightly twisted viewpoint. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (9ShUO)

107 I actually didn't mind meetings. I usually learned a thing or two from them.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

108 Dogbert as the head of HR, absolutely epitomized every HR department of every employee I've had.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (5yDGQ)

109 You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.
Posted by: garrett

I get my prostate checked 3-4 times a year. $20 copay, same as in town!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (JCZqz)

110 Refusing to get annual checkups has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Your likelihood of survival goes up dramatically when any problems are caught early.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

111 28
‘ demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...’

I prefer the think of her as Dead Van Dyke.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (jbnUc)

112 I should look up what the last Dilbert cartoon was...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

113 99 I am looking forward to one of the lawyers I watch on youtube covering these arguments.

Always hysterical listening to what Jumanji doesn't understand.

Even funnier watching Sotomayor try to drag the Lawyer from the Left over the finish line.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (ZcsJV)

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She understands perfectly well.

She just rejects the logic in favor of her framing: critical race theory. Everything must be filtered through it.

She's intentional, not obtuse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

114 R.I.P.

The master of cubicle humor ...

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (yrqXS)

115 ACB continues to be a disappointment.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett calling boys who identify as girls,"trans girls."

http://tiny.cc/eylx001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (Yp6az)

116 >>My wife is sad about Bobby Weir dying. Yeah, she was a deadhead growing up. I endeavor to persevere.

Bobby dying is rough. Sad to see him and Phil go this close to eachother.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (ZcsJV)

117 SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch then stepped in.
Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:22 PM (TN0g+)
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Katanje, at no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (krQz2)

118 110 Refusing to get annual checkups has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Your likelihood of survival goes up dramatically when any problems are caught early.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

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I didn't start until last year.

Still...don't have much going wrong.

My doctor looked at me last week and said at the end of the visit, "So, you've got slight acid reflux and tinnitus."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

119 Always hysterical listening to what Jumanji doesn't understand.

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Shouldn't she recuse herself since she has no idea what the difference is between males and females?

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (yrqXS)

120 Nobody should be dying from prostate cancer.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 12:19 PM (kS3yR)

And yet, even with early detection, some small portion of folks still will b/c some cancers just don't work the way docs expect...aka, some mutations are not the norm, which is what meds are expected to work with...

It's why no cancer is 100% liveable after X years...

Sure, nothing is guaranteed, but if you can sharply increase your chances of survival, why wouldn't you?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

121 From an article in the SF Gate this morning. I didn't know that about his email address in his strips:
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In 1993, Adams became the first syndicated cartoonist to include his email address in his strip. That triggered a dialogue between the artist and his fans, giving Adams a fountain of ideas for the strip.
“Dilbert” was also known for generating aphorisms, like “All rumors are true — especially if your boss denies them” and “OK, let’s get this preliminary pre-meeting going.”
“If you can come to peace with the fact that you’re surrounded by idiots, you’ll realize that resistance is futile, your tension will dissipate, and you can sit back and have a good laugh at the expense of others,” Adams wrote in his 1996 book “The Dilbert Principle.”

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (I7J98)

122 "Yes, he said he tried ivermectin and Fenben. And he managed to get on a new treatment at the end, thanks in part to people in this administration's help. It was too far gone" Posted by: Notsothoreau

I take both those as prophylactics, Ivermectin every few months, Fenbendazole less than that. Better to use them early, and they seem very safe. They are good for more than just cancer, as I hear it.

There should be more studies on their efficacy and use, but no big money in cheap drugs.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (vbXSk)

123 I think at least 25% of Reddit "users" are bots
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Again very possible and inline with other websites. I suspect with AI, that will compose more and more of audiences. I am noting that cloudfare's bot and webcrawler avoidance system screening is becoming more and more frequent to get access to websites.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

124 May his soul rest with God. I thank him for all the laughs I he gave me ever since probably college.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (n5tGW)

125 ACB continues to be a disappointment.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett calling boys who identify as girls,"trans girls."

http://tiny.cc/eylx001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (Yp6az)
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Rock-ribbed Catholic, there.

She is nearly Sandra Day O'Connor.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (krQz2)

126 I strongly suspect the vast majority of those cheering Adam's death have no idea who he is. They got the NPC download when he was cancelled that "he's a racist." That is literally all they have ever heard about him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

It's so hard to believe that THIS is hill that the dems have decided to plant their flag on and support felony criminal illegal aliens.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (pkq24)
_______

Criminal illegal aliens are a perfect storm for Democraps:

1. Money
2. Political influence (including millions of illegal votes)
3. Helps destroy society
4. Trump is against it, so it must be good

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

127 >> You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.

I have lived my life largely believing I am indestructible. I will probably still die standing up.

But I have learned that seeing problems coming is better than waiting for them to arrive on your doorstep unannounced.

Find someone competent that you trust. Especially if you have family. Because it’s not just about you.

Finally and most importantly, trust in God. He is awesome and there is nothing beyond His power.

He will guide you through everything. I know.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (kS3yR)

128 Doc said after they discovered it that the odds were that I would die of something else.
Posted by: pawn

They discovered it in my Dad when he was in his eighties. They didn't treat it because they figured he'd die of something else first. Which he did -- a stroke.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

129 RIP.
As a corporate type for most of my career, he was always oddly accurate.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

That's what persuaded me that job-hopping would not solve bureaucratic issues at my employer. Everyone in the corporate world thought Adams used to work for their company. Or at least had a mole inside reporting on things to put in next Sunday's strip.

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (nhCoE)

130 121 From an article in the SF Gate this morning. I didn't know that about his email address in his strips:
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In 1993, Adams became the first syndicated cartoonist to include his email address in his strip. That triggered a dialogue between the artist and his fans, giving Adams a fountain of ideas for the strip.
“Dilbert” was also known for generating aphorisms, like “All rumors are true — especially if your boss denies them” and “OK, let’s get this preliminary pre-meeting going.”
“If you can come to peace with the fact that you’re surrounded by idiots, you’ll realize that resistance is futile, your tension will dissipate, and you can sit back and have a good laugh at the expense of others,” Adams wrote in his 1996 book “The Dilbert Principle.”

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (I7J9

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He responded to my email once when I was in high school.

I asked him if he liked Dune. He said he'd never read it and preferred non-fiction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

131 Did you do that yourself?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2026 12:24 PM (EXyHK)

Image creator is unknown

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (dP47V)

132 Refusing to get annual checkups has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard"

Ok, glad to be entertaining.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (XuXeR)

133 She understands perfectly well.

She just rejects the logic in favor of her framing: critical race theory. Everything must be filtered through it.

She's intentional, not obtuse.

There was a column on this recently. They play dumb, because this is apparently some sort of master strategy on the left. Or...you know...they're really just stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

134 I'll miss him. Didn't watch him daily but enjoyed hearing his views, liked Dilbert including Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light. Seemed like a good guy.

Posted by: night lifted at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (kJmLc)

135 I get my prostate checked 3-4 times a year. $20 copay, same as in town!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg
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Anal sex may be a vector for prostate cancer.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (WDjG6)

136 I am looking forward to one of the lawyers I watch on youtube covering these arguments.

Andrew Branca? Uncivil law? Nate the Lawyer? Viva frei and Robert Barnes? Nick Rekeita?

If you want to hear Lefty harridans say how "fierce" her dissents are, as she "speaks for the court in the court of history", I recommend hate watching "Strict Scrutiny".

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (JCZqz)

137 I get the PSA blood work done annually.

My dad died from prostate cancer. It was very painful, not just to watch, but for him too. He also had Alzheimer's. Double whammy.

In a perverse way, I guess it's something I have to look forward to... if my gene pool lottery sucks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (NwnyJ)

138 ACB is a woman. We have to stop putting them on the Court. It's far too much power for a woman to have. They don't belong there.

If I see Trump nominate another cooze I'm gonna puke.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (BI5O2)

139 My rule for meetings remains anything beyond a half hour is useless. Watch people after a half hour passes, it's fascinating. You can actually set your watch by it.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:31 PM (T+ssH)

140 Sure, nothing is guaranteed, but if you can sharply increase your chances of survival, why wouldn't you?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

I was trying to avoid folks blaming the cancer patient. Both my parents died young and quickly from their cancers, and they did check ups...their cancers were that virulent and fast (and did not respond to treatments...at all). Sometimes it just would not matter if you knew or didn't.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 12:31 PM (tOcjL)

141 125. She's a pseudo Catholic cultist

Posted by: night lifted at January 13, 2026 12:31 PM (kJmLc)

142 but if you can sharply increase your chances of survival, why wouldn't you?"

No. And that's final.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:32 PM (XuXeR)

143 GregGutfeld
@greggutfeld

Rest in glorious peace,
@ScottAdamsSays
- you changed more lives and made the world infinitely better. God bless you and thank you for everything you did for me. We will always love you.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

144 I thought he was younger than 68.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 12:32 PM (kgFPv)

145 I get the PSA blood work done annually.

My dad died from prostate cancer. It was very painful, not just to watch, but for him too. He also had Alzheimer's. Double whammy.

In a perverse way, I guess it's something I have to look forward to... if my gene pool lottery sucks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:30 PM (NwnyJ)

That's so sad about your dad having that double whammy.

Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (dP47V)

146 They discovered it in my Dad when he was in his eighties. They didn't treat it because they figured he'd die of something else first. Which he did -- a stroke.
Posted by: Bulg
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Grandfather was the same way. Died of COPD complications (was a 4-5 packs a day smoker then quit but not until a lot of damage had been done).

Grandfather quit smoking at about 50 and lived to 77. He said he realized that when he had a cigarette in his mouth lit and he was already getting the next out to smoke that he needed to quit for his kids and wife. And he did. Cold turkey.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (WDjG6)

147 A genius mind and a solid soul.

He mined the pits of corporate hell and somehow brought forth nuggets of sunshine and laughter every day.

Gone too soon, but his pain and worry is gone. He's got the best seat in the house now.

I bet Scott and Mark Twain will have some wild chats.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (GDX6I)

148 My rule for meetings remains anything beyond a half hour is useless. Watch people after a half hour passes, it's fascinating. You can actually set your watch by it.
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:31 PM (T+ssH)
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Depends on how much actual work you're getting done in a meeting. If it's just touch-base kind of stuff, then yeah. But if its nailing down details, no.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (krQz2)

149 > Andrew Branca? Uncivil law? Nate the Lawyer? Viva frei and Robert Barnes? Nick Rekeita?

Nate the lawyer is an idiot. Nick can make interesting arguments when he's not falling over drunk.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Yp6az)

150
RIP

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Jxa0O)

151 Well said. Get the yearly checkup, include the PSA.
Posted by: tubal

Mine always comes back reading as "undetectable" !!

Posted by: Eliot Page at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (w9Wax)

152 I scheduled my colonoscopy today. I'm not looking forward to it, but I'll rest a lot easier once it's done, assuming they find nothing of note. If they do, I'll rest easier knowing that they're going to do everything they can to fix it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

153 145

That's so sad about your dad having that double whammy.

Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (dP47V)

So, one vote for no Camel straights and Old Grandad.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (pDt9x)

154 My rule for meetings remains anything beyond a half hour is useless. Watch people after a half hour passes, it's fascinating. You can actually set your watch by it.
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:31 PM (T+ssH)

For me the time doesn’t matter. It’s the number of people that’s key. More than 5 or 6 people and the meeting becomes useless.

A focused meeting with a small group can be very productive even if it goes 2 hours.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 12:34 PM (kgFPv)

155 For your sins, the Pointy-Haired Boss is going to be kicking your ass in purgatory until you repent. The final message was a nice start. RIP.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (BSdIE)

156 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court

"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"
Posted by: Crusader

This is why I could not be a lawyer. I guarantee you my answer to that question would include the phrase "authentic frontier gibberish."

Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (nhCoE)

157 Depends on how much actual work you're getting done in a meeting. If it's just touch-base kind of stuff, then yeah. But if its nailing down details, no.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (krQz2)

If there is an actual task, a meeting can go a whole day and be fine. I am talking about "meetings".

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (T+ssH)

158 6 My favorite Dilbert character was Wally.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

Wally is my hero, my spirit animal.

Posted by: a.moron at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (X5Jzz)

159 And when I read his How to Fail at Everything book, which is pretty entertaining, I learned that people who read self help books - any self help books - are statistically happier and more successful than those who don't, which I thought was funny.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:25 PM (T+ssH)

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I need to read that, thanks, as I've heard several others praise it.

Makes sense that those striving to improve themselves (in all manner of aspects) inherently feel they have purpose and meaning -- and crave (continuing or better) health, beauty, happiness, success, creativity, et. al.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (+auHU)

160
Never have a meeting except to solve a problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (t2vGZ)

161 The downside of living long is watching everyone else go. I'd appreciate it if nobody else goes for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)

162
Interesting anniversary. The Shah departed Iran on Jan. 16, 1979. Three days from now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:36 PM (w6EFb)

163 For me the time doesn’t matter. It’s the number of people that’s key. More than 5 or 6 people and the meeting becomes useless.

A focused meeting with a small group can be very productive even if it goes 2 hours.
Posted by: Really??
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I'd put it at 3 people. Anything more than that, it's probably a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (XvL8K)

164 Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (+auHU)

Of course there is always the chance you are just a lost cause.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (T+ssH)

165 162
Interesting anniversary. The Shah departed Iran on Jan. 16, 1979. Three days from now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:36 PM (w6EFb)

Are we setting a “ Return of the Shah” moment?? Nah.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (pDt9x)

166 >>> Andrew Branca? Uncivil law? Nate the Lawyer? Viva frei and Robert Barnes? Nick Rekeita?

Potentially Criminal.

His Chat is run on Somalian Rules. Makes it more fun.

Rekieta is a Cuckold. Barnes is a Carnival Barker. Uncivil makes my skin crawl, just hearing or seeing the guy. Nate is a DITW Lefty, it comes out in his reflexes.

Sean (PC) has an Anti-Semitism Problem. But, who doesn't these days?

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (ZcsJV)

167 that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"
Posted by: Crusader

This is why I could not be a lawyer. I guarantee you my answer to that question would include the phrase "authentic frontier gibberish."
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (nhCoE)

"With all due respect, your honor, there is no value in directly responding to the false assertions of the mentally ill."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (uWKK8)

168 Hopefully Adams has figured out that his last-minute conversion to Christianity worked.

Posted by: Octochicken at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (oCS0o)

169 The downside of living long is watching everyone else go. I'd appreciate it if nobody else goes for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)

The downside of living long is being a Mets fan.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (T+ssH)

170 > Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??
Posted by: Doof
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Bourbon as a germ killer? Will do!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (NwnyJ)

171 I think the protocol is to only test if there is a risk. So a doctor will only order a test if your family has a history or if there is a milestone age.

I got the PSA done when I turned 50. It showed elevated levels and I went to a specialist. He did an exam and ordered another PSA test. The second test came back normal. The specialist says there is normal day to day variation in the levels and they also change based on certain activities.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (Vh9CX)

172 108 Dogbert as the head of HR, absolutely epitomized every HR department of every employee I've had.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

Whispers: Catbert

Posted by: Piper at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (pZEOD)

173 Yes, he said he tried ivermectin andFenben. And he managed to get on a new treatment at the end, thanks in part to people in this administration's help. It was too far gone
Posted by: Notsothoreau

He did a little of Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, and the rest of the protocol, but didn't stay with it, quit too early.
Who knows what would have happened if he had stayed with it? Maybe the same outcome.
My B-i-L died of pancreatic cancer (and yes, I think it was brought on by the Vax, just like Scott Adams).
I tried to talk him into alternative therapies, but again, he was too far gone, and my sister (his wife) was against it....just do what the doctor said. Waiting for Chemotherapy that was never started because he was already too far gone.

Scott was a wry, funny guy, in many ways. Been following Dilbert for ....decades.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (vcOmj)

174 Dilbert - the Patron Saint of Engineers, IT nerds and other assorted techies.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (cYBz/)

175 We've talked here recently about how Islamic Iran really is.

Iran is only about 60% Persian, with the bulk of the remainder being Turkic Azeris in the northwest, Kurds in the West, and Lurs in the southwest. The Kurds are used to statelessness, and Iraq's Kurds even refused a state two decades ago. The Azeris? Who knows — maybe Iran would prefer to join up with their brethren in post-Soviet Azerbaijan.

Radical Islam helped keep Iran together following the fall of the Shah in 1978, but Islam ain't what it used to be in the Islamic Republic. Historian — and mandatory X follow — Edward Luttwak noted on Sunday that "Iran is more than 50% post-Islamic, as its empty mosques attest." Two years ago, All Arab News reported: "Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, a senior cleric for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, delivered a speech to a group of religious students in which he stated that 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques have closed their doors."

If post-Ayatollah Iran requires a binding agent to hold its disparate ethnic groups together, Islam — even a kinder, gentler version — might not be it.

https://is.gd/6hllp6

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

176 You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.
Posted by: garrett

And they were to make an offer, for the first time in human history, I'd run as fast I could.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (HsXHq)

177 Never have a meeting except to solve a problem.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (t2vGZ)

And to check out the hook while my DJ revolves it!

Posted by: Vanilla Ice at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (dP47V)

178 Hopefully Adams has figured out that his last-minute conversion to Christianity worked.

Posted by: Octochicken at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (oCS0o)
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Amen.

But the Lord is right no matter what happens.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (krQz2)

179 Refusing to get annual checkups has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Your likelihood of survival goes up dramatically when any problems are caught early.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

My annual mammogram a few years ago saved my life. We caught cancer at Stage 1, barely noticeable. Had I skipped that appointment, we might be having a different conversation, or none at all.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (6xRrr)

180
One kind of meeting that always enraged me:

- I'm told I'll be presenting at the meeting
- I am told talks will be only 10 minutes long
- I diligently prepare my presentation
- The agenda comes out and I'm the last person
- The first speaker talks for 30 minutes
- By the time it gets to me, the big boys have a hard stop
- I never get to talk

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (t2vGZ)

181 Nate the lawyer is an idiot. Nick can make interesting arguments when he's not falling over drunk.
Posted by: bonhomme

I'm not a huge fan of Nate's analysis, but I find his takes sometimes more of what normie reality will be, instead of what I think pure law should have through analysis (like Branca). Barnes talks a big game, and I like what his ultimate vision of what the Founder's intended is, but he's a bit out of touch with reality and he's a bit too blustery.

Legal Eagle is a corrupt propaganda source of weaponized retardation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (JCZqz)

182 Interesting anniversary. The Shah departed Iran on Jan. 16, 1979. Three days from now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:36 PM (w6EFb)

Are we setting a “ Return of the Shah” moment?? Nah.
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (pDt9x)

Trump is making a nationwide announcement in a couple of hours. Anyone's guess as to what he's going to say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (uWKK8)

183 15 Do you morons ever think about how you're going to die? It looks like strokes usually do it in my bloodline. It sure was hell isn't going to be because I tried to stop an Ice cop from arresting an illegal.

It's a sad day.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (f0sNM)

Ideally, in bed with twin nymphomaniacs at age 88.
Second choice, on a pile of hot brass surrounded by the corpses of my enemies.

More likely it will be my heart. Bad hearts run in my family.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

184 Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??
Posted by: Doof
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Bourbon as a germ killer? Will do!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (NwnyJ)

That's a true Kentuckian right there!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (dP47V)

185 Guys,

Get your PSA blood test done every 6 months.

And every year get the digital rectal prostate exam.
I try to have mine done around tax season when the IRS has already got me warmed up.

Or even just on a Friday when there isn't anything good on TV.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (GDX6I)

186 30 I like Dilbert, particularly Dogbert.

Adams was an odd duck. I couldn't tell whether or how much he believed what he was saying.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (XCUp7)

Yeah, I always got that feeling, too. He talked a lot about persuasion, and I always read his stuff wondering if he was just screwing with everyone. Still, he was entertaining and a smart guy. More than you can say about most famous people.

Posted by: a.moron at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (X5Jzz)

187 There was a column on this recently. They play dumb, because this is apparently some sort of master strategy on the left. Or...you know...they're really just stupid.
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Yeah, those same people try to assert that Jazzy is some sort of genius who just pretends to be dumber than a box of rocks. I prefer to believe that if one spends a couple of years speaking nothing but gibberish that one can become dumber than a box of rocks regardless of how much education they may have had previously.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (TN0g+)

188 Nice Dilbert character tribute-

https://tinyurl.com/msudxyn3

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

189 I used to listen to Viva Frei. I liked his analysis and he was amusing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (rZCVI)

190 The downside of living long is being a Mets fan.
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (T+ssH)
_______________________________

Some would argue that if you're a Mets fan you have earned your living Purgatory.

Posted by: A Phillies Fan at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)

191 DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court"

Well, read it slowly... she's attempting (or whoever wrote it) to create a "class" that disregards actual sex. Bizarre, but I get the point..

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (XuXeR)

192 Bubba didn't show up for his subpoena'd deposition/interview. I can't wait to hear the GOPe reason for not finding him in contempt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (9ShUO)

193 146
‘ he was already getting the next out to smoke that he needed to quit for his kids and wife. And he did. Cold turkey.’

My dad did the same. Unfortunately, he only about 7 years and some change after.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (jbnUc)

194 116 >>My wife is sad about Bobby Weir dying. Yeah, she was a deadhead growing up. I endeavor to persevere.

Bobby dying is rough. Sad to see him and Phil go this close to each other.
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Well, we all die. Its just what we do. The Dead were unique and many had fond memories of them. Personally, I was not a big fan. Listening to Jerry's endless leads I found annoying. It was meandering on a scale over and over again. On long trips I am treated to a lot of the Grateful Dead.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (pLaQB)

195 I loved the Dilbert series; many of the comically idiotic management policies that formed the basis of much of the humor in the strip I would actually see adopted at the federal agency I worked for (and in the banking industry in which I had previously worked). It even became a kind of game; someone would circulate a Dilbert cartoon, with one or more characters labeled as people at the agency, and the representation was always spot on. Also, more times than I care to remember, Dilbert even had predictive value. You'd see the pointy-haired boss formulate some stupid plan, and, sure enough, my employer would adopt something similar, if not the exact same thing. It was uncanny. Adams had a better grasp on the sheep-like mentality of middle management than anyone else I can think of.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (2L+MU)

196 I read recently that around 50 percent of men over age 65 have some degree of prostate cancer. Usually it grows so slowly that they die of something else. The trick is identifying the fast growing cases that need to be dealt with. Unfortunately the treatments all have downsides so simple monitoring ("watch and wait") is often the recommended approach. But not getting a routine PSA is just putting your head in the sand. Too many cases where catching prostate cancer sooner would have made the difference between living and dying.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 12:40 PM (1Au9i)

197 Scott Adams was an original, bright light. Humanity is better because he was in our presence.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (4nEGa)

198 Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
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There is some sect in Iran, that I heard from recently and used the chaos in that country to say "Don't call us 'fire-worshippers'!"

So they don't sound fully Islamic. I'm not sure if that's the same thing as Yazidi or not.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (krQz2)

199 Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (dP47V)

Only good quality bourbon for me!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (n9ltV)

200 The Shah’s son gives me kinda grift vibes. I’m also skeptical that the yuuutes protesting in the streets give any fucks about him or have any interest in a monarchy if they get rid of the mullahs.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (kgFPv)

201 My brother who I no longer associate with was a huge Dilbert and Scott Adams fan in the 90's but I understand he is a flaming retard (read: Olbermannesque) lib now so it would be interesting to see if he is "celebrating" today as the end of a Klansman. Not that I give a shit but it would be interesting.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (T+ssH)

202 The interesting thing is lefty spin works well here because I see this kind of comment from LIVs:

"Well even if she was breaking the law she died, and we should all be sad someone died - no one should be saying she deserved it or cheering"

Then if you ask them about Charlie Kirk or Scott Adams you get... "Who?"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

203 >> On long trips I am treated to a lot of the Grateful Dead.

I measure Road Trips in the # of 1967-70 Shows I need to bring along.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (ZcsJV)

204 Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (krQz2)

Fire is a big deal in Zoroastrianism.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (n9ltV)

205 169 The downside of living long is watching everyone else go. I'd appreciate it if nobody else goes for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)

Yep, and I have it on good authority that it gets damn lonely at the end. A second cousin recently died three months after turning 100. Everyone was gone, said only "pictures and memories" were left. Didn't have kids, and lived to regret it.

Posted by: night lifted at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (kJmLc)

206 42 That's not converting to Christianity. That's accepting Pascal's wager.
Posted by: JB at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (8DvD0)

Luke 23:

39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him,[d] saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." 42 And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 43 And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise."

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (0CU3H)

207 My wife is sad about Bobby Weir dying. Yeah, she was a deadhead growing up. I endeavor to persevere.
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Not a "deadhead", but Weir helped make some good music.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (krQz2)

208 There is some sect in Iran, that I heard from recently and used the chaos in that country to say "Don't call us 'fire-worshippers'!"

So they don't sound fully Islamic. I'm not sure if that's the same thing as Yazidi or not.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (krQz2)

Zoroastrians. They are the ones who get branded as Fire Worshipers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

209 DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court"

Well, read it slowly... she's attempting (or whoever wrote it) to create a "class" that disregards actual sex. Bizarre, but I get the point..

That's what you got? I thought it was a set of Ikea instructions that had been translated into Mandarin, then Swahili, then back to pidgin English.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

210 Refusing to get annual checkups has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Your likelihood of survival goes up dramatically when any problems are caught early.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

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I didn't start until last year.

Still...don't have much going wrong.

My doctor looked at me last week and said at the end of the visit, "So, you've got slight acid reflux and tinnitus."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

I kinda love seeing the patients who don't see a dentist regularly or hate to go cuz-

One, you may be able to convert them them to a more healthy life and that's cool to see the lights go on, and

Two, even if you can't convert them cuz they prefer to be stupid about their health, they're probably there for pain which means they're probably going to drop 3K or so into your pocket, which is always nice.

TJM,

You're what mid-40s? You've still got at least a decade or more before things start to pile up.

Enjoy this time!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (iJfKG)

211 "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul"

Posted by: Principal Anderson at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (HsXHq)

212 I'm 51 minutes into a meeting with 22 people or so. I've spoken for about 60 seconds on two slides, and just scrolled here and Reddit in the interim.

It helps having enough rank to sit quietly in the back ignoring 90% of the meeting and be left alone lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (JCZqz)

213 I believe the Yazidi are Zoroastrians, by and large.

Often a target for the loving muslim hordes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

214 202 The interesting thing is lefty spin works well here because I see this kind of comment from LIVs:

"Well even if she was breaking the law she died, and we should all be sad someone died - no one should be saying she deserved it or cheering"

Then if you ask them about Charlie Kirk or Scott Adams you get... "Who?"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

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"Show me the people cheering for Good's death. Also, I love this theory of yours that ICE has no arresting powers over American citizens. That federal law enforcement that witnesses criminal activity outside of their core competencies are hogtied and can't do anything but call the right agency. I look forward to you testing this theory practically."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

215 Some rare prostate cancers are difficult to detect because they don't increase your PSA. I think most urologists have basically written those folks off because trying to find those types of cancers for all men with lower urinary tract symptoms probably causes more harm than good.

Posted by: Bladder Boy's Last Stages at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)

216 *singing*

Moon River . . . wider than a mile

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (wVcYX)

217 My Dad had it and had surgery to remove his prostate.
It was a nightmare. He came to in the middle of the night with a bunch of tubes coming out of him and he went into "escape" mode.

He was a big and very strong man and my Mom and I struggled wildly to keep him down on the bed. It was the middle of the night and the nurses couldn't find the keys to the narc locker. It took them half an hour to sedate him.

I kept an eye on my PSA and it went up more than a little one year so I had a biopsy. Elected the radiation.

My urologist was a surgeon and he said, off the record that was a good choice.

Two months of lying on a slab for 20 minutes listening to a symphony of industrial noises every weekday zorched it.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (rbIOb)

218 Former computer programmer and product manager at Pac Bell. This experience informed many of the themes that were featured in his comic strip. Those of us that worked in similar, or even adjacent fields, recognized his iconic characters as their own boss, their own coworkers, and, especially, themselves. Dilbert kept a lot of us sane by assuring us that our frustration was real. Taping a relevant strip to my computer terminal (Remember when we called them that?) was a kind of therapy, an act of defiance against the idiocy that ruled us. Sure, the work paid well, but Dilbert provided a compensation that can't be measured in dollars. Thank you, Scott, and rest in peace..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (nbLIj)

219 210 TJM,

You're what mid-40s? You've still got at least a decade or more before things start to pile up.

Enjoy this time!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:43 PM (iJfKG)

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Early 40s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

220 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (ZnCX8)

221 I will miss him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (golfv)

222 "Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"

My interpretation of this word salad is, "There's a subset of Male to Female trannies who aren't a danger to women in sport. You're grouping them all together, which appears to be a category error. What's your response?"

My response would be, "Nope, they're all a danger to women. No category error has been made."

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (Yp6az)

223 I will say one thing about Bob Weir...Dude was an absolutely incredible rhythm player by the time 1972 rolled around.
Guy became a chord encyclopedia by the end of the 70s.

You may not like the Dead, but that guy knew all the inversions and used them well.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (ZcsJV)

224 216 *singing*

Moon River . . . wider than a mile
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 12:44 PM (wVcYX)

I am betting you do not sound like whoever was dubbing for Audrey Hepburn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

225 I remember in the late '90s when my employer was relocating to South Dakota for tax purposes, right as Adams was penning a series of strips about Dilbert's company moving to South Dakota for tax purposes. Our CEO saw one of the strips. He didnt know about Adams or Dilbert and thought someone in the company had drawn it. He wanted the guy fired. Some lackey had to explain it to him.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (65cLN)

226 That's not converting to Christianity. That's accepting Pascal's wager.

Posted by: JB at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (8DvD0)
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Maybe. But the Lord wishes no one to perish. He covers so much of the gap himself, that we forget how much of the gap he covers.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (krQz2)

227 Iran is only about 60% Persian, with the bulk of the remainder being Turkic Azeris in the northwest, Kurds in the West, and Lurs in the southwest. The Kurds are used to statelessness, and Iraq's Kurds even refused a state two decades ago. The Azeris? Who knows — maybe Iran would prefer to join up with their brethren in post-Soviet Azerbaijan"

Trying to slap lines on a map over tribal areas never works out.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

228 Great picture of Adams and Trump-

https://tinyurl.com/mcecy9eb

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (NpAcC)

229 You were the only reason I even flipped to the funny pages at the end of my newspaper days Scott. RIP. Sir. Thanks for the laughs and prep for my eventual office jobs.

Posted by: Reforger at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (v8m2L)

230 Make as healthy as possible choices, OK??

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:33 PM (dP47V)

Only good quality bourbon for me!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:41 PM (n9ltV)

I'm still working on that bottle of The Duke - Founders Reserve.
Also cracked open the first of the 3 special releases of Four Roses Single Barrel (red labels). Amazing stuff!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (dP47V)

231 I liked that he made Catbert more evil than Dogbert.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (36PRH)

232 Bourbon as a germ killer? Will do!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (NwnyJ)

That's a true Kentuckian right there!
Posted by: Doof

If I administer anally, will it help prevent colon and prostate cancer?

Posted by: Motivated, closeted moron at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (JCZqz)

233 Is it wrong that I am looking at vacuum chambers on amazon because I hate foamy protein shakes?

Cheapest is 107...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

234 ah, the shit eater is here with his misinformation dump

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

235 Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was a Zoroastrian by birth.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

236 And how do you respond to that?

With a blank, uncomprehending stare.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

237 I am betting you do not sound like whoever was dubbing for Audrey Hepburn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

Audrey sang for Audrey, good thing Andy came along. For whatever reason he did well with movie music.

Posted by: night lifted at January 13, 2026 12:47 PM (kJmLc)

238 "Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:47 PM (pkq24)

239 "174 Dilbert - the Patron Saint of Engineers, IT nerds and other assorted techies.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 12:38 PM (cYBz/) "

spoken like someone who also has The Knack!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 12:47 PM (Cjt/F)

240 168 Hopefully Adams has figured out that his last-minute conversion to Christianity worked.
Posted by: Octochicken at January 13, 2026 12:37 PM (oCS0o)

those of us who have faith sometimes forget that the actual life you live is very important as well, not just the thoughts you think or the words you say. Scott lived his life to the fullest, and did the most he could to help those around him with the tools he was given. And he was always honest, often brutally honest, with himself and those around him.
Any of us should be proud to have such things said of us when we're gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:47 PM (uWKK8)

241 Plain flavored Ascent Protein is very very very good

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:48 PM (T+ssH)

242 RIP Scott. I named my 1994 Ford Ranger "Truckbert" in his honor. Dilbert was brilliant. I haven't read his books but think I will add them to my list.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 13, 2026 12:48 PM (IONGM)

243 It helps having enough rank to sit quietly in the back ignoring 90% of the meeting and be left alone lol.
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Never miss a moment to keep your mouth shut. It works.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (pLaQB)

244 Audrey sang for Audrey, good thing Andy came along. For whatever reason he did well with movie music.
Posted by: night lifted

Marni Nixon dubbed her in My Fair Lady, though.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

245 I remember liking the Dilbert TV show that aired for a while. My only complaint was friggin' Kathy Griffin as Alice. Even her voice is ugly.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (PSEDc)

246 I thought about becoming a zorroastrian, but I looked ridiculous in that big black hat and the mask. Made me look pasty.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (GDX6I)

247 242, that's so awesome!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (Cjt/F)

248 Is being here a healthy choice?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (T+ssH)

249 >>I'm still working on that bottle of The Duke - Founders Reserve.
Also cracked open the first of the 3 special releases of Four Roses Single Barrel (red labels). Amazing stuff!

I haven't bought a bottle in over a year and a half...still working on my store of Elijah Craig C-923

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (ZcsJV)

250 Is it wrong that I am looking at vacuum chambers on amazon because I hate foamy protein shakes?

Cheapest is 107...
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I need new glasses or quit assuming.
I read that as "is it wrong I'm looking at Marilyn Chambers"

No. Not at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (pkq24)

251 I still have my metal file cabinet magnet, "The Dilbert Zone."

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (wVcYX)

252 241 Plain flavored Ascent Protein is very very very good
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:48 PM (T+ssH)

Hmmm, 2lbs for $45 on amazon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

253 Trump tells the Iranian protesters that help is on the way.

Hmmm.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (n5tGW)

254
So strange to see him healthy in that clip above. Those were the good old days.

I had stopped watching the last few days because I just couldn't start the day with all that death and deterioration and sadness and doom.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (Jxa0O)

255 If your doctor isn’t doing that at least once a year, it’s malpractice.
I rate this as true. My doc does a blood screen, including PSA, every year when I go in for my physical. I've always thought this was just standard practice for any male over, say, 40. And the cost is minimal (if not already included in your basic cost for the physical).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (nJ/vH)

256 245 I remember liking the Dilbert TV show that aired for a while. My only complaint was friggin' Kathy Griffin as Alice. Even her voice is ugly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Reminds me of some earlier comments:

Smothered to death by a busty, leggy redhead sitting on my face.
Posted by: ballistic

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (JCZqz)

257 I'm still working on that bottle of The Duke - Founders Reserve.
Also cracked open the first of the 3 special releases of Four Roses Single Barrel (red labels). Amazing stuff!

I haven't bought a bottle in over a year and a half...still working on my store of Elijah Craig C-923
Posted by: garrett

Has anyone tried Rob Schneider s Liberal Tears?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (pkq24)

258 Is being here a healthy choice?
Posted by: ...

Well, it's where you get great health advice like "slap a hot iron to it."

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

259 36 And yes these are the same people demanding that everyone praise Karen Deathwheels in other threads...
Posted by: 18-1

Reddit is a collection of Howler Monkeys that like to throw shit on everyone and everything wholesome. I avoid it except when a thread occasionally comes up as a websearch result on something specific on a product review, car flaws, etc.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

If Reddit was a place, I'd buy popcorn to watch an asteroid fly into it.

Posted by: Nelly at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (7gpcF)

260 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 quit this world in the peace of a good conscience and in the embraces of Your love.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Amen

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (ZpHph)

261 I didn't get into LSD so jam bands like the Dead were never big on my radar.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (BSdIE)

262 259 If Reddit was a place, I'd buy popcorn to watch an asteroid fly into it.

Posted by: Nelly at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (7gpcF)

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Reddit is a place.

It's called Canada.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

263 Never miss a moment to keep your mouth shut. It works.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (pLaQB)

I had a boss and old friend who gave me some good advice when I was covering some meetings for my then current boss: "Shut the fuck up, and answer "yes," or "no," when asked a question."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:52 PM (n9ltV)

264 246 I thought about becoming a zorroastrian, but I looked ridiculous in that big black hat and the mask. Made me look pasty.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (GDX6I)

I thought you had to wear a wizards hat with stars and moons on it. And kind of a blue robe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:52 PM (uWKK8)

265 Then if you ask them about Charlie Kirk or Scott Adams you get... "Who?"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
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This is very common among that type of narcissism.

Whatever they do, they are enough to justify it.

If they do something that could be seen as wrong, that's the fault of somebody else, perhaps somebody who "did worse" (including by interpretation as "worse") or somebody who started it. "Trump is the one initiating the violence!"

But before they come to that they have this: *They* are not that kind of person! Even if they made a video of themselves aping Charlie being shot in the neck and laughing, that's not *really* who they are--they are just making a point because of how bad they have convinced themselves Charlie was. Conservatives need to be taken down a peg.

And so on.

And it's all accompanied with torturous "logic" to come to the assessments that "justify" their behavior.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:52 PM (krQz2)

266 Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was a Zoroastrian by birth.
Posted by: Bulg

What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their room is none of my business.

What?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 12:52 PM (cYBz/)

267 227 Iran is only about 60% Persian, with the bulk of the remainder being Turkic Azeris in the northwest, Kurds in the West, and Lurs in the southwest. The Kurds are used to statelessness, and Iraq's Kurds even refused a state two decades ago. The Azeris? Who knows — maybe Iran would prefer to join up with their brethren in post-Soviet Azerbaijan"

Trying to slap lines on a map over tribal areas never works out.
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I spent a couple of years working with the Azerbaijan Border Guards. It was interesting. They are the only CTR program to have transferred to host nation ownership. The Azeris are very happy the Russians aren't running the country.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (pLaQB)

268 I read that as "is it wrong I'm looking at Marilyn Chambers"

No. Not at all.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (pkq24)

Marilyn Chambers had a kind of girl next door look.

Put in the effort though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

269 >> You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.

I have lived my life largely believing I am indestructible. I will probably still die standing up.

But I have learned that seeing problems coming is better than waiting for them to arrive on your doorstep unannounced.

Find someone competent that you trust. Especially if you have family. Because it’s not just about you.

Finally and most importantly, trust in God. He is awesome and there is nothing beyond His power.

He will guide you through everything. I know.

Posted by: Marcus T

Trust. I literally knew about my cancer because I finally went to a doc about my knee that had been bugging me for months and decided to stop putting off a few other things while I was at it.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (OUMaO)

270 The list is uncannily accurate.

Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it's time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.

I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably claims "Derrrrr... you don't even know what fascism is!" So let's explore fascism a little, shall we?

Listed below are attributes and practices that all 20th Century fascists have in common with the Democrat Party of 2025:
1. Laws promoting the seizure of guns from law-abiding citizens and/or the denial of gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens.
2. Censorship of free speech by pretending such censorship protects the citizenry from faulty information (i.e., so-called "disinformation").
3. Government control of industry.
4. Government control of the mass media.
5. Control of the entertainment industry as a means of propaganda. (See: Leni Riefenstahl; Walt Disney Corporation.)...cont.

https://is.gd/IPewYo

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

271 I liked that he made Catbert more evil than Dogbert.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 12:46 PM (36PRH)
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Catbert's brand of evil always felt much more personal.

Dogbert may have wanted to rule the world, but Catbert wanted to rule your soul.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (ESVrU)

272 spoken like someone who also has The Knack!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

I laughed way too hard when I saw that strip.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (cYBz/)

273 Speaking of regular checkups, I'm off for my cardiac stress test. Had to restrict meds starting Sunday, no caffeine starting Monday, and nothing but water or Gatorade since last night. It's all for the Greater Good!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (wVcYX)

274 >>I didn't get into LSD so jam bands like the Dead were never big on my radar.

Maybe checkout the 65-66 stuff. Much more protracted, and they were essentially a Skiffle Band with an Organist.

Good stuff, imo.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (ZcsJV)

275 It's called Canada.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I was thinking more Portland. Or the learing center.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 12:54 PM (JCZqz)

276 264.

I don't remember. I was drunk that decade.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:54 PM (GDX6I)

277 Trump tells the Iranian protesters that help is on the way.

Hmmm.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (n5tGW)

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

The Iranian Supreme Leader tells the IRGC that help is on the way ... in the person of Tucker Qatarlson.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:54 PM (ytb4F)

278
Adams was an odd duck. I couldn't tell whether or how much he believed what he was saying.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

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

He made something of a Pascal's Wager with Candidate Clinton in 2016. "Endorsed" her so she wouldn't persecute him if she won. You never could tell with him!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:54 PM (Jxa0O)

279 Requiescat in Pace, Scott. You will be missed.

And condolences to his family and friends.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (wtvvX)

280 If Reddit was a place, I'd buy popcorn to watch an asteroid fly into it.

Posted by: Nelly at January 13, 2026 12:51 PM (7gpcF)

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Cjt/F)

281 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

I think I go direct

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (T+ssH)

282 Somebody mentioned that Diesel fuel should cost less than Gasoline.

It used to, iirc. It is a much less refined product, to be sure. BUT, it also does contain more energy, higher B.T.U.s

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (gToVg)

283 Sidebar item pretty funny. Says awfls are rebelling against immigration when somebody told them that more than 50% of the entertainment, visas are going to Only Fans models. Ha. Sure import low status men who need a greencard marriage, but bring in bot girls that Karen will have to compete against in thunderdome. KAREN SAYS NOPE.

Posted by: Female psych is all resource competion at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (21xzK)

284
"I loved you all to the end."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Jxa0O)

285 Legal Eagle is a corrupt propaganda source of weaponized retardation.

That guy is like a walking Reddit poster.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

286 > Trust. I literally knew about my cancer because I finally went to a doc about my knee that had been bugging me for months and decided to stop putting off a few other things while I was at it.

I had my toddler son on my lap. He bumped my testicle and it was unreasonably painful. I got an ultrasound and it was cancer.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

287 @227 in the southeast part of Iran the Baluchis straddle the border with Pakistan. They want there own state.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (9ShUO)

288 Oh, I forgot...

My urologist was kinda bent.

Honest to god, he had a two foot high sculpture/statue in his waiting room of a hand with it's middle digit extended.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 12:56 PM (rbIOb)

289 Good stuff, imo.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (ZcsJV)

Five or six songs out of a few thousand? Yeah...no.

They are like Springsteen: three excellent albums, two good ones, and 20 shitty ones.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:56 PM (n9ltV)

290 Nope, they're all a danger to women. No category error has been made."

Correct.

Also, Four Roses' specials are very, very good.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR)

291 I don't understand ppl who never get medical check ups.
Do you never change the oil in your car either?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 12:56 PM (VlUHr)

292 >>I didn't get into LSD so jam bands like the Dead were never big on my radar.

Maybe checkout the 65-66 stuff. Much more protracted, and they were essentially a Skiffle Band with an Organist.

Good stuff, imo.
Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:53 PM (ZcsJV)
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Shakedown Street is not a long jam and it's a pretty tasty tune.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 12:57 PM (krQz2)

293 > Somebody mentioned that Diesel fuel should cost less than Gasoline.

Diesel's cheaper if you use the pink stuff. Don't get caught, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 12:57 PM (Yp6az)

294 I thought about becoming a zorroastrian, but I looked ridiculous in that big black hat and the mask. Made me look pasty.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 12:49 PM (GDX6I)

I thought you had to wear a wizards hat with stars and moons on it. And kind of a blue robe.
Posted by: Tom Servo

My cousin had that painted on a chevy van. 1978.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:57 PM (pkq24)

295 Adams' observation on guns was that Democrats want to ban Republicans from having guns so Republicans can't defend themselves from Democrats. Accurate?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 12:57 PM (T+ssH)

296 285 Legal Eagle is a corrupt propaganda source of weaponized retardation.

That guy is like a walking Reddit poster.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

======

I watched his videos for just a few months, when he was almost exclusively doing the "are these movies that deal with legal issues accurate?"

I found those slightly entertaining.

And then his other videos kept getting pushed to my feed. And then he did some blackout BLM video, and I just blocked the channel. I think it's the only channel I've blocked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

297 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 quit this world in the peace of a good conscience and in the embraces of Your love.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
==
Nice one.

Posted by: Female psych is all resource competion at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (21xzK)

298 >>Five or six songs out of a few thousand? Yeah...no.

I am as likely to hold your musical opinion in as high regard as I hold your Hot Takes on French Toast.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (ZcsJV)

299 Yeah, Legal Eagle is an idiot.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (nJ/vH)

300 Sidebar item pretty funny. Says awfls are rebelling against immigration when somebody told them that more than 50% of the entertainment, visas are going to Only Fans models. Ha. Sure import low status men who need a greencard marriage, but bring in bot girls that Karen will have to compete against in thunderdome. KAREN SAYS NOPE.
Posted by: Female psych is all resource competion at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (21xzK)

The power of the pussy will not be denied

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (NtVYv)

301 266 Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was a Zoroastrian by birth.
Posted by: Bulg
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That and he was born in Africa. I read a bit of the Avesta (the Zoroastrian Bible) and my thoughts were there was some connection to Hieronymus Bosch and Brugal the Elder and their fantasy paintings. It is likely the first guilt religion to pop up. It certainly influenced the development of Christianity.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (pLaQB)

302 >>Shakedown Street is not a long jam and it's a pretty tasty tune.

It's a fun funky tune...but Help>Slip>Franklin's is where it is at for the Mutron Goodness, imo.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 12:59 PM (ZcsJV)

303 Somebody mentioned that Diesel fuel should cost less than Gasoline.

Should be.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 12:59 PM (pkq24)

304 Johnny Von Neumann was by all accounts, a pretty smart guy. He had a deathbed conversion, surprising many. It is thought he acquired a particularly fast acting cancer as a result of visiting one of the hydrogen bomb tests at Eniwetok or wherever. We lost him much too soon.

The defense department had personnel stationed in his hospital room, on guard for the chance he would start blabbing top secret information in his delerium. At one point there were JCS and all sorts of high ranking American personnel consulting with him. Not bad for a kid from Hungary, he was a “secret weapon” for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:59 PM (gToVg)

305 Diesel's cheaper if you use the pink stuff. Don't get caught, though.
Posted by: bonhomme

Soda, OJ, pink stuff, SUNNY D!!!!!

Posted by: Gay 90s commercial at January 13, 2026 12:59 PM (JCZqz)

306 BUT, it also does contain more energy, higher B.T.U.s

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (gToVg)

It's also heavier, so...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 12:59 PM (n9ltV)

307 James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (golfv)

308 209 DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court"

Well, read it slowly... she's attempting (or whoever wrote it) to create a "class" that disregards actual sex. Bizarre, but I get the point..

That's what you got? I thought it was a set of Ikea instructions that had been translated into Mandarin, then Swahili, then back to pidgin English.
Posted by: Archimedes

Equal protection clause is all about classes because if you have the right pokemon points, the burden of proof for a state action changes to from plaintiff to defendant. Suspect class, quasi suspect class, and then the rest of it is under rational basis test. Like taxpayers versus non taxpayer classifications.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

309 What's the over/under on St. Peter donning his hair into points upon Scott's arrival at the Pearly Gates?

They say God does have a sense of humor, after all.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (4h45B)

310 There is a comedian who observed that most religions tend to either officially or unofficially recognize Jesus as at LEAST a very special person, but Jesus Himself said that He was the path to God, so out of logic alone he was going to choose Jesus.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (T+ssH)

311 Somebody mentioned that Diesel fuel should cost less than Gasoline.

It used to, iirc. It is a much less refined product, to be sure. BUT, it also does contain more energy, higher B.T.U.s
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (gToVg)
____

Diesel was always cheaper than regular gas up until a few years ago. Stricter enviro regs made diesel more expensive to refine, while demand (mostly industrial and transportation) skyrocketed. So the price spiked too.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (iFTx/)

312
Even though he said this was coming it is hard to read.
Posted by: Paladin

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

I always hope for a miracle right up until the moment life ends. So I always get disappointed when it does.

Something I've discovered: count on it to hit hard. No matter how long you've seen it coming, no matter how much of a blessing it seems, no matter how well prepared you thought you were.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (Jxa0O)

313 Whatever you might say about Adams, he did not have to come out of the closet and expose himself and enter the fray.

He demonstrated real courage in doing so.

His voice and insight will be missed.

RIP Scott Adams.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (iqlej)

314 RIP, Scott.
I enjoyed your Dilbert cartoons.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (5rh/l)

315 You could not pay me enough to go to a doctor.

Posted by: garrett
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Well an attitude like that will keep you out of the hospital. Is that what you want????!!

Posted by: He did it his way.... at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (21xzK)

316 FYI:

IF you should happen to try to add Chia seeds to your diet (Omega 3, Fiber, lots of god trace minerals) DO NOT follow the advice you might somewhere online to add dry seeds directly to food to make a 'Crunchy option.'

This is a bad idea.

Wet it down. Water or oil. The seeds are like rice and they absorb a lot of liquid. If you do not wet them down, they will absorb the liquid, just inside you. And will be uncomfortable while they do it.

Also, start small.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (bss/y)

317 307 James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (golfv)

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"I went on a gay date with a guy who was secretary to an officer who said that he wouldn't take a bullet for Vance!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

318 Diesel's cheaper if you use the pink stuff. Don't get caught, though"

Yeah. Road use taxes and additives = more $$

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:01 PM (XuXeR)

319 Sad news but expected... RIP

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 01:01 PM (VE6XX)

320 It certainly influenced the development of Christianity.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yes it did, via 2d-Temple Period Judaism. The Jews picked up a lot of theological concepts from the Zoroastrians during the Babylonian captivity. Then they in turn passed them on to early Christianity.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 01:01 PM (77rzZ)

321 Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: Jim Baluchi at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (w9Wax)

322 88 Oh, I forgot...

My urologist was kinda bent.

Honest to god, he had a two foot high sculpture/statue in his waiting room of a hand with it's middle digit extended.
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 12:56 PM (rbIOb)
******
Sick humor.
Don't they now do PSA blood tests to detect prostrate cancer?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (NpAcC)

323 > Soda, OJ, pink stuff, SUNNY D!!!!!

Purple drank!

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (Yp6az)

324 295 Adams' observation on guns was that Democrats want to ban Republicans from having guns so Republicans can't defend themselves from Democrats. Accurate?
Posted by: ...

No! We just want common sense laws to protect children!!!

Posted by: Violent Antifa Mobs that celebrated Kirk's death and call you a Nazi at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (JCZqz)

325 Equal protection clause is all about classes because if you have the right pokemon points, the burden of proof for a state action changes to from plaintiff to defendant. Suspect class, quasi suspect class, and then the rest of it is under rational basis test. Like taxpayers versus non taxpayer classifications.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (WDjG6)
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Different rules for different classes is how modern brains ensure we are "equal before the Law".

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (krQz2)

326 Bummer. This makes me sad. He was a smart guy. A thinker.

Good luck at the big meeting in the sky Mr Adams.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (NtVYv)

327 James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (golfv)
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Live link - NOW:

https://tinyurl.com/uu6b6xu9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (golfv)

328 And just when they created a new cover sheet for the TPS Reports.

Posted by: William Lumbergh at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (iu4b5)

329 @317 Rating: PLAUSIBLE

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (36PRH)

330 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 quit this world in the peace of a good conscience and in the embraces of Your love.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Nice one.
Posted by: Female psych is all resource competion at January 13, 2026 12:58 PM (21xzK)

Seconded

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (NtVYv)

331 287 @227 in the southeast part of Iran the Baluchis straddle the border with Pakistan. They want there own state.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (9ShUO)

I read that as Belushis.

Posted by: night lifted at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (kJmLc)

332 Well an attitude like that will keep you out of the hospital. Is that what you want????!!

Posted by: He did it his way....

I mean, I can see his point, those places are full of sick people after all...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (OUMaO)

333 Nood. Bessent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (bss/y)

334 I'm paraphrasing him but he said my favorite comment about J6 and the bullcrap that followed it..

The heaviest armed demographic in America came to DC without guns to overthrow the government. Right.

Posted by: Blanco at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (q83gU)

335 Judge Elric The Blade

The low sulfur requirements were to blame for the spike in diesel fuel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (u82oZ)

336 I don't understand ppl who never get medical check ups.
Do you never change the oil in your car either?
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We just lived thru a period where people were arrested for being alone in the forest or at the beach, where the definition of "vaccine" was corrupted beyond repair, where perfectly healthy kids were subjected to experimental "medicine", where nurses danced to tell us to stay away from each other and THEN danced to tell us all to go meet in public at civil rights protests, and where perfectly fine 40 and 50 and 60 year old people started having cancers out of nowhere a handful of months or a year or two after taking garbage "medicine".

Its not as simple as pretending going to the doctors is just as straight forward as going to get an oil change.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (TN0g+)

337 329 @317 Rating: PLAUSIBLE

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (36PRH)

=====

His bombshells since he was arrested have been...underwhelming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

338 Not getting medical checkups is kinda disrespecting your family.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (rbIOb)

339
Adams' observation on guns was that Democrats want to ban Republicans from having guns so Republicans can't defend themselves from Democrats. Accurate?
Posted by: ...

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Related, he also predicted that Republicans would be hunted, which is true.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Jxa0O)

340 Do you morons ever think about how you're going to die?

Getting flattened by a Mack truck after stepping off the curb without looking because I'm reading moron comments and trying to apply contexy.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (vzcgi)

341 My urologist was kinda bent.

Honest to god, he had a two foot high sculpture/statue in his waiting room of a hand with it's middle digit extended.

Like he was flipping the bird at all of his clients?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Yp6az)

342 Any Heaven worth attending will have a sense of humor.

Always been convinced of this. Loving and laughing are the two ways we can transcend this mortal weight. I can only believe that the freedom and peace in Heaven will feature them prominently.

YMMV

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (GDX6I)

343 "Well even if she was breaking the law she died, and we should all be sad someone died - no one should be saying she deserved it or cheering"
___

It's sad that by her own actions, which she had numerous opportunities to stop before she escalated it too far by accelerating her vehicle into a cop, whether it was intentional or accidental, she caused her own death and the mourning of many people, including her children, who will miss her for the remaining days of their lives. It is tragic. Also stupid and criminal.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (Dv3i1)

344 Not getting medical checkups is kinda disrespecting your family."

Please don't. I'm asking.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (XuXeR)

345 This is why I could not be a lawyer. I guarantee you my answer to that question would include the phrase "authentic frontier gibberish."
==
She is hopeless case. She has totally embraced wokeness, and been rewarded for it beyond her wildest dreams. She literally cannot concieve of how it could be wrong. In otherwords, SHE IS THE MOST RIDICULOUSLY BIASED JUDGE EVER. And that is not low bar.

Posted by: Unqualified at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (21xzK)

346 Smothered to death by a busty, leggy redhead sitting on my face.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (5aZAZ)
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we should all be so lucky

Posted by: Blanco at January 13, 2026 01:06 PM (q83gU)

347 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (NcvvS)

348 Twitchy-

People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (NpAcC)

349 This is the guy who torched that synagogue.

https://is.gd/hXvfFv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (L/fGl)

350 Not getting medical checkups is kinda disrespecting your family.
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (rbIOb)

True.

Same, if you have kiddos, young ones in particular and don't have some life insurance cuz things do not always go the way you think.

I had a brother-in-law killed in a freak accident who fortunately had very good insurance.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (iJfKG)

351 Creator of the immortal programmers line...
"I'm gonna write me a new minivan"
https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (HLGJk)

352 282 Somebody mentioned that Diesel fuel should cost less than Gasoline.

It used to, iirc. It is a much less refined product, to be sure. BUT, it also does contain more energy, higher B.T.U.s

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:55 PM (gToVg)

Mandatory adoption of low sulfur diesel is what screwed up the price relationship. Although refining diesel from crude is cheaper than making gasoline, the added steps to remove sulfur from diesel bumps up the price.

Posted by: a.moron at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (X5Jzz)

353 >>>Scott Adams, Humorist and Rebel, Dies

That is very sad. He was very brave.

Posted by: m at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (SSiCQ)

354 This is why I could not be a lawyer. I guarantee you my answer to that question would include the phrase "authentic frontier gibberish."
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2026 12:35 PM (nhCoE)

A shining personal moment in my career has been quoting Princess Bride in a legal brief to point out that my opponent's use of "fraud" wasn't accurate. I probably wouldn't use Blazing Saddles in oral argument before SCOTUS, but I may have used that quote when arguing about a self-represented litigant's written materials.

Posted by: Octochicken at January 13, 2026 02:19 PM (oCS0o)

355 I bought a lot of his Dilbert series paperbacks. His humor was priceless and I hate that he died from the same cancer that tagged out my grandfather.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 13, 2026 04:12 PM (h3wuo)

356 I hope he wakes up.in heaven. He certainly deserves it.

RIP, Catbert.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 04:29 PM (lbb+E)

357 I know I'm late, but I just wanted to thank Scott for all the reframes, all the laughs and all the sips. I've been a member of his Locals crew for a few years and he might have been my favorite person outside of my family and friends.

Godspeed, Scott.

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 13, 2026 04:35 PM (H4qGm)

358 .
.
At least Mr. Adams was up to date on his RONA boosters. Think how bad off he'd be if he had NOT Got-the-Shot™.

Posted by: Marooned at January 13, 2026 04:47 PM (kt8QE)

359 RIP Scott I was his press agent in the early 90's and loved working with him; it was a career highlight. We laughed so much so often I had to close my office door in the PR firm I was at; I got him on six magazine covers.

The Dilbert Principle, his first non-comic strip book, came about eight months after I got him on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. The Op-Ed editor called me up to ask if he'd do an oped. We cooked up "the Dilbert Principle" and it became a best seller and the start of a successful book career. And we had a ton of laughs every step of the way.
RIP Scott.
v

Posted by: vivi at January 13, 2026 06:11 PM (jC0jb)

360

Adams voiced what was possibly the most important and foundational message of our times: Around blacks, never relax.

Even though he spoke the truth, was only talking about a subset of the demographic, and even though he paid the ultimate professional price for it, he was completely in in utterly right about the social situation in America in the early part of the new millennium

Posted by: imp at January 13, 2026 06:56 PM (g6TN6)

The Morning Rant

Weren't we assured by legions of brilliant 26-year-old journalism majors that tariffs would explode the deficit and inflation would skyrocket? Weren't we breathlessly informed that President Trump's economic policies were reckless and would result in recession, high unemployment, rampant homelessness, Americans starving and, probably, hemorrhoids? Weren't we told that his immigration enforcement would leave American businesses without employees, and that our crops would rot in the fields?

Yet none of that has happened, because the analyses by the media and their academic lackeys who lust after appearances on television were catastrophically wrong, and obviously driven by irrational hatred of the president. Oh, we must add rank ignorance and stupidity to the mix...how many "journalists" know anything about basic economic theory?

So what is going on? Tariffs are filling the government coffers at an astonishing rate. Inflation has been tamed. Businesses are relocating manufacturing to America, the administration isn't spending our tax dollars like the maniacs of the last administration, and there is downward pressure on housing because of deportations (both forced and self). All of that conspires to return the economy and inflation to some semblance of rational behavior.

And let us not forget petroleum! oil prices are dropping to levels we haven't seen since...oh...the last Trump administration! That does two things; it improves our economy, and it injures economies that are overly reliant on oil revenue. You know: Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc!

US Annual Inflation Holds Steady at 2.7 Percent to Finish 2025

The headline says it all! And while the preferred inflation rate of 2% according to the Federal Reserve is still in the future, business can now plan with some reasonable expectation that their costs will not soar in three or six or 12 months. That adds stability to the economy, and to our own finances!

President Trump has chipped away at the deep state and its insane spending, and he has shifted federal revenue away from the taxpayer and onto foreign producers. The shift to tariffs is essentially a consumption tax, but one borne in part by foreign countries, which seems delicious since we have been paying for their defense for the last 80 years!

Of course the judiciary is furious, and has thrown up obstacle after obstacle in the administration's way, but the President and his cabinet have stayed the course, and a gratifying number of their policies have ultimately been upheld. Add in the traitorous senators who are actively supporting the Democrat agenda of obstruction, and it is a wonder that President Trump has gotten anything done, but he has, and the American people see it. Whether that momentum continues into the summer and fall of 2026 is the real question, but if it does, the possibility of an election victory in November will be real, and it will be spectacular!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Good morning

Posted by: Ann at January 13, 2026 11:00 AM (HP21H)

2 Not first.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

3 I called the others

Posted by: Ann at January 13, 2026 11:01 AM (HP21H)

4 Scott Adams died this morning. RIP

Posted by: kelly at January 13, 2026 11:02 AM (Z8JPJ)

5 It's like, the thing man. You know, the thing!

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at January 13, 2026 11:03 AM (COQGW)

6 4 Scott Adams died this morning. RIP
Posted by: kelly at January 13, 2026 11:02 AM (Z8JPJ)
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Saw that mentioned by Catturd, who reminds me of Catbert. He will be missed.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 11:04 AM (36PRH)

7 I poked myself in the balls last night. It hurt. I blame Trump.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

8 Top 10

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 11:04 AM (TN0g+)

9 We haven't heard much from Biden lately. I wonder why.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 11:05 AM (COQGW)

10 Top 10
Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 11:04 AM (TN0g+)

Me too!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 13, 2026 11:05 AM (5xuJ/)

11 Trump promised to end inflation but it’s at 2.7%.
Impeach!!!!!!!

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:06 AM (kgFPv)

12 Whether that momentum continues into the summer and fall of 2026 is the real question, but if it does, the possibility of an election victory in November will be real, and it will be spectacular!

I'd like to be optimistic, but I can't.

1. Never underestimate the GOPs hatred for Trump and their obscene willingness to throw an election in order to stick it to him and his voters.

2. Do not underestimate the left's obscene willingness to offer up blood sacrifices for their base. Today it was Renee Good, tomorrow it will be someone else and in November it will be someone else.

3. The MFM is dying, but still can convince a majority of people.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)

13 Timothee Chalamet has finally made his relationship with Kylie Jenner Instagram official, marking the first time Chalamet has acknowledged his 'other half' on his social media account.

His Golden Globes best actor win was celebrated by sharing a number of Instagram snaps on Monday, one of which featured his billionaire mogul girlfriend's, 28, hand. The photo showed the Oscar nominee — who walked the red carpet solo — posing with the golden gong, which rested in Kylie’s manicured hand.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 13, 2026 11:07 AM (0sNs1)

14 Scott Adams died this morning. RIP

I believe the MFM stylebook will refer to him as the "controversial"* Scott Adams.

*for which read, 'racist.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:08 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Oh no, all this good news! The black-pillers will have to upgrade to the Vantablack suppository.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 11:08 AM (kpS4V)

16 Forget inflation! The Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12! It's NASA's fault!

https://is.gd/HYdjbK

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

17 I just watched the episode of News Radio that had Scott Adams guest..

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (KDPiq)

18 Of course the judiciary is furious, and has thrown up obstacle after obstacle in the administration's way, but the President and his cabinet have stayed the course, and a gratifying number of their policies have ultimately been upheld.
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NYT had a infographic of wins in court in 2025, Trump has won at the district court level about 25 percent of the time, at the appellate, a little over 50 percent, at Scotus, in the mid 80's.

I think what you are seeing is that the uniparty is desperate and getting more so. The scope of the looting is so vast and the hits keep coming that the recourse of the Dems and corrupt GOPe is to try to stall for time to get away, to destroy evidence, and to avoid public anger. That is what the district courts are doing for them.

In addition, the deportations are beginning to bite and weaken the Dem electoral fraud and vote buying schemes so they are frantic to shore that up for 2026 elections by any means possible. Including getting people shot to rally the troops.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (WDjG6)

19 Unfortunately, thanks to the media onslaught, LIVs think we’re in a depression.

I see people say “in this economy” all the time. Not in a political situation but in general. Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.

People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (kgFPv)

20 Never underestimate the ability of the GOPe to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: Archer at January 13, 2026 11:10 AM (YGRGv)

21 @11 When are we getting back the 1/4 inch the TP manufacturers removed from the width of our TP during Biden-era shrinkflation? Charmin added back 1/8 inch, but the Target store brand Tap is still 1/4 inch narrower than it was in 2019.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 11:10 AM (36PRH)

22 With the Clintons, Bubba and Hillary!, refusing to testify, daring Congress to find them in contempt, two thing:

1. Whoever offered to bet $10 that they wouldn't appear wins their bet.

2. Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 11:10 AM (0sNs1)

23 Ugh, Jumanji Jackson is still doing the "I don't understand" schtick in this trannies in women's sports argument.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 11:11 AM (HXT0k)

24 Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (kgFPv)

That's the MO of the Dems/Left anytime there is a Republican in office. Even Trump was duped into this lie before 2016.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:11 AM (KDPiq)

25 The Left hates all these good outcomes for the people of the U.S. You might wonder if the Left hates the American people.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

26 @23 "Explain it to me like I'm a five year old" would not work with her.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (36PRH)

27 9 We haven't heard much from Biden lately. I wonder why.
Posted by: Cicero
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The Biden crime family is propping him up to make speeches as long as his body holds out. Main way of making money now that all the Biden crime family is out of office. So expect books like that of Hunter's coming out and if Biden dies, then you get the biography, and Merry Widow Jill accounts. And they will have to be spicy with tell all icky details of sex, money, and gossip to sell well.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (WDjG6)

28 Never underestimate the ability of the GOPe to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Archer at January 13, 2026 11:10 AM

The Washington Generals won three games against the Globetrotters. We don't want to approach even that threshold. It would be bad for our donors, and invitations to the 'right' cocktail parties.

Posted by: GOPe at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (0sNs1)

29
Scott Adams died this morning. RIP

I believe the MFM stylebook will refer to him as the "controversial"* Scott Adams.

*for which read, 'racist.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

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I hope I don't see any of the WaPo obituary.

RIP Scott

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (Jxa0O)

30 Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 13, 2026 11:07 AM (0sNs1)

I have no fucking idea who these so called "celebrities" are. They must be pron "stars".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

31 Forget inflation! The Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12! It's NASA's fault!

https://is.gd/HYdjbK
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Eh. I'm sure Trigglypuff's, Stacey Abrams', Michael Moore's and Tara Yazdi's boobs' gravitational fields will make up for it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

32 25 The Left hates all these good outcomes for the people of the U.S. You might wonder if the Left hates the American people.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

When someone hates themselves, they tend to hate outwards as well. Depression is actually rage directed at oneself and it is really easy to deflect some of that rage against other people.

Depressives can be violent at times because they want to stop hurting inside. So the distance between killing oneself and going out by suicide by cop in a spree killing is not that far apart.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:14 AM (WDjG6)

33
2. Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

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Did they issue a statement, send a response? Or did they just fail to show up?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 11:14 AM (Jxa0O)

34 Scott Adams was a funny man with artistic talent and he will be missed. May God's face shine upon him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 11:14 AM (PFs9e)

35 Just wanted to say thanks to JackStraw for the optimism.

5 years ago to the day

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 13, 2026 11:15 AM (QVRwG)

36 People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.

Just as I said above.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:15 AM (ufSfZ)

37 The Left convinced even many on the Right that we were in a recession/depression during GWBs term even though we had 26 straight weeks of positive GDP growth. They saved their best for last though and intentionally tanked the economy in the end.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (KDPiq)

38 Times are tough. Mayor Groot is being sued by Chase Bank for defaulting on her credit card payments. Last payment was $5,000 back in August. Still remaining is $11,078.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Y1sOo)

39 ‘ Of course the judiciary is furious’

I’m glad the judiciary is furious but they NEED to be furious and afraid to screw with our progress.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (jbnUc)

40 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (zjgNU)

41 26 straight quarters not weeks.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (KDPiq)

42 Did they issue a statement, send a response? Or did they just fail to show up?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 11:14 AM

They submitted an eight-page legal letter laying out why they considered the subpoenas “invalid and legally unenforceable,” then followed up with a scorching missive that they signed jointly, promising to fight Mr. Comer on the issue for as long as it took.

In the letter, the Clintons noted that they had proactively provided Mr. Comer with sworn statements similar to ones he had accepted from seven or eight other former law enforcement officials he had also subpoenaed and then excused from testifying before the committee. The Clintons have repeatedly said they have no knowledge relevant to the investigation.”

“We are confident that any reasonable person in or out of Congress will see, based on everything we release, that what you are doing is trying to punish those who you see as your enemies and to protect those you think are your friends.”

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 11:17 AM (0sNs1)

43 Sad news about Scott Adams. The PJ Media article called him an independent thinker, which I feel is more accurate than right/left.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 11:17 AM (kpS4V)

44 In December 2024, employers added 256,000 jobs. It's 50K this month, with Trump's DoL cooking the numbers. I thought tariffs were bringing back the jobs?

USA has no ability to repay its debt. GOP gets support because they keep government from being able to stop the grift and deal with billionaires and their tax and crimes.
GOP will not allow DEM to pay it down, they will have wars and tax-reductions for wealthy people if there is any surplus. It is a miracle that the debt is getting the current level of service.

Has Trump taken any steps to reduce inflation? Sure, gas is slightly cheaper, but inflation is worse and health insurance just doubled. My business income was down 20% last year. Am I missing something?

Prices are only down because OPEC decided to flood the market in prep for the coming recession, or the one we are already in that the government won't release the economic numbers on, not anything Trump did.

Inflation was between 2 and 3% for the second half of the Biden admin, and it's stayed there for Trump. He had no impact. He promised to reduce prices to 2019 levels! A ridiculous promise. Midterms are coming.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:17 AM (JCZqz)

45 I knew the Clintons wouldn't show up, but I didn't place a bet. I should have.. A large bet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 11:18 AM (PFs9e)

46 When someone hates themselves, they tend to hate outwards as well. Depression is actually rage directed at oneself and it is really easy to deflect some of that rage against other people.

I've got a lot of rage against other people. I just crush it as deeply down as I can.

Depressives can be violent at times because they want to stop hurting inside. So the distance between killing oneself and going out by suicide by cop in a spree killing is not that far apart.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:14 AM (WDjG6)

I'm too much of a coward to do that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:18 AM (ufSfZ)

47
People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.
Posted by: Really??
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Not true. Consumer confidence is going up. Michigan index has it at 54. The shutdown caused a dip in Nov and Dec that is beginning to dissolve.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:18 AM (WDjG6)

48 43 Sad news about Scott Adams. The PJ Media article called him an independent thinker, which I feel is more accurate than right/left.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

So you're saying he's a Nazi...

Posted by: Every Retard out protesting ICE at January 13, 2026 11:18 AM (JCZqz)

49 Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 11:17 AM (0sNs

Did it end with ' depends on what the definition of is is' ?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:19 AM (KDPiq)

50 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

51 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:18 AM (ufSfZ)

It is not a brave act to commit suicide by cop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (PFs9e)

52 Much like diamonds, getting what you paid for gold or silver is challenging.
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Nonsense. Reputable coin dealers have tight spreads buying or selling gold and silver non-numismatic bullion coins and bars. It is the fastest, easiest way to convert into cash that I’m aware of. 2 minutes tops, if you’re not chatty anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (Jkqe3)

53 I don't believe normal people aren't seeing and appreciating the drastically-improved Trump economy. Unless you live like a hermit, you can't not see it. Every time you fill up your car's gas tank. Every time you go shopping. Every time you look at your 401k. Every time you do anything that costs money.

Sure, the leftshit media is trying desperately to convince people not to see what they're clearly seeing. It might work on some people so infected with TDS they'll never ever vote GOP.

And some people will use the media-pimped stories about unaffordability as excuses to avoid doing things they really don't want to do anyway. "Sorry baby, we just can't take that Hawaii trip this year because the economy is so bad. Maybe next year!"

But the vast majority of people are seeing for themselves that things are much improved, and getting even better.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

54 Buh, buh, buh...the reason tariffs aren't increasing consumer costs meaning increasing inflation is because many exporters and importers are eating the tariff charges! That's unfair! They can't do it! Rachel Maddow says so! Trump unconstitutionally forces them to do it to artificially lessen impacts to his MAGA cult members! Waaaahhhh!

Posted by: The Usual Idiots at January 13, 2026 11:21 AM (5rh/l)

55 MP4, I hope you're getting treatment for your depression.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

56 >>>40 MONKEY!

WHERE!?

OMG, RUN!!!

Posted by: People in St. Louis at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (Y1sOo)

57 14
‘ I believe the MFM stylebook’

If I were you I’d read something else occasionally.
You have lots of good books.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

58 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

59 Weren't we assured by legions of brilliant 26-year-old journalism majors that tariffs would explode the deficit and inflation would skyrocket?

And Nobel Prize winners in economics, sadly.

Nobel Laureates Join 900 U.S. Economists In Rebuke Of Trump’s Tariff Policy

In the declaration, titled the “Anti-Tariff Statement,” Nobel laureates James Heckman and Vernon Smith, along with hundreds of scholars and researchers, criticize the notion that tariffs promote “economic liberation.” Instead, they argue that tariffs undermine the liberal economic principles that fueled decades of American prosperity.

Earlier, you had a bunch of Nobel Prize winners in economics explaining that Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" would reduce inflation. (In fact, inflation skyrocketed, of course.)

Most of economics has been captured by the Left, along with everything else.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Stalin! at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (nlTPx)

60 Weren't we breathlessly informed that President Trump's economic policies were reckless and would result in recession, high unemployment, rampant homelessness, Americans starving and, probably, hemorrhoids?

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Hell, I was promised Literally Hitler and assured the nation would be destroyed by World War III after Inauguration Day 2017.

* kicks dirt *

I am disappoint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (IzKeh)

61 I see people say “in this economy” all the time. Not in a political situation but in general. Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.

People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.
Posted by: Really??

For me, it has nothing to do with the economy. Has everything to do with McDonald's costing $20+ or Texas Roadhouse costing $52 for dinner. Not when i can cook at ribeye at home for around $10.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 11:23 AM (pkq24)

62 I'm too much of a coward to do that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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When someone reaches the point of being suicidal, some figure why not take someone with me and have a cop put me out of my misery.

If not at the point of being suicidal, then adding victims to the list is not an option generally.

And there are other ways that depression can sabotage such as losing the will to live, losing oneself in substance abuse, or accepting large risks with fatalism.

So getting competent help for it whether religious therapy, talk therapy, or even prescribed drugs actually saves lives.

It is never necessary to live that way and people can be helped. But the anger must go.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (WDjG6)

63 Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Your God is cruel. He demands you honor you faith in your heart. I only require that you speak them with your mouth. And kneel.

Posted by: Allah Xerxes at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (JCZqz)

64 Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 11:23 AM (pkq24)

Yeah I can't get out of Whataburger for under $16.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (KDPiq)

65 Most of economics has been captured by the Left, along with everything else.

A while ago, I saw pictures of the half-dozen or so officers of the American Economics Association.

One white male.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (nlTPx)

66 I think what you are seeing is that the uniparty is desperate and getting more so.

Did you see the new expose in the media? Vance tried to murder Trump! And Rubio is a Satanist! And DeSantis is a mediocre campaigner!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

67 The media will suddenly become so much smarter when the government policies are more to their liking.

They will tell you so.

They're also one of the most worthless classes of people on the planet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 11:25 AM (NwnyJ)

68 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:17 AM (JCZqz)

I haven't read something this stupid and false for a long time. Dude, get help.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (4nEGa)

69 Most of economics has been captured by the Left, along with everything else.

A while ago, I saw pictures of the half-dozen or so officers of the American Economics Association.

One white male.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (nlTPx)
_____

Gay?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

70 Charmin added back 1/8 inch, but the Target store brand Tap is still 1/4 inch narrower than it was in 2019.
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Ha. They are still 1” or more narrower than they oughtta be if you look at any standard residential construction toilet paper holder built 50 years ago.

Check out Mennan Speed-Stick, btw. On a hunch I shined a flashlight through a brand new one. They are only 70% full of stick now, and thinner and skinnier to boot.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (Jkqe3)

71 58 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.
Posted by: Opinion fact
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We never know about that moment where life meets death. We can guess, we can surmise, we can look to scripture for guidance, but knowing about a person's eternal fate is always a guessing game.

As Jesus said regarding the rich man going to heaven, all things are possible with G_d.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

72 I see people say “in this economy” all the time. Not in a political situation but in general. Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.

People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.
Posted by: Really??

====

It's a tribal marker.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 11:27 AM (xxENG)

73 Weren't we assured by legions of brilliant 26-year-old journalism majors that tariffs would explode the deficit and inflation would skyrocket?

Has an economist or journalist or climatologist or barista ever steered you wrong? NO! They have always steered you towards "The Narrative". It's their only job.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 11:27 AM (HsXHq)

74 Ugh, Jumanji Jackson is still doing the "I don't understand" schtick in this trannies in women's sports argument.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 11:11 AM (HXT0k)

Male lawyer goes in with a female assistant. Goes up to the bench. Female assistant punches Jackson in the face. After she composes herself, male lawyer punches her in the face. When she wakes up, ask her if she understands yet?

Hypothetically, of course.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 11:27 AM (ExV1e)

75 Did you see the new expose in the media? Vance tried to murder Trump! And Rubio is a Satanist! And DeSantis is a mediocre campaigner!

And we killed Venezuelan narco-terrorists with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft!

(The Navy's P-8 Poseidon is a modified 737.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:27 AM (nlTPx)

76 think what you are seeing is that the uniparty is desperate and getting more so.

Did you see the new expose in the media? Vance tried to murder Trump! And Rubio is a Satanist! And DeSantis is a mediocre campaigner!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

Again the Democrats are like the perps who are arrested and being booked in Jail. They insanely rage against the machine . They all need the restraint chair.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (KDPiq)

77 25
‘ You might wonder if the Left hates the American people.’

I don’t wonder about that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (jbnUc)

78 Yeah I can't get out of Whataburger for under $16.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (KDPiq)

Most of those price increases took place under Biden's misrule. But they are locked in now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (8zz6B)

79 The media will suddenly become so much smarter when the government policies are more to their liking.

They will tell you so.

They're also one of the most worthless classes of people on the planet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 11:25 AM (NwnyJ)

And hopefully the first to go when colander face mask world arrives.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (snZF9)

80 Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

How do you know?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

81 worth a repost of my favorite meme these days:

"I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 Alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 11:29 AM (uWKK8)

82 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

I think only God knows that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:29 AM (ufSfZ)

83 One white male.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:24 AM (nlTPx)
_____

Gay?

I would assume so.

Most of economics is part of academia, so it has developed all the pathologies of academia.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:30 AM (nlTPx)

84 Out: SCHWAB!!!!
In: TRUMP!!!!

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at January 13, 2026 11:30 AM (uNwvV)

85 I have no fucking idea who these so called "celebrities" are. They must be pron "stars".
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 11:13 AM (g8Ew

Kylie Jenner is the youngest Kardashian. She is a model (and actress?) She is known to spend time on other people's yachts, IYKWIM, and is a billionaire (supposedly) in her own right from foolish young girls buying her overpriced cosmetics.

Timothy Whateverhisnameis is an effeminate actor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

86 80 Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

How do you know?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

if the phrase "Judge not, lest ye be judged" applies anywhere, it applies here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 11:31 AM (uWKK8)

87 Thx CBD. Was watching Bartiromo this AM when the numbers came out . All the panelists were pointing out that Powell was wrong about tariffs causing further inflation. No crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (9ShUO)

88 No one but God knows what was in Scott’s heart.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (u73oe)

89 The woman's wife yelling out "why did you have real bullets"

The woman is playing, shes playing for fun. They dont understand that ICE is targeting narco gangs, cartel members, and often general criminals

Its not a fucking game

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

90 Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (WDjG6

I'm not arrogant enough to say for sure what God will and won't do. But scripture gives me a pretty good guideline what he requires.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (KDPiq)

91 Sorry CBD, OT:

I just saw a thing at Insty where the wife of the Good gal screamed after her wife got shot:

'Why did you have real bullets?!'

Are you kidding me? They thought they would have... blanks? Less than lethal rounds? What?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

92 What none of us humans have is Perfect Belief/Faith. God is always going to have to build the bridge or fill the chasm for us to cross. But we do have the greatest of Hope. And as someone stated above, even when things look bleak, with God these things are possible.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (DgMqy)

93 Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (u73oe)

Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (odRhE)

94 How do you know?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

Because of the statement released by his wife.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (KDPiq)

95 Check out Mennan Speed-Stick, btw. On a hunch I shined a flashlight through a brand new one. They are only 70% full of stick now, and thinner and skinnier to boot.

Hell, just check out a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

Since the Biden Shrinkflation, a box that would, 10-odd years ago have been considered 'small' is now labeled "Family Size." There is also a "Large" version, which is nowhere near what a large one was back then.

I only wish the local grocery's version of corn flakes weren't so bland.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

96 I sold my Aston Martin some months ago, but if the Supreme Court rules against Trump and orders the tariff money returned, I will buy something new equally as stupid.

Posted by: jwest at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (KtqtS)

97 Kylie Jenner is the youngest Kardashian. She is a model (and actress?) She is known to spend time on other people's yachts, IYKWIM, and is a billionaire (supposedly) in her own right from foolish young girls buying her overpriced cosmetics.

Timothy Whateverhisnameis is an effeminate actor.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

I wonder if you can have these hos martinized or sanforized so that it is safe to screw them again? Kylie could support me in a style to which I would like to become accustomed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (8zz6B)

98 I think what you are seeing is that the uniparty is desperate and getting more so.

Tariffs are an end-around on the Fed and the IRS. Audits are an attack on NGOs and state governments. The military, ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS are attacking vote fraud, the drug trade, and slavery. You bet they're desperate.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (HsXHq)

99 Death should be clarifying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (bss/y)

100 91 Sorry CBD, OT:

I just saw a thing at Insty where the wife of the Good gal screamed after her wife got shot:

'Why did you have real bullets?!'

Are you kidding me? They thought they would have... blanks? Less than lethal rounds? What?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

Was the wife originally Canadian?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:35 AM (tOcjL)

101 I saw The Golden Gong open for The Swinging Richards at Funk 'n Waffles - Downtown in '18.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 11:35 AM (IzKeh)

102 >Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.
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Mrs. Meta took me out to dinner to celebrate my pending retirement. We went to an expensive fish house I enjoy. Most entrees are in the $50 range. With cocktails and wine, you're not getting out of there for less than three bills. Every table was booked and the bar was three deep. We were also out and about a few weeks ago and stopped to grab a bite at a local reasonably priced bistro. Again, place was full - on a Wednesday in early Jan. People may bitch about the price of groceries, but it hasn't affected spending; at least in SE PA.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 11:35 AM (NgqoH)

103 When Scott Adams first mentioned his cancer, I was originally skeptical. The timing was right after Biden originally reported having cancer, so my first thought was that Scott was running a Rush Limbaugh-like kind of parody. Similar to the episode where Rush claimed he was switching to the Democrat party.

I was also hoping that later reports of his cancer giving him only a month to live was overblown. That it was the worst-case scenario. Sadly, that wasn't the case.

Condolences to his family. At least he got to see Trump 2.0 in full action, whereas Rush passed away during the depths of the Biden misadminstration.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 13, 2026 11:36 AM (4h45B)

104 Do they even make rubber boolits for 5.56 weapons? I thought those were for shotguns.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:36 AM (8zz6B)

105 86 80 Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

How do you know?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

if the phrase "Judge not, lest ye be judged" applies anywhere, it applies here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 11:31 AM (uWKK

His heart seemed open...and being open means being open to being saved...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:36 AM (tOcjL)

106 If the Supreme Court looks the American people dead in the face and says "fuck you. We hate you. We're going to take YOUR money, and give it to our foreign fag friends, because you exist to enrich foreigners," that might be the time for Trump to precipitate a Constitutional crisis.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (BI5O2)

107 Thx CBD. Was watching Bartiromo this AM when the numbers came out . All the panelists were pointing out that Powell was wrong about tariffs causing further inflation. No crap
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (9ShUO)
______

Powell is not "wrong" in the sense he made a mistake or misread the economy. Powell is many things and most of them bad. But he is not dumb. He knows tariffs don't cause inflation. That's Econ 101. He seized on tariffs as an excuse to stonewall interest rate cuts to try to fuck Trump. He's a corrupt shitmonging cocksucker. But he ain't stupid.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

108 Are you kidding me? They thought they would have... blanks? Less than lethal rounds? What?

Rubber bullets. Bean bags. Tasers. You know, the rounds that cops use in 'reality' shows when they're taking down a perp.

I can't tell you how many true crime shows I've seen where perps trying to dispose of evidence end up laying a trail straight back to themselves because they believe that what they saw in a movie is real. The same idiocy applies here.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (ufSfZ)

109 where the wife of the Good gal screamed after her wife got shot:

'Why did you have real bullets?!'

Was your 'wife' was driving a real SUV?

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (HsXHq)

110 How do you know?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

Because of the statement released by his wife.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM

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Ex-wife. And she doesn't know what was in his heart either, or how God will judge it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (1Au9i)

111 Scott Adams gone. Jane Fonda still alive.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (jjoN6)

112 Jamie Dimon is part of the lie machine. But I'm not saying anything new.

Posted by: Coki at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (Wkrcf)

113 I will not speculate whether or not Scott's conversion was real. I will simply say that he repented and God knows the truth of it. That's more than enough for me.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 11:38 AM (jjoN6)

114 The funniest thing that Scott Adams ever wrote was that he lived in worker bee housing in San Francisco working for the phone company, got rich from Dilbert, got fired from the phone company, and moved to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the Bay Area - Blackhawk.

As a minor celebrity, he got invited to a lot of parties in his new neighborhood.

Now, the people at these parties are wealthy people living in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have won at the game of life.

So, you'd think they would have nothing to complain about.

Bzzzztttt! Wrong - they complained endlessly, and Adams made a list of all the trivial things they found to complain about.

It was hilarious.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (nlTPx)

115 Has Trump taken any steps to reduce inflation? Sure, gas is slightly cheaper, but inflation is worse and health insurance just doubled. My business income was down 20% last year. Am I missing something?

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Slightly? Lol. It’s down 50%

Insurance doubled? lol. On average it’s up like 5%.

These people live in an alternative universe. Every fucking day.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (kgFPv)

116 I just saw a thing at Insty where the wife of the Good gal screamed after her wife got shot:

'Why did you have real bullets?!'

Are you kidding me? They thought they would have... blanks? Less than lethal rounds? What?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

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I blame Alec Baldwin.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (IzKeh)

117 95
‘ I only wish the local grocery's version of corn flakes weren't so bland.’

Get a box of the generic corn flakes from ALDI’s.
If they taste anything like the ones I get at my ALDI’s, you’ll be back here to thank me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

118
In the letter, the Clintons noted that they had proactively provided Mr. Comer with sworn statements similar to ones he had accepted from seven or eight other former law enforcement officials he had also subpoenaed and then excused from testifying before the committee. The Clintons have repeatedly said they have no knowledge relevant to the investigation.”

Posted by: Duncanthrax

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The Clintons have engaged in so much criminality that I've forgotten -- which investigation is this?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (Jxa0O)

119 >89 The woman's wife yelling out "why did you have real bullets"

The woman is playing, shes playing for fun. They dont understand that ICE is targeting narco gangs, cartel members, and often general criminals

Its not a fucking game

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

Karen McAwful has been shielded from the consequences of her shitty behavior. They think they are invincible stronk wyman.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (NgqoH)

120 For me, it has nothing to do with the economy. Has everything to do with McDonald's costing $20+ or Texas Roadhouse costing $52 for dinner. Not when i can cook at ribeye at home for around $10.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 11:23 AM (pkq24)
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I'm going out to dine with friends tonight at a local classy Eyetalian restaurant, mostly so I can maintain a semblance of sociability and people skills by engaging in convivial conversation and pants-wearing.

But the prices! Steak for $45! I'll get the papardelle I guess.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 11:40 AM (kpS4V)

121 Speaking of traitorous senators, I emailed my senator, Mrs. Collins, and told her that her vote to curtail the presidents authority to conduct ongoing law enforcement activities in Venezuela has lost her my vote.

What's the point in voting for her if she just does the same sh*t that Mills or Platner would do?

I know I know... "take one for the team" .... but she doesn't seem to want to be part of said team.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:40 AM (WYStd)

122 > If the Supreme Court looks the American people dead in the face and says "fuck you. We hate you. We're going to take YOUR money, and give it to our foreign fag friends, because you exist to enrich foreigners," that might be the time for Trump to precipitate a Constitutional crisis.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I think a 'constitutional crisis' was precipitated when the first rouge judge struck down a lawful immigration order. Every judicial act of malpractice since then as only exacerbated the situation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 11:40 AM (NwnyJ)

123 Karen McAwful has been shielded from the consequences of her shitty behavior. They think they are invincible stronk wyman.

White privilege.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (nlTPx)

124 Breaking news! I'm sure Trump is devastated!!!

Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs. Their decision to resign was announced in a meeting to staff on Monday, the sources told CBS News.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

125 Headline from People - someone needs Bud Lighting...

"Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68
by Victoria Edel"

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (tOcjL)

126 We went to an expensive fish house I enjoy. Most entrees are in the $50 range. With cocktails and wine, you're not getting out of there for less than three bills. Every table was booked and the bar was three deep. We were also out and about a few weeks ago and stopped to grab a bite at a local reasonably priced bistro. Again, place was full - on a Wednesday in early Jan. People may bitch about the price of groceries, but it hasn't affected spending; at least in SE PA.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 11:35 AM (NgqoH)

My experience as well in my area.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:42 AM (kgFPv)

127 I see people say “in this economy” all the time. Not in a political situation but in general. Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.

People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.
Posted by: Really??

For me, it has nothing to do with the economy. Has everything to do with McDonald's costing $20+ or Texas Roadhouse costing $52 for dinner. Not when i can cook at ribeye at home for around $10.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 11:23 AM (pkq24)
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I stopped going out to dinner a lot when covid shut everything down. Then when everything reopened, I just never got back in the habit of eating out.

But the restaurants are packed, from the most expensive to the cheapest. Try getting a reservation at any of these $400+ a plate places.

Businesses are going to charge what they can get away with. Right now, they can charge almost anything they want and people will still line up.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

128 People is still around?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

129 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

Well, who knows at the very end what happened.

But, his public letter essentially said, "I'll say the words so God can prove to me that He exists and if He does then BONUS! I get to go to Heaven."

Which is more an agnostic statement than one of whole-hearted belief.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 11:42 AM (iJfKG)

130 4 Scott Adams died this morning. RIP
Posted by: kelly at January 13, 2026 11:02 AM (Z8JPJ)

Having worked in IT all my life, Dilbert was awesome. Maybe not 100% on, but sure did rhyme with reality. RIP Scott Adams and thank you for sharing your gift with us.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (N39Ws)

131 Fonda ain’t dead, she just smells like it.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (tJ+Xw)

132 Unfortunately, thanks to the media onslaught, LIVs think we’re in a depression.

I see people say “in this economy” all the time. Not in a political situation but in general. Stuff like hey you wanna go out to dinner? No way not in this economy. The zeitgeist is the economy sucks everything is too expensive and nobody is hiring.

People are believing what they see online and on “the news” more than their eyes.
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (kgFPv)

Wages haven't caught up to prices. People will continue to think the economy is bad until they do.

YES, the economy is growing very well, but people know they were better off in 2020, so they judge the economy as bad.

It's not propaganda, but how humans work. People judge form their own personal circumstances, not data.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (zjgNU)

133
I am seeing stats that show the tariffs are bad for American manufacturing and the steel industry. I don't think it's all going well everywhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (Jxa0O)

134 So... she pushed the confrontation to the limit because she thought if they drew down on her they would only tase her?

WTF? Does she believe they only use real bullets for minorities?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (bss/y)

135 131 Fonda ain’t dead, she just smells like it.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:43 AM (tJ+Xw)

Henry Fonda is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)

136 Karen McAwful has been shielded from the consequences of her shitty behavior. They think they are invincible stronk wyman.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 13, 2026 11:39 AM (NgqoH)

Speaking of which, it is high time that "Becca" bitchdyke gets charged with felony murder. And other charge that might remotely stick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (8zz6B)

137 104 Do they even make rubber boolits for 5.56 weapons? I thought those were for shotguns.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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No. I am not aware of any 5.56 less lethal cartridges. Usually cops using less lethal firearms use shotguns with a variety of different solutions. The stocks are often orange etc. so that the cops do not mistake the live from the less lethal.

But police have a continuum of force while civilians do not. Less lethal does not mean not lethal even with tasers. People can and do die with less lethal.

So because regular citizens do not have qualified immunity, best to simply stick with deadly force and avoidance instead of trying to retaliate with just x+1 force escalation. Blessed are the peacemakers in most interpersonal conflicts using de escalation tactics. Doing so makes it difficult to portray someone as blood thirsty when they are retreating and walking away from incitements to fight over stupid matters.

I would only use less lethal if in a jurisdiction or place where I could not carry a firearm. Travel to a firearm unfriendly area is another reason. Buy some pepper spray, etc. at the destination, discard or ship home prior to leaving.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

138 I think a 'constitutional crisis' was precipitated when the first rouge judge struck down a lawful immigration order.

Yeah, I heard he was a big red.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

139 58 RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

Unfortunately he said the words but didn't believe them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

Exactly ...

Too many times Scott tried to finesse his way out of poor positions, and into the good graces of those he belittled.

Posted by: browndog sniffing bullshit at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (3sXRv)

140 Not when i can cook at ribeye at home for around $10.
Posted by: rickb223

Are you not eating the whole thing? I was shocked to see at my Walmart that three-packs of ribeyes are now over $60. (I've been relegated to ground beef for a while)

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 11:44 AM (HsXHq)

141 "why did you have real bullets" should be the deathknell of AWFLs. Delusional and stupid, combined with obnoxious personalities and a heaping helping of wine/SSRIs should go extinct. Probably not but , there is always hope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (9ShUO)

142 These people live in an alternative universe. Every fucking day.
Posted by: Really??

I thought the part complaining that Republicans keep blocking Dems from paying down the debt was so stupid, it would get more attention, but I guess it got lost in all the other nonsense lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

143 124 Breaking news! I'm sure Trump is devastated!!!

Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs. Their decision to resign was announced in a meeting to staff on Monday, the sources told CBS News.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

Apparently, they were taking early retirement before the Minnesota thing b/c Civil Rights opened that back up for all there after the year...likely the choices of prosecution and nonprosecution led more zealotary leadership to quit...which is a good thing...

Criminal is the most powerful of all the Civil Rights offices...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)

144 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say.

Why is this a "civil rights" issue - are they pretending that Good is black or something?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (nlTPx)

145 For me, it has nothing to do with the economy. Has everything to do with McDonald's costing $20+ or Texas Roadhouse costing $52 for dinner.

—

That’s a bit exaggerated. You can get a meal at Mickey Ds for $10,11. It’s still a lot vs a few years ago but let’s not go crazy.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (kgFPv)

146 Ive seen some pepper ball guns, but they are like CO2 guns really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (bss/y)

147 A Cooper's Hawk opened near our neighborhood recently and The Missus and I went there for our wedding anniv dinner. It was really good and pricey.

It's packed to wings every night.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (DgMqy)

148 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs. Their decision to resign was announced in a meeting to staff on Monday, the sources told CBS News.

To which the correct response is "thanks". Now we won't have to go through the PITA of firing you.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

149 Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

We also only know what he wrote, not what happened between writing it and his death.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (T+ssH)

150 >>We went to an expensive fish house I enjoy. Most entrees are in the $50 range. With cocktails and wine, you're not getting out of there for less than three bills. Every table was booked and the bar was three deep.

This has been my experience in the ultra-foodie-town I live near (Portland ME). During the tourist season - good luck getting reservations at the truly special eateries in town. They're always booked solid.

Scales is by far the best seafood place in town and it is still constantly packed even during winter. The last time the Mrs. and I ate there, I think we left about $300 poorer.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (WYStd)

151 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs. Their decision to resign was announced in a meeting to staff on Monday, the sources told CBS News.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

Good. Now Trump can get some hardasses in there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (8zz6B)

152 Economic theory is a projection of theft. It doesn't matter if you're always wrong.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (BSdIE)

153 134 So... she pushed the confrontation to the limit because she thought if they drew down on her they would only tase her?

WTF? Does she believe they only use real bullets for minorities?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The idea of tasing a car is idiotic. Driver made it into car versus cop so the only way for the cop to survive is kill the car's brain--the driver. I am guessing that the first shot through the windshield was the fatal one as the only target that the officer probably saw from that angle was the head and neck. Probably a CNS shot.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (WDjG6)

154 The detectives find it a whole lot easier to detect when the suspect has a Google search history of things like “Will Formula 409 dissolve a body?” and stuff like that on their computer.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (tJ+Xw)

155 I can't tell you how many true crime shows I've seen where perps trying to dispose of evidence end up laying a trail straight back to themselves because they believe that what they saw in a movie is real. The same idiocy applies here.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:37 AM (ufSfZ)

—————-

The First 48 is sometimes hilarious. The first thing detectives check is the suspect’s social media. Jaquintarius would inevitably post a picture of himself saying hey, look at all this cash I stole from the guy I killed with this gun!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (u73oe)

156 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs

I hope there's video of these sissies sashaying out the door.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (gKWVE)

157 Death should be clarifying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (bss/y)

Yeah, maybe. Never been dead so I don't know.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (g8Ew8)

158 Good. Now Trump can get some hardasses in there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Oh no, anyway.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (WDjG6)

159 144 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say.

Why is this a "civil rights" issue - are they pretending that Good is black or something?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (nlTPx)

"Bad fed cop actions" are always Civil Rights Criminal...whether it's BOP, FBI, ICE, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (tOcjL)

160 Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (WYStd)

I haven't been in Portland in a long time, but I ate very, very well there.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (n9ltV)

161 Wages haven't caught up to prices. People will continue to think the economy is bad until they do.

YES, the economy is growing very well, but people know they were better off in 2020, so they judge the economy as bad.

It's not propaganda, but how humans work. People judge form their own personal circumstances, not data.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Speaking as someone who's gone 6+ years without so much as a cost-of-living, until that changes, the economy sucks for me.

There's some unusual, not strictly economic forces that have been interfering with wage and employment issues for large swathes of the economy for an extended period of time. Until those get rooted out and people see some improvements in their situations, inflation may be down and the stock market up, but when groceries are still too expensive and you can't afford housing without cutting back on necessities, is the economy really that good?

We scoff at "perception is reality" at our peril.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (OUMaO)

162 I hope there's video of these sissies sashaying out the door.

It was a full flounce, and they MEANT it!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

163 160 Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (WYStd)

I haven't been in Portland in a long time, but I ate very, very well there.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (n9ltV)

Good steak and split-tail there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

164 New take on an old classic. NSFW because of language.

https://is.gd/5wBZoN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

165 I based my statement on what are allegedly his own words. I'm not judging him.

I have no problem if God chooses to allow him into heaven.

If you are reading this, things did not go well for me....

Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go,' Miles continued. 'I AM NOT A BELIEVER, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.

So, here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven."

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (KDPiq)

166 "Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68
by Victoria Edel"

I predicted 'controversial.' I suppose I should have also considered 'disgraced.'

Oh, well. Time to clock out. See you all tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (ufSfZ)

167 95 I only wish the local grocery's version of corn flakes weren't so bland.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)
==

As Jarvis Cocker once sang about an ex-girlfriend's new beau:
"Like an own-brand box of cornflakes
He's going to let you down my friend"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (0bjKf)

168
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (y9nCu)

169 “I can't tell you how many true crime shows I've seen where perps trying to dispose of evidence end up laying a trail straight back to themselves”

Best is when they go to Walmart a mile from their home, buy a shovel ,rope and bleach the day before the murder. And use a credit card to pay for it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (kgFPv)

170 Economic theory is a projection of theft. It doesn't matter if you're always wrong.
——-

Intentions are the only thing that matters.

They were “right” even though they were wrong. Conversely, anyone who made predictions correctly are “wrong” (even though they were right).

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (tJ+Xw)

171 160 Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:46 AM (WYStd)

I haven't been in Portland in a long time, but I ate very, very well there.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 11:48 AM (n9ltV)

That sounds somehow ominous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (bss/y)

172 153
‘ The idea of tasing a car is idiotic.’
Tase it using a live power line.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (jbnUc)

173 >>I haven't been in Portland in a long time, but I ate very, very well there.

Drive right through there to York Harbor. Go to the Reading Room. Get the Lobster Bisque.

It is literally worth the drive from my house. It is that good.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (ZcsJV)

174 This isn't like some bullshit with immigration or other social issues where they can gaslight and pretend this is about some principled stand for civil rights.

It's just about taking money from Americans and giving it to foreigners so they can damage the President's agenda.

It would be the perfect order for Trump to openly defy. There's no way to justify this to the public.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)

175 you can get a $10 ribeye if you buy beef at half a cow at a time

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (8uzBS)

176 Why is this a "civil rights" issue - are they pretending that Good is black or something?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2026 11:45 AM (nlTPx)

"Bad fed cop actions" are always Civil Rights Criminal...whether it's BOP, FBI, ICE, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local

"Civil rights" is the code phrase for all their outlook considers good and holy. Even when it has nothing properly to do with civil rights. (Especially when...)

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (OUMaO)

177 The First 48 is sometimes hilarious. The first thing detectives check is the suspect’s social media. Jaquintarius would inevitably post a picture of himself saying hey, look at all this cash I stole from the guy I killed with this gun!
Posted by: Duke Lowell
=====
In my hometown, there was a case where a burglar broke into a small mom and pop shop. All the cash was gone but there was a big bag of pennies so the burglar took that. Unbeknownst to the burglar, the bag had a hole in it. So a trail of pennies led to the trailer where the burglar lived and the dude was still sleeping in when the cops came to his door and arrested him. The mom and pop had a trailer park behind the store and one of those trailers is where the burglar lived.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (WDjG6)

178 155 Fictional cop shows can be hilarious. "Put down the gun and we will get you the help you need" when in the real world the last thing the perp hears is a Glock mag dump.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (gm9Sb)

179 I was also hoping that later reports of his cancer giving him only a month to live was overblown. That it was the worst-case scenario. Sadly, that wasn't the case.

Condolences to his family. At least he got to see Trump 2.0 in full action, whereas Rush passed away during the depths of the Biden misadminstration.
Posted by: Another Anon at January 13, 2026 11:36 AM (4h45B)

If Scott Adams were to draw Dilbert's funeral, his tombstone would say "I Told You I Was Sick!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (uWKK8)

180 Beef prices are especially high right now. Because the national supply dwindled to one of the lowest levels on record. A policy decision made by the *biden administration in response to some potential illness affecting some number of cattle.

Or something to that effect. Like the culling of millions of chickens because "Avian Flu" is a thing. Or food safety. Or to punish people who like chicken.

Supposedly, next year will "be better."

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (NwnyJ)

181 Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go,' Miles continued. 'I AM NOT A BELIEVER, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.

Who is Miles? Is that the ex-wife?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

182 The idea of tasing a car is idiotic. Driver made it into car versus cop so the only way for the cop to survive is kill the car's brain--the driver. ...
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:47 AM (WDjG6)

Or just to step to the right slightly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

183 . But they are locked in now."

Well, not really. We drive to Austin and Florida...often, and prices along the routes held steady (after dramatic increases) for the 1st part of the year, but lately, well, there's no other way to put this- prices are going down. Not everywhere for everything, but...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (XuXeR)

184 164 New take on an old classic. NSFW because of language.

https://is.gd/5wBZoN
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

That's awesome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (bss/y)

185 The SCOTUS could screw things up if they rule against Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (NpAcC)

186 gas is slightly cheaper

-
And Whoopi is slightly stupid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

187 Listening to the scotus about the fakegenders in girls sports. I certainly am not any expert on these proceedings but how the justices can't just ask simple straight forward questions is mind boggling. Certainly seems they are searching for a way for men to beat the crap out of women.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 11:52 AM (n5tGW)

188 Scott Adams died this morning. RIP

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

Sad. He was an interesting man, who had an interesting perspective on a variety of things. Always said in a congenial manner.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 11:52 AM (sX1BW)

189 >>We scoff at "perception is reality" at our peril.

We must not make the same hubris-fueled mistakes that the democrats did during Biden and try to tell people that everything was Roses and Sunshine.

You'll never convince someone who is personally struggling that everyone else is doing grrrrreat.

Last year I got a...1% raise. They blamed it on the fact that I'm at the top of the specified salary range for my job title... which is bullsh*t.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (WYStd)

190 "Bad fed cop actions" are always Civil Rights Criminal...whether it's BOP, FBI, ICE, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local

"Civil rights" is the code phrase for all their outlook considers good and holy. Even when it has nothing properly to do with civil rights. (Especially when...)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (OUMaO)

It's a "deprivation of rights under color of law" crime...18 U.S.C. § 242...it's actually half the purpose of the criminal section of civil rights...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (tOcjL)

191 169
‘ Best is when they go to Walmart a mile from their home, buy a shovel ,rope and bleach the day before the murder. And use a credit card to pay for it.’

Don’t forget your cell phone!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

192 John Roberts will call Tarriffs a tax and rule for the democrats.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (kgFPv)

193 New take on an old classic. NSFW because of language.

https://is.gd/5wBZoN
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

That was a hoot!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (8zz6B)

194 Beef prices are especially high right now. Because the national supply dwindled to one of the lowest levels on record. A policy decision made by the *biden administration in response to some potential illness affecting some number of cattle.

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Unfortunately, beef prices take longer to recover than egg prices - which are down significantly.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 11:54 AM (sX1BW)

195 We also only know what he wrote, not what happened between writing it and his death.
Posted by: ...
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True. It is always better for us to focus on salvation for ourselves and loved ones than worry about whether someone distant and unknown to us was saved or not. We can never know that.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:54 AM (WDjG6)

196 The SCOTUS could screw things up if they rule against Trump's tariffs.

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You don't trust Roberts and ACB to set our tariff policy?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (sX1BW)

197 Common sense "Trump's" backstabbing for personal gain.
We need more of this. The country comes first along with the taxpayers who sacrifices to pay the bills. The scum politicians who rip the people off need to be kicked out office permanently.

Posted by: Case at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (4rWc3)

198 Gas in this area can vary in price as much as .30 a gallon due to some areas imposing a municipal tax, some stations having different prices cash vs credit, and a few with "membership prices". Lowest I have seen is $2.09 (membership, cash).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (gm9Sb)

199 Recently treated myself to a regular Whataburger meal. Could barely taste the meat. I guess that's why everyone orders a double or triple nowadays.

Posted by: Texican ette at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (SNf74)

200 Recently treated myself to a regular Whataburger meal. Could barely taste the meat. I guess that's why everyone orders a double or triple nowadays.
Posted by: Texican ette at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (SNf74)

Pretty much.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (KDPiq)

201 Unfortunately, beef prices take longer to recover than egg prices - which are down significantly.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 11:54 AM (sX1BW)
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Because cows don't crap out a full-grown steer every day lol.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (5aZAZ)

202 199 Recently treated myself to a regular Whataburger meal. Could barely taste the meat. I guess that's why everyone orders a double or triple nowadays.
Posted by: Texican ette at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (SNf74)

*watches pitch sail toward the plate*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (bss/y)

203 Last year I got a...1% raise. They blamed it on the fact that I'm at the top of the specified salary range for my job title... which is bullsh*t.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (WYStd)

Honestly that’s on you. If you truly believe your worth is more than 1% raise, go elsewhere. Thats absolute bullshit because your employer most certainly raised their prices by more than 1%.

Staying anywhere for more than 3,4 years is a money loser long term. Only way you get ahead is jumping ship to a fat raise consistently.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (kgFPv)

204 "filling the government coffers" lol

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (ENz96)

205 Locally, and only from the commoners such as I, there's increased complaining that now it doesn't matter if prices are reasonable because those fabulous jobs of the past, especially for those with mediocre education at best, are no more.

Like the "Great Resignation" or the "Big Quit," primarily from early 2021 thru 2022 when the Obamacare subsidies went into place, there are still help wanted signs all over the place, including for leisure and hospitality, construction, and healthcare. So what? They want paid healthcare, big opportunities, pay, and work-life balance.

BTW, now our fabulous diners are closing. They've stocked their back kitchens & cleaning services with the undocumented for many years & have loved the minimal salaries paid, but now they're cashing out after years of ownership & hard work and taking what's theirs.

Again, things, including politics, are changing quickly.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (NFX2v)

206 "Nobel Laureates Join 900 U.S. Economists In Rebuke Of Trump’s Tariff Policy"

In this instance they are using a number of economists instead of a percentage of all US economists. Why? They must not have 97% of US economic scientists rebuking Trump's Tariff Policy.

Lies, damned lies, and carefully selected quantities or statistics.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (5rh/l)

207 Ilhan Omar Calls Elon Musk ‘One Of The Dumbest People On Earth’

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called tech mogul Elon Musk “one of the dumbest people on Earth” on Monday after he accused her of politically benefiting from illegal immigration. Musk stated on X that Democrats are flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants and handing them welfare to win elections, pointing to Omar as an “obvious example” of this phenomenon. In response, Omar accused Musk, without evidence, of being dumb and told him he should have no place in U.S. society.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

208 "Civil rights" is the code phrase for all their outlook considers good and holy. Even when it has nothing properly to do with civil rights. (Especially when...)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 11:50 AM (OUMaO)

It's a "deprivation of rights under color of law" crime...18 U.S.C. § 242...it's actually half the purpose of the criminal section of civil rights...

Posted by: Nova Local

Perhaps, but the two things can be right at once, no?

Guess I've just become cynical on the issue.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (OUMaO)

209 199 Recently treated myself to a regular Whataburger meal. Could barely taste the meat. I guess that's why everyone orders a double or triple nowadays.
Posted by: Texican ette at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (SNf74)
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I know this is complete heresy to say in Texas, but Whataburger kinda sucks, and it's expensive to boot.

I love pretty much everything about this state, but the obsession with Whataburger is baffling.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (5aZAZ)

210 I am seeing stats that show the tariffs are bad for American manufacturing and the steel industry"

Nope. There's some confusion over real employees (non illegal) and real data... until there's solid data, we got nothing.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (XuXeR)

211 Staying anywhere for more than 3,4 years is a money loser long term. Only way you get ahead is jumping ship to a fat raise consistently.
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (kgFPv)

This. It's a sad thing. Not a huge fan of it. But as far as pay, you are only worth what you negotiate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (bss/y)

212 Last year I got a...1% raise. They blamed it on the fact that I'm at the top of the specified salary range for my job title... which is bullsh*t.

Posted by: Defenestratus

Are you a Fed? I heard that excuse many times.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

213 Tariffs cannot increase inflation.

Inflation is caused by Fedgov spending more money then it brings in and printing dollars to make up the difference.

Tariffs, as a tax, lower the needed number of new dollars.

And unlike other taxes tariffs have the advantage of some of that money coming from foreign pockets instead of just American ones

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

214 This economy is not good at all

Posted by: The Learing Center at January 13, 2026 11:59 AM (65cLN)

215 207 Ilhan Omar Calls Elon Musk ‘One Of The Dumbest People On Earth’
Posted by: SMOD

And she is a racist.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 12:00 PM (NFX2v)

216 Last year I got a...1% raise. They blamed it on the fact that I'm at the top of the specified salary range for my job title... which is bullsh*t.

Its the magic of different cost centers.

Hiring a new person would come out of a different budget then giving you a pay raise.

So they can afford to pay a replacement more...even though in most cases a replacement would be less valuable

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)

217 I know this is complete heresy to say in Texas"

Not really, no.

Now Buc-ee's ...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:00 PM (XuXeR)

218 209 Whataburger opened in NW Arkansas to much fanfare and I hit the drive through. Some sort of big burger with mushrooms, fries, and a pop was pushing $15 and not worth $7.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2026 12:00 PM (gm9Sb)

219 Good steak and split-tail there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I'd be very careful with Portland split tail. Sounds like a recipe for STDs, surprise wang, and rape allegations.

Posted by: Confused Moron at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (JCZqz)

220 Or just to step to the right slightly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

No time. Have you actually watched the cop's own body cam doing a 360 inspection. He had his phone out and was videoing the car for evidence. Driver had been harassing ICE all day and that is why the officer did a 360, checking the car for identifying marks, license plate number, etc. All the while Becca the bitch was yelling at the cop while he was trying to document evidence (needed for any obstruction charge). You see the officer literally drop the phone at the instant the driver guns for him (and she does gun--car analysis shows 0-7mph acceleration in a second more than enough to injure. In addition, the streets themselves were slippery, you can see ICE agents visibly slipping on the literal ice. Then you have the other officer with his hand in the vehicle trying to stop her.

Officer made a split second call and he made the right call legally and morally. Suicide by cop and stupidity. At every step in of the process where she could have deescalated, she did not and if you watch, you can literally see her rack up more and more crimes until she did a lethal assault on an officer. She died for it.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

221 I love pretty much everything about this state, but the obsession with Whataburger is baffling.
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (5aZAZ)

To me it's just the best of the worst regard to fast food burger joints. But I understand how you feel. I think the same thing about Chick Fil A.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (KDPiq)

222 191 169
‘ Best is when they go to Walmart a mile from their home, buy a shovel ,rope and bleach the day before the murder. And use a credit card to pay for it.’

Don’t forget your cell phone!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

I'm surprised that anyone can commit a successful murder these days.

With all the cameras on the road and houses and businesses. Your cellphone of course. Your internet records and searches. DNA and forensics in general. And just plain human behavior, usually those who benefit from a murder are obvious.

A completely random murder miiiiight work. But, still a lot of those same things above work against you.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (iJfKG)

223 9 We haven't heard much from Biden lately. I wonder why.
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Depends on the cocktail of drugs he is on. Its a day-to-day thing. Ice Cream cones and Aviator Sunglasses are the tell.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (pLaQB)

224 They've stocked their back kitchens & cleaning services with the undocumented for many years & have loved the minimal salaries paid, "

So, my tax dollars and debt. You're welcome

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (XuXeR)

225 189 >>We scoff at "perception is reality" at our peril.

We must not make the same hubris-fueled mistakes that the democrats did during Biden and try to tell people that everything was Roses and Sunshine.

You'll never convince someone who is personally struggling that everyone else is doing grrrrreat.

Last year I got a...1% raise. They blamed it on the fact that I'm at the top of the specified salary range for my job title... which is bullsh*t.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (WYStd)

Yes, as has been the case since 2020, people who ACTUALLY work have been the most screwed b/c they are not living off entitlement cost of benefit advances or stock market returns - they are still about at 2020 salary rates.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (tOcjL)

226 "RIP Scott Adams.
Hopefully he repented before the end."

I read a post he did a few days ago on X that said he was going to convert to Christianity before he died. I hope that he got baptized if he had not been before.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (qFwJc)

227 The entire field of economics is full of retards trying to create jobs for themselves in the field. Once you get past the basic market forces of supply and demand and the (very) closely-related things that drive both sides of that equation, you might as well be throwing chicken bones and trying to incant the spirit of Halie Selassie. It's all bullshit at best and extremely gay self-serving propaganda at worst.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (5aZAZ)

228 Staying anywhere for more than 3,4 years is a money loser long term. Only way you get ahead is jumping ship to a fat raise consistently.

For some professions people tend to HATE interviews. So...businesses using those professions can use that to reduce salary increases.

Do you Mr Math Nerd want +1% here or to risk talking with people to get maybe +20%? And many of those math/software/engineering guys would rather take that 1%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (sKqQm)

229 >>>And we killed Venezuelan narco-terrorists with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft!

(The Navy's P-8 Poseidon is a modified 737.)

May I enquire what the P-8 has to do with that unverified claim?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 12:02 PM (Y1sOo)

230 LOL. A Somali calling somebody dumb is ridiculous. Go to McDonald's. See the guy with a developmental disability, but who is not so disabled that he can't work a fast food job?

Smarter than a Somali.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (BI5O2)

231 >>>Best is when they go to Walmart a mile from their home, buy a shovel ,rope and bleach the day before the murder. And use a credit card to pay for it.’

Don’t forget your cell phone!

Posted by: Dr. Claw

>You forgot the caustic lye. Mobster out front should have told you that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (BSdIE)

232
his public letter essentially said, "I'll say the words so God can prove to me that He exists and if He does then BONUS! I get to go to Heaven."

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lol, Scott to the end (publicly expressed) end. He also officially "endorsed" Hillary Clinton at one point in 2016 so she wouldn't persecute him during her presidency.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (Jxa0O)

233 207
‘ Ilhan Omar called tech mogul Elon Musk “one of the dumbest people on Earth”’

Chick from a known country of retards calls smartest and richest CEO dumb.
Yeah. That will resonate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

234 "…it is a wonder that President Trump has gotten anything done, but he has, and the American people see it."

Some American people see it. Many are blinded and no measure of success will lift the blindfolds. Comes down to enough to "beat the cheat," and defeating the rogue judges and RINOs and infiltraitors (sic) who still have too much influence over the country, and the world.

How dare you start my day with all that optimistic and positive observation?

Good morning, Morons in the Central Time zone and points west. Good afternoon, Easterlings. Looking at one more sunny and mild day here in NE Okla. Rough life.😎

Posted by: mindful webworker - not caffeinated enough yet at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (HJunf)

235 Who is Kylie Jenner?
$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (WQDw6)

236 I know this is complete heresy to say in Texas, but Whataburger kinda sucks, and it's expensive to boot.

I love pretty much everything about this state, but the obsession with Whataburger is baffling.
Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 11:58 AM (5aZAZ)

It used to be better, but prices have skyrocketed, and sizes have gone down. Very disappointing compared to how they were just a few years ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (uWKK8)

237 195 We also only know what he wrote, not what happened between writing it and his death.
Posted by: ...
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True. It is always better for us to focus on salvation for ourselves and loved ones than worry about whether someone distant and unknown to us was saved or not. We can never know that.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:54 AM (WDjG6)

But we can continue to pray for him, even after death...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (tOcjL)

238 I'm surprised that anyone can commit a successful murder these days.

With all the cameras on the road and houses and businesses. Your cellphone of course. Your internet records and searches. DNA and forensics in general. And just plain human behavior, usually those who benefit from a murder are obvious.

A completely random murder miiiiight work. But, still a lot of those same things above work against you.

You'd want to set up something like a remote-controlled rifle, carefully hidden behind a fake wall, months in advance of the murder.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

239 207 Ilhan Omar Calls Elon Musk ‘One Of The Dumbest People On Earth’

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called tech mogul Elon Musk “one of the dumbest people on Earth” on Monday after he accused her of politically benefiting from illegal immigration. Musk stated on X that Democrats are flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants and handing them welfare to win elections, pointing to Omar as an “obvious example” of this phenomenon. In response, Omar accused Musk, without evidence, of being dumb and told him he should have no place in U.S. society.
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

Africans just do not get along

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

240 I love pretty much everything about this state, but the obsession with Whataburger is baffling.
Posted by: ballistic
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Because it sucks less than competing fast food chains. You can actually taste beef instead of pink slime.

But, I make better burgers far cheaper at home.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

241 Tariffs cannot increase inflation.

Inflation is caused by Fedgov spending more money then it brings in and printing dollars to make up the difference.

Tariffs, as a tax, lower the needed number of new dollars.

And unlike other taxes tariffs have the advantage of some of that money coming from foreign pockets instead of just American ones

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

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Tariffs also strengthen the dollar relative to other currencies -- resulting in Americans paying lower relative prices (a bigger bang for the buck, if you will) for foreign exports.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (yrqXS)

242 Wait, they're drug dealers. Do we have to treat them like this is a naval battle and show our colors?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (bss/y)

243 >And let us not forget petroleum! oil prices are dropping to levels we haven't seen since...oh...the last Trump administration!

I live in Canada, an hour from the border, which means a lot of domestic gasoline sold originates in the US. Gas prices are absolutely plummeting around here as a knock-on effect. Not that anyone knows this.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (LgYtf)

244 Nood.

Scott Adams, R.I.P.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (0CU3H)

245 Honestly that’s on you. If you truly believe your worth is more than 1% raise, go elsewhere. Thats absolute bullshit because your employer most certainly raised their prices by more than 1%.

Staying anywhere for more than 3,4 years is a money loser long term. Only way you get ahead is jumping ship to a fat raise consistently.
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (kgFPv)

Oh I'm fully aware that me and me alone are responsible for accepting the condition of my continued employment. I have over 20 years at this company invested - with a ton of seniority and organizational reputation. The 7 weeks of PTO a year and $0 deductible PPO health plan benefits don't hurt either.

What I referred to as "bullshit" wasn't the 1% raise, but the justification they provided for it.

I can smell a fart when its passed. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a close personal friendship with my boss, and my wife makes over 2x what I do anyways - I'd be finding a new job.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (WYStd)

246 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say.

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So... Harmeet Dhillon isn't doing what the embedded tick lefties want her to do. Good. May many more of them resign.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (1Au9i)

247 But we can continue to pray for him, even after death...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Good point.

Yes we can. And the Lord and the Father hears those prayers which we do know definitely from Scripture.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (WDjG6)

248 In just about a decade, Civil Rights - once firm Federal laws - somehow became something else, much different from their original foundations.

They just seemed to morph in substance and meaning. 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (NFX2v)

249 >>>And we killed Venezuelan narco-terrorists with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft!

The plane DELIBERATELY blocked the boat's path to have an excuse to use force! The boat didn't even hit the plane!

Posted by: ICE protesting Lefty retard at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (JCZqz)

250 >>>>>Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say. At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs. Their decision to resign was announced in a meeting to staff on Monday, the sources told CBS News.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

Oh, try to imagine the immense sacrifices these principled prosecutors are making! Giving up a career and good pay rather than knuckle-under to BondiPatel's prejudied and sham investigation of Good's assassination by ICE! /sarc/

Yeah, sure. Fifty quatloos these prosecutors had good-paying jobs lined-up before resigning. Leftist cadre never make real sacrifices.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (5rh/l)

251 It used to be better, but prices have skyrocketed, and sizes have gone down. Very disappointing compared to how they were just a few years ago.
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Inflation and Supply Chain robbery are the reasons for this across the nation. Its not just Whataburger. Banana Coups are like that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (pLaQB)

252 246 Mass resignations hit Justice Department's Civil Rights Division amid lack of action in Minneapolis, sources say.

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So... Harmeet Dhillon isn't doing what the embedded tick lefties want her to do. Good. May many more of them resign.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 12:05 PM (1Au9i)

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A bunch already resigned when she took over.

They were the strong ones, willing to stay behind and keep their heads down to sabotage in quieter ways.

Now...they've taken themselves off the board.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

253 Best is when they go to Walmart a mile from their home, buy a shovel ,rope and bleach the day before the murder. And use a credit card to pay for it.’

Don’t forget your cell phone!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

I'm surprised that anyone can commit a successful murder these days.

With all the cameras on the road and houses and businesses. Your cellphone of course. Your internet records and searches. DNA and forensics in general. And just plain human behavior, usually those who benefit from a murder are obvious.

A completely random murder miiiiight work. But, still a lot of those same things above work against you.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (iJfKG)
_________

Most murders are solved because there's a real motive and obvious suspects who turn out to be the murderer. It's the rando murders and paid hitman murders that are hardest to solve.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

254 Speaking of fast food places...

I tried Jack in the box's new-

Double Bacon Smash Burger.

It was excellent. I may have to start eating there occasionally.

But the price was $11+, so I won't go very often cuz I can make muh own smash burgers on the flat top.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iJfKG)

255 227 An economist is a person lacking the personality to be a CPA.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (gm9Sb)

256 >>>Ilhan Omar should be cleaning roadside motels in that getup.

Why does anybody listen to this gash? She could be rolling chicken bones in some voodoo shoppe.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (BSdIE)

257 245 Honestly that’s on you. If you truly believe your worth is more than 1% raise, go elsewhere. Thats absolute bullshit because your employer most certainly raised their prices by more than 1%.

Staying anywhere for more than 3,4 years is a money loser long term. Only way you get ahead is jumping ship to a fat raise consistently.
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:57 AM (kgFPv)
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This is true - mostly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (pLaQB)

258 Oh, try to imagine the immense sacrifices these principled prosecutors are making! Giving up a career and good pay rather than knuckle-under to BondiPatel's prejudied and sham investigation of Good's assassination by ICE! /sarc/

Yeah, sure. Fifty quatloos these prosecutors had good-paying jobs lined-up before resigning. Leftist cadre never make real sacrifices.

Wait, I was assured all Feds are grossly overpaid.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

259 Very disappointing compared to how they were just a few years ago"

You know the family sold out, right?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (XuXeR)

260 251 It used to be better, but prices have skyrocketed, and sizes have gone down. Very disappointing compared to how they were just a few years ago.
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Inflation and Supply Chain robbery are the reasons for this across the nation. Its not just Whataburger. Banana Coups are like that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:06 PM (pLaQB)

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But the media was saying it didn't happen under Biden and now it's all Trump's fault.

Sure, I might have noticed it myself in my own purchases, but that was obviously just corporations price gouging me personally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

261
Fifty quatloos these prosecutors had good-paying jobs lined-up before resigning. Leftist cadre never make real sacrifices.
Posted by: Gref

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Good riddance to bad rubbish. That said, I hope to see some of these good-paying jobs dry up as the NGOs that pay lawyers to harass the Trump administration also dry up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (Jxa0O)

262 88 No one but God knows what was in Scott’s heart.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

*Ahem*

Posted by: Coroner's Inquest at January 13, 2026 12:08 PM (w9Wax)

263 Because it sucks less than competing fast food chains. You can actually taste beef instead of pink slime.

But, I make better burgers far cheaper at home.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 12:04 PM (WDjG6)
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It doesn't suck less, though, especially for the price they're asking for mediocre-ass burgers. I much prefer McDonald's, honestly. We also have P. Terry's here, which is light years better than Whataburger, and cheaper.

And yeah my homemade burgers are better but that's not in the equation when I'm looking for fast food.

Posted by: ballistic at January 13, 2026 12:09 PM (5aZAZ)

264 Fifty quatloos these prosecutors had good-paying jobs lined-up before resigning. Leftist cadre never make real sacrifices.
Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026

Of course. These guys have jobs waiting at white shoe law firms on K Street, where they will get paid $$$$$$$ to lobby their friends in the Party's deep state shadow government on behalf of wealthy cronies.

Everyone will make out like bandits by stealing from us, and virtue signaling at our expense by calling Trump & us nasty names, after they pick our pockets clean.

It's the American Way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 12:10 PM (BI5O2)

265 But the media was saying it didn't happen under Biden and now it's all Trump's fault.

Sure, I might have noticed it myself in my own purchases, but that was obviously just corporations price gouging me personally.
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TJM, Biden really doesn't like you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:11 PM (pLaQB)

266 How the fuck I’d did resignations mass?

Also I bet all of those people hid the name and absolved the black immigrant cop that shot Ashli Babbit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 12:11 PM (xvV+O)

267 and a few with "membership prices". Lowest I have seen is $2.09 (membership, cash).
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I know a late, great, slightly dented KIA that would have chugged along just fine on that cheap gas for many years to come.

Posted by: Alas, and Alack at January 13, 2026 12:11 PM (oftw2)

268
I'm surprised that anyone can commit a successful murder these days.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 12:01 PM (iJfKG)

The key to getting away with murder is to avoid killing anyone the government gives a shit about.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 12:12 PM (y9nCu)

269 Or just to step to the right slightly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

Or just a jump to the left.

Posted by: Riff Raff at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (5xuJ/)

270 FWIW, the big driver is diesel pricing. Paid $2.75 recently - lowest in years ..

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (XuXeR)

271 >>>The key to getting away with murder is to avoid killing anyone the government gives a shit about.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

>The Clintons have a hotline service to fulfill all of you needs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 12:14 PM (BSdIE)

272 270 FWIW, the big driver is diesel pricing. Paid $2.75 recently - lowest in years ..
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In a rational world a gallon of diesel would be cheaper than a gallon of gasoline.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 12:15 PM (pLaQB)

273 Or just to step to the right slightly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 13, 2026 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

Or just a jump to the left.
Posted by: Riff Raff at January 13, 2026 12:13 PM (5xuJ/)

You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 12:17 PM (y9nCu)

274 All of those fancy new investigative techniques haven't made it easier to catch people unless they commit an impulsive murder. The cops have become pretty dependent on tech, so if you plan - at all - they will run out of their technological crutches pretty quick and just give up. Same as with foreign intelligence, the tech has atrophied humint.

I think the cameras have worked, in the sense that fewer people are committing murder - but clearance rates once a murder is committed don't seem to have changed very much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (BI5O2)

275 268
‘ The key to getting away with murder is to avoid killing anyone the government gives a shit about.’

But they are the one I most want dead.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

276 Whataburger got its rep back when the competition was McD's, BK, and Hardee's. Whataburger was considerably better than those. Now there's Culver's, Freddy's, Steak and Shake, even Sonic that taste better.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 12:27 PM (65cLN)

277 Brilliant writing as usual, Charles.

But (don't you hate those?) you're mistaken about dimocrap scum just hating Trump -- dimocrap scum hate America and, especially, Americans.

The world would be so much better without America. Haven't you heard?

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

279 No to mention - massive federal layoffs. Which HURT our unemployment stats.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (tV890)

280 It's good to keep in mind as we rag on Journos that J-school students are the second-dumbest (by SAT) of the academic cohort in any college. The dumbest, of course (per Sowell and Williams), are Ed School kids. So we educate the next generation with morons and keep the current franchise informed by idiots. To think anything will change without overhauling - and putting an SAT/IQ floor on - grad schools is naive.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at January 13, 2026 03:28 PM (029Oi)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Mars and Rhea Silvia
Peter Paul Rubens

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Present and accounted for.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 art

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Painting: that's a good one.

Posted by: gp at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (GHIyr)

4 Who knew pee wee Herman could paint.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (MGB5H)

5 He liked his women thicc, as the rappers say nowadays.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (BHrzb)

6 Dreamscape.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (pFkFe)

7 "Mars and Rhea Perlman" was no less resplendent on black velvet.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (kpS4V)

8
ESPONJA!!1!1!111

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 09:32 AM (tljrc)

9 "Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being raped by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf."

Yeeesh.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 09:32 AM (kpS4V)

10 Rhea got alast name? Unusual.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (sl73Y)

11 She got man arms.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (Kt19C)

12 Was she one of sixteen vestal virgins?

Posted by: PabloD at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (pXTL4)

13 These two kids here are going to found Rome. But first I will impregnate you.

Posted by: Dyslexic Paul Rubens at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

14 Creepy.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (Kt19C)

15 Nice calves!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

16 "Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being raped by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf."

The twins, Romulus and Remus, are there no other animals that can raise children? How about a nice tapir?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (Riz8t)

17 And muscles.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

18 Alternate title:

"After reading on the HQ that Rhea has Pointy elbows, Mars makes a grab for one."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

19 It's a shame for a good Roman and Greek mythology guy to admit it, but I had to look up Rhea Silvia:

"Rhea (or Rea) Silvia . . . also known as Ilia (as well as other names) was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome.
Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being raped by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf."

So the kids here are Romulus and Remus? They look like toddlers, not newborns.

Plus, if Rhea was a Vestal Virgin, the fate of being buried alive no doubt awaited her. Unless the society made an exception seeing that the sire was Mars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

20 12 Was she one of sixteen vestal virgins?

And why were they leaving for the coast?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:35 AM (Riz8t)

21 Griffins with impressive racks, but beware as they are stone cold bishes.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 13, 2026 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

22 All mythology aside, this is a vivid painting. Rubens was famed for his luscious paintings of women; but here we see he could do muscular men and pink-cheeked toddlers just as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

23 I've seen those two little heathens running around Applebee's.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (pkq24)

24 (copied)
The Story Behind the Artwork
Rubens’ "Mars and Rhea Silvia" vividly illustrates a scene from Roman mythology where Mars, the god of war, seduces* Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin. This union would result in the birth of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.
(* or raped, as was the custom of the day, lol)

The painting brims with Baroque dynamism and sensuality, capturing the intensity of the moment while highlighting Rubens’ masterful use of movement, color, and emotion.

The intertwining figures, bold contrasts, and mythological elements reflect Rubens’ talent for dramatizing classical stories with a mix of passion and grandeur.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (HXT0k)

25 Kinda' rapey. No hang.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (NwnyJ)

26 10 Rhea got alast name? Unusual.

Seahorn. Do you even Pluribus ?

Posted by: S Claus at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (HcoTw)

27 Tying into some discussion on Sunday's Food Thread, a ittle known fact is that Ms. Silvia's first name was Dia.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

28 The twins, Romulus and Remus, are there no other animals that can raise children? How about a nice tapir?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026

***
The Romans loved the idea of their founder growing up on wolf's milk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

29 Mars wants some bewbies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (pLaQB)

30 (cont.)
Symbolism and Details
Mars (Left):
Clad in armor and draped in a striking red cloak, Mars symbolizes power, aggression, and seduction. His assertive posture embodies divine dominance.
Rhea Silvia (Right):
Draped in soft white and gold, Rhea Silvia appears hesitant and vulnerable, representing purity and human frailty in contrast to Mars’ godly force.

Cupid Figures:
Playful cherubs, symbols of love and desire, flank the scene, emphasizing the romantic yet transgressive nature of the encounter.

The Altar and Fire:
The burning altar symbolizes divine involvement and the sacred duty Rhea Silvia abandons in succumbing to Mars.

Mythological Sphinxes:
The carved sphinxes represent mystery and the enigmatic union of mortal and divine forces.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (HXT0k)

31 It looks like someone put a cherry bomb in the sacrificial fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (Riz8t)

32 Was she one of sixteen vestal virgins?

Vegetable Virgins. Only has eyes for the fries.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (pkq24)

33 I see that little shit Cupid, but who is the other kid?

Posted by: huerfano at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (98kQX)

34 Pretty cool. Art Museum Gawker.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (DgMqy)

35 But was it rape-rape?

Posted by: Whoopi at January 13, 2026 09:37 AM (JCZqz)

36 Mars is white supremacy. A raper. Evil white man
Like the painting though
Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:38 AM (9ShUO)

37 1 Griffins with impressive racks, but beware as they are stone cold bishes.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 13, 2026

***
Since they have human faces too, I'd guess they are not of the classical griffin with eagle head tribe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

38 "Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being raped by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf."

Yeeesh.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 09:32 AM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

39 The early bodice-rippers had very sophisticated cover art.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 13, 2026 09:38 AM (xxENG)

40 So now you show up? You haven't paid child support in over 2 years!

I have to give them up for adoption now to some den mother. Thanks for nothing.

Posted by: Princess Rhea at January 13, 2026 09:38 AM (w9Wax)

41 "I looked at the trap, Rhea."

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 09:39 AM (DgMqy)

42 Mythological Sphinxes:
The carved sphinxes represent mystery and the enigmatic union of mortal and divine forces.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026

***
Gee, they had those hairless, chemo-treated-looking cats in ancient times?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

43 Another one from Pee Wee Herman. Dude's prolific!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 09:40 AM (dP47V)

44 Reubenesque she is.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 13, 2026 09:40 AM (JnGr2)

45 Daddy's home.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 09:41 AM (pLaQB)

46 Looks like she has man hands.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2026 09:41 AM (2L+MU)

47 Nice calves!
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

So you're saying try the veal?

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 09:41 AM (dP47V)

48 I would not have pegged Mars for the kind of guy to wear a garter, even if it does have a lion on it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:42 AM (Riz8t)

49 Why does Mars need a sword? He's a frickin' Olympian god, for cryin' out loud.

(I note that Rubens set the short sword on the right side, as Roman soldiers carried the gladius. Though he may have had to do that since he was showing Mars' right side anyway.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

50 Mars doesn't skip leg day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 09:43 AM (0sNs1)

51 Why does Mars need a sword? He's a frickin' Olympian god, for cryin' out loud.

If Apollo gets unruly, he might have to cut a bi***.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)

52 Over on the left, Rommie or Remie is carrying Mars' helmet. Helpful little wolf-suckler, he is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

53 I see 2 vaginas!

Posted by: Emporer Jean-Luc Picard II at January 13, 2026 09:43 AM (w9Wax)

54 Painting makes no sense. How are Romulus and Remus present when Mars hasn't banged her yet? And I also doubt they were couple of little chunksters, if I had to guess.

WNH.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

55 I don't see any Mars candy bars.

Posted by: dantesed at January 13, 2026 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

56 Greco-Roman gods weren't exactly known for courting the ladies.

They simply took what they wanted.

And they weren't always in human form.

Ick.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 09:45 AM (ESVrU)

57 Imagine being punched by her.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 13, 2026 09:45 AM (KiBMU)

58 Kid on the left looks like he has freshly shorn hair, while the one in the middle has much longer and shaggier 'do. I guess he's Romulus, the rebel who said, "Imma found a city here, and it's gonna rule the effin' world!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

59 Greco-Roman gods weren't exactly known for courting the ladies.

They simply took what they wanted.

And they weren't always in human form.

Thus giving birth to many modern genres of female "literature".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)

60
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 09:46 AM (t2vGZ)

61 Alternate title: How YOU Doin?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

62 The gods were angry that day my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 13, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

63 52 Over on the left, Rommie or Remie is carrying Mars' helmet. Helpful little wolf-suckler, he is

That's little Rommie James Dio. Don't let the size fool you. Dude can sing.

Posted by: The last in line at January 13, 2026 09:47 AM (HcoTw)

64 Why does Mars need a sword? He's a frickin' Olympian god, for cryin' out loud.
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[Bevis and Butthead scene]
heh, heh, heh. His "sword" is in the vagina. heh heh heh Latin is cool.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:47 AM (HXT0k)

65 Painting makes no sense. How are Romulus and Remus present when Mars hasn't banged her yet? And I also doubt they were couple of little chunksters, if I had to guess.

WNH.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026

***
If Rubens hadn't called the painting Mars and Rhea Silva, we could guess that this was a pre-Roman soldier come to seize the babes and also cart RS off to be buried alive. But again, the kids are toddlers, not swaddling babes. Did they wait a couple of years to execute the sentence?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

66 Thus giving birth to many modern genres of female "literature".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 09:45 AM

Is this about me?

Posted by: A Minotaur at January 13, 2026 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

67 Men are from Mars, women are from Rhea Perlman.

Posted by: No, that's not right at January 13, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

68 I hope Mars takes his chest plate off before he gets down to business.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 13, 2026 09:49 AM (KK2TN)

69 48 I would not have pegged Mars ~~for the kind of guy to wear a garter, even if it does have a lion on it.~~
Posted by: Archimedes

Maybe he's into that kind of thing? His excessive toxic masculinity is overcompensating for his shameful secret?

Posted by: Sam Brinton at January 13, 2026 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

70 Painting makes no sense. How are Romulus and Remus present when Mars hasn't banged her yet? And I also doubt they were couple of little chunksters, if I had to guess.

WNH.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Not banged her yet? He's back for a child support payment hearing. She's demanding more.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:49 AM (pkq24)

71 How are Romulus and Remus present when Mars hasn't banged her yet?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

Those two aren't Romulus and Remus. One is probably cupid, and the other one? Who knows?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 09:49 AM (n9ltV)

72 Are we sure Mars is a Roman god? This seems more like Allah's will.

Posted by: Muhammad at January 13, 2026 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

73 "Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being raped by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf."

************

All The Horsemen Knew 'Er - a limerick

Rhea was a beauty of renown
So Mars asked her dad with a frown:
"Please tell me in haste,
I must know. Was she chaste?"

"Indeed she was... all around town!"

Posted by: muldoon at January 13, 2026 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

74 Over on the left, Rommie or Remie is carrying Mars' helmet. Helpful little wolf-suckler, he is

Carrying it? He's headed to the pawn shop with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:51 AM (pkq24)

75 Ain't nobody nekkid.

Posted by: I was expecting nekkid at January 13, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Ain't nobody nekkid.
Posted by: I was expecting nekkid

That's the next panel.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 13, 2026 09:53 AM (KK2TN)

77 Gonna need a bigger wall if I hang this Rubens.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:54 AM (FeLmZ)

78 Imma surprised the Romans didn't invent tentacle pron.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 09:55 AM (pLaQB)

79
Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's hurrying
She's catching the nine o'clock train
Sylvia's mother said, "Take your umbrella 'cause Sylvia, it's starting to rain
And Sylvia's mother said, "Thank you for calling, and, sir, won't you call back again?"
And the operator said 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please, Mrs. Avery, I just want to tell her goodbye

Tell her goodbye
Tell her goodbye
Tell her goodbye
Please, tell her goodbye

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 09:56 AM (xG4kz)

80 So now we're endorsing rape? Is there no depth CBD won't plumb to make our stomachs turn?

Posted by: Sheltered Upbringing at January 13, 2026 09:56 AM (oftw2)

81 Cupid in the middle appears to be literally cockblocking with the left hand.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 09:57 AM (XvL8K)

82
Imma surprised the Romans didn't invent tentacle pron.

Posted by: Pudinhead

The Japanese sent them a veiled threat to "not go there"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

83 Rape stay guys would change and cannot

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at January 13, 2026 09:57 AM (uYAIx)

84
Paul Rubens, Renaissance artist and television star? Who knew?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 09:58 AM (xG4kz)

85 Tomorrow we get the Minotaur Farm.

Posted by: Milking It For What It's Worth at January 13, 2026 09:58 AM (oftw2)

86 She obviously didn't make him a sandwich.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 09:59 AM (NwnyJ)

87
I would not have pegged Mars

Huh. Well, that's good to hear. One can always count on the HQ and it's commenters for upstanding, moral behav-

Oh, wait there's more...

...for the kind of guy to wear a garter, even if it does have a lion on it.

...I'm not sure I understand this part. Lessee now-
No on pegging Mars but yes, on anal sex with a guy wearing a garter even if the garter has a lion on it? Is that right?

Well, that's strangely specific.

Must be weird confession day here at the HQ!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)

88 I love this story tho. Romans were such a bunch of atavistic tribals. Most of this was of course conceived well after Rome was founded, and they needed a civic mythos to build on their numinous religious traditions.

So - what origin story do they come up with for their soldier-farmer society whose first generations were produced by women taken as spoils of war?

Naturally, the god of war seduces a horny nun, who is condemned to live burial by her priest, so the river god intervenes and spares her life, but she abandons her children, who are also saved by the river god and rise to greatness after being nursed by an alpha predator, at which point one murders the other for talking smack.

They were definitely hardasses.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:00 AM (BI5O2)

89 Must be weird confession day here at the HQ!
Posted by: naturalfake

I like bacon wrapped, cheese filled jalapeños.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:02 AM (pkq24)

90 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Horny nuns at January 13, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

91
Didja no?

Michigan not only has communities named Hell and Paradise, but it also has communities named Romulus and Remus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

92 Most of this was of course conceived well after Rome was founded, and they needed a civic mythos to build on their numinous religious traditions.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:00 AM (BI5O2)

Read the Aeneid if you haven't already. It doesn't match the Iliad and Odyssey, but it's still a fun read.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 10:04 AM (n9ltV)

93 I like bacon wrapped, cheese filled jalapeños."

Mmmm.

*contemplates trip to buc-ee's *

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 10:04 AM (XuXeR)

94 Imma surprised the Romans didn't invent tentacle pron.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 09:55 AM (pLaQB)

Heh. -- Neptune

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

95 Michigan not only has communities named Hell and Paradise, but it also has communities named Romulus and Remus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:03 AM (xG4kz)harassed.

Please tell me the Romulans have an annual festival where they sacrifice Reman captives. Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

96 Michigan not only has communities named Hell and Paradise, but it also has communities named Romulus and Remus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Have a picture of a buddy standing next to the Hell sign in Michigan in the winter with ice on the sign.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:06 AM (pkq24)

97 Michigan not only has communities named Hell and Paradise, but it also has communities named Romulus and Remus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!

[snicker] Ream Us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

98
Please tell me the Romulans have an annual festival where they sacrifice Reman captives. Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I've never been to either one.

All these burgs are yours to explore except Toivola. Attempt no stopping there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:07 AM (xG4kz)

99
hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:08 AM (xG4kz)

100 It is a popular misconception that the Ruben sandwich was originated by the painter Peter Paul Rubens. That honor belongs to his second cousin, Dik Mac.

Posted by: Tis the Season at January 13, 2026 10:09 AM (HTCU3)

101
I spy two young'uns who will benefit from SNAP having been precluded to use to purchase sugary snacks.

Gimme your five mile runs, you two chubbos!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:10 AM (xG4kz)

102 Is there nothing that bastard won't do?

The Hill
@thehill
President Trump dials Sen. Susan Collins with ‘profanity-laced rant’ over Venezuela war powers vote

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

103 Tag! You're it!

Posted by: Donny Brook at January 13, 2026 10:13 AM (Dc1Hd)

104 Oops. That'll piss lefties off.
Signed into law 12-21-2025.

Puerto Rico Recognizes the Unborn as Legal Persons

Puerto Rico has enacted Senate Bill 504, a landmark law recognizing unborn children as legal persons from conception.

Signed into law by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, the measure amends the island’s Civil Code to grant unborn children legal personality, allowing for protections such as:

• Eligibility for insurance coverage

• Inheritance rights (effective upon birth)

• Legal representation in specific circumstances

The bill passed both chambers of Puerto Rico’s legislature with strong majorities and took effect immediately.

Pro-life organizations, including National Right to Life, praised the move as a historic step toward protecting human life at its earliest stage.

Supporters say the law affirms a foundational principle: life begins at conception and carries inherent dignity and legal recognition.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:13 AM (pkq24)

105 Jesus, take the wheel.

https://is.gd/yP7XRM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:14 AM (L/fGl)

106 Rhea, Sylvia was far more well liked than her sister Dia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 10:14 AM (7JH4o)

107
Mars: "Hey! I've got it! A Mars bar filled with creamy yogurt! We'll call it, 'Surprise!'"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

108 Rhea Seehorn > Rhea Pearlman

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:14 AM (kgFPv)

109 Timothee Chalamet has finally made his relationship with Kylie Jenner Instagram official, marking the first time Chalamet has acknowledged his 'other half' on his social media account.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

----

Uh HUH. Suuuuuure... I'm totally sure this wan, mincing twink is a severely heterosexual male who likes the ladies as much as the next guy.

This dude's publicist deserves the 2026 Chutzpah Award for even attempting to sell this stunt.

But nobody is going to believe this walking monkeypox farm has a real live girlfriend.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)

110
Wan and twee is no way to go through life, Timothy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:17 AM (xG4kz)

111 Just wait until Kratos shows up.

Posted by: He'll show Ares who's the real God of War at January 13, 2026 10:17 AM (TbWk/)

112 The Muslim god sounds like the Roman gods all wrapped into one.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:17 AM (KDPiq)

113 I know none of these people.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (o2ZRX)

114 Call off the invasion!

Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

115
Latest Truth Social Post:

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"

Looks like an negotiations are moot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (w6EFb)

116 Alternate painting title-
No you can't see my boobs.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at January 13, 2026 10:19 AM (5C76S)

117
I like bacon wrapped, cheese filled jalapeños.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:02 AM (pkq24)

I love them. Bit messy when cooking them in the oven since you have to bake them open side down for at least part of the bake time. Kroger used to sell them, but it's been years since I last saw them there. Le sigh, if I want them I have to make them myself.

Posted by: Farquad at January 13, 2026 10:19 AM (CFMhl)

118
Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Argentina would have the Falkland Islands well in hand within three days of that British mistake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (xG4kz)

119 Rhea Seehorn > Rhea Pearlman
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:14 AM (kgFPv)

Absolutely loved Rhea Seehorn in Better Call Saul. Haven't watched anything else she's been in. Any recommendations -- for or against?

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (dP47V)

120 Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

Good. I hate Great Britain, and it makes me laugh that they are going to deploy some of their snaggletoothed troops to literal Hell for no reason whatsoever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (BI5O2)

121 Rhea Silvia doesn't miss arm day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (BSdIE)

122 Call off the invasion!

Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, FFS!

Are the limeys gonna fuck up my ability to take a trip to Old Blighty this summer with their fake military swanning about?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

123 @109

>>But nobody is going to believe this walking monkeypox farm has a real live girlfriend

He might look like a fop and a dandy, but in interviews he come off as hetero-normative.

That doesn't mean he isn't Rock Hudson g-y.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:21 AM (Q6XoW)

124 Kroger used to sell them, but it's been years since I last saw them there. Le sigh, if I want them I have to make them myself.
Posted by: Farquad

Butcher case next to the thick sliced bacon.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (pkq24)

125 Eh, Chalamet is dating a Katdashian-Jenner who, iirc, has two kids with a scummy hip hop dude.
It won’t last.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (ewVdN)

126 What's Britain have to do with Greenland? And why would Greenlanders allow it?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (KDPiq)

127 Latest Truth Social Post:

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"
====
I'll take this and want more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (RIvkX)

128 Thrown out? I'd've thought locked in.

Ilhan Omar Thrown Out of Minneapolis ICE Facility

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

129 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)

I don't care what Chalamet does in the sack, but I do care that he was not impressive as Paul Atreides in the two Dune movies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (n9ltV)

130 104 Oops. That'll piss lefties off.
Signed into law 12-21-2025.

Puerto Rico Recognizes the Unborn as Legal Persons
____

Hispanics are allowed to have their own culture. Our culture is to use abortion as birth control. Bring us your Mofongo, but leave those unenlightened beliefs behind in Puerto Rico.
-Lefties coping

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (Dv3i1)

131 Call off the invasion!

Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

I read "Brian May deploys troops to Greenland."

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 13, 2026 10:23 AM (PSEDc)

132 What's Britain have to do with Greenland? And why would Greenlanders allow it?
Posted by: Opinion fact

Britain = NATO

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:23 AM (pkq24)

133 Scott Adams is mort. RIP.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 10:23 AM (ewjUl)

134 Dune 1 was great
Dune 2 sucked

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:24 AM (KDPiq)

135 @133

>>Scott Adams is mort. RIP.

Terrible news.

RIP Scott.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:24 AM (Q6XoW)

136 The Hill
@thehill
President Trump dials Sen. Susan Collins with ‘profanity-laced rant’ over Venezuela war powers vote
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:10 AM (L/fGl)
====

Why did he stop there??

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

137 128 Thrown out? I'd've thought locked in.

Ilhan Omar Thrown Out of Minneapolis ICE Facility
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Soon

Posted by: Deportation at January 13, 2026 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

138 Scott Adams is mort. RIP.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 13, 2026 10:23 AM (ewjUl)
====

Blessed are You hashem the true Judge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:25 AM (RIvkX)

139 Call off the invasion! Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

And just like that the Pig War is back. Sort of.
https://is.gd/EuPfkh

Posted by: Tis the Season at January 13, 2026 10:25 AM (HTCU3)

140 133 Scott Adams is mort. RIP.
Posted by: Minnfidel

He was an interesting dude that saw a lot of dramatic changes towards the end of his life. I'm sure the Left has moderated, and won't disgustingly dance on his grave or anything.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 10:26 AM (JCZqz)

141 Stocks are at an all time e high, up about 20% overall since Trump took office.

Yahoo Headline today “How Likely is a 2026 Market Crash Under Trump?”

No matter how much you hate them it’s never enough.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:26 AM (kgFPv)

142 Britain won’t protect its own sovereignty from refugee invasion, but will go to waste with us over Greenland?

I’d say our “special relationship “ is over.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2026 10:27 AM (ewVdN)

143 Veteran Driver Ken Schrader Defends NASCAR’s “Redneck” Rebrand

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I was unaware sophistication had crept into NASCAR.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

144 Dune 1 was great
Dune 2 sucked
Posted by: Opinion fact

Could only make it 1/4 way thru D2.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:28 AM (pkq24)

145
He might look like a fop and a dandy, but in interviews he come off as hetero-normative.

That doesn't mean he isn't Rock Hudson g-y.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:21 AM (Q6XoW)

I was laughing at how obviously fake Justin Bieber's PR "relationship" with that Aztec chick was, years ago. But he still comes off as a straight dude, even though Diddy probably turned him into a human pincushion back in the day.

And, for instance, Roland Gift was about the dandiest fop you can imagine, but very clearly hetero.

But this is not that. It's Timotheeeee Chalamet. That's a gay dude.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:29 AM (BI5O2)

146 Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

I read "Brian May deploys troops to Greenland."
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Do they do the Fandango?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 13, 2026 10:29 AM (w9Wax)

147
Britain May Deploy Troops to Greenland
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

Good. I hate Great Britain, and it makes me laugh that they are going to deploy some of their snaggletoothed troops to literal Hell for no reason whatsoever.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:20 AM (BI5O2)

*makes jerking motion with fist*

The Limeys are gonna have to borrow some C17s if they want to deploy anything more than a battalion of light troops. Like most Eurotrash nations, they don't have shit for airlift.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 10:30 AM (y9nCu)

148 Scott Adams is mort. RIP.
Posted by: Minnfidel

I didn't always agree with him but he was a smart guy. RIP.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

149 There are four monkeys and a goat terrorizing the streets of St. Louis. People have AI'd them all over the city dressed in Blues gear, Cardinals gear, drinking beer, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (pkq24)

150 Isn't Denmark a founding NATO member. Why wouldn't they send troops under the NATO defense agreement with Greenland? To enact this agreement with military other than Denmark without US input should severe our membership in NATO immediately.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (KDPiq)

151 I was laughing at how obviously fake Justin Bieber's PR "relationship" with that Aztec chick was, years ago.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Selena Gomez?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

152 In the 80s to mid 90s the UK had virtually no immigration. Some years it was even negative as foreigners moved out. The country was 95% British.

Then Tony Blair came to power and opened the floodgates. Took under 25 years to destroy a 1000 year old civilization.

Life comes at you fast when you give leftists power.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (kgFPv)

153 This lady is Just Asking Questions about how tf CHYna reached the population it claims to have:
https://is.gd/MNPkmT

Blog warning: Math! and logic!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (ULPxl)

154 Dune 2 was ruined by girlbossing the plot and frowny-faced actress. What a waste of!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2026 10:31 AM (ewVdN)

155 Gotta say, of all people to go for the deathbed conversion, I wouldn't bet on Adams.

But I suppose it kinda makes sense, in a Pascal's Wager sort of way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:32 AM (BI5O2)

156 (snagged that from Sarah Hoyt's place)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 13, 2026 10:32 AM (ULPxl)

157 She had the kids, then he came back for them after tbey were weaned. Look like well fed toddlers....

Posted by: bang her one more time? at January 13, 2026 10:32 AM (21xzK)

158 > Veteran Driver Ken Schrader Defends NASCAR’s “Redneck” Rebrand
-
I was unaware sophistication had crept into NASCAR.
==========
NASCAR management really tried to "urbanize" the sport. The teams, drivers and fans all agree that was a huge mistake.

Ownership/management does not give a fuck.

But, the recent lawsuit over charters sort of was a wake-up call to NASCAR... as the management was forced to settle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 10:33 AM (NwnyJ)

159 Bieber is married to Baldwin's daughter.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:33 AM (KDPiq)

160 Silver spot at $88.57 per oz. That means an average circulated pre-1965 dime has $6.33 worth of Silver in it, and an average pre-1965 quarter contains $15.82 worth of Silver.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 13, 2026 10:34 AM (Da7Vv)

161 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. She's thinking That's kind of a small sword.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 10:34 AM (2WIwB)

162 European Union Needs Its Own Army of 100,000, Says Commissioner

.. this is like property tax reform and communism .. it's always just over the horizon

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

163 I knew the story of Mars and Rhea. How Mars appeared to her (a vestal virgin although that wasn't her choice). Rubens captured the sense of his sudden appearance, overwhelming the woman who conceives Romulus and Remus. The human figures are solid and colorful putting the viewers attention on them. Most of the rest of the scene is fluid or shadowed. Interesting contrast.

I wonder if there is a connection with the story of Romulus and Remus pulled from the river and Moses rescued from the Nile.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2026 10:35 AM (yTvNw)

164 Bieber is married to Baldwin's daughter.
=
Baldwin who?

Also.the best thing about Zoolander 2 was Bieber getting machine gunned to death in the first minute. Big loss for the Cleveland Guardians tho....

Posted by: bang her one more time? at January 13, 2026 10:36 AM (21xzK)

165 ByFRAIDY MOSER
JANUARY 13, 2026 11:31
Updated: JANUARY 13, 2026 12:59
Over 12,000 people have been killed during the protests in Iran, largely over the course of Thursday and Friday nights, Iran International reported on Tuesday, describing the events as “the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history.”

These figures are unconfirmed estimates by the outlet. Data from the US-based rights organization HRANA confirms the deaths of 646 people since the outbreak of the demonstrations last month.
-Jerusalem Post

====
Hard to credit

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

166 Chalamet angered the loony left by saying in an interview he wants to be a dad.

Posted by: steevy at January 13, 2026 10:36 AM (YwEeS)

167 Naturally, the god of war seduces a horny nun, who is condemned to live burial by her priest, so the river god intervenes and spares her life, but she abandons her children, who are also saved by the river god and rise to greatness after being nursed by an alpha predator, at which point one murders the other for talking smack.

They were definitely hardasses.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:00 AM (BI5O2)
----
Or Mt. Vesuvius was emitting some really funky fumes that day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 10:37 AM (ESVrU)

168 Hailey Baldwin is one of those Baldwins? I had no idea.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:37 AM (kgFPv)

169 Mattel is expanding its push for inclusion with the launch of its first autistic Barbie, developed in partnership with autism advocates to reflect how some people on the spectrum experience the world. Mattel spent more than 18 months developing the autistic Barbie in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), a nonprofit that works to advance the rights and media representation of autistic people.

.. not to be ablist, but what does somebody on the spectrum look like ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:37 AM (RHGPo)

170 More like the WEF wants its own army.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2026 10:38 AM (ewVdN)

171 OK, I've never thought of him as a good actor, but if he's playing a gay man that well, he deserves an Oscar for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:38 AM (BI5O2)

172 Stephen Baldwin iirc

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:38 AM (KDPiq)

173 The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia, affecting several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S. and several hundred currently living in Minnesota under the protection. Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17. Sources at USCIS told Fox News Digital that there are 2,471 Somali nationals currently in the U.S. under TPS, with 1,383 in the country with pending TPS applications. Fox News Digital learned that an estimated 600 Somali nationals who are protected by TPS live in Minnesota.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (RHGPo)

174 I trust anything coming out of Iran less than anything to do with the Ukraine war.

There’s zero way to verify any of it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (kgFPv)

175 not to be ablist, but what does somebody on the spectrum look like ?
==
They have chosen to characterize this with flappy hands and an off center gaze.

Posted by: Probably a bad choice at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (21xzK)

176 Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Says Illegal Immigrants “Deserve” to Vote

-
And I deserve to bang Sidney Sweeney!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

177
Saw "The Housemaid" this week courtesy of th lovely and exciting Mrs naturalfake.

So...have you ever had the misfortune to read "Jane Eyre"? (Those Bronte sisters have a lot to answer for!)

Well, if you have, then you'll recognize within the first 5-10 minutes that "The Housemaid" is essentially a DEI reclamation of the main plot of "Jane Eyre".

Crazy wife? Check, but is she really crazy?
Isolated room at the top of the stairs with a door that only locks from the outside.
Glamorous husband who loyally sticks with "crazy" wife.
Young, strong minded Housemaid who becomes the love interest of husband.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

"The Housemaid" flips the roles around to get to a revenge flick for modern women that weirdly brings "Saw" into the mix.

Well-made but predictable from practically the first frame. Good acting. Crisp direction. Had the ladies in the audience well-hooked.

Not my kind of thing, but if it sounds like you'd enjoy it, you will.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

178 He's married to the daughter of the really squinty eyed Baldwin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (Q6XoW)

179
European Union Needs Its Own Army of 100,000, Says Commissioner

.. this is like property tax reform and communism .. it's always just over the horizon
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

To do what? You can't do shit with only 100k under arms.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 10:39 AM (y9nCu)

180 Silver spot at $88.57 per oz. That means an average circulated pre-1965 dime has $6.33 worth of Silver in it, and an average pre-1965 quarter contains $15.82 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

Until you try to sell it

Posted by: MkY at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (q6tQZ)

181 The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (3ImbR)

182 A housemaid review with the most important factor left out.

Were either Sidney’s or Amanda’s boobages shown? And even more importantly, did they make out?

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (kgFPv)

183 😂😂😂😂

As of Saturday, January 10th, 2026 the four monkeys that’s running loose in St.Louis City after escaping from a home in the Ofallon Neighborhood, have not been captured according to City of St.Louis Department of Health.

They have been identified as vervet monkeys.

Residents should not approach these monkeys or try to capture them. They are very intelligent and social, but may be unpredictable or aggressive according to City of St.Louis Department of Health.

If you spot them, call (314) 657-1500 #ASAP

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (pkq24)

184 The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
Posted by: IrishEi

Car wouldn't start.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:42 AM (pkq24)

185 The Amanda chick is as big a Woke leftist as anyone in Hollywood.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:42 AM (KDPiq)

186 >>> 181 The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (3ImbR)

Uh oh. Now the congresscritters will send them a Strongly Worded Letter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM (ULPxl)

187 There's also been a goat spotted on the loose in St. Louis.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

188
The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
Posted by: IrishEi

Car wouldn't start.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:42 AM (pkq24)

Frogs from the skies

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM (y9nCu)

189 The Amanda chick is as big a Woke leftist as anyone in Hollywood.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:42 AM (KDPiq)

True. But she has a great body and loves to get nekkid in movies.

Focus on the “art” not the artist. 😁

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:44 AM (kgFPv)

190 The only boobies I see are on the stone pedestal on the right.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:44 AM (BSdIE)

191 BREAKING: DHS to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Somalis in the US, including hundreds in Minnesota. They will be required to leave the U.S. by March 17th or will face deportation.

“Temporary means temporary”, @Sec_Noem tells FOX.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

192 Might be old but Scott Adams has died

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 13, 2026 10:45 AM (eJkxj)

193 BREAKING: DHS to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Somalis in the US, including hundreds in Minnesota. They will be required to leave the U.S. by March 17th or will face deportation.

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LOL, no.
- Some Judge

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:46 AM (kgFPv)

194 A housemaid review with the most important factor left out.

Were either Sidney’s or Amanda’s boobages shown? And even more importantly, did they make out?
Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 10:41 AM (kgFPv)

Sydney Sweeney's fine fine body is discreetly shown.

Aluded to more than shown really. Sadly.

Remember this is a movie for The Ladies, so you probably get a better look at the dude, instead of Sydney.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

195 The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
Posted by: IrishEi

Car wouldn't start.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 10:42 AM (pkq24)

Frogs from the skies
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM

"I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn't my fault! I swear to God!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2026 10:46 AM (kgE5c)

196 Silver spot at $88.57 per oz.

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Holy smokes. I'm looking at about 450% appreciation over 6 years. Not too shabby. I'm not ready to sell any yet, but at some point, I'm gonna want to take some profits. Some of my bullion at least. Not my rare coins.

Problem is I've never sold any before, and from my research thus far, it seems even big dogs like APMEX are charging extortionate premiums, and it only gets worse with smaller dealers.

What's the best way to seek out private buyers? I can give a small discount under spot, the buyer can avoid his own premiums altogether, and I could drastically reduce the first haircut I take before Uncle Sam rapes me violently on the long-term capital gain.

Everybody wins but the dealers - i just have no clue how to find buyers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:46 AM (BI5O2)

197 > The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
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The list of "no-shows" is growing. Several former *biden era aids subpoenaed over the autopen debacle didn't show. A number of others.

No idea if they'll ever face consequences... but apparently blowing off Congress isn't a big deal.

If you're a Democrat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 10:47 AM (NwnyJ)

198 Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Says Illegal Immigrants “Deserve” to Vote

... does this mean I get to vote in Seattle without living there ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:47 AM (RHGPo)

199 not to be ablist, but what does somebody on the spectrum look like ?
Posted by: SMOD

Have you seen any of the women at ICE protest?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 10:48 AM (JCZqz)

200 Who was the Republican convicted for not showing up for the subpoena?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:48 AM (KDPiq)

201 What's the best way to seek out private buyers?

I always see several at local gun shows. No idea if they give good prices though.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 10:49 AM (JCZqz)

202 197 > The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
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The list of "no-shows" is growing. Several former *biden era aids subpoenaed over the autopen debacle didn't show. A number of others.
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What did they do with Republican no shows?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 10:50 AM (48JDT)

203 180 Silver spot at $88.57 per oz. That means an average circulated pre-1965 dime has $6.33 worth of Silver in it, and an average pre-1965 quarter contains $15.82 worth of Silver.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
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Far too high price jump in a very short period of time. 160 percent in one year. That means mfgs are going to be substituting other goods for silver which can be done in most cases.

Apparently EVs and Solar electronics are driving this train which are both likely to have softening demand.

And silver is not typically a hedge for inflation, gold is. I think this is a momentum investment which can turn south at any moment just like the meme stocks were previously (Gamestop anyone?) based on analysis of shorts and longs.

And a lot of silver production which is a byproduct of lead and other metal production is likely to come on line as separation was not economically viable at 20-40 bucks but becomes so at 80.

You can always tell when the market is driven by momentum as no fundamentals are considered, only price of the asset.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

204 >>>Who was the Republican convicted for not showing up for the subpoena?
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Navarro and Bannon were two. There were others, but those two were jailed.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (3ImbR)

205 It seems as if the Clintons' Boogie Nights era is over.

Lock them up!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (BSdIE)

206 Laura Powell
@LauraPowellEsq
I missed this clip before.
After Renee Wood’s death, someone—apparently her partner, Becca—screaming: “Why did you have real bullets?”
How could she not know law enforcement uses real bullets??

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She thought they were shooting an episode of Hogan's Heroes?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

207 I know jewelry stores bought gold . I don't know about silver. And yes they take a big cut from the spot.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq)

208 RIP, Scott Adams. An artist, and a damn funny one, at that.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (awFp5)

209 Scott Bessent:
“It’s hard to follow the money. There are evidently some disturbing tapes of AG Ellison in meetings with people who donated to him—calling for political favors to stop the investigations. We’ll see. I don’t want to get out ahead of the investigation. It’s going to be very methodical. But I can guarantee you—when the bear trap snaps, we’re going to get these folks. We’re going to follow the money, whether it’s here in Minneapolis and St. Paul or over in East Africa. There are tons of luxury properties and cars that have been bought over there.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:52 AM (RHGPo)

210
Sorry to hear about Scott Adams.

R.I.P.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

211 Scott Adams. An artist, and a damn funny one, at that.
Posted by: Sharkman

What is the fate of Dilbert, I wonder. Is it going to be continued by another artist?

I can't imagine anyone other than Adams doing it well.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

212 202 197 > The Clintons are a no-show for the depos.
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The list of "no-shows" is growing. Several former *biden era aids subpoenaed over the autopen debacle didn't show. A number of others.
----

What did they do with Republican no shows?

Posted by: Braenyard
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Next move is to vote on a contempt motion which automatically puts the issue in Pirro's (DC DA) office. Navarro and some others were prosecuted for just that issue.

Comer is in a privileged position to do that as committee chair and the muh Epstein caucus with overwhelming Dem votes for releasing the information will then force the Dems to either make the Clintons walk the plank by votes or look like the desperate opportunistic assholes that they are.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 10:53 AM (WDjG6)

213 And a lot of silver production which is a byproduct of lead and other metal production is likely to come on line as separation was not economically viable at 20-40 bucks but becomes so at 80.

***

I wonder if they will reopen some of the silver mines around Tombstone?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2026 10:53 AM (2WIwB)

214
Scott Adams wife just read a final message from him:

"'If you are reading this, things did not go well for me....

Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go,' Miles continued. 'I am not a believer, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.

So, here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 10:53 AM (w6EFb)

215 It’s the Iranian protesters who are the real villains!!

I know, the Russians told me.

Posted by: Zerohedges at January 13, 2026 10:54 AM (ScG/9)

216 Much like diamonds, getting what you paid for gold or silver is challenging.

You'll probably get a better ROI from gold than silver, perhaps try to convert your silver to gold and then hold that, as gold can be expected to keep rising.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 10:54 AM (Q6XoW)

217 Gotta say, of all people to go for the deathbed conversion, I wouldn't bet on Adams.

But I suppose it kinda makes sense, in a Pascal's Wager sort of way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:32 AM (BI5O2

Did he? My first thought upon hearing of his death was that he would.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 10:54 AM (T+ssH)

218 know jewelry stores bought gold . I don't know about silver. And yes they take a big cut from the spot.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq

Oh, I'm specifically looking to avoid them. Those chiselers are charging in the neighborhood of 20+% right now. Just silly numbers. The excuse is of course, volatility.

But mines aren't producing enough, so refiners are buying up everything as fast as they can get it. It's just a BS excuse to exploit nervous silver owners.

Id like to sell to some Tom, Dick or Harry who's looking to beat dealer premiums on the front end.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:55 AM (BI5O2)

219 American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 10:56 AM (RHGPo)

220 Ah - that's a weird one from him. Pretty on brand.

God knows what is in your heart, that's all I know.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 10:56 AM (T+ssH)

221 "'If you are reading this, things did not go well for me....

Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go,' Miles continued. 'I am not a believer, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.

So, here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Yeesh! I'm not sure that's going to take.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

222 What is the fate of Dilbert, I wonder. Is it going to be continued by another artist?

Rumors say the syndicate is in talks with Ted McGinley to pick up the strip.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 13, 2026 10:56 AM (COQGW)

223
What is the fate of Dilbert, I wonder. Is it going to be continued by another artist?

I can't imagine anyone other than Adams doing it well.
Posted by: Bulg

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I was wondering the same. And obits in the places that canceled him?

RIP Scott.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 13, 2026 10:57 AM (lCaJd)

224 a lot of silver production which is a byproduct of lead and other metal production is likely to come on line as separation was not economically viable at 20-40 bucks but becomes so at 80.

You can always tell when the market is driven by momentum as no fundamentals are considered, only price
==
In some corners of the internet there are people who are claiming silver will go to 10,000. The meme being there is not enough silver to cover the contracts snd when things go to a precious metal standard (dont ask me why) viola it will bid up the price to cover. I have heard this from several gullible souls. They all fail to conceive that when grammies silverware becomes worth 50,000 how quickly the markt will flood. But more seriously, the rising price stimulates production that is now viable for profit. It will go to 100 maybe 200 max. Wont last. Try jewlery stores with signs that say we buy gold.

Posted by: Probably a bad choice at January 13, 2026 10:57 AM (21xzK)

225 AI entities are the new, digital stalkers. I picked one up ever since I bought a new notebook computer. Clever and crafty.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 10:57 AM (BSdIE)

226 After Renee Wood’s death, someone—apparently her partner, Becca—screaming: “Why did you have real bullets?”
How could she not know law enforcement uses real bullets??

-
She thought they were shooting an episode of Hogan's Heroes?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Stupid people doing stupid things in stupid places. Trifecta of stupid that law enforcement does not carry loaded weapons when confronting illegal criminals resistant to being taken into custody.

Most of the minds of the left protesters are full of mush fed to them by social media which relies on distorted and idiotic agit prop from the media and politicians on the left.

So the rumor is going around the social media circuit that ICE is NOT a law enforcement agency nor can they arrest American citizens. Both of these are foolish and stupid positions but that is what comes about when agit-prop and politicians seek to de-legitimize law enforcement.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 10:58 AM (WDjG6)

227
Rumors say the syndicate is in talks with Ted McGinley to pick up the strip.
Posted by: Cicero

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

That actor?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 13, 2026 10:58 AM (lCaJd)

228 If you ever watched the series Jail , you will see the exact same act the Left is doing now.

Rage against everyone because they got caught.

'I didn't do nothing!!!' You're all racists ! You're all fascists !! Wait until I contact my lawyer . You'll be sorry !! '

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 10:58 AM (KDPiq)

229 I don't think it's like Islam where you just have to recite a sentence by rote a few times and then violently subjugate all non-believers. I don't think it is.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 10:58 AM (T+ssH)

230 Try jewlery stores with signs that say we buy gold.
Posted by: Probably a bad choice at January 13, 2026 10:57 AM (21xzK)

Worst possible choice. If you're going to sell to a dealer, go to the big dogs. They're charging much lower premiums.

The "we buy gold" guys have gone on a usury spree during this bull run.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 10:59 AM (BI5O2)

231 In some corners of the internet there are people who are claiming silver will go to 10,000. The meme being there is not enough silver to cover the contracts snd when things go to a precious metal standard (dont ask me why) viola it will bid up the price to cover. I have heard this from several gullible souls. They all fail to conceive that when grammies silverware becomes worth 50,000 how quickly the markt will flood. But more seriously, the rising price stimulates production that is now viable for profit. It will go to 100 maybe 200 max. Wont last. Try jewlery stores with signs that say we buy gold.
Posted by: Probably a bad choice
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Would not buy into such a market, and if someone does have physical silver, consideration of selling at this price might be in order.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:00 AM (WDjG6)

232 Yeesh! I'm not sure that's going to take.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Just a step or two ahead of this movie scene:
https://tinyurl.com/3djzshnx

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2026 11:00 AM (JCZqz)

233 218 Id like to sell to some Tom, Dick or Harry who's looking to beat dealer premiums on the front end.

where's bunky hunt when you need him?

Posted by: anachronda at January 13, 2026 11:00 AM (v3pYe)

234 After Renee Wood’s death, someone—apparently her partner, Becca—screaming: “Why did you have real bullets?”
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For fuck's sake some people are fucking beyond help.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 11:00 AM (T+ssH)

235 New thread up

Posted by: Ann at January 13, 2026 11:01 AM (HP21H)

236 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

237 225 AI entities are the new, digital stalkers. I picked one up ever since I bought a new notebook computer. Clever and crafty.

knitting?

Posted by: anachronda at January 13, 2026 11:01 AM (v3pYe)

238 But mines aren't producing enough, so refiners are buying up everything as fast as they can get it. It's just a BS excuse to exploit nervous silver owners.

Id like to sell to some Tom, Dick or Harry who's looking to beat dealer premiums on the front end.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I wish I'd bought more. I only have about 18 silver rounds.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 11:02 AM (pkq24)

239 Rumors say the syndicate is in talks with Ted McGinley to pick up the strip.
Posted by: Cicero

ISWWDT

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 11:03 AM (kgFPv)

240 I wonder if they will reopen some of the silver mines around Tombstone?
Posted by: Diogenes
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Ask AOP, he would have some idea about investment necessary and he is familiar with AZ.

The easy target though would be mine tailings and chemical separation. Same with former lead mines and perhaps copper. My geology is rusty but you find these minerals often in the same place, just different concentrations.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2026 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

241 Yeesh! I'm not sure that's going to take.

Here's praying that it does though. The grace and mercy of our Lord is boundless.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 11:04 AM (F061L)

242 I can't imagine anyone other than Adams doing it well.

Posted by: Bulg

Adams was basically canceled by most newspapers for his "racist rant" in 2024 when he said "Black people are a hate group." He has been doing the strip as "Dilbert Reborn" om a subscription service since then.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 11:06 AM (awFp5)

243 As Christians know the only sin God won't forgive is dissing the Holy Spirit after knowing .

Dogma director Kevin Smith just did it big time discussing Dogma 2. It gave me the creeps because in my belief he's the first person I know for sure who is going to Hell.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 11:06 AM (KDPiq)

244 >>>AI entities are the new, digital stalkers. I picked one up ever since I bought a new notebook computer. Clever and crafty.

knitting?

Posted by: anachronda

>Clothing imports and exports.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 11:09 AM (BSdIE)

245 Mars and Rhea Silvia
Peter Paul Rubens
Date: c.1620
Style: Baroque
Genre: mythological painting
Media: oil, canvas

The painting based on myth: Rape in which twins were conceived of a virgin but King Amulius ordered the children to be abandoned in the Tiber River to drown. Tiberinus the river god intervened by calming the waters so the basket carrying the twins (Romulus and Remus) washed ashore.

First strike against the painting: IMHO, a more violent, unsettling twist on the birth of Moses, saved by the Pharaoh's daughter who eventually raised him as her son. (Exodus, Old Testament)

In part, "Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it..."

Second strike: Playful cherubs, symbols of love and desire, flank the scene, emphasizing the "romantic yet transgressive nature" of the encounter.

No, they don't, they aren't. I detest the little chubbies.

Despite it's value, I would pass on hanging.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 11:10 AM (NFX2v)

246 You can always tell when the market is driven by momentum as no fundamentals are considered, only price of the asset.

Sorry, you don't understand what is going on AT ALL. What is driving the silver price up are the following fundamentals: 1. Silver consumption has exceeded Silver supply for the past 5 consecutive years. 2. You can't build modern processing chips without the conductivity of silver. Example: A Tomahawk cruise missile has 500 oz of silver in its guidance system, and that silver is turned into unrecoverable vapor each time one is used. 3. Because the banks held silver price down artificially by short selling for years, they are now required to cover their gigantic short positions or go bankrupt, and there is no silver available to cover their shorts. 4. China is waging a commodity war with the US by cutting off Chinese silver from the Western market. 5: Silver has always come out of the ground at a 16 : 1 ratio with gold - now it is coming out of the ground at a 7 : 1 ratio. All the rich veins of silver are simply gone.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Da7Vv)

247 This is a gorgeous painting. Sorry I missed the discussion.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 13, 2026 11:55 AM (t/2Uw)

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

250 HE,S TOUCHING HER HE,S TOUCHING HER SKREEEEEEE

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 13, 2026 05:02 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 1/13/26

Good morning kids. Starting off with the continued and escalating internal unrest in Iran, here is a very interesting and rather telling development:

Iranian demonstrators set mosques ablaze during heated protests against the country’s Islamic government, according to local video and reports this weekend. Protesters in Iran have set numerous fires since the riots broke out Dec. 28, with Tehran’s fire department claiming as many as 34 mosques were burned, according to multiple outlets. One video verified by NBC News showed a crowd cheering Friday night while a Tehran mosque became engulfed in flames. (RELATED: ‘Death To America’ Radical Complains She Got Detained By Customs After Iran Trip) The mass uprising reportedly began in response to economic woes but follows months of instances of women shedding their mandatory headwear in a statement against the country’s forced Islamic norms. Another video posted by Reuters showed a mob vandalizing the Abuzar Mosque in Tehran on Thursday, scattering furniture and laying incendiary devices. The Iranian regime has massacred hundreds while clamping down on the disorder, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in Iran reports, according to The New York Post.
President Donald Trump on Jan. 2 hinted at possible military action if Iran kills protesters, leading to a social media duel with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the following days that involved the ayatollah posting an image of Trump in a coffin. Trump previously bombed multiple Iranian nuclear facilities amid conflict with Israel, marking the most overt U.S. military operation against the regime in years.

So, okay, why do I find this interesting and telling? Considering that Iran is a majority Muslim nation and that its government since 1979 has been a Muslim theocracy based on the strict tenets of Sharia law, that mosques are being torched by the protesters at the very least underscores a disaffection with the aforementioned. And admittedly, here is where I might be stretching things but nevertheless I am going to formulate a bit of an hypothesis and make an assumption.

Remember that the self-styled cognoscenti, elite and thought leaders have unceasingly been hocking a tchainik over our heads here in America and the west that Islam is a religion of peace and to dare even question that would be Islamophobic, bigoted and racist, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Well then if that is the case then how to explain the Iranian Muslim "street" rising up and torching their own houses of worship if the shibboleths about Islam and Sharia as paragons of peace and moral order are as we have been forced to accept under pain of being labeled a racist xenophobe Islamophobe for defiance of that.

I'm sure the usual excuses will be given that just like the true believers who took down the World Trade Center were "extremists" who bastardized the true meaning of Islam or were Israeli Mossad agents or even Americans sent in by President Trump or both if you're Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. But that of course is nonsense.

So, here's my take. It tells me that the Persian/Iranian people have taken to the streets not merely to replace the Muallhs with other Mullahs. They recognize it's the entire system that is corrupt, inept, destructive and lethal to their thriving as a functioning and advancing society. Prior to 1979, Iran was a modern, flourishing and western-oriented (politically and culturally) nation. And that is still within living memory of many Iranians and it is something that the younger generations are desperate to return to.

Here's where maybe I'm stretching things a bit and quite possibly wish-casting — Look at Iran's history prior to 1979, the excesses of the Shah and Mossadegh notwithstanding, ask any average Iranian expat and they'll tell you that life under them was paradise compared to what Khomeini and his successors wrought.

Now look at present day Turkey through that lens. A secular, modern, society thanks to Kemal Ataturk and turned into an Islamic thugocracy through the tyrannical rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP since 2002. Could what's happening in Iran spread to Turkey?

On the down side, you'll recall the 2011 "Arab Spring" demonstrations that led to the downfall of a number of Arab Islamic governments primarily in North Africa but instead of resulting in the rise of small "D" democratic forces led to the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region and its malign influence in the ensuing years.

Lest we forget that Afghanistan at one time was also a fairly modern society until the coming of the Taliban and then of course the Soviet Invasion and later our insane Democracy Project in the wake of 9/11 and Gulf War 2. Result, over 3,000 American soldiers dead, Taliban still there and weaponized courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants snap bug-out of 2020 with untold numbers of Afghani jihadists here in our country given political asylum.

In any case, the Cliff Notes version of the above is, I suppose, I'm wondering can Islam reform itself? That is is what we are witnessing in Iran a scintilla of hope that we are not doomed for all time to face an existential threat from the followers of Mohammed

Then again, the bitter irony is that as Teheran and Istanbul duke it out over which one gets to be the capital of a global caliphate, or perhaps both turning a new leaf and experiencing an enlightenment and rebirth as paragons of western civilization, Europe and the West become the axis upon which a reenergized and even more virulent Islam rotates. When the #1 baby name in England and other nations is Mohammed, the future doesn't look so bright.

And while mosques may be burning in Iran, Yet another synagogue went up in flames. This time in of all places Jackson, Mississippi:

Federal prosecutors say the man accused of torching Mississippi’s oldest and largest synagogue admitted he selected the building because of its connection to Judaism.
Authorities arrested a suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, Saturday night. Investigators said an intentionally set fire gutted Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with torching the synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” after police arrested him at a hospital where he was treated for burn injuries from the early-morning fire, according to The New York Times.
Investigators identified Pittman after his father contacted the FBI and reported that his son had confessed to starting the fire, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Monday. Location data from a tracking app running on Pittman’s cellphone reinforced that account, showing him leaving his home in a Jackson suburb, stopping at a gas station to buy fuel, and then driving directly to the synagogue. . . Prior to this incident, another high-profile attack targeted a synagogue in Manchester, England, where a man killed two people outside the building, highlighting broader security concerns surrounding Jewish houses of worship. The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was reportedly free on bail at the time of the synagogue attack after previously facing an alleged rape charge.

Synagogues are connected to Judaism? Wow, I'm shocked. Maybe he should've targeted the Weather Channel for a twofer, after all Jews control the weather and the media, nein?

In all seriousness, where did this bastard get the notion to torch a synagogue and attack Jews? Meh, where did the now deceased Renee Good get it in her head to use her SUV to try and ram ICE agents?

In the immortal lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein You've Got To Be Carefully Taught

And mostly in Pittsburgh by Yinzer psychopaths

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

The Heartland Institute will host the World Prosperity Forum January 19 to 23 in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together international leaders and policymakers to challenge the globalist, leftist agenda advanced each year at the World Economic Forum. The World Prosperity Forum will coincide with, and present a clear alternative to, the World Economic Forum taking place on those same dates in Davos, Switzerland. . .The Heartland Institute will be streaming LIVE every day from Switzerland five straight days beginning January 19, 2026 Speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Czech Republic President Václav Klaus
World Prosperity Forum Takes on the Globalist-Left’s World Economic Forum

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, government agency is promoting an upcoming class by local leftist groups on “civil disobedience” from its social media accounts.
City Agency Promotes ‘Art Of Civil Disobedience’ Class Hosted By Socialists, Anti-Trump Activists
More than two dozen federal agents were conducting operations near Somali-owned businesses.
LIVE UPDATES: Hundreds Of Protesters Block ICE In Front Of Somali Businesses In Minnesota
They have more investigators and they’re great because they can look at financial fraud and they carry guns, they go out in the field and they make arrests.”
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bessent says Treasury will investigate groups funding Antifa, riots, anti-ICE in Minnesota
The Department of War contends that Kelly’s current status as a U.S. senator does not exempt him from accountability.
‘Seditious’ Senator Mark Kelly Just Filed a Lawsuit Against Pete Hegseth, Here’s Why:
“We want to recognize that one of the worst imaginable injustices has been committed"
‘Islamic Hope’ Explains Shot BLM Activist Was Firing AK-47 in ‘Celebration’
When activists obstruct lawful arrests and politicians shout “murder,” the truth is lost: weaponizing a car against police turns ideology into a fatal choice.
George Floyd Redux: Renee Good

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President Donald Trump issued a demand on Truth Social for FBI Director Kash Patel to remove agents from the bureau, referencing a news report detailing the role of a former FBI official in reportedly advancing the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected officials.
‘Kash Better Get Them Out, NOW!’: Trump Orders Cleanup of Corrupt FBI ‘Scum’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, BORDER SECURITY, IMMIGRATION
Compassion for hardcore criminals over victims.
Why Did the Portland Police Chief Start Crying?
On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported.
Trump Cancels Biden Rules Forcing Banks to Give Loans to Illegals (Now abolish Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - jjs)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) lodged criminal charges against Luis Nino-Moncada, a Venezuelan national living unlawfully in the U.S., per a Monday announcement from the agency. During a federal immigration enforcement operation in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, Nino-Moncada allegedly damaged property and put Border Patrol agents in harm’s way when he repeatedly rammed a law enforcement vehicle with another car. (RELATED: Meet The Murderers, Child Rapists ICE Is Arresting In Minnesota)
Feds Accuse Illegal Alien Gangster Of Ramming Border Patrol With Prostitute’s Car Before Shooting
The lawsuit seeks to halt federal immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities, claiming constitutional violations and significant disruption to local communities.
Minnesota Democrats Sue DHS for Upholding Immigration Law.
The states are trying to legislate immigration law again.
Federal Law is Supreme on Immigration

IRAN ON the BRINK?!
US President Donald Trump is considering air strikes on Iran to stop a crackdown on protesters, the White House said Monday, adding that people were being “killed on the streets.” But a channel for diplomacy remains open, with Iran taking a “far different tone” in private discussions with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Trump keeping Iran air strikes on the table: White House
Protesters in Iran have set numerous fires since the riots broke out Dec. 28, with Tehran’s fire department claiming as many as 34 mosques were burned, according to multiple outlets. One video verified by NBC News showed a crowd cheering Friday night while a Tehran mosque became engulfed in flames. (RELATED: ‘Death To America’ Radical Complains She Got Detained By Customs After Iran Trip)
Iranians Burn Down Mosques
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Multiple news sources, including Minnesota's Alpha News, report that there are suitcases of money being taken to Dubai and ending up in Somalia. There is a Byzantine path through which government money is freely given for a Somali-run non-emergency medical transportation system, whose vans have been parked for years.
A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'
The civil war in Somalia is over. Shouldn’t we send the “refugees” home?
The Nine-Billion-Dollar Somali Fraud

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Billionaire Tax Act isn't even officially on the California ballot yet, but that hasn't stopped the rich from fleeing.
California Shows How To Lose $1 Trillion Without Even Trying
The state lost a trillion dollars to capital flight just with a crazy petition going around to put taxing net worth on the ballot.
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money in California
The sprawling power of TVA has inserted itself into the region’s politics and infrastructure like a tumor that’s too politically ingrained to be excised.
Make The Tennessee Valley Authority Useful Again (Here’s How)
The Fed chairman on Sunday night took the unprecedented action of releasing a video accusing the Trump administration of using the Justice Department to put pressure on the central bank. He said that the Fed on Friday had received subpoenas for a grand jury and been threatened with criminal charges related to the renovations of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington, DC, and his related testimony to a Senate panel last year. But these inquiries were merely “pretexts,” Powell claimed. The real goal was the subversion of Fed independence.
Powell Declares War on the Trump Administration (Filthy grifting bloodsucker needs to be cut off and cut loose - jjs)

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
From European no-go zones to American cities like Dearborn, Michigan, we ask what resistance looks like now and whether Christendom remembers how to defend itself.
JIHAD IN THE MODERN ERA: Armenian genocide to 9/11
Can you guess what the Starmer government is doing about it?
Former MI-6 Double Agent Warns of Major Terrorist Attack in the UK

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Authorities arrested a suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, Saturday night. Investigators said an intentionally set fire gutted Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with torching the synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” after police arrested him at a hospital where he was treated for burn injuries from the early-morning fire, according to The New York Times.
Suspect In Mississippi Arson Says He Targeted Synagogue Because It’s Tied To Judaism
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally issued a full-throated condemnation of pro-Hamas goons, but she owes voters an explanation for her history of standing up for antisemites. On Friday, AOC slammed the roughly 200-strong mob of anti-Israel demonstrators who chanted “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here” just outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, and steps from a yeshiva, Thursday night in Queens. In her usual Internet-snark tone, she posted: “Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying ‘we support Hamas’ is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do. Pretty basic!”
Where was Titty-Cava AOC’s fury at antisemitism during Columbia protests?
Mamdani, the New York City mayor's father, also said the panel treated different ethnic groups 'like grasshoppers in a bottle,' aiming to 'divide and rule'
Zohran Mamdani's Father Calls Columbia's Anti-Semitism Task Force a 'Prosecutorial Agency' That Acts Like British Imperial Colonizers
A panel of the 9th Circuit unanimously rejected Washington’s attempt to force a religious ministry to hire employees whose beliefs contradict those of the ministry.
Court: Washington State Can’t Force Christian Mission To Hire Non-Christians

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Jack Smith’s deposition testimony betrayed his utter disdain for the fundamental right to freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment.
Jack Smith Deposition Shows His Get-Trump Lawfare Was Also A War On Free Speech
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
For obvious reasons, the White House is eager to spread this good news.
Nolte: National Gas Price Average Falls to $2.79, Lowest Since 2021
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The Albuquerque Police Department confirmed that its investigators are working with the US Marshals Service to track down the “West Wing” actor’s whereabouts and take him into custody in connection with the disturbing allegations.
US Marshals join search to locate ‘West Wing’ actor Timothy Busfield following child sex abuse charges (Check Joe Biden's garage or Ashley Bidens's bathroom - jjs)
Sixty-three-year-old William Lewis Reece was in Texas serving life sentences for murdering a young girl, a teenage girl, and a 20-year-old woman, Fox 25 reported Monday.
Serial Rapist and Murderer Who ‘Left Trail of Devastated Families’ Awaits Execution in Oklahoma

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Ofcom, which was empowered by the Conservative government-era Online Safety Act to impose fines up to £18 million or 10 per cent of a social media firm’s global revenue or even potentially ban platforms outright, said that in response to “deeply concerning” reports about Grok image generation, it will formally investigate Musk’s X platform to “determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from illegal content.”
UK Speech Regulator Ofcom Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s X
The more details emerge, the fewer of the corporate media’s claims about the Minneapolis car-ramming of an ICE agent turn out to be true.
Corporate Media’s 7 Most Brazenly Fake Claims About The Anti-ICE Car-Ramming
You can always count on him to shoot first, aim later.
The Incredible Lameness of Keith Olbermann
Megyn Kelly's tragic journey from gaslighter to useful idiot.
Why Did Grandma Groyper Sell Out?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The Supreme Court cannot let the state’s judiciary bludgeon national oil companies.
Louisiana’s Grand Larceny Must Be Stopped
VMT taxes are being sold as both a revenue solution and a behavior-change tool. You can't have both.
Why a driving pay-per-mile tax is a dead end
Eco-terrorists allegedly claim responsibility for an arson attack that cut power to “tens of thousands of households” across the city.
Eating the rich (and everyone else) in Berlin.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The concept of parental freedom in education is not the exclusive domain of any particular political persuasion, yet contentiousness still abounds.
Strange Bedfellows and Current Controversies of School Choice

ABORTION
‘I am absolutely committed to ensuring that no taxpayer funding is used to fund the radical left’s agenda, including abortion,’ Sen. Moreno said.
Senate GOP Prepares To Hold The Line On Hyde As White House Walks Back Trump’s ‘Be Flexible’ Remark
You cannot insult pro-lifers as a “cheap date” and expect them to mobilize on command.
Pro-Lifers Are Not A ‘Cheap Date.’ We’re The GOP’s Margin Of Victory.
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The ruling limits the President’s power to impose changes on state election processes and is expected to be appealed by the Trump administration.
Biden Judge Blocks Trump’s Order Barring Late Mail-In Ballots.
Mail-in ballots can never be secure.
75% of Fraudulent Mail-In Ballots From Building Manager Were Counted
Over 2,700 possible illegal immigrants were flagged as registered voters, prompting a statewide eligibility review.
Texas Is Sending Voter Data to the DOJ for Auditing.
‘Proponents of ranked-choice voting across the country are looking for weak points in state law to push ranked-choice voting.’
Election Integrity Activists Push Indiana Lawmakers To Outlaw ‘Disastrous’ Ranked-Choice Voting
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Cantrell was elected in 2018, the Big Easy’s first female mayor. But her tenure has been a long slide toward financial ruin, capped off with federal corruption charges.
New Orleans’ First Female Mayor Leaves Financial Crises In Her Wake As Transition Gets Ugly
“The 102-unit building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in Morris Heights as of Saturday had a staggering 194 open housing-code violations dating back to 2016 — including 88 “Class C” violations considered “immediately hazardous,” the Post reported Sunday, citing city records.
‘Affordable’ Apartment Complex NYC Mayor Mamdani Showcased Has Nearly 200 Slumlord-Like Violations
Does Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez think we’re dumb, or is she running for president? It might be both.
Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez’s Personal Brand Of Hypocrisy Rears Its Ugly Face For Even Liberals To See
POLITICS
Peltola positioned herself as an independent-minded Democrat in her announcement video, saying her agenda will focus on “fish, family and freedom” as well as introducing term limits and addressing rising costs in the state. The top Democrat recruit served as Alaska’s sole House member for over two years before Republican Nick Begich defeated her by less than three percentage points in 2024, the same year President Donald Trump won the state by 13 points.
Shot: Former Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola Launches Longshot Senate Bid In Deep Red Alaska
Sullivan, Murkowski call no-bid contracts for minorities "conservative, market-based."
CHASER: Alaska Republicans Secretly Working To Protect Fraud-Plagued DEI Program
“That is not true. There is no video and that is false,” Bonta denied.
CA AG Won’t Run for Gov to Focus on Fighting Trump, Avoiding Prison
Collins enters a competitive GOP primary field, vowing to continue DeSantis’ legacy and back President Donald J. Trump’s America First agenda.
Florida Lt. Gov Jay Collins Enters Wide-Open GOP Primary for Governor.
Donald Trump was an America-rescuing reaction to the Republican Party’s craven weakness and the Democrat Party’s Marxist corruption.
A Tale of Two Parties
We're still in the chilly early days of the new year, so the loons aren't even getting warm yet. The Democrats will be running against Trump this year even though he won't be on any ballots. That's an opportunity for the Republicans, as the behavior of Dem candidates won't be enhanced by the relentless focus on the president. There should be a lot of unforced errors for GOP candidates to take advantage of.
Let's Buckle Up for an Election Year Worsening of the Dems' TDS Fever Dream
MADURO TAKEN DOWN
Barry Pollack backed Jon Ossoff and Cory Booker for Senate, Barack Obama and John Edwards for president before defending ousted dictator
Maduro's 'Pit Bull' Defense Attorney Is Prolific Democrat Donor
History shows that President Trump is on firm ground when he orders troops into combat – even without congressional approval.
History Supports Trump’s Operation To Take Down Maduro
The U.S. remains heavily involved in Venezuela’s oil market and its democratic transition, with Machado expressing admiration for Trump’s leadership.
Trump Is Meeting the Venezuelan Opposition Leader This Week.
Everything Trump is doing, no matter the country with which he’s engaging, is intended to make America safer, stronger, and wealthier.
Trump’s Actions Around The World Aren’t Random; They’re America First
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Trump's Donroe Doctrine isn’t just speaking softly and carrying a big stick — it’s swinging that stick to assert American power.
What Is The ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ President Trump’s New Foreign Policy?
"Marco Rubio, an American of Cuban descent and Secretary of State of the United States, has been characterized throughout his political career by a lack of ethics, corruption scandals, extreme mythomania, far-right positions, and his unhealthy obsession with overthrowing progressive and sovereign nations in Latin America, mainly Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, as well as the current governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico," the article begins.
For the Cuban Regime, He's a Supervillain — But in the U.S. He’s the Quarterback
Initial $2 billion in aid through UN will go to Ukraine, Syria and Haiti.
The $2B Deal to Fund UN Foreign Aid is a Mistake
Critics argue the clause undermines British sovereignty, with Reform promising to overturn any such agreement if elected.
EU Wants ‘Farage Clause’ to Punish Britain If Reform Party Wins Power and Challenges Brussels.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The 2019 and 2022 work focused on computer models and the geological features in the region of the theorized ocean, including evidence of possible past tsumanis. This new research focuses on the debris piles at the base of Valles Marineris’ cliffs, all of which appear to end at similar elevations.
New research supports theorized intermittent ocean exiting Mars’ giant Valles Marineris canyon
Both filings appear to be very preliminary, and in fact appear to be an attempt by China to grab control of as much orbital territory and satellite spectrum as possible, to block others from access.
China proposes building two new satellite constellations, each with about 100,000 satellites
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
‘I’m pissed off … that we’ve reached a point where we seemingly have an entire political party who has diminished and erased our rights as women,’ said Riley Gaines.
Female Athletes, Republican AGs Rally To Defend Women’s Sports At SCOTUS
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The doll is intended to raise awareness and foster acceptance of autism among children.
Barbie Launches Doll with ‘Flappy Hands’ and Off Center Gaze for Autists.
"It doesn’t want to offend Islamists!” (Good for Cleese, but to be perfectly honest, for his entire career neither did Cleese, while dragging Christianity and Judaism through the mud for cheap yucks.)
John Cleese Denounces the BBC
Christian Toto; Once again, celebrities can't stand up if it doesn't involve President Trump
Hollywood Honors Renee Good, Ignores Hundreds Killed in Iran
Lies, tears fuel Jimmy Kimmel's rise, but he's still behind canceled Colbert
‘Gutfeld!’ Ruled 2025 While Two Late-Night Shows Collapsed
HITHER & YON
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County announced that the animals first arrived at a Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve corral on Dec. 5, according to a Kane County Connects press release. The project brings together three partners.
Bison Return To Chicago’s Outskirts After More Than 200 Years

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1 happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:32 AM (jjoN6)

3 FreeBescon:

It's Time to Rename January After Donald Trump

No figure in history has matched his achievements at the dawn of each new year

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 07:32 AM (r5p5k)

4
Trumpuary?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:33 AM (x0n13)

5
ESPONJA!!11!!!1!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:33 AM (tljrc)

6 John Cleese showed a picture of the Trump shooting and claimed it was staged. He got replies from people who saw Mr. Comperatore die. And then other people joined in the flaming.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:35 AM (jjoN6)

7 "can Islam reform itself?"

Sure. Start with abolishing the Koran.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

8
"Marco Rubio, an American of Cuban descent and Secretary of State of the United States, has been characterized throughout his political career by a lack of ethics, corruption scandals, extreme mythomania, far-right positions, and his unhealthy obsession with overthrowing progressive and sovereign nations in Latin America, mainly Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, as well as the current governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico,"

Not a sparrow falls in Central and South America without the usual suspects accusing the US of involvement. We may as well do something useful to deserve it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:37 AM (t2vGZ)

9 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 13, 2026 07:37 AM (53oGX)

10 Has Senator Kelly dragged his wife out of seclusion so he can use her as a human shield against the charges he's facing?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:38 AM (jjoN6)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 07:40 AM (NwnyJ)

12 "...Iran is an overwhelmingly majority Muslim nation..."

Not true. Just a violent minority.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:40 AM (qFwJc)

13 Alias, your dedication to your level of retardation is very impressive.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:40 AM (jjoN6)

14 “ Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.”

1 Chronicles 16:35

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 07:42 AM (VnVVA)

15

not feeding the troll, but...

actually, I voted for using firehoses & dogs on these protesters

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:43 AM (tljrc)

16
We also got our final session report on poor Finn. He likely had some underlying cancer and to have tried to do anything further would have been cruel, fruitless temporizing.

We're not perfect, but I'd like to think we're close to the ideal clients for our vet. We take good care of our guys. They're easy for them to work with. They receive regular shots and exams. If there's a problem, it's an organic one and not a result of our ownership. We can describe and discuss things intelligently and follow instructions. And if the worse happens, we face up to it and do the right thing for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:45 AM (t2vGZ)

17 If you come into my house and steal my life goal will be to make your life miserable.
Bissent needs to have 10 IRS agent elbow deep in every Somali that has more than 100 dollars in the bank.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

18 A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'

There are few things that piss me off more than this type of hyperbole.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 07:45 AM (ufSfZ)

19 can Islam reform itself?
--'
There are 3 types of good Muslims :
- ex
- apostate
- dead

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 07:45 AM (HXT0k)

20 unhealthy obsession with overthrowing progressive and sovereign nations

progressive translation

narco commie dictatorships

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

21 How long until we get a Somali Barbie?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

22 Hadrian, I'm sorry to hear it. We recently lost one of our dogs to osteo. The vet told us that he was over 90% certain that was the cause but he did reach out to a radiologist friend of his for a second opinion.

The vets and techs love our dogs and know that we go to great lengths for them.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:47 AM (jjoN6)

23 The United States Attorney’s Office contacted the Federal Reserve on multiple occasions to discuss cost overruns and the chairman’s congressional testimony, but were ignored, necessitating the use of legal process—which is not a threat.

So Powell is typical big govt scum

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

24 13 "...Iran is an overwhelmingly majority Muslim nation..."

Not true. Just a violent minority.
Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:40 AM (qFwJc)

It is predominantly Shia. Some Sunni a large Jewish population and Zoroastrians.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:48 AM (x0n13)

25 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ.
Saw the vid yesterday where Bessent said he has heard tapes of Ellison taking cash for halting hours investigations until the fraud. Good luck with that silly lawsuit Minnesota

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 07:49 AM (9ShUO)

26 22 How long until we get a Somali Barbie?
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

Instead of smooth crotch is mangled Frankenstein scar.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

27 Larry Krasner threatens to crack down on crimes supposedly committed by ICE after categorizing an agent's self-defense as 'murder.'

'You don't want this smoke': Philly DA and sheriff threaten ICE officers — DHS just laughs

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 07:50 AM (r5p5k)

28 Was China a signatory to the 1967 outer space treaty? Will they try to claim the Moon?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 07:51 AM (itAZI)

29 Halting investigations into fraud. Hot dog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 07:51 AM (9ShUO)

30 “Yes, it was illegal, but at the end of the day, it’s an American tradition,” said organizer Najee Ali, the director of Project Islamic Hope.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

31 27 22 How long until we get a Somali Barbie?
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

Instead of smooth crotch is mangled Frankenstein scar.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

GI Joe sez: How did my cheek end up on your crotch?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:52 AM (x0n13)

32 The Federal Reserve is not a gubmint agency. It is an independent cartel, unconstitutionally created by the Congress. Old Andy Jackson was so proud of killing the Bank of the U.S. He was only temporarily successful.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:52 AM (qFwJc)

33 Remember when Jerry Seinfeld pointed out that if you name your son "Jeeves," you've pretty much got his career as a butler locked in? Similarly:

"The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was reportedly free on bail at the time of the synagogue attack after previously facing an alleged rape charge."

When you name your son "Holy War," you have to expect a certain outcome.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 07:52 AM (wzUl9)

34 A lot of the Persian people know at some point they were force converted to islam by Arab Muslims, whom the despise, btw.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2026 07:52 AM (VnVVA)

35 Day snuffled, adding: “It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.”

Quick Tito get me a tissue.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

36 28 Larry Krasner threatens to crack down on crimes supposedly committed by ICE after categorizing an agent's self-defense as 'murder.'

'You don't want this smoke': Philly DA and sheriff threaten ICE officers — DHS just laughs
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 07:50 AM (r5p5k)

Wilson Good's Air Force on standby!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:53 AM (x0n13)

37 J.J., and Christians.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:53 AM (qFwJc)

38 Hadrian. We do what we can for our fur babies. Mr nec and I didn't give up on Lily beagle and fought for her for 3 weeks. Last Friday that fight came to an end when we saw that her body had just flat out given out on her. We were with her when she was put to sleep and I had her in my arms when her heart stopped. Damn it's tough to even type this and damn it's too quiet here in our home office where she would normally be snoring in her bed. Happy that you had Finn in your life and I know you did all you could for him.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 07:53 AM (2NHgQ)

39 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 07:54 AM (DHBFu)

40 actually, I voted for using firehoses & dogs on these protesters
——

Point of order - they are no longer protesters if such a response is indicated

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 07:54 AM (itAZI)

41 Who is aliassmithsmith? He's an asshole. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 07:54 AM (BCuCF)

42 So, " independent" agencies also means "free from oversight and accountability?"
Because that's what the Fed just said.

Powell just showed, clear to those who will see, that "independent" agencies are unconstitutional and have no place under our constitution.

The entire Constitution is specifically built on all of government being accountable to "we the people."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 07:56 AM (HXT0k)

43 42 Who is aliassmithsmith? He's an asshole. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 07:54 AM (BCuCF)

We have ways of dealing with it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:56 AM (x0n13)

44 Jaimo. We do get some truly awful trolls at the HQ. I really do not know why they persist in spouting trash where they aren't wanted. We have regulars that often disagree with each other and that's a good thing. Troll like ass are just as you say, assholes.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (2NHgQ)

45 I figured you would JJ. I've just seen that nic around recently and thought WTF.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (BCuCF)

46 We have ways of dealing with it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Tortured, shot, and sent to the Russian Front?

Posted by: General Burkhalter. at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (oftw2)

47 We have ways of dealing with it.

Speaking of which, I rented the dozer. Let me know where to dig.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (jjoN6)

48 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:58 AM (pkq24)

49 [i}Suspect In Mississippi Arson Says He Targeted Synagogue Because It’s Tied To Judaism

According to a shocking rumor, Mississippi Police also believe "The Firebug Retard" set fire to a McDonald's because of its ties to hamburgers!

Developing...

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 07:58 AM (iJfKG)

50 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 13, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

51 I don't think Iran has been a Muslim majority nation, except on paper. There's still a large Zoroastrian population, and a bunch of agnostics (as a very broad brush - secularist in today's parlance). But Islam was imposed on them by the Ayatollah. (The "popular" sentiment that put the Ayatollah in place was much like the "popular" sentiment we see today with anti-ICE and pro-trans malarkey - manufactured by communists and Islamists and much louder than it was actually large.)

Also, seems an arsonist would be more careful with fire....

Posted by: GWB at January 13, 2026 08:01 AM (y7Tla)

52 There are few things that piss me off more than this type of hyperbole.

Anything for a click these days.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 08:01 AM (F061L)

53 Thank you JJ

I’m not at all confident that Islam can reform itself. And I say this as a guy who probably my closest friend for 30+ years is a Muslim. I love the guy like a brother and we’ve done a lot together through the years…. But one individual is not representative; he’s the exception to the rule. Look around the world at Muslim majority countries or even in this country where they become dominant in a locale (ahem… Minneapolis, Dearborn) the results are not good. Burning mosques in Iran is definitely a good sign. I’m just not sure despite my own personal experience there’s anything such as a moderate Muslim

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:03 AM (z4vy8)

54 Bison Return To Chicago’s Outskirts After More Than 200 Years

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Bison are majestic animals to see in person. When we used to vacation at my grandparents' in Virginia City, MT, we would occasionally see them in the wild. They are massive in person, and quite a sight to see.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2026 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

55
36 Day snuffled, adding: “It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.”

Quick Tito get me a tissue.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

JEROME BRING ME MY MIRROR!>>>>>Quick Tito get me a tissue.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)

56 We do get some truly awful trolls at the HQ. I really do not know why they persist in spouting trash where they aren't wanted. We have regulars that often disagree with each other and that's a good thing. Troll like ass are just as you say, assholes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
_____________

I searched Alias, and the sites designated for trolling by his paymasters appear to be here and Pirate's Cove.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 08:04 AM (XvL8K)

57 They are massive in person, and quite a sight to see.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Wife and I went to a Bison ranch when we were in Wyoming. They loved the treats we gave them but the tour guide still had a 45 on standby.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:05 AM (jjoN6)

58 Suspect In Mississippi Arson Says He Targeted Synagogue Because It’s Tied To Judaism

According to a shocking rumor, Mississippi Police also believe "The Firebug Retard" set fire to a McDonald's because of its ties to hamburgers!

Developing...

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LOL, I thought the same thing reading that. Well...DUH!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

59 Wife and I went to a Bison ranch when we were in Wyoming. They loved the treats we gave them but the tour guide still had a 45 on standby.

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I did forget to mention that they're also kinda scary. At least as a 15 year old, I was scared they'd charge my grandpa's jeep while we were driving off road in the mountain wilderness.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2026 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

60 Man in Florida saves two toddlers from busy road. Video:

https://tinyurl.com/snrnbuc5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (PFs9e)

61 Bison are majestic animals to see in person. When we used to vacation at my grandparents' in Virginia City, MT, we would occasionally see them in the wild. They are massive in person, and quite a sight to see.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2026

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There was the big ranging pen for a bison herd on both sides of I-70 uphill from Denver. A big tunnel underneath the Interstate let them travel back and forth and shelter from bad weather. Impressive they were to see -- especially when you read the sign on the fence warning you not to approach the fence too closely. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (wzUl9)

62 Far left WIRED magazine has a problem with right wing people showing up where only their left-wingers have infiltrated.

Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (r5p5k)

63 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

64 Nice that the MS arsonist got burns bad enough to be treated in hospital. Hope the pain teaches a lesson and the twenty years in the slammer reinforces it.

Posted by: Firefighter Fred Scuttle at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (oftw2)

65 If mosques burn it is the will of Allah.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

66 I’m just not sure despite my own personal experience there’s anything such as a moderate Muslim

During the Afghanistan Unpleasantness, worked with a number of Iraqis and an Egyptian, all Muslim. The Iraqis wanted nothing to do with the Egyptian Muslim.

An Anglo agnostic co-worker commented once to the Iraqis that (paraphrasing): Individually, we get along great, its when you guys get together as a group we have problems.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:10 AM (a4flb)

67 48 We have ways of dealing with it.

Speaking of which, I rented the dozer. Let me know where to dig.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (jjoN6)

"Fountain Avenue Dump"

- - Roy DeMeo crew!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 08:10 AM (x0n13)

68 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

One of the voices in my head has taken up droning on and on, "Javid Shah Javid Shah! Javid Shah!"

I slept great knowing the clock is ticking on the religious fascists in Tehran.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 08:10 AM (RIvkX)

69 Looks like WA state is trying to pass a new bill to give bureaucrats more control over rural sheriffs. They say it's about training. It would allow them to remove an elected sheriff and replace them. May have been triggered by rural sheriffs that refused to enforce the mask mandates. So glad I am out of there

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 08:11 AM (+mUZM)

70 Islam is Islam, it's incompatible with Judeo/Christianity and Western Culture.

Full stop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 08:12 AM (iqlej)

71 Minneapolis: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 08:12 AM (r5p5k)

72 I did forget to mention that they're also kinda scary. At least as a 15 year old, I was scared they'd charge my grandpa's jeep while we were driving off road in the mountain wilderness.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I got to talking with the guide and said "OK, this is a stupid question but I'm kind of curious. You have generations of these animals that have been raised by humans. Do they ever get more domesticated?"

"Nope. They are wild animals and it never changes."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:13 AM (jjoN6)

73 British broadcasting regulator ~~Ofcom~~ Ministry of Truth announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images.

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

74 Far-left WIRED magazine wants you to know how to subvert a federal agency to remove illegal aliens from our country.

What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 08:14 AM (r5p5k)

75 I would argue that Trump has three crappy options, at this point.

1.) Don't say anything further. No more threats. Lend whatever support possible without it being overt. Let this unfold. Worst case scenario is the protests fail, status quo ante is restored, but with an even further weakened regime. Some embarrassment over the big talk Trump’s already been making, but this is the best option.

2.) Intervene. Make it fast and brutal, overthrow the regime, and start the process of a proxy war with China for control of Persia. I hate this option, but he may well have painted us into this corner already.

3.) The very worst, stupidest option: negotiate, betray the opposition he's heretofore supported, rescue the regime, and utterly destroy whatever credibility we may have regained as a serious world power. The Vance option is the plan of an idiot. He needs to be flatly ignored, and perhaps publicly ordered to STFU.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM (BI5O2)

76 Far left WIRED magazine has a problem with right wing people showing up where only their left-wingers have infiltrated.
Posted by: SMOD

Naturally. You see it's good when THEY do it because they are fighting the good fight against cisheternormativepatriarchalcolonial thoughts. When WE do it, it's because we want to usher in a dystopian hellscape.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM (jjoN6)

77 Your memory is far better than reality

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM (r5p5k)

78 BTW…. What’s up with left wing Oregon removing a huge (percentage wise) number from their voter rolls? Why would they do it?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM (P/Wjn)

79 Bison laugh and scoff at fences that keep beef cattle penned up. They are very powerful and can be surly, especially the bulls.

Posted by: Hoofin' It at January 13, 2026 08:16 AM (oftw2)

80 I got to talking with the guide and said "OK, this is a stupid question but I'm kind of curious. You have generations of these animals that have been raised by humans. Do they ever get more domesticated?"

"Nope. They are wild animals and it never changes."
Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026

***
If it were possible, especially economically, to domesticate them, we'd have done it by now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 08:17 AM (wzUl9)

81 And yeah, if one is trying to reduce the influence of Islam, one would probably have a better chance of doing that through non-Arab populations that were conquered by Islam.

Islam seems to expect converts to "Arabize", take on Arabic names, become more culturally Arabic, etc.

There's probably still a lot of underlying resentment that that foments.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:17 AM (6Uni8)

82 Investigators identified Pittman after his father contacted the FBI and reported that his son had confessed to starting the fire

I like this trend of fathers turning their sons over to the cops when the kid does something really stupid.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:17 AM (jjoN6)

83
I would argue that Trump has three crappy options, at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM

Option 4: drop ship a couple of containers of SKS rifles & a metric siht-tonne of 7.62x39 to the protesters and make some popcorn

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 08:18 AM (tljrc)

84 "Nope. They are wild animals and it never changes."
Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026

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About the same as radical Moslems, I gather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 08:18 AM (wzUl9)

85 @78

>>Why would they do it?

The Donks control everything in Oregon down to dog catcher, so unless this was court ordered or voter initiated, assume shenanigans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 08:19 AM (iqlej)

86 About the same as radical Moslems, I gather.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Bison are more honest and can be made into steaks. So they are useful.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:19 AM (jjoN6)

87 Bison laugh and scoff at fences that keep beef cattle penned up. They are very powerful and can be surly, especially the bulls.
Posted by: Hoofin' It at January 13, 2026 08:16 AM (oftw2)

I watched a documentary once about wildlife in Africa and was surprised to learn that the two animals that kill the most humans are hippos and water buffalo…. Mainly because they’re so massive (and in the case of hippos extremely territorial). Laws of tonnage apply…. Not the scary looking lion but the tubby looking hippo (which can also run faster than most any human over short distance BTW)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:20 AM (P/Wjn)

88 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 13, 2026 08:20 AM (ZHmy2)

89 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May Iran throw off the shackles of Islam. I've wanted that for Christmas every year since 1979. I may get my heart's desire this year.

Make it so, President Trump and the Crown Prince of Iran.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

90 @78, 85. Judicial Watch forced Oregon to do it via a lawsuit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 08:21 AM (9ShUO)

91 The Vance option is the plan of an idiot. He needs to be flatly ignored, and perhaps publicly ordered to STFU.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:15 AM (BI5O2)

This was the moment of exposure for Vance I'd been waiting for. I think Rubio's increasing recognition and accomplishments have been getting to him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 08:23 AM (b4LBp)

92 British broadcasting regulator Ofcom Ministry of Truth announced Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over its Grok AI being used to create ‘deepfake’ sexualised images.

Its the pink bikini thing isn't it? Starmer was all pissed off because images of him altered by Grok in a bikini were too realistic of how he dressed at home.

Shortly, many other images, generated by all of the image generating AI platforms had similar bikini-Starmer images ridiculing the directed attacks against at Musk as this lie of protecting the fragile minds and emotions of UK Eurotrash.

UK, like the rest of EU is a criminal syndicate and they see Musk as nothing more than a bank account that needs to be plundered.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:23 AM (a4flb)

93 ~~Bison~~ Buffalo are majestic animals to see in person.

Buffalo. It’s OK to call them Buffalo.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:24 AM (ysRdO)

94 I mean, there's basically no situation where I'd recommend negotiating with the mullahs. They are neither honest or rational. There's nothing to talk about with these freaks, because their word doesn't mean shit.

I could at least understand a desire to negotiate with them if he were still worried they might nuke up during a conflict - but Trump already solved that thorny problem.

All a negotiated solution could achieve would be rivers of blood in Iran, and making us look like paper tigers. Nothing but negative consequences in both the near and long terms.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

95 I like this trend of fathers turning their sons over to the cops when the kid does something really stupid.

Aiding and abetting is not something your employer wants to hear about you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:26 AM (a4flb)

96 Has anyone done a welfare check on Tampon Timmy Walz? A couple of MN honchos, Frey and Ellison had a little presser yesterday and Walz was AWOL.

*shrugs*

He made himself irrelevant anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (NwnyJ)

97 Canada euthanized this young man who was 26. Isn't government run health care great! / sarc

https://tinyurl.com/3yp5n97w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (PFs9e)

98 I mean, there's basically no situation where I'd recommend negotiating with the mullahs. They are neither honest or rational. There's nothing to talk about with these freaks, because their word doesn't mean shit.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy..." while looking for a really large stick.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (a4flb)

99 In addition to being the first female mayor, Cantrell also made history for being the first sitting NOLA mayor to be indicted by a federal grand jury. Cantrell faces charges that include conspiracy, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. They stem from an alleged scheme with a former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, to steer city funds into personal trips and activities that cost over $70,000, disguising personal travel as official duties, and hiding their romantic relationship.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

100 Today is National Peach Melba Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

101 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

102 Wow is Donny two scoops stirring the pot with the FED allegations. It will really rile up wall street, but so what. Let them twist for a while.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 13, 2026 08:28 AM (Hpgos)

103 For Trump to assert an intent to strike Iran if it slaughters its citizens, then to offer to negotiate after it slaughters more citizens, would indeed by a complete sell-out to the most exhilarating and momentous rebellion of our time. I can't believe it's a possibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 08:28 AM (b4LBp)

104 So in other news, I am flying out to CA to see my folks. Anybody need me to pick something up?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:29 AM (jjoN6)

105 Option 4: drop ship a couple of containers of SKS rifles & a metric siht-tonne of 7.62x39 to the protesters and make some popcorn

Option 5: Make use of that hundreds of billions of dollars in relatively modern military equipment left to goat herders living literally next door.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:29 AM (a4flb)

106 It depends. If my kid robbed a bank, I'd turn a blind eye. If my kid did something unconscionable (molested a child, shot Charlie Kirk, etc.) I might turn him in. But I'd probably just turn him into worm food on the spot, and then have a whole new set of problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

107 Wow is Donny two scoops stirring the pot with the FED allegations. It will really rile up wall street, but so what. Let them twist for a while.

I think they are still laughing at the proposed 10% credit card interest rate.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 08:30 AM (a4flb)

108 The Dem-Media Complex #5 Top Lie, below, provides no legal justification for Ross not taking self-defense action. Nor a valid reason/excuse for Good's actions.

First, Ross could not read Good's mind. Second, her striking a pedestrian when she reasonably could avoided is a crime, period. Also, Ross has the same right to self-defense as any other person in Minnesota. 14th Amendment Equal Protection, bitchez! I wonder what the MN law is for this situation?

>>>5. Good Simply ‘Panicked'

It’s impossible to read minds, but that didn’t stop members of the media from speculating that Good lurched her vehicle forward in a state of innocent panic.

“She will not get the chance to tell her story. Whatever it was: I was trying to turn the car, I was panicked. I’m not a professional. If somebody outside my vehicle had a gun, I would be freaking out,” panelist Noel King said Friday on CNN This Morning.
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Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (5rh/l)

109 What is the "Vance option" with regards to Iran?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (eZ5tL)

110 Looks like WA state is trying to pass a new bill to give bureaucrats more control over rural sheriffs.
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It isn’t a rural urban divide per se. The Sheriff is the highest elected official in most every county. They have enormous authority and latitude, if they choose to exercise it. They want to de-fang this authority, at least until they can infiltrate with reliable, left wing apparatchiks. Same playbook as they use with any other pillar of effective governance. But yeah, a good Sheriff is not in line with left wing control, not even a little bit. That’s why they hate them. Again, at least until they can infiltrate and gut the institution, and wear its skin as a suit, and demand respect.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (ysRdO)

111 For Trump to assert an intent to strike Iran if it slaughters its citizens, then to offer to negotiate after it slaughters more citizens, would indeed by a complete sell-out to the most exhilarating and momentous rebellion of our time. I can't believe it's a possibility.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 08:28 AM (b4LBp)

Trump: Ok, let's negotiate. Be online at such and such a time and we'll talk.

Mullahs: We're all here.

Trump: Elon, have you found their location?

Elon: Yes.

Trump: Bombs away!

Posted by: I mean.... at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (uQesX)

112 How stupid can people be?

Mayor Mamdani 'outraged' after New York City Council employee detained by ICE on Long Island

"I want to be very clear: 1. There is no indication that there's anything about this individual other than his immigration status that caused him to be arrested," [\b]he said during Monday's press briefing.
However, the Department of Homeland Security responded in statement, saying the employee had no work authorization, is a "a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and an employee of New York's City Council," 2. and that his criminal history includes an arrest for assault.
DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said that the employee "entered the United States on a B2 tourist visa in 2017 that required him to depart the U.S by October 22, 2017," and 3. "had no legal right to be in the United States."

https://tinyurl.com/83s6ms8f

1. THAT'S WHY HE WAS ARRESTED.
2. He's a criminal.
3. This isn't baseball. You don't get three strikes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 08:32 AM (pkq24)

113 This was the moment of exposure for Vance I'd been waiting for. I think Rubio's increasing recognition and accomplishments have been getting to him.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 08:23 AM (b4LBp)

Except that the story makes no sense. The VP has no foreign policy function, other than doing whatever the President asks him to do. It’s possible that this is some good cop/bad cop game, we know Trump likes that. It’s also possible that this story is a complete fabrication by the usual suspects who have been running a quiet campaign against Vance for months now.

And they do that because they are scared to attack Trump openly, and their attacks on Hegseth, RFK Jr and others have failed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:32 AM (QkvGw)

114 10 IRS agent elbow deep in every Somali "

Phrasing?

Also, eeech.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:33 AM (XuXeR)

115 Ah... bison near Chicago....

If only it were ginormous herds that could stampede through the streets and turn half of that rotten city into a bloody puddle. Wouldn't be any uglier than it is now and it might get rid of a bunch of problems.
Bonus points for can't shoot the protected animals!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 13, 2026 08:33 AM (2J/Lj)

116 106 106 It depends. If my kid robbed a bank, I'd turn a blind eye. If my kid did something unconscionable (molested a child, shot Charlie Kirk, etc.) I might turn him in. But I'd probably just turn him into worm food on the spot, and then have a whole new set of problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

If you only have one kid, execution is an easy choice.

Not so much if you still have others that you need to be around for.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:35 AM (6Uni8)

117 Wow Josh Hammer cuts down Me-Again with words like a scythe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

118 Trump: Ok, let's negotiate. Be online at such and such a time and we'll talk.

Mullahs: We're all here.

Trump: Elon, have you found their location?

Elon: Yes.

Trump: Bombs away!
Posted by: I mean.... at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (uQesX)
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Sends in Korben Dallas -- "Does anyone else want to negotiate?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 08:36 AM (ESVrU)

119 I think another reason the media is avoiding discussing Iran is that it shows how embarrassingly pathetic, small and artificial their "protests" are.

Recall that clip of Maddow positively glowing and gloating that "political scientists have a rule that when 3.5% of the people protests, revolution is inevitable. And that's what we're seeing (in the No Kings protests)."

They really believed their geriatric cadre, collection of danger hairs, and paid protestors was 1) somehow going to deceive the public as organic 2) was over 3.5% of the populace.

Cf:
A bunch of sad-sacks chanting incoherently on a street corner
vs.
the streets filled from building to building, for blocks, with people of all ages.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 08:36 AM (HXT0k)

120 Whatever it was: I was trying to turn the car, I was panicked."

Well, of course. Who among us hasn't panicked, and hit the throttle hard on a low traction surface while aimed at a person and snowbank, and then keep on the gas while bouncing off snow and other cars?

It's like wow, man!

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

121 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:32

I have considered the strong possibility that this is a feint, or just plain old bullshit. I certainly hope so. I was told Vance was very smart. No smart person would negotiate with a lying psychopath who's holding a pair of deuces. What dishonest offer could the mullahs possibly make to us? That they'll pretend to end their nuclear program again? We already did that for them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:36 AM (BI5O2)

122 "...months of instances of women shedding their mandatory headwear in a statement against the country’s forced Islamic norms."

Those women are everything the cos-playing Handmaiden AWFLs imagine themselves to be.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:37 AM (gtcuf)

123 66 I’m just not sure despite my own personal experience there’s anything such as a moderate Muslim”

Definition : a radical Muslim wants to kill you himself.
A moderate Muslim wants other Muslims to kill you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:38 AM (QkvGw)

124 Along with the “immence” Buffalo, deer, and elk herds grazing together on a common plain, by the tens of thousands, Lewis and Clark in 1804 also noted huge clouds of attendant Mosquitos, flies, no-see-ums and the rest of it. Astonishingly bad, the skeeters would literally drain critters of their blood.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:38 AM (ysRdO)

125 All a negotiated solution could achieve would be rivers of blood in Iran, and making us look like paper tigers. Nothing but negative consequences in both the near and long terms.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)
====

All hell will break loose! Or something.
-the President

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

126 political scientists have a rule that when 3.5% of the people protests, revolution is inevitable."

98.763% of "facts" are pulled from asses.

The rest? Who knows.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

127 132 Definition : a radical Muslim wants to kill you himself.
A moderate Muslim wants other Muslims to kill you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:38 AM (QkvGw)

Not that this also applies to Leftists.

A hard leftist (Ex : purple-haired trantifa) wants to kill you.

A center leftist wants a hard leftist to kill you.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:40 AM (6Uni8)

128 127 Not that this also applies to Leftists.

A hard leftist (Ex : purple-haired trantifa) wants to kill you.

A center leftist wants a hard leftist to kill you.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:40 AM (6Uni

NOTE, not "Not".

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:40 AM (6Uni8)

129 We have ways of dealing with it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 07:56 AM (x0n13)

he has some disgusting fetishes!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:41 AM (g47mK)

130 The Vance story in the WSJ is a lie. He’s not that stupid

I can see how the lie would come about… Vance is in some meeting and lays all potential options on the table including the idiotic one. He doesn’t endorse it, it’s just one option in his comprehensive list. Someone in the room leaks selectively (to make him look bad) and… wallah, Vance recommended negotiations

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:42 AM (P/Wjn)

131 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

132 “We were told — loud and clear — that our rights to safety, our rights to privacy in areas of undressing, our rights to equal opportunity, [that] they didn’t matter. They certainly didn’t matter as much as the boys’ feelings, the man’s feelings, his happiness. We were told that mattered more than our rights,” Gaines said.

Shut up oppressor!

Posted by: Every Damn Communist at January 13, 2026 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

133 Mother Gaia is ok with the methane from the Bison. It is known.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2026 08:43 AM (w/O5Q)

134 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

135 political scientists have a rule that when 3.5% of the people protests, revolution is inevitable."

98.763% of "facts" are pulled from asses.

The rest? Who knows.
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

There are lies, damnable lies… and they there are statistics… and then there are statistics pulled from ones ass

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:44 AM (P/Wjn)

136 >> Was China a signatory to the 1967 outer space treaty?

They are. However, I'm they'd happily violate it if they could get away with and it suits their purposes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 08:45 AM (w6EFb)

137 Soccer moms become ICE saboteurs. NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/37y6wrpd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 08:45 AM (Nx5jP)

138 CPI came in a little better than expected. Powell was wrong on tariff inflation.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 08:46 AM (9ShUO)

139 For Trump to assert an intent to strike Iran if it slaughters its citizens, then to offer to negotiate after it slaughters more citizens, would indeed by a complete sell-out to the most exhilarating and momentous rebellion of our time. I can't believe it's a possibility.
--
Iran has seeded millions of dollars and thousands of paid agents* all through the world for decades.

I'll not trust a single word--even from "conservative sources"--in the media on what Trump (or Vance) will do or are considering WRT Iran.

Unless I hear it directly, full and unfiltered, from the person themself, I am going to assume it is either a lie or a distortion.

* especially the Obama Admin. I can guarantee the JEF is full-court press, all his minions, trying to scuttle this.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 08:46 AM (HXT0k)

140 I'll give Powell credit... I mean rallying people to the side of the unaccountable CENTRAL BANK is a plan. Bold strategy, cotton.. let's see if it'll work out.

Posted by: Inogame at January 13, 2026 08:46 AM (53oGX)

141 Poor , repressed Iranians are as much Islamic as the people of the USSR were communist - at first opportunity they ditched the thing and the apparatchiks (what happened later is a separate conversation...). When I saw videos of life in Iran circa 2020s it looked like videos of 1970s peak Soviet ! Iranians are lighting up mosques at crazy rates, hundreds of them set alight!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:46 AM (g47mK)

142 A hard leftist (Ex : purple-haired trantifa) wants to kill you.

A center leftist wants a hard leftist to kill you.
Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 08:40 AM (6Uni

We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

143 Mother Gaia is ok with the methane from the Bison

You need to call it “greenhouse gases” to be politically correct. You’re not quite there yet

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:47 AM (ysRdO)

144 Former Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola Launches Longshot Senate Bid In Deep Red Alaska

Ranked-choice voting could screw us again.

Republicans need to start coalescing together, otherwise it could end up being a bloodbath.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

145 I'm wondering can Islam reform itself?

How? Either Islam says what all these theocracies say it says, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then Islam needs no reform (maybe), it only needs to rid itself of its false prophets. If it does, then to 'reform' Islam is to abandon the commands of Allah and one may as well give it up entirely instead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

146 That is why the jihadi controlled western media is not covering the anti-Islamic Iranian Revolution of 2026 - afraid of their jihadi bosses! Can you imagine them showing hundreds of mosques burning ???

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (g47mK)

147 https://tinyurl.com/37y6wrpd"

That's a good write up - the funny part is that after watching a bit of the various self appointed "ice watchers", it's quite clear that they spend most of their time "watching" or following someone driving around in an SUV. It's funny, or would be if not so pathetic.

*kinda want to rent a black Suburban and just drive around parts of several cities*

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

148 > The Vance story in the WSJ is a lie. He’s not that stupid
---------
If the administration publicly stated "every option is on the table" then... well, someone's got to say it, right?

I think it's just noise anyway.

The Iran situation is a mess regardless how it plays out. The US will be demonized if we get involved or do nothing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (NwnyJ)

149 Powell was wrong on tariff inflation.
———

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It has absolutely nothing to do with Tariffs.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (ysRdO)

150 Barbie Launches Doll with ‘Flappy Hands’ and Off Center Gaze for Autists.

My autistic Barbie swatted my GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

151 The US will be demonized if we get involved or do nothing."

This. Cannot be overstated.

Thefore, the only option is not to play. Ignore the noise.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

152 The problem we dance around in Iran is , how do we actually get to a successful conclusion through force? Ground troops are out, we all know that. I try to game out paths in my own head and have a very hard time coming up either one that achieves success, and I’m not surprised Trump and Hegseth are looking at the same problem.
All of the military options still depend on luck far too much to be trusted. Blowing up the IRGC bases sounds good, but what if that just brings about an even greater massacre in the cities?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:50 AM (QkvGw)

153 Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It has absolutely nothing to do with Tariffs.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (ysRdO)

Transitory fuck you Janet

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

154 98.763% of "facts" are pulled from asses.

The rest? Who knows.
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

The scientific term is "rectal database"

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (dP47V)

155 Can you imagine western media showing Iranian people chanting "death to the Ayatollah?" and other nasty things about the Islamic leadership ?

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (g47mK)

156 The Vance story is part of an orchestrated push to make Rubio the candidate. Vance has said he is not focused on the next election right now. He is focused on doing what is right for the country. The usual haters show up on cue with an unsubstantiated story

Posted by: notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (+mUZM)

157 Maybe the Illinois bison herd can get so big that it can stampede into Chicago and level the place.

A guy can dream.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

158 What is the "Vance option" with regards to Iran?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 13, 2026 08:31 AM (eZ5tL)

From the little I've seen, it appears to be identical to the "Tucker Carlson option."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (ufSfZ)

159 MSM, sadly, considers, conservative white American men as more the enemy, than the Iranian terrorist regime

Posted by: Jonah at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

160 My autistic Barbie swatted my GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip.*

Cue up the great Nissan ad w/GI Joe hooking up w/Barbie while Ken whimpers...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

161 The Vance story in the WSJ is a lie. He’s not that stupid

They're laying the groundwork for when he tries for the President's job in a few years.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (jjoN6)

162 Jay Powell is an idiot. That is all.

Posted by: dantesed at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

163 Can you imagine western media showing Iranian people chanting "death to the Ayatollah?"

Nooooo!

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

164 "Islam seems to expect converts to "Arabize", take on Arabic names, become more culturally Arabic, etc."

Lew Alcindor and Cassius Clay agree.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 08:52 AM (qFwJc)

165 Being an actual expert on tariffs (it kind of comes with the territory as a Customs Broker with 26 years experience) it has been endlessly annoying/infuriating hearing so many media "experts" blather on when they have absolutely zero clue what they are talking about.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:53 AM (gtcuf)

166 Why are people treating Vance story as a lie ? It aligns, sounds very plausible. Has he denied it ?

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:53 AM (g47mK)

167 Reform of Islam is not possible.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

168 The white man killed all the bisons to starve us out but the jokes on them because we went into town to get drunk and sell our beads made in Japan when we are not ripping off the palefaces at our casinos and tobacco outlets.

Hahahaha!

Posted by: Chief One Tooth Drum Banger at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (n+1Zi)

169 Can you imagine western media showing Iranian people chanting "death to the Ayatollah?"

Nooooo!
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

there are some very censored chants of what they think of the ayatollahs and the mulahs too!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (g47mK)

170 Off Center Gaze

Sounds like a 90s indie band.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (gtcuf)

171 The problem we dance around in Iran is , how do we actually get to a successful conclusion through force? Ground troops are out, we all know that. I try to game out paths in my own head and have a very hard time coming up either one that achieves success, and I’m not surprised Trump and Hegseth are looking at the same problem.
All of the military options still depend on luck far too much to be trusted. Blowing up the IRGC bases sounds good, but what if that just brings about an even greater massacre in the cities?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 08:50 AM (QkvGw)
====

The regime is hanging by a thread. It would not take very much to convince the military their survival is contingent on what they do from here on...

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

172 liberty in Bandar Abbas in the '70's pre revolution. I remember tying up to the pier seeing maybe 1000 Mercedes unloaded in the parking lot. Major port with alot of $ and alot of activity.

Posted by: get out of my fucking shot at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (jZ3ZM)

173 So well said everybody. The right can have all the brilliant legal minds it wants, but one thing they have never figured out, is the location of a grand jury is everything these days

Posted by: Jonah at January 13, 2026 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

174 154 98.763% of "facts" are pulled from asses.

The rest? Who knows.
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

The scientific term is "rectal database"
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 08:51 AM (dP47V)

So a study decided to see if the people that did STUDIES where data was available by request.
17% of the Authors answered the request for Data and about half actually returned the data.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

175 When I heard that Trump hosted Tucker Carlson at the White House I groaned inwardly. Why????!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:55 AM (/iXAp)

176 Who burns down their own mosques? Leftist lunatics. Lotsa hopeium being drank over whatever is going on in Iran. I’ll believe that a more secular, non-insane regime has taken power there when I see it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 13, 2026 08:56 AM (1eD7V)

177 124 Along with the “immence” Buffalo, deer, and elk herds grazing together on a common plain, by the tens of thousands, Lewis and Clark in 1804 also noted huge clouds of attendant Mosquitos, flies, no-see-ums and the rest of it. Astonishingly bad, the skeeters would literally drain critters of their blood.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 08:38 AM (ysRdO)

I read the Lewis and Clark journals. Reading between the lines and knowing about mosquitos along waterways in warm weather where they traveled, I can't figure out how any of them got any sleep between the first spring and last fall 70 degree temps.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 08:56 AM (5rh/l)

178 170 Off Center Gaze

Sounds like a 90s indie band.
Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (gtcuf)

I saw Off Center Gaze open for ...

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

179 Islam seems to expect converts to "Arabize", take on Arabic names, become more culturally Arabic, etc."

Lew Alcindor and Cassius Clay agree."

By the 90's, it seemed that half the US prison pop had "islamic" names, and one couldn't walk thru any "black" neighborhood without hearing "salamalakim, my brother"...

That dropped off quickly about 9/12.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:57 AM (XuXeR)

180 175 When I heard that Trump hosted Tucker Carlson at the White House I groaned inwardly. Why????!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:55 AM (/iXAp)

Maybe he's not aware of the "new" Tucker.. Trump is a busy Man... Remember Tucker actually campaigned for Trump and was one of the speakers at Kirks Memorial....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

181 Has he denied it ?"

Have they offered proof? No? Then it's an assertion, and can be dismissed as such.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

182 CA AG Won’t Run for Gov to Focus on Fighting Trump, Avoiding Prison

LOL. AG Bonta only took the money in the course of pursuing his own private investigation.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 13, 2026 08:59 AM (2ap+5)

183 So what did Vance say ? I must have missed it...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 08:59 AM (VE6XX)

184 Wall Street Journal owned by Murdoch. Wall Street loves Gubmint cheese and donates a majority to the Dems. Do the math

Posted by: Jonah at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

185 166 Why are people treating Vance story as a lie ? It aligns, sounds very plausible. Has he denied it ?
Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 08:53 AM (g47mK)

No one is affirming or denying because it’s a claim by a reporter who says he has Sekrit Nollidge about what is going on inside White House high level discussions. No one involved is going to come out and say “no this is what all of our Secret Discussions are really like.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (QkvGw)

186 I voted for using firehoses & dogs on these protesters
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:43 AM (tljrc)

Arrest them, charge them as accessories in addition to obstructers. Bar them from receiving any government benefits for life. Require them to have 'Asshat' tattooed on their foreheads.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

187 The herd consists of three males and three females on 38 acres of restored prairie about 60 miles to downtown Chicago’s northwest, Phys.org reported, citing Haberthur. Officials plan to use them as a breeding herd.

6 is a herd?
Would not 5 cow and 1 bull be a better mix?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

188 Sorry to be late. Got caught up listening to the ONT music. What's shaking?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (m249M)

189 Here in Indiana, we had our bicentennial year celebration and each county could have a bison statue for their public space. One can see them in parks, on the county courthouse lawn, outside a municipal building. Some counties have two! My county is one of the largest, area wise, in the state. We did not get a bison. Why was my county neglected in this? Because my county declined to get one. It would have been quite nice on the lawn at the courthouse or even in the town park. But.....NOOO! Motherfuckers on the county council said "naw, we good". Citizenry complained. We now have a 5 foot tall fiberglass bison....somewhere. I have never seen it.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (2J/Lj)

190 The koran says that the final word on allah came from mohammed and that no further rules or proclamations will be made.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 09:01 AM (T+ssH)

191 When I heard that Trump hosted Tucker Carlson at the White House I groaned inwardly. Why????!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 08:55 AM (/iXAp)

WH denied he was a guest of the President. It was Vance who invited him for lunch and then dragged him into the oil meeting. Because Cucker wants his handlers to think that he has an inside to the administration. Otherwise they will invest in someone else.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 09:01 AM (g47mK)

192 The Vance story is part of an orchestrated push to make Rubio the candidate. Vance has said he is not focused on the next election right now. He is focused on doing what is right for the country. The usual haters show up on cue with an unsubstantiated story
--
And Rubio has been clear and unequivocable--he has clearly said he will not run if Vance runs.

It's darkly hilarious watching the increasing frustration of the media, trying to peel off and drive a wedge between Trump II Admin officials.

They just don't understand that this is a team focused on winning.
Not the usual collection of Republican hanger-ons, grifters, looters and raiders only seeking to feather their own nest like every other R administration.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:01 AM (HXT0k)

193 December inflation print at 2.7%, below the Fed's 3% target.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 13, 2026 09:01 AM (2ap+5)

194 I can't figure out how any of them got any sleep between the first spring and last fall 70 degree temps.
——

A lot of times they didn’t, judging from the journal entries. They did have Mosquito Bars, or “biers”, netting to put around cots and the like. Worth their weight in gold, I’m sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 09:02 AM (ysRdO)

195 We now have a 5 foot tall fiberglass bison....somewhere. I have never seen it.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (2J/Lj)

With Bondo patching the bullet holes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

196 The bison near Chicago probably isn't a good idea. The LGBT+ crowd will demand gay bison

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:02 AM (9ShUO)

197 e Vance story in the WSJ is a lie. He’s not that stupid
---------
If the administration publicly stated "every option is on the table" then... well, someone's got to say it, right?

I think it's just noise anyway.

The Iran situation is a mess regardless how it plays out. The US will be demonized if we get involved or do nothing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 08:49 AM (NwnyJ)
*******
Even if it's a little true, I don't know that it's a problem. Trump can always say, "Well, I tried to talk with Iran, but just like Madero things didn't work out."

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

198 Ideally, for me, Vance wins in 2028 and keeps El Grande Marco on as SoS.

VP would be a huge step down in power and influence.

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (gtcuf)

199 163 Can you imagine western media showing Iranian people chanting "death to the Ayatollah?"

Nooooo!

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

When I was in elementary school, I do remember some of the older kids in grades ahead of me actually chanting "THE AYATOLLAH IS DEAD!" when Khomeini died, actually.

(But no, the media wasn't there.)

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (6Uni8)

200 Off Center Gaze

Sounds like a 90s indie band.
Posted by: Delurker
+++
Opening song.
Cross-eyed Mary.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (Lo97M)

201 WH denied he was a guest of the President. It was Vance who invited him for lunch and then dragged him into the oil meeting.
=====

I would not break bread with Tucker Carlson and disappointed that Vance did.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

202 John Cleese Denounces the BBC

-
Damn those bastards for giving me what I demanded!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:04 AM (L/fGl)

203 183 So what did Vance say ? I must have missed it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 08:59 AM (VE6XX)

We have no idea what he actually said. A WSJ reporter claims that Vance was part of a White Housec group if senior advisors who favored further negotiation instead of military strikes.

2 points; first the claim that some reporter knows details of secret internal White House discussions is ridiculous; second it’s bizarre to claim that advising caution would somehow now be a great sin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 09:04 AM (QkvGw)

204 the Fed's 3% target.
——
So everyone loses 60% of the value of their savings and investments over 20 years, yet owe tax on the “gains”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 09:04 AM (ysRdO)

205 it’s a claim by a reporter"

So, it's the opening script to "Hunt for Red October"...

"it never happened"

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

206 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 09:04 AM (QkvGw)

Thanks

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

207 Require them to have 'Asshat' tattooed on their foreheads.

That reminds me that I miss Rachel Lucas. She was a pistol.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (ufSfZ)

208 200 Off Center Gaze

Sounds like a 90s indie band.
Posted by: Delurker
+++
Opening song.
Cross-eyed Mary.

Fllowed by "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Skew."

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (gtcuf)

209 198 Ideally, for me, Vance wins in 2028 and keeps El Grande Marco on as SoS.

VP would be a huge step down in power and influence.
Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (gtcuf)

CBD and I have said Rubio should remain SoS for Vance. Huckabee-Sanders would be a good VEEP nom and a strong candidate. She's an asset.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (x0n13)

210 Ha! That picture up top has to be one of the best TMR headers.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (HsXHq)

211 We need to start a Go Fund Me to get Madamemayhem a fiberglass bison.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

212 My Chatting Cathy has my Autistic Barbie eating Ritalins like M&Ms

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

213 Mother Gaia is ok with the methane from the Bison

You need to call it “greenhouse gases” to be politically correct. You’re not quite there yet

There is more nuance to that statement.

If the critter in question is destined for the BBQ grill, then its a "greenhouse gas", if it is a pet or left in the "pristine wilderness" then, only if it has to be mentioned, is it "methane".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:06 AM (KhyP1)

214 We need to start a Go Fund Me to get Madamemayhem a fiberglass bison."

How 'bout a fiberglass donkey? Call it a "glass ass"?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

215 this whole thing - vance vs Rubio - is a desperate attempt to divide the right

both are great

nothing wrong if JD says to hold off - nothing wrong if Mario knows that's foolish bc you can't trust the mullahs. either way the mullahs are lying so preparation for THAT is key.

Khameini is finished regardless

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:07 AM (emBoF)

216 211 We need to start a Go Fund Me to get Madamemayhem a fiberglass bison.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

I saw Fiberglass Bison open for Plastic Ono band at Budokan in '72

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:07 AM (x0n13)

217 Autistic Barbie ? What's next... Down Syndrome Barbie ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

218 Cleese has descended into Carlin like cranky old man. Salena Zito smoked him on his comment that the Trump assassination attempt "looks staged'. Zito responded "I was four feet from a man who died"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (9ShUO)

219 When does a Nick Shirley type go pay a visit to the The Southside Family Charter School in Minneapolis to learn about their soccer mom training classes to interrupt the operations of federal agents?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

220 I saw Fiberglass Bison open for Plastic Ono band at Budokan in '72"

So, long before Cheap Trick then...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

221 good morning all!

disappointed that Patullo still has a job

I thought he should have been fired mid-game

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (emBoF)

222 The Vance option is the plan of an idiot.

Has Vance said anything about this publicly or do we know about his treachery only via an article from a media company known to lie?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

223 OMG nooooooo!

John Cleese
@JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

224 Powell Declares War on the Trump Administration

Cramer is currently ranting about the DOJ going after the Saint Jerome and the Fed Basilica. Of course the number one job of the Fed (created by Wall Street bankers for Wall Street bankers) is to keep Wall Street happy

Posted by: Oglebay at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (2ap+5)

225 Autistic Barbie ? What's next... Down Syndrome Barbie ?"

Kensington Ave (Phila) Barbie

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

226 217 Autistic Barbie ? What's next... Down Syndrome Barbie ?

that actually seems like a nice idea honestly

moreso than the "ASD" one that basically just has earphones on

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (emBoF)

227 Favorite line of Cleese

Mrs. Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that.
Basil: Well, that is Torquay, madam.
Mrs. Richards: Well, it’s not good enough.
Basil: Well, may I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeests sweeping majestically—?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

228 CBD and I have said Rubio should remain SoS for Vance. Huckabee-Sanders would be a good VEEP nom and a strong candidate. She's an asset.

Has there ever, in the history of US politics, a case where not just the SoS, but any cabinet member stays on for another POTUS term?

I think they all resign at the end of the term. Recycled Secretaries usually sit out several terms.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (9s47C)

229 Cleese is - ironically - an Upper Class Twit.

possibly Upper Class Twit of the Year!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (emBoF)

230 225 Kensington Ave (Phila) Barbie

She comes permanently bent over at the waist!

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (gtcuf)

231 The regime is hanging by a thread. It would not take very much to convince the military their survival is contingent on what they do from here on...
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 13, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

We hope that’s true; here’s where I would hope that Trump and co. have some good intelligence as to the specifics of the power structure. Look at what happened with Saddam; the entire Iraqi power structure chose to go down the drain with him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (QkvGw)

232 Off Center Gaze

Sounds like a 90s indie band.
Posted by: Delurker
+++
Opening song.
Cross-eyed Mary.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (Lo97M)

*makes notes for Club ONT*

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (dP47V)

233 Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists"

And by "rule of law" means "where laws dictate that I still get royalties"?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

234 Has Vance said anything about this publicly or do we know about his treachery only via an article from a media company known to lie?

BINGO

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (emBoF)

235
John Cleese IS Basil Fawlty.

Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2026 09:10 AM (Y8DZL)

236 "New Orleans’ First Female Mayor Leaves Financial Crises In Her Wake As Transition Gets Ugly"

That ain't the only thing that's ugly, and has been for a while. Look at Cantrell's pic atop that article.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)

237 223 OMG nooooooo!

John Cleese
@JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

He's right.. The "Rule of Law" doesn't exist.... How can a Country go on with hordes of law breaking rioters running wild in Our streets unchecked attacking Law enforcement officers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (VE6XX)

238 December inflation print at 2.7%, below the Fed's 3% target.
Posted by: Oglebay

I believe the Fed's target is 2% Though there is some debate exactly what that is

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (FxH7T)

239 She comes permanently bent over at the waist!"

Extra $$ for authentic vomit?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

240 I saw Fiberglass Bison open for Plastic Ono band at Budokan in '72"

So, long before Cheap Trick then...

But just after Dylan.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 09:12 AM (ufSfZ)

241 Cleese is some sort of Limey poof? Crikey

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 09:12 AM (ysRdO)

242 221 221 good morning all!

disappointed that Patullo still has a job

I thought he should have been fired mid-game

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:08 AM (emBoF)

If Nick won't fire Kevin, then Howie has to fire them both. Period.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 09:12 AM (6Uni8)

243 Powell being investigated appears to be necessary given the $700m cost overrun in the upgrade of the Fed building. However if Cramer is against it Powell must have done something criminal. Always bet against Cramer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:12 AM (9ShUO)

244 Has there ever, in the history of US politics, a case where not just the SoS, but any cabinet member stays on for another POTUS term?

IIRC, John Adams kept Washington's cabinet when he became POTUS.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 09:12 AM (ufSfZ)

245 I can't wait to see if Judge Jackson recuses herself from the SCOTUS trans in women's sports hearing today because she doesn't know what a woman is.

Posted by: Tis the Season at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (HTCU3)

246 Eventually there will be a Barbie for every ICD Code.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

247 CBD and I have said Rubio should remain SoS for Vance. Huckabee-Sanders would be a good VEEP nom and a strong candidate. She's an asset.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I like the idea of Huckabee-Sanders as VP. Plus, when Dems do get back in power (hopefully reformed, if you are the hopeful sort, bent on revenge if you are not) and have a woman as VP, we can watch the media praise her (the Dem) as the 2nd woman VP after Kamala.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

248
Farah Pahlavi has her own X account here:
https://is.gd/gMwazP

She is the wife of the late Shah and mother of Shah, Jr. She's 87 now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (w6EFb)

249 238 December inflation print at 2.7%, below the Fed's 3% target.
Posted by: Oglebay

I believe the Fed's target is 2% Though there is some debate exactly what that is
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (FxH7T)

=====

Facts are not how we get Trump's preferred economic policies implemented!

Posted by: Oglebay at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (2ap+5)

250 IIRC, John Adams kept Washington's cabinet when he became POTUS."

Duuude. That was like, you know, a hundred years ago. Or something.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:13 AM (XuXeR)

251 I don't think you'd want a fiberglass goat . It would attract Somalis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (9ShUO)

252
For the record? There's been a Downs Syndrome Barbie for quite some time.

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (6nplM)

253 Huckabee-Sanders would be a good VEEP nom and a strong candidate. She's an asset.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

THAT'S my line!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (pkq24)

254 When I was in elementary school, I do remember some of the older kids in grades ahead of me actually chanting "THE AYATOLLAH IS DEAD!" when Khomeini died, actually.

(But no, the media wasn't there.)
Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026

***
And during the '79-'81 hostage crisis, the pop single "Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, Bomb-Bomb Iran" (to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann") was a big hit on local radio!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (wzUl9)

255 For the record? There's been a Downs Syndrome Barbie for quite some time.

oh nice!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (emBoF)

256 To "reform" Islam means to renounce virtually everything Mohammad (allegedly) did and said.

Not happening .

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (1Au9i)

257 I can't wait to see if Judge Jackson recuses herself from the SCOTUS trans in women's sports hearing today because she doesn't know what a woman is.

Looks like an opportunity as a DEI hire to pick up some On the Job Training.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (nCgQz)

258 Mother Jones
@MotherJones
“A coup is happening in the United States.”
Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works, argues that President Donald Trump is leading an unlawful takeover of the US government.

-
His election violated the ban common sense clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (L/fGl)

259 Eventually there will be a Barbie for every ICD Code."

G25.1? Cool.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (XuXeR)

260 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst says Tim Walz and JB Pritzker’s lawsuits against ICE are going to fail:

"There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"

https://tinyurl.com/5beeres7

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

261 my DS cousin who wasn't supposed to live is 5 years older than me. and I'm 29!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (emBoF)

262 As I noted about Cleese he rails against the BBC and yet he spent most of his career avoiding any spoof of Islam while dragging Judaism and Christianity through the mud over and over again for cheap yucks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (x0n13)

263 186 I voted for using firehoses & dogs on these protesters
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:43 AM (tljrc)

Arrest them, charge them as accessories in addition to obstructers. Bar them from receiving any government benefits for life. Require them to have 'Asshat' tattooed on their foreheads.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

and RICO the paymasters.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (w/O5Q)

264 Eventually there will be a Barbie for every ICD Code.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026

***
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Barbie

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

265 Eventually there will be a Barbie for every ICD Code.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Tweaker Barbie

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (pkq24)

266 "There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"

https://tinyurl.com/5beeres7
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

Overruled !

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (VE6XX)

267 >>>the claim that some reporter knows details of secret internal White House discussions is ridiculous

Not really all that ridiculous

Posted by: Signal App scandal at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (Y1sOo)

268 Last night the President engaged in what is widely being recognized as an act of war against Iran, one that now risks the lives of millions of innocent people.
================
An angry Alexandra Occasional Cortex tweet, pumped out after PDJT knocked off austere religious scholar Soliemani.

Supported the Iranian regime then, supports it now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (l4lhl)

269 256 To "reform" Islam means to renounce virtually everything Mohammad (allegedly) did and said.

Not happening .

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2026 09:14 AM (1Au9i)

I don't know, they seem pretty adamant about renouncing him getting railed up the butt by the Al-Zutt.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (6Uni8)

270 I've never heard of Jason Owen, but this cover of "Holiday Road" came up on my feed as I was looking for something else. I like it.

https://tinyurl.com/zeu278fs

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)

271 Has there ever, in the history of US politics, a case where not just the SoS, but any cabinet member stays on for another POTUS term?
——-

Curtis LeMay. Everyone publicly complained about him, but they figured he was instrumental in keeping the US from getting nuked. Politically risky to get rid of.

Prior to that there were a few shuffles. Byrnes, I think. Cordell Hull liked the Pullman porter guys a little too much, iirc, to stick around very long.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 09:16 AM (ysRdO)

272 CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst says Tim Walz and JB Pritzker’s lawsuits against ICE are going to fail:

"There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"

https://tinyurl.com/5beeres7
Posted by: redridinghood

You need a legal anal ist to tell you that? Any 5th grader could have told them that.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:17 AM (pkq24)

273 "There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"
___

Hold my couscous.
-Black Robed Lawgiver

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

274 Moron Barbie?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (vFG9F)

275 Eventually there will be a Barbie for every ICD Code.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Tweaker Barbie

Posted by: rickb223

That is after the dog discovers a regular Barbie and makes it a chew toy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (nCgQz)

276 John Cleese
@JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

*files nails*

Oh, no...don't take the World cup away from the United States...

*yawns*

No....stop....

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)

277 The herd consists of three males and three females on 38 acres of restored prairie about 60 miles to downtown Chicago’s northwest, Phys.org reported, citing Haberthur. Officials plan to use them as a breeding herd.

6 is a herd?
Would not 5 cow and 1 bull be a better mix?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026

***
Whaddaya wanna bet there'll be turf wars between the bulls?

Kinda like Chicago's "humans," I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (wzUl9)

278 210 Ha! That picture up top has to be one of the best TMR headers.
Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 09:05 AM (HsXHq)

Thanks. Almost just posted the MR logo until I got inspired at the last second.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (x0n13)

279 So what did Vance say ? I must have missed it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 08:59 AM (VE6XX)

Vance said that we should surrender to Iran.
Rubio said that we should surrender to Cuba.
DeSantis said that he likes little boys.

Our only hope is to turn to Gavin Newsome.

-- Sincerely, the WSJ

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

280 Here's a thought experiment;

What do you suppose the reaction here in the US would be to another country intervening in some sort of civil unrest among the public and government?

It'd be a shit show.

And I think it's why the administration isn't clear what, if anything they're prepared to do in Iran.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (NwnyJ)

281 I’m dubious on the reform thing, no muslim Martin Luther on the horizon, you know?

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (V6+NK)

282
Khomeini is wearing an authentic Chicago Bison hat too!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (x0n13)

283 As I noted about Cleese he rails against the BBC and yet he spent most of his career avoiding any spoof of Islam while dragging Judaism and Christianity through the mud over and over again for cheap yucks.

That is because Cleese is a coward and a poof and that whole monty python crap was unfunny english garbage.

Posted by: The Truth at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (n+1Zi)

284 -
His election violated the ban common sense clause.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:15 AM (L/fGl)

Wait until they find out they've lost their Duke & Duke turn those machines back on privileges during the next election.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (w/O5Q)

285 OCD Barbie. Her Dreamhome is *spotless.*

Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:20 AM (gtcuf)

286 Temporary protected status for Somalia ends, impacting hundreds in Minnesota

A M F

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

287 Maybe they can make a Renee Good Barbie action figure complete with ICE agents and Honda Pilot with optional wife and dog ? Too soon ?

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 13, 2026 09:20 AM (VE6XX)

288 no muslim Martin Luther on the horizon, you know?"

Stucco doesn't hold nails very well...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:20 AM (XuXeR)

289 Tune in next week for another fascinating episode of Bison And Barbies on this and many other NPR stations.

Posted by: NPR Announcer voice at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

290 So what did Vance say ? I must have missed it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 08:59 AM (VE6XX

"WASHINGTON—The White House is weighing a last-ditch Iranian offer to engage in diplomacy over curbing its nuclear program even as President Trump currently leans toward authorizing fresh military strikes on Iran, U.S. officials say.

Some senior administration aides, led by Vice President JD Vance, are urging Trump to try diplomacy before retaliating against Iran for killing protesters during a two-week uprising over a flailing economy and regime repression, the officials said."

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (g47mK)

291 Mother Jones was a labor organizer and social activist born in 1837 in Ireland . I doubt she would be on board with all the craziness of the "progressive" left today,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (rZCVI)

292
What do you suppose the reaction here in the US would be to another country intervening in some sort of civil unrest among the public and government?

China has been involved in much of the civil unrest in the US. The EU has also deeply involved themselves in stirring color revolutions in the US.

Its part of the usual asymmetric warfare that all nations constantly do to each other.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (nCgQz)

293 Michelle Fields barbie with detachable arm.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (6Uni8)

294 281 I’m dubious on the reform thing, no muslim Martin Luther on the horizon, you know?
Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 09:19 AM (V6+NK)

He would most likely nail his 95 Thesis to a Christian.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

295 @JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Silence, Limey. When we want your opinion, we'll invade your country and tell you what it is.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (jjoN6)

296 276 John Cleese
@JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

*files nails*

Oh, no...don't take the World cup away from the United States...

*yawns*

No....stop....

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)

What he said!

Posted by: Council shielded r493 gangs of britain at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (i0Hi3)

297 Ideally, for me, Vance wins in 2028 and keeps El Grande Marco on as SoS.

VP would be a huge step down in power and influence.
Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:03 AM (gtcuf)

Why not have him do both? VP doesn't have any formal role, there's no rule against it. I'd like to see DeSantis brought in somehow, given a federal role, maybe taught how to speak to voters outside of Florida without putting them to sleep.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

298 Here's a thought experiment;

What do you suppose the reaction here in the US would be to another country intervening in some sort of civil unrest among the public and government?

It'd be a shit show.

And I think it's why the administration isn't clear what, if anything they're prepared to do in Iran.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Depends. Who is the legal government?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (pkq24)

299

Ken is transexual Barbie. All Mattel has to do is make new packaging and voila!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (x0n13)

300 Althouse had an article on what is or is NOT a pair of hot pants -- Grateful Dead guitarist Bobby Weir's cut offs definitely weren't -- saying she was there, man! when the fad hit. I remember them as a kid. They were basically bikini bottoms with cuffs!

She posted a splendiferously fey clip from "Can't Stop the Music" showcasing Bruce Jenner and the YMCA boys. It was all so obvious even back then:

https://tinyurl.com/3asdykf8

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (kpS4V)

301 that whole monty python crap was unfunny english garbage."

This. 94.67% of their US audience was kolledge kids hitti'n bongs...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (XuXeR)

302 Mental illness is the latest social currency.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (T+ssH)

303 299

Ken is transexual Barbie. All Mattel has to do is make new packaging and voila!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:22 AM (x0n13)

And vice versa! All those years in marketing have stood me in good stead I guess...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2026 09:23 AM (x0n13)

304 Erratum: It wasn’t Cordell Hull who had an inordinate fondness for the Pullman car porters. We sincerely Regret the error

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 09:23 AM (ysRdO)

305 To be honest, I have no issue with diplomacy being used. I have more issue with the media acting as if they are Our Moral Betters.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 09:23 AM (jjoN6)

306 OCD Barbie. Her Dreamhome is *spotless.*
Posted by: Delurker at January 13, 2026 09:20 AM (gtcuf)
******
Somalian Barbie.
Owner of Learing center.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

307 Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2026 09:21 AM (6Uni

LMAO

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 09:23 AM (T+ssH)

308 288 no muslim Martin Luther on the horizon, you know?"

This puts the finger on the problem. Martin Luther was successful because the Roman Catholic Church of his day was ignoring many of the things taught in their scriptures, and instead had substituted many things of their own invention.

The closest thing recently to an Islamic Martin Luther would have been Osama bin Laden.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 09:24 AM (7JH4o)

309 I’m dubious on the reform thing, no muslim Martin Luther on the horizon, you know?

Islam is from the pit of Hell, there is no "reformation" of it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 09:24 AM (nCgQz)

310 We do get some truly awful trolls at the HQ. I really do not know why they persist in spouting trash where they aren't wanted. We have regulars that often disagree with each other and that's a good thing. Troll like ass are just as you say, assholes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2026 07:57 AM (2NHgQ)

Try reading the comments at Breitbart. Troll city. There's a leftist there called Millhouse who is insufferable. Probably Jessica Tarlov from The Five.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 13, 2026 09:24 AM (5xuJ/)

311 Well, he is the next Hitler.

College Radio Station DJ Calls for VP Vance’s Assassination in Menacing Post

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:24 AM (L/fGl)

312 Rachel Corrie is Pancake Barbie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:24 AM (9ShUO)

313 DHS says the migrant, 53-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, overstayed on a 2017 tourist visa. They also say he was arrested in an assault case. Mamdani and other city leaders demanded the man's release on Monday.

"I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials

I am outraged you appointed an illegal!

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

314 So what Fascist things has Trump done ? Do they ever say what they are or was it the fact that he was elected that makes him Fascist ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (VE6XX)

315 So what Fascist things has Trump done ? Do they ever say what they are or was it the fact that he was elected that makes him Fascist ?"

I SAID SO!!!

/Fascist detector

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

316 The herd consists of three males and three females on 38 acres of restored prairie about 60 miles to downtown Chicago’s northwest, Phys.org reported, citing Haberthur. Officials plan to use them as a breeding herd.

6 is a herd?
Would not 5 cow and 1 bull be a better mix?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026
===================
that herd sounds like it's almost in rifle shot distance to the hacienda Sefton.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (SPyif)

317 From the article about the college radio station:

UMass Lowell says the person who resigned was a volunteer contributor and not a current student.

That makes him even more pathetic.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (jjoN6)

318 @_johnnymaga
CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst says Tim Walz and JB Pritzker’s lawsuits against ICE are going to fail:

"There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"
____
You underestimate the mendacity, vanity and partisanship of the federal judiciary.

Look at the lawsuit:
They invoked the High Holy Words of Liberalism--Diversity and Discrimination.

See, you stupids, who didn't go to Harvard, don't understand:
The Constitution is a mere suggestion.
The Civil Rights Act and the Administrative Procedures Act are the LAW.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (HXT0k)

319 Anorexic Barbie?

Oh wait. That is the original Barbie, isn't it?

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (qFwJc)

320 @314 the left calls everything they don't like "fascist". They aren't the most original commies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (9ShUO)

321 My concern is that the CIA will totally fuck up the analysis of the situation as they have in the past in many places. Since Rubio is the intel for the Americas, Maduro is sitting in the US prison.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (g47mK)

322 2459 soldiers died in Afghanistan with just over 1900 being combat deaths.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

323 Benny Hill was way funnier than Monty Python.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

324 lol. Russia freaking out that Iran and the mullahs might fall. They’re propping up the regime with contractors. Even Zerohedge is posting their propaganda. Again.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (i14TE)

325 DHS says the migrant, 53-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, overstayed on a 2017 tourist visa"

So which is he? "tourist" or "migrant"?

How 'bout "outofhere"?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (XuXeR)

326 "There is no way a judge can say, 'You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'"

And, yet, a judge will.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

327 This is like some 8th grad
thing . "This is what J.J ( Vance ) said. "Really?!! What did he say.? Ask Tina she knows. Wally( ( Wall Street Journal ) said J.J said this. Oooh. That's really bad !

Bah. Unless I hear a real Vance say anything I don't believe it . Wally ( WSJ) is not reliable .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (rZCVI)

328 Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. . . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors!

Translation of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 09:28 AM (w6EFb)

329 that herd sounds like it's almost in rifle shot distance to the hacienda Sefton.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2026 09:26 AM (SPyif)

Bison on the Barbie

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:28 AM (gbOdA)

330 Islamic Regime of Iran falls - Russia, China, N Korea, Islamic regimes of Qatar and Turkey lose. Sounds good to me!

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 09:28 AM (g47mK)

331 In before the first snarky comment.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2026 09:28 AM (0sNs1)

332 314 So what Fascist things has Trump done ? Do they ever say what they are or was it the fact that he was elected that makes him Fascist ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (VE6XX

Makes you one a fascist too.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 09:29 AM (hGxWW)

333 Anorexic Barbie?

Oh wait. That is the original Barbie, isn't it?"

Man (like Pepperidge Farms) remembers a time when most women weren't ... bison.

*ducks*

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

334 What do you suppose the reaction here in the US would be to another country intervening in some sort of civil unrest among the public and government?
------

Easy:

"Pump your breaks, you slant eyed cunts. If you stick your yellow noses in our family business, we'll slice it off and feed it to you."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 09:29 AM (BI5O2)

335 DHS says the migrant, 53-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, overstayed on a 2017 tourist visa"

So which is he? "tourist" or "migrant"?

How 'bout "outofhere"?
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (XuXeR)
****
Democrat constituent.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

336 "I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials
---
All New York City employees have diplomatic immunity from all United States laws.
It's right there in the Constitution.
If you were smart enough to go to Harvard, you'd know that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (HXT0k)

337 Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

Funny they think being a politician is a get out of jail free card. They don't raise as much hell when it's a gardener or car mechanic.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (KDPiq)

338 Bah. Unless I hear a real Vance say anything I don't believe it . Wally ( WSJ) is not reliable ."

What are you, some sort of "realist"?

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (XuXeR)

339 The only way we lose in 2028 is if we allow the left to make us fight amongst ourselves.

How about we stop with the idiotic Vance stuff some reporter said his best friends sisters cousin said.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (viF8m)

340
A
R
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Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

341
Benny Hill was way funnier than Monty Python.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM

This is incorrect.

Good Day, Sir.

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 09:31 AM (tljrc)

342 323 Benny Hill was way funnier than Monty Python.
Posted by: Bulg

So was David Allen.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 09:32 AM (jjoN6)

343 Iran tried to assassinate Trump a number of times and bragged about it. Every IED, every injury and death from the roadside bomb, every drone in Iraq came from Iran or bought with Iran's money. They were involved in 9/11 and political murders across the globe - dissidents who spoke out, artists, politicians. The regime needs to burn.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (g47mK)

344 223 OMG nooooooo!

John Cleese
@JohnCleese
Is it a good idea to hold a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country where the Rule of Law no longer exists
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

He's right.. The "Rule of Law" doesn't exist.... How can a Country go on with hordes of law breaking rioters running wild in Our streets unchecked attacking Law enforcement officers ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 09:11 AM (VE6XX)

Remind me again why we saved your worthless country in WW2. We won't do it again.

Posted by: Pissed Off American at January 13, 2026 09:33 AM (5xuJ/)

345 Timothee Chalamet has finally made his relationship with Kylie Jenner Instagram official, marking the first time Chalamet has acknowledged his 'other half' on his social media account.

His Golden Globes best actor win was celebrated by sharing a number of Instagram snaps on Monday, one of which featured his billionaire mogul girlfriend's, 28, hand. The photo showed the Oscar nominee — who walked the red carpet solo — posing with the golden gong, which rested in Kylie’s manicured hand.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 13, 2026 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

346 323 Benny Hill was way funnier than Monty Python.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2026 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

sure, if you have a room temperature IQ

Posted by: heywood the third at January 13, 2026 09:43 AM (46hSl)

347 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

Yeah, they're more than a little whacky in the Pittsburgh area, nevertheless, it can't hold a candle to Philly.

The Daily News/Inquirer Jan. 12, 2026:
'Strong Message,' Black Panther Party members make presence known in Philly amid federal crackdowns.

'Pushing back on holding pattern,' Philly's federal judges have found Trump's mandatory detention policy unlawful.

'DOJ: Sorry, you're cut off,' Trump's team nixed funding to violence prevention groups (Aside, but that doesn't mean that, at the minimum, they're not receiving other funding including, but not limited to, via other NPs and Opiate Drug Settlement funding from Philly & the ring counties.)

'ICE to back off? Nope' Noem says she'll send more federal agents to Minnesota.

'Recurring Nightmare' Race, police violence, and the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good.

In part, "Floyd was a victim of the disproportionate police violence leveled against Black people, and Good - a white woman - was a casualty of Donald Trump's war on Black and brown immigrants." ...

"Still, there's more to it than that. White women in

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM (NFX2v)

348 America are valued, and when they go missing or are victimized, media attention is so overwhelming that social scientists use a specific term to describe it: Missing White Woman Syndrome.

With that in mind, here is the ugly truth: America's racial hierarchy will assuredly seek justice for Good. And while I hate that she senselessly lost her life at the hands of here government, and was demonized by the president and his cabinet members, I am nonetheless hopeful for change.

If this brutal incident wakes Americans to the danger of this moment, Renee Good did not lose her life in vain."
---
Recall little sympathy for Ashli Babbitt outside of "Deplorables" & some conservative press. But the conditioning of a general population to adopt programs (Black Liberation Movement) IS real.

It's not the government trying to capture the worse, most dangerous illegals, it's racial prejudice. It's not people brought to this country on refugee status (beginning 1992) & continuing under the terrible, uncontrollable Temporary Protected Status program, & so many of them robbed the state's & nation's coffers quickly and deeply. It's racial prejudice. Black & brown.

Intersectionality.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 10:43 AM (NFX2v)

349 "Taught" to a powerful, dependable voting bloc (AWFLs) through means such as the League of Women Voters, public schoolboards, etc. though usually a world apart from their privately schooled children, better communities & great jobs, other than landscaping & kitchen help, and drivers for children's activities.

Dashad "Sage" Smith, a 19-year-old Black transgender woman was last seen on November 20, 2012, in downtown Charlottesville, VA. Four years later, the case was reclassified as a homicide, drawing increased attention to the unsolved case and issues surrounding missing trans individuals.

A atmosphere of ever increasing racial and social tension in Charlottesville and, eventually, displays of white nationalism and counter protesting until a 'White woman' was killed and many imprisoned including one who is serving two life sentences for murder and hate crimes. (Deliberately driving his car into a crowd of counter protesters, killing the lady and injuring dozens.)

Little is coincidental.

Government vs. government.

All, imho.

Good day! 🤗🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

350 .
.
President Trump's first term did NOT end until 2021. The Afghanistan "bug out" happened AFTER pResident Bidet took over in 2021.
.
Dates matter.
.
Especially when they have big titz.

Posted by: Marooned at January 13, 2026 11:12 AM (kt8QE)

351 From above, "Lest we forget that Afghanistan at one time was also a fairly modern society until the coming of the Taliban and then of course the Soviet Invasion and later our insane Democracy Project in the wake of 9/11 and Gulf War 2. Result, over 3,000 American soldiers dead, Taliban still there and weaponized..

In any case, the Cliff Notes version of the above is, I suppose, I'm wondering can Islam reform itself?"
----
>Britannica, Afghan War 1978–1992
In part, "Afghan War, in the history of Afghanistan, the internal conflict that began in 1978 between anticommunist Islamic guerrillas and the Afghan communist government (aided in 1979–89 by Soviet troops), leading to the overthrow of the government in 1992."
>History State Gov: The Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980
>The Council on Foreign Relations, 1999 - 2001, The US War in Afghanistan
"The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States’ longest war."

Pay attention. Can it, is the question.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 11:30 AM (NFX2v)

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

353 Actually Iran is not a Muslim majority country.

Posted by: Kenneth King Neil at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (/g9JB)

354 Quit linking Daily Caller artcles. Their ad-blocker page prevents me from using my browser without have to close it completely.

Posted by: Kenneth King Neil at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (/g9JB)

Daily Tech News 13 January 2026

Top Story

With support for Windows 10 ending last October, user numbers for Windows 11 climbed to an all time high. Which was only to be expected.

Less expected was that the numbers for Windows 11 have been dropping ever since. (MSN)

Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%, with Windows 10 growing from 42.7% to 44.7%, and most of the remainder going to Windows 7, which came out all the way back in 2009.

This is not particularly good news for Microsoft.

Tech News

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is deeply hurt by all the negative opinions of AI. (Tom's Hardware)

He has no mouth and he must whine.
A quantitative analysis of the cost of overreliance on AI advice. (Science Direct)

A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data. And this was in the context of an iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario, where optimal strategies are simple and well-known.
With contract prices for DRAM rising 70% and NAND flash by 100%, memory now accounts for 20% of the cost of a mobile phone. (WCCFTech)

Which is not all that much.
Amazon bought a Bee. (Tech Crunch)

Bee makes a wearable AI thing, which is to say, useless overpriced junk.
VMWare ESXi has a -365 day vulnerability. (Bleeping Computer)

If a zero-day vulnerability is one that must be fixed immediately because it is open to instant exploitation, what do you call one that has been actively exploited for a year before the developers notice?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Chocobo soup for the soul.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 04:01 AM (42Pyp)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at January 13, 2026 04:04 AM (SSiCQ)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 13, 2026 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

6 "...it directly contracts available empirical data."

Swap contracts for contradicts please. I blame autocorrect.

Not being picky, just trying to help. LOVE your comments and insights, have forever. (For certain values of forever.)

Posted by: Whiskey Mike at January 13, 2026 04:09 AM (l5vxg)

7 Thanks!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 13, 2026 04:15 AM (BLOW1)

8 Meanwhile, more people are giving the various flavors of Linux a shot. Its usage has increased quite a bit over the last year.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 04:21 AM (sAmhv)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 30 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Not a lot of work on the plate to start with, so I should be able to enjoy some tea at leisure once I get the overnight files out of the way.

Still recovering from a cold that knocked me out last week. Just down to mucus and deafness in the right ear, so probably a few more days before I feel completely better. I do have to create a few Sunday Book Threads, since I've been asked to do it once per month, and I'm so lazy I need to bank a pile of them now.

29 days until I finally retire, unless there's a bolt out of the blue to screw my plans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 04:29 AM (ufSfZ)

10
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on the No Priors podcast to discuss the current advances in AI technology and to refute claims he believes are wrong about AI.

I read that as "...the No Poors podcast" and it did not raise the slightest sense of being incongruent.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:31 AM (xG4kz)

11 from last week but still funny:

Max Bay
@choice_fielder
Jan 5
I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.

Posted by: m at January 13, 2026 04:34 AM (SSiCQ)

12
A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data.

Then it's not unlike suspending one's own common sense in favor of taking advice from "experts", is it?

The Well-Worn Path

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:34 AM (xG4kz)

13
Was serving as Lance Armstrong's squeeze Peak Sheryl Crow?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:37 AM (xG4kz)

14 Then it's not unlike suspending one's own common sense in favor of taking advice from "experts", is it?

The Well-Worn Path
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:34 AM (xG4kz)

Heck, it's probably exactly the same.

"Please don't make me waste time having to think or learn a thing when you already know and could just tell me. I've got other things to do."

Trusting Experts is basically a shortcut. Whether you call it "efficiency" or "laziness" is more or less a question of how charitable you feel like being.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 13, 2026 04:46 AM (06Hmj)

15 Bee makes a wearable AI thing,

I would think the legality of AI voice recording and transcription problematic when viewed through US Federal and state privacy laws. Of course the user, not the device, would be the potential violator but how to enforce is unimaginable (to me).

Related, a few days ago I didn't consent to voice capturing (by a bank iirc) and the phone call was disconnected on the business side. (One thing leads to another: Must use the APP or visit the bank.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 04:48 AM (NFX2v)

16
About a decade back, when I was taking a multi-day training course in scouts, one of the exercises was a game meant to teach that a course of cooperative behavior led to the highest score across all parties in the game.

It backfired spectacularly to the point where some folks were brought to the edge of coming to blows over how the teams were playing the game. It made for an uncomfortably tense and accusatory reflections' period when the exercise ended.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:49 AM (xG4kz)

17 9 Sunday Book Threads ... I've been asked to do it once per month
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 04:29 AM (ufSfZ)

yay!

Posted by: m at January 13, 2026 04:52 AM (SSiCQ)

18 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 04:56 AM (Cjt/F)

19
Trusting Experts is basically a shortcut. Whether you call it "efficiency" or "laziness" is more or less a question of how charitable you feel like being.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

As I have for a long time been dismissive of experts touting their academic credentials as the only necessary and sufficient cause to not consider any other options (e.g., the climate cultists), I dismiss any societal course of action blessed by experts as likely being a perfect predictor of the worthlessness of said course of action.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 04:57 AM (xG4kz)

20 Spotlight PA org -
Judges are identifying suspected AI hallucinations in Pa. court cases — including one at the highest levels
by Sarah Boden for Spotlight PA | Jan. 7, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 04:57 AM (NFX2v)

21 Sheryl Crow?

Pass me a single-ply tissue.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 05:01 AM (G/BeD)

22 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That's great! I didn't get to tell you that I really enjoyed your last one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:01 AM (7RYym)

23 "If a zero-day vulnerability is one that must be fixed immediately because it is open to instant exploitation, what do you call one that has been actively exploited for a year before the developers notice?"

Broadcom Quality Assurance!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 05:02 AM (O7YUW)

24
Pass me a single-ply tissue.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

One square, Vassily

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 13, 2026 05:03 AM (xG4kz)

25 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 05:05 AM (u/kd+)

26 So, what's a good word for today? One of mine is that I got my hair cut yesterday. I don't how it is with men, but as a woman , having one's hair cut can make you feel much better. In addition, I hadn't been to that hair stylist before and we had a nice conversation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:05 AM (7RYym)

27 You b man sings mashup of "In Christ alone" and "Living Hope":

https://tinyurl.com/y9j6ef96

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:08 AM (7RYym)

28 So, what's a good word for today?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:05 AM (7RYym)
-

Tuesday.

Same as in town.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 05:08 AM (G/BeD)

29 Moving on, Jensen fired shots at influencers who paint AI in a negative way: "..extremely hurtful frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage lately with very well respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. And I appreciate that most of us grew up enjoying science fiction, but it's not helpful. It's not helpful to people, it's not helpful to the industry, it's not helpful to society, it's not helpful to the governments."

And most importantly, it's not helpful to Nvidia's stock price.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 13, 2026 05:10 AM (6ydKt)

30 Nice X bug I am now experiencing. X has removed all of my follows, as if I'm starting from scratch.

I tried logging out and in again. Same thing.

Hope this is a temporary glitch.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 05:10 AM (G/BeD)

31
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 05:11 AM (tljrc)

32 Hold onto God. Devotional on persistence in faith. This followed by a prayer and additional insights:

https://tinyurl.com/3w8y9pzj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:16 AM (rZCVI)

33 Re: Windows 11

Hey, maybe when you make a "new" OS, don't just build a clunky new clown suit to layer over the last clown suit, that was layered over the last clown suit, that was layered over Windows NT.

Posted by: DaveL at January 13, 2026 05:19 AM (9w232)

34 Chilly and clear out
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 05:19 AM (Ia/+0)

35 Pet owners pay vets just to find out their pets are weird . Sunny Sky site:

https://tinyurl.com/4h56zb82

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:22 AM (PFs9e)

36 A psalm of praise. Actor David Suchet reads psalm 130:

https://tinyurl.com/4xfykujc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:26 AM (PFs9e)

37 Post 32- Forgot to put the scripture reference for the devotional. It's Genesis 32:22-28.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:29 AM (PFs9e)

38 One thing leads to another: Must use the APP or visit the bank.

A lot of sites nowadays act as if you are trying to commit a war crime when you try calling them. Tired of that business model.

but as a woman , having one's hair cut can make you feel much better.

I have a great barber (NOT stylist. She will educate you on the difference) out in my area. Given that periodically, I look way too ragged, I appreciate the work she does. And the straight razor shave on the back of the neck is pretty nice.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:29 AM (99eI0)

39 Hey, maybe when you make a "new" OS, don't just build a clunky new clown suit to layer over the last clown suit

As long as we're getting crazy: Release a version of your OS that is bare bones and allow people to customize it to their standards.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:30 AM (99eI0)

40
As long as we're getting crazy: Release a version of your OS that is bare bones and allow people to customize it to their standards.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:30 AM

Linus Torvalds has entered the chat

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 05:34 AM (tljrc)

41 @8

>>Meanwhile, more people are giving the various flavors of Linux a shot. Its usage has increased quite a bit over the last year.

I would say, more tech people are giving Linux a looksee.

Linux on the desktop has roughly 5 percent market penetration.

Most people frustrated with Windows will probably end up switching to Mac instead.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 05:39 AM (XV/Pl)

42 Linus Torvalds has entered the chat
Posted by: AltonJackson

At least the folks that make the various shades of Linux have finally learned that normal people want to use their OS and that they should encourage this.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:39 AM (99eI0)

43 Today's musical interlude sounds ... very familiar.

Ah... 2 years later, something like it pops up in the science fiction movie "Screamers" starring Peter Weller:

"Hard Luck Solution":
https://youtu.be/6ZogOJNv_sc

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

44 41: hopefully more people will give it a spin. I know Linux Mint is pretty easy going.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 05:51 AM (sAmhv)

45 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 13, 2026 05:52 AM (AN2gy)

46 Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:29

I went to the female version of a barber yesterday because it cost $30.00 less than my regular stylist would have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:53 AM (rZCVI)

47 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 13, 2026 05:53 AM (bQ4nt)

48
At least the folks that make the various shades of Linux have finally learned that normal people want to use their OS and that they should encourage this.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 05:39 AM

yeah, there's a whole bunch of linux phobia what needs to be overcome...people shy away 'cause they think that they'll have to do a lot of "programming" & configuring to make it work

my experience is that the "consumer" grade linux distributions are ready to go right out of the box & are more user-friendly than whatever windows flavor they're used to

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 05:53 AM (tljrc)

49 Evening and morning on a Tiu's Day in mid-January!

Who else besides me utterly hated January as a kid? Aside from cold weather, rain, and snow, I mean? We'd just had the long Christmas-New Year break, and had no school holidays to look forward to until probably Easter - and even then another two months until summer vacation. A long slog of classes, homework, wait for the bus in snow and rain, and repeat until the blessed weekend. Here, at least, we had the two days Monday and Tuesday for Mardi Gras as a short break; but it wasn't enough.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

50 olddog, Good morning. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 05:54 AM (0KSrI)

51 I am still using Windows 7 Home Premium.

Yeah. I am over 29.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:54 AM (qFwJc)

52 Isn’t Sheryl Crow the one who tells me how much toilet paper I’m allowed to use? My G.I. Tract countermands her orders.

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 13, 2026 05:55 AM (1FEc1)

53 >>> This is not particularly good news for Microsoft.

Only if you are butthurt that the market doesn't love the latest iteration.

IT department of XYZ Corp would gladly (sort of) continue to pay for support for Win 10. MS can't make a working business model from that?

Posted by: fluffy at January 13, 2026 05:56 AM (AN2gy)

54
I am still using Windows 7 Home Premium.

Yeah. I am over 29.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:54 AM

fistbump

we should start a club or something

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 05:56 AM (tljrc)

55 Adorable newborn seal pups:

https://tinyurl.com/5njnwpuy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 05:58 AM (rZCVI)

56 Yeah, Great Clips don't shave the back of the neck.

Oh how far we have fallen as a society.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 06:00 AM (qFwJc)

57 I dreamed that for some ungodly reason, I decided to drive to a neighborhood in town I did not know (there aren't many in reality) and, get this, ride the streetcar from a particular intersection. It was warm, which isn't unusual and could be any time of year, and sunny. There was a business block with a Walgreens and a Woolworth's (!?), but the intersection and streetcar line was a block away along a residential street. The street had an uber-pothole -- more like a foxhole sized for Shrek. I waited in the shade. Several people gathered. Then, as I saw the bus (not a streetcar) in the distance, I asked somebody about the fare. Turned out it was a dollar more than I'd thought, and exact change, so I'd need to break a five -- and there was no place to do it.

I woke up with Stirling sitting against my stomach. I'm surprised he wasn't in the dream piloting the bus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

58 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026

Sorry about your cold. We had that two weeks ago and had to cancel church we were so miserable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:01 AM (rZCVI)

59 "Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%...This is not particularly good news for Microsoft."

That's a lot of hungover tech journalists who made a New Year's resolution to dump Windows for Linux and then write endless stories stories about it, and if you, their reader, wasn't such a schlub, you'd drop that gas station burrito and do what they did.

That or Redmond Washington is destined to become a chernobyl-like ghost town of abandoned McMansions and Indian restaurants.

Windows 10 was released in 2015 and in 2019, four years later, it's market share was 54.62%. Windows 11 was released in 2021 and 4 years later it's market share was 50.7%. If Windows 11 is still in decline, a year or two after the extended Windows 10 support is ended, well, now that's a story. But for now it seems premature to write stories about the imminent demise of Windows.

Until then, one journalist's experience making the leap to Linux.
https://youtu.be/3d7SzX0SK24

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 13, 2026 06:03 AM (HTCU3)

60 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 04:57 AM (NFX2v)

This is probably a dumb question, but what is an AI hallucination?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:03 AM (rZCVI)

61 Morning, Ben Had. All is well here. I hope same for you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 13, 2026 06:03 AM (bQ4nt)

62 Thanks again to G & R and others who steered me to a solution of the annoying little flags that had been popping up on my Mac laptop. It turned out, as they said, to be a notifications issue, both in the OS and in the Safari browser. Miss Linda uses that, complaining about the ads, while I am ad-free with Brave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

63 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:01 AM (rZCVI)

We is spouse and me. I was not using the royal version of we as would Queen Victoria.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:06 AM (rZCVI)

64 @48/AltonJackson: The big deterrent is: "Will {Name of Program} run on Windows?"

Users look up their application to check compatibility, and see that it's only supported on Windows 11. They conclude that they can't get it running on Linux properly (or don't want to figure out how.) This is probably the largest hurdle to Linux being adopted wide-scale.

If someone creates a distribution that:

a) Installs over top of an existing Windows installation
b) Preserves the user's applications/programs AND DATA
c) Preserves the user environment as closely as possible
d) Offers an operational GUI comfortably close to Windows (Kind of like Cinnamon on Linux Mint has done)
e) Runs the user's applications flawlessly
f) Runs installers for applications intended to be installed on Windows with no hiccups or issues

Microsoft, knowing it would shortly be doomed to obsolescence, would counter with attempts to:

1) Make all applications they made (or were partners in making) impossible to function on Linux (something similar was done in past with preventing Windows 3.1 from running on DR DOS)
2) Sue everyone for everything (lawfare.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

65 @62/Wolfus: You're very welcome. Glad I could use my searching skills to point you in the right direction.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

66 I am still using Windows 7 Home Premium.

Yeah. I am over 29.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 05:54 AM

fistbump

we should start a club or something

Posted by: AltonJackson

I raise you with Windows 7 Ultimate which I still own.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 13, 2026 06:08 AM (HTCU3)

67 Seeing wild reports of 12,000+ killed in Iran.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 06:09 AM (0hg/T)

68 Related, a few days ago I didn't consent to voice capturing (by a bank iirc) and the phone call was disconnected on the business side
——-

Consent!

Just casually mention “I’m recording too” and that’s pretty fun. There’ll be this long pause. “Ou we don’t allow that”

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 06:11 AM (itAZI)

69 68 Related, a few days ago I didn't consent to voice capturing (by a bank iirc) and the phone call was disconnected on the business side
——-

Consent!

Just casually mention “I’m recording too” and that’s pretty fun. There’ll be this long pause. “Ou we don’t allow that”
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 06:11 AM (itAZI)

They have ways of making you talk.

Posted by: m at January 13, 2026 06:13 AM (SSiCQ)

70 my experience is that the "consumer" grade linux distributions are ready to go right out of the box & are more user-friendly than whatever windows flavor they're used to.

Posted by: AltonJackson

Which is a HUGE improvement over how it used to be. The neckbearded bastards who treated Linux as magic that only they could command and would chant RTFM at the lowlifes that dared ask them questions turned a lot of people off.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:14 AM (jjoN6)

71 I don't go to the barber anymore, since I don't have enough hair to make it worth paying. I just use a handheld clipper once or twice a week to keep what hair I have trimmed close to the scalp (my Erich von Stroheim look) and the beard closely cropped as well.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 06:16 AM (ufSfZ)

72 I don't go to the barber anymore, since I don't have enough hair to make it worth paying. I just use a handheld clipper once or twice a week to keep what hair I have trimmed close to the scalp (my Erich von Stroheim look) and the beard closely cropped as well.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 06:16 AM (ufSfZ)
---
Same here. I stopped going to the barber during COVID. Wearing a face mask there was just stupid.

So now I shave my head a couple of times a year and trim my beard every couple of weeks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 06:17 AM (ESVrU)

73 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 06:16 AM (ufSfZ)

FenSpouse does the same.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:17 AM (rZCVI)

74 The neckbearded bastards who treated Linux as magic that only they could command and would chant RTFM at the lowlifes that dared ask them questions turned a lot of people off.

There's an old Dilbert cartoon where Wally runs up against a smug, bearded, suspendered Linux user who tells him, "Here's a nickel, kid. Buy yourself a better computer."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 06:17 AM (ufSfZ)

75 Except for my time in Denver, I patronized the same barber from 1979 until his health-related retirement in '23. Now I go to his business partner, who at the same age (they graduated from barber college on 11/22/63!) is still going strong.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

76
Which is a HUGE improvement over how it used to be. The neckbearded bastards who treated Linux as magic that only they could command and would chant RTFM at the lowlifes that dared ask them questions turned a lot of people off.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:14 AM

true that

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 06:20 AM (tljrc)

77 It's 43 or 44 F. outside, almost no wind and so no wind chill. The forecast is for freezing temps in the city tomorrow. It would behoove me to work out this morning, even though I usually do not do that three days running.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

78 Interestingly enough if you read about the early days of the O.S.S. and the you know who, “we have vays off making you tokk” garnered a lot of attention. Booze is classic of course, and feminine wiles, though Supposedly a cannabis extract, highly concentrated, and inserted into ordinary cigarettes was among the most successful.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 06:21 AM (itAZI)

79 I don't know what's reliable info about Iran, but if 12, 000 have really died I would guess the desire for a free Persia has been crushed by the Islamic regime.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:21 AM (rZCVI)

80 LLM's have taken over general public tech support, you no longer need some gate keeping Linux neckbeard to help you with your Linux issues berating you every step of the way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 06:21 AM (iqlej)

81 My local Fox outlet says 10,000 arrested and (I think) 500 dead. I have no idea how close to reality those numbers are. And I suspect the Fox outlet does not know either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

82 I don't know what's reliable info about Iran, but if 12, 000 have really died I would guess the desire for a free Persia has been crushed by the Islamic regime.

Not that I want a war, but since Trump already signaled that he would help the revolutionaries, it would behoove him to do something and not let America be seen as knifing the Persians in the back.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ufSfZ)

83 LLM's have taken over general public tech support, you no longer need some gate keeping Linux neckbeard to help you with your Linux issues berating you every step of the way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026

***
I'm thinking that I'll print out a bunch of instructions before I try Linux, and keep another computer close by so I can research if any problems come up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

84 My read on Linux user adoption is it will stay capped until large computer manufacturers adopt and promote Linux as a first tier option. Realistically that's not happening anytime soon.

On the other hand, Linux is perfectly viable as long as you're willing to accept that many of the key applications are not available without workarounds, at best, and all the baggage that comes with that. If Adobe was to port their products to run on Linux, that would be a major milestone. Don't hold your breath. Same for Office or what other goofy name Microsoft is calling it these days. Then there's apps like Autodesk. With Google about to replace Chrome OS with a desktop version of Android makes Linux getting traction even more difficult.

And with all that said, Linux works for many millions of users in multitudes of ways. And if that user is somebody that spends most of their time in a browser, which is many of us anymore, the platform is somewhat irrelevant. That is until you go to an Apple store and yell Linux at the top of your lungs and promptly get tackled by the security guards.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 13, 2026 06:27 AM (HTCU3)

85
LLM's have taken over general public tech support, you no longer need some gate keeping Linux neckbeard to help you with your Linux issues berating you every step of the way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 06:21 AM

on the few occasions that I've needed to tweak something in linux, I've found that reddit is actually helpful

somebody somewhere has had the exact same issue I'm trying to fix; and someone has posted the solution

copy the (usually) single line of code, open the terminal, paste & hit enter

in a way, reddit is kinda the "distilled neckbeard" way to get an answer without the sanctimonious lecturing

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 06:30 AM (tljrc)

86 You just have to laugh at this: Ilhan Omar calls Elon Musk one of the dumbest people on earth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 06:30 AM (rZCVI)

87 mornin yall. You know what's crap? Dexcom apps. And the company. We rely on it to keep track of my MIL's blood sugar and it crashes all the time, the servers go down, and now they are forcing people to upgrade their phones to continue running it. Not any new phone though, only phones on their list, and the list is even more narrow for the server portion of the app.

Dexcom is no help at all and says if the phone app won't work you can use their remote reader, which only works within range of the sensor, not a mile away like we are.

The main reason we got Dexcom is for that feature. Checking on the internet I see lots of people have the same problem. Many can't afford to buy two new phones (server and client) just to accommodate the Dexcom app. It sucks. It should work on a phone as common as the S14 and has in the past, but not anymore.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

88 Rant off

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

89 @85

>>on the few occasions that I've needed to tweak something in linux, I've found that reddit is actually helpful

I simply don't waste my time on Reddit or any other tech site, I'll ask my LLM, it will spit out what I need and then I ask it to write a markdown of the session for later reference.

In fact, CLI AI agents are now the sh*t and have become indispensable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 06:38 AM (iqlej)

90 Somali Fraud is like an ogre. It has layers:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7c6kd4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 06:38 AM (0hg/T)

91 "They graduated from barber college on 11/22/63"

I have a friend who was born that day. Growing up, he always hated the "Where were you on that day?" news stories that would come up on his birthday. He just wanted a normal birthday. Now he says he misses those stories. Snot-nosed journalists today either don't know about the date or don't know anyone old enough to remember it.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 06:45 AM (65cLN)

92 in a way, reddit is kinda the "distilled neckbeard" way to get an answer without the sanctimonious lecturing
Posted by: AltonJackson

That attitude annoys me a lot. Someone is having a problem, I know the solution. I have no issues with sharing the knowledge.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:45 AM (jjoN6)

93 "a cannabis extract" aka hashish.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 06:46 AM (qFwJc)

94 @92

>>That attitude annoys me a lot. Someone is having a problem, I know the solution. I have no issues with sharing the knowledge

Most times they will share the knowledge and help but they will make the process as painful as possible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 06:48 AM (iqlej)

95
And with all that said, Linux works for many millions of users in multitudes of ways. And if that user is somebody that spends most of their time in a browser, which is many of us anymore, the platform is somewhat irrelevant.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 13, 2026 06:27 AM

this

the vast majority of (non-gaming) personal computer use is web browsing, e-mail, watching you tube, streaming music / video, & twitter / whatever...all of which can be handled via the browser

I think it's the gaming that's the big hurdle. For every AutoDesk user, there are (probably) thousands of gamers

making the games work in linux (or making linux accommodate the games) is the big challenge. Solve that, and linux becomes a viable first-tier option

they're working on it: one of the gaming platforms, "Steam" I think*, is doing a hand-held game thingy what is linux based

*I know very little about gaming, I get my information by osmosis from my daughter & son

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 06:48 AM (tljrc)

96 I do have to create a few Sunday Book Threads, since I've been asked to do it once per month

Looking forward to that.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 06:48 AM (F061L)

97 There is or was an Internet service that provides special birthday page of news that happened on the day you were born, what movies were at theatres and what music is being played on the radio.

My wife loved getting that for me. I think she was more interested in it than I was.

Oh. Just love her.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 06:50 AM (qFwJc)

98 Most times they will share the knowledge and help but they will make the process as painful as possible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I used to work at XM and got a ticket for the manager of the Accounting Department. His problem was solved quickly and when it was done, he asked "You ever get a ticket that has you asking what kind of moron is this guy?"

I said "This is what I do. It's simple to me because I see it a lot. If you were to sit me down and ask me to look over the first Quarter earnings, you'd wonder what kind of an idiot I am."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:51 AM (jjoN6)

99 "Steam" I think*, is doing a hand-held game thingy what is linux based

Valve is making small cube shaped console gaming device called the Steam Machine which everyone has nicknamed the "Gabe Cube"

Posted by: Halfhand at January 13, 2026 06:51 AM (F061L)

100 No, it wasn’t hash. Some kind of chemical concentrate. Injected carefully into cigarettes with a sawed off hypodermic, carefully in that otherwise it would leave a stain on the paper.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 06:52 AM (itAZI)

101 Steam" I think*, is doing a hand-held game thingy what is linux based

Yep. The Steam Deck is what you are thinking about. And the OS is also available for computers and it has Steam pre-installed.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:53 AM (jjoN6)

102 Bazzite is the name of the OS that has Steam on it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 06:53 AM (jjoN6)

103 @87/fd: What does this Dexcom app give you for monitoring blood sugar that a measurement device and a spreadsheet doesn't?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 06:55 AM (O7YUW)

104 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: First, you get a rock...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 13, 2026 06:58 AM (X4XpB)

105 "They graduated from barber college on 11/22/63"

I have a friend who was born that day. Growing up, he always hated the "Where were you on that day?" news stories that would come up on his birthday.
Posted by: Wally

Sucking tit and shitting myself.

Tends to get people to stop asking.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:01 AM (pkq24)

106 "What does this Dexcom app give you for monitoring blood sugar that a measurement device and a spreadsheet doesn't?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant"

The ability to monitor my MIL's blood sugar from anywhere, like our house. She lives about a mile from here. Her level can fluctuate from over 400 to below 100 in a few hours and Mrs fd monitors it constantly. The app allows you to set levels for alarms if it gets too high or low.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

107 Well, the sun is coming up. We have a song in our hymnal, "When morning gilds the skies my heart awaking cries, May Jesus Christ be praised."
May those who are working have a blessed day and may retired people have that as well. You are all a blessing to others. Well , maybe not the trolls, but perhaps someone appreciates them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 07:06 AM (Nx5jP)

108 Oh, just in case anyone missed it, the MFM / Hollywood propaganda complex is at it again - I just saw ads for a new TV series, CIA.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 13, 2026 07:06 AM (ufSfZ)

109 CIA.

LOL. Yeah, they are all hardworking, intelligent, patriotic, and want the best for our country.

Just like the FBI, but sneakier.

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:09 AM (qFwJc)

110 Oh, just in case anyone missed it, the MFM / Hollywood propaganda complex is at it again - I just saw ads for a new TV series, CIA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

And that's why Hollywood is dying. Another police procedure fictional tv show?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 07:10 AM (pkq24)

111 The real issue with Linux is that they are discouraged by reports from people that haven't used it in years. The majority of people do email, browse and maybe use a word processor. Since Libre office can be used on Windows, some have already tried it. Same with Thunderbird for email.

Mint gets recommended because it's polished. It labels every program installed, so you know what they do. It automatically installs your network printer, which Windows or Mac do not do. Yes, you can still get rough distros that have bits that don't work and programs with funny names. Focusing on those discourages people from using Linux.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:12 AM (+mUZM)

112 "They graduated from barber college on 11/22/63"

I have a friend who was born that day. Growing up, he always hated the "Where were you on that day?" news stories that would come up on his birthday. He just wanted a normal birthday. Now he says he misses those stories. Snot-nosed journalists today either don't know about the date or don't know anyone old enough to remember it.
Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 06

***
Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 was ten months old then, and swore that she remembered people being upset about the news on the TV or radio.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

113 One of the most absurd things about Win 11 is you can force it to install on older systems with a simple registry change. If that works, why doesn't MS let people install Win 11 on older systems by default?

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

114 Greetings from the Carolinas. Warm weather continues.

Local school board admits that the amount of missing money is really 45 million, not 42 million as previously reported. What’s 3 million among friends. State auditors can’t find where the 45 million went. School board says no one has been fired because all the money went for da chilren.

Who is John Galt?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 13, 2026 07:16 AM (jt/rW)

115 Trying to switch to Linux. My biggest hurdle is Quicken (testing HomeBank, which may work) and TurboTax. I don't want to do my taxes online. I may keep one of those mini pcs with Windows 11 just for TurboTax and use Linux as a daily driver. Libre Office, Gimp and Inkscape along with any webbrowser does everything I need except for the financial stuff. And it's free and I'm not on anyone's digital plantation

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 13, 2026 07:19 AM (Swr8B)

116 "Local school board admits that the amount of missing money is really 45 million, not 42 million as previously reported."

The same kind of thing is going on here. One county is missing 5 million, another 11 million. Both have similar administrators, brought in from elsewhere, overpaid and incompetent, and oh yeah, not white.

Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

117 Oh, just in case anyone missed it, the MFM / Hollywood propaganda complex is at it again - I just saw ads for a new TV series, CIA.

And if not the pilot, will be in some episode this season about some trigger-happy, rogue agent shooting a holy person for bumping their car into them - and the narrative will play out exactly how the Left is framing the tiring ICE confrontation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 07:20 AM (a4flb)

118 I made the leap to Linux Mint and don't regret it.

Does everything I needed my old Windows machine to do.

Set up a Plex media server on it as well. It's been great.

I have to use Win11 for my work computer but after that, its using Mint on my home machine

Posted by: Blanco at January 13, 2026 07:20 AM (MHpW9)

119 School board says no one has been fired because all the money went for da chilren.
——-

Fired?? They should be run through a wood-chipper. Seriously, this is going to get worse and worse, not better and better, until the crooks feel the pain. It isn’t a great way but it’s the only way

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 07:23 AM (itAZI)

120 And don't mess around with dual booting, because most will never use it. Pick up a cheap older laptop, install Linux and use it for awhile. See what you think of it. This is a lot like folks moving from cable/satellite tv to streaming. You really just had to see what was out there and make the leap

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:23 AM (+mUZM)

121 As for me on 11/22/63, I was in fifth grade and had just come back from lunch recess. The news was buzzing all around -- wild rumors. Not like today, where somebody would post "The Russians shot Kennedy and are invading!", just things like "The president's been shot, but we don't know how bad."

I have no idea how grownup Nawlins people felt about JFK. But certainly there was no cheering in my classroom, as in that exploded "news" story about Dallas kids celebrating when they heard. As I understand the reality, they'd just been told they would be sent home early that day -- a good reason to celebrate when you hate school, as I did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

122 I have already decided that the next machine is going to be Linux when the current one goes the way of all flesh.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2026 07:24 AM (jjoN6)

123
My biggest hurdle is Quicken (testing HomeBank, which may work) and TurboTax. I don't want to do my taxes online. I may keep one of those mini pcs with Windows 11 just for TurboTax and use Linux as a daily driver.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 13, 2026 07:19 AM

can you still get TurboTax as free-standing software? I though they went to the "software as a service" model years ago

if TurboTax is "software as a service" you are effectively doing your taxes online anyway

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:26 AM (tljrc)

124 you hate school, as I did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Funny. Guy who hates school, goes to work in one. Just like I did.

Posted by: Special Ed at January 13, 2026 07:27 AM (oftw2)

125 Why doesn’t IRS have all the software to do taxes online at the government website?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 07:28 AM (itAZI)

126 The same kind of thing is going on here. One county is missing 5 million, another 11 million. Both have similar administrators, brought in from elsewhere, overpaid and incompetent, and oh yeah, not white.
Posted by: fd at January 13, 2026 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

That administrator is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him or her, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at January 13, 2026 07:28 AM (n+1Zi)

127 When you put Linux on an older laptop, you learn how much the tech companies have forced you into upgrades you didn't need. It wasn't the computer that was slow, it was their operating system.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:29 AM (+mUZM)

128 All I wanted to do was have some fun with Sheryl Crow, the Sheryl Crow who sang that number back then. Now? Meh.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 07:29 AM (LHPAg)

129
Good morning from Brazoria County, TX. Chilly this morning and temperatures aren't expected to get much above 60 F (or who cares Celsius). Getting the RV loaded and giving The Big Dummy a bath for this weekend's shows in Jackson, MS.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:30 AM (t2vGZ)

130 And Dan Rather got on CBS News and told the country that it was "right-wing hatred."

Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:30 AM (qFwJc)

131
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 13, 2026 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

132 School board says no one has been fired because all the money went for da chilren.

They don't know where it went but 100% sure it was for the children.

Crackhead breaks into your home and steals your medications and jewelry - it was for the children.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 07:32 AM (a4flb)

133 can you still get TurboTax as free-standing software? I though they went to the "software as a service" model years ago
Posted by: AltonJackson

They really push you to their online web browser based services but you can download the software to your computer and do it offline. But TurboTax has said for the 25 tax year the program will only work on Windows 11. I probably need to switch tax software but don't want to mess with that for 25.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 13, 2026 07:32 AM (Swr8B)

134
And Dan Rather got on CBS News and told the country that it was "right-wing hatred."
Posted by: no one at January 13, 2026 07:30 AM (qFwJc)

You can watch the CBS coverage on YouTube. It's only a few minutes before Uncle Walter says Dallas is a hotbed of right-wing hate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2026 07:33 AM (t2vGZ)

135
And don't mess around with dual booting, because most will never use it. Pick up a cheap older laptop, install Linux and use it for awhile. See what you think of it. This is a lot like folks moving from cable/satellite tv to streaming. You really just had to see what was out there and make the leap

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:23 AM

it used to be that you could get a Raspberry Pi as a test driver, but they've gotten stupid expensive; you can probably find a used laptop cheaper

the RaspPi works well as a streaming dealio...I had an old flat screen "dumb" TV that I stuck a RaspPi on...voila! "smart" TV

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 07:33 AM (tljrc)

136 I'll have to try Docker at some point, which allows you to run an instance of Windows on a Linux machine. Supposed to be easier than virtual machines. There might be a solution for Turbo Tax. And there are programs that run using Wine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:34 AM (+mUZM)

137 Wolfus,
You know who put out that false story? Dan Rather. The school explained the circumstances. Rather didnt care. It was his big break.
Rather didnt suddenly become a POS late in his career. He was one from an early age.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 07:34 AM (65cLN)

138 you hate school, as I did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Funny. Guy who hates school, goes to work in one. Just like I did.
Posted by: Special Ed at January 13, 2026

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Working for a college was once fun. You could take books out of the college library, for one thing, and you generally had co-workers with an IQ above room temp. The quality of conversation was usually well above "Workin' hard, or hardly workin'?"

DIe and the Sniffle Scare changed all that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2026 07:36 AM (wzUl9)

139 $50-70 for a laptop to run Linux. I like Think Pads, when I'm not getting old Macbook Pros. You may need to replace the hard drive as those typically get removed for security reasons. You can check the difficulty of that on Ifixit. I like to max out the RAM which can still be done on older computers. You don't have to. Balena Etcher is a free program to create a bootable USB stick for install.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2026 07:40 AM (+mUZM)

140 You can watch the CBS coverage on YouTube. It's only a few minutes before Uncle Walter says Dallas is a hotbed of right-wing hate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Texas was a majority Democrat state in those days.
I was in third grade, about 8 years old.
The thing I most remember was we were off school, and all the grups were watching TV all weekend. My Dad hated Kennedy, but it was a real national tragedy, made most people pretty sad.
Later in 1964, our class all wrote letters of condolence to Jackie, because it was a class assignment. I think I still have the standard reply letter somewhere, along with pictures of my Mom riding a dinosaur to school.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 13, 2026 07:41 AM (2DpeO)

141 >>>A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data.

This is end times stuff. People already surrender their thought processes to devices, algorithms," experts."

This will be exploited and will result in massive human suffering. Think post Weimar Republic levels of conditioning to Malthusian ends.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 09:09 AM (dK+Kv)

142 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 13, 2026 09:25 AM (w9Wax)

143 I can't believe Apple, Linux, and everything else combined is less than half the PC market since every version of windoze since XP has been diseased donkey taint and XP was just barely tolerable.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at January 13, 2026 09:29 AM (b5v8P)

144 >more people are giving the various flavors of Linux a shot. Its usage has increased quite a bit over the last year

This is driven entirely by gamers trying to run SteamOs without having to buy a Steam deck. Aside from the usual ricers, they revert to Windows in a month or two because that doesn't work.

>Linux on the desktop has roughly 5 percent market penetration.

It's less than 1%. It's always been less than 1%. People really underestimate how many desktops are out there.

>If someone creates a distribution that: [...]

It took Microsoft decades to get this right with their own operating system, and they charge for it.

>Linux is perfectly viable as long as you're willing to accept that many of the key applications are not available without workarounds, at best

Which means it's not viable at all. No one cares about their OS, they care about their application software. If that doesn't run with minimal irritation they'll punch out in minutes.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 13, 2026 10:22 AM (LgYtf)

145 >making the games work in linux (or making linux accommodate the games) is the big challenge. Solve that, and linux becomes a viable first-tier option

This will never be solved, for both economic and technical reasons. For one, this is VHS vs. Beta all over again, and for two, Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel. No two distributions present the same system API to userland software, nor the same kernel ABI to drivers.

>If that works, why doesn't MS let people install Win 11 on older systems by default?

People spent decades whining about how insecure and vulnerable Windows was, so Microsoft redesigned Windows with security in mind and then people whined that they needed to click on UAC popups and buy better hardware to ensure their system didn't get hit with a BIOS or boot sector virus.

Microsoft does a lot of anti-consumer things, but 99% of whining about Microsoft is just that old Dilbert cartoon: "What the customer wants is better products for free."

>I'll have to try Docker at some point, which allows you to run an instance of Windows on a Linux machine

What? No. That is not how Docker works *at all*.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 13, 2026 10:32 AM (LgYtf)

146 >the MFM / Hollywood propaganda complex is at it again - I just saw ads for a new TV series, CIA

Go watch the old USA Network series _Covert Affairs_. You can see the exact point where the Deep State funding was yanked, the whiplash in tone and story editing is so stark.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 13, 2026 10:35 AM (LgYtf)

147 Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Posted by: AlecK at January 13, 2026 10:37 AM (cMlC1)

148 A Harlan Ellison reference.

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

Overnight Open Thread [01/12/2026]

Mt. Baldy (Mount San Antonio) is probably 15 miles from Rancho Cucamonga, and one can see the peak from Interstate 15. It's also 10,000 feet high and will kill you without any effort at all!

Like these three knuckleheads: Bodies of three hikers recovered from Mt. Baldy amid harsh weather. Really? Harsh weather in December on a tall mountain? Who knew!

Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.

-- Josh Billings

It isn't difficult to prepare oneself for most eventualities. Sure, that Chinese missile strike on Los Angeles might put you in a bit of a pickle, or the massive earthquake that shakes half the mountain down on your head will probably cut into your clubbing that night, but for most days? Appropriate footwear, appropriate clothing, water and a bit of food, and a good map in case your phone dies.

Personally, I like being armed, but in California that might get you arrested.

Oh...you might want to check the weather report too!

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The current hysterical news cycle is dominated by a failing attempt to portray Renee Good as some sort of paragon of loving motherhood and sweetness and light. It is the typical trivialization of the human condition that the left is fixated by, and it is an indicator of just how evil they are. Apparently because Good had stuffed animals in her car and had children, she was incapable of trying to run down an ICE officer. Obviously that makes no sense, but is also reminds me of the socialist view of humanity, that we are all just one thing, and completely interchangeable.

Well, the Aufseherinnen (female guards) in the Nazi concentration camps mostly led normal lives before they became unspeakably evil. One thing does not prevent the other.

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Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.

This man says if you are a Trump supporter you should not eat sushi, Mexican food or celebrate Cinco de Mayo,

"Find some German food"pic.twitter.com/yX97Z61YA1
— Defiant L's (@DefiantLs) January 12, 2026

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Thief snatched 'beloved' walrus penis from famed NJ restaurant Donkey's Place -- and owner needs help getting it back

What's the big deal? It's not like it's an otter penis or a penguin penis!

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The world's leading expert on European wasps walks into a record shop.
He asks the assistant, “Do you have European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2? I believe it was released this week.”
The assistant checks the computer and then says, “Certainly. Would you like to listen before you buy it?”
The expert replies, “Of course!”
The assistant hands him a pair of earphones and puts the record on a turntable near the counter, and turns it on.
The expert listens for a few moments and says to the assistant, “I'm terribly sorry, but I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all. I don't recognize any of those sounds. Are you sure this is the correct recording?”
The assistant checks the turntable. “Yes, sir,” he says. “This is the European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2. Let me skip ahead to the second track.”
Again the expert listens for a few moments and then says to the assistant, “This just can't be right! I've been an expert in this field for 43 years and I still don't recognize any of these sounds.”
The assistant apologizes and lifts the needle to the next track. As soon as the track starts playing, the expert throws off the headphones. “This is outrageous false advertising! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and no European wasp has ever made a sound like the ones on this record!”
The manager of the shop overhears the commotion and walks over. “What seems to be the problem, sir?”
The expert turns to him, red-faced and fuming. “This is an outrage! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps. Nobody knows more about them than I do. There is no way in hell that the sounds on that record were made by European wasps!”
The manager glances down and notices the problem instantly. “I'm terribly sorry, sir. It appears we've been playing you the bee side.”

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America!

Man Turns Tiny Shop Into Automated Factory, Producing $3M Products Per Year

Hell Yes!

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[Hat Tip: Diogenes]
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Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (47diA)

2 2nd

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (47diA)

3 3rd

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (47diA)

4 SPONGE!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (ULPxl)

5 ONT, yay!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (n4Qav)

6 Willowed, but of course.

A little boy with diarrhea tells him mom he needs Viagra.

His mom asks him, "why on earth do you need that?"

Little boy replies. "Isn't that what you give dad when his shit won't get hard?"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (u/kd+)

7 Damn, too.late... Sorta like the ONT :-)

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (4YokX)

8 Oh right, it's CBD. Well he does the Food Thread, so it still counts.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ULPxl)

9 That would have made more sense if... oh nevermind.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ULPxl)

10 The GREATEST Awk! An awk like the world has never seen. Tremendous. Believe me.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (RwpW/)

11 Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.

No. No, I don't think I will.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

12
Hello degeneratives and normal people.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (3ek7K)

13 Nice music tonight, CBD! Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (47diA)

14 That dude in the video is gayer than Liberace's hair stylist.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (COQGW)

15 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (SRRAx)

16 I see Big Penguin has decided to make its presence known on the ONT...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

17 Sure everybody wants ground walrus penis in the coffee until they get ground walrus penis in their coffee.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (gbOdA)

18 Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.

I shan't. I wonder if anyone has asked the idiot if he believes that all non-European persons are in the country illegally.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (ExV1e)

19 That gum-cracking, head-bobbing twink needs to be fired from a trebuchet, holding a bag of angry vipers (aren't they always angry?).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 12, 2026 10:16 PM (kpS4V)

20 Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.

No. No, I don't think I will.

Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
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I only made it about 2/3 of the way through the video.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

21 And the joke is good, too.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (47diA)

22 WTH? You didn't go with On Top Of Old Baldy, all covered with snow?!

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (vQt6o)

23 The gay dude in that video is, like, insufferable, OMG. I hope his husband beats him regularly.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (n4Qav)

24 No. No, I don't think I will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

It's not a choice...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (n9ltV)

25 Dude
You are wearing your dead sisters pink sweater Mom put up in the closet in 89.
She catches you and your ass is grass.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gbOdA)

26 Stroud is not doing well

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 10:18 PM (W1UhJ)

27 Evening, folken. There's a while yet before I will feel like going to bed, so here I is.

The common thread among the three videos? I not only am familiar with them all, I love them all.

Has Iran fallen yet? Has the media lost interest in Renee Good? I suppose one is as likely to happen as the other.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:18 PM (wzUl9)

28 Willowed
482 True story. Friend of mine is a multiple time world champion Sunfish sailor. Even has a rig named after him.

Sailors will race anything that floats. We're kinda stupid competitive that way.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (

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I admire that. Something about doing the most with the least to show your skill. Good for him!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:18 PM (lrMw0)

29 No. No, I don't think I will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

It's not a choice...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (n9ltV)
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A weekend in The Barrel is preferable to watching that video.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ESVrU)

30 23 The gay dude in that video is, like, insufferable, OMG. I hope his husband beats him regularly.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:17 PM (n4Qav)

That is what he wants!

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (gbOdA)

31 Gay dude is channeling Jm J Bullock. And the gum smacking is just nasty.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (n4Qav)

32 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

33 So... I've been in the Pacific Ocean, off Monterey, in the winter. The water's not much colder than summer. Especially if you have a wet suit, and don't swim with otters, seals or other shark bait.

The surf will kill you in an instant if you're not paying attention.

I've got broken ribs to attest to it.

Hiking in the mountains... you'd have to be retarded not to read the weather ahead of time. You've got literally days to figure shit out.

And yea... weather's a bitch. There, here, or ---> over there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (NwnyJ)

34 Serious question. All these cities & states that claim "sanctuary cities", why are all of the elected officials not brought up on sedition charges? According to their oaths of offices, they all swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the country.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026
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I’ve pondered this generally for a while. Generally, I’m not sure there is any teeth in this oath taking business. The courts probably defanged that long ago, there is no legal mechanism, it’s just merely performative art.

Maybe someone with a longer institutional memory like Whig might have some insight on oath taking and whether historically it had teeth. I know the commies had a lot of heartburn with it in the 1950s. The founders certainly thought it important.

As a practical matter I think we’ll see some movement on this front, from several directions. The large city model is in trouble, all of them.

They’ve learned how to make bank on illegal aliens, that much is clear.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NqWk4)

35 I look at "men" *spit* like that head bobbing thing in the video and consider how in 1944, guys his age were launching from flattops in the Pacific as the sun was setting to find the Japanese fleet knowing that they wouldn't have enough fuel to get back to their carrier so they would be ditching in the sea. At night. And they went anyway.

And I wonder what happened to this country that it could produce such crud as the video "guy."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (COQGW)

36 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (w3u3d)

37 Sailors will race anything that floats. We're kinda stupid competitive that way.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (

When Mrs D and i were dating we'd go park along the Columbia River and watch the submarine races.
IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

38 Since it isn't a choice, I went up and watched it.

That person is pathetic.

He can also get bent! In a bad way for him/her/it.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (47diA)

39 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

Well, the WSJ has been such a paragon of honest reporting over the years. I guess I'll just have to abandon hopes for Vance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

40 ---
I only made it about 2/3 of the way through the video.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

You got further than I did ... yeesh, that was painful.

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (wLjpr)

41 Thanks for the girthy Monday Night ONT, CBD!

AR-15s are awesome, and rightfully so! (see what I did there?)

And thanks for the reminder to consider safety when sashaying about in the wintertime on tall mountains. Sad that such reminders are needed, but that's our world today.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 12, 2026 10:22 PM (kB9dk)

42 Gay dude is channeling Jm J Bullock. And the gum smacking is just nasty.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (n4Qav)

Just from the picture he makes Jim J Bullock look like Lee Marvin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)

43 I'll just have to abandon hopes for Vance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

The full story is "try diplomacy...first."

A bit different.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (n9ltV)

44 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

Seems so. I note the tale of woe has been bounced from the "front" pages...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XuXeR)

45 So I was valuing and buying companies in 96 thru 99.
In Dec of 96 (Sat or Sun the 20th) I was sent to Rancho to decide if we would buy a company by 12/31.
So we get off the plane on that Sat or Sun and drive to meet the owner and we walk around the place. Around 6 he takes us to his favorite place for dinner.
A JoJos that closed in about 89 and was reopened as a local place.
I put a 50 on the bar and told the bartender to puts a chilled vodka on the bar whereever I walked by.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (gbOdA)

46 I'm not getting suckered into watching some twink looking fairyboy with tears in his eyes. Nope.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (BSdIE)

47 Doesn't David Frum still work at WSJ?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s)

48 Overnight Open Thread

Always appreciate the clever ways CBD names his ONTs.
😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - overthinking things as usual at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (z2cM0)

49 There, here, or ---> over there"

"Here, there, or everywhere. ."

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (XuXeR)

50 There is a really nifty winery in Rancho Cucamonga that I used to spend an afternoon at when I was working down that way.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

51 Ahoy, morons.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Xb07I)

52 Sad that such reminders are needed, but that's our world today.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 12, 2026 10:22 PM (kB9dk)

It's embarrassing. When I hike in the summer in places that don't have winter weather all year, I still check the weather, bring supplies, and dress for the worst.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (n9ltV)

53 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

54 32 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

WSJ does not even know what color suit JD wore today.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:27 PM (gbOdA)

55 39 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

Well, the WSJ has been such a paragon of honest reporting over the years. I guess I'll just have to abandon hopes for Vance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

Exactly. I don't believe them. At all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 12, 2026 10:27 PM (JOjZr)

56 32 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

This is the kind of bullshit rumor mongering I was talking about last thread. Since when does any VP have any say in foreign policy decisions? The story is ridiculous. At worst they’re playing a good cop bad cop routine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 10:27 PM (QkvGw)

57 This man says if you are a Trump supporter you should not eat sushi, Mexican food or celebrate Cinco de Mayo,

"Find some German food"pic.twitter.com/yX97Z61YA1

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Somebody better round up this foreign interloper and clap him in irons. He's clearly not any kind of American.

He doesn't even know that our magnificent King, Imperator Americanus and Defender of the Faith Donald I, is ethnically Scottish.

We eat Revenge Haggis here. Pack up your foreign slop and take it to the camp. They're hungry in there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 10:27 PM (BI5O2)

58 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

Seems so. I note the tale of woe has been bounced from the "front" pages...
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XuXeR)

Their most loyal NPCs have her nobility indelibly imprinted in their cerebral hard drive. Everyone else either doesn't care or has seen way too many videos proving the media's version of events false. No reason to continue when they can ramp up the hysteria about impeaching Noem, or whatever the next big thing will be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:28 PM (ExV1e)

59 > Sailors will race anything that floats.
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Us "boy racers" with our HP cars will do the same.

Don't GAF if it's rice, gas, ethanol, diesel... 102... whatever.

Does it have a "loud peddle?" Let's go.....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 10:28 PM (NwnyJ)

60 There is a really nifty winery in Rancho Cucamonga that I used to spend an afternoon at when I was working down that way.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

I know that place. Right at the junction of the 60 and the 15.

The cabernet had nice tannin levels with an assertive topnote of car exhaust.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:28 PM (COQGW)

61 Mount San Antonio"

Meh. I've been to San Antonio. That's not San Antonio.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:28 PM (XuXeR)

62 Yay, ONT!

Only thing that comes to mind as a theme for the three songs is opening with an immediately recognizable riff.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 10:29 PM (lUFok)

63 I'll save it for the MR
the ONT is supposed to be a happy occasion

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:29 PM (ZxPkt)

64 It's embarrassing. When I hike in the summer in places that don't have winter weather all year, I still check the weather, bring supplies, and dress for the worst.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (n9ltV)

Beret, Gauloises pack rolled up in Hanes T, Engineer Boots, Leather Jacket, Tight Blue Jeans.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:29 PM (gbOdA)

65 They’ve learned how to make bank on illegal aliens, that much is clear.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NqWk4)

Some of the legal variety appear to be quite the fraud ATM, too.

Not to mention all the NGOs and religious organizations that seem to be making bank bringing them in, setting them up for welfare, and then enabling the fraud.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:29 PM (6ydKt)

66
Tonight's game is a disappointment
both teams seem equally inept

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZxPkt)

67 >>I admire that. Something about doing the most with the least to show your skill. Good for him!

He was a ridiculously good sailor when we were young. Had the privilege of crewing for him in some bigger boat races. We usual won or finished near the top but it had nothing to do with me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (viF8m)

68 Meh. I've been to San Antonio. That's not San Antonio.
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:28 PM (XuXeR)

Sometimes, when you get a real hard freeze, the river walk will hump up like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ExV1e)

69 We got a new guy at work who is that gay. Luckily he stays in his office with the door closed most of the time.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (VCgbV)

70 50 There is a really nifty winery in Rancho Cucamonga that I used to spend an afternoon at when I was working down that way.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

Sieta Once

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (gbOdA)

71 On Friday, Pooky needed a USB drive to download a BIOS update (that fixed his problem, yay) and couldn't find one in the house, so he grabbed our music one from our car.

Since we don't have our usual music, I've been listening to the local classic rock station, and was today when I went to get my blood drawn.

And this station can play some pretty obscure songs I've never heard of before, like... "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits.

All this to say, GET OUT OF MY MINIVAN, CBD!

Posted by: pookysgirl already lives with one paranoid person at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (Wt5PA)

72 It’s too late baby

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZwdAr)

73 "JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move."

You mean the nuke program that went splodey here a few months ago? That nuke program.

Does anyone even pay attention to these statements?

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (G+z4C)

74 Always appreciate the clever ways CBD names his ONTs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - overthinking things as usual at January 12, 2026 10:25 PM (z2cM0)

Well, I could have called it "Ivan Albright Retrospective: 2026," so perhaps you should count your blessings!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (n9ltV)

75 This man says if you are a Trump supporter you should not eat sushi, Mexican food or celebrate Cinco de Mayo,
"Find some German food"
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I'm an American. I will eat whatever food I like. Fcuk you if you don't like that.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (rdVOm)

76 Following one or other of those links and then hopping around... I see one of Mamdani's city officials got busted by ICE? and he *DEMANDS* they release the crook! Or else what, timwalz? You'll cry harder?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (ULPxl)

77 The full story is "try diplomacy...first."

A bit different.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (n9ltV)

Trump to Ayatollah: Step down please.

Ayatollah: Die yaknee dog!

Trump: Nuke 'em! See JD, I tried Negotiating.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (2WIwB)

78 pretty obscure songs I've never heard of before, like... "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits"

*looks at CD collection. Whimpers*

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (XuXeR)

79

Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (pkeXY)

80 I attribute a lot of this to cell phones. Comms. In the before times, it was understood what you got was what you brought along, get sideways in remote areas you were on your own. There are still seriously remote places and you won’t see anybody for days, especially off trail or off season.

Now? They call emergency dispatch or the Ranger station. “We’re tired, and all out of Pringles. Come get me”

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 10:32 PM (NqWk4)

81 Dire Straits Sultans of Swing is an awesome jam…. That song has been near the top of my playlist for years. That guitar work never gets old…

Dire Straits also contributed the awesome Money for Nothing which played constantly on the radio when I was in college… great tune and back in the day they didn’t censor the lyric “… that little faggot he’s a millionaire” heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xT8gx)

82 We usual won or finished near the top but it had nothing to do with me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (viF8m)

Yup. I had a sailing buddy in college who was a national champion. I just did what he said. No thinking or skill involved.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:32 PM (n9ltV)

83 ... obscure songs ... like... "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits.
Posted by: pookysgirl already lives with one paranoid person at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (Wt5PA)

Obscure. I'm not sure that I believe that you're 29.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:32 PM (ExV1e)

84
"And this station can play some pretty obscure songs I've never heard of before, like... "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits"

How to say you are truly younger than 29 without giving your age

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (wLjpr)

85 I didn’t make it more than a second thru that video of the homo. Sorry

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (NqWk4)

86 Sometimes, when you get a real hard freeze, the river walk will hump up like that."

Air is too clear to be SA.... plus, needs more tourists.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (XuXeR)

87 GET OUT OF MY MINIVAN, CBD!

Posted by: pookysgirl already lives with one paranoid person at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (Wt5PA)

;-)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (n9ltV)

88 We got a new guy at work who is that gay. Luckily he stays in his office with the door closed most of the time.

Regular sized office or smaller, like closet sized, office?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (lUFok)

89 Regular sized office or smaller, like closet sized, office?"

Locker sized?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:34 PM (XuXeR)

90 2000
Eat food on the new cultures taking over your country
2026
You are not allowed to participate in the rich food cultures of your oppressors

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:34 PM (gbOdA)

91 I'm an American. I will eat whatever food I like. Fcuk you if you don't like that.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 10:31 PM (rdVOm)

Bingo.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 10:34 PM (n9ltV)

92 482 True story. Friend of mine is a multiple time world champion Sunfish sailor. Even has a rig named after him.

Sailors will race anything that floats. We're kinda stupid competitive that way.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (

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I admire that. Something about doing the most with the least to show your skill. Good for him!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:18 PM (lrMw0)

I can't wait to see sailors racing while riding dolphins. Not only does speed and distance count, but whether you get bucked off.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 12, 2026 10:34 PM (S/Y4j)

93 ""Sorry, but I watched this, so you have to also. I will not suffer alone.""

Scientific inquiry- What...the fuck.....was that?? It has 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, no doubt doesn't make noise when it farts, and speaks gibberish.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 10:34 PM (snZF9)

94 I mean, this is a playoff game, and the 2 teams have 13 points between them in the 4th quarter

one TD, the rest FGs

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (ZxPkt)

95 I’m not big on sushi or Cinco de Mayo but a lot of Mexican food may as well be considered American like pizza and American Chinese food.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (6ydKt)

96 Air is too clear to be SA.... plus, needs more tourists.
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (XuXeR)

The tourists are all dead on the mountain. CBD mentioned that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

97 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black

Don't bother. They'll renege before the sigs are dry and mock you on international broadcasts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)

98 24 No. No, I don't think I will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

It's not a choice...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
........................................................
youtu.be/urBpdyFCZmo

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (sAmhv)

99 Obscure. I'm not sure that I believe that you're 29.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:32 PM (ExV1e)

What, you think I'm 28? 😁

Posted by: pookysgirl, young whippersnapper at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (Wt5PA)

100 69 We got a new guy at work who is that gay. Luckily he stays in his office with the door closed most of the time.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 12, 2026 10:30 PM (VCgbV)

Kahkis and a french blue button down?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (gbOdA)

101 I can't wait to see sailors racing while riding dolphins. Not only does speed and distance count, but whether you get bucked off.

PRO TIP: They like it when you play the kithera.

Posted by: Arian at January 12, 2026 10:36 PM (COQGW)

102 I’m not big on sushi or Cinco de Mayo but a lot of Mexican food may as well be considered American like pizza and American Chinese food.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (6ydKt)

Most things which Americans think of as Mexican food are Tex-Mex.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:36 PM (ExV1e)

103 I look at "men" *spit* like that head bobbing thing in the video and consider how in 1944, guys his age were launching from flattops in the Pacific as the sun was setting to find the Japanese fleet knowing that they wouldn't have enough fuel to get back to their carrier so they would be ditching in the sea. At night. And they went anyway.

And I wonder what happened to this country that it could produce such crud as the video "guy."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (COQGW)

***

This twink would never survive basic training.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

104 35 I look at "men" *spit* like that head bobbing thing in the video and consider how in 1944, guys his age were launching from flattops in the Pacific as the sun was setting to find the Japanese fleet knowing that they wouldn't have enough fuel to get back to their carrier so they would be ditching in the sea. At night. And they went anyway.

And I wonder what happened to this country that it could produce such crud as the video "guy."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (COQGW)

Well, many of those brave young men didn't leave behind issue from their genes.

The ones who didn't go are the fathers/grandfathers of these pathetic examples of manhood.

Who thankfully will not be passing along their genes, either.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (SRRAx)

105 Regular sized office or smaller, like closet sized, office?
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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He's definitely out of the closet...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (VCgbV)

106 Now the Kneelers need 2 fieldgoals.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (9cHSL)

107 Never heard of Colter Wall before. I think I'll find some of his tunes for the hacienda. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (47diA)

108 I'm planning on taking micro spikes and an ice axe into the Sierras, in July. Those guys are morons. Surprised you don't need a permit on Baldy. CA loves them some permits.

Posted by: mot at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (fIPNY)

109 ...were morons.

Posted by: mot at January 12, 2026 10:38 PM (fIPNY)

110 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

Seems so. I note the tale of woe has been bounced from the "front" pages...
Posted by: man

That story spoiled faster than milk left out on the counter all day.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:38 PM (u/kd+)

111 Be Good

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:38 PM (gbOdA)

112
Well, the WSJ has been such a paragon of honest reporting over the years. I guess I'll just have to abandon hopes for Vance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026

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I was a 30+ year WSJ Subscriber, but they're dead to me. But I do like Kim Strassel.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:38 PM (d8kiQ)

113 44 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

Seems so. I note the tale of woe has been bounced from the "front" pages...
Posted by: man
...............................
They read the same polls the democrats do.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

114 My grandfather actually won a submarine race.

He was in the same squadron as Nimitz.

Both were LTs at the time.

Posted by: no one at January 12, 2026 10:39 PM (qFwJc)

115 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black

He can't be that frigging stupid. It has to be bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (snZF9)

116 Air is too clear to be SA.... plus, needs more tourists.
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:33 PM (XuXeR)

The tourists are all dead on the mountain. CBD mentioned that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

They started out yelling "Remember Old Baldy - Don Rickles!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (S/Y4j)

117 Well, here we sit, in NE Texas, on a Monday. The First Lady has lost her dad. He appears to have gone sometime Sunday. We had some friends do a wellness check and he was in the bedroom on the floor.

He wasn't a good father, was incredibly selfish and didn't really do for anyone but himself, but he was her dad. Honor thy mother, honor thy father. And she did. There should be no regrets.

God Bless you all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (+x87d)

118 What, you think I'm 28? 😁
Posted by: pookysgirl, young whippersnapper at January 12, 2026 10:35 PM (Wt5PA)

But for certain unhappy stories of your recent life, I'd have assumed no more than 19.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (ExV1e)

119 Most things which Americans think of as Mexican food are Tex-Mex.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:36 PM (ExV1e)

Yup. It’s ubiquitous in our culture.
Any grocery store in the country can get you a Mexican-type meal frozen or homemade.

It’s like asking Americans to give up bugers and fries at this point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (6ydKt)

120 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

I would have thought that Mark Ruffalo's pin he was wearing at the Golden Globes would have given the story a few more days of legs.

I guess wearing a pin just isn't enough anymore.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (COQGW)

121 Our new mayor, Helena Moreno, got inaugurated today, with -- get this -- Kamala Harris visiting to swear her in. Not too surprising. Helena interned for Hillary once upon a time and is probably a dyed-in-the-wool Dem. At least she's attractive and we won't have to look at that frog-faced Latoya the Destroya on TV anymore.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

122 We got a new guy at work who is that gay. Luckily he stays in his office with the door closed most of the time.
-----

A few years ago at another company we got a gay admin. He was under 6 foot tall, fat, and ordinary. He proceeded to fill his office (which us agents would be walking in and out of on a couple of times a week basis) with.....Audrey Hepburn pictures.

He was fired in less than a week. Not because of the pictures, but because he was a defiant prick who couldn't get along with anyone normal.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)

123 And I wonder what happened to this country that it could produce such crud as the video "guy."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:20 PM (COQGW)

In my years in the Army, I served with a dozen men and women who were gay. Half of them were kicked out of the Service. Of the others , two were what I would call average troops. The final four I would absolutely want on my team in any future war. Sharp soldiers, smart, and trustworthy. And they kept their proclivities to themselves and it never showed up on duty.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

124 Rosa Parks was a plant. The whole thing was a set up. It's all part of the big lie.
It could be that DeepState and commies coexist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (DK41a)

125 Mark Ruffalo has to have one of the more punchable faces out there.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:42 PM (n4Qav)

126 I find it hard to believe that Vance would give such idiotic advice. If he did I find it even harder to to believe Trump would take it…. Marco needs a 1001st job, new Shah of Iran

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:42 PM (xT8gx)

127 Here comes that giant poodle dog, big as a blimp, with a rhinestone collar..

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 10:42 PM (jc0TO)

128 We had insufferable little faggots back in the '40s. Unfortunately, they will always walk among us. But back then, they didn't let them join the Army.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 10:42 PM (BI5O2)

129 You too, Sponge...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XuXeR)

130 Well, here we sit, in NE Texas, on a Monday. The First Lady has lost her dad. He appears to have gone sometime Sunday. We had some friends do a wellness check and he was in the bedroom on the floor.

He wasn't a good father, was incredibly selfish and didn't really do for anyone but himself, but he was her dad. Honor thy mother, honor thy father. And she did. There should be no regrets.

God Bless you all.
Posted by: Sponge

I am so sorry to hear that. My deepest condolences to the First Lady, you & your daughter.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:43 PM (u/kd+)

131 God Bless you all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (+x87d)

dude you are having a rough time

Prayers

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:43 PM (gbOdA)

132 Our new mayor, Helena Moreno, got inaugurated today, with -- get this -- Kamala Harris visiting to swear her in. Not too surprising. Helena interned for Hillary once upon a time and is probably a dyed-in-the-wool Dem. At least she's attractive and we won't have to look at that frog-faced Latoya the Destroya on TV anymore.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (wzUl9

Did Kamala leave a C-note on the bar and tell them to pass her a cold vodka every time she walked by?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 12, 2026 10:43 PM (TVOOe)

133 Pick 6?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:43 PM (9cHSL)

134 >>Yup. I had a sailing buddy in college who was a national champion. I just did what he said. No thinking or skill involved.

It's kind of waning around here these days but when I was in my yute it seemed like every other person around here was a national or world champion sailor. Or an oyster farmer. Or an artist who painted sailboats.

Still have the oyster farmer neighbors.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:44 PM (viF8m)

135 Diogenes, I had similar experiments during my times. A few were obnoxious and wanted to a. be noticed as gay and b. get thrown out. I had a young woman I "thought" swung toward the girls, but it turned out she did NOT! I can't explain why I thought so about her.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:44 PM (47diA)

136 I find it hard to believe that Vance would give such idiotic advice. If he did I find it even harder to to believe Trump would take it…. Marco needs a 1001st job, new Shah of Iran
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:42 PM (xT8gx)

But the WSJ reported it. They wouldn't... let's be nice and say "be mistaken"... would they? I bet they've got anonymous sources who confirmed all of this. It's just got to be true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (ExV1e)

137 Our new mayor, Helena Moreno, got inaugurated today, with -- get this -- Kamala Harris visiting to swear her in. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026
*
Did Kamala leave a C-note on the bar and tell them to pass her a cold vodka every time she walked by?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 12, 2026

***
I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (wzUl9)

138 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move."

Call me a bit optimistic but I thought a couple of B-2 Spirits ended the negotiations back a few months ago?

Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (G+z4C)

139 {{{Sponge and the FIRST! Lady}}}

Posted by: pookysgirl, giving e-hugs at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (Wt5PA)

140 Deepest condolences to the First Lady!🙏🙏

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (VCgbV)

141 Back around 1995 I climbed Mount Baldy with a coworker in the summer. It was more like a hike… the path we took to the summit didn’t require any special skills or equipment… just a long uphill hike… beautiful scenery

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:45 PM (xT8gx)

142 115 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move.
Posted by: Don Black

He can't be that frigging stupid. It has to be bullshit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (snZF9)

Could explain what Tucker was doing at the WH today, if that’s true. Somebody mentioned it on a thread earlier.

Why negotiate at all?
Let the protests play out, take advantage if the opportunity arises.

Watch and see if the Iranian street negotiates the mullahs out of existence.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:46 PM (6ydKt)

143 I see Crew 11 now has an undocking and landing in the Pacific scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. The feeds on Space Affairs' EweTube channel start at 4:40 PM EST, Jan 14, and 2:40 PM EST, Jan 15.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 12, 2026 10:46 PM (S/Y4j)

144 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

I would have thought that Mark Ruffalo's pin he was wearing at the Golden Globes would have given the story a few more days of legs.

I guess wearing a pin just isn't enough anymore.
-----

Who is Mark Ruffalo?

Yeah, I get it--I'm "supposed" to know. But I know who Leo DiCaprio is, and I know who Brad Pitt is, and I know who Sidney Sweeney is, and I know who Jennifer Lawrence is, and I know who Billy Bob Thorton is. Why does Mark Ruffalo imagine that I give a crap who he is?

Renee Good wasn't good, and was a failed human being because nobody called her out on her bullshit decisions that started long before she decided what she really needed in life was a "wife" and an occupation that involved harassing heavily armed men with a legal mandate. RIP, but I don't want to hear another thing about her.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 12, 2026 10:46 PM (Cjcf6)

145 Prayers Sponge.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

146 Sack fumble touchdown.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:47 PM (9cHSL)

147 Meet Mattel’s autistic Barbie doll — who carries a fidget spinner, avoids eye contact

And cousin Dave who gets the Medicaid contract to be her aids and cashes in on $145k a year to drive he to Chik Fil A thrice weekly.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:47 PM (gbOdA)

148 I shall endeavor to cross-post less shit from X

it seems the only demonstrably true posts are the funny dog videos

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 10:47 PM (ZxPkt)

149 Sorry to hear about your FIL, Sponge.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:47 PM (SRRAx)

150 {{{Sponge and family}}}

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

151 {{{Sponge}}}

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:48 PM (ULPxl)

152 Gary Larson loved penguins

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 10:48 PM (QkvGw)

153 94 I mean, this is a playoff game, and the 2 teams have 13 points between them in the 4th quarter

one TD, the rest FGs
Posted by: Don Black
......................................
I can't speak for the Texans, but the Steelers are a mediocre team who accidentally won a shitty division. They're losing right now. They'll lose next week if they win tonight. They're not winning tonight. A typical Tomlin team. Meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (sAmhv)

154 He wasn't a good father, was incredibly selfish and didn't really do for anyone but himself, but he was her dad. Honor thy mother, honor thy father. And she did. There should be no regrets.

God Bless you all.
Posted by: Sponge

There is a strange grief when a challenging parent dies. But no regrets when you did your best to care for them. Condolences to you both.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (n4Qav)

155 When Mrs D and i were dating we'd go park along the Columbia River and watch the submarine races.
IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: Diogenes

Did that on Shore Road in Brooklyn, almost right under the Verrazano. With comely Norwegian lasses.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (oftw2)

156 Renee Good wasn't good, and was a failed human being because nobody called her out on her bullshit decisions that started long before she decided what she really needed in life was a "wife" and an occupation that involved harassing heavily armed men with a legal mandate. RIP, but I don't want to hear another thing about her.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 12, 2026 10:46 PM (Cjcf6)

She was good, but she wasn't good, she was bad, but how can she be bad if she was good, but she was bad...Norman coordinate...Norman...norman...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)

157 Who is Mark Ruffalo?

I'm told that he played the Hulk in some comic book movies. Having never seen a Hulk movie I can't confirm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (COQGW)

158 Rosa Parks was a plant. The whole thing was a set up. It's all part of the big lie.
It could be that DeepState and commies coexist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (DK41a)

Now we have plant-human hybrids, along with the lizard-human hybrids like Zuckerberg and Newsome?

All I can say is not to piss off a skunk-human hybrid.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 12, 2026 10:49 PM (S/Y4j)

159 Most things which Americans think of as Mexican food are Tex-Mex.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Wet Burrito is Dutch - Beltline Bar in Van Rapids, Michigan.

Used have this "Mexican Seafood"* place where I used to live many years ago. I think it was creole appropriated by some Portuguese guy because everybody knows Mexico has no seafood or it would be on the Taco Bell menu.

* Actually really good stuff.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)

160 Who is Mark Ruffalo?

I'm aghast. Mark Ruffalo is a professional pretender. And he has completed High School. If someone with that kind of gravitas is not your moral compass... I just don't know what to say.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:50 PM (ExV1e)

161 It could be that DeepState and commies coexist.
——-

The commies ARE the deepstate, so yeah that tracks.

Dad told me the entire psych eval for Diesel boat submarine service in the 1940s at the physical was everyone waited on benches and was seen one at a time by a shrink in his office. You went in, sat down and he asked “Do you like girls?”. I guess they had it pretty well figured out

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 10:50 PM (NqWk4)

162
They'll lose next week if they win tonight. They're not winning tonight. A typical Tomlin team. Meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

____________

buT NinEteEn WiNnInG season!

Posted by: Yinzers everywhere at January 12, 2026 10:51 PM (t2vGZ)

163 152 Gary Larson loved penguins
Posted by: Tom Servo

All well-adjusted people with above average intelligence love penguins. It's the miscreants, cretins, and losers who don't.

Posted by: Mighty Clouds of Joy at January 12, 2026 10:51 PM (oftw2)

164 >>When Mrs D and i were dating we'd go park along the Columbia River and watch the submarine races.
IYKWIMAITTYD.

I have no idea what you're talking about. If I wasn't sailing I was usually helping little old ladies cross the street.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

165 All well-adjusted people with above average intelligence love penguins. It's the miscreants, cretins, and losers who don't.

Don't listen to him, people. He's a paid operative of Big Penguin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:52 PM (COQGW)

166 All well-adjusted people with above average intelligence love penguins. It's the miscreants, cretins, and losers who don't.

I can't say I love penguins, I've never eaten any.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 10:52 PM (lUFok)

167 Treasury Sec. Bessent tells
@christopherrufo
one of the many shocking fraud stories out of MN: "One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000."

https://tinyurl.com/3snmzvsd
(TheBlaze on X with video)

Hilarious.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 10:53 PM (6ydKt)

168 Didn't she attend the school for communist rabble rousers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:53 PM (9cHSL)

169 Hollywood is swarming with dickheads like Ruffalo… they fell bass ackwards into an entertainment career acquiring more money and fame than their talent ever deserved. Deep down they know their success in that random industry was an accident of fate and as a result they’re incredibly insecure and they harbor tons of guilt for their success… so to make themselves feel better they virtue signal constantly on the fad of the moment… they’re shallow idiotic people

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (xT8gx)

170 167 Treasury Sec. Bessent tells
@christopherrufo
one of the many shocking fraud stories out of MN: "One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000."

LOL. That's some funny shit right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (COQGW)

171 *checks intertubes*

Winner of the Steelers-Texans game will visit the Patriots next week.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (ULPxl)

172 Texans up 17-6 with the ball & 7:30 to go. It's essentially over.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (UVyKP)

173 I only made it about 2/3 of the way through the video.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
----
I felt obligated to check out the content.
I had a glancing interaction with the San Francisco Opera 45 or so years ago. If you dumped that guy into that crew, he would be stage director in a week.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (4YokX)

174
Didn't she attend the school for communist rabble rousers?

Posted by: Boss Moss

___________

That would be, actually, the case.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 10:55 PM (t2vGZ)

175 Tomorrow is Gregory Peck Day on the Movies! Channel. The Boys From Brazil is included, and I've never seen it, though I've read the novel a couple of times.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:55 PM (wzUl9)

176 162
They'll lose next week if they win tonight. They're not winning tonight. A typical Tomlin team. Meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

____________

buT NinEteEn WiNnInG season!
Posted by: Yinzers everywhere
.......................................................
Heh! Well, I'm a Yinzer expat. Also, I've seen this before. Tomlin era Steelers is the definition of insanity.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 10:55 PM (sAmhv)

177 That gum-cracking, head-bobbing twink needs to be fired from a trebuchet, holding a bag of angry vipers (aren't they always angry?).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 12, 2026 10:16 PM (kpS4V)

Correction: He needs to be fired from a trebuchet IN a bag of angry vipers.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 10:56 PM (vQt6o)

178 Highlaner Folk School. TN.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:56 PM (9cHSL)

179 Has the media lost interest in Renee Good"

Seems so. I note the tale of woe has been bounced from the "front" pages...
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XuXeR)

Just go away, Renee
We won't see thee blocking streets no more
The fuck around and find out
may seem like a surprise
to the unwise....

Posted by: The Right Banke at January 12, 2026 10:57 PM (nbLIj)

180 'Bout time I burrowed into bed. Until the Tech Thread, then!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wzUl9)

181 Wall Street Journal is old and gay. They've spent the last year talking down this economy. Being unsuccessful at that they are now looking to the future by trying to cut JD off at the knees.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:57 PM (DK41a)

182 For anyone interested, there are just eight shopping days until Cheese Lovers Day on January 20. Don't let it sneak up on you this year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:58 PM (COQGW)

183 Too bad… I root for the old guys in that young man’s game so I’d have liked to see Aaron Rodgers win one for us old guys. But I didn’t expect it so I’m not surprised they’re gonna lose… wonder if he’ll come back for one more year or hang up the cleats… probably retire; it’s time

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 10:58 PM (xT8gx)

184 Good Riddance, Renee.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 10:58 PM (n4Qav)

185 Penguins. Why did it have to be penguins?

Posted by: Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man at January 12, 2026 10:58 PM (D0HYP)

186 Goodnight Bobby. Thanks for all the music and memories.

https://tinyurl.com/mpecc7mp

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)

187 Sure the Somali fraud is kind of funny but the entire illegal fraud is killing people.
Fake truck drivers.
No license or insurance.
Stealing ER services and killing Americans.

50k gun violence deaths haha
I bet illegals kill 2x that.

But hey, we have cheap roofs and dead nursing students.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:00 PM (gbOdA)

188 Matt Ridley
@mattwridley
·
Follow
"By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 12, 2026 11:00 PM (Cjcf6)

189 I am fucked
I need an 8 to win $1000 in the game tonight

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:01 PM (gbOdA)

190 JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal reports Vice President JD Vance is urging Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran’s Islamic regime, calling a “real negotiation” on its nuclear program the smartest move

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can ~~find a rock~~ move your task force into position.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 12, 2026 11:01 PM (D0HYP)

191 The Steelers are done, which for me means the NFL season is done. At least with the Pirates, the season is done by June. Watching a replay of 6 hour sportcar race at the F1 track in Abu Dhabi. I really like endurance racing. Got a few of them this time of year.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 11:02 PM (sAmhv)

192 "This man says if you are a Trump supporter you should not eat sushi, Mexican food or celebrate Cinco de Mayo, ..."

This "man".

Doubt.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 12, 2026 11:02 PM (O7YUW)

193 Follow
"By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it.
Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 12, 2026 11:00 PM (Cjcf6)

We all have agency
We all have the right to accept or deny

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:02 PM (gbOdA)

194 Condolences to Sponge and family! prayers for you!

Posted by: Iris at January 12, 2026 11:03 PM (bOJ2I)

195
The Steelers think making the postseason is the equivalent of winning the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 11:03 PM (t2vGZ)

196 Who's up for a little trivia?

In the US there are listed 1,003 Sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal immigrants (cities, counties, and states). Your question is thus:

How many of these jurisdictions self-proclaiming Sanctuary status allowed a referendum vote by residents to sanctify that status?

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 11:03 PM (dIske)

197 now a 0 and I need an 8 to win

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:04 PM (gbOdA)

198 0?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:04 PM (9cHSL)

199 Steelers are moving in the wrong direction.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:05 PM (9cHSL)

200 Islam is an ideology. Its not a race. Its never been a race. Their own "belief system", which is bullshit because they believe in nothing other than them winning, asserts that all of the world belongs to Islam. "All of the world" means that Islam is race-agnostic. Us white and brown and black Americans, and our friends the native Americans in the United States, to them, are Islamic and subject to their bullshit.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:06 PM (Cjcf6)

201 198 0?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:04 PM (9cHSL)

Shotgun
100 to buy a number
at the score for a winner
24 and 6 is a zero

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:06 PM (gbOdA)

202 Pick 6.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:07 PM (9cHSL)

203 CORRECT. The answer is zero. Only one jurisdiction has even approached a referendum process on the issue, and that is Takoma Park, Maryland. Takoma Park had a referendum vote back in 1990 (originally to allow illegal immigrants to vote in local elections) It very narrowly passed.

Cities like Chicago had council members request a referendum vote. But in all cases, it was promptly shot down by other council members.

BUT....we need to protect the Democracy....right Democrats?

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

204 Never heard of Colter Wall before. I think I'll find some of his tunes for the hacienda. Thanks, CBD.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:37 PM (47diA)

Colter's father, Brad Wall, was the conservative Premier of Saskatchewan who broke the stranglehold that the socialist NDP had on that Province for decades.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:07 PM (8zz6B)

205 >>> Chaos Erupts as Hundreds of Somalis Storm ICE Operation at Strip Mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota

As I noted before, the need a quick reaction force to cordon off these areas, load them into trucks, and expedite deportation as enemy combatants....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

206 I hope it doesn't involve Pittsvurgh scoring.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:08 PM (9cHSL)

207 This is an absolute paddling.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

208 now 6 is the winner I need a 2

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 11:08 PM (gbOdA)

209 Rosa Parks was a plant. The whole thing was a set up. It's all part of the big lie.

What was the set up? That for the court case the plaintiffs picked someone sympathetic? That's good lawyering, not a set up.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 12, 2026 11:09 PM (D0HYP)

210 Missed a call from BIL today. Don't know if it was a butt-dial or not-- when he uses the relay (deaf) service, caller ID shows his phone #, not the relay #.

Expected him to then text, but no. Hoping the call was a goof!

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)

211 He wasn't a good father, was incredibly selfish and didn't really do for anyone but himself, but he was her dad. Honor thy mother, honor thy father. And she did. There should be no regrets.

God Bless you all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 12, 2026 10:40 PM (+x87d)

Well, condolences going out to you, regardless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:10 PM (8zz6B)

212 Islam is an ideology. Its not a race.
++++

But they most definitely have an internal racial hiarchy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

213 "One of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (COQGW)

I have to admit I'd have to ask the judge (if I were the juror who turned him in) "Ummm, do I get to keep any of that as a reward? Not the $120,000 he tried to give me, but the $80,000 he kept for himself?"

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 11:11 PM (vQt6o)

214 Thanks, AOP.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (47diA)

215 Sorry I'm late, I was looking for my rapid growth formula. IbthinknI left it near the penguin pool.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (x2NDD)

216 JQ, can you have the moose out front tell BiL that Idaho is closed for the winter?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (n4Qav)

217 Oh thank heavens
Avalanche hockey game just started the 2nd

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (ZxPkt)

218 Point of order - they aren’t “immigrants”, that refers to foreigners who have legal status, having gone through the port of entry and the rest of it.

The usual suspects like to claim “no human is illegal” but that is not the case. They fall into lots of categories but they don’t belong here and they are not immigrants. In recent years illegal aliens is not sufficient to describe. The 9/11/2001 hijackers were largely “visa overstays” - but most accurately described as unlawful enemy combatants

In order to solve a problem it is important to accurately identify and describe the problem.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (NqWk4)

219 124 Rosa Parks was a plant. The whole thing was a set up. It's all part of the big lie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:41 PM (DK41a)

Yeah! Keep those coloreds off the buses with good white folk!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM (n9ltV)

220
Islam is an ideology. Its not a race.

__________

And definitely not a religion. The proof in the pudding is the zeal with which otherwise Christophobic anti-religious hate bigots defend it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 11:13 PM (t2vGZ)

221 Judicial Theatre.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:13 PM (9cHSL)

222 Wall Street Journal is old and gay.
-----

True. And let's ponder that for a moment. A publication whose mission includes something like "Let's tell people the state of Wall Street" somehow decided..................."Well...perhaps we could focus on other things...and give them the raw Wall Street stats without (real) commentary afterwards."

That's a HELL of a lot of nerve.

Its also a great example of why suing companies board of directors is the most under-used strategies for investors. This is basic level stuff. The Board should have reeled in the Wall Street Journal a very, very, long time ago. All of these once-great companies who let *bullshit* get in the way of their money should have their Boards of Directors sued out of existence.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:14 PM (Cjcf6)

223 Just got back from the produce aisle. What'd I miss?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 12, 2026 11:16 PM (nbLIj)

224 How many of these jurisdictions self-proclaiming Sanctuary status allowed a referendum vote by residents to sanctify that status?

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 11:03 PM (dIske)

Uh, zero?

Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2026 11:16 PM (FMtrg)

225 Yeah! Keep those coloreds off the buses with good white folk!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 11:12 PM

That wasn't the point, I don't think. She wasn't just a put upon woman who had had enough, as the media wanted to portray it. She was NAACP and, I think but don't quote me, a commie.

Btw, not defending seg, just noting.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 11:17 PM (jc0TO)

226 > Thief snatched 'beloved' walrus penis

Penis *bone*, not a penis sensu stricto. A baculum in fancy Latin doctor-speak, or an oosik to Alaska Natives.

They're big enough to use as a club, no kidding.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (IG3/x)

227 New Lada sales were down 24.4% in 2025, according to russki media.

News you probably can't use.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (U/Byj)

228 LOL, BarelyScaryMary!

It's been much warmer than usual here so far. We've only had a couple of "hit and melt" snows, when most winters there's snow on the ground for a least a couple of consecutive weeks, plus some of a few days here and there.

BIL said he was going back to AZ. Then, came back to his abandoned trailer (it was actually still there in S. Idaho after 2 weeks!) to grab some stuff he'd forgotten.. and I was able to hold him off from driving up here at Christmas.

He then said he was going to Colorado (don't know the reason) and that's the last I heard, at end of December.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (rdVOm)

229 As I recall, Lovecraft featured giant penguins in At the Mountains of Madness. It’s a great story but those monsters are never not funny.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (EXyHK)

230 Many are saying Iran is not Muslim. I have never met an Iranian that was anything but a Muslim.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (DK41a)

231 I know the Rosa Parks thing was a milestone, but when I rode the short bus to school, I wanted to sit in the back.

Posted by: Governor Tim Walz at January 12, 2026 11:19 PM (oftw2)

232 Just to acknowledge that this made me larf at the end of the last thread ... which I just read:

469 A little boy with diarrhea tells him mom he needs Viagra.

His mom asks him, "why on earth do you need that?"

Little boy replies. "Isn't that what you give dad when his shit won't get hard?"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (u/kd+)

Most excellent joke ...

Posted by: browndog shakes out his coat at January 12, 2026 11:19 PM (3sXRv)

233 When Mrs D and i were dating we'd go park along the Columbia River and watch the submarine races.
IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: Diogenes
-----
I crewed ( i.e. mostly ballast, "pull.on this sheet when I tell you", and ducking the main sail boom) for a buddy with a San Juan racing in SYSCO (not the condiment company). The courses were always between the I5 and Glenn Jackson Bridges.

In my misspent youth, we watched the submarine races on the Monongahela. Up periscope!

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 11:20 PM (4YokX)

234 >>>That wasn't the point, I don't think. She wasn't just a put upon woman who had had enough, as the media wanted to portray it. She was NAACP and, I think but don't quote me, a commie.

Btw, not defending seg, just noting.
Posted by: toby928(c)
---

She was more than a member she was an operative. The whole thing was a set up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:21 PM (DK41a)

235 Nobody ever got to vote on hardly any of this shit.

Anything inconvenient however, should the taxpayer get a case of the ass on something, gets shot down by the corrupt judiciary. Social issues too. California twice voted down homosexual “marriage” is my understanding. The usual suspects went judge shopping, and found a homosexual judge who thought it was fine.

Judges decided the taxpayer citizen is on the hook for illegal aliens in the public schools. Plyler.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 11:22 PM (NqWk4)

236 On think that I really appreciated about the old Civil Rights Movement was that they knew they would have to suffer consequences for their civil disobedience and accepted it. In many cases, that was the plan. To, as MLKjr put it, fill the jails to cost money and make their complaint visible.

The current protesters don't expect anything but praise for their "crimes".

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 11:22 PM (jc0TO)

237 JQ, I followed the drama of BiLs abandoned trailer. Glad he packed off to Colorado. You have enough on your plate I think, to not need him around.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 11:22 PM (n4Qav)

238 One thing

FMF

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 11:22 PM (jc0TO)

239 In my misspent youth, we watched the submarine races on the Monongahela. Up periscope!
Posted by: buddhaha

Was it near the confluence of the Allegheny, forming the Ohio?

Posted by: I Love Using Confluence In A Sentence at January 12, 2026 11:23 PM (oftw2)

240 She was more than a member she was an operative. The whole thing was a set up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:21 PM

It was well planned.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 11:23 PM (jc0TO)

241 I followed the drama of BiLs abandoned trailer. Glad he packed off to Colorado. You have enough on your plate I think, to not need him around.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Oh, yeah! That's why I'm desperately hoping that today's phone call was unintentional. I haven't texted back, don't want to open a door!

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

242 Dire straits. Basel Switzerland.
Sultans of swing.

Rocking virtuoso. No finer.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2026 11:25 PM (HXUed)

243 > . As it turned out, she had been given $200,000 to bribe the juror and she skimmed $80,000."

LOL. That's some funny shit right there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:54 PM (COQGW)

Old one: a man decides that he's going to try to take some of his fortune with him, so he gets $3 million in cash and gives an envelope containing $1 million each to his doctor, his priest, and his lawyer, with instructions to throw the envelope in his grave when he dies.

After the funeral, the three are in a bar having a drink.

The priest says "I have a confession to make. Our orphanage needs a new roof, a new furnace, and many other repairs, so I threw in only $700,000".

The doctor says "I, too, have a confession. As you all know, I volunteer one of the year in a clinic in Africa. It was in desperate need of a new X-ray machine, so I threw in only $500,000".

The lawyer says "Gentlemen, I am shocked. Shocked! I threw in a check for the full amount."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 11:26 PM (IG3/x)

244 IIRC, the Rosa Park arrest was the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, which was always part of the plan.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 11:26 PM (jc0TO)

245 On think that I really appreciated about the old Civil Rights Movement was that they knew they would have to suffer consequences for their civil disobedience and accepted it. In many cases, that was the plan. To, as MLKjr put it, fill the jails to cost money and make their complaint visible.

The current protesters don't expect anything but praise for their "crimes".
-----

MLK was a flawed human, but preached about the "quality of one's character".

Not a single black activist since then has uttered any assertion that one's character was more important than the color of their skin.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Cjcf6)

246 I used to have to go to a carnival sideshow to see The Bearded Lady. Now, I just go to Walmark.

Posted by: Savvy Consumer at January 12, 2026 11:28 PM (oftw2)

247 Know your timwalzes:
https://shorturl.at/EarMk

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 11:29 PM (ULPxl)

248 That guy set back homo tolerance by a 100 years.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 11:29 PM (KDPiq)

249 If anyone wants an oosik of his very own:

https://www.alaskafurexchange.com/oosik.shtml

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 11:29 PM (IG3/x)

250 Jm J. Bullock is still alive at 70. A miracle of modern medicine, for sure.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at January 12, 2026 11:30 PM (oftw2)

251 Was it near the confluence of the Allegheny, forming the Ohio?
Posted by: I Love Using Confluence In A Sentence
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Nope.
Upstream, near Kennywood. Incidentally, one of the best nonetheless (old fashioned) amusement parks. Three great wooden Rollercoasters.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 11:31 PM (4YokX)

252 Hello Horde,

I appreciate your ongoing support of the blog while I’ve been doing whatever I’ve been doing that has kept me away.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 12, 2026 11:33 PM (GTUth)

253 If anyone wants an oosik of his very own:

https://www.alaskafurexchange.com/oosik.shtml
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 11:29 PM (IG3/x)

I'll bet they go for a very stiff price.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:33 PM (8zz6B)

254 the iranians i met were 'muslim' but thought the hajj was a superstitious joke.
pakistanis and bangladeshis took it seriously

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 11:34 PM (gKWVE)

255 fashioned) amusement parks. Three great wooden Rollercoasters.
Posted by: buddhaha

Only coaster I ever went on is The Cyclone on Coney Island when I was 15. 70 now and never road on another since.

Posted by: Not The Amusement Park Type at January 12, 2026 11:35 PM (oftw2)

256 I'll bet they go for a very stiff price.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sure they do... they're so hard to find.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 11:35 PM (rdVOm)

257 I wonder if thermite can be knitted into pink sweaters?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:35 PM (8zz6B)

258 Evenn’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 12, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)

259 rode

Posted by: Not The Amusement Park Type at January 12, 2026 11:36 PM (oftw2)

260 Post
Conversation
SightBringer
@_The_Prophet__
⚡️This is the terminal breakdown.

Iran’s currency collapse is the final non-kinetic phase transition before irreversible regime fragmentation. This is an extinction-level internal systems failure.

Full Coherence Analysis:

1. The currency has entered full reflexive death spiral

•Domestic trust is zero
•International convertibility is zero
•Sovereign backing capacity is zero

2. Structural implications:

•All imports halt immediately (fuel, food, medicine)
•Black market becomes the only functioning economy
•The regime loses control over prices, payrolls, logistics, and loyalty

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:36 PM (Cjcf6)

261 Know your timwalzes:
https://shorturl.at/EarMk

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Lol. We are Morons and not Imbeciles. It should be on a t-shirt.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 11:37 PM (n4Qav)

262 the iranians i met were 'muslim' but thought the hajj was a superstitious joke.
pakistanis and bangladeshis took it seriously
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 11:34 PM (gKWVE)

Well, the Persians were originally Zoroastrian. Why they worshipped Zorro, I don't know, but it's right there in the name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:37 PM (8zz6B)

263 My swag on the common thread among those three tunes:
Aren’t they all in the same key?

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at January 12, 2026 11:38 PM (h60a/)

264 If anyone wants an oosik of his very own:

https://www.alaskafurexchange.com/oosik.shtml
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 11:29 PM (IG3/x)

I'll bet they go for a very stiff price.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:33 PM (8zz6B)
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No. That's a phallusy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 11:40 PM (xC2Ng)

265 251: Conneaut Lake Park (NW Pa) used to have an old wooden roller coaster. The new owners of the property tore it down after a fire. It was an 'accident'. The locals have doubts. The new owners want mcmansions, not amusement parks, albeit one that was quietly disappearing. Sad. I have fond memories of Conneaut. Parts of the park were still usable but it was pretty much on its way out. Time marches on.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 11:40 PM (sAmhv)

266 Correction:
Dire straits
Sultan of swing.
Alchemy live.

Take your pick. Out of this world.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2026 11:41 PM (HXUed)

267 Wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 11:41 PM (9cHSL)

268 Post
Conversation
Square profile picture
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Tucker Carlson Heads To Iran To Put Down Protests https://buff.ly/w77C3PE

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:42 PM (Cjcf6)

269 >>> 252 Hello Horde,

I appreciate your ongoing support of the blog while I’ve been doing whatever I’ve been doing that has kept me away.
Posted by: Pete Bog at January 12, 2026 11:33 PM (GTUth)

What *have* you been up to?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 11:44 PM (ULPxl)

270 Alchemy Live is one of the 5 most valued DVDs I own. Most of the world already agrees how good most bands were in their prime live in concert. But people sleep on Dire Straits, especially before they ruined themselves with the "Money For Nothing" stuff.

Alchemy Live is incredible. It settles arguments.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:45 PM (Cjcf6)

271 Many are saying Iran is not Muslim. I have never met an Iranian that was anything but a Muslim.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (DK41a)
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Come on over and meet our daughter in law's father. Or just pay a visit to one of several Jewish Iranian communities in Israel, NA or EU.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 11:45 PM (xC2Ng)

272 It was actually a good day for me. Yes, a very rare sighting but thought I'd mention it.

Iran: if Seal Team Six pops in and blows away the entire Iranian government, yes, that is good.

But the Iranians are moslems. They not only want despots and strongmen, they can't survive without them.

The problem is not Iran. The problem is Islam.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 12, 2026 11:47 PM (CHHv1)

273 Only coaster I ever went on is The Cyclone on Coney Island when I was 15. 70 now and never road on another since.
Posted by: Not The Amusement Park Type
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If you ever decide to take the plunge, do.it right: Cedar Point (near Toledo) in Ohio.
Last time I.was there they had 14 or 15 coasters..I know they have more now.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 11:47 PM (4YokX)

274 Kithara:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kithara

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 12, 2026 11:48 PM (qGDNl)

275 Just read that Scott Adams has been moved to a hospice.

I will miss much of his intelligence and wit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 11:48 PM (xC2Ng)

276 Did the Second Amendment Foundation and the Illinois State Rifle Association just randomly pick Otis McDonald for their lawsuit that eventually resulted in the Supreme Court decision McDonald v. City of Chicago, or was that a set up too?

Posted by: Chuck C at January 12, 2026 11:49 PM (D0HYP)

277 If you ever decide to take the plunge, do.it right: Cedar Point (near Toledo) in Ohio. Last time I.was there they had 14 or 15 coasters..I know they have more now.
Posted by: buddhaha

I loved them there as a kid but now they make me nauseous.

Alas, I've grown old.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 11:49 PM (cYBz/)

278 In his prime, Scott Adams was hilarious and insightful. He will be missed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 12, 2026 11:50 PM (CHHv1)

279 Just read that Scott Adams has been moved to a hospice.

I will miss much of his intelligence and wit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog

Poor man. May he have comfort and peace .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 12, 2026 11:51 PM (n4Qav)

280 271 Many are saying Iran is not Muslim. I have never met an Iranian that was anything but a Muslim.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:18 PM (DK41a)
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Come on over and meet our daughter in law's father. Or just pay a visit to one of several Jewish Iranian communities in Israel, NA or EU.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Doesn't disprove my point.
It's a long way from USA to Israel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 11:51 PM (DK41a)

281 I hope it is not too late to acknowledge that in addition to being the egg man, I am indeed the walrus.

Goo ku ku chu. (Which is Inuit for hung like a walrus)

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 12, 2026 11:52 PM (GTUth)

282 Many are saying Iran is not Muslim. I have never met an Iranian that was anything but a Muslim.

Posted by: Braenyard

I know a couple of Iranians that are Chaldean Catholic. I imagine there aren't too many though. They've been hounded for years.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 11:52 PM (cYBz/)

283 Skateaway

https://tinyurl.com/ypxsjtbu

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 11:54 PM (viF8m)

284 I know a couple of Iranians that are Chaldean Catholic. I imagine there aren't too many though. They've been hounded for years.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 11:52 PM (cYBz/)
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Also Bahais and Zoroastrians.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 11:55 PM (xC2Ng)

285 35 I look at "men" *spit* like that head bobbing thing in the video and consider how in 1944, guys his age were launching from flattops in the Pacific as the sun was setting to find the Japanese fleet knowing that they wouldn't have enough fuel to get back to their carrier so they would be ditching in the sea. At night. And they went anyway.

And I wonder what happened to this country that it could produce such crud as the video "guy."

Tolerance happened. There have always been guys like that. But they learned to keep it under control unless they were around other guys like themselves. Now they let it fly, insist on being as public as possible.

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 12, 2026 11:55 PM (3/XaG)

286 Conneaut Lake Park (NW Pa) used to have an old wooden roller coaster. The new owners of the property tore it down after a fire. It was an 'accident'. The locals have doubts. The new owners want mcmansions, not amusement parks, albeit one that was quietly disappearing. Sad. I have fond memories of Conneaut. Parts of the park were still usable but it was pretty much on its way out. Time marches on.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I remember that one... Blue Streak, wasn't it? I also remember throwing bread to.all the carp.over at Pymatuning and watching them almost crawl.over one another to get to it. I heard that they killed off all the carp there awhile back.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 11:55 PM (4YokX)

287 During the reign of the Shah, the muslims in Iran were mostly pretty secular. Women dressed in fashionable clothes, and did not wear the hijab.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 11:56 PM (8zz6B)

288 A wooden roller coaster I grew up riding was in Norfolk, at Ocean View Amusement Park, right on Chesapeake Bay.

The coaster is most famous for being the 'star' of a tv movie, starring Mike Conners, called, funny enough, 'Death Of Ocean View Park' (1979).

The amusement park was closed/sold, the coaster was old, so taking it down in a movie seemed like a good idea.

On a Friday morning, after slats had been cut and all the charges had been set, the button was pushed. Crowds watched as there was a huge explosion and once the smoke cleared, there stood that rickety dangerous roller coaster, a big fuck you. The crowd cheered.

Over the weekend, they cut more wooden slats, redid the explosives and on Monday did the whole thing again. This time, once the smoke cleared, the roller coaster still stood but ever so slowly collapsed with great dignity.

A sad end to one of the great wooden roller coasters.

Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2026 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

289 What *have* you been up to?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 11:44 PM (ULPxl)

I’d like to say I’ve cured cancer and solved the unified field theory.

I’d like to say that. Regrettably I’ve mostly been waiting to unleash my entire arsenal of Walrus jokes.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 12, 2026 11:59 PM (GTUth)

290 Over the weekend, they cut more wooden slats, redid the explosives and on Monday did the whole thing again. This time, once the smoke cleared, the roller coaster still stood but ever so slowly collapsed with great dignity.

A sad end to one of the great wooden roller coasters.
Posted by: RickZ at January 12, 2026 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

The roller coaster at Dollywood has two great humps in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)

291 Via GP:

Progressives in California have been pushing for a new ‘billionaire tax’ and even though it hasn’t passed yet, the state is already suffering massive financial consequences.

As in every other time in history, wealthy people hear talk like this and they pack up and leave.

It has been estimated that California has lost upwards of a trillion dollars in the last month alone.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:00 AM (Cjcf6)

292 Telegraph Road

https://tinyurl.com/2s3wnw9p

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)

293 There's an amusement park on Hwy. 93 north of Coeur d'Alene, Silverwood, that has a huge wooden coaster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:03 AM (8zz6B)

294 I remember that one... Blue Streak, wasn't it? I also remember throwing bread to.all the carp.over at Pymatuning and watching them almost crawl.over one another to get to it. I heard that they killed off all the carp there awhile back.
Posted by: buddhaha

Yep, The Blue Streak! I must have rode that hundreds of times. There was also a large arcade room that I spent LOTS of time and quarters in. Nice little park. Not Cedar Point or Geauga Lake (or Kennywood) but nice. Conneaut Lake is the only natural lake in the state. The rest are resevoirs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 12:03 AM (sAmhv)

295 Just listened to the flaming twat. He and his "husband" went out to eat? And now he's trying to say some shit about Trump fans not wanted the "melting pot" or who knows what. He couldn't be whiter, more useless, or more affected. What a perfect waste of oxygen. Who makes a video while chewing gum, anyway?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 12:04 AM (6Bc88)

296 292 Telegraph Road

https://tinyurl.com/2s3wnw9p
Posted by: JackStraw

A great song. One of my favorites. Absolutely sublime!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 13, 2026 12:04 AM (sAmhv)

297 The wooden coaster of my youth was Thunder Road at Carowinds on the NC/SC border. What fun times. They tore it down some years ago to build a water park.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 12:05 AM (n4Qav)

298 Who makes a video while chewing gum, anyway?
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 12:04 AM (6Bc8

Maybe it's not gum...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:05 AM (8zz6B)

299 Tolerance happened. There have always been guys like that. But they learned to keep it under control unless they were around other guys like themselves. Now they let it fly, insist on being as public as possible.
Posted by: Azjaeger at January 12, 2026 11:55 PM (3/XaG)

Then, of course, they get upset when the rest of us find them worthless and offensive. Poor babies. Moms must have dropped them on their heads.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 12:06 AM (6Bc88)

300 Gabriel Yerushalmi@Defensa_Israel . 2h

Trump just posted the following: "From now on, any country that does business with #Iran you will pay a 25% tariff on any business you do with the US of America."
"This order is final. Thank you for your attention"
--

Read yesterday, Germany is Iran's biggest trading partner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:06 AM (DK41a)

301 Maybe it's not gum...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:05 AM (8zz6B)

Then I don't want to know, buddy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 12:06 AM (6Bc88)

302 There's an amusement park on Hwy. 93 north of Coeur d'Alene, Silverwood, that has a huge wooden coaster.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tremors! Woooo!

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm)

303 I like the Dilbert panel where everyone is wiped out on the floor in the hall, the secretary had replaced the coffee supply with de-caff for her convenience. “Must. Find. Antidote!”

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:07 AM (NqWk4)

304 Just listened to the flaming twat. He and his "husband" went out to eat?
----

I'm pretty easy going, but you don't get to be THAT far "out" and have a "husband" and still maintain my respect. I'll take your money. But I won't think of you the same, nor should I.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:07 AM (Cjcf6)

305 This video just dropped about five minutes ago. Brigitte Calls Me Baby

https://youtu.be/t9rEZzMN0YU

Posted by: tankdemon at January 13, 2026 12:08 AM (x2NDD)

306
Idiot: IQ 0 - 25
Imbecile: 25 - 50
Moron: 50 - 75

That used to be the "retard" scale years ago. The standard IQ tests couldn't differentiate

Then that terminology because hateful and politically incorrect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

307 Twitter says Israeli jets have taken off to attack Iran.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:10 AM (Cjcf6)

308
So that means morons are the smartest of retards.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

309 There's an amusement park on Hwy. 93 north of Coeur d'Alene, Silverwood, that has a huge wooden coaster.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Been there a couple of times. Thinking about it, both times riding my bike. They have a pretty good water ride side. The second time, we learned, and did the water stuff first and then dried out in the afternoon. First time, the opposite. Riding back to the motel in Moscow was... uncomfortable.. inside an Aerostitch.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 13, 2026 12:10 AM (4YokX)

310 I may make migas in the morning just to pass off the twink and his husband.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 12:10 AM (n4Qav)

311 Post
Conversation
Israel Army
@Israelarmyviews
The war has begun.

Fighter jets have taken off to attack Iran
Image

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 12:11 AM (Cjcf6)

312 >>>What's the big deal? It's not like it's an otter penis or a penguin penis!

Like you people with your own walrus penis collection get to judge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 12:11 AM (dK+Kv)

313
Pixy didn't like my use of the bracket there with numbers somehow and cut off a sentence.

The standard IQ tests back in the day couldn't differentiate an IQ of below 50, so they called those "submorons" sometimes. You needed a special test to differentiate between imbeciles and idiots.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:13 AM (w6EFb)

314 Cretins had to be in there somewhere too

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 12:15 AM (NqWk4)

315 Brothers In Arms

https://tinyurl.com/2t5huw4j

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:15 AM (viF8m)

316 If there really are Israeli jets heading towards Iran, I'd expect the moolahs to start shrieking about lobbing missiles at teh Joos. Will they be able to follow through?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 13, 2026 12:16 AM (ULPxl)

317 Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 11:36 PM (Cjcf6)

Best Rick and Morty episode when Rick over threw the intergalactic government by changing the currency value to 0.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 12:16 AM (KDPiq)

318 The standard IQ tests back in the day couldn't differentiate an IQ of below 50, so they called those "submorons" sometimes. You needed a special test to differentiate between imbeciles and idiots.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:13 AM (w6EFb)

https://tinyurl.com/2b3nt6kp

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:17 AM (8zz6B)

319 If there really are Israeli jets heading towards Iran, I'd expect the moolahs to start shrieking about lobbing missiles at teh Joos. Will they be able to follow through?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 13, 2026 12:16 AM (ULPxl)

Maybe job #1 for the jets is to take out the missile launchers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:18 AM (8zz6B)

320 Where do everyday nitwits and knuckledraggers fit into the scale?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 13, 2026 12:19 AM (n4Qav)

321 So if I voted for Trump, that means I don't get to eat sushi? Let's play that game libs. You don't get electricity, water, beef, gasoline... There are many more industries that are dominated by conservatives. You also want to deny our dollars to the owners of these restaurants and they are likely to have voted for Trump themselves, because small business owners lean conservative.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 13, 2026 12:20 AM (qtBQt)

322 @IsraelWarRoom
23m
🚨 The man accused of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” according to federal authorities.

During an interview with law enforcement, the suspect referred to the synagogue as the “synagogue of Satan.”

Two Torahs kept in the library were destroyed, and five Torahs from the sanctuary are being evaluated for smoke damage
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This wasn't in my news feed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:20 AM (DK41a)

323 Who makes a video while chewing gum, anyway?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Flaming narcissistic twats.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 12:21 AM (vzcgi)

324 Hey, I think I deduced tonight's common theme or leetmotive of the three musical selections: they're good songs.

But, that performance of Paint It Black: who are those children? Babyrock?

Posted by: mindful webworker - older than you'd think at January 13, 2026 12:22 AM (z2cM0)

325 The news about jets and strikes on Iran ignores Napoleon’s advice about interrupting when your enemy is making a mistake.

I hope they are smuggling in crates of guns and ammo but I’m a little skeptical of claims of the dreaded joos doing things

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 13, 2026 12:22 AM (GTUth)

326 The man accused of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” according to federal authorities.

Are there any synagogues without Jewish ties?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 12:23 AM (8zz6B)

327 , so they called those "submorons" sometimes

Is that a new AOSHQ membership level?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 12:23 AM (vzcgi)

328 Two seconds for ick video appears to be my limit. In that time I noted the chewing gum, teeth in his sneer and his pink sweater and nerd glasses.

My mind said nope and that was it. He could have said something important. I couldn't do it.

G'nite, mates.

https://tinyurl.com/ymn37edy

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 12:24 AM (WONhk)

329
Hmmph. A "cretin" came from French, in the Alps region and was used to describe someone suffering from what came to be called "cretinism", which was due to severe iodine deficiency, which caused thyroid problems in infants leading to severe mental retardation and growth.

It was originally used as a term of pity. Another example of the euphemism treadmill. IOW, they called them "cretins" to be nice, but it became a pejorative. Like "retard".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:24 AM (w6EFb)

330 327 , so they called those "submorons" sometimes

Is that a new AOSHQ membership level?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 12:23 AM (vzcgi)

Raimondo and Mary Cloggenstein hardest hit....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 13, 2026 12:26 AM (S/Y4j)

331 Ok, I *finally* watched the entire twink-video...

**barf**

Its mother didn't teach it to chew with its mouth closed--gross! And it needs to spit its gum out before giving a speech-- who could even take *that* seriously?

Have another toke, twink, and get the hell out of my face.

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

332 320 Where do everyday nitwits and knuckledraggers fit into the scale?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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It's according to their athletic ability.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:28 AM (DK41a)

333 Check that. I just turned on Bloomberg. Apparently the professorial guy who believes that the rebellion has been quelled, William Roebuck, EVP of the Arab Gulf States Initiative says Israel is sitting this one out. WITHOUT EVIDENCE!!!!

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 13, 2026 12:28 AM (GTUth)

334 326 The man accused of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” according to federal authorities.

Are there any synagogues without Jewish ties?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Where is that on the retard scale?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:30 AM (DK41a)

335 EVP of the Arab Gulf States Initiative says Israel is sitting this one out. WITHOUT EVIDENCE!!!!
Posted by: Pete Bog
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Another fool. The govt. has satellites that can read the numbers on a license plate. They know what's going on in Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:32 AM (DK41a)

336 Another fool. The govt. has satellites that can read the numbers on a license plate. They know what's going on in Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:32 AM (DK41a)

I think the job title tells you what he can see.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 13, 2026 12:35 AM (GTUth)

337 In the mid-eighties, I had acquaintances in the sat-com industry. After watching a news report of the Chernobyl disaster and laughing at the blurry photos, one of them told me, and I quote:

"We can see a kopek on the ground in the middle of Red Square, and tell you which side is up."

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

338 @amuse@amuse
1h
ICE WATCH: White liberal women aren't just training to use their cars as lethal weapons, they're training with ACTUAL lethal weapons at the gun range explaining their intent is to kill 'MAGA'.
---

https://tinyurl.com/5xr8993w

If a conservative posted shit like that he'd be investigated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:37 AM (DK41a)

339 Is that a new AOSHQ membership level?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 12:23 AM (vzcgi)

Raimondo and Mary Cloggenstein hardest hit....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Their cards are made out of oatmeal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2026 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

340 That homo eating sushi is the closest he’ll ever be to being straight.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 13, 2026 12:38 AM (KDPiq)

341 Those three hikers on Mt. San Antonio, were hiking the Devil's Backbone trail. There's a section of about 200 feet, you slip, you die. That's after or before the horizontal knife-edge ridge of about 200 yards you have to traverse. That 200 ft "trail" is eroded and practically non-existent from all the foot traffiic, it's traversing a steep headwall, and the hand chains are useless. One slip, you die. Hiking the Devil's backbone in December is folly, the trail is muddy and wet with snow.. And people do it every weekend.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at January 13, 2026 12:39 AM (V9cVz)

342
Conversation
Israel Army
@Israelarmyviews
The war has begun.

Fighter jets have taken off to attack Iran
Image
Posted by: Crusader

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"Account based in South Asia" Probably India. Reliable?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:40 AM (Jxa0O)

343
Fox News

The Pope has made another statement about something.

I didn't read it, I don't know if it's good or critical.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 13, 2026 12:40 AM (3ek7K)

344 That homo eating sushi is the closest he’ll ever be to being straight.
Posted by: Opinion fact
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Comment of the Week!!!!

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

345 Re: the guy who set the synagogue on fire; at least you can’t blame it on his family. His own father called the police and turned him in.
The way he looks and the things he said had the feel of schizophrenia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:42 AM (QkvGw)

346 Re: the guy who set the synagogue on fire; at least you can’t blame it on his family. His own father called the police and turned him in.
The way he looks and the things he said had the feel of schizophrenia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:42 AM (QkvGw)

Is it just me, or does it seem like the violent schizos are always animated by leftist causes?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 12:43 AM (dK+Kv)

347 Sang this song with my roommate at a kegger...she had a great voice, mine is ok. Boyfriend and future husband was in the crowd but we were on a break. Love this song!

The best time for music. It was everywhere and every weekend and we thought it would last forever.

Still have a blast listening. A real nite nite, Morons and 'ettes.

https://tinyurl.com/w3jf6j27

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 12:44 AM (WONhk)

348 I had a feeling that particular synagogue fire wasn't an outside job. Although I would have guessed an accident.
The city just doesn't seem like a big center of antisemitism. if it had happened in, oh, NYC or Boulder I might be more suspicious.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 12:45 AM (gKWVE)

349
Just read that Scott Adams has been moved to a hospice.

I will miss much of his intelligence and wit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog

Poor man. May he have comfort and peace .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

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

He's in hospice, in his home. He started a few days ago and the deterioration from day to day is stark. It's interesting, he originally said he wasn't going to go this way, but now he's hanging on and hanging IN to the end.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:45 AM (Jxa0O)

350 >>>That wasn't the point, I don't think. She wasn't just a put upon woman who had had enough, as the media wanted to portray it. She was NAACP and, I think but don't quote me, a commie.

Btw, not defending seg, just noting.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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She was more than a member she was an operative. The whole thing was a set up.
Posted by: Braenyard
++

Old joke, got to hear it from a master,

Hawaiian / Asian getting on bus in Deep South saw sign,
"Negros sit in the back".

"That is not fair. Those are the best seats".

Heard it a couple times in Hawaii decades ago... Those guys love to talk story.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 12:45 AM (/lPRQ)

351 George Washington, yea that guy, wrote one of the most famous letters in American history about religious tolerance to the Jewish community in Newport, Rhode Island. The Touro Synagogue is still standing.

The letter is worth reading.

https://tinyurl.com/3jvsuj59

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2026 12:46 AM (viF8m)

352 does it seem like the violent schizos are always animated by leftist causes?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

These days? Yeah. "The worst are full of passionate intensity"

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 12:47 AM (gKWVE)

353 Well time for bed. None of those reports of an attack on Iran are solidly sourced or confirmed yet, could be a false alarm. Guess we’ll see in the morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2026 12:49 AM (QkvGw)

354
"Account based in South Asia" Probably India. Reliable?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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

Also a Community Noted post that "North Korea has shot down two American fighter jets."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:50 AM (Jxa0O)

355 Seems like we're getting a lot more mental illness. Stop smoking all the crazy shit!!

Posted by: NCKate at January 13, 2026 12:51 AM (uQzkA)

356
God, I hope the regime doesn't hang on. Every single one of those protestors they can identify will be tortured and executed.

I read something about some of the protesters disabling street cameras. They have those and use those to methodically identify everyone they can.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 12:51 AM (w6EFb)

357 •Black market becomes the only functioning economy
•The regime loses control over prices, payrolls, logistics, and loyalty
Posted by: Crusader

Uncle Sam's Green Beanies should be bringing in guns, ammo, and green backs... For weeks now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2026 12:52 AM (/lPRQ)

358 Info/ disinfo, coming from every direction. Gots to love the innertubenets, LOL

https://youtu.be/yeZNfo1zvdU

Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

359 @amuse@amuse
1h
ICE WATCH: White liberal women aren't just training to use their cars as lethal weapons, they're training with ACTUAL lethal weapons at the gun range explaining their intent is to kill 'MAGA'.
---

https://tinyurl.com/5xr8993w

If a conservative posted shit like that he'd be investigated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 12:37 AM (DK41a)

Damn, somebody needs a .308 right in the fucking skull.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 01:10 AM (snZF9)

360 Is it just me, or does it seem like the violent schizos are always animated by leftist causes?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 12:43 AM (dK+Kv)

The Left culltivates the mentally ill as cannon fodder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 01:15 AM (8zz6B)

361 Is it just me, or does it seem like the violent schizos are always animated by leftist causes?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 13, 2026 12:43 AM (dK+Kv)

The Left culltivates the mentally ill as cannon fodder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 01:15 AM (8zz6B)

Well, you kinda need to be mentally ill to be a leftist to start with.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 01:17 AM (snZF9)

362 Damn, somebody needs a .308 right in the fucking skull.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

No doubt. I'm betting fachoe girl shits her pants if bullets start flying.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 01:18 AM (vzcgi)

363 A bit of refreshment. FO begins at 30seconds.

https://tinyurl.com/3cpcfek6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 01:19 AM (DK41a)

364 I saw Dire Strait live at Blossom Music Center (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio ...close to Akron), on foggy night in August of 1985.
They played a 22 minute version of "Sultans of Swing" late in the show. There were about 6-8 of us sitting together in the pavillion, passing a doobie up and down between us.
I still remember a friend sitting next to me, saying "are they still playing the same song?"
40 years later and it still makes me laugh. Ha!

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 13, 2026 01:22 AM (2DpeO)

365 Castle Craigs California north of Redding just off of I5.
Mid May 1970s:’beautiful sunny day.
Two young men decide to go on a day hike on the well-established and maintained trail. No gear. No food. No ability to make a fire.
A snowstorm hit and they leave the trail and stumble into a creek.
Both die of hypothermia.
My buddy on Search and Rescue was involved in the removal of their bodies.
In my youth, I climbed the dome there several times. I aways had my daypack and a time or two also brought a loaf of bread, a bota bag, and a thou.

Posted by: waepnedmann at January 13, 2026 01:23 AM (3oLJt)

366 Damn, somebody needs a .308 right in the fucking skull.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Well, frankly I prefer a 30-06 ('cause I don't own a .308 chambered rifle). The 30-06 was good enough for the Garand M-1, Browning automatic rifle, and the .30 cal machine gun, and won WWII (not to mention the M1903 bolt action rifle).

But your mileage may vary. They will all get it done.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 13, 2026 01:25 AM (2DpeO)

367 Well, frankly I prefer a 30-06 ('cause I don't own a .308 chambered rifle). The 30-06 was good enough for the Garand M-1, Browning automatic rifle, and the .30 cal machine gun, and won WWII (not to mention the M1903 bolt action rifle).

I’ve had enough of this constant bickering about popular widely used and readily available cartridges. Keep those . I insist on an oddball impossible to find caliber that will be impossible to find in the burning times.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 13, 2026 01:29 AM (GTUth)

368
Flipping through the channels, I stumbled on FeTV running a Carol Burnett show from '68. She had Minnie Pearl on.

They were doing a country-come-town sketch, with Carol dressed up in a similar flowery hat, with big glasses and frumpy dress. They went to a French restaurant and Minnie Pearl was showing off how she could speak a little French, "Mercy bo-coop, garson."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

369 339 Is that a new AOSHQ membership level?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 12:23 AM (vzcgi)

Raimondo and Mary Cloggenstein hardest hit....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Their cards are made out of oatmeal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2026 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

Raimondo prefers sloppy dick.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 01:33 AM (AQ1VH)

370 There's always 33 1/3% on the cusp of sanity.
That's the Democrat base. They will always be there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 01:33 AM (DK41a)

371
That an example of a tactic the lefties use that El Gato Malo was writing about. You annoy the hell out of your opponent to provoke him to violence, without being technically "violent" yourself. Get in his face and be super-annoying somehow. He played a clip of some idiots sprinkling somebody with glitter.

The idea is to provoke the opponent (which could be LEO as well) to violence, which then gives them the "violence against peaceful protesters!" incident to scream about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:34 AM (w6EFb)

372 That an example of a tactic the lefties use that El Gato Malo was writing about. You annoy the hell out of your opponent to provoke him to violence, without being technically "violent" yourself. Get in his face and be super-annoying somehow. He played a clip of some idiots sprinkling somebody with glitter.

The idea is to provoke the opponent (which could be LEO as well) to violence, which then gives them the "violence against peaceful protesters!" incident to scream about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:34 AM (w6EFb)

Response to that bullhorn tactic? Put on a set of ear portectors, then set off a flash-bang.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

373 Well I live 10 miles from Rancho Cucamonga and just down the street from Mt. Baldy...so there

Posted by: MAxIE at January 13, 2026 01:43 AM (3Dvl3)

374 There are comparison tests on the tube between the '08 and the '06. The results are interesting. The '08 seems an excellent compromise between needs and effect. For a more exceptional need and effect the '06 gets it although the lapoa has replaced it with a big get some.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2026 01:47 AM (DK41a)

375 A bit of refreshment. FO begins at 30seconds.

https://tinyurl.com/3cpcfek6
Posted by: Braenyard -

Sweet!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 01:47 AM (vzcgi)

376 Carleen Noreus (Case No. 25-cr-60039-Singhal), 51, of Broward County, is charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. According to the indictment, Noreus served as the president of Carleen Home Health School, Inc., located in Plantation, and Vice President of Carleen Home Health School II, Inc., located in West Palm Beach.

Was good money while it lasted

Posted by: Darleen, Marleen and Innocent Miklos at January 13, 2026 01:56 AM (f/3mU)

377 "Account based in South Asia" Probably India. Reliable?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 12:40 AM (Jxa0O)
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Sitting right here in Jerusalem. No alerts. NO warnings. Nada.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:56 AM (42Pyp)

378
The thing to realize is these types of tactics are part of the standard Alinsky playbook. They are trained in this stuff. They call it "putting your enemy in a decision dilemma" and "playing to the audience that isn't there".

You want to provoke the enemy to do something that will look very bad on camera when shown out of context. They are very good and very well trained for this. And the carefully orchestrate things to hide the true context.

That heifer Renee Good and her "wife" were doing this very thing. It may have gone further than she intended, but the idea was to provoke ICE into something that would look bad on camera. The smart-ass taunting is all part of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:59 AM (w6EFb)

379 The idea is to provoke the opponent (which could be LEO as well) to violence, which then gives them the "violence against peaceful protesters!" incident to scream about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Such might require a Spud-type response

Posted by: Miklos, looking for Harley's hat at January 13, 2026 01:59 AM (f/3mU)

380 Well I live 10 miles from Rancho Cucamonga and just down the street from Mt. Baldy...so there
Posted by: MAxIE

"ALL ABOARD for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu-ca-monga!"

Posted by: Miklos, in best Mel Blanc voice at January 13, 2026 02:02 AM (f/3mU)

381 Hey Horde, just stopping by before bed, I am sleepy. Nice ONT, CBD.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 13, 2026 02:09 AM (0nHVk)

382 Is now time for concernings?

Many services provide

Evil dog HARAM ARE SUCH DOG what ate all record-keepings

Posted by: via Google Translate at January 13, 2026 02:09 AM (f/3mU)

383 380 Well I live 10 miles from Rancho Cucamonga and just down the street from Mt. Baldy...so there
Posted by: MAxIE

"ALL ABOARD for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu-ca-monga!"

Posted by: Miklos, in best Mel Blanc voice at January 13, 2026 02:02 AM (f/3mU)

I remember seeing that on the Jack Benney program. Jack and Rochester are in a train station and that came over the loudspeaker

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 02:10 AM (QGaXH)

384 Hey Horde, just stopping by before bed, I am sleepy. Nice ONT, CBD.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

The gentleman at the bar would like to buy you a drink

I think it's a gentleman

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at January 13, 2026 02:11 AM (f/3mU)

385 I used to work in Azusa. It had everything from A to Z in the USA.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 02:12 AM (QGaXH)

386
Sitting right here in Jerusalem. No alerts. NO warnings. Nada.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

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

Well, I DO wish someone would do something. One hears the mullahs are getting ready to execute large numbers of people they've just grabbed off the streets.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:13 AM (Jxa0O)

387 384 Hey Horde, just stopping by before bed, I am sleepy. Nice ONT, CBD.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

The gentleman at the bar would like to buy you a drink

I think it's a gentleman
Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at January
13, 2026 02:11 AM (f/3mU)

It's the 'man' from the video.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 02:13 AM (QGaXH)

388 Good Night.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 02:15 AM (QGaXH)

389 I used to work in Azusa. It had everything from A to Z in the USA.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Fukkin A

Name another country where they call shit Azusa, and let you call it that in Public

Posted by: The Tribe of Azusians at January 13, 2026 02:15 AM (f/3mU)

390 389 I used to work in Azusa. It had everything from A to Z in the USA.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Fukkin A

Name another country where they call shit Azusa, and let you call it that in Public
Posted by: The Tribe of Azusians at January 13, 2026 02:15 AM (f/3mU)

I read that as 'Publix' on first glance...

Where Shopping is a Pleasure...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 13, 2026 02:16 AM (QGaXH)

391 It's the 'man' from the video.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Well, he's drinking PBR

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at January 13, 2026 02:16 AM (f/3mU)

392 Well, I DO wish someone would do something. One hears the mullahs are getting ready to execute large numbers of people they've just grabbed off the streets.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:13 AM (Jxa0O)

yeah, no kidding. A lot of scumbags over there need killing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 02:17 AM (snZF9)

393
Yeah, they say the mullahs are going to start mass public hangings of those they captured. And they do it the long way. Jerk them up by the neck, making it slow and horrible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:19 AM (w6EFb)

394 If you haven't realized until now that the UK's Nigel Farage is a (WEF?) plant, maybe this will help you:

https://tinyurl.com/yck8b8pa

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:25 AM (42Pyp)

395 Thank you to the gentleman at bar, not the one in the pink sweater.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 13, 2026 02:27 AM (0nHVk)

396 Yeah, they say the mullahs are going to start mass public hangings of those they captured. And they do it the long way. Jerk them up by the neck, making it slow and horrible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

What goes around, comes around.

In Iran, Venezuela, or Coober

The dead enders will kill or be killed

Many years of grievances to be settled.

The only post WWII example was the Dominican Republic in 1965, and that was mild.

Posted by: Miklos used to know things at January 13, 2026 02:29 AM (f/3mU)

397 Thank you to the gentleman at bar, not the one in the pink sweater.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

With the nose ring?

Kicked xhe out 2 hours ago.

Took me and the Security Staff 20 minutes.

The pink hair was our first clue.

Posted by: Genial late Nite Bouncer Miklos at January 13, 2026 02:35 AM (f/3mU)

398 What was xhe doing here anyway, we don't serve no sushi here!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 13, 2026 02:39 AM (0nHVk)

399 What was xhe doing here anyway, we don't serve no sushi here!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

We do have oysters

maybe it was that

Posted by: Genial late Nite Bartending Bouncer Miklos at January 13, 2026 02:40 AM (f/3mU)

400 Goes to show that Islam is about power, nothing else

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:43 AM (Ia/+0)

401 Goes to show that Islam is about power, nothing else

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 02:43 AM (Ia/+0)
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This is also what the Dem appointed judges in the US accomplish for their masters.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:45 AM (42Pyp)

402 Just checked

That purple haired whale (I had to go out back and get the hand truck) is around the corner now sobbing and shouting
Free....something

A keffiyeh can be used as a tourniquet

But I ain't telling xer that

Posted by: Genial late Nite Bartending EMT Bouncer Miklos at January 13, 2026 02:46 AM (f/3mU)

403 Have another toke, twink, and get the hell out of my face.
Posted by: JQ at January 13, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

I expect I could ruin his day by insulting his choice of shoes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 13, 2026 02:54 AM (6Bc88)

404 Is ICE now afraid to hit them with a "deadly weapon"? Would have saved a lot of energy:

https://tinyurl.com/yj886pyh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:55 AM (42Pyp)

405 More likely night time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 03:01 AM (9cHSL)

406 More likely night time.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Night Time is the Right Time

Hey hey

Posted by: 103 year old Bluesman Uncle Miklos at January 13, 2026 03:05 AM (f/3mU)

407 8.5 ahead of Eastern.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 03:07 AM (9cHSL)

408 Islam is a system of slavery masquerading as a cult.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 03:09 AM (9cHSL)

409 I find myself sufficiently amused for one day.

I am also old enough to remember "marg bar Shah!" (Death to the King) in the 70s

Now they say "Javid Shah!" (long live the King!).

Would do the Lawrence Welk adieu, but the amount of hairspray in that must have been toxic.

Posted by: MAHA raw Milk Miklos at January 13, 2026 03:14 AM (f/3mU)

410 Sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 13, 2026 03:20 AM (0nHVk)

411 I am off to the snoozer too. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2026 03:27 AM (8zz6B)

412 https://youtu.be/dSQ40d8uoOI

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 03:38 AM (42Pyp)

413 Time to get up

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2026 03:46 AM (Ia/+0)

414 394 If you haven't realized until now that the UK's Nigel Farage is a (WEF?) plant, maybe this will help you:

https://tinyurl.com/yck8b8pa
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:25 AM (42Pyp)

***
Hey Biden's Dog - how goes? I watched the bit and, meh - the guy's a former Tory who just defected - as in the story just broke. I think it's known that this Tory hack sussed out which way the wind is blowing (or perhaps which side his bread will be buttered on would be a more fitting metaphor). I did not note from the news (which paints him as a total rent-title seeking hack, btw - probably accurate) that he has been given any position in Reform leadership, only that he has changed his affiliation. Why this stooge's defection makes Farage a WEF stooge, I am not sure, but I would expect that a lot of Tory (substitute RINO) hacks will be jumping ship to try and save their phony baloney jobs and graft. The real test for Reform is how many Labour folks they can get to defect, particularly on the voter (not MP) side. I would also note that the vid is from a debate and likely a while back. I will watch Farage closely - but not jarred by this.

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 13, 2026 03:48 AM (Gu66x)

415 If you haven't realized until now that the UK's Nigel Farage is a (WEF?) plant, maybe this will help you:

https://tinyurl.com/yck8b8pa
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 02:25 AM (42Pyp)

England is a conquered land. The brits are a conquered people. God damn the king.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 13, 2026 03:54 AM (snZF9)

416 Why this stooge's defection makes Farage a WEF stooge, I am not sure.
-

Farage has slipped numerous times over the years. This is just another one. I don't compile a list but I have posted warnings here over the years. Watch this space.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 03:58 AM (42Pyp)

417 👍. Thanks, CBS.

Pixy's up!

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Darn it. 🙁

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

Monkey Rampage Cafe

Fukuoka, Japan

Little kitten is probably possessed by a demon.

Who is your dog loyal to?

They tested a dog to see which one it loved more. It was not a close contest.

Taking rescue dogs out for a hike.

A working mom is never off the clock.

Cat decides that four legs are for homos.

Cat plays with his ball.

Rescue donkey loves kisses.

Little dog " " " helps " " ". He's doing his best.

This right ear better not be AI.

Might be top 10 videos of all time pic.twitter.com/rwampo5Rrn
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) January 12, 2026

Your chances of being attacked by a kangaroo after skydiving is very low, but never zero. pic.twitter.com/8mug3F7ShJ
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) January 12, 2026

Conquering Greenland is not going to be easy pic.twitter.com/uOqlyU7vqK
— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) January 12, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 07:45 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Huh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (jc0TO)

2 Now how did that first comment disappear?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (u73oe)

3 And now it’s back. I’m losing my marbles.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (u73oe)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

5 The time machine is not to be poked.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:48 PM (jc0TO)

6 I think that Greenland video is AI.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 07:49 PM (rbvCR)

7 The kangaroos jumping the skydiver was hilarious! Kinda like D-Day.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:49 PM (2L+MU)

8 Sure it is fun getting a monkey right up until you have that big job interview with Glamour Mag.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:49 PM (gbOdA)

9 First thing we should do when we take over Greenland is give it a more sensible name.

FreezeYourAssOffLand, maybe.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:49 PM (gtcuf)

10 It's all fun and games until the monkey rips your face off.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (GTqXr)

11
I need a new quest.
Posted by: Delurker
=====
How about Sheena with a big ol' Oscar Meyer wiener
and drinking funky cold Medina?
Posted by: Tone Loc
=====
Willowed
You could always help Winona with her trans beaver (porcupine).

Wynona loved her big brown beaver
And she stroked him all the time
She pricked her finger one day and it
Occurred to her she might have a porcupine

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (QVmho)

12 I mean, a single magazine for a Bren? What is that walrus thinking!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (rbvCR)

13 Happy Cafe, ace.

T'anks!

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (3ZUWJ)

14 I raise you a bear in a jeep where the man smells so bad it has no top.

https://x.com/Super70sSports/status/
2010767845282443403

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:51 PM (gbOdA)

15 Heya Duke!

How are you? Still healing up? EAT ALL THE FOODS. ALL OF THEM.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (5KFR9)

16 Conquering Greenland is not going to be easy pic.twitter.com/uOqlyU7vqK

— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) January 12, 2026

=====

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (g47mK)

17 I think that Greenland video is AI.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 07:49 PM (rbvCR)

Those tracks for the Toyotas are a Canadian invention, from Grande Prairie, Alberta, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (8zz6B)

18 If we pipe the thermal volcano gas to the beaches we could have a northern Bahamas without the worst part

Bahamians.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (gbOdA)

19 I'm willing to bet the Moron Horde could conquer Greenland in a weekend.

I noticed that polar bears are colluding with penguins in that video. That's their Achilles heel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (ESVrU)

20 > I think that Greenland video is AI.
-------
snort

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (NwnyJ)

21 Monkeys are asshoe.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (ZcsJV)

22
* sniff *
* sniff *

* relaxes *

Barkeep! Rittenhouses* for the Cafe on me!

* Rittenhouse = 3 shots and a chaser.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (ZJqEv)

23 Hi nurse! I’ve put on about 15 pounds so far.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (u73oe)

24 Willowed:

"The Hill"!!!! The best Italian food I've ever eaten!
Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM

We were temporarily living in Webster Groves at that time.
Posted by: toby928(c)

My first "real" job was on the Hill as a busboy at an Italian restaurant.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (u/kd+)

25 You know why there's no CSI West Virginia?

'Cause the DNA is all the same..
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM
-----------

....And there are no dental records...

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (rdVOm)

26 Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (gbOdA)

So, Make Greenland Green Again?

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (gtcuf)

27 >>> Ilhan to Elon (their names sort of slant rhyme)

"@IlhanMN
You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts."

He is definitely dumb...he worked hard to gain his money through hard work and innovation. This whole time, he could have just grifted billions off the taxpayers. What a maroon!

I can't tell if she's swearing the possible charges they can file against her or not. Or if she knows nothing will happen. A conservative politician filed a motion to investigate her bro marriage fraud and the motion died.

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (gWBY1)

28 Monkeys are nasty, vile creatures.

Almost as awful as river otters.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (5KFR9)

29 My first "real" job was on the Hill as a busboy at an Italian restaurant.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM

We ate at some "famous" place whose name escapes me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (jc0TO)

30 Sweating not swearing

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (gWBY1)

31 That's their Achilles heel."

"Ouch "

/Achilles.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (XuXeR)

32
Funny, isn't it, that Minnesotans are botching about loss of business revenue because of DHS in the state, but they said nary a thing when race riots in 2020 took down much more of their business activity.

I guess that it is a matter of who is staging the hootenanny, huh, fellers?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (xG4kz)

33 >>Almost as awful as river otters.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (5KFR9)

lol

embrace the Lore

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (ZcsJV)

34 I'm willing to bet the Moron Horde could conquer Greenland in a weekend.

===

Those polar bears look mean !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (g47mK)

35 Monkeys are bad, but I think chimps are the worst. I was watching a YouTube documentary on Johnny Weissmuller the other day, and the first time he met Cheetah, the chimp ran at him screaming aggressively. Weissmuller slapped him upside the head, and they were pals from then on.

Don't trust those things. Besides, they remind me of a couple of my mother's brothers; very shifty and always with an eye toward the main chance.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (2L+MU)

36 I first thought it was a cat flying around the room

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

37 >>I'm willing to bet the Moron Horde could conquer Greenland in a weekend.

If we tell JackStraw that Greenland has the Ickiest of the Sticky, we have transportation to the target wrapped up.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (ZcsJV)

38 Panserbjørne!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (jc0TO)

39 And there are no dental records..."

The toothbrush was invented in West Virginia. Otherwise, it would be the teethbrush...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (XuXeR)

40 Those polar bears look mean !
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (g47mK)

Those walrus suits are pretty cool, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (8zz6B)

41 ahhh, Ace the last one just might be AI.. maybe.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (k9/y/)

42 willowed from the Delta Force thread (I'm always tail end Charlie)

re: Red Storm Rising...

I was an engineer in Lockheed Skunk Works, when a hard copy of a book chapter, with a title 'The Frisbees of Dreamland' circulated among us. The book, Red Storm Rising had not been published yet. We had no idea where it had come from, or what it was for.

So, somebody had made sure that chapter was given to the Skunk Works ahead of time, probably to make sure it didn't tread too far.

Tom Clancy had authentic industry help, no question.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (9oOM2)

43 Don't sign me up to take over Greenland. I'd just be concentrating on keeping warm.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:59 PM (KDPiq)

44 Good dude for taking this rescues on a hike.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 07:59 PM (viF8m)

45 Are Minnasotians bitching about sending billions to Somalia?

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

46 32
Funny, isn't it, that Minnesotans are botching about loss of business revenue because of DHS in the state, but they said nary a thing when race riots in 2020 took down much more of their business activity.

I guess that it is a matter of who is staging the hootenanny, huh, fellers?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 07:56 PM (xG4kz)

Liberals are fucking retarded. Cause and effect isn't hard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 12, 2026 07:59 PM (ZLygy)

47 "Top Ten" video must be AI. How can you be that sad when you have a monkey?🐒

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 07:59 PM (nhCoE)

48 I knew it! The polar bears are allied with Big Penguin!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (Wnv9h)

49 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (cYBz/)

50 Fukuoka is a great city in Japan. Big but not mega-city. Night restaurants are great (set up around sunset and break down late at night, on designated spots outside). Great ramen styles there.

Somehow I think I recall that the Horde's weft-cut loop spent time there.

Haven't found a place in Japan I don't like but Fukuoka and Kyushu in general sort of lead the pack. Though I can see winters up in Hokkaido suiting me fine as a winter sports type.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (U/Byj)

51 Can't we just, like, hook Greenland up to a big ship and tow it south where it will be warmer?

Posted by: Hank Johnson at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (gtcuf)

52 23 Hi nurse! I’ve put on about 15 pounds so far. - Duke Lowell

I need to reverse engineer that process, myself. Good to hear you are convalescing satisfactorily.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (2L+MU)

53 Don't trust those things. Besides, they remind me of a couple of my mother's brothers; very shifty and always with an eye toward the main chance.
Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (2L+MU)

Johnny Weismuller made out real well on his earnings from the Tarzan movie series. The chimp, not so much. Cheetahs never prosper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (8zz6B)

54 The top kitty would describe our newest granddaughter til she reached 2mo of age. She's mellower now, and not at all a demon but very sweet and lovely. However, do not delay or get between her and her warmed bottle. Thankfully she does not have claws.

She does have lungs and yelled loudly in my ear once a week that I was both stupid, slow and should have anticipated her hunger. She was louder than her siblings combined and very stubborn. Which, during growth spurts,you can't predict bottles. Sometimes she was so po'd her grandfather had to walk her, which we think was the plan all along.

I love the monkey roaring over the fake eyelash weeping woman with big red lips. I kept hoping he'd rip off a wig, extension or eyelash as he jumped, totally ruining her moment. However, just like my hoping Barky or Biden would fall down AF1's stairs, I don't always get what I want.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (WONhk)

55 Don't sign me up to take over Greenland. I'd just be concentrating on keeping warm."

This. I'm up for enriching a Cuban bartender...

(Legally, of course)

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (XuXeR)

56 Loss of business revenue?

Must be the hotels refusing to serve ICE.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (KDPiq)

57 >>>I think that Greenland video is AI.
Posted by: Kindltot

don't be a cynic

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (1wjle)

58 The Greenland Defense Force was a more realistic representation of polar bears than any of the Al Gore videos.

Posted by: GuardianB at January 12, 2026 08:01 PM (VYVyP)

59 36 I first thought it was a cat flying around the room

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

Me too, then it registered that it's a monkey.

That monkey has figured out he's the boss around the house.
It's way too late to nip that in the bud.
She better drop that little guy off at the nearest zoo.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (6ydKt)

60
Picked up Finn's ashes from the vet this afternoon. Our gallant little gentleman is home with us forever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (t2vGZ)

61 I hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: toby928(c) standing in at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (jc0TO)

62 I don't know, Greenland video looks legit to me

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Apparently, you can't use beef stew as a password. It's not stroganoff.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (u/kd+)

64 Our gallant little gentleman is home with us forever."

As it should be.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (XuXeR)

65 I don't know, Greenland video looks legit to me
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM

I have questions about those snow technicals.

Posted by: toby928(c) standing in at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (jc0TO)

66 Then don't.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (9cHSL)

67 Paying the Eskimos $5 M will be real fucking funny watching them add studs, chains, and mudflaps to to exotics.
Like Landman F250s but lambos and ferarris and porches but with the passenger seat filled with 4 sled dogs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (gbOdA)

68 Where's the extra dog sled Trump said the Danes added recently?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:04 PM (6ydKt)

69
I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c) standing

Oh, the answer to this one has been posted here many times.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:04 PM (xG4kz)

70 the helpful little white dog is too cute! those little pink ears!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 12, 2026 08:04 PM (Cjt/F)

71 61 I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c) standing in at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (jc0TO)

Sure the monkeys are happy about being fucked since they get blamed for AIDS.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:04 PM (gbOdA)

72 Ahh, I see.
They gave the polar bear soldiers the extra dog sled.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

73 It's pronounced "huku oka".

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 08:05 PM (mlg/3)

74 My first "real" job was on the Hill as a busboy at an Italian restaurant.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM

We ate at some "famous" place whose name escapes me.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I would have been there in '78. I can't even remember the restaurant's name. There was another one directly across the street and they traded the best Italian restaurant award every year.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:05 PM (u/kd+)

75 I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c) standing

Oh, the answer to this one has been posted here many times.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:04 PM (xG4kz)

Toby is an old enough hand here to know that. I suspect he likes hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

76 I noticed river otters in the stream behind us the other day.

The place has gone to hell.

Damnit.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 08:05 PM (cYBz/)

77 The music was so loud in the monkey jumping clip I had no clue what the hell was going on or what she was upset about.

Posted by: Basic audio mixing is dead at January 12, 2026 08:06 PM (TbWk/)

78
Sheila, She-Rhesus of the SS

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:06 PM (xG4kz)

79 huku oka"

gesundheit

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 08:06 PM (XuXeR)

80 Stop monkeying around lady...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:06 PM (2GVsD)

81 I have questions about those snow technicals.

Posted by: toby928(c) standing in at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (jc0TO)

I thought they looked bad-ass.

If Hasbro had made a GI Joe truck like that in the 80s I'd have been all over it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:07 PM (6ydKt)

82 48 I knew it! The polar bears are allied with Big Penguin! - RedMindBlueState

Sal "Waddles" Ghiaccio - il pinguino de tutti pinguini - stares balefully at his associates, Tony Beaks and Fat Marco

"Ok, whichayou two scemos blabbed?"

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:07 PM (2L+MU)

83 I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928

Then don't!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 08:07 PM (k9/y/)

84 /punchline

fuck the monkey and shit in your purse
call me

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:08 PM (gbOdA)

85 I have questions about those snow technicals.
Posted by: toby928(c) standing in at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (jc0TO)

ONe of many manufacturers of such devices:

https://munroindustries.ca/pages/track-systems

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 08:08 PM (8zz6B)

86 Sheila, She-Rhesus of the SS
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:08 PM (u/kd+)

87 >>>Conquering Greenland is not going to be easy

I'm glad that ace screens these to make sure that no AI gets through.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (syz1S)

88 >>Toby is an old enough hand here to know that. I suspect he likes hate fucking monkeys.

That's ridiculous. There's no indication he hates them.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)

89 No SAABs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (9cHSL)

90 I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c) standing

Oh, the answer to this one has been posted here many times. - Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family?

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (2L+MU)

91 Fuck you too, Koji

Posted by: Oka at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (TbWk/)

92 Nobody in Florida thought about mini tracks on a Toyota

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

93 Polar bear unit?

339th Inf Reg/85th Inf Div reporting for duty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:10 PM (2GVsD)

94
I am willing to bet that there are multiple locations in that household where liberal amounts of rhesus feces have been smeared over things.

I am not saying that's a rhesus monkey, but with what other primate could I say "rhesus feces" and conjure up a mental link to a popular snack candy?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:10 PM (xG4kz)

95 Monkey Rampage Cafe

I gotta agree. George was the character to use in Rampage. Better at climbing and jumping.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 08:11 PM (nhCoE)

96 I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I wish everyone did.

Posted by: George, Curious no more at January 12, 2026 08:12 PM (LQMsX)

97 53 Johnny Weismuller made out real well on his earnings from the Tarzan movie series. The chimp, not so much. Cheetahs never prosper. - Alberta Oil Peon

Maybe that's why they're so ornery.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:12 PM (2L+MU)

98 So we get a Polar Bear at the Little Rock Zoo in about 69.
Well
guess what he is lonely
So the good chillrens of Little Rock save up and buy a Mrs. Polar Bear.
He killed her on the first day.
Watching the news that night was very traumatic.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:12 PM (gbOdA)

99 She's crying because there's a monkey

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (DoBxX)

100
A pox on monkey fuckers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (xG4kz)

101 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (gbOdA)

102 I am not saying that's a rhesus monkey, but with what other primate could I say "rhesus feces" and conjure up a mental link to a popular snack candy?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:10 PM (xG4kz)

The new Oreo Reeses kind are OK.
Tried a pack a few months back.

Now I'm thinking about a Baby Ruth in a pool.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (6ydKt)

103 I didn't put those picture on the laptop. I was hacked!

Posted by: The Man in the Yellow Hat at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (Fs+J2)

104 99 She's crying because there's a monkey

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (DoBxX)

Repeatedly jumping on her head.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (6ydKt)

105 >>She's crying because there's a monkey

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 08:13 PM (DoBxX)

>>Repeatedly jumping on her head.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (6ydKt)

You guys are going to put Big Ben out of a job.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (ZcsJV)

106
Last year, I thought that, at long last, performances of the National Anthem would no longer be a platform for "creative" interpretations. I may have been wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 08:15 PM (t2vGZ)

107 Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBeF8xlu0c

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:16 PM (2GVsD)

108 I didn't put those picture on the laptop. I was hacked!
Posted by: The Man in the Yellow Hat

Now I'm really glad I skipped the follow-on book series, The Adventures of Bi-Curious George.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 08:17 PM (nhCoE)

109 Shortest Divorce Court:
He got me a monkey.
Granted!

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:18 PM (gbOdA)

110
The new Oreo Reeses kind are OK.
Tried a pack a few months back.

I tried some a couple of days back. I wondered what was the point of the exercise as there was too little of any one of the characteristic components of both constituents to establish any sort of "hmmmm... interesting" flavor.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:18 PM (xG4kz)

111
Obligatory monkey story

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/i-like-monkeys.376590/

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 08:18 PM (y9nCu)

112 Vance trying to talk Trump out of targeted bombing, or talking him in to negotiation?

I hope Trump follows his own instincts.

I'm guessing Tucker was at that oil executive pow-wow by Vance's invitation. He had a privileged seat at the outer circle of the inner circle.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2026 08:19 PM (WHfpM)

113 They tested a dog to see which one it loved more. It was not a close contest.

From what I've gather with dogs it usually boils down to who gives them the most attention and who feeds them the most.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:19 PM (6ydKt)

114 >>Repeatedly jumping on her head.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (6ydKt)

You guys are going to put Big Ben out of a job.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (ZcsJV)
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Not pictured--the other ten monkeys jumping on her bed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 08:19 PM (ESVrU)

115 So... the Greenland op might not be an "op."

There is a fairly cogent argument to be made for subsuming it. It sits pretty much under the flightpath of Soviet ICBM's

I'd argue something out in the Pacific would be of greater concern... but you know what? We're already dealing with that. Greenland, and by extension, Canada is a real soft spot in our defense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (NwnyJ)

116 Or, let Trump here a different viewpoint, no matter how whacked the messenger? I dunno. We can all get into our own echo chambers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (zZu0s)

117 I tried some a couple of days back. I wondered what was the point of the exercise as there was too little of any one of the characteristic components of both constituents to establish any sort of "hmmmm... interesting" flavor.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:18 PM (xG4kz)

Yeah, it's not terrible.
I expected more, I guess.

Haven't bought any since so it obviously isn't addictive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (6ydKt)

118 The Inuits employ special boots called "ᐱᖑᐃᓐ ᐊᕿᔨ" (penguin kickers) to dispatch annoying penguins. As penguin have a density approximating that of a football, they are easily kicked for great distances while sustaining little injury. They will eventually return however, only to be kicked away again, a pastime in which the Inuits find great sport.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

119 Not pictured--the other ten monkeys jumping on her bed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

They are cheaper if you buy them by the barrel.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (nhCoE)

120 Now I'm really glad I skipped the follow-on book series, The Adventures of Bi-Curious George.
Posted by: mikeski

Curious George was an ether-addled little shit that never suffered the consequences of his screwups. The Man in the Yellow Hat was an enabler - nothing more.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2026 08:21 PM (cYBz/)

121 There is a moral in this monkey video
Don't get a monkey

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 08:21 PM (Ia/+0)

122 Paying the Eskimos $5 M will be real fucking funny watching them add studs, chains, and mudflaps to to exotics.
Like Landman F250s but lambos and ferarris and porches but with the passenger seat filled with 4 sled dogs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:03 PM (gbOdA)

Chances are that something like that would be like Venezuela's oil money: it goes into a Treasury account and is paid out to the government there for improvements, at a discount from the US.
I bet there are a lot of things they could use that the Danes never cared enough to fund, and they couldn't trade from local resources.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:21 PM (rbvCR)

123 Monkeys will shit down the neck of your shirt, but I think that one had a diaper.
Michael Savage tells a story about a guy in the Bronx who worked in Michael's Dad's store who had a spider monkey and it was OK until the day the monkey decided to kill it's owner (Louie). It bit and scratched and tore Louie up terribly until Louie managed to throw the monkey through a window on the fifth floor.

Posted by: Don't Buy A Monkey. at January 12, 2026 08:22 PM (oftw2)

124 Monkeys are nasty fucking critters that must be beat down. They serve no purpose. Like Somalis.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 08:22 PM (BSdIE)

125 Hear. Wtf, hands?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

126
Monkeys are stupid, violent and amoral. Simian Democrats, as it were.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (t2vGZ)

127 Monkeys are one of the things Big Cartoon tricked us about.

We gobbled up their simian agitprop slop like hogs at a Technicolor trough, man.

We thought they were cute, if perhaps a bit mischievous.

Well, they aren't so fun when they're ripping your dick off. It was always a globalist plot to get your unsuspecting tourist crotch within ripping range.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (BI5O2)

128 I had my kitten in to get spayed today. She is too amped from getting off the anesthetic to calm down, so she is in the kennel to keep her from pulling stitches.
Probably two days before I let her out to be sore in GenPop

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (rbvCR)

129 I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.

And that's when I lost it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (6ydKt)

130 Braaaass monkey 🐒

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (WmZ5x)

131
You guys are going to put Big Ben out of a job.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 08:14 PM (ZcsJV)
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Not pictured--the other ten monkeys jumping on her bed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

This recalls the laughably hilarious story of the actress Mayim Bialik a few years back who was bewailing on social media the takeover of her living space by her bullying cat.

There was a simple answer to your dilemma, darlin' -- take the devil kitty to an animal shelter.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (xG4kz)

132 Monkeys are nasty fucking critters that must be beat down. They serve no purpose. Like Somalis.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

There's four monkeys and a goat running around North St. Louis. No one knows where they came from.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (u/kd+)

133 One of my father's great tales is from his HS days when his friend decided to dye his Green Monkey Lime Green for St Patrick's Day.

Monkey escapes, wreaks havoc over a small portion of Larchmont NY. Terrorizing at least one Nell Carter sized black woman at a Bus Stop.

Much hilarity ensues.

Always love hearing that one.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 08:25 PM (ZcsJV)

134 Similar IQs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 08:25 PM (9cHSL)

135 Relevant:

https://youtu.be/LNjuxtjtuWg

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 08:26 PM (8zz6B)

136 Penguin Facts is a Fountain of Misinformation as usual. Penguins have not colonized Greenland yet. We are waiting for the go-ahead from President Trump and the Secretary of War. Soon.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at January 12, 2026 08:27 PM (oftw2)

137 Tales of the Gold Monkey with Cmdr Decker from Star Trek and the Dad from 7th Heaven who evidently did some very bad things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

138 In other monkey news:

They did capture the last escaped monkey in Mississippi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:27 PM (2GVsD)

139 I'm guessing Tucker was at that oil executive pow-wow by Vance's invitation. He had a privileged seat at the outer circle of the inner circle.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Second look at Vance's counsel?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:27 PM (u/kd+)

140 There's four monkeys and a goat running around North St. Louis. No one knows where they came from.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (u/kd+)
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Dean Koontz has written a horror story or two where something similar happens.

Any secret government labs breeding supersoldier monkeys in the St. Louis area? Under the Gateway Arch maybe?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 08:28 PM (ESVrU)

141 MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=F2DwAcDZF4Y

RIP Bob Weir

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 08:28 PM (ZcsJV)

142
Cage death match suggestion: six contestants per side.

Chimpanzees versus House Democrat leadership.

Put your money on the chimps, fellas.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:28 PM (xG4kz)

143 118 Penguin Facts

Importing penguins to engage in that savage sport? A crime against penguinanity! Anti-penguinism is the veritable canary in the coal mine. Soon, the same people will be coming for pandas, sea otters, and even dogs and cats.

Meanwhile, the cabal of left-wing billionaires trying to eradicate penguins - including pizza king Getus L. Mazuma and powerful Louisiana restauranteur Hippolyte d’Orleans McGumbo, who are seeking to corner the market in anchovies and sardines, respectively - have been propping up propaganda organ Penguin Facts ever since this outfit lost its communist funding after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as has been related in investigative reports previously published by independent news source, Paco World News Daily (PWND).

Naturally, the Penguin Anti-Communist Organization, the Penguin Action Caucus Online, Penguins Against Cruel Obloquy and other similar-minded rights groups will continue to fight against Spheniscidaphobia whenever and wherever it rears its ugly, and probably bat-faced, head.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:28 PM (2L+MU)

144
No SAABs?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 08:09 PM (9cHSL)

I used to own a SAAB 99, fun car. One of the Captains in my unit owned a 900 and he used to earn beer money in college by giving someone his keys and betting them that they couldn't start his car.

The ignition isn't on the dash or steering column. Damned dirty Scandis put it between the seats, partially hidden next to the E-brake lever. They moved it to the steering column starting with the 9000 series.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 08:29 PM (y9nCu)

145 Re: Tales of the Gold Monkey

The entire series is on ewetub.

https://youtu.be/BSr-ZSBEq7k?
si=8sHtEWYFcauMajyG

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

146 I need to get things ready to take the stray cat in to be spayed. She already wants to come in. I have a large crate I can use to contain her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 08:29 PM (+mUZM)

147
There's four monkeys and a goat running around North St. Louis.

You sure those are monkeys?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:29 PM (xG4kz)

148 Vance trying to talk Trump out of targeted bombing, or talking him in to negotiation?
I hope Trump follows his own instincts.
I'm guessing Tucker was at that oil executive pow-wow by Vance's invitation. He had a privileged seat at the outer circle of the inner circle.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2026 08:19 PM (WHfpM)

I wonder why Trump had Tucker in for a private lunch prior to that. Seems an odd thing to do for someone who is so far beyond the pale. Maybe as a favor to his sons, the ones that are running his old businesses?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

149 Frankly, I'll bet there are some exceptionally intelligent Great Apes who are smarter than an average Somali. Probably some bears, dolphins, and Malinois dogs, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:30 PM (BI5O2)

150 Should have been in bed awhile ago, was napping when I got home
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 08:30 PM (Ia/+0)

151 I had the sound down, but, I saw the big black tights and damn.

Posted by: Accomack at January 12, 2026 08:30 PM (/fbTJ)

152 Second look at Vance's counsel?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:27 PM (u/kd+)

Yeah, we should get rid of Vance. DeSantis ride or die.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (rbvCR)

153 Any secret government labs breeding supersoldier monkeys in the St. Louis area? Under the Gateway Arch maybe?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

It's a museum under the arch. Maybe that's what they want us to think!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (u/kd+)

154 I hate to say it but Trump may have been wrong.

https://is.gd/44hNhC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (L/fGl)

155 I remember us owning a monkey when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It died when my older brother sat on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (Vh9CX)

156 Any secret government labs breeding supersoldier monkeys in the St. Louis area? Under the Gateway Arch maybe?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

It's a museum under the arch. Maybe that's what they want us to think!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (u/kd+)
---
It really is the perfect cover.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (ESVrU)

157 The TV aired version of The Final Countdown is on YouTube right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQWj26605gc

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:32 PM (2GVsD)

158 They are cheaper if you buy them by the barrel.
Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 08:20 PM (nhCoE)

What fun!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:32 PM (rbvCR)

159 >>I wonder why Trump had Tucker in for a private lunch prior to that. Seems an odd thing to do for someone who is so far beyond the pale. Maybe as a favor to his sons, the ones that are running his old businesses?

Or maybe to get him to stop sounding like a retard by forcing him to listen to facts. Probably a long shot at this point but one last chance and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:32 PM (viF8m)

160
I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I wish everyone did.
Posted by: George, Curious no more

Now you're yellow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 08:33 PM (pkeXY)

161 I bet there are a lot of things they could use that the Danes never cared enough to fund, and they couldn't trade from local resources.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:21 PM (rbvCR)

Tanbreez

I just ran across it today.

It's some stupidly rich deposits including high concentrations of Gallium.

Pro tip: skip the tanbreez.com site. If they mine like they design websites, it'll be worthless.

Posted by: The CCP, just CCPing over here at January 12, 2026 08:33 PM (w/O5Q)

162 After watching that video, I'm having second and third thoughts about the U.S. annexing Greenland.

Posted by: Just reporting at January 12, 2026 08:33 PM (Z1oJ3)

163 /off sock

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 12, 2026 08:34 PM (w/O5Q)

164 Paco World News Daily (PWND).
Penguin Anti-Communist Organization
Penguin Action Caucus Online
Penguins Against Cruel Obloquy

All financed by Big Penguin. Somebody is getting rich.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 12, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

165 That kangaroo reminds me of Renee Good.

Fuckin’ Renee Good.

Posted by: EFG at January 12, 2026 08:34 PM (53z0x)

166 *watching Tales of the Gold Monkey*

Interesting how much of this pilot is establishing shots.

But, they have established:

-in South pacific.

-pilot, leather jacket man

-dog

-boat plane

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (zZu0s)

167
The Gateway Arch is a short distance stargate to a companion arch located in the jungles of Zaire.

There will come a day when it activates and disgorges thousands of primate warriors with slavering maws upon an unsuspecting public.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (xG4kz)

168 If I bought a monkey, it would be a Capuchin. I would train it to sit on my shoulder and hurl shit at affluent white women. If they complain I'll say it's only trained to throw shit at racists. See if they have the nerve to contradict a Hispanic immigrant.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (BI5O2)

169 Tim Walz says he's going to "ride Republicans like they've never been ridden before."

Really glad he doesn't know how to operate that shotgun.

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (7DKa5)

170 Little kitten is probably possessed by a demon.

What exactly is in that white powder? Kitty wants!

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (JmfGy)

171 Tampon Timmy is once again projecting his sexual fantasies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)

172 >>>>>Can't we just, like, hook Greenland up to a big ship and tow it south where it will be warmer?
Posted by: Hank Johnson at January 12, 2026 08:00 PM (gtcuf)
******
That is hilarious. Well done!!!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 12, 2026 08:36 PM (fPvmg)

173
I wonder why Trump had Tucker in for a private lunch prior to that. Seems an odd thing to do for someone who is so far beyond the pale. Maybe as a favor to his sons, the ones that are running his old businesses?

Maskirovka.

"We're negotiating with the mullahs for a C17 full of cash in exchange for putting out a hit on Bruce Springsteen."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 08:36 PM (y9nCu)

174 >160
I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I wish everyone did.
Posted by: George, Curious no more

Now you're yellow.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 08:33 PM (pkeXY)

Would you like to touch my monkey?

Posted by: Dieter from Sprokets at January 12, 2026 08:37 PM (GTqXr)

175 Or maybe to get him to stop sounding like a retard by forcing him to listen to facts. Probably a long shot at this point but one last chance and all that.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:32 PM (viF8m)

Yeah, taking up an hour to talk to loon is a terrible use of his time in that case. Very suspect judgement.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:37 PM (rbvCR)

176 Tim Walz says he's going to "ride Republicans like they've never been ridden before."

Really glad he doesn't know how to operate that shotgun.
Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (7DKa5)

No thanks, Tim.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:38 PM (zZu0s)

177 Trump did not have luck with Cucker Trollson. It was VANCE. And then Cucker crashed the oil exec meeting. He was not invited by Trump. end of story.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:38 PM (g47mK)

178 Luck - lunch, lol

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:39 PM (g47mK)

179
Would you like to touch my monkey?
Posted by: Dieter from Sprokets

I thought it was, "Would you like to butter my muffin"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:39 PM (xG4kz)

180 If I bought a monkey, it would be a Capuchin. I would train it to sit on my shoulder and hurl shit at affluent white women. If they complain I'll say it's only trained to throw shit at racists. See if they have the nerve to contradict a Hispanic immigrant.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

"No, sir, but you can't fool a circle fly."

Posted by: just the punchline at January 12, 2026 08:39 PM (nhCoE)

181 this is from sources in the WH, BTW. Cucker's fangirls are now spreading rumors that he was invited by Trump. he. .was. not. Cucker is a liar, a coward and a traitor.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (g47mK)

182 20 bananas, same as downtown.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (L/fGl)

183 Cucker is about to lose his sponsorships....

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (g47mK)

184 I don't think that gorilla was just a monkey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

185 Okay I need to stop watching The Final Countdown I am matching modex numbers.

When HS-9 Sea King 773 lands aboard Nimitz, parked behind it is A-7E 412 of the Sidewinders. Just a little bit later it is 412 that has an inflight emergency as the time portal catches up to the carrier.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (2GVsD)

186 >>Yeah, taking up an hour to talk to loon is a terrible use of his time in that case. Very suspect judgement.

ha

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)

187 For those of you that can read Twitter, this is one of the most subtle, most masterful, and from time to time the most hilarious, troll accounts I've ever seen. "She" has already fooled several of the leading lights of rightwing Twitter.

Example post:

When you see an ICE agent throw a protestor to the ground just remember these are YOUR teachers, YOUR therapist, the entire human recourses department at YOUR work. These are real people and deserve to be treated as such.

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (7DKa5)

188 Trump did not have luck with Cucker Trollson. It was VANCE. And then Cucker crashed the oil exec meeting. He was not invited by Trump. end of story.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:38 PM (g47mK)

DeSantis Ride Or Die, man,

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (rbvCR)

189 the Ayatollah's spinning his nonsense on TV on Iranian TV on a loop (of course! they are on the same wavelength! he spews the same propaganda that they do!) , while shooting the protesters was precious

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:42 PM (g47mK)

190 Clearly we need Greenland for ICE headquarters.

Posted by: Piercello at January 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NRGJj)

191 Forgot to link: https://x.com/ClaireFosterPHD

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:42 PM (7DKa5)

192 DeSantis Ride Or Die, man,
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (rbvCR)

Poshel nahyi , bolvan. Idi k svoey zhene, plachsya eyi.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (g47mK)

193 Ack

Sea King 733, last four of Bu No is 9010, of HS-9

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)

194 I remember when I was 6 I had a good friend across the street my age, and his older sister had a monkey. We were in awe of how grown up she was because she was 14.
My friend had a big birthday party at his house, lotta kids (mostly 6 year olds), and his sister came out to show off her spider monkey. Well the kids were all yelling and grabbing at it, and it got scared so it jumped on top of her head out of their reach, but it started pulling her hair to hang on. So she yelled and started trying to yank the monkey off, but this just made the monkey pull her hair harder while all the kids yelled even louder.
Then we looked up and we saw that monkey so scared that bright yellow streams of monkey pee began running down his sisters face. Total chaos ensued!

That is the first time in my life I remember falling on the ground and laughing until tears came out my eyes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (QkvGw)

195 We always had big dogs -no more, unfortunately, can't take good care of them anymore - but I always made sure that they bonded with my wife.
Big dogs. > 90#
Little dogs, it's cute, big dogs it's useful.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (4YokX)

196 I guess Tucker will always have a place to hang his hat though as he lives rent free in the heads of so many.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

197 It's her hot lips. They are driving the poor monkey crazy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 08:44 PM (ZwdAr)

198 Now you're yellow.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 08:33 PM

No yellow!

Posted by: Curious Hunter at January 12, 2026 08:44 PM (ZJqEv)

199 164 All financed by Big Penguin. Somebody is getting rich. - Penguin Facts

Well, it certainly isn't me!

Lights up another Cohiba with a double-sawbuck.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 08:45 PM (2L+MU)

200 Cucker's superfans are not very original. But very loyal!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:46 PM (g47mK)

201 >>I remember when I was 6 I had a good friend across the street my age, and his older sister had a monkey.

Who are you people who grew up around monkeys? I got to see a monkey a couple times when I was a kid when my parents took me to a zoo.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:46 PM (viF8m)

202 And then when 733 lands aboard the carrier, the Bu No changes.

Continuity, schmontnuity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:46 PM (2GVsD)

203 So that's what it's like to have a monkey on your back.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:46 PM (vFG9F)

204 Little dogs, it's cute, big dogs it's useful.
Posted by: buddhaha
---

Little dogs can wake one up to a burglar as well as a big dog. They eat less, shit less and take up less room.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 08:47 PM (ZwdAr)

205 And then when 733 lands aboard the carrier, the Bu No changes.

Continuity, schmontnuity.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:46 PM (2GVsD)

Hey, it was the 80s. Not like there were a ton of Navy vets who might ask questions if they got something wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

206 I grew up down the street from a girl who married the trainer of the chimp from those Clint Eastwood movies. They had that chimp for years till it finally died. He was a black belt. The trainer, not the chimp.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 08:47 PM (gtcuf)

207
Who are you people who grew up around monkeys?

Oh, please, it's "monkey adjacent".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:48 PM (xG4kz)

208 Mrs. Splunge and I used to keep one little dog and one big dog. Then we moved to the desert, where a little dog is basically just a snack for the coyotes. So now it's two big dogs.

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:48 PM (7DKa5)

209 What exactly is in that white powder? Kitty wants!
Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (JmfGy)
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Catnip is a helluva drug.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (ESVrU)

210
I grew up down the street from a girl who married the trainer of the chimp from those Clint Eastwood movies. They had that chimp for years till it finally died. He was a black belt. The trainer, not the chimp.
Posted by: Delurker

Orangutan, not chimp.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (xG4kz)

211 You have to some super duper special kinda of traitor to have the fucking Ayatollahs use your speeches to boost their cockamamie propaganda. That was a total Cucker get! go ahead , defend him , superfans.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (g47mK)

212 Conquering Greenland is not going to be easy

Heh, pretty cool. We need to get them a more dignified flag, though.

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (JmfGy)

213 I'm "legally blind" enough to own a Capuchin in the state of CO. I should see what the laws are here.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (BI5O2)

214 Cucker is about to lose his sponsorships....
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:40 PM (g47mK)

Absolutely correct that he lose them. Consensus must be maintained, and voices like Tucker's break that collective understanding that our strength relies on

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

215 Penguin Facts is, as always, absolutely correct. It is refreshing to know that there are those who stand four-square and rock-ribbed for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

Thank you, Penguin Facts!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (0sNs1)

216 Do monkeys drink?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 08:50 PM (9cHSL)

217 https://x_dot_com/ClaireFosterPHD
(I modified the url so someone doesn't inadvertently wind up there)
"169 IQ" Yeah, right. If your base population is Somali, maybe.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 08:50 PM (4YokX)

218 When you see an ICE agent throw a protestor to the ground just remember these are YOUR teachers, YOUR therapist, the entire human recourses department at YOUR work. These are real people and deserve to be treated as such.
Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (7DKa5)
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Uh...that's not quite the winning argument that person thinks it is...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 08:50 PM (ESVrU)

219 Aetius

Oh I know, for the filming they had several F-14As painted up as 202 and 203, the Zero killers. So Bu Nos are a guess at best.

The hero shots showing the front of both F-14s show deviations from standard paint. Need to check notes, but one was completely missing the walkways atop the intakes while the other Tomcat only had a walkway on the left intake.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:51 PM (2GVsD)

220 Poshel nahyi , bolvan. Idi k svoey zhene, plachsya eyi.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (g47mK)

And to think you kiss your sister with that mouth.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)

221 Runner, if you like Huntsman better, just say.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)

222 Do monkeys drink?

-----

Yep, at least beer that I know of. But I'm gonna keep my Capuchin hopped up on jungle juice and Taco Bell. I want him belligerent at all times, with one in the chamber.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:53 PM (BI5O2)

223 The early-30s Our Gang films always had these random monkeys hanging around. Like that time Stymie thought his little brother Cotton got turned into a monkey when his brother wandered off and the monkey sat in his place.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 08:53 PM (gtcuf)

224 Continuity is the hobgoblin of small auteurs.

Posted by: Don Taylor at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (0sNs1)

225 Keep in mind all these Vance leaks are intended to drive a narrative for political advantage. These are not the whispers of angels passing on divine truths in disinterest.

Proof, not rumors.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (xcxpd)

226 *finds notes*

202 had one walkway.
203 had no walkways.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (2GVsD)

227 KIndltot, thanks for sharing that touching story on the other thread :

"Watching my grandmother and my step mom smoking pot out of my half-brother's stash was the second most embarrassing things I have ever witnessed.

The most embarrassing thing was watching my 68-YO step sister and my dad's 74 YO girlfriend feeling each other out to see who was holding. At the local diner.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

Nothing you post should surprise me. Seek help. Really. You will not need the internet or substances to feel good about yourself.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (g47mK)

228 Proof, not rumors.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (xcxpd)

This.

But the drumhead needs no proof.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:55 PM (zZu0s)

229 217 https://x_dot_com/ClaireFosterPHD
(I modified the url so someone doesn't inadvertently wind up there)
"169 IQ" Yeah, right. If your base population is Somali, maybe.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 08:50 PM (4YokX)

Thank you. I don't think I've seen that before, putting stuff in a URL to avoid it being live. What's the reason? Should I start doing that every time?

I want to emphasize that this is a humor account, and if you refute the posts instead of getting the joke, you were snared. Sort of along the lines of Andrew Doyle's Titiania McGrath creation.

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:55 PM (7DKa5)

230 Anna Puma, have you seen the new Tamiya 1/72 F-14? Looks like a beautiful kit.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 12, 2026 08:55 PM (h/O4U)

231 But I'm gonna keep my Capuchin hopped up on jungle juice and Taco Bell. I want him belligerent at all times, with one in the chamber.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:53 PM

Consider getting a penguin. Longer range, higher-capacity magazine, and much more mephitic.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 08:56 PM (0sNs1)

232 I've found exactly 2 AI things that are actually funny on the Youtubes. One is a parody of woke newscasts, and the other is a series where these alley cats are all in this cat mafia and they deal catnip and stuff. And have names like Big Tuna and Nine-Lives Nicky.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 08:57 PM (gtcuf)

233 PA Dutchman

I have one of the F-14ds in 1/72. It is indeed an exquisite beauty. Detail is very similar to its big brother in 1/48 but some of the parts breakdowns are different.

For example, the intake trunking in 1/72 is one piece slide mold. This kit in its delicate and abundant detail makes the original issue Hasegawa 1/72 F-14A look like a Lindberg kit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 08:58 PM (2GVsD)

234 Continuity is the hobgoblin of small auteurs.
Posted by: Don Taylor

What's the rudest goblin? A gof*ckyours elf.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 08:59 PM (L/fGl)

235 223 The early-30s Our Gang films always had these random monkeys hanging around. Like that time Stymie thought his little brother Cotton got turned into a monkey when his brother wandered off and the monkey sat in his place.

Posted by: Delurker

Spanky also rolled the organ grinder's monkey for his change so he had money to ride the taxi.

Posted by: Hey Monkey, Got Any Dough? at January 12, 2026 08:59 PM (oftw2)

236 Poshel nahyi , bolvan. Idi k svoey zhene, plachsya eyi.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:43 PM (g47mK)

And to think you kiss your sister with that mouth.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)
====

Tucker spreading love at AoS again?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:59 PM (RIvkX)

237 That Greenland tiktok group looks like a hard bunch.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (LHPAg)

238 While harboring a penguin may seem to be a good idea at the time, you will find that when one gets the "zoomies" there will be nothing but tears and regret, followed by a through pressure washing.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (vFG9F)

239 Tucker spreading love at AoS again?
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:59 PM (RIvkX

Usual witchhunts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

240 130 Braaaass monkey 🐒
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 08:24 PM (WmZ5x)

That funky monkey

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (xcxpd)

241 The Rascals also had a chimp in the episode where they were caddies. Nasty Chimp broke the golfer's clubs and commandeered the big lawn mower to chase the golfers and commit general mayhem.

Posted by: What Kind Of A Caddie Is That? at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (oftw2)

242 Sidebar question: when did the penguin thing get going? Seems like forever. Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

243 ClaireFosterPHD is hilarious! Thank you for sharing!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (0sNs1)

244 Do monkeys drink?

-----

Yep, at least beer that I know of. But I'm gonna keep my Capuchin hopped up on jungle juice and Taco Bell. I want him belligerent at all times, with one in the chamber.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 08:53 PM (BI5O2)
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I've heard of monkeys and apes getting hammered on naturally-fermented fruit juices.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 09:02 PM (ESVrU)

245 I've had Monkey Shoulder scotch before. It was ok.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 09:02 PM (xcxpd)

246 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (t2vGZ)

Sorry. However, you have a sweet and old fashioned way to describe your dog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:02 PM (PFs9e)

247 Monkeys on my shoulders make me happy...

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:03 PM (gtcuf)

248 Would you look at that. The media was lying again.

>>@USAttyPirro
·
30m
>>The United States Attorney’s Office contacted the Federal Reserve on multiple occasions to discuss cost overruns and the chairman’s congressional testimony, but were ignored, necessitating the use of legal process—which is not a threat.

>>The word “indictment” has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s. None of this would have happened if they had just responded to our outreach.

>>This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less. We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:03 PM (viF8m)

249 Is Monkey Shoulder Scotch authentic?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:03 PM (9cHSL)

250 Now imagine if you will a thousand drunk monkeys pounding away at a thousand typewriters. That is the news.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:03 PM (2GVsD)

251 Tucker spreading love at AoS again?
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:59 PM (RIvkX

Usual witchhunts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

I went looking elsewhere, to see what all the fuss was about...

He's got his brother on his latest podcast. Maybe they said something nice about their mom. That would send some people around these parts into a tizzy of apoplexy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:04 PM (BjWnb)

252 The Monkeys have no tails in Samuanga,
Samuanga,
Samuanga, etc

Name that movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:04 PM (zZu0s)

253 There is study somewhere, a poll, I should find it and send it to ace, showing demographics of the audience for all the news shows, regular and online. Cucker has the oldest, somewhere in the 50-60 range on up. Daily Wire has one the youngest. LOL. It really supports what I see.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:04 PM (g47mK)

254 Yep, at least beer that I know of. But I'm gonna keep my Capuchin hopped up on jungle juice and Taco Bell. I want him belligerent at all times, with one in the chamber.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I saw Belligerent Capuchin open for Monkey Majik at Space Banana in 2024.

https://youtu.be/EXoGs9edhc4

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:04 PM (nhCoE)

255 Little dogs barking helps when it's a burglar in your house in the middle of the night.
Big dogs bark, too.
When you're walking on a lonely street at dusk and a "homeless" man is approaching the other way, do you want a Yorkie that barks his head off, or a German Shepard who's ruff sticks up?

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (4YokX)

256 Shah on live with Hannity if you can bear it

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (RIvkX)

257 >249 Is Monkey Shoulder Scotch authentic?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:03 PM (9cHSL)

One whole monkey in every bottle.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (GTqXr)

258 @Currentreport1
US is studying an Iranian offer and is willing to negotiate

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (ZxPkt)

259 Monkey in a bottle, 'how did I get here?'

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (2GVsD)

260 do you want a Yorkie that barks his head off, or a German Shepard who's ruff sticks up"

Kimber 1911 in .45...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (XuXeR)

261 I would love to see Powell hounded out of the Fed on a trumped-up, bullshit charge. Not for any specific reason, just on GPs. To let board governors know they actually *can* be touched. Give those little shitsticks something to worry on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (BI5O2)

262 256 Shah on live with Hannity if you can bear it
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (RIvkX)

I already know what Hannity has to say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (zZu0s)

263 Keep in mind all these Vance leaks are intended to drive a narrative for political advantage. These are not the whispers of angels passing on divine truths in disinterest.

Proof, not rumors.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (xcxpd)

Now what'd Vance do???

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (BjWnb)

264 Drumhead!

Posted by: Wood eye at January 12, 2026 09:06 PM (pkeXY)

265 Is Monkey Shoulder Scotch authentic?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes and no.

It is whisky from Scotland.

It contains no monkey, shoulder or otherwise.

.....

It's named for a joint disorder that distillery workers suffered.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:07 PM (nhCoE)

266 On the Abbott and Costello show, Bingo the Chimp was a frequent guest. He was a good roller skater.

Posted by: Abbott and Costello-Cheap Skates at January 12, 2026 09:07 PM (oftw2)

267 Hannity is a big deal. Trump watches Hannity.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:07 PM (g47mK)

268 I thought Powell's term ended in February anyway?

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:07 PM (gtcuf)

269 I'm drinking a rusty nail made with Monkey Shoulder right now. I like it, or Shackleton's, for that particular drink.

Posted by: PabloD at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (pXTL4)

270 I have a more wholesome childhood story. We had a pet chicken. Well, OK, a cock, a pet cock! The toddler from next door wandered over with an ice cream cone. The cock decided he wanted that cone. He jumped at the boy causing him to fall on his back. The cock jumped on his chest reaching for the cone. The boy extends his arm as far as possible and was waving his arms and legs screaming. We had to rescue him and the cone was saved.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (L/fGl)

271 Goldie switched to Hannity.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (9cHSL)

272 When you're walking on a lonely street at dusk and a "homeless" man is approaching the other way, do you want a Yorkie that barks his head off, or a German Shepard who's ruff sticks up?
Posted by: buddhaha

"No, I'm Moses, the parrot. Jesus is the rottweiler behind you."

Posted by: just the punchline at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (nhCoE)

273 I thought Powell's term ended in February anyway?
Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:07 PM (gtcuf)

I liked him in those Thin Man movies.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (BjWnb)

274 My room mate in college had a monkey, vile nasty evil little bastage.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

275
Monkey mayhem, "Whose wine? What wine? Where the hell did I dine?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 09:09 PM (xG4kz)

276 I thought Powell's term ended in February anyway?

==

No, unfortunately. May 15.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:09 PM (g47mK)

277 228 Proof, not rumors.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (xcxpd)

This.

But the drumhead needs no proof.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 08:55 PM (zZu0s)

I’ve noticed that. There’s a lot of stuff posted about Vance especially that I find has no actual proof behind it, just some anonymous person asserting whatever. Somebody is running a rumor campaign against Vance, for sure.
And I believe he’s made a few small mistakes along the way, but nothing very notable, mostly because he’s still pretty new to this game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 09:09 PM (QkvGw)

278 No, unfortunately. May 15.

Ah. Well, that's not too far away.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (gtcuf)

279 Last I heard he had a food thing of some sort outside Camden Yards.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (BjWnb)

280 252 The Monkeys have no tails in Samuanga,
Samuanga,
Samuanga, etc

Name that movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:04 PM (zZu0s)They
they Were Expendable

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (LHPAg)

281 Tucker Carlson. an opinion by Victor Davis Hanson:

@1minute:27seconds

https://tinyurl.com/fr7z74b5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (ZwdAr)

282 I already know what Hannity has to say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

That the Shah is a great American?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (L/fGl)

283 There was also an episode of The Abbott and Costello Show when all six principal actors, Bud, Lou, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Mr. Bacciagalupe, and Mike the Cop, head to Africa with Bingo to find his family. Some of the situations and jokes were recycled from their Feature film....

Posted by: ...Africa Screams at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oftw2)

284 As the Empress would say of 'anonymous sources,' step up and say it front of the cameras.

If you don't it's all bullshit to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (2GVsD)

285
My room mate in college had a monkey, vile nasty evil little bastage.
Posted by: Eromero

Kind of liked the monkey, though, did you?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (xG4kz)

286 Sharif don't like it.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gtcuf)

287 The best thing would be to haul Powell out of his unfinished temple in shackles, the day before he would have retired to his personal scams.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (BI5O2)

288 It's a good interview, if I may say so myself.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:11 PM (g47mK)

289 That the Shah is a great American?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 09:10 PM (L/fGl)

How does Shah Jr. feel about gay marriage? That's all I want to know.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:12 PM (BjWnb)

290 >>This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less. We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation.
Posted by: JackStraw

Is he Reserve required to comply with Federal Acquisition Regs?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:12 PM (/lPRQ)

291
I’ve noticed that. There’s a lot of stuff posted about Vance especially that I find has no actual proof behind it, just some anonymous person asserting whatever. Somebody is running a rumor campaign against Vance, for sure.
And I believe he’s made a few small mistakes along the way, but nothing very notable, mostly because he’s still pretty new to this game.
Posted by: Tom Servo
----

There's a lot of crap on X.
Free speech is a bitch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:12 PM (ZwdAr)

292 I liked him in those Thin Man movies.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:08 PM (BjWnb)

Nice ref.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

293 Iirc David Schwimmer hated the monkey his character had on Friends.

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:13 PM (YwEeS)

294 Would you look at that. The media was lying again.

>>@USAttyPirro
·
30m
>>The United States Attorney’s Office contacted the Federal Reserve on multiple occasions to discuss cost overruns and the chairman’s congressional testimony, but were ignored, necessitating the use of legal process—which is not a threat.

>>The word “indictment” has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s. None of this would have happened if they had just responded to our outreach.

>>This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less. We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation.
Posted by: JackStraw

$700 million dollar cost overrun should result in jail time for all involved.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:13 PM (u/kd+)

295 "Nicky, why is that policeman in my drawers?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:13 PM (2GVsD)

296 Iirc David Schwimmer hated the monkey his character had on Friends.
Posted by: steevy

Well, he's a pussy, so...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:14 PM (u/kd+)

297 @Currentreport1
US is studying an Iranian offer and is willing to negotiate
Posted by: Don Black

Why would the US have anything to do with it?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)

298 There's a lot of crap on X.
Free speech is a bitch."

"Free"? That's a good one.

/Elon

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:14 PM (XuXeR)

299 Thank you. I don't think I've seen that before, putting stuff in a URL to avoid it being live. What's the reason? Should I start doing that every time?
Posted by: Splunge
----
Actually, it's for people like myself who read AoS on a touchscreen tablet. I find myself on sites when all I was trying to do was scroll.down.
The touchscreen also explains the random periods. It's right beside the virtual spacebar on the virtual keyboard that gets used like the proverbial horny secretary.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 09:15 PM (4YokX)

300 296 He was good as Captain Sobel in Band of Brothers( although that book and series may have not been entirely fair to Sobel)

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:15 PM (YwEeS)

301 $700 million dollar cost overrun should result in jail time for all involved.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:13 PM (u/kd+)

I'm old enough to remember when we used to call that stealing.

And if I recall, somebody, maybe a hundred years ago or something said something about how thou shalt not do that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:15 PM (BjWnb)

302 David Frum never metaphor he didn't like.

David Frum telling us that the shooting of ICE Watch warrior Renee Good was "a MAGA version of a Third-World honor killing."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 09:16 PM (L/fGl)

303 297 We might negotiate their flight to a neutral country and maybe some spending money. Better deal than they might get staying...

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:16 PM (YwEeS)

304 @Currentreport1
US is studying an Iranian offer and is willing to negotiate
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:05 PM (ZxPkt)

2 weeks ??

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:16 PM (g47mK)

305 $700 million dollar cost overrun should result in jail time for all involved.
Posted by: rickb223

Similar for all the somali fraud. And every other government department.

We're gonna need a bigger jail, aren't we?

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:17 PM (nhCoE)

306 We offered the same to Maduro.

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:17 PM (YwEeS)

307 Bigger jail?

Johnson Atoll in the middle of the Pacific.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:17 PM (2GVsD)

308
There's a lot of crap on X.
Free speech is a bitch.
--

By the way, my neighbor across the street has a youngish daughter whose choice of transportation is a motorcycle. She's tall and lean and the machine is grey dress with fairings and everything hot.
She's tuning it up right now. It turns from idle to 7k in an instant. It's a 4 cycle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:17 PM (ZwdAr)

309 167
The Gateway Arch is a short distance stargate to a companion arch located in the jungles of Zaire.

There will come a day when it activates and disgorges thousands of primate warriors with slavering maws upon an unsuspecting public.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (xG4kz)

Will they be coming from Zaire, or going there from St. Louis?

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (X5Jzz)

310 maybe a hundred years ago or something"

Wow. That's like really old, man.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (XuXeR)

311 sorry
this is the cafe thread- this is supposed to be a happy occasion
a thousand apologies

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (ZxPkt)

312 My aunt had a place out in the country with chickens and a couple roosters. When I was 11 or so I was out there with my cousins, and me and the cousin I knew best decided to catch one. Why? 11 year old boys don’t think in terms of “why”. It was fast, but we got it trapped between two trucks - and then it chose to run under one.
Just the right height to snap its neck so its head was laying in its back. Ran around like that for awhile, too.

My aunt couldn’t see that it was that stupid chickens fault it killed itself. It ours. And our parents were very disappointed in us of course.
But we all had chicken for dinner that night

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (QkvGw)

313 Greenland penal colony.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (9cHSL)

314 Bill Kristol continues to beclown himself. Really at this point he should drive around in a tiny car wearing giant shoes..

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (YwEeS)

315 155 I remember us owning a monkey when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It died when my older brother sat on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (Vh9CX)

Wow! That story took a dark turn!

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (X5Jzz)

316 I've only ever commented here once on my phone, and it sucked enough that I never want to again. There were extenuating circumstances. It was the night of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, PA, and I was stuck at the Buffalo airport for what turned out to be a nine-hour delay (!) trying to get back to Denver. But normally, no. I cannot do it.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:19 PM (gtcuf)

317 David Frum never metaphor he didn't like.

David Frum telling us that the shooting of ICE Watch warrior Renee Good was "a MAGA version of a Third-World honor killing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 12, 2026 09:16 PM (L/fGl)

Tell me you've been to the island, Dave, without having to tell me you've been to the island.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:19 PM (BjWnb)

318 Jonah Goldberg, Billi Crystol, David French, and David Frum in a neon orange and yellow Fiat 500.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:19 PM (2GVsD)

319 David Frum telling us that the shooting of ICE Watch warrior Renee Good was "a MAGA version of a Third-World honor killing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare
----

That's asking for an unacceptable retort.

dang nabbit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:20 PM (ZwdAr)

320 But we all had chicken for dinner that night"

Winner, winner...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:20 PM (XuXeR)

321 VDH is good people.

I am not sure you can say the Middle East is 'better' for Israel being there other than essentially it is a western style democracy plopped down in the middle of a bunch of oil robber barons. It is IN the middle east but not OF it and stands as a flash point. Considering the circumstances of its formation, I'd say yes it's creation is a good thing.

Is the Middle East better for it being there. Yes, but if Trump is successful and peels off Iran, things might actually begin to move and wrench the middle East fro. The Arab dominated destiny it has been under for generations.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)

322 169 Tim Walz says he's going to "ride Republicans like they've never been ridden before."

Really glad he doesn't know how to operate that shotgun.

Posted by: Splunge at January 12, 2026 08:35 PM (7DKa5)

That's a misquote; what he actually said is "I'm going to ride Republicans like I ride Cub Scouts".

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (X5Jzz)

323 sorry
this is the cafe thread- this is supposed to be a happy occasion
a thousand apologies
Posted by: Don Black

Did you say "happy?"

https://youtu.be/xywNeumntoE

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (nhCoE)

324 Greenland penal colony.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:18 PM (9cHSL)

True story, when Britain sent all their prisoners to Australia, to make it a penal colony, the fellas started... eh, making it a REAL penal colony IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (BjWnb)

325 Crystal has gone off the rails???

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (ZwdAr)

326 Richard Spencer thinks the reaction to the Good shoot is going to be a loser for MAGA. He points out that the Floyd death was more obviously justified and that Floyd was a worse person. But look what happened.
The counter to that is that most of the US including minorities really fucking hates Karen. Smug privileged white women who neglect their kids aren't nearly as sympathetic as they think they are

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:21 PM (1ZrNi)

327 Bigger jail?

Johnson Atoll in the middle of the Pacific.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You will have to stack them eight high and deliver them by air drop.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:22 PM (/lPRQ)

328 314 Bill Kristol continues to beclown himself. Really at this point he should drive around in a tiny car wearing giant shoes..
Posted by: steevy

Shit! No! We don't want him!

Posted by: The Shriners at January 12, 2026 09:22 PM (oftw2)

329 Richard Spencer is wrong.

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 09:22 PM (YwEeS)

330 David Frim is CoC through and Through. He is Bill Kristol without the gravitas (if the physical weight.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:22 PM (zZu0s)

331 Fake News. Tim Walz said he's going to "ride Republicans like the little bus he's ridden before."

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:22 PM (gtcuf)

332 You will have to stack them eight high and deliver them by air drop.

Are you saying that is a bad thing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:23 PM (2GVsD)

333 Nothing you post should surprise me. Seek help. Really. You will not need the internet or substances to feel good about yourself.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (g47mK)

Personal attacks, and swearing at people in Russian are always a good way to show sincerity and carry off arguments in logical discourse. For this I salute you, you and your sense of decency, fair play, and strict adherence to the niceties of interpersonal discourse.

I know you intend to be successful in whatever it is you do, so I hope I can give you enough space to make the mistakes necessary to find the skill to allow you to succeed

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 09:23 PM (rbvCR)

334 Link to the full spleef from Spencer please?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:24 PM (2GVsD)

335 Aaron Rogers is a pussy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:24 PM (IhIKR)

336 I remember us owning a monkey when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It died when my older brother sat on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 08:31 PM (Vh9CX)

Wow! That story took a dark turn!
Posted by: a.moron

Yeah. Because you're supposed to use gerbils.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:25 PM (u/kd+)

337 What did Aaron Rodgers do?

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:26 PM (gtcuf)

338 You will have to stack them eight high and deliver them by air drop.

Are you saying that is a bad thing?
Posted by: Anna Puma

If nothing else it will cozy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:26 PM (/lPRQ)

339 Gerbils or gerunds?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:26 PM (2GVsD)

340 Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:19 PM (gtcuf)

You sound like good people. Sack up, and keep trying. You get used to it after awhile.😉

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (Vvh2V)

341 >>US is studying an Iranian offer and is willing to negotiate

Well, sure. If they surrender, Trump will negotiate.

But anything short of the Mullahs stepping down and leaving the country for Moscow? Doubtful.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (ZcsJV)

342 David Frum telling us that the shooting of ICE Watch warrior Renee Good was "a MAGA version of a Third-World honor killing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Oh, for monkey's sake. He is aware that an "honor killing" is when you kill one of your own to maintain your side's honor, right? Is he saying ICEWatch is a MAGA false flag op, and that's common knowledge, such that everyone would know this was Fed-on-Fed?

I got 4 IQ points dumber just thinking about that.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (nhCoE)

343 X.com/RichardBSpencer/
It is the top comment but the rest of it is
Status/2010822486586507280#m

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (Hj3Kv)

344 Aaron Rogers is a pussy."

So was Custer.

(Well, according to Sam Elliot playing Sergeant Major Plumley)

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (XuXeR)

345 Funniest part about the chicken incident is that aunt had a big dog, and when she cleaned the chicken she threw the chicken feet outside (they were pretty big). Well that dog was fascinated with them, and he didn’t eat them but he picked one up and ran around with a big chicken foot sticking out of his mouth the rest of the day. I remember he would stop and just stare at you either this big foot sticking out of his mouth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 09:28 PM (QkvGw)

346 Billy Kristol is a 🤡

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:28 PM (Hj3Kv)

347 >>Is he Reserve required to comply with Federal Acquisition Regs?

I'd think so but this being DC who knows.

Pirro is a smart lady. I trust she knows what she's doing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)

348 I got 4 IQ points dumber just thinking about that.
Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:27 PM (nhCoE)

Those are rookie numbers, meat, ifn you want to get to our level.

Posted by: David Frum fan club at January 12, 2026 09:29 PM (zZu0s)

349 Frum had a monkey but he spanked it too hard

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:29 PM (Hj3Kv)

350 261 I would love to see Powell hounded out of the Fed on a trumped-up, bullshit charge. Not for any specific reason, just on GPs. To let board governors know they actually *can* be touched. Give those little shitsticks something to worry on.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
----

Worry not, Trump's got a plan. He has a way of letting people set their own trap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:30 PM (ZwdAr)

351 Aaron Rogers is a pussy.
Posted by: nurse ratched
----
As a semi-Steeler's fan (rabid sister, uncle had season tickets) I agree. He reminds me of the prick QB in the move, The Replacements.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 09:31 PM (4YokX)

352 Monkeys stink, they are unsightly, and they can be real assholes

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:32 PM (ZxPkt)

353 I’ve noticed that. There’s a lot of stuff posted about Vance especially that I find has no actual proof behind it, just some anonymous person asserting whatever. Somebody is running a rumor campaign against Vance, for sure.
And I believe he’s made a few small mistakes along the way, but nothing very notable, mostly because he’s still pretty new to this game.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 09:09 PM (QkvGw)

There are a lot of entrenched political types that think they can outlive Trump, but they can't outlive Vance. Vance is tough, smart, politically quick, has backing from directions that don't traditionally have political power, and is against foreign adventurism.
Other politicians might be considered more malleable for the entrenched politicians the way that Kamala would have been.
And so we have these unending purity tests against the people in Vance's circle to nobble Vance.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

354 >> Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)

Hope the family is doing well. Prayers still coming your way

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2026 09:32 PM (WTWWW)

355 We were visiting my grandparents in Norway and my grandfather chopped a chicken's head off so we could have it for dinner. It managed to run about a half circle before it fell over.

Posted by: Don't Cook Tonight-Call Chicken Delight! at January 12, 2026 09:32 PM (oftw2)

356 Had to laugh at Trump saying no, we don't want some kind of agreement with Greenland, we want Greenland outright. "You gotta have title."

The old real estate tycoon in him.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:32 PM (gtcuf)

357 I still don’t understand people who wanted to boycott Hilton at the drop of a hat but still watch the NFL.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (KDPiq)

358 Astros 7, Pirates 6

2nd inning

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (ZxPkt)

359 307 Bigger jail?

Johnson Atoll in the middle of the Pacific.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 09:17 PM (2GVsD)

Enewetak. On top of the dome.

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (X5Jzz)

360 Vance gives me a solid gut read, better than most sniping at him, certainly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

361 Enewetak. On top of the dome.

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (X5Jzz)

I bet it's warm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

362 I still don’t understand people who wanted to boycott Hilton at the drop of a hat but still watch the NFL.

==

they don't travel

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)

363 Where in hell did the penguins come from in that Greenland video? Wrong half of the world, folks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (6Bc88)

364 The Middle East is a fucking toilet, but for Israel. You could scrape the whole place - including the glittering towers built by the Americans, Germans and Scots on their awful deserts - and nobody would notice but Arabs. Because unlike Jews, Arabs will not and cannot *do* anything.

It's like I always say... for obvious reasons, we tend to focus on the homicidal features of Arab Islamic culture. But even if you set aside the maniacal religious psychopathy, there are still no redeeming qualities of Arabs. They are worse than useless, and then worse than that.

Jews, on the other hand, do a ton of cool shit.

I don't expect people to get fired up about it, or take a side. But I do expect them to have enough sense to see who are the people, and who are the senseless fuckin' animals.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (BI5O2)

365 stink, they are unsightly, and they can be real assholes"

I see you've met some of my extended family....

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:35 PM (XuXeR)

366 351 Aaron Rogers is a pussy.
Posted by: nurse ratched
----
As a semi-Steeler's fan (rabid sister, uncle had season tickets) I agree. He reminds me of the prick QB in the move, The Replacements.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 09:31 PM (4YokX)

He's a fag. What did you expect?

But he used to be a fag with an arm.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (6Bc88)

367 Hmmm. Interesting parallel between Somalians and Arabs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

368 Mullahs going to Russia is a strange turn.
France is more welcoming to that type.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (ZwdAr)

369 FFS, any time someone mentions the NFL we get the same bullshit. Hers an idea so crazy it just might work. Watch it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. How’s that?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (u73oe)

370 49 year old former SEAL convicted of transporting explosives with intention of using them against law enforcement during the No Kings protest.

Surprise. He hates Trump and Jews.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:37 PM (KDPiq)

371 Where in hell did the penguins come from in that Greenland video?"

737 coming out of the sky?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:38 PM (XuXeR)

372 Jews, on the other hand, do a ton of cool shit.

I don't expect people to get fired up about it, or take a side. But I do expect them to have enough sense to see who are the people, and who are the senseless fuckin' animals.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:34 PM (BI5O2)

Jews as a group have very high IQ. Arabs are inbred and not very bright. I'm sure that raaaacist, but it is a fact.

The balloon surgery on my shoulder is courtesy of an Israeli doc who invented it. So far, so good.

If I was told it was invented by an Arab, I would have called BS and said N O.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:38 PM (6Bc88)

373 Fun fact: Iran has one of the oldest Jewish populations in the world. Their laws allegedly protect religious minorities including Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians. But in reality, they are not and the Muslim Arab invaders have constantly harassed, jailed and murdered them.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2026 09:38 PM (WTWWW)

374 tcn

Go check you P.O. Box.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:38 PM (IhIKR)

375 I know that the NFL sux Nuevo Laredo donkey ballz but it is something to do while eating shrimp salad

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (a28/A)

376 FFS, any time someone mentions the NFL we get the same bullshit. Hers an idea so crazy it just might work. Watch it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. How’s that?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (u73oe)

I'M NOT A HYPOGRIFF, YOUR A HYPOGRIFF, I LIKE WHAT I LIKE AND YOU SHOULD TOO BECAUSE WE ALL MUST AGREE ON EVERYTHING.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (BugDY)

377 369 FFS, any time someone mentions the NFL we get the same bullshit. Hers an idea so crazy it just might work. Watch it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. How’s that?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (u73oe)

How dare you do something that I don't do because I'm virtue signalling how angry I am about....

Fucking hell, people. Get over yourselves already.

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (6Bc88)

378 Josh Allen yesterday injured his ankle, injured his knee, broke a finger on his throwing hand and cracked his head enough to have to do concussion protocol. And still led the Bills to the winning drive over The Jags.

That was some real old-tyme NFL throwback shit. At least he's no pussy.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (gtcuf)

379 374 tcn

Go check you P.O. Box.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:38 PM (IhIKR)

Probably swing by there tomorrow on the way to PT. Thanks in advance.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (6Bc88)

380 FFS, any time someone mentions the NFL we get the same bullshit. Hers an idea so crazy it just might work. Watch it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. How’s that?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 09:36 PM (u73oe)

So the NFL is the one subject you think aos shouldn’t complain about out of the hundreds of things we do. LOL

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (KDPiq)

381 >>Hope the family is doing well. Prayers still coming your way

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)

382 Jews used to be inbred too which is why we got the Tay Sachs.
But we have tried to fix that with proper genetic tracing. Mostly successfully.
Pakistanis not so much, their cousins are too attractive apparently.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (a28/A)

383 I know that the NFL sux Nuevo Laredo donkey ballz but it is something to do while eating shrimp salad
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (a28/A)

I hate shrimp, so therefore you are worse than Hitler.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:41 PM (BugDY)

384 Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (KDPiq)

————-

Blow it out your ass

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 09:41 PM (u73oe)

385 So the NFL is the one subject you think aos shouldn’t complain about out of the hundreds of things we do. LOL
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (KDPiq)

You have to admit, we argue about the finest, stupidest shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (zZu0s)

386 Serious question. All these cities & states that claim "sanctuary cities", why are all of the elected officials brought up on sedition charges? According to their oaths of offices, they all swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the country.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (u/kd+)

387 378 Josh Allen yesterday injured his ankle, injured his knee, broke a finger on his throwing hand and cracked his head enough to have to do concussion protocol. And still led the Bills to the winning drive over The Jags.

That was some real old-tyme NFL throwback shit. At least he's no pussy.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:39 PM (gtcuf)

And in 10 years he will be mostly MOPAR with TBIs. Maybe not a pussy, but broken, nonetheless.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (6Bc88)

388 I hate shrimp"

Well, that hurts...

/Bubba Gump

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (XuXeR)

389 That is okay, I am probably going to hell anyway for the shellfish

Posted by: gKWVE at least did not wrap it in bacon at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (a28/A)

390 But anything short of the Mullahs stepping down and leaving the country for Moscow? Doubtful.
-----
I would expect that's pretty much the offer, like the rumored one to Maduro... "I'll let you keep your stack of loot if you're on the next plane out. We don't need your stolen pennies, goatfucker. There's real money to be made here. So take the win and leave, or stay and lose."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:43 PM (BI5O2)

391 >> The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge,
but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.

Proverbs 15:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2026 09:43 PM (WTWWW)

392 mostly MOPAR with TBIs. "

A Dodge with throttle body injection?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:44 PM (XuXeR)

393 Pakistanis not so much, their cousins are too attractive apparently.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (a28/A)

We have established a long time ago here that there is a not insignificant portion of the population that will stick its dick in anything. Some folks have the ability to temper that when it comes to family, and some really don't.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 09:44 PM (6Bc88)

394 Again, I would find it sad if they got away. They should face temporal, earthly Justice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:44 PM (zZu0s)

395 mostly MOPAR with TBIs. "

A Dodge with throttle body injection?
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:44 PM (XuXeR)

Hey, if you have a 427, enjoy it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

396 That is okay, I am probably going to hell anyway for the shellfish
Posted by: gKWVE at least did not wrap it in bacon at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (a28/A)

I jush know thash what my mom alwaysh ushed to shay: Don't be sho shelfish.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (BugDY)

397 Enewetak. On top of the dome.

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (X5Jzz)

I bet it's warm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Worse than Florida, that close to the equator and all

Oh. You the waste?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (/lPRQ)

398 Surprise. He hates Trump and Jews.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:37 PM (KDPiq)

Huh. Its amazing how much Jews are always a common thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

399 The one thing about moving to where I moved to is I don’t receive any major market sports teams ergo, I haven’t watched sports in over two years.

I do miss watching the Mets though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 09:46 PM (XV/Pl)

400 So the NFL is the one subject you think aos shouldn’t complain about out of the hundreds of things we do. LOL
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (KDPiq)

You have to admit, we argue about the finest, stupidest shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

We argue for the halibut.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:46 PM (u/kd+)

401 We should have wiped out the Iranian backed Iraqi militias a long time ago. They are now apparently doing a lot of the killing in Iran along with other foreign militias. CiNC now has a chance to eliminate that problem. They’re on the battlefield. He should take that opportunity. It would not only help the situation in Iran, it would also take the trash out of Iraq and clean up that neighborhood.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2026 09:47 PM (WTWWW)

402 have a 427"

426...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:47 PM (XuXeR)

403 have a 427"

426...
Posted by: man

Meh. 6 / 7

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:48 PM (u/kd+)

404 Serious question. All these cities & states that claim "sanctuary cities", why are all of the elected officials brought up on sedition charges? According to their oaths of offices, they all swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the country.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (u/kd+)
====

I'm no lawyer but do we need trials before the executions?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 09:49 PM (RIvkX)

405 Where in hell did the penguins come from in that Greenland video?

Military advisors from down under.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)

406 Meh. 6 / 7"

So, 409?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:50 PM (XuXeR)

407 Astros 7, Pirates 6

2nd inning
Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 09:33 PM (ZxPkt)

***

Jeez!
And we thought Ace had the only time machine.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 09:50 PM (2WIwB)

408 Surprise. He hates Trump and Jews.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:37 PM (KDPiq)

Huh. Its amazing how much Jews are always a common thread.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

Are we still talking about A A Ron Rodgers?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 09:50 PM (mhzq9)

409 We argue for the halibut.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:46 PM (u/kd+)
======

*lights torches*

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 09:50 PM (RIvkX)

410 385 So the NFL is the one subject you think aos shouldn’t complain about out of the hundreds of things we do. LOL
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:40 PM (KDPiq)

You have to admit, we argue about the finest, stupidest shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:42 PM (zZu0s)

No, you're wrong about that.

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (X5Jzz)

411 I don't think that anyone who hasn't read Hillbilly Elegy (not the f'in movie! Why?.Hollywood) should be trying to analyze Vance.

I probably grew up about as poor as him, and some parts of my family have real "issues", but at least my mother wasn't an addict. I've dealt with addicts and I can't imagine how he managed. I've got nothing but respect for the guy.
2028? He's certainly on my short list, but we have 3 more years to see.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (4YokX)

412 This summer the 12 Meter World Championships are coming to town and I have a ringside seat. Nothing better than watching the most beautiful sailboats ever designed battle.

No ads of any kind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (viF8m)

413 To clean up the Middle East you'd have to exterminate the Arabs. I don't think most people really want to go down that road. So the next best thing is to break our dependence on their energy, and let nature take its course. They are incapable of survival without our money.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (BI5O2)

414 lights torches"

What, no pitchforks? I'm out.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (XuXeR)

415 No, you're wrong about that.
Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (X5Jzz)

Touche. Ya bum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

416 Pakistanis not so much, their cousins are too attractive apparently.
Posted by: gKWVE

Like doing it while looking in a mirror.... So I hear.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (/lPRQ)

417 Where in hell did the penguins come from in that Greenland video?

Military advisors from down under.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 09:49 PM

Polymorphic Perversity Commissars courtesy of Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (0sNs1)

418 Vance doesn't have the experience dealing with global elites like Trump they re truly from different worlds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (RIvkX)

419 12 Meters? Those guys are tall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (9cHSL)

420 395 mostly MOPAR with TBIs. "

A Dodge with throttle body injection?
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:44 PM (XuXeR)

Hey, if you have a 427, enjoy it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

427, 426, whatever it takes.

Posted by: a.moron at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (X5Jzz)

421 399 The one thing about moving to where I moved to is I don’t receive any major market sports teams ergo, I haven’t watched sports in over two years.

I do miss watching the Mets though.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

All Banana Ball games are carried live on Youtube. No prima donna players making 30 Million. Just fun.

Posted by: I Am Curious Yellow at January 12, 2026 09:53 PM (oftw2)

422 lights torches"

What, no pitchforks? I'm out.
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (XuXeR)

Never underestimate a good sharp scythe.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 09:53 PM (2WIwB)

423 They are incapable of survival without our money.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:51 PM (BI5O2)

They 'survived' before that. They are also major league assholes. As a general rule, it seems.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (zZu0s)

424 There are 3+ Marines for every Greenlander.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (XV/Pl)

425 lights torches"

What, no pitchforks? I'm out.
Posted by: man

Pitchforks are hard to light.

Well, you can light the handle end, but that's dumb.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (nhCoE)

426 Never underestimate a good sharp scythe.

==

those are great!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (g47mK)

427 But you got to be careful, not to hurt yourself.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (g47mK)

428 Pikes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (9cHSL)

429 Seattle is getting all excited about the Seahawks in the playoffs.

When the Mariners made their run it was also very fun

I enjoy sportsball for the community effect as well as the sport. Seattle is happy and buzzing and folks having been all protests and shit. Sure. There’s been some local stuff. But nothing like
WTO or CHAZ\CHOP or BLM.

It gives the community something to bond over.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (IhIKR)

430 427, 426, whatever it takes."
427 = GM and Ford... but not the same.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (XuXeR)

431 424 There are 3+ Marines for every Greenlander.

But they have those Assualt Dogsleds.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (gtcuf)

432 That's a lot of Crayolas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (9cHSL)

433 12 Meters? Those guys are tall.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:52 PM (9cHSL)

Real sailors sail the 36 footers.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (2WIwB)

434 To clean up the Middle East you'd have to exterminate the Arabs. I don't think most people really want to go down that road. So the next best thing is to break our dependence on their energy, and let nature take its course. They are incapable of survival without our money.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

True.

They"ll just deal with the Chinese. They'll deal with anyone to maintain their lifestyle.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 12, 2026 09:56 PM (+YoHw)

435 Pitchforks are hard to light."

Dammit. Now they tell me.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:57 PM (XuXeR)

436 12 Meters? Those guys are tall.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Or they're shortwave radio operators.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 09:57 PM (nhCoE)

437 It gives the community something to bond over.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:55 PM (IhIKR)

Seattle bonds twice a day in their traffic.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 09:57 PM (2WIwB)

438 They 'survived' before that. They are also major league assholes. As a general rule, it seems.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 09:54 PM (zZu0s

Not in anything like these numbers, and with no influence. They had a big burst of conquest fueled by religious fervor, then centuries of retreat and stagnation, and then subjugation by the Western boot.

Oil is all these retards have. Take it away, and they go back where they belong - at the feet of their natural masters (i.e. anyone besides Arabs).

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:57 PM (BI5O2)

439 You need a blue water navy to project power that far.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 09:58 PM (9cHSL)

440 Real sailors"

Yikes. I'd rather get there...

*looks enviously at 4 engine Whaler*

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 09:59 PM (XuXeR)

441 Banana ball is RIDICULOUS.
Super fun. Everyone is happy and participating and invested in the game as everyone has a chance to participate in a meaningful way.

Go. Be a dork. Wear a costume. Or not. Be a grinch. You’ll still crack a smile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 09:59 PM (IhIKR)

442 >>Real sailors sail the 36 footers.

Thanks. We did our best.

But the big boats are fun too. 12 meters is a math formula that has to do with multiple facets of the design. The actual length of the boats is about 70 feet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)

443 Savannah Bananas are a good time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 12, 2026 10:00 PM (+YoHw)

444 F5

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:01 PM (ULPxl)

445 You need a blue water navy to project power that far"

Penguin Power?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 10:01 PM (XuXeR)

446 But the big boats are fun too. 12 meters is a math formula

No Math!

that has to do with multiple facets of the design. The actual length of the boats is about 70 feet.
Posted by: JackStraw

12 meters is 70 feet? Okay, that doesn't seem to be math.

No demerits assessed.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 10:01 PM (nhCoE)

447 I liked the King and his Court.

Softball’s Harlem Globetrotters.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 10:02 PM (KDPiq)

448 Nick Shirley blew his chance to work at The New York Times; jealousy, you know. But maybe he'll buy it someday

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:02 PM (d8kiQ)

449 Where is the ONT?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

450 I'm so bad, I overturned Sunfish.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:04 PM (d8kiQ)

451 Bad field position.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 10:04 PM (9cHSL)

452 Diogenes

Don’t try going northbound on I 5 over the Ship
canal bridge for the next TWO YEARS.

Jeepers. What a mess.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 10:05 PM (Gh8gt)

453 Where is the ONT, wherever the Texans are playing in the Superbowl this year

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 10:06 PM (RH2v6)

454 Where is the ONT?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
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Rampaging monkeys must have got to it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

455 Oregon has 800,000 inactive voters.
Kamala Harris (D)
1,228,410
55.6%
Donald Trump (R)
910,702
41.3%

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (gbOdA)

456 >>I'm so bad, I overturned Sunfish.

True story. Friend of mine is a multiple time world champion Sunfish sailor. Even has a rig named after him.

Sailors will race anything that floats. We're kinda stupid competitive that way.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (viF8m)

457 Texans are a bunch of thug wannabees.

Stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (Gh8gt)

458 Diogenes

Don’t try going northbound on I 5 over the Ship
canal bridge for the next TWO YEARS.

Jeepers. What a mess.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 10:05 PM (Gh8gt)

I know.
No way.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (2WIwB)

459 Rampaging monkeys must have got to it...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

It swam away!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 10:08 PM (g47mK)

460 I think you need to say ONT three times in a dark room, with one foot in a 5 gallon bucket, while wearing a smoking jacket, a fez on your head, with a rubber chicken in one hand and scotch in the other, to summon the ONT.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 10:08 PM (XV/Pl)

461 Speaking of football...
Every since the team was formed, in every year there has been a new Pope, the Seahawks have won the Superbowl.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:09 PM (2WIwB)

462 What if (D) does not even have 70 million real voters?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:09 PM (gbOdA)

463 I think you need to say ONT three times in a dark room, with one foot in a 5 gallon bucket, while wearing a smoking jacket, a fez on your head, with a rubber chicken in one hand and scotch in the other, to summon the ONT.

So. Nothing out of the ordinary, huh?

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:10 PM (47diA)

464 Music for our Monday DIY ONT:

https://youtu.be/cZzdYqBf8Mc

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (rdVOm)

465 Jonesin' for my ONT fix over here....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

466 So. Nothing out of the ordinary, huh?
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 12, 2026 10:10 PM (47diA)

Depends on the scotch. Get the wrong stuff and it's straight to the Art Thread.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (2WIwB)

467 DeSantis Ride Or Die, man,
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 08:41 PM (rbvCR)

Absolutely, with his massive charisma and ability to connect with voters, he'll absolutely make it to NH before dropping out next time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (ExV1e)

468 I think you need to say ONT three times in a dark room, with one foot in a 5 gallon bucket, while wearing a smoking jacket, a fez on your head, with a rubber chicken in one hand and scotch in the other, to summon the ONT.

Chant: Papa Legba
Come and open de gate.

Repeat

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (COQGW)

469 A little boy with diarrhea tells him mom he needs Viagra.

His mom asks him, "why on earth do you need that?"

Little boy replies. "Isn't that what you give dad when his shit won't get hard?"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (u/kd+)

470 What happened to the "Cecil Says" youtube channel? Looks like he got banned (after years of youtube deleting his subscriptions), and now some loser hijacked his channel name.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (36PRH)

471 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: clarence at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (XlNvn)

472 Depends on the scotch. Get the wrong stuff and it's straight to the Art Thread.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (2WIwB)
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Is that because you black out and only wake up hungover when it's time for the Art Thread?

Or is it because and you start hallucinating things that can only be found on the more surreal entries on the Art Thread?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 10:12 PM (ESVrU)

473 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (ULPxl)

474 > What if (D) does not even have 70 million real voters?
--------
I'd imagine they've got 70+ million fake ones in a computer(s) ready. Just plug in the state, county and it's taken care of.

So easy, a caveman could do it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (NwnyJ)

475 NOOD!!

Posted by: clarence at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (XlNvn)

476 True story. Friend of mine is a multiple time world champion Sunfish sailor. Even has a rig named after him.

Was his name Lateen by any chance?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (COQGW)

477 Ont up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (u/kd+)

478 ONTbis nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

479 Absolutely, with his massive charisma and ability to connect with voters, he'll absolutely make it to NH before dropping out next time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 10:11 PM (ExV1e)

If he get 4 delegates thats a 35% increase over Jeb#$%^***!
And Jeb&))&)&& spent $100M to get those 3!

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 10:13 PM (gbOdA)

480 Unfortunately, the Rs don't have anyone with the charisma or the presence to get people excited about them as the next president.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (SRRAx)

481 >>Was his name Lateen by any chance?

No. His name is Get Your Ass Off The Dock.

We gave him a lot crap about his name.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m)

482 True story. Friend of mine is a multiple time world champion Sunfish sailor. Even has a rig named after him.

Sailors will race anything that floats. We're kinda stupid competitive that way.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:07 PM (

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I admire that. Something about getting the most out of the least to show your skill. Good for him!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 10:14 PM (d8kiQ)

483 No. His name is Get Your Ass Off The Dock.

I was out there this weekend, battling 5-7 knot winds, so shut up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 12, 2026 10:16 PM (COQGW)

484 >>I was out there this weekend, battling 5-7 knot winds, so shut up.

Perfect.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 10:21 PM (viF8m)

485 Fudge, can you spell fudge? F U D G E, spells fudge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 10:24 PM (ZwdAr)

486 All the monkeys were kung-fu fighting. Those chimps were fast as lightning.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 10:38 PM (jc0TO)

New Nick Shirley Video Said to Expose Fraud "Ten Times Worse" Than Prior Videos
Pro-Terrorism, Pro-Antifa AG Announces Lawsuit to Stop the "INVASION" of Minnesota by the Federal Government

A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday -- is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.

In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years.

And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.

Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.

I think that sentence was glitched.

"What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation. A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT [Non-Emergency Medical Transport] companies. Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned," he told Bessent. Hoch went on, "In the second video, Nick Shirley and I went to 16 of them -- I've actually been to about 70 of them." At this point, he held up his papers and leaned forward to Bessent to emphasize, "THEY DON'T EXIST."

They visited the NEMT companies to find the addresses went to places with "no vehicles." Fronts included, "an apartment building. One of them is a liquor store. Another one is a wire transfer. Another one is totally unrelated -- it's a grocery store. There are no vehicles." He said, "The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real."
He said that the average NEMT company in the United States has about "20 vehicles and each vehicle generates about $70,000 a year." He said that if you run those numbers, "800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It's an enormous sum of money that's going out."

Preview of the video at the link.

Minnesota is launching a lawsuit to stop the "invasion" of Minnesota by... the government of the United States of America.

BREAKING: In a DESPERATE attempt to stop ICE and DHS from deporting their new voter base, Minnesota has just announced a lawsuit against the feds.

He is following in Tampon Tim's footsteps and called DHS activity a "FEDERAL INVASION OF MINNEAPOLIS."

He let the INVADERS INVADE� pic.twitter.com/4eguRsZ4Yn
— Gunther Eagleman� (@GuntherEagleman) January 12, 2026

WATCH LIVE: Minnesota leaders make announcement on DHS' future in the state https://t.co/15a77O5tTZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 12, 2026

Insurrection.

Posted by: Ace at 06:40 PM

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1 dog

Posted by: TALACHULITNA at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (+YrDU)

2 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

3 So close

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

4 whoa

Posted by: TALACHULITNA at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (+YrDU)

5 test !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (g47mK)

6 A lawsuit against the federal government for sending federal officers to enforce federal law? Good luck.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (u73oe)

7 No Feds allowed , No Fed money.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (KDPiq)

8 I suspect your link formatting may be a bit off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (ExV1e)

9 So much links in that text. Has me seeing red.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

10
Things were blood red in Minnesota those days, my friends!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (XeTAE)

11 Minnesota announces it has become
E a satellite annex of Somalia

Posted by: Gonzotx at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (nGraA)

12 Good evening, Ace!

*tips hat* 'evening, 'rons & ettes

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (t/66j)

13 This lawsuit by minnesota against the federal "invasion" reeks of a desperation move to me.

They are trying to get the fraud pushed out of the news cycle.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (0N4FZ)

14 Red letter day

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (xcxpd)

15 Words of Jesus

Posted by: It's a loose attribution at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (TbWk/)

16 Minnesota leaders make announcement on DHS' future in the state

Jefferson Davis picks up a bowl of popcorn, starts munching, and smiles a sad smile.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (ExV1e)

17 My God. Its full of link.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

18 So, what are you gonna do about, it, whitey? Just sit there?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (xcxpd)

19 I'm sure Somali's aren't the only scamming "newcomer".

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (Vh9CX)

20 Ya know, it might not be time to hand the midterms to Democrats just yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (viF8m)

21
Is that Temu Obama Junior, Keith Ellison, behind that microphone? Did they break out the kiddie step stool so he could use it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (XeTAE)

22 Today in Minnesomalia, feds confiscated $700 million in cash that Somali mules were trying to repatriate to Somalia. I think maybe 60% of our Fed and state budgets are flatly fraud.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (cxFcK)

23 Willowed:
I'd present my list of posters I'm disappointed in, but my name's on the top.
Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (Y8DZL)

Lol. Same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

24 17 My God. Its full of link.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

Like Princess Zelda

Posted by: Heyooo at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

25 En fuego rojo!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (0sNs1)

26 States can't forbid access to federal agents. Supremacy.
Wars have been fought over such.

And hopefully will be again...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (xcxpd)

27 I'm sure Somali's aren't the only scamming "newcomer".
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (Vh9CX)

And I'm sure that it ain't only newcomers scamming.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ExV1e)

28 So, what are you gonna do about, it, whitey? Just sit there?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (xcxpd)

You gonna do something or just sit there and bleed?

Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

29 >> 800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It's an enormous sum of money that's going out."

= $1.12 billion

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (WkpGI)

30 Ya know, it might not be time to hand the midterms to Democrats just yet.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (viF8m)
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You could be on to something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (ZOv7s)

31 Like Princess Zelda
Posted by: Heyooo at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

Lol.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

32 Today in Minnesomalia, feds confiscated $700 million in cash that Somali mules were trying to repatriate to Somalia. I think maybe 60% of our Fed and state budgets are flatly fraud.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (cxFcK)

Is this true? Or snark?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (ExV1e)

33 I hope Nick Shirley has a safe place to go to and some bodyguards or something. I worry about that young man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (ix8EF)

34 red commie bastards ruin everything

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (HXT0k)

35 Does Walz go away quietly or take Ellison and some others with him? Somehow I don't see him not ratting people out.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (sDNVV)

36 And so it begins...

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

37 I will gladly contribute my Iggy and The Stooges albums to provide sonic air cover when we yoink those shitbirds out of MN.

Recommend Raw Power and Death Trip on repeat.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wBaIH)

38
And I'm sure that it ain't only newcomers scamming.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ExV1e)

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True but taken porportiomally...

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (Vh9CX)

39 >>I hope Nick Shirley has a safe place to go to and some bodyguards or something. I worry about that young man.

Saw some video of him being mobbed up by ANTIFA types this AM.

He needs much better security.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (ZcsJV)

40 Is this true? Or snark?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Just read two different posts on X about it. Who knows. I can't keep up.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (cxFcK)

41 One giant link?

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (b3PBu)

42 Ellison showing he just a little shit again.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (k9/y/)

43 32 Today in Minnesomalia, feds confiscated $700 million in cash that Somali mules were trying to repatriate to Somalia. I think maybe 60% of our Fed and state budgets are flatly fraud.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (cxFcK)

Is this true? Or snark?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (ExV1e

Be pretty awesome if true.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)

44 Medicare is where the big money is.

Also insurance fraud -- fires, accidents, disability,.... but that is hard to ID because it is distributed.

This is just the most obvious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (WkpGI)

45 800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70k per year each?

You could buy one and a half, almost two sticks of RAM for that much money!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (BLOW1)

46 >>Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM (wBaIH)

I never could get into the Stooges. For all I tried, they never appealed to me.

I stick with the Bad Brains.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (ZcsJV)

47 Nicole Richie's teenage daughter Harlow Madden has turned 18t, and is celebrating with a new look and name.

The natural brunette has dyed her hair a shade of jet black, and is now going by her middle name, Kate.

Say hello to Kate Madden!

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (0sNs1)

48 I liked this clip of Nick talking to Greenlanders

https://tinyurl.com/m2x4zsa7

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (+mUZM)

49 Somalian government funded daycare
Mexican government funded taco trucks?

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (UjdFS)

50 I hope Nick Shirley has a safe place to go to and some bodyguards or something. I worry about that young man.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He has a security team but watching his videos, I think he likes to push the boundaries. I definitely think he has a big target on his back. Keep him in your prayers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (vzcgi)

51 And kind of provides a cause and effect with what ace is relaying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

52 One giant link?
Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (b3PBu)
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It's the Big Beautiful Link, the classiest, best link every. Really a nice link. Everyone says so.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (ZOv7s)

53 Red - the blood of angry men!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (g47mK)

54 Remember that time some journalism students with a camera and a microphone approached a drunk congresscritter on the sidewalk to ask questions and the congresscritter got all pissy and kept asking, "WHO are YOU?? WHO are YOU?? WHO are YOU??"

That was awesome.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (Q+gd/)

55 800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70k per year each?

You could buy one and a half, almost two sticks of RAM for that much money!
Posted by: Pixy Misa
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Snort!🤣😂

Posted by: lin-duh at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (VCgbV)

56 >>I can't keep up.

Rest.

Rehydrate.

Moisturize.

It's been an entire year...it was bound to go down at some point.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (ZcsJV)

57 Everybody in Minnesota is brain-damaged from the mosquito induced encephalitis.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (BSdIE)

58 Australia has a similar set of healthcare fraud scandals quietly simmering away. But our federal government is as corrupt as most of our state governments, so nothing is going to happen until they're kicked out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (BLOW1)

59 The natural brunette has dyed her hair a shade of jet black, and is now going by her middle name, Kate.

Say hello to Kate Madden!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (0sNs1)

You know what I am going to ask... Hendrinks, Upton or Sweeney?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

60 These retards have no idea what they are bringing on themselves.

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (YwEeS)

61 Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (vzcgi)

I will. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (ix8EF)

62 My youngest has a really good job and just found out he has to file quarterly estimates. He's pissed and another Republican is born. How will he feel when he reads about this ridiculous level of fraud everywhere?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (cxFcK)

63 When you need help keeping up, and it happens to all of us, The Bob Dole can help!

Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (0sNs1)

64 800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70k per year each?

You could buy one and a half, almost two sticks of RAM for that much money!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM

Top of the morning to you!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

65 Daytime Pixy sighting! For us at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

66 My God. Its full of link.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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We've been redlined! Someone call the ACLU!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:52 PM (XeU6L)

67 One giant link?"

One link only, Vasily...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (XuXeR)

68 Australia has a similar set of healthcare fraud scandals quietly simmering away. But our federal government is as corrupt as most of our state governments, so nothing is going to happen until they're kicked out.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM (BLOW1)

Soon I hope!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (g47mK)

69 Australia has a similar set of healthcare fraud scandals quietly simmering away. But our federal government is as corrupt as most of our state governments, so nothing is going to happen until they're kicked out.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2026 06:50 PM

Do y'all have a That Guy who says "G'day, mate! Nothing's going to happen."?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

70 I just read a Reuters on the lawsuit.

Yes, a clown judge will grant an injunction within the next 48 hours.

No, it will not stand on appeal.

But, that's not the point. The point is to give their terrorists another lie to justify attacking and impeding federal law officers.

You watch, they'll be screaming that enforcement of the law is illegal even louder now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (HXT0k)

71 These retards have no idea what they are bringing on themselves.
Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 06:51 PM (YwEeS)
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The problem they have is that the base is now so radicalized that anyone who isn't an insurrectionist will be primaried.

So they have to lean into it. No one has the guts to tell the truth except Senator Lump.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

72 I've used "Non-emergency Medical Transport". My wife is disabled and can no longer drive, and for certain procedures, neither can I. I get it through Medicare. I've found it's very dicey whether the guy assigned is worth a crap. (The woman I just used last week was good. The previous appointment never showed, so I'd had to cancel.)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 12, 2026 06:54 PM (s0JqF)

73 I said last thread listening to Ellison reminded me of Jackie Chiles from Seinfeld saying "arbitrary and capricious"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (9ShUO)

74 Everybody in Minnesota is brain-damaged from the mosquito induced encephalitis.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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I was assured by Garrison Keillor that all of the children are above average.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (XeU6L)

75 Bessant is going to investigate the financial institutions that laundered the Somali fraud.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (cxFcK)

76
800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70k per year each?

You could buy one and a half, almost two sticks of RAM for that much money!
Posted by: Pixy Misa

But you'd have to solder it in.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (pkeXY)

77 Timpon won the election governor election by under 200K votes. There are 100k Somalis.

If they don't all vote for him or his replacement he's in trouble...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (sKqQm)

78 Does Walz go away quietly or take Ellison and some others with him? Somehow I don't see him not ratting people out.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 06:47 PM

Someone is going to drop a dime on someone, there is simply too much money involved here for nothing to happen. I mean we are talking billions of $$$$ flowing from the federal government.

The only issue I see is that most of the fraud appears to be concentrated in minneapolis and there wont be a grand jury convened there that would return an indictment on anyone in power.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (0N4FZ)

79 Yes, a clown judge will grant an injunction within the next 48 hours.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (HXT0k)
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An injunction to do what? Evacuate the state?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (ZOv7s)

80
FAB-you-luss content today.

I'm still finishing the YouTube videos from the last thread!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 06:56 PM (Jxa0O)

81 Where are the indictments for ActBlue Money Launderers, Rep. Comer???? Election is 9 months away. Sometimes the enemy of good is "perfect". get them subpoenas out now. They support all the leftist activist crap and the professional protestor class.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at January 12, 2026 06:56 PM (LKMDZ)

82 Wow. Kilgore Trout lives, apparently.

Posted by: Some people need a smack at January 12, 2026 06:56 PM (TbWk/)

83 Posted by: cuck of spades at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM

We are not your secret racist friends, Joe.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:56 PM (jc0TO)

84 The only issue I see is that most of the fraud appears to be concentrated in minneapolis and there wont be a grand jury convened there that would return an indictment on anyone in power.
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The money was wired in and wired out--that's crossing state lines and will turn a lot of this into Federal matters, not to mention that most of it is Federal money.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (TN0g+)

85 My God. Its full of link.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12,
06:44 PM (zZu0s)
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ALL THIS STATE IS YOURS EXCEPT LAKE WOBEGON. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Do we come to YOUR place of relaxation and slap the cock out of your mouth? I think not.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (jc0TO)

87 Some retard thinks he's an internet tough guy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (KDPiq)

88 Now, let's go back to the article JJ linked a few days back on the Insurrection Act.

Tell me a better test case to deploy the Army than a clown judge saying, "you can't use ICE to enforce immigration law?"

It fits every "normal means to enforce the law have failed" requirement to a "T"

With a big, heaping dose of the judiciary being part of the insurrection.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (HXT0k)

89 72 For those using the VA, DAV transportation services is generally reliable if you call ahead. I have an eye appointment, and with dilation there's no driving for a few hours, so I call them and schedule.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (gm9Sb)

90 How can the federal government "invade" a U.S. State?

Are they declaring independence?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (tV890)

91 The young guy is on a roll, any real news organization try and hire him yet?

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)

92 The money was wired in and wired out--that's crossing state lines and will turn a lot of this into Federal matters, not to mention that most of it is Federal money.

Money from Uncle Sugar is a significant part of every blue state's economy.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (sKqQm)

93 Where did #78 January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (eYOnA) come from?

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

94 >> Some retard thinks he's an internet tough guy.

Could have been worse.

He could have said 'Bl@zer'.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (ZcsJV)

95 Are they declaring independence?

==

from Somalia ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (g47mK)

96 How can the federal government "invade" a U.S. State?

Are they declaring independence?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (tV890)
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If the judge takes Ellison's side, Trump should just close all federal offices. Shut it all down.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

97 Ace we have a nasty troll posting at 06:55

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (0N4FZ)

98 It's so red in here....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (SRRAx)

99 Do y'all have a That Guy who says "G'day, mate! Nothing's going to happen."?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

I think the parlance is 'She'll be right, mate!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

100 He could have said 'Bl@zer'.

Or V e r a you know who...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 06:59 PM (sKqQm)

101 Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (ZcsJV)

Hah. The B word.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (KDPiq)

102 Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (SRRAx)

103 Da Fuq.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (4p0Xq)

104 Let's not kid ourselves. All them yankee states are overflowing with corruption. Them blue bellies been stealing since 1865 and they ain't no ways they stopping it.

Posted by: Boss Hogg at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (R/m4+)

105 Gone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (9cHSL)

106 Where did #78 January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (eYOnA) come from?
Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

YankeeFuentes aka ConfederateFilth aka n is using a VPN to circumvent ace's ban...

Posted by: Just saying it's possible at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (TbWk/)

107 I didn't know Cucker Tarlson read the AOSHQ. Here we are.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (BSdIE)

108 and now the shitnibbler.

This place is going to the dogs.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (jc0TO)

109 Wow. Kilgore Trout lives, apparently.

Posted by: Some people need a smack at January 12, 2026 06:56 PM

He does have some history making posts like that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 07:01 PM (0N4FZ)

110 Some retard thinks he's an internet tough guy.

Could have been worse.

He could have said 'Bl@zer'.
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Or linked to an Eagles song.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:01 PM (TN0g+)

111 Australia has a similar set of healthcare fraud scandals quietly simmering away. But our federal government is as corrupt as most of our state governments, so nothing is going to happen until they're kicked out.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

But your healthcare is *free*. right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:01 PM (k9/y/)

112 I see they have the South African hand jiver to sign for the deaf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 07:01 PM (ZwdAr)

113 So wait, is Ass both a commie AND antisemitic?

Way to be the meme, dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

114 >>Or linked to an Eagles song.

IP: Winslow, AZ

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (ZcsJV)

115 Yeah there is a reason why Albanese wants get rid of social media...

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (YwEeS)

116 Depending on where Pixy is, it’s either 8am or 11am Tuesday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (mUMdd)

117 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (H75iB)

You definitely ain't helping the birth rate being a cock sucker and all.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (KDPiq)

118 Tske it Easy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:02 PM (9cHSL)

119 "Pew Research (2020 survey): Found an average of 3.3 children per Orthodox adult, compared to 1.4 for non-Orthodox Jews."

The differences between observed Jewish people and JINOs is significant. In a couple of generations I would expect observant Jews will again be the majority of Jewish people in America...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 07:03 PM (sKqQm)

120 Dirty secrets:

1) Blue states and cities are functionally bankrupt.
2) They have made all sorts of promises to their constituents that can never, ever pay for.
3) Their only hope is a federal bailout.
4) They know they won't get it, or it will be so embarrassing they'll lose their jobs.
5) One way to get a lot of cash is fake claims for federal benefits. It started with COVID money - nobody tracked it, and checks went out willy nilly.
6) The state gets a cut for administration. More money sent, more money coming into the state.
7) Minnesota knows the jig is up - this can't continue. The real question is who goes to jail.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 07:03 PM (tV890)

121 Or linked to an Eagles song.

IP: Winslow, AZ
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You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

122 see they have the South African hand jiver to sign for the deaf.
"

Saw that. Laughed

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:04 PM (XuXeR)

123 Take it Easy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:04 PM (9cHSL)

124 I thought the $700M was something like the cumulative total of everything that's been legally declared by couriers transporting it through MSP. That would be something if they are still so retarded they tried to abscond with all of it at once but not exactly surprsing.

Posted by: the dandy at January 12, 2026 07:04 PM (8l8nW)

125 Trump has more Jewish grandchildren than the average Reformed.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 07:04 PM (jc0TO)

126 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 12, 2026 07:00 PM (H75iB)

Sean Penn continues to find you annoyingly phallic.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 07:04 PM (nhCoE)

127 Again, at a baseline, 30pct of every local, state and federal budget is straight graft, corruption and payola.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (mUMdd)

128 7) Minnesota knows the jig is up - this can't continue. The real question is who goes to jail.
Posted by: El Mariachi
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I would say, 'Does anyone go to jail?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (XeU6L)

129
You've got red on you.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (y9nCu)

130 Trump has more Jewish grandchildren than the average Reformed.

The left: Trump is an anti-semite!

Also the left: Trump likes his Jewish daughter too much!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (sKqQm)

131 Tell ‘em to get fucked.

Deploy federal authorities AND cut off federal aid.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (oDIDz)

132 Just send all foreigners back. That'll free up a huge amount of time and $$$ to hunt down domestic criminals.

And as a bonus, I won't have to hear their foreign jabbering or look at their stupid foreign languages and clothing and faces, either.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (BI5O2)

133 You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

Is the Disco Strangler on that list?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 12, 2026 07:05 PM (0aYVJ)

134 Saw some video of him being mobbed up by ANTIFA types this AM.

He needs much better security.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (ZcsJV)

At least two bodyguards toting Tommy guns with drum mags.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (8zz6B)

135 Somalians are getting all their money out of the country.

This is a self-solving problem when you think about it. We can't deport Somai citizens, but if they think they are about to be indicted because of their scams, they leave the country anyway, on the fastest plain possible. Expect the Somali population to drop, by quite a lot int he next year, as they flee overseas.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (tV890)

136 see they have the South African hand jiver to sign for the deaf.

Inhale, and...

Thumbs in ears, tongue out, waggle fingers.
Right hand palm down, leaping dolphin right to left.
Left hand index finger and thumb pinch nose.
Right hand wave mystery odor away.
"OK" sign tap hand on chest three times.
Point both index fingers to the sky "Sosa hit a homerun!" style.
Hands in armpits, flap, flap, flap!
Thumb and index finger to forehead- "loser".
Pick a booger from nose...not really a sign for anything, I just had an itch. Right. Now back to it...
Two finger bunny hop from left to right. One, two, three.
Flip the bird. Sieg Heil arm raise.
Parade float princess wave..
Right index finger in left palm, tap, tap, tap. Hook 'em Horns. "OK" sign, index finger of other hand through the hole, open palm vertical squiggle, twice. Devil horns. Dolphin leaps right to left then left to right. Two fingers up bunny hop, hands in armpits flap elbows, flap, flap. Thumb and finger "L" to forehead, tap, tap, tap, squiggle, mark of Zorro in the air, hesitate, catch breath.
Thumbs in ears waggle fingers, thumb and pinkie "Hang Loose" waggle

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (u/kd+)

137 Hmm. Just occured to me. Is the sign language interpreter speaking American, or Somalian?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (XeU6L)

138 Trump is very open minded, he has Jewish grandchildren, he has Arab grandchildren.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (g47mK)

139 The number of Somalis relocating from the U.S. will be a direct measurement of the level of fraud. My guess 60% will depart.

Oh, and they will lie like crazy and say they left due to harassment and racism, not because they are scam artists who were about to be caught.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (tV890)

140 Don Henley's middle name is "Hugh".

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

141
Minnesota knows the jig is up

Posted by: El Mariachi

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I wonder if Minnesota knows, and I wonder if it is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (Jxa0O)

142 And he has golf playing grandchildren!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:08 PM (g47mK)

143 standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list"

Did that 25 years ago. Still smile every time I hear it...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:08 PM (XuXeR)

144 Expect the Somali population to drop, by quite a lot int he next year, as they flee overseas.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (tV890)

I love your optimism!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 07:08 PM (n9ltV)

145 Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (3ZUWJ)

146 Minnesota knows the jig is up
Posted by: El Mariachi

It is ice-fishing season.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (nhCoE)

147 Not sure, but isn't Minnesota more polka than jig country?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (ZJqEv)

148 Inhale, and..."

Memories....

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (XuXeR)

149 You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

Is the Disco Strangler on that list?
------

I've already spent many nights in the '80s and '90s Lookin' for the Good Life, dressed to kill.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (TN0g+)

150 You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader

I want to get back to St. Louis to visit on my bucket list. Only problem is everything from my childhood no longer exists. Yeah. The big tourist traps are still there, but not the stuff I grew up with in my neighborhood.

Oh, well.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM (u/kd+)

151 "Minnesota knows the jig is up
Posted by: El Mariachi

It is ice-fishing season.
Posted by: mikeski"

Uh oh, here we go. You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM (vFG9F)

152 oh hey , here is news : "The Trump administration has canceled the Biden administration’s rules forcing banks to ignore immigration status for loan applications.

On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported"

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM (g47mK)

153 the jig is up"

So, pron?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM (XuXeR)

154
I just read a Reuters on the lawsuit.

Yes, a clown judge will grant an injunction within the next 48 hours.

No, it will not stand on appeal.

But, that's not the point. The point is to give their terrorists another lie to justify attacking and impeding federal law officers.

You watch, they'll be screaming that enforcement of the law is illegal even louder now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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

Utterly maddening contrast with the info in the last thread. Muster our forces, go in, get him, boom done.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 07:11 PM (Jxa0O)

155 Minnesota knows the jig is up
Posted by: El Mariachi

Do Somalis dance jigs? If so we can add cultural appropriation to their list of dastardly crimes.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 12, 2026 07:11 PM (ftFVW)

156 next, they need to force a rule that they (banks) have to check immigration status for loans, credit etc.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:11 PM (g47mK)

157 I liked this clip of Nick talking to Greenlanders

https://tinyurl.com/m2x4zsa7
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (+mUZM)

Did everyone notice just how little the Greenlanders resemble Eskimos? And that the town is clean and modern?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:11 PM (8zz6B)

158 I going to be heartbroken when those fine somali restaurants aren't able to serve up that fine somali cuisine.

Where else can I go to eat live bugs with my hands sitting on a dirt floor?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (BSdIE)

159 89 72 For those using the VA, DAV transportation services is generally reliable if you call ahead. I have an eye appointment, and with dilation there's no driving for a few hours, so I call them and schedule.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Where's your sense of adventure? Driving around all-blurry eyed is a gas!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (oftw2)

160 You can learn about Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona at: https://standinonthecorner.org/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (ZJqEv)

161 Trump is very open minded, he has Jewish grandchildren, he has Arab grandchildren.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:07 PM (g47mK)

And two foreign born wives .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (KDPiq)

162 150 You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader

I want to get back to St. Louis to visit on my bucket list. Only problem is everything from my childhood no longer exists. Yeah. The big tourist traps are still there, but not the stuff I grew up with in my neighborhood.

Oh, well.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM (u/kd+)

rick, St Louis is a shithole. I live in Missouri and never ever ever go there. If I need the “ pleasures “ of a city I go to KC, or better yet Springfield.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (pDt9x)

163 the jig is up"

So, pron?
Posted by: man

Cabinet making, duh !

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (3ZUWJ)

164
On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported"

Posted by: runner

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

How did lenders have that info to begin with? Were they even allowed to collect it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (Jxa0O)

165 I want to get back to St. Louis to visit on my bucket list. Only problem is everything from my childhood no longer exists.
------

I remember having an awesome night at Harpo's in St. Louis circa...1987?

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (TN0g+)

166 I hope Shirley and Hoch have good personal security. This is the type of stuff the Left does not want exposed and they will do insane things to prevent it.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (FMtrg)

167 Does Walz go away quietly or take Ellison and some others with him? Somehow I don't see him not ratting people out.
Posted by: Ben Had

Really? If he resigns, my guess is that he and his commie-wife will end up with their stash in some country that does not have an extradition treaty with the US.

Or they just disappear into Canada.
Take off, you hoser!

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (2DpeO)

168 force a rule that they (banks) have to check immigration status for loans, credit etc."

Hey... what next, you gonna require ability to pay or something?

/bundles of crappy loans

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (XuXeR)

169 They are admitting to 350 Mosques being torched.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (9cHSL)

170 And two foreign born wives .

==

His mom was sort of foreign born...

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (g47mK)

171 You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM

Where is fd, and what have you done with him?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:14 PM (ZJqEv)

172 169 They are admitting to 350 Mosques being torched.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:13 PM (9cHSL)

Huzzah!!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:14 PM (pDt9x)

173 Perhaps cut off all federal funding to the state. I mean all, to the citizens, not just the government. Tell them if they want their money, go talk to Walz and Frey and Ellison.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (MZ+PY)

174 One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (KDPiq)

175 It is ice-fishing season.
Posted by: mikeski"

Uh oh, here we go. You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd

Please don't start. Ice fishing puns auger bad things happening.

Posted by: Gadabout Gaddis at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (oftw2)

176 If I need the “ pleasures “ of a city I go to KC, or better yet Springfield.
Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM

Still $20 though, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (ZJqEv)

177 One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM

Everything will be smaller.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (jc0TO)

178 This just in: Senator Mark Kelly is a bug-eyed freak.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+)

179 Fish puns DO up the comment count. Other topics also, as we all know.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:16 PM (pDt9x)

180 "Minnesota knows the jig is up
Posted by: El Mariachi

And gone!

Posted by: Josephus at January 12, 2026 07:16 PM (0tQuq)

181 Where else can I go to eat live bugs with my hands sitting on a dirt floor?"

Taco Cabana?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:16 PM (XuXeR)

182 176 If I need the “ pleasures “ of a city I go to KC, or better yet Springfield.
Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM

Still $20 though, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (ZJqEv)

Heh. That’s so 1990.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:17 PM (pDt9x)

183 How did lenders have that info to begin with? Were they even allowed to collect it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (Jxa0O)

I think maybe.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:17 PM (g47mK)

184 Is there a creel limit on fish puns?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:17 PM (9cHSL)

185 You just reminded me that I've yet to cross "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" off of my bucket list. I need to do that. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:17 PM (k9/y/)

186 Bet all of occupied Europe has the same thing going as Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:18 PM (Ia/+0)

187 I don't understand why we spawn all these fish puns.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 12, 2026 07:18 PM (GGatE)

188 160 You can learn about Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona at: https://standinonthecorner.org/ - Duncanthrax

So, there's actually a Standin' on the Corner annual event in Winslow, AZ. That's pretty cool!

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:18 PM (2L+MU)

189 Still $20 though, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM

You don't get as much for it though.

Posted by: Shrinkflation at January 12, 2026 07:18 PM (jc0TO)

190 Take it Easy.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Well, I'll take it anyway I can get it.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 12, 2026 07:18 PM (2DpeO)

191 158 I going to be heartbroken when those fine somali restaurants aren't able to serve up that fine somali cuisine.

Where else can I go to eat live bugs with my hands sitting on a dirt floor?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (BSdIE)

Parts of rural West Virginia?

Posted by: Appalachia is POOR at January 12, 2026 07:19 PM (TbWk/)

192 You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM

Let me float a suggestion. Just have fun and join your piers.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:19 PM (KDPiq)

193 Is there a creel limit on fish puns?"

Gross or....

Net?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:19 PM (XuXeR)

194 West Virginia will be the next New Hampshire.

Posted by: toby928(c) predicts at January 12, 2026 07:20 PM (jc0TO)

195 Bet all of occupied Europe has the same thing going as Minnesota

==

Absolutely correct terminology, occupied.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:20 PM (g47mK)

196 rural West Virginia?"

Somewhat redundant...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:20 PM (XuXeR)

197 You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:10 PM

Let me float a suggestion. Just have fun and join your piers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:19 PM (KDPiq)

Can't help it. We're hooked.

Posted by: Not gonna skate on this one at January 12, 2026 07:20 PM (TbWk/)

198 Did everyone notice just how little the Greenlanders resemble Eskimos? And that the town is clean and modern?

Hmm...give Minnesota to Canada and make Greenland the real North Star State?

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 07:20 PM (JmfGy)

199 Some Somali has or will fuck up and put one stamp on one envelope with ill gotten gain in it and it will somehow be intercepted. And then the US Postal Inspectors step in and they are not a joke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 07:21 PM (gm9Sb)

200 Not talked about enough whenever the left mentions how great Denmark is for "protecting" Greenland from the bad USA:

The Danes were fond of sterilizing the native girls when the went in for routine medical exams.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 07:21 PM (HXT0k)

201 Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (jc0TO)

I used to walk by myself to pre-school. I thought it was a long way away. ( can you believe we used to do that)

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:21 PM (KDPiq)

202 The scale of these fish puns is growing by the minute.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 12, 2026 07:21 PM (h/O4U)

203 How did lenders have that info to begin with? Were they even allowed to collect it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (Jxa0O)

I think maybe.
-------

For 40 years (perhaps longer) the 1003 form (standard loan application) had a series of boxes on the final page for one's race along with a lengthy statement saying applicants were NOT required to fill that portion out BUT that the lender might complete it for them if they left it blank. The cock-eyed reasoning for this was "Hey, we don't want to DISCRIMINATE by race....BUT...we need to this race data so we can internally AUDIT whether we...wait for it....DISCRIMINATED by race."

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 12, 2026 07:22 PM (TN0g+)

204 West Virginia will be the next New Hampshire."

Gonna have a rock fall there, too?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:22 PM (XuXeR)

205 Aren't there less than a thousand Danes in all of Greenland?

Posted by: toby928(c) predicts at January 12, 2026 07:22 PM (jc0TO)

206 Israel officially declares war on Iran? From the Israeli Army X account. Hang on!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 07:22 PM (cxFcK)

207 You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd

Just Skate on by.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:23 PM (k9/y/)

208 Speaking of bucket lists, isn't the Cuban government supposed to fall this week or next? I wish they'd get 'er done; visiting Havana is on my bucket list, and I ain't gettin' any younger.

When I was 18, my bucket list consisted of only four things:

1) See Led Zeppelin live (which I did - twice)
2) Smoke Cuban cigars (check)
3) Marry a Latin American girl (check)
4) Visit a non-communist Havana (date still open)

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:23 PM (2L+MU)

209 Seem to be having some power issues here. Lights flickered about an hour ago, and again just now.

Oh, wait. Better go unplug the air compressor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:23 PM (8zz6B)

210 Push puns are some of our poor halibuts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 07:24 PM (u82oZ)

211 I'm floundering.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:24 PM (jc0TO)

212 I'm floundering.
Posted by: toby928(c)

You have no sole.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 07:25 PM (cxFcK)

213 I have stood on a corner in Winslow Arizona. No fine sight to see, unfortunately. There is a flatbed Ford permanently parked there though.

I have driven through China Grove while singing "woah-o-o China Grove"

I have driven faster miles an hour past the Stop-n-Shop with the radio on.

I need a new quest.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:25 PM (gtcuf)

214 I used to walk by myself to pre-school. I thought it was a long way away. ( can you believe we used to do that)
Posted by: Opinion fact

Ha, people gave me weird looks when they found out I made my kids walk alone to the end of the neighborhood to catch the bus. Now the oldest drives them, so they weren't that young.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 12, 2026 07:26 PM (ftFVW)

215 visiting Havana is on my bucket list, and I ain't gettin' any younger."

This. I so wanna have a Pic at the same spot Dad did in front of the Florida in Havana...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM (XuXeR)

216 I'm floundering.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:24 PM (jc0TO)

Is your fridge running?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM (g47mK)

217 One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (KDPiq)

Rapid City, San Diego?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

218 How did lenders have that info to begin with? Were they even allowed to collect it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Verification of SS numbers?
There are rare exceptions, but to legally work in the US you need a SSN. Who would give a loan to someone who cannot legally work to repay it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (/lPRQ)

219
You are not going to lure me into making fish puns.
Posted by: fd
=====
Just Skate on by.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Tht's a really carppy attitude!

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (QVmho)

220 One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM (KDPiq)

Rapid City, San Diego?!
------

*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (TN0g+)

221 Fish puns are some of our poor halibuts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (u82oZ)

222 I have driven through China Grove "

But did you make it to Luckenbach and La Grange?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (XuXeR)

223 I'm right out of crappie fish puns right now. I vow to do better, really.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:29 PM (8zz6B)

224 Me, visiting childhood town: I want to check how far i walked to kindergarten. If seemed like it was a mile.

Spouse: Sure. Sure it was

Me, later: Odometer sez 1.1 miles

Her: I want to go talk to your mother about this.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 12, 2026 07:29 PM (8AONa)

225 Proposal: we should use the word 'founder' more. Or call a failing politician 'foundering.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 07:29 PM (zZu0s)

226 I'm right out of crappie fish puns right now. I vow to do better, really.
------

There's too much carping already.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:29 PM (TN0g+)

227 But did you make it to Luckenbach and La Grange?
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:28 PM (XuXeR)

Not Luckenbach, but they got a lotta nice girls down there in La Grange.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (gtcuf)

228 Expect the Somali population to drop, by quite a lot int he next year, as they flee overseas.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (tV890)

Damn, at a fast glance I thought you wrote flung into the seas. It moved for nothing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (snZF9)

229 I live but a couple miles from where I was a baby, nothing changes much yet when something does you hardly remember what was there.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia/+0)

230 There are no WalMarts in Iran. Only Targets.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (cxFcK)

231 I'm right out of crappie fish puns right now. I vow to do better, really.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Oh come on...You know you're hooked.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (k9/y/)

232 I saw an elementary school I used to go to. It shrank.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (9cHSL)

233 Y'all pick on WV at your own risk.

Serious risk. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (NwnyJ)

234 But, speaking of Nick Shirley -

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (pDt9x)

235 There are no WalMarts in Iran. Only Targets.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (cxFcK)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (zZu0s)

236 Vince Gill, Salmon Rushdie, Joe Pesci and Abe Vigoda walk into a bar...

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (gtcuf)

237 Shirley you can't be serious?

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (YwEeS)

238 I considered moving to WV after I retired. Property is as affordable as it is in Texas.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:32 PM (KDPiq)

239 "I'm right out of crappie fish puns right now."

Doesn't bladder to me.

Posted by: Guy who makes really bad fish puns at January 12, 2026 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

240 One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM

Everything will be smaller.
Posted by: toby928(c)

No fooling. My cousin sent me a picture of his old house. I asked "where is the damn hill???" It's a little bump.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:32 PM (u/kd+)

241 I've been to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:33 PM (TN0g+)

242 but they got a lotta nice girls down there in La Grange"

And the air is fine...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:33 PM (XuXeR)

243 229 I live but a couple miles from where I was a baby, nothing changes much yet when something does you hardly remember what was there.
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (pDt9x)

244 Oh come on...You know you're hooked.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:31 PM (k9/y/)
'
I just passed on a Ruger Redhawk in .44 magnum for $850.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (8zz6B)

245 I'm right out of crappie fish puns right now. I vow to do better, really.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:29 PM (8zz6B

Mullet over and get back to us.

Posted by: Just watch, he'll school us at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (TbWk/)

246 Is your fridge running?
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM

Yes. I had to put it into diagnostic mode and reset the controller board. (thx interwebz)

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (jc0TO)

247 Y'all pick on WV at your own risk."

Mrs is from Morgantown. She can rattle off more WV insults...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:35 PM (XuXeR)

248 I wonder how the natives of Winslow feel when they see yet another tourist standing on a random corner taking selfies and singing Eagles songs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:35 PM (6ydKt)

249 there is a common meme in history where a completely corrupt government official, usually in a corner of the empire or kingdom is suddenly exposed as a greedy, thieving corruptocrat, and decides his only saving throw is to declare an insurrection against the evils of the emperor/king/dictator.

In the past it usually ended with the rebellious corruptocrat nailed to various trees, posts, and walls throughout the kingdom, thus showing that jail is better than dismemberment.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 07:35 PM (rbvCR)

250 Yes. I had to put it into diagnostic mode and reset the controller board. (thx interwebz)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (jc0TO)

amazing!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (g47mK)

251 Posted by: Delurker"

Golf clap...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (XuXeR)

252 247 Y'all pick on WV at your own risk."

Mrs is from Morgantown. She can rattle off more WV insults...
Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:35 PM (XuXeR)

She's her own grandpa?

Posted by: Family tree is just a trunk at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (TbWk/)

253 La Grange is actually my favorite ZZTop song now that I think about it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (6ydKt)

254 215 This. I so wanna have a Pic at the same spot Dad did in front of the Florida in Havana... - man

May it be so!

I graduated from the University of Miami and worked there in banking for about 10 years. Almost all of my friends were Cuban, and many of them lost family members when the commies took over (one woman told me how the reds dragged her father and brother out of their house and shot them in the front yard). I knew several men who had fought at the Bay of Pigs. I just want to stand in their liberated capital and rejoice with them. And maybe find a Packard I can ship back to the states.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (2L+MU)

255 You live, you lear
You love, you lear
You cry, you lear
You lose, you lear
You bleed, you lear
You scream, you lear

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (gWBY1)

256 My daughter lives in Elkins WV. She made this advertisement video. I think she is trying to make it a funky arty town like she grew up.

https://youtu.be/I-JZS1BLdDs

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (jc0TO)

257 Fish puns will soon become like the Sea word and not be allowed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (KDPiq)

258 I wonder how the natives of Winslow feel when they see yet another tourist standing on a random corner taking selfies and singing Eagles songs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:35 PM (6ydKt)

"The" corner in Winslow is a major tourist trap. The town makes money off that song.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (8zz6B)

259 Winslow AZ actually has an officially designated corner, I think there's a statue or a mural or something, also a sign ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (Cjt/F)

260 "One thing on my bucket list is to return to Rapid City , SD and the neighborhood I grew up in until I was six . I want to compare my perceptions of my surroundings at that time with how they really are.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:15 PM"

Check out Google Maps Street View feature and save some dough.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (rbIOb)

261 No fooling. My cousin sent me a picture of his old house. I asked "where is the damn hill???" It's a little bump.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:32 PM (u/kd+)

Was showing my wife this huge hill we used to roll down at recess. It might have been 5 feet high and sloped 7 or 8 feet. I was flabbergasted at how the hill had shrunk!

Posted by: Beartooth at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (GGatE)

262 She's her own grandpa?
Posted by: Family tree is just a trunk "

You know why there's no CSI West Virginia?

'Cause the DNA is all the same..

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (XuXeR)

263 rick, St Louis is a shithole. I live in Missouri and never ever ever go there. If I need the “ pleasures “ of a city I go to KC, or better yet Springfield.
Posted by: tubal

Yeah. I know. I grew up in South St. Louis. Hampton Village area. I did a google street view drive by a couple of tomes. All the little bodega type stores are gone. The Presbyterian Church I grew up in went gay. All my friends are gone. My aunt lives in Webster Groves. Oh well.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (u/kd+)

264 246 Is your fridge running?
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Posted by: Can Mike Hunt come to the phone? at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (TbWk/)

265 I've always wanted to go from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonapah.

Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:38 PM (gtcuf)

266 I just passed on a Ruger Redhawk in .44 magnum for $850.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:34 PM (8zz6B)
-----

I like nice gear, and nice guns. But what would you do with a .44 magnum? I had about talked myself into a .357 magnum but lately have been asking myself where I would be that a .38 police special or 9mm wouldn't have enough stopping power?

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:38 PM (TN0g+)

267 Taking advantage of a generous New York state program to aid his ailing mother, Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as her caregivers.

Over six years, they were paid $348,000 to look after the elderly woman at a Manhattan apartment.

Except the mom was in Bangladesh the entire time.

This is a $10 BILLION SCAM/YEAR

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:38 PM (gbOdA)

268 I ate spaghetti in South St.Louis.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:39 PM (jc0TO)

269 I just passed on a Ruger Redhawk in .44 magnum for $850.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Seems like a good price if in good condition

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:39 PM (k9/y/)

270 You live, you lear
You love, you lear
You cry, you lear
You lose, you lear
You bleed, you lear
You scream, you lear
Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (gWBY1)

Damn, Liz. You just set off Alannis Morriset in my head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (zZu0s)

271 Ellison asserts in his statement lawful ICE actions caused Minneapolis additional local law enforcement costs of $2 billion in 2 days. Oh. My. It is all so, dare I say, racist.

Minnesota once had excellent public schools, checks notes, 40 years ago. Today everybody is infected with Somali math. Ellison is claiming Minneapolis spent $41.6 million per day on law enforcement. The be real funny.

What we are witnessing is the New Confederacy rise. We are in the middle of witnessing Minnesota nullifying being a member state of the United States. Actual secession and all that comes from that is not just thinkable but is play with St. George of Fentanyl and St. Renee of Insurrection being the first official martyrs of the New Confederacy.

Posted by: Tis the Season at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (HTCU3)

272 Gallup NM has a statue on a corner. Drunk Navajo waiting for the Circle K to open up for beer sales.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (gm9Sb)

273 Those bastard USians! So used to invading that they are invading their own country!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (mP0Kj)

274 And maybe find a Packard I can ship back to the states.
Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:36 PM (2L+MU)

Apparently Fidel had quite fine collection of primo American cars. I don't know what became of them. The cars you see on the street have been patched and bondo'ed over many times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (8zz6B)

275 What do all of these scams have?

NO BUDGETS

So today we bill $2 M for Autistic Somali Pirate Learing Center and next year $20 M.
Fuck you go the fuck home.
Next year pay $2 M plus SS cola.
PS Fuck you go home

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (gbOdA)

276 Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:38 PM (TN0g+)

Do you plan on visiting Grizzly country?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (KDPiq)

277 Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:38 PM (TN0g+)

Do you plan on visiting Grizzly country?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (KDPiq)

278 I ate spaghetti in South St.Louis.
----

"The Hill"!!!! The best Italian food I've ever eaten!

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (TN0g+)

279 And now Ballal Hossain is in jail, right?

RIGHT?

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

280 Elkins WV. "

We used to stop at CJ Maggie's! Great place!

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (XuXeR)

281 The cars you see on the street have been patched and bondo'ed over many times.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM

With Soviet tractor motors.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (jc0TO)

282 Folks on X are saying the Pizza Index has jumped 1000% tonight from average. No one I recognize yet, though.

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (vSvIl)

283 272 Gallup NM has a statue on a corner. Drunk Navajo waiting for the Circle K to open up for beer sales.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (gm9Sb)

Winslow Ariz has a 'Truck Park'... where you can stand on the corner and hope a girl in a flatbed ford drives by...

Good bar across the street though.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (mP0Kj)

284 I'm just gonna tuna out all these fish puns ...

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (3ZUWJ)

285 His mom was sort of foreign born...
Posted by: runner

Aye, me wee Donnie.

A classy laddie he was, really the best, that much I can tell ye

Posted by: Mary McLeod Trump at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (f/3mU)

286 274 Apparently Fidel had quite fine collection of primo American cars. I don't know what became of them. The cars you see on the street have been patched and bondo'ed over many times. - Alberta Oil Peon

Yeah, I hear they're in pretty rough shape, but there's bound to be at least one or two I could salvage.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM (2L+MU)

287 Suns up on Iran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM (9cHSL)

288 What we are witnessing is the New Confederacy rise. We are in the middle of witnessing Minnesota nullifying being a member state of the United States. Actual secession and all that comes from that is not just thinkable but is play with St. George of Fentanyl and St. Renee of Insurrection being the first official martyrs of the New Confederacy.
Posted by: Tis the Season at January 12, 2026 07:40 PM (HTCU3)

CUT their money. Watch them scream like slaughtered lambs.
CUT THE FUCKING MONEY

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM (gbOdA)

289 "The Hill"!!!! The best Italian food I've ever eaten!
Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM

We were temporarily living in Webster Groves at that time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM (jc0TO)

290 I need a new quest.
Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:25 PM (gtcuf)

How about Sheena with a big ol' Oscar Meyer wiener
and drinking funky cold Medina?

Posted by: Tone Loc at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM (R/m4+)

291 Seems like a good price if in good condition
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:39 PM (k9/y/)

Looked real fine. Did not examine it; not really on my bucket list. Told a friend. If You are interested, phone me, and I can tell you where I saw it. Guy selling a shitload of stuff out a box truck on the roadside.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:43 PM (8zz6B)

292 Suns up on Iran.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:42 PM

The gamma ray kind?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:43 PM (jc0TO)

293 *curtsies to Aetius*

Yeah, I can't get the earworm out of my head either.

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:43 PM (gWBY1)

294 Greek to me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:43 PM (9cHSL)

295 The site indicated by grok isn't showing the spike, so may be bullshit.

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2026 07:44 PM (vSvIl)

296 I think I saw a picture one time of a Packard or Cadillac that had 55-gallon drums and tires attached to it, while a refugee "crew" rowed it to the Keys.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:44 PM (2L+MU)

297 I need a new quest.
Posted by: Delurker at January 12, 2026 07:25 PM

The depths of Hillary! await.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 07:44 PM (ZJqEv)

298 One and Done on Federal ScamAids

You cheat SSDI, you are done.
No nothing allowed on your SS # forever.
You cheat by using your childs SS #
Frozen, done, not even a fucking fudgsicle in the lunch line to that SS # ever again.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:44 PM (gbOdA)

299 they were paid $348,000 to look after the elderly woman at a Manhattan apartment."

And I'm paying... enough to buy a new BMW sedan every 4 months for my parent's care.

Where can I get a stash like that?

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:44 PM (XuXeR)

300 it's a bit after 4 AM in I-ran

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 07:45 PM (g47mK)

301 "The" corner in Winslow is a major tourist trap. The town makes money off that song.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (8zz6B)
259 Winslow AZ actually has an officially designated corner, I think there's a statue or a mural or something, also a sign ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 12, 2026 07:37 PM (Cjt/F)

Hey, whatever works.

Good for them.
I guess if it wasn't for that song nobody would've ever heard of the town.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:45 PM (6ydKt)

302 Nude Cafe

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (jc0TO)

303 I saw fucking fudgsicle open for Frankie Goes to Hollywood at the Cap Center in '86....

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (XuXeR)

304 I miscalculated. 3 hours.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (9cHSL)

305 What we are witnessing is the New Confederacy rise. We are in the middle of witnessing Minnesota nullifying being a member state of the United States. - Tis the Season

The rebel yell will be replaced by Uff Daaaaa!!!!

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 07:46 PM (2L+MU)

306 Reminds me of my theory the CCP put down the Hong Kong protests by releasing the COVID.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (KDPiq)

307 I can think of few things more horrifying than being trapped on an Arizona street corner with dozens of desiccated old hippie husks who traveled there expressly because they want to "live" an Eagles' lyric.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (BI5O2)

308
Looked real fine. Did not examine it; not really on my bucket list. Told a friend. If You are interested, phone me, and I can tell you where I saw it. Guy selling a shitload of stuff out a box truck on the roadside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Thanks, I'm good.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (k9/y/)

309 Yep, its 4:17 in Tehran at this moment.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (TN0g+)

310 Good for them.
I guess if it wasn't for that song nobody would've ever heard of the town.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:45 PM (6ydKt)

Well, it is on old Route 66. Also about the closest town to Meteor Crater, which is kind of cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)

311 Living in hotels and plane to make a few bucks.
Missed sleeping with wife about 100 or more nights a year.
Drank too much at hotel bars.
Then fuckwads from some place where they fuck their sister more than their cousins come here to rip me off.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (gbOdA)

312 I've enjoyed looking at how tired Mayor Frey is. Fraying at the seams. Eye bags could rival early Alec Baldwin's, before his mamacito and 20 children. Now triple eye bags.

Frey's worried and not sleeping well. Good. I hope has diarrhea and hideous, painful hemorrhoids from constipation due to such a tight sphincter.

I note in the same photo the ASL "person" on the right. Probably SSL (Somolian sign language).

Or Koko the Gorilla sign language, but I think she's dead and may she rest on the bosom of Harambe in peace.

Have Walz and his homely wife (and spawn) been hauled off in the net of a Special Forces chopper yet? I'd pay to see that video!

MN is quite the mess. Glad I don't live there. Altho I want their snow. Not doing them any good that I can see,and it ain't fair!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 07:48 PM (WONhk)

313 >>> 282 Folks on X are saying the Pizza Index has jumped 1000% tonight from average. No one I recognize yet, though.
Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2026 07:41 PM (vSvIl)

I don't remember hearing anything about that just before OrangeManBad grabbed Maduro. Planning now for doing later perhaps?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 07:48 PM (ULPxl)

314 Curses, willowed again!

NOOD

CAFE

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (ULPxl)

315 Well, it is on old Route 66"

And mentioned in that song...

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 07:50 PM (XuXeR)

316 Ilhan to Elon (their names sort of slant rhyme)

@IlhanMN
You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts.

He is definitely dumb...he worked hard to gain his money through hard work and innovation. This whole time, he could have just grifted billions off the taxpayers. What a maroon!

I can't tell if she's swearing the possible charges they can file against her or not. Or if she knows nothing will happen. A conservative politician filed a motion to investigate her bro marriage fraud and the motion died.

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2026 07:52 PM (gWBY1)

317 Yes. I had to put it into diagnostic mode and reset the controller board. (thx interwebz)
Posted by: toby928(c)

I have dishwasher that every now and then pretends it is DRT.
Shut off breaker (dedicated circuit), wait five minutes or so, turn power back on.
Have to reboot it's brain.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 07:53 PM (/lPRQ)

318 Purported video of massive demonstrations last night (local time) in Tehran and other cities. Hard to determine timing/authenticity of these, though it seems very likely they're authentic. Some western media claim to have contact with sources in Iran and will be reporting what they learn.

One thing seems certain, intensity/brutality of the regime response may exceed anything seen previously (2009, 2022), except perhaps in the early years. Reportedly state thugs present in hospitals, any gun-shot admissions face good chance of disappearing. A nice touch.

Hard to see how the gangsters can hang on, this time, but if they do somehow, obviously the regime has been damaged and weakened and is unlikely to ever fully recover. And that's without even considering Israel hitting their missile program again (a certainty) and heavy US pressure such as the new secondary sanctions (25% tariff on transactions with any country doing bidness with the mullahs).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (U/Byj)

319
Well, it is on old Route 66. Also about the closest town to Meteor Crater, which is kind of cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)

I need to travel at least some of that road one day before it's all lost to time.

I've seen some it in TV shows and videos but it looks like an enjoyable ride, at least the part in the southwest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

320 More likely to see a drunk Indian in Winslow than anything else. Pretty much the same anywhere along old Rt 66 in most parts of New Mex or Arizona.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 12, 2026 07:55 PM (MZ+PY)

321 And, "just like that," the mystery of the growing US debt was solved with the video of Somolians in MN!

Bravo! Not get the rest of the states doing this!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 08:02 PM (WONhk)

322 I've been to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Posted by: Crusader
----
I visited my first cathouse in Wierton , WV at age 16.
Does that count?

Posted by: buddhaha at January 12, 2026 08:28 PM (4YokX)

323 awesome night at Harpo's in St. Louis

Columbia?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at January 12, 2026 08:49 PM (iNp3L)

324 Any chance we can swap out Minnesota for Alberta?

Posted by: rtw1951 at January 12, 2026 08:54 PM (dZerm)

325 I must thank you for the efforts you've put in penning this blog.
I am hoping to view the same high-grade blog posts from you later on as well.
In fact, your creative writing abilities has inspired me to get my own, personal website now

Posted by: 96.in.com at January 13, 2026 01:06 AM (kzC/G)

326 Lock
Them
Up

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 06:47 PM (P0I39)

327 Whoa...giddy up, back!

Posted by: Ellison, rump riding the taxpayer at January 13, 2026 06:49 PM (P0I39)

Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding

I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"

Does that mean it's true? No!

Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.

Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?

And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?

So first, the directed energy weapon which may or may not exist, and which Karoline Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
...
Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.
But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.
"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."
What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.
"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."

Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.

Then came the weapon that still haunts him.
"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."
The effects were immediate and horrific.
"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."
The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.
...
The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.
"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."
The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.

This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

A Venezuelan security guard for Maduro warns against fighting Americans describing the U.S. raid: 20 men with superior tech disabled radars, downed drones, and killed hundreds unharmed. They fired 300 rounds/min and used a sonic weapon causing instant bleeding and incapacitation.� pic.twitter.com/tTVT2l5Qwk
— ꪻꫝ�̉ ꪻꫝ�̉ (@TheThe1776) January 9, 2026

Now here are some of the things I saw claimed in various videos about the capture.

Some of this is confirmed by General Caine, in his post-action briefing. Some of it is speculative. I think people are asking AI to summarize what happened or what probably happened, and AI is offering possible scenarios, which are being claimed as fact.

But a lot of this at least seems likely to me. I'm sharing it because it's neat. I don't know if it's the truth. But it's a neat story.

1. General Caine said that CIA spooks were infiltrated into the country weeks before the invasion. He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."

One assumes they already had the layout of his presidential hidey-hole, because Trump revealed they went in with powerful blowtorches to cut through the steel doors of the panic room they knew he would run to. (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.) The Deltas practiced on a replica presidential building for months before the op.

2. This is one of the most jawdropping things -- the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro. The US needed to park an aircraft carrier (our newest super carrier currently in operation, the Gerald R. Ford) off the coast and flood the skies with surveillance planes and drones, to map out all of Venezuela's communications and their SAM missile arrays. They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.

So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.

3. The drug-boat operation stuff also had another purpose, apart from cover and sigint collection and actually stopping the drug boats. The US wanted Venezuela's military and their radar operators to accept that there would be dozens and dozens of US planes in their airspace at all times. They wanted to get them to treat this as Situation Normal, No Big Deal. So the operation went on for 48 days, with Venezuela no longer on high alert just because there were 100 US planes in their skies. So on the night of the operation, they would have no idea that something big was in the air, until it was already all over.

4. The Nightstalkers (the US elite helicopter squadron) used modified Chinooks and Blackhawks with some stealth capability. Like, the helicopters have radar-absorbing skin. But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet. I think they crank out 100 decibels when moving. Because they would be flying nap-of-the-earth, anyone on the ground would hear them.

So this is pretty neat: The military couldn't make the helicopters any quieter, so instead, they made everything else noisier. They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise. Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.

Some F-35s did use stealth, when they were actually attacking targets like the radar installations and Russian SAM trucks, but the US put 150 planes into the sky just to create an "acoustic shield" that would effectively create a dome of stealth for the helicopters.

In addition, all of those planes in the sky meant that Venezuelan radarmen had their screens packed with contacts and could not notice six or eight helicopters flying towards the military base at Fuerte Tiuna.

5. Ultimately US planes began attacking positions in the Fuerte Tiuna military base, mostly not for any direct tactical advantage, but just create chaos and confusion and noise.

While the operation killed at least 100 Venezuelan guards and Cuban mercenaries, it was pretty merciful, otherwise. When Venezuelan pilots scrambled to challenge the invading planes, they were told over the radios, in Spanish, "return to the ground or you will be destroyed." Most did. Some Venezuelan planes attempted to follow the helicopters as they flew back into international waters, but US pilots locked their missiles on them, and the missile-lock warning was enough to convince the pilots to turn around and return to their bases.

And this is just speculation on my part, but I think we were trying to convince Venezuela that if we took action against them, it would be a conventional amphibious invasion kind of thing. I think Trump warned that there would be land-based attacks on Venezuela just to prime them to expect that kind of attack. And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.

Just amazing stuff, even if you don't believe the US now has some kind of weapon that can stun and incapacitate dozens of men at a distance.

Some videos: The military's use of a "sonic shield."

A video of how the operation might have happened.

A video about the helicopters, guns, and "spider-eyes" nightvision goggles that Delta Force used.

Our newest supercarrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in the operation. It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it. A second aircraft carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class, the USS John F. Kennedy, will be commissioned early in 2026. The Ford had a tough roll-out because it apparently employs 23 new technologies and some of them were buggy, but the John F. Kennedy is built with the lessons learned from the Ford and will hopefully be ready for action more quickly.

A big new innovation in both ships is that the catapults that launch the planes are driven by electromagnets, not steam as in the Nimitz-class carriers, and can launch planes more than twice as quickly as the older flattops.

Posted by: Ace at 05:26 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (LdBR/)

3 Purely accidental

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (3ImbR)

4 Set Phasers to Stun, right Ace?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (pDt9x)

5 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (abIsI)

6 Sonic Peruvian marching powder?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (9cHSL)

7 Cajun.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (abIsI)

8 They should install that device on the 1 California bus. Bunch of animals on that line.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (RIvkX)

9 The Brown Note story returns!!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (pDt9x)

10 I think deploying the gay gas would have been funnier.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI)

11 Texas aside, Don't mess with the US.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (mlg/3)

12 Two by two...hands of blue.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (ESVrU)

13 Two by two...hands of blue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Can't stop the signal, Mal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (mlg/3)

14 I've had my nose erupt into bleeding a couple of times. I was on the receiving end of a balled up fist on both occasions... ahhhh youth

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Bo9Yf)

15 It's more important that our enemies think it's true and they spend a lot of energy combatting it or trying to come up with their own.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (s19xO)

16 So how did this shmoe survive to tell the story?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

17 Yoohoo!

They should install that device on the 1 California bus. Bunch of animals on that line.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

18
The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Jxa0O)

19 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

yeah I'm dubious.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (1wjle)

20 The Venezulan guard is saying this? The guard who failed to protect his boss and let him get snatched up by US soldiers?

"No senor, it wasn't that we all bravely ran away. No, there was a secret mystery weapon that kept us from laying down our lives for El Jefe!"

Posted by: Taylor at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (DJPFk)

21 " It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it."

That's only, like, 4 buildings in DC.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (vFG9F)

22 Yanqui Perfidy strikes again!!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (pDt9x)

23 Jedi mind trick.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (9cHSL)

24 18
The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (Jxa0O)

Hundreds were Killed ? I thought it was 32 ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

25 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

How did he avoid getting whacked?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (ZcsJV)

26 And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.

===

yes, I wonder who...hmmm....also, there was another security leak about 2 months(?) prior, pretty much saying that there will be military action, and that Rubio was the point man. then Trump actually got a question in some stupid presser, he denied it (of course)

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (g47mK)

27 Hoping we do something about Iran now, and soon.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (gDlxJ)

28 25 >>The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

How did he avoid getting whacked?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (ZcsJV)

Bad earwax condition.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (pDt9x)

29 so Cucker has people on the inside and they continue leaking to him, like they were from the Pentagon, until Hegseth found them and canned them

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (g47mK)

30 They used a sound weapon in Pittsburgh, PA during the Osama Obama years. A G8? Meeting held in downtown, with chain link fencing enclosing the downtown.

Posted by: Baldy at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (2Z8+h)

31 Makes me proud of America again. MMPAA!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)

32 Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

====
*busts out* got me

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (RIvkX)

33 'Tis possible there was no weapon, but that these Maduro thuglets just wet themselves and curled in a ball when they saw their companeros being misted.
I'm not trained for that shit, myself, so I'd certainly do that if I was plucked off the street and ordered to guard that asshole.
Maybe the "sonic weapon" was AC/DC's Hell's Bells played real loud.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (gKWVE)

34 When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

35 Refreshing, ain't it! We have competent people setting policy, commanding ops, and chewing the scenery...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (BTwEN)

36 Must have missed the nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

37 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

38 a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees

Pussy?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (Kt19C)

39 The Venezulan guard is saying this? The guard who failed to protect his boss and let him get snatched up by US soldiers?

"No senor, it wasn't that we all bravely ran away. No, there was a secret mystery weapon that kept us from laying down our lives for El Jefe!"

Posted by: Taylor at January 12, 2026

***
I think this pretty much nails it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

40 I believe the nickname of the weapon during development was the "Nadler Fart Simulator."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (oeVx2)

41 The "witness account" looks like propaganda to me.

yeah I'm dubious.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:32 PM (1wjle)
====

When reading the original report on X some moron said it sounded like AI

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (RIvkX)

42
At least it wasn't the Gay-ray.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (IifOV)

43 Send it to Minneapolis.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (CNl8/)

44 Our enemies can believe our special forces rode in on the backs of dragons if that's what it takes to get them to knock of the bullshit.

I'm a little concerned that if we set too much of a precedent of nabbing foreign leaders with minimal other casualties, particularly if we advertise the use of non-lethal weapons, we're going to be setting expectations too far in that direction the next time the situation calls for killing a large pile of whomever.

"Why didn't you use stun beams?" will become the international "Why didn't you just shoot the gun out of his hand?"

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vSvIl)

45
the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro.

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

That IS a jaw-dropper. I guess we won't be bothering to interdict any more drug boats, which is fine with me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Jxa0O)

46 When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

You mean nine feet tall, right to your? Right?
-David French, thinking he needs to use his extensive military contacts to arrange a meeting for his wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s)

47 I had Waffle House chili once and that created quite a sonic weapon!

Posted by: Josephistan at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (G0Uu2)

48 Next time we send the rapist robots.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

49 >>>And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

They've developed millimeter wave tech that is supposed make it feel like your skin is being microwaved. There are also focused sonic weapons that were pitched as less lethal crowd control devices. This was a decade or more ago, seen on Future Weapons or a similar show on the Hitler Channel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (8SKzU)

50 We were already overwhelmed. And then they brought the Yoko.

Posted by: A Venezuelan soldier at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

51 Pretty cool.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (krQz2)

52 >>When you get your ass reamed as well as the Venezuelan army did, I too would claim that the US Soldiers were nine foot ninjas that can teleport.

'He must have slipped something into my drink...because I would never cheat on you, honey!'

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (ZcsJV)

53 "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood,

A full Moron weekends results.

Posted by: DaveA at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (FhXTo)

54 42
At least it wasn't the Gay-ray.
Posted by: Frank Barone

The Feds're saving that for YD's cookies when he visits here.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (gKWVE)

55 A secret American super weapon ate my homework.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (b5lit)

56 (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.)

We were calling to tell him we love him no more.

https://youtu.be/cUu4UHNTTrY

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (nhCoE)

57 No lasers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (9cHSL)

58 Oh, the irony of using the Havana Syndrome weapon against the Cubans...

Posted by: pookysgirl appreciates true irony at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (Wt5PA)

59 I was lucky to escape with my life, Jefe!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (jc0TO)

60 Since 300 rounds per minute is less than 1/2 of what an M4 carbine is capable of in full auto, I rate that Venzo Army dude's statement as plausible.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (TezPK)

61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (0U5gm)

62 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (snZF9)

63 "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood"

- The classic side effects of listening to "Loving You" by Minnie Riperton

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (IifOV)

64 Doubts aside, we have been seeing reports about this sort of weapons development for a long time, and it sounds like a perfect case for deployment.

Perhaps they've already been used. Recall similar reports about our embassy employees being subjected to such a weapon I forget where.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

65 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM

Having a ROE of kill everything in front of you helps.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

66 powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees

Black velvet if you please

Posted by: Alana Miles at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

67 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

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Heh.

TBF, they really have to crank that shit to get the noise to pierce that of the leaf-blowers.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (oeVx2)

68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then

Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

69 *busts out* got me
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Gung hay fat choy!

Posted by: 30 Stockton at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (KAi1n)

70
Perhaps they've already been used. Recall similar reports about our embassy employees being subjected to such a weapon I forget where.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (RIvkX)

Cuba

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

71 I'm a 'directed energy weapon' too!

Posted by: laser at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (ULPxl)

72 Palmer Lucky talked about some of this on Rogan a few months ago. Word to the wise. If the D Boys want to get you, you are going to get got.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (MZ+PY)

73 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM

I'm choking here.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (jc0TO)

74
57 No lasers?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (9cHSL)

Or sharks?

Posted by: Metalbeard the pirate at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (TbWk/)

75 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.

Posted by: Eskimo at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (h39WR)

76 68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE

It got them hypnotized.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (lUFok)

77 My ex-husband and kids would do that to me as they would run in the kitchen and crop dust me with their farts.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (oiNtH)

78 I'm a 'directed energy weapon' too!
Posted by: laser

You and me both, brother.

Posted by: Explosive Diarrhea at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (mlg/3)

79 68 61 A secret weapon that reacts with cocaine already in the nose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

so, most Fleetwood Mac songs then
Posted by: gKWVE

lol

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

80 Must have missed the nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

Thanatopsis @ 5:27.

But it was a comment with the latest stealth features, and there were a lot of other comments being as loud as possible.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (nhCoE)

81 I think we should still kill drug runners and up the pressure by shutting down all the donkey shows in Tijuana.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (b5lit)

82 > This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
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Rumors are it was exactly that.

Or ours that the Russians stole. Either or.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (NwnyJ)

83 It certainly might be like the awesome propaganda of the RAF pilots eating carrots to be so good at spotting Nazi planes at night - rather than having effective radar.

I don't want our enemies to develop effective counter-measures, I want them tilting at windmills.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (HlyYF)

84 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.
Posted by: Eskimo

Good one!

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (oiNtH)

85 Guess its possible, but not totally believing it

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

86 I live this so much.

Peace through strength and deterrence. And lots of big, beautiful weapons.

More of this please. Aimed at Iran.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (vK/Ja)

87 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (g47mK)

88 There's been issues with the EMALS on Ford, mostly relating to maintenance and repairs. Somehow they designed it without the ability to isolate any of the catapults from each other so if one needed repairs, they're all out of order.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (gUs21)

89 This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

This is immediately what I thought of.

I'm fine with us using it on them. I like it a lot less the other way around (against civilians, more or less, outside of combat operations).

I'd like to see counter-measures. But maybe we have developed those, as I've not read about more cases recently.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (UGyV5)

90 It's good to know that we have reconstituted the Super Soldier Serum.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (jc0TO)

91 >>> 75 I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.
Posted by: Eskimo at January 12, 2026 05:42 PM (h39WR)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (ULPxl)

92 But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet.

pretty sure the technology for that was demonstrated in the well-known documentary "the nude bomb".

Posted by: anachronda at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (v3pYe)

93 Operation Rhianon

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)

94 >>It certainly might be like the awesome propaganda of the RAF pilots eating carrots to be so good at spotting Nazi planes at night - rather than having effective radar.

I learned about that from Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (ZcsJV)

95 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Gotta love our advanced technology!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (SRRAx)

96 Maybe they just used super-amplified recordings of Hillary's cackle.

Btw, would she get residuals for that?

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (2L+MU)

97 Platoon of Welsh witches?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (9cHSL)

98 I fucking hate Fleetwood Mac*.

*Not Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (ZcsJV)

99 Operation Rhianon
Posted by: ace

Oh, I love that singer.

Posted by: Every 20yr old influence on ShitTok at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

100 >>> 95 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Gotta love our advanced technology!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (SRRAx)

Awww, that's sweet. Thank you!

Posted by: the hamsters at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ULPxl)

101 They're strong to the finish 'cause they eats their spinach..

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (jc0TO)

102 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

It's like a tariff, but explodier.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nhCoE)

103 The "witness" here is spouting the same kind of bushes Third Worlders always spout to cover their butts when they fail big time. No Delta Force team is going to carry a bulky sonic weapon into combat instead of a shotgun or rifle. That sounds like an Ahnuld movie.

Having said that, there MIGHT have been a microwave weapon used. I've seen the test videos of that. However, it tends to make people run away to get out of the field. They don't just drop and start bleeding. Of course, I guess you could turn it up and get that effect, maybe. But the one I saw was pintel-mounted with a big generator.

But, yeah, most likely this guy pissed his pants when DF showed up and he had to explain why he had a bloody nose instead of a bullet between the eyes.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (IsyHZ)

104 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM

Having a ROE of kill everything in front of you helps.
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

105 So they was killing the boat operators / mulesfor shits and giggles.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (/lPRQ)

106 The last video is pretty wild. We should have more Delta Force types with crazy hardware and tech. And send them to Minnesota.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)

107 So 1981's Scanners was a documentary?

Posted by: John Drake at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (GWvJt)

108 >>on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?

He didn't legalize pot.

He had it re-scheduled.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ZcsJV)

109 Blue Thunder?

Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

110 62 The delta dudes are super human when it comes to speed and shooting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (snZF9)
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If you've never seen one of these dudes shoot, I can see why the VZ guys thought they were shooting "300 rounds a minute" or whatever. They are absolutely fucking unreal.

There's a range here with an old west style town shooting course. 45 steel targets over about 70 yards or so, you're moving between doors and windows. My best time I think was like 2 minutes and some small change. A former D Boy showed up and shot the entire thing with zero misses in like 45 seconds. I almost gave up the shooting sports that day. It's like tossing the football in the backyard with your son and then Tom Brady shows up.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (5aZAZ)

111 >>>They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.

lol

And the idiot dems made a video saying ignore illegal orders. Dumbasses. Trump is so far inside their OODA loop, he's causing them to voluntary commit massive unforced errors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (8SKzU)

112 some of the Spanish channels on YouTube are saying Maduro was a prisoner of the Cubans in his gilded palace. It is fun to hear that, though I suspect it was a bit more complicated than that.
If Felix had rolled up Che in Bolivia instead of Che getting shot, I suspect we would know lots more about Cuba's actions on the revolutionaries in South America.
This time we have Maduro who can't risk going home and apparently owes the Russians and the Chinese gobs of money. I doubt he is going to be a champ in this situation, though he may wind up not hanging himself.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (rbvCR)

113 It's like a tariff, but explodier.
Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (nhCoE)

—————

Snort!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (u73oe)

114 > donkey shows in Tijuana

I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (Yp6az)

115 But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet.

pretty sure the technology for that was demonstrated in the well-known documentary "the nude bomb".

Don't forget the technology demonstration platform in "Blue Thunder."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (lUFok)

116 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

No one's OD'ing on pot, at all, and it's locally grown and sourced in every state. And it's called "cannabis" these days. Oh, and it's not legal - just Sched III.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (KAi1n)

117 I read a science fiction book back in the 70s that claimed police used to use sonic weapons against rioters that would loosen their anal sphincter and make them have to take crap really bad. I've always wanted that to be true and I really think that is the weapon they used in Venezuela.

Posted by: JTSmith at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (xNlZg)

118 Not "directed energy". Simply subsonic (google "brown note"). Been known for decades.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (GSe6k)

119 Operation Rhianon
Posted by: ace

Oh, I love that singer.
Posted by: Every 20yr old influence on ShitTok at January 12, 2026 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

Bitch tried to kill us both, I had to do something!

Posted by: Chris Brown at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (TbWk/)

120 106 The last video is pretty wild. We should have more Delta Force types with crazy hardware and tech. And send them to Minnesota.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)

So an actual Federal Invasion.. I'm all in for that

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (VE6XX)

121 He had it re-scheduled.

==

tomato , tomahto

he made it legal

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (g47mK)

122 >>I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.

Think about how I feel.

Posted by: The Donkey at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (ZcsJV)

123 >>>The "witness" here is spouting the same kind of bushes Third Worlders always spout to cover their butts when they fail big time. No Delta Force team is going to carry a bulky sonic weapon into combat instead of a shotgun or rifle. That sounds like an Ahnuld movie.

i assume if it existed it would be a helicopter-mounted weapon

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)

124 > I know we have such a weapon. We tested on Mitch McConnell a couple times.

Which one? The bleed out your ears stun ray? Or the gay ray?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (Yp6az)

125 Was Airwolf supposed to be quiet or just invisible on radar?

We need Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine on this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

126 Is the surviving soldier named "Chuy?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)

127 "cannabis"..."edibles"..."Affordable Care Act"...

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (g47mK)

128 Holy gunboats batman, this is absolutely amazing planning. Cleaning house and letting loose the hounds of war is very, very good.

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (wLjpr)

129 Danish Embassy security is lacking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (9cHSL)

130 >>he made it legal

No, he didn't. There's a difference between rescheduling and legalizing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

131 >>Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.

I liked that guy...

Posted by: Donald Trump at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (ZcsJV)

132 125 Was Airwolf supposed to be quiet or just invisible on radar?

We need Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine on this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

Love the theme music to that show

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

133 >>>So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.

The price of coke as of last month had gone up 75% in Europe, according to some reports. There is a lot of coke use in Europe.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

134 I read a science fiction book back in the 70s that claimed police used to use sonic weapons against rioters that would loosen their anal sphincter and make them have to take crap really bad. I've always wanted that to be true and I really think that is the weapon they used in Venezuela.

Ah yes, "The Brown Note."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (lUFok)

135 I have been to Vegas a couple times and unless it has changed a lot in 20 years, I do not remember donkey shows on the strip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (zZu0s)

136 Sonic is a hedgehog.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (6Bc88)

137
Kudos, Ace.

Best breakdown of events I've seen yet.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)

138 >>he made it legal

No, he didn't. There's a difference between rescheduling and legalizing.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:49 PM

and Jack would know.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (jc0TO)

139 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

suicide is not a weapon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (k9/y/)

140 i assume if it existed it would be a helicopter-mounted weapon
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:48 PM (1wjle)
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"This is Big Duke Six. Initiate psyops. Start the music."

"Roger Big Duke Six."

*Ride of the Valkyries begins*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)

141 He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."

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I need to get a gig like this. Kick it in Caracas with CIA $$$, call in from to time and say "yep, it was empanadas, again. Also carnitas. Send more $$$."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (BI5O2)

142 There is a 2013 news story, with Scott Jennings, talking about these sound weapons. I didn't watch it and don't know if I can find it on X

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (+mUZM)

143 >>>The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.
I liked that guy...
Posted by: Donald Trump

hah, thank you for remembering

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (1wjle)

144 I can't stand walking around the Vegas strip because it's so trashy. I can't even imagine going somewhere I might happen across a freaking donkey show. I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2026 05:47 PM (Yp6az)

I question the reality of donkey shows. I know lots of people who claim to have known someone who went to one but it always sounded a bit like, "My gf attends a different school, you wouldn't know her."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

145 >>Roy Scheider (as a crazy Vietnam veteran, lol) and that one guy.

The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.

I liked that guy...
Posted by: Donald Trump at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM

He had to .... Rip it!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (jc0TO)

146 The price of coke as of last month had gone up 75% in Europe, according to some reports. There is a lot of coke use in Europe.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

Or drug dealers are like gas stations. Lol.

Wait...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

147 >>thank you for remembering

Seriously the funniest thing you ever wrote.

I still can't see Blackie Lawless without laughing out loud -

YOU WANNA ROCK!?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (ZcsJV)

148 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

149 Develop a nude bomb. There was a how to vid with Maxwell Smart

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (9ShUO)

150 what happened with Exxon ? what did they say to Trump in the oil exec meeting ? He did not like their proposal for Venezuela ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (g47mK)

151
The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.

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The guards were made to look like impotent bitches. If the story is fake, I could understand why he'd tell it.

(He looks pretty good for a guy who had his head homogenized with a super-weapon.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (VWtfl)

152 Smart Military Blog

Posted by: Ben Sears at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (3M71d)

153 Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.
Posted by: I used to have a different

There is a good joke / story out there comparing operations given to Marines. Rangers, Green Beanies. SEALs and Delta using their typical means and methods.

I do recall that first thing SF does is sets up it's "Club" then works on its fire base...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

154 "They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

You're a Venezuelan soldier.
If they didn't show up wearing t-shirts and flip-flops begging for money and food like the people you're usually fighting, then yeah, I guess you've never seen a real soldier coming your way before.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

155 No guarantees for Exxon. Risk averse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (9cHSL)

156 I also have some questions about the Venezuelan SAM trucks, there was supposedly 9 of them, and I saw images of what was supposed to be 5 of them still under cover in a garage or revetement, so apparently the Venezuelan army didn't think air defense was a big thing.
And that surprises me.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (rbvCR)

157 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Would that be where they gave them money and whores to vote in a pro-Cuba manner?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (ExV1e)

158 The spooks, DARPA, and golly knows who else have some pretty wacky stuff by now, I’d reckon. They were spending huge sums on electronic mind “jamming” synthetic telepathy,, mind reading etc in the 1950s. A lot of media stories in the 90s about “less than lethal” crowd control, area denial they termed it. Some sort of heat ray, that makes folks very eager to unass the AO. And the fabled “brown note”, some sort of device causing recipients to lose control of their bowels.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (tM8U8)

159 >>what happened with Exxon ?

I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela...not positive, but I recall reading that out of the large players they had the worst infrastructure available to deal with the dirty crude.

But don't quote me on that. It's just as likely they donated more heavily to Kamala and Biden.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (ZcsJV)

160 156 Usually they send SEALs when the goal is to just kill everything. Delta brought both of the targets back alive and uninjured.
Posted by: I used to have a different

I hope they send SEALS to Tehran

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 05:55 PM (gDlxJ)

161 @158 which is weird because they were really big in Venzuela, must have been burned bad when all assets got confiscated

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (g47mK)

162 Found it! Peter Doocey, not ScottJennings

https://tinyurl.com/3na7wt4j

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (+mUZM)

163 I question the reality of donkey shows. I know lots of people who claim to have known someone who went to one but it always sounded a bit like, "My gf attends a different school, you wouldn't know her."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

Many years ago they were supposed to be a specialty of Nuevo Laredo, a particularly grimy border town on the wrong side of the river from Laredo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (uWKK8)

164 157 "They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

You're a Venezuelan soldier.
If they didn't show up wearing t-shirts and flip-flops begging for money and food like the people you're usually fighting, then yeah, I guess you've never seen a real soldier coming your way before.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)
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Bros have never seen a squad of operators wearing panoramic NODs lol.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (5aZAZ)

165 hawkeyes would not be what is used for identifying ground targets
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (yt7Yo)
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Quiet, he's on a roll.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

166 I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela..

==

I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:56 PM (g47mK)

167 Once bitten twice shy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (9cHSL)

168 We were already overwhelmed. And then they brought the Yoko.
Posted by: A Venezuelan soldier at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

ZOMG! You mean ONT COBs were involved in this operation?! We are a smart military blog!

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (Fsyr3)

169 Do I think the account is real? 50/50.
Do I think we COULD do all that the poster suggested - yes.

I saw things 25 years ago that were jaw dropping...so I imagine with the growth of tech in 25 years, I'd probably see some equally jaw dropping things now.

Thing is, real or not, it doesn't actually matter. All that matters is what the world thinks we can do.

I think we could probably outfit this exact team exactly the way they said...but like the nuclear bombs in 1945, we only had enough for about this many people b/c this crap is pricey and still in testing...did we use it anyway - maybe.

And that's where I am with the story...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (tOcjL)

170 But they didn't use the mythical brown note?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 12, 2026 05:57 PM (8CIFn)

171 Also don't fuck with the 160th SOAR. You're gonna have a bad time.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (5aZAZ)

172 BlackHawks (and Apache) are strange. They are loud make no mistake.

But if the wind is going the right way, and they are behind a ridge, you won’t necessarily hear them. It is a little disturbing to see them pop up out of nowhere. At least if you’re a bad guy

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (tM8U8)

173 152 what happened with Exxon ? what did they say to Trump in the oil exec meeting ? He did not like their proposal for Venezuela ?
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:53 PM (g47mK)

I read a brief synopsis of the situation, and I think Exxon's point was that a whole lot of laws inside Venezuela need to be changed before they would trust investing there again, and no they're not gonna bet on it just because Trump says "You have my word on it!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (uWKK8)

174 >>I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude

I thought Citgo was the one operating with the most capacity out of Venezuela...but I am completely open to being mistaken on that.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (ZcsJV)

175 this is not even good propaganda, sheesh.
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:50 PM (yt7Yo)

it is a great story, but the written versions of it don't have any "foreign" feel, and the "translation" still sounds like it was composed in English instead of Spanish.
Then again, it could be a limited hangout, or panic, or the modern version of the German Southwest Africa Army meeting the Herrero warriors.

Still again, I can't find any source for this story in Spanish.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

176 I don't want to meet the kind of person who watches something like that and doesn't hate themselves afterward.
Posted by: bonhomme

Try watching "Cheaters". You have to take a shower and bath afterwards and you still feel dirty.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (Y8DZL)

177 Lonely P8 floating around.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (9cHSL)

178 you think hawkeyes are sigint and targeting planes? guess that explains the self publishing bit
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (yt7Yo)
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It's a reference to "Animal House," but thanks for the gratuitous ignorant insult.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)

179 I used to think drug trafficking and donkey shows were fake until I met my cousin Tamara.

Also, worst sign language translations of any live local theater event you'll attend. Hands down.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (KHoLd)

180 20th Anniversary Repost: "You're Fired": Donald Trump Grills the Dems on Why They Lost Their "Task"

https://tinyurl.com/4zk9thyz

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (jc0TO)

181 oh, yeah , Citgo

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (g47mK)

182 37 It's possible... When they're doing a roofing job around my neighborhood the Mexican om pa pa music makes my ears bleed...
Posted by: It's me donna

Here it's the landscapers playing the Mexican bagpipes for hours on end.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (abIsI)

183 178 BlackHawks (and Apache) are strange. They are loud make no mistake.

But if the wind is going the right way, and they are behind a ridge, you won’t necessarily hear them. It is a little disturbing to see them pop up out of nowhere. At least if you’re a bad guy
Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:58 PM (tM8U

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B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)

184 He didn't legalize pot.

He had it re-scheduled.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:46 PM (ZcsJV)

Cuz potheads are known for keeping schedules.

Waitaminute...

Posted by: pookysgirl has a family calendar app at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (Wt5PA)

185 Dope dealer savings time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (9cHSL)

186 I bet Vecna and the Mind Flayer are tied into this in some fashion.

Posted by: John Drake at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (GWvJt)

187 Cuz potheads are known for keeping schedules.

Waitaminute...
Posted by: pookysgirl has a family calendar app at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (Wt5PA)
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That's why they had to reschedule it. Again. And again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)

188 When you see the unit guys shoot and move in person you are stunned bye the speed. They are truly on another level, even compared to other ‘’top tier units”. This was the mission delta was made for and trains for, a small group assault and grab.

Posted by: Nevada Dave at January 12, 2026 06:01 PM (e61sa)

189 B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)
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When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

190 I would love for this to be true, but it could just be a Venezuelan security guards making up excuses for why they all failed so miserably. ‘Dude, the Yankees had Heechee shit, dude. It was like we were attacked by aliens from the future! Lasers and sonic weapons and mechanized power suits! We had no chance, dude.’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (WWsL/)

191 Well the Cubans used something like brain interference on Congressman if I remember correctly some yesrs ago
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)

The current official explanation is that was a microwave version of a LASER - MASER if you like.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (rbvCR)

192 Pot was a Schedule I, which means no medicinal purpose and addictive. Those qre not true and there's been attempts before to change the Schedule. That's all Trump did.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (+mUZM)

193 I question the reality of donkey shows.
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I can’t speak to that, but I have seen, um, dart shows & balloons, ping-pong balls and other feats of … vaginal …ah, dexterity. I’m not proud of it. It seemed like a good idea at the time

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (tM8U8)

194 A lot of pizza traffic at the Pentagon tonight

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (h/O4U)

195 All of this was for the benefit of China, which is now going completely insane with paranoia and impotent rage.

I think they are playing up the "insider/traitor" aspect to make Xi purge his inner circle even more aggressively and totally destabilize the CCP and PLA.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

196 If the Venezuelans could only have fashioned a rudimentary lathe.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (pDt9x)

197 >>I question the reality of donkey shows.

Oh, they are real.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (ZcsJV)

198 When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
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The only time I've seen one flying in person was at a sports event where one did a flyover, and I can assure you he was well below Mach 1. It was still wild.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

199 True or not, if Delta is on the the other side, you better have your affairs in order and your web browsing history cleared.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (vzcgi)

200 All you can do if you meet a Delta guy is hand him your wallet and your life. If your wife doesn't do it for you.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (KHoLd)

201 so is this what running away looks like?
I am aware of the reference, but it would not be appropriate were you not disgreeing. so, tell us about how the hawkeye does ground targeting and sigint now? you should share that with the Navy so they could get rid of elint and sigint aricraft
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (yt7Yo)
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Ignored.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

202 on one hand Trump is killing drug mules , on the other he legalized pot ?? logic ?
Posted by: runner

Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

203 b2s are now supersonic?
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (yt7Yo)
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Stop trying to date me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

204 O saw one at a football game. Not of this world.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (9cHSL)

205 196 I would love for this to be true, but it could just be a Venezuelan security guards making up excuses for why they all failed so miserably. ‘Dude, the Yankees had Heechee shit, dude. It was like we were attacked by aliens from the future! Lasers and sonic weapons and mechanized power suits! We had no chance, dude.’
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:02 PM (WWsL/)

I suspect that, BUT remember that in war Perception of ability is often more important than actual ability. Everyone in the hispanic world is reading that, and they may not be sure, but they're wondering - could it be true?
And if your enemy starts off thinking your soldiers are 10 foot tall supermen with invincible weapons, you've already won the battle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uWKK8)

206 Those sonic weapons have to be serious shit. I made the mistake of walking directly across and in front of a bass player's rig during a sound check one time. He was running a folded 18" speaker cabinet with a long throw 18" Cerwin-vega speaker. I don't even know what note he hit, but it immediately turned me into jello and dropped me to my knees, it was like being electrocuted without the voltage. I never experienced anything like that. It felt like I was going to melt into the floor.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (snZF9)

207 And all the tissues blew into the south america, where the women cried for weeks.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (ZRzmB)

208 O saw one at a football game. Not of this world.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (9cHSL)

Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (ExV1e)

209 The B-2 isn't even a supersonic-capable aircraft, to my knowledge....

Maybe try not to be such a know-it-all?

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (5aZAZ)

210 Chy-na has to be shitting itself over just how easily the US rolled over all that ChiCom air defense tech that they sold to Venezuela.

It wasn't like "Well, they won, but we gave them a tough fight!" More like "Holy shit, it was like we weren't even there..."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (IG3/x)

211 Pshaw. Amateurs!

Posted by: Linda Blair at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (DsA2n)

212 "They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room."

Trump said he got there but didn't get the door closed.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (vbXSk)

213 I suspect that, BUT remember that in war Perception of ability is often more important than actual ability. Everyone in the hispanic world is reading that, and they may not be sure, but they're wondering - could it be true?
And if your enemy starts off thinking your soldiers are 10 foot tall supermen with invincible weapons, you've already won the battle.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:05 PM (uWKK

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Quite the difference between promoting our Diverse, Gaia-loving Dept. of Defense and the Dept. of War with lasers and crap that can mind-melt you at any range.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (ZOv7s)

214 Another point to consider is, SOG uses the best night vision/xray gear. It can literally see through walls.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (abIsI)

215 Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)

216 217.
It was a Raider game.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (KHoLd)

217 I fucking hate Fleetwood Mac*.

*Not Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
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I'm sorry Garrett, but "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" is the equivalent of "Bill Parcel's New England Patriots". Yeah, "sure" Peter Green was in Fleetwood Mac, and "sure" there was something "there". But the New England Patriots are knows for the Brady/Belichick version, the same way that Fleetwood Mac *roared* when Buckingham/Nicks came to town.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

218 Well, I guess we won't hear any more from the New York Slimes about Trump's mental acuity, since he sat down with FOUR of their reporters for two hours of grilling today.

Four on one, two hours. Kamala would have finished a whole liter of vodka by that point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (s5hGr)

219 I was driving near the Goosenecks of the San Juan last spring, not too far from Monument valley and saw a C-130 (I think) flying below me in elevation down through the canyon. I double taked because it didn’t make a sound. I assume they had shut off the engines and were gliding, but I dunno. It was weird.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (tM8U8)

220 Redskin Game.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (9cHSL)

221 I don't think there is any chance that the directed energy weapon narrative is propaganda.

Just like I fully accept that hang-gliding Muslims were beheading infants.

By the way, I'm also retarded.

Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (JNrP3)

222 >>the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZcsJV)

223 The B-2 isn't even a supersonic-capable aircraft, to my knowledge....

Maybe try not to be such a know-it-all?
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (5aZAZ)
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I was replying to the general concept, not specific airframes.

Altitude is also helpful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)

224 225 Legalization to Schedule II or III allows it to be studied for possible medical benefits, ie, cancer patients being able to use THC for nausea and appetite stimulation vs Schedule I - drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:04 PM (u/kd+)

the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)

Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (pDt9x)

225 This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
_______________________________

Havana Syndrome, I believe is what they ended up calling it. It's fitting that the Cubans ended up on the receiving end this time around. What eventually became diagnosed as Havana Syndrome first reared it's ugly head in Cuba with a bunch of American and Canadian diplomats. Since then, China has been documented as using ultrasound weapons in India. And other occurrences have occurred in DC, Europe, and hotel rooms in the States.

I think it's a pretty good bet Russia was behind the Cuba incident (the first one). But, all major powers are playing with the concept now. Only, it looks like the US worked out the kinks, and using it on Cuban bodyguards was no accident. It was a billboard sized message.

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (dIske)

226 n, you are tedious nobody with a bad case of Main Character Syndrome. I changed my apparent mistake -- I guess it was a mistake; you could have told me the plane that would have been involved here, but you chose not to, to draw further attention to yourself -- and now you're just nibbling at AH Lloyd's ankles.

You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (1wjle)

227 Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?

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Are you a druggie or something ? sorry for your troubles dude; get help

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (g47mK)

228 I believe Exxon is the least able to handle the type of crude that comes out of Venezuela..

==

I think the opposite, they were one of the few dealing with that type of dirty crude
Posted by: runner

It was Exxon & PhillipsConoco

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (u/kd+)

229 You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (1wjle)

Thank God.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (g47mK)

230 195 B-2 Spirit is the same way. By the time you hear it, it's waaaay too late if you're a bad guy.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (5aZAZ)
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When you are traveling faster than sound, you will be gone before the sound gets there. Axiomatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The B-2 isn't supersonic. Back in the day it was rumored to be able to get into a jet stream, dial back on the engines and be stationary in relation to the ground.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (Y8DZL)

231
They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise.

My shop is about a block or so across the street from the airport, which also hosts an F15 Air National Guard squadron. The F35s from other units come in about 3-4 times a month and I can always tell when the F35s are here because they are a LOT louder than F15s.

The stealth stuff is really about radars and heat signature, not so much the sound.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (y9nCu)

232 You want attention? Here it is: You're banned. fuck off, aspergers jerkoff.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM

He was not ready to rock.

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

233 Oh, the air is so much better now!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (g47mK)

234 I was in court years ago when the B-2 named Spirit of New York flew out of Stewart Air Base and right over the building .It was very loud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (9ShUO)

235 nobody dates the self published

supersonic b2s?
Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:06 PM (yt7Yo)
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Well you certainly won't.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

236 The only time I've seen one flying in person was at a sports event where one did a flyover, and I can assure you he was well below Mach 1. It was still wild.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:03 PM (5aZAZ)

like several of the 29 year olds here, I grew up near an airbase before the sonic boom ban went into effect in the 60's. For us, it was the fighter base at Luke AFB north of Phoenix. They used to crack a couple sonic booms across the city every day at about 1 pm. We lived in a concrete block house at the time (Phoenix wasn't all uppity in the 60's, it was still post war housing mostly) and my mom was pissed, because she could point at a growing crack in the house over the main door that got a little bit worse each time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (uWKK8)

237 Every time a Stevie Nicks song comes on my dog tries to herd the radio.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (m/e4u)

238 The B2 seemed to be gliding as well, and then they fired up the engines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (9cHSL)

239 >>I'm sorry Garrett, but "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" is the equivalent of "Bill Parcel's New England Patriots". Yeah, "sure" Peter Green was in Fleetwood Mac, and "sure" there was something "there". But the New England Patriots are knows for the Brady/Belichick version, the same way that Fleetwood Mac *roared* when Buckingham/Nicks came to town.

If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

240 249 Every time a Stevie Nicks song comes on my dog tries to herd the radio.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:10 PM (m/e4u)

LOL Well said!

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (pDt9x)

241 Did you walk in on your mom blowing her Pot Dealer or something?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZcsJV)

Watching my grandmother and my step mom smoking pot out of my half-brother's stash was the second most embarrassing things I have ever witnessed.

The most embarrassing thing was watching my 68-YO step sister and my dad's 74 YO girlfriend feeling each other out to see who was holding. At the local diner.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

242 Somebody doesn't like high-speed ragtime songs on the piano.

Posted by: Madness. Reefer madness. at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (TbWk/)

243 Altitude is also helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H

Not always. -- PAT25

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (ExV1e)

244 >>He was not ready to rock.

LMAO

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (ZcsJV)

245 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:12 PM (pDt9x)

246 I like Fleetwood mac

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (VE6XX)

247 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

A grimy Mexican in a sombrero is yelling out (in english) Girls! Beer! Donkey Show! My buddy goes over to talk to him. My other buddy is uncertain. I am staring up at God literally say 'Why me?'

Buddy comes back over and Mexican whistles up a cab. Told my buddy it would take us to the donkey show. I told my buddy 'Ain't no fucking way I am getting in that cab.' We argued for a bit. I held my ground. I may have been drinking, but I wasn't that fucking stupid

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

248 For those following the incredible Goldie Ghamari's (and Armin's) channel, she got an invite to Piers Morgan's show! Good for her, but.. apparently Fat Yogurt (her words not mine!) is going to be there too (Cenk Uygur...)

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (g47mK)

249 P8 sightseeing in the Strait of Whoremoos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (9cHSL)

250 Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?
Posted by: tubal

They're also highly addictive.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (u/kd+)

251 My shop is about a block or so across the street from the airport, which also hosts an F15 Air National Guard squadron. The F35s from other units come in about 3-4 times a month and I can always tell when the F35s are here because they are a LOT louder than F15s.

The stealth stuff is really about radars and heat signature, not so much the sound.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:09 PM (y9nCu)
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I've heard F-16s, F-15s, A-10s and a bunch of heavies (there was a C-17 flying over my hotel at Ramstein and 0600), but had not heard an F-35 until the Kalamazoo airshow and WOW. Serious thunder and the things flips all over the place. Made the F-18s seem kinda quiet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

252 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

We haven't even talked about boobs yet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (lUFok)

253 holy cow, sharmuta is back, he discovered VPN

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (g47mK)

254 > I may have been drinking, but I wasn't that fucking stupid
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

Your good judgment is probably why you're still in possession of both your kidneys.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (IG3/x)

255 I was just talking with AlextheChick about nobodies on social media who exist to "correct" other people (usually incorrectly).

I mentioned the old tactic interrogators use of saying something wrong to compel a reticent subject to correct them. On the Sherlock show, he noted, "People don't want to tell you anything, but they love to contradict you."

n says I made a mistake by specifying Hawkeyes as involved in sigint collection. He could have actually provided a service by telling me which plane would be involved in that. He didn't. He didn't want to add to the discussion, just impress everyone with his Superior Knowledge, knowledge he would not share.

Anyway, I don't need his bullshit. No one does. There is a kind of person who lives on social media because no one in real life will have anything to do with them, and n is one of those nasty sperg antisocial retards.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)

256 I want to see a B2 pull a giant banner behind it that makes it look like a kid's kite.

That would freak some commies out.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (m/e4u)

257 262 Opiates and opioids work great, always have. And hi runner. How you doing?
Posted by: tubal

They're also highly addictive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:13 PM (u/kd+)

Well, there is that. But they work well.

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (pDt9x)

258 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)

259 Fighters doing low level circles might be a bit disconcerting. Like continuous Blue Angels sneaking in behind you at an airshow.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (cS1cw)

260 C5, Y5 now n.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (vzcgi)

261 >> the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.

I mean, we tried heroin.

Posted by: the dandy at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (8l8nW)

262 >>I read that as South Dakota.
>>I was like, damn, that's a drive.

You aren't the only one.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (ZcsJV)

263 I was replying to the general concept, not specific airframes.

Altitude is also helpful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)
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Uh, what? Why would you try to correct me when I specifically mentioned the airframe? At best it's a complete non-sequitur, and at worst you got caught trying to be a pedantic douche/

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (5aZAZ)

264 Wow. Some pretty crazy shit right there. No wonder the military grunts are so stoked.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (W2Pud)

265 Is someone using a bitch ray on us? Calm down, fellas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)

266 My Pioneer receiver and Altec Lansing speakers was a sonic weapon back in the day. Disoriented a few of the neighbors but I'm sure it didn't cause any nosebleeds.

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (IlL6s)

267 btw I just read an agatha christie novel (Mute Witness) in which Poirot uses this same tactic -- say something wrong to get a subject to tell you the right thing -- and it's from 1936. I had no idea this was such a well-known interrogation tool.

but you know, if you want full points, you're supposed to actually correct the person and give him the correct information, not just smugly say "You're wrong and I know what the right answer is but I'm not saying."

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (1wjle)

268 hey tubal ! happy New Year !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (g47mK)

269 AXIOMATIC

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (5aZAZ)

270 Isn't about time that we heard from a certain foul-mouthed time traveling sandwich? Or were those days just magic in a bottle?

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (jc0TO)

271 San Diego would seem more plausible.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (9cHSL)

272 After I eat a few bowls of Cajon beans and rice, I too have a sonic weapon that can take people out instantly.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Did you go to Tonypete's church on Sunday? Cause he mentioned a problem with someone stink trashing the bathroom...

Posted by: moki at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (wLjpr)

273 280 hey tubal ! happy New Year !
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (g47mK)

Happy New Year to you also, one of my favoritist people at the HQ!!! It’s gonna be a good one innit?

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

274 I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)
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YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-EEEE-COOOOOOOO?!!!

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (5aZAZ)

275 Anyway, I don't need his bullshit. No one does. There is a kind of person who lives on social media because no one in real life will have anything to do with them, and n is one of those nasty sperg antisocial retards.
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)
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Thanks for the top cover.

This is a free-form discussion, not a written final exam.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)

276 >>San Diego would seem more plausible.

Sure.

But your buddy's commitment to see a Donkey Show would somehow seem less impressive.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (ZcsJV)

277 I picked up a lot of Iranian swear words lately.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (g47mK)

278
But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

I wonder what happened to Bloomfield's burst?

Kirk Hammett owns Greenie now, and it's still making music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUI24ZZ4ksA

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (y9nCu)

279 This has got to be the tech we've been harnessing from the Transformers that we are hiding under the Hoover Dam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (XV/Pl)

280 San Diego would seem more plausible.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:16 PM (9cHSL)

It was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

281 If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made; 1. Mike Bloomfield, 2. Peter Green.

ALL other players who adopted the Burst did so because of the aforementioned players.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

I had a chance to play the greenie burst before kirk hammet ended up with it. At the time it was owned by the dude who got it from Gary Moore.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (snZF9)

282 281.

Bass-o- Mattic 》Axiomatic

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (m/e4u)

283 Does Delta Force have a directed energy weapon they're using in Minneapolis, that scrambles Leftists' wits and makes them spew diarrhea out the mouth?

Posted by: DaveL at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (9w232)

284 But your buddy's commitment to see a Donkey Show would somehow seem less impressive.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:18 PM (ZcsJV)

LOL. He was drunk off his ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

285 Uh, what? Why would you try to correct me when I specifically mentioned the airframe? At best it's a complete non-sequitur, and at worst you got caught trying to be a pedantic douche/
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (5aZAZ)
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Dude, I wasn't trying to correct you, I was replying to a comment on that theme and yours was closer.

That's all it was. Agreeing and adding something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)

286 the most advanced medicine on the planet can't find something for pain relief other than POT ? OKAY.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:07 PM (g47mK)
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There are "better: stimulants than caffeine and nicotine, but I'd rather be around someone who drinks coffee and smokes cigars than a meth addict. Maybe that's just me.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (5aZAZ)

287 Bomb percussion can do funny things depending on how it transmits though the structure of a building. It can make you bleed.

Nothing else is a surprise, except the Cuban mercs as palace guard -- so Maduro would send money and oil, and they would send mercs to protect him since he could trust no one else. It explains the money and oil sent to Cuba, which I never really understood.

And I thought the small boat campaign was obvious after we found out about the raid. It made me feel that all the noise over how it was unjustified suddenly sounded very foolish. (and it makes me wonder about the same effect over Greenland, or mabye Can.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (WkpGI)

288 If you would really like to sit through a dissertation on the influence of Peter Green on Modern Rock Guitar, I will gladly type it out and post it in the next week or so...

But, suffice it to say that there are 2 reasons the 1959 Les Paul is the most desirable solid body electric guitar ever made:
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Yes, and those two reasons are:

1) Gary Moore
2) Kirk Hammett.

Obviously I jest....a little. But the abject adoration that Peter Green gets for...what...3? years in Fleetwood Mac has floored me since the early '80s when hipsters and posers wanted to pretend that they were taking music "seriously". Green's version of FMac did "Well oh Well" and....crickets...and Lindsay Buckingham performed the song better live when he joined the band.

Sorry, I can get onboard with pretty much every single echo of a note that Jimmy Page played on Led Zeppelin I, so its not a question of "age" or "time period". But I'd rather hear Bob Welch Fleetwood Mac on shuffle than Peter Green Fleetwood Mac on shuffle.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TN0g+)

289
Panama 1989, the US used rock music to terrify the enemy.

I didn't know about that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (Jxa0O)

290 THe video on how it happened is partially flawed.

No C-17 can take off from the USS Iwo Jima.
Madero was taken to Guantanamo Bay, then flown to the US. And I thought he went to NYC, not Miami. He landed in NY State.

So two major flaws. So far.

Plus the overhead pictures show he was taken from his hideaway site inside a military base, not the Palace. The damage seen in the shots is consistent with this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (u82oZ)

291 Wait the CIA was on our side for this one? Funny old world.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wBaIH)

292 Scanners was a documentary!

Wake up, people!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (dGCAG)

293 276 Wow. Some pretty crazy shit right there. No wonder the military grunts are so stoked.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I think the main reason they're stoked is that military leadership is back on the menu. There is a razors edge on the weapon again.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (vzcgi)

294 Listen, America is a hyperpower, I would expect a hyperpower to have some nifty James Bondian Tech.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (XV/Pl)

295 295 Does Delta Force have a directed energy weapon they're using in Minneapolis, that scrambles Leftists' wits and makes them spew diarrhea out the mouth?
Posted by: DaveL at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (9w232)

Nah they do that all on their own.

Posted by: They leared real good at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TbWk/)

296 Dude, I wasn't trying to correct you, I was replying to a comment on that theme and yours was closer.

That's all it was. Agreeing and adding something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:19 PM (ZOv7s)
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Cool fair enough. Hatchet buried. Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (5aZAZ)

297 'Muadib' is a killing word.

Posted by: Stilgar at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (Q+gd/)

298 I was in charge of a oil rig near the Oklahoma panhandle when a B-1 bomber buzzed our derrick.

It was certainly sub-sonic, but the roar and the view of the plane arrived nearly simultaneously.

The tower man was massively startled and missed the elevators (tubing clamps).

I believe that derrick was 93' high. The plane definitely banked around our position. I suspect their radar hit on something in their training area that was not "supposed" to be there, so they performed a safety check.

I did NOT have to clean out my underwear afterwards ... so I thought it was an awesome encounter!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (HlyYF)

299 257 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.
Posted by: tubal

Prometheus reference in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (Y8DZL)

300 Wait the CIA was on our side for this one? Funny old world.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (wBaIH)

I know, weird!

They stopped taking shots at presidential candidates, and/or Kennedys long enough to do something that was in their job description.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 12, 2026 06:21 PM (dGCAG)

301 >>Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Clearly, you aren't a Jets fan. It's a 4 quarter donkey show.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (viF8m)

302 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

303 >>I wonder what happened to Bloomfield's burst?

Bloomfield left it with a Club Owner in BC sometime right before his death.
He was scheduled to play 4 nights?, maybe...bailed after the 1st night. When the Club Owner finally tracked him down he was back home in San Francisco. Said he 'Didn't like the scene there' and it is reported he wanted to go home and watch TV. Though that last bit might just be an off-hand comment taken out of context.
Anyway, Bloomfield had been paid up front for the Gig and told the Club Owner to sell off his gear to get his money back.
The guitars and amp were sold. The Burst going to a semi-pro player in Canada who later sold it on and it has since been off the radar.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (ZcsJV)

304 Happy New Year to you also, one of my favoritist people at the HQ!!! It’s gonna be a good one innit?
Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)

Of course I am, I mean look at these potheads in here...anyway, I think 2026 is going to be better than 2009 !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (g47mK)

305 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

306 Listening to Minnesota AG Ellison say "arbitrary and capricious" at the lawsuit presser reminded me of Jackie Childs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (9ShUO)

307 >>Why would they have a donkey show at a football game?

Clearly, you aren't a Jets fan. It's a 4 quarter donkey show.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

Please.

Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

308 And I thought the small boat campaign was obvious after we found out about the raid. It made me feel that all the noise over how it was unjustified suddenly sounded very foolish. (and it makes me wonder about the same effect over Greenland, or mabye Can.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (WkpGI)
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Like in so many other cases, Trump was doing many things at once. Zapping the drug boats also flushed out the fake international law types who want to keep failing because reasons.

Blowing up boats also contrasted with the PLAN using naval militia and water cannon. Just so much goodness.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

309 We have covered pretty much everything on this thread Ace.

We haven't even talked about boobs yet.
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I was late getting here--did we cover Star Trek yet?

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TN0g+)

310 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

Mmm...crab dip

Posted by: Authentic Sioux recipe at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TbWk/)

311 The Burst going to a semi-pro player in Canada who later sold it on and it has since been off the radar.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (ZcsJV)

Good chance it's sitting in either dirk ziff's or joe bonamasshole's vault.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (snZF9)

312 319 Listening to Minnesota AG Ellison say "arbitrary and capricious" at the lawsuit presser reminded me of Jackie Childs
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (9ShUO)

Yeah upholding Federal Immigration law is "arbitrary and capricious. ".

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (VE6XX)

313 But the tech we have must be cobbled together from other tech items as the US doesn't manufacture much tech anymore.

I know there are US based electronics companies that build boards and circuts for the US military but the we don't manufacture the sub-components.

Maybe we do really Macgyver sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XV/Pl)

314 >>Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM (TN0g+)

It's not my opinion.

It's the words of the players like Page, Clapton, Beck, et al.

You want to know whose sound they were chasing?

In their words, it was Peter Green and Mike Bloomfield (w/Mayall on their European Tour).

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (ZcsJV)

315 > Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding
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A lot like a 70's Nugent concert then?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (NwnyJ)

316 Most of those spic Cubans and Vezuzus smoke the weed 24/7 so most likely were high as a kite when they turned into pink mist.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Sgt. Rock at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (R/m4+)

317 n

The platform that is not mentioned, but did the heavy lifting on SIGINT is the EA - 18 G Growler.

But there are two to three other USN abilities that also factor into that. OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (u82oZ)

318 The DOJ filed an order with one of the clown judges, I think it's Bonerburger, that "facts on the ground have changed."

Or, less politely:
See here you stupid fuck? The Dept. of War is doing shit you're too fucking stupid to even think about. So when you wrote your silly order telling the President what to do because you knew what was going on? You were just farting sonnets out of your ass, weren't you?
Go back to sniffing your own farts like the retard you are.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (HXT0k)

319 On Led Zeppelin I Page played the Telecaster Jeff Beck gave him.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (Q+gd/)

320 Only secret weapon was our special forces held off until "after" combat operations to I'm imbibe in a healthy dose of Cuba Libres', lol

Posted by: Matthew at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (OdsgZ)

321 >>Good chance it's sitting in either dirk ziff's or joe bonamasshole's vault.

Nope.

Ziff doesn't buy Pro Player Guitars.

Bonamasshole only plays guitars he can buy at a discount and then flip for a profit. A man after my own heart that way.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (ZcsJV)

322 I think someday we might see a certain irony in using focused sound as a weapon. As the ability to target and calibrate gets ever more controllable, it would not surprise me if focused sound becomes a more instrumental form of medicine beyond your usual Ultrasound equipment.

Imagine if you could calibrate and focus sound to destroy cancer cells and nothing else within a body. The same with viruses or bacteria. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments don't discriminate, and destroy other facets of the body. As they stand, they are barbaric. Sound offers a more precise and discriminating option.

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (dIske)

323 The most embarrassing thing was watching my 68-YO step sister and my dad's 74 YO girlfriend feeling each other out to see who was holding. At the local diner.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

Is your true name Ricky Bobby?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (QkvGw)

324 Lets smoke'm peace pipe. *Calls JackStraw*
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:20 PM

That's cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

Mmm...crab dip
Posted by: Authentic Sioux recipe at January 12, 2026 06:23 PM (TbWk/)
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Stolen from our ancestors, many years ago!

Posted by: Calypso Louis at January 12, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)

325 OT: Kammie Ha-Ha was in town today to swear in Helena Moreno (who once interned for HRC) as our new mayor here. All I can say is, she may be a Dem and a major lefty (redundant, I know) -- but at least she's attractive and we won't have to look at that frog-faced former mayor any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

326 You guys are telling me Hawkeye can’t do signals intel? Dudes, he can fight aliens invading earth with just a bow and arrow.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (WWsL/)

327 "I was late getting here--did we cover Star Trek yet?"

Star Trek sucks Vegas donkey balls.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (G+z4C)

328 A lot of war is bullshitting your enemy. More than half.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (xvV+O)

329 How?
Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:22 PM

How!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren (D-MA) at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (0sNs1)

330 I remember norman spinrad in russian spring demonstrate such a weapon

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 12, 2026 06:27 PM (bXbFr)

331 Dr. Krueger invented the weapon years ago.

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (YGRGv)

332 It's not my opinion.

It's the words of the players like Page, Clapton, Beck, et al.

You want to know whose sound they were chasing?

In their words, it was Peter Green and Mike Bloomfield (w/Mayall on their European Tour).
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"Tone" is the sound a guitar, strings, pickups, pedals, and amp make when all of their settings are in place. Those monumental greats could have *indeed* been chasing Green's "tone". But not his playing per se. He wasn't in the same league of player as those chasing his "tone".

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

333 Nope.

Ziff doesn't buy Pro Player Guitars.

Bonamasshole only plays guitars he can buy at a discount and then flip for a profit. A man after my own heart that way.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:25 PM (ZcsJV)

I'm too much of a guitar horder. I buy, I keep. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (snZF9)

334 >>On Led Zeppelin I Page played the Telecaster Jeff Beck gave him.

Yep. I believe that was originally a 59 White Guard.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (ZcsJV)

335 Mark Knopfler may own that guitar now. He is quiet about it, but the dude has a lot of gitars.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (m/e4u)

336 But the tech we have must be cobbled together from other tech items as the US doesn't manufacture much tech anymore.

I know there are US based electronics companies that build boards and circuts for the US military but the we don't manufacture the sub-components.

Maybe we do really Macgyver sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 06:24 PM (XV/Pl)
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Honestly we do more than is let on, and for good reason. Yes we do buy a lot of components that might have completely innocuous uses and we MacGyver them into things that will F up our enemies. My best gal is in the semiconductor industry and she's like "Yeah, we sell a lot of stuff that go into things used once and once only." and can't say any more. Suffice to say that the chip in your car that makes the adaptive cruise control work also makes certain other radar-enabled things work too.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:28 PM (5aZAZ)

337 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YlWIZ)

338 Krieger

Auto cucumber

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YGRGv)

339 Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, just to make an arrest.

I would think that was part of a greater plan to evict Cuba, China, and Russia from Venezuela. The blockades also reduced the money coming in to pay all the criminal henchmen. It seems obvious that many were compromised - how else could Trump be talking about running the place, without having actually taken it over, militarily?

I really don't doubt that such a weapon exists. Haven't we heard about a similar thing - a microwave weapon - that has been used on crowds in certain places in the world?

What slipped right under everybody's noses was basically the weapon from the movie "Real Genius" that was apparently used in the Xmas eve incident in Nashville in 2020. Did anybody really believe that some guy just happened to park in front of the service entrance to one of the 8 top telecommunications hubs in the US, to blow himself up? A security camera maybe a mile away recorded a beam of light extending up into the clouds, when the explosion happened. Undoubtedly, that truck was loaded with Special Forces operators (who did their thing and left within a few hours of arriving), not explosives.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (hOOi9)

340 NaCly, respectfully, don't talk to banned trolls, they might follow you home

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (g47mK)

341 Probably lose 47 his Nobel Dynamite Prize.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (YlWIZ)

342 A lot of war is bullshitting your enemy. More than half.
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Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: inflatable tanks at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

343 Knock off the Qatar agent Tucker Carlson crap. Makes you sound like Hillary on her rag a long, long time ago.

Posted by: Jerry Carroll at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM (RRQTN)

344 >>I'm too much of a guitar horder. I buy, I keep. lol

Sure. But if you nabbed a Burst for 50K (back when you could)...and it wasn't a particularly good one, odds are you would jump all over the first 300k offer you got.

I mean. How could you not?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ZcsJV)

345 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM

So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

346 Guys! I got this, Cucker is the 12th Imam! They never said he will come from the East !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (g47mK)

347 I for one am glad the military is finally making use of the alien technology they recovered from Roswell

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (REq0p)

348 "Imagine if you could calibrate and focus sound to destroy cancer cells and nothing else within a body"

Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

349 359 It made them synchronize their menstrual periods.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:29 PM

So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

The transwomen will sweep the medals.

Posted by: Sorry it's transgold at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (TbWk/)

350 Sadly, it wasn't the Brown Note weapon of legend.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (BRvvM)

351 N does not appear to be banned yet. ace is usually a gentler hand on the hammer than most.

You have to be a major league c*nt to catch a ban from him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

352 Tucker Carlson has been read on the Senate floor, guys!

Posted by: toby928(c) Person of Plaint at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

353 Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

They used something like that to blow up my kidney stone

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

354 SPEAKERS, ..........tonewood"

".......my 1960 burst came from the middle of an ancient mahogany!!!" (facepalm)

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (IlL6s)

355
I can't wait to see how fey the carrier U.S.S. Barack Hussein Obama will be.

Cabin boys or girls all around! Games of "Who dropped the soap?" in the communal showers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (XeTAE)

356 fuck of sharmuta, you are banned , begone, go to TCN

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (g47mK)

357 It's also worth noting that while an alleged sonic weapon was used against the US embassy in Cuba (IIRC), the soldiers attacked with this supposed US sonic weapon were ... Cuban.

Isn't it Trump who's famous for hitting back at people - ten times harder?

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (hOOi9)

358
I did NOT have to clean out my underwear afterwards ... so I thought it was an awesome encounter!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Missed the streak... by that much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (k9/y/)

359 Blowing up boats also contrasted with the PLAN using naval militia and water cannon. Just so much goodness.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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Yes, but PLAN is attacking military and fishing vessels on the vessels home territory, not smugglers in international waters.

I am more interested if there is some complex knock-on effect of drug money getting scarce in Europe (my understanding is that most of the drugs were coke on its way to Europe.) Maybe he is putting pressure on the corruption there.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WkpGI)

360 Apparently, the Chyna radar systems were made out of Chynesium.

Posted by: no one at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (qFwJc)

361 N does not appear to be banned yet.

They're using a VPN. The hash changed. Some folks just can't take a hint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

362 So has Dr. Seuss.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (9cHSL)

363 Speakers, pickups> tonewood

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (IlL6s)

364 Knock off the Qatar agent Tucker Carlson crap.
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Tucker earns the grief he gets here.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

365 Really competent shooters can go through surprised people like shit through a goose. With modern optics, they will hit with every (semi-auto) shot. So yeah, 20 guys can really stack bodies.

We know the soviets have a sonic weapon they've used against GITMO. So not shocking if we have the same thing, sounds like a greatly improved flash/bang weapon rather than a gun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (xcxpd)

366 369 Focused ultrasound is being used to treat Parkinson's tremors.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

They used something like that to blow up my kidney stone
Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

Shock wave lithotripsy. Pretty cool stuff.

Posted by: Get in the tank and rock! at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

367 he was banned, but the banhammer software has not internalized his VPN yet

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (g47mK)

368
You call it Maize. We call it corn.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (Y8DZL)

369 Everybody is entitled to their own opinions when it comes to scheduling marijuana, of course, but I'm certain somebody with cancer could care less what you think of their habits, or what makes them feel better even if only slightly.

As for getting good pain medication in lieu of weed, thanks to the OxyContin epidemic it's extremely difficult to get a prescription for opioids these days for most people.

And besides, it's not just about some mild pain relief, cannabis has been shown to help with the nausea cancer patients experience during chemo and other procedures.

This all reminds me of my uncle, who was one of those victims of OxyContin (got his first prescription after a major truck accident in the late 90s) who turned into a heroin addict to get his fix a decade or so later after it proved impossible to get Oxy any longer.

The man was dying of lung cancer, had only a few months to live, and the people around him were complaining that he had a friend come by and hook him up for his last fixes while on his deathbed.

Seriously, at that point, what difference does it make?
You think the dying person cares whether their "relief" is legal, or approved by you personally?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)

370
The Nightstalkers used modified Chinooks

Should have used Kolchaks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (pkeXY)

371 The B2 seemed to be gliding as well, and then they fired up the engines.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:11 PM (9cHSL)

Got to do that once for an airshow in the KC-135R. Maxed out 250 knots approaching the air field, pull the throttles to idle as you get to the runway and swoosh on by almost silent. Pull back at the end of the runway and climb out until you reach just above stall speed and push the engines back up. Those high-bypass engines were just a whisper as we went by the crowd 100 feet off the deck. Only way you can impress people, really, in what's essentially a 707, unless you can get them in the air and show them a refueling.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (JJOjf)

372
So, synchronized parallel parking is the next Olympic sport?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Synchronized sammich making!

"Let's get a move on there, team!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (XeTAE)

373 385
You call it Maize. We call it corn.
Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (Y8DZL)

I call it a labyrinth

Posted by: Theseus at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (TbWk/)

374 Yes, but PLAN is attacking military and fishing vessels on the vessels home territory, not smugglers in international waters.

I am more interested if there is some complex knock-on effect of drug money getting scarce in Europe (my understanding is that most of the drugs were coke on its way to Europe.) Maybe he is putting pressure on the corruption there.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (WkpGI)
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It's kind of an all-of-the-above approach. Multiple wins.

I'm aware that PLAN is mostly jerking the chain of the coast guard, but letting it be known that the US will not flinch from lethal force is important.

Posted by: Calypso Louis at January 12, 2026 06:35 PM (ZOv7s)

375 FAFO m'fkrs

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

376 There are a lot of tales of where the Bloomfield is and who has had a chance to buy it over the years.

None have been confirmed. Mostly just people claiming the guitar was offered to them. But no new photos have surfaced of it, other than one photo of a luthier who claimed to have a customer come in wanting a refret on it.
Somehow, he snuck a shot of it and it ended up in a back issue of Vintage Guitar.

I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy, and he claimed he had Bloomfield's LP. But when I drilled him on it, it turned out to be the 54 Goldtop he (Bloomfield) had traded for the Burst.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (ZcsJV)

377 Ultrasound is also being used to make boners harder.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (5aZAZ)

378 Posted by: n at January 12, 2026 06:34 PM (4zAgI)

Tbf, man you can be more than a bit annoying. I am not a huge fan of runner either, but you miffed ace, who is usually fairly laid back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

379 ***Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:
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It also give the brave surviving soldadoes some dignity cover which they will appreciate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (ZwdAr)

380 I am not a huge fan of runner

==

oh, I am sad, stranger on the internet

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (g47mK)

381 I found a womens olympic video on YouTube. They had ironing, clothes folding, and vaccuming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (9cHSL)

382 Trump has a definite style. He is not afraid of risk, but he seems to really savor the risk of public condemnation.

Past presidents are terrified of risk and so they telegraph everything they plan to do and check to see if it will be poorly received. Then they do the least risky operation as if our adversaries could start a war against us if we step over some line. Trump just blows shit up.

All his risk though is in the public relations side of things. He DGAF and it is glorious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (WkpGI)

383 >>".......my 1960 burst came from the middle of an ancient mahogany!!!" (facepalm)
Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:32 PM (IlL6s)

But, does it have the 59 or the 60 Neck Carve?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:37 PM (ZcsJV)

384 It's all an op to fleece you at every opportunity. We can't access your digital shit if you're dead.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (BSdIE)

385 it was never a secret, not even when I attended momes or hosted the vegas mome, so you have not figured something out there.
Posted by: n

That was a reference to your puss filled little cyst getting banned by a COB. This time it was the boss. I've been around long enough to witness the trifecta. I don't give a damn what you've done. You've never reached moron status. The boss nailed it. I bet even your keyboard can't stand you.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (vzcgi)

386 Sure. But if you nabbed a Burst for 50K (back when you could)...and it wasn't a particularly good one, odds are you would jump all over the first 300k offer you got.

I mean. How could you not?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:30 PM (ZcsJV)

Yeah in that case it would leave vapor trails.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 06:38 PM (snZF9)

387 I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy, and he claimed he had Bloomfield's LP. But when I drilled him on it, it turned out to be the 54 Goldtop he (Bloomfield) had traded for the Burst.

Posted by: garrett
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So, Santana proves once again that not only on stage but IRL that he's lacking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:39 PM (ZwdAr)

388 Ultrasound is also being used to make boners harder.
Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 06:36 PM (5aZAZ)
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If actual perps in the FBI and Russiagate get jail, the schadenboners here will require immediate medical treatment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2026 06:39 PM (ZOv7s)

389 Fort Smith is an F35 training center, and the Lightning is certainly one loud aircraft. The Polish Air Force just finished a training cycle, and as they grew more proficient there was a lot of "hold my beer" low level stuff going on. Now hosting the Finnish AF.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (gm9Sb)

390 2 and 3 are the same thing, no?

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (kgFPv)

391
Sadly, it wasn't the Brown Note weapon of legend.
Posted by: Sharkman

Sounds like the snot note.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (pkeXY)

392
I'd present my list of posters I'm disappointed in, but my name's on the top.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (Y8DZL)

393 Generalissimo Guinea Puerco reporting for duty!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 12, 2026 06:40 PM (YlWIZ)

394 @390 garrett-same thickness as Pages shaved 59'

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (IlL6s)

395 >>So, Santana proves once again that not only on stage but IRL that he's lacking.

You didn't hear it from me...but, he's kind of a douche.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ZcsJV)

396 Nood. Nick Shirley.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (ExV1e)

397 I talked to Carlos Santana once, about a Dumble he wanted to buy....
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A question and a comment: Have you ever played thru a Dumble? I haven't. I've read that since they were individually built that there sound can be all over the place because there wasn't a set of "specs" that they were chasing?

Comment: I've never gotten people's fascination with Santana. I've heard others describe his in-concert experience thusly: "You can tell he *wants* to play fast...without actually acquiring the skills needed to actually play fast. It gets old...quickly."

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:41 PM (TN0g+)

398
Kids' hockey brawl at Hershey, PA this weekend:

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/01/10/
video-of-wild-hockey-fight-between-youth-
players-during-ahl-intermission-goes-viral/

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (XeTAE)

399 About... 29 years ago a couple buddies and I went on a road trip. My car. We were staying in SD and decided to go to Tijuana for the night.

I read that as South Dakota.
I was like, damn, that's a drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 06:15 PM (u/kd+)

So I wasn't the only one.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (b3PBu)

400 Scrolling through the comments, it seems the consensus is that the sonic power of Mike Bloomfield's Burst will confuse and then subdue America's enemies. And if they doubt it, well FAFO.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (0bjKf)

401 The Brits were fascinated by American blues. I've always found it kinda tedious. I like Kiln House and Bare Trees but don't care much for the Peter Greene era. Do like later day FM although I wasn't much of a fan at the time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (+mUZM)

402 >>garrett-same thickness as Pages shaved 59'

I saw that guitar when it was at the PRS Factory in 1987-8. He sent it in to get the neck duplicarved for the PRS he used on Outrider.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:42 PM (ZcsJV)

403 People are now making AI South Park episodes that are much funnier than what's actually being shat out of Colorado nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LQD-_Cq5O8o

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2026 06:43 PM (hI/De)

404 >>A question and a comment: Have you ever played thru a Dumble? I haven't. I've read that since they were individually built that there sound can be all over the place because there wasn't a set of "specs" that they were chasing?

3 of them.

The aforementioned Santana 'Dumble' and 2-One off Models of the Steel String Singer.

All of them were really fucking impressive amps.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (ZcsJV)

405 Tehran is out of food. Shoot to kill curfew after 8 pm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (9cHSL)

406 There are reports of the soldiers wearing special armor and protective gear.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:44 PM (tV890)

407 I saw a reference the Growler.
Loudest jet I ever heard was the Prowler. What, an extended A6?

Posted by: MkY at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (q6tQZ)

408 Though, I would not pay what any of them went for.
They bring crazy money.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 06:45 PM (ZcsJV)

409 Now hosting the Finnish AF.
Posted by: bill
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Crap. All I got were Jordanian officers training on C-130's at Dobbins AFB. I have to admit that watching them practice short field landings on the rough between the runways was entertaining.

I never was certain that they weren't reversing the props before touchdown.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (XeU6L)

410 I saw that guitar when it was at the PRS Factory in 1987-8. He sent it in to get the neck duplicarved for the PRS he used on Outrider.
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I was a huge Page fan back at the time. And I thought the Outrider album was a missed opportunity. He should have picked a singer and tried to cultivate a "sound" out of the experience. Perhaps it could have been more than a 1-off if he had done so. But I had also recently seen him perform live with "The Firm" and I realized that the Jimmy Page that played on Led Zeppelin I wasn't really available any longer.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

411 @410 garrett-yeah he was playing a PRS in Reno where he beefed it off the front of the stage drunk as a skunk. The Firm tour

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 06:46 PM (IlL6s)

412 There is a third reason for all of this: FEAR. Displaying this type of technical advancement and sophistication puts all the bad guys on notice. It's just a subtle flex - in a fight the U.S, can bring things to bear you can't even imagine.

Meanwhile in Russai they are covering tanks with garbage to prevent them from getting killed by $50 drones.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (tV890)

413 It gets old...quickly."
Posted by: Crusader
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He parleyed one popular album into a career.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 12, 2026 06:48 PM (ZwdAr)

414 Future wars are going to happen faster than a human can adjust.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (tV890)

415 The 160th Aviation Regiment, Night Stalkers, Blackhawk helicopters do have specially developed blades. They are not totally quiet but considerably muted compared to the normal issue chpper blade. I would imagine that their CH 47 also have the same technology.
Thank God for our Special Opns.

Posted by: Sergeant Major at January 12, 2026 06:49 PM (uJZXh)

416 365 Really competent shooters can go through surprised people like shit through a goose. With modern optics, they will hit with every (semi-auto) shot. So yeah, 20 guys can really stack bodies.

The best thing - practice. These guys are shooting at the range every day and twice on Sunday. For years. You don't go on this mission unless you are a top-notch shooter. Couple that with advanced optics, tactics, and excellent guns - unstoppable.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:54 PM (tV890)

417
Those YouTube videos are great. Watch the content!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 06:55 PM (Jxa0O)

418 How can the federal government "invade" and U.S. state?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 12, 2026 06:57 PM (tV890)

419 Obviously I have no idea. Do I hope this tale is true? Yes, I do. I want the world to fear the US military.

A few years ago I remember reading about the Rod of God and other weapons...the ones they admitted to having. Now there are probably more weapons with power unheard of and less collateral damage to others.

I read of one targeting one man in a busy, populated market somewhere in the ME. He was there and then he was pink mist. No other damage. Just here one minute and vaporized the next.

Therefore I believe this Clancy novel.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (WONhk)

420 I wish the news and CIA analysts and military analysts would STOP broadcasting and showing HOW we tend to pull off military strikes as then they will be ready the next time and our guys will DIE. Make the enemy "do the hard work" of figuring this shit out on THEIR OWN DIME. Need to enact WWII Loose Lips type SHUTTIN' YER YAPPER!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (LKMDZ)

421 357 It's also worth noting that while an alleged sonic weapon was used against the US embassy in Cuba (IIRC), the soldiers attacked with this supposed US sonic weapon were ... Cuban.

Isn't it Trump who's famous for hitting back at people - ten times harder?
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 06:33 PM (hOOi9)

Great catch!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 07:09 PM (WONhk)

422 420 I wish the news and CIA analysts and military analysts would STOP broadcasting and showing HOW we tend to pull off military strikes as then they will be ready the next time and our guys will DIE. Make the enemy "do the hard work" of figuring this shit out on THEIR OWN DIME. Need to enact WWII Loose Lips type SHUTTIN' YER YAPPER!
Posted by: Donovan Nuera at January 12, 2026 07:06 PM (LKMDZ)

In this case, it seems pretty obvious that the intention is to scare the hell out of our enemies to get them to surrender without having to actually do that fighting. Such disclosures are literally a weapon unto themselves.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 07:12 PM (hOOi9)

423 ...I read of one targeting one man in a busy, populated market somewhere in the ME. He was there and then he was pink mist. No other damage. Just here one minute and vaporized the next.

Therefore I believe this Clancy novel.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 12, 2026 06:58 PM (WONhk)

Can that possibly be true? That's really just scary, no matter who has their hands on it. Weapon technology usually gets into the hands of everybody over time, and out own government doesn't always behave itself.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 07:14 PM (hOOi9)

424 Re Santana,

Check out " Love Devotion and Surrender"

You can hear him and John McLaughlin duke it out.

BTW, that alblum has one of the finest intros ever in Fusion on "A Love Supreme", Billy Cobham absolutely rips his kit. Gives me goosebumps even thinking about it.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 07:21 PM (rbIOb)

425 re: Red Storm Rising...

I was an engineer in Lockheed Skunk Works, when a hard copy of a book chapter, with a title 'The Frisbees of Dreamland' circulated among us. The book, Red Storm Rising had not been published yet. We had no idea where it had come from, or what it was for.

So, somebody had made sure that chapter was given to the Skunk Works ahead of time, probably to make sure it didn't tread too far.

Tom Clancy had authentic industry help, no question.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at January 12, 2026 07:27 PM (9oOM2)

426 ᐱᖑᐃᓐ ᐊᕿᔨ

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

427 Holy crap it worked.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

428 144 >>>The one who lived on the Boat with the Robot.
I liked that guy...
Posted by: Donald Trump

hah, thank you for remembering

That was another private eye show, I think? Riptide? Joe Penny was one of the actors...other dude...Perry something? I could google but i'm supposed to be working...

Posted by: Nelly at January 12, 2026 08:07 PM (7gpcF)

429 It's better not to show your hand.

Posted by: PG at January 12, 2026 08:51 PM (pk5S4)

430 I sent this link to jj over the weekend.

My first thoughts were that the Military FINALLY decided to use the LRAD (https://tinyurl.com/yvwmcdzh) or especially the ADS (https://tinyurl.com/f5b3uhrm) in a Military role instead of civilian crowd control.

Sorry, my Link-Fu is sadly missing tonight.

My guess, since both these technologies existed as demonstrated in the early 2000's, that further advancements should have happened since then.

If one thinks this is fantasy, check the videos above, with live tests on humans at the low range of the instruments.

Posted by: TXMarko at January 12, 2026 08:57 PM (7flhA)

431 >Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.

I'm sorry, but the F-35 does not have 'sonic stealth' - they are crazy loud all the time. There is no 'slider' where you can vary engine noise like that. The F-36B is an order of magnitude louder than the Harrier it replaced and the C model is as loud as an F-14.

Normally that is not an issue - if you don't live near the airfield (like I do) or work on a carrier - because they're not intended to be down low much anyway.

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Posted by: Home Profit at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (osZ7U)

Under Pressure by Judicial Watch Lawsuit, Oregon Finally Agrees to Remove 800,000 Ineligible/Fake/Dead Names from Their Voting Rolls
Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out

Gee, why would it take a lawsuit to force this?

Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months.
Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read, in a press release Friday, outlined two new directives he said will "restart" the "routine cleanup of outdated, inactive voter registration records" in accordance with state law to address the roughly 800,000 inactive voter records that are being maintained by election officials.
The first directive orders counties to immediately cancel long-inactive voter registrations that already met the legal requirements for removal before 2017. These are registrations where election mail was returned as undeliverable, voters failed to respond to official notices, and they did not participate in multiple federal elections. State officials estimate roughly 160,000 registrations fall into this category and should have been removed years ago.
The second directive changes how the state handles inactive voters going forward. It updates the language on voter confirmation cards to clearly warn voters that their registrations will be canceled if they do not respond or vote within the required time frame. State officials say this step restores a process that allows routine cleanup of inactive registrations under federal law.
Together, the directives are designed to address a backlog of inactive records and restart regular voter-roll maintenance after Oregon paused removals in 2017.
"These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up-to-date," Read said. "From day one, our goal was clear: run elections that are secure, fair, and accurate. This move will strengthen our voter rolls and reinforce public trust in our elections."
State officials acknowledge there are about 800,000 inactive registrations total, roughly 20% of Oregon's voter rolls, though they stress multiple times in the press release that inactive voters do not currently receive ballots, saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots, and these inactive records have no impact on Oregon elections."

Bullshit!

HUGE: After @JudicialWatch lawsuit, Oregon Secretary of State announces he will now clean 800,000 names from voter rolls. https://t.co/82MFF9xfUh
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 12, 2026

The claim that these "inactive voters" don't receive ballots is false. The nation is flooded with mail-in ballots sent to old addresses of voters who moved (or died) long ago, and the left routinely collects these up -- and pays people to collect them -- and then submit them as illegal votes.

It just happened, in fact:

That thing that never happens happened again https://t.co/PytY22NoXn
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 12, 2026

This happened in the neighboring state of Washington. But it doesn't happen in Oregon, huh?

Unrelated: You want violence?

We'll give you all the violence you can take, and then some.

When you push MAGA to the breaking point🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/mWL91Eakxh
— Brandon (@LibOrNormal) January 12, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 04:35 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 04:35 PM (LdBR/)

2 present!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:36 PM (g47mK)

3 First, I guess.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 04:36 PM (vFG9F)

4 Ha ha, Blade the Tardy.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 04:36 PM (LdBR/)

5 Oh well. That's what I get for reading the content.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 04:37 PM (vFG9F)

6 I suppose someone should get the parties to define "clean the voter rolls."

Hope it's not, like with a cloth.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 04:38 PM (NwnyJ)

7
I'm so not tired of all the winning.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2026 04:38 PM (y9nCu)

8 see the update!

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:39 PM (1wjle)

9 All the blue states do it, this is how they stay blue.

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 04:39 PM (YwEeS)

10 Someone better be watching for these 800k to be added right back in.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 04:40 PM (ULPxl)

11
I did enjoy that little rumble!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:40 PM (Jxa0O)

12 This happened in the neighboring state of Washington. But it doesn't happen in Oregon, huh?

Its a little known fact that a person's ethics, morality and character dramatically change just by stepping over a political border.

Happens all the time when criminals, drug runners, sex traffickers and gang bangers from around the world step into this country and instantly become Sparks of Divinity and Treasured Contributors To Our Society™

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (WCaCG)

13 If there are 800,000 ineligible voters on the roles that they admit to, you can be certain there are ten times that many that are actually on the roles.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (0N4FZ)

14
I'll believe it when I see it. Even after I see it I wouldn't believe it. Oregon is completely controlled by the DEMS, top to bottom.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (IifOV)

15 Universal automatic mail in voting.

800,000 ballots delivered to "Addresse Unknown".
He voted straight ticket D-cong.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (/lPRQ)

16 Gotta to win.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (V6+NK)

17 Esperanza Contreras -- Wow...who would have thought that one of our cultural enrichers would have engaged in unethical and illegal activity?! I shan't believe it...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (XMwZJ)

18 Knocked at least two of them right the fuck out LOL

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

19 Well, I'll be a dirty name!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (pkeXY)

20 see the update!
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:39 PM

Do it. It's too early in 2026 to disappoint Ace.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (0sNs1)

21 Damn looked at the video

Posted by: DoctorMew at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (XodLO)

22 >>> 18 Knocked at least two of them right the fuck out LOL
Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

Good start. Need more tire irons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (ULPxl)

23 Looking at Oregon vote totals

2000: 1.4M - 700K D/700k R
2004: 1.7M - 900k D/800k R
2008: 1.7M - 1M D/700k R
2012: 1.8M - 1M D/800K R
2016: 1.8M - 1M D/800k R
2020: 2.3M - 1.3M D/1M R
2024: 2.1M - 1.2M D/900k R

You can see the fraud coming in 2020 - looks like they were using about half of these fraudulent registrations.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

24 Dude was knocked the fuck out!

Posted by: one hour sober at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

25 How many of them vote?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 04:43 PM (9cHSL)

26 though they stress multiple times in the press release that inactive voters do not currently receive ballots, saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots, and these inactive records have no impact on Oregon elections."

Bullshit!

If they're being honest, and those 800K voters don't EVER get ballots printed for them?

Then a bunch of names that are NOT in that 800K need to get yeeted, too. Because vote fraud is happening.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 04:43 PM (nhCoE)

27 Tom Fitton is built like a WWE wrestler. But he does his suplex body slams in the courtroom.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2026 04:43 PM (Dv3i1)

28 Some good haymakers thrown in that vid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 04:43 PM (9ShUO)

29 I suppose someone should get the parties to define "clean the voter rolls."

its a cultural affect picked up by spending billions on treating the homeless - we learned lessons.

Like urinating on someone's windshield and using a filthy rag to smear it all in, then demanding payment is "cleaning".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 04:43 PM (WCaCG)

30 At least they don't just make up vote tallies like certain Detroit area precincts did in 2016.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (/lPRQ)

31 dude winds his uppercuts up from deep in Australia

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (1wjle)

32 One punch and down!

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

33 Red megaphone guy never got past a middle-school mentality.

Posted by: pookysgirl, bored in the waiting room at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (wPwTJ)

34 LMAO...the last video towards the end is hilarious. You see this kid in a red jacket strutting up to the guy like he's about to take care of business. Puts his hands up to throw a punch, and get KO'd in a single swing. The fall was similar to a falling tree. Out before he hit the ground. That should be on a loop.

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (dIske)

35 my god liberals are annoying little demons

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (emBoF)

36 Ugh, they will only remove 160K to start, leaving plenty of fraud potential for this election year.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (HLK6f)

37 > Knocked at least two of them right the fuck out LOL
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Shoulda' kicked 'em in the balls too. Just on a matter of principle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 04:44 PM (NwnyJ)

38 I thought Red and Black Coat was going to do something because he advanced on the guy like he was a badass but then he went down like David French cleaning off his bull

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)

39 Dude drops his umbrella and gets laid the fuck out after one punch.

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (uQzkA)

40 Very fraud does not exist

Ok maybe a little exists but not enough to make a difference

Ok maybe a lot exists but it’s on both sides so whatever

If you don’t outright support voter fraud you’re racist

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (kgFPv)

41 Esperanza Contreras -- Wow...who would have thought that one of our cultural enrichers would have engaged in unethical and illegal activity?! I shan't believe it...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

I hate to be contreras, but I thought it, and I believed it.

.....that's a lie. I love being contrary, even when it isn't a pun.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (nhCoE)

42 MAGA video: 100% justified. Shoving that megaphone in his face is assault.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (zjgNU)

43 >>>LMAO...the last video towards the end is hilarious. You see this kid in a red jacket strutting up to the guy like he's about to take care of business. Puts his hands up to throw a punch, and get KO'd in a single swing

that's what I just said too

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)

44 What an appropriate talisman for impotent rage, a rape whistle.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (8+C2v)

45 When you push MAGA to the breaking point
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I don't condone violence, but I kinda do that violence.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (krQz2)

46 Some good haymakers thrown in that vid
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Homie tapped out a good half dozen.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (u/kd+)

47

Keith Ellison and Jacob Frey on TV now announcing DHS lawsuit.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (pkeXY)

48 Red jacket guy with the umbrella gets himself clocked.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (UjdFS)

49 Damn, that dude is a brawler.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (UGyV5)

50 Never drop your umbrella.

Posted by: The Penguin at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (9cHSL)

51 Blowing that siren right in someone's ear is probably some kind of assault.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

52 If there are 800,000 ineligible voters on the roles "

Sure.

Now do school enrollment numbers, census numbers, taxes...

It's all Bravo Sierra.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (XuXeR)

53 Red and Black Coat forgot to whisper to his fag buds "hold me back" before advancing.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (Y1sOo)

54 that's what I just said too
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)
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Will there be a Steve Inman breakdown?

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (krQz2)

55 Overall, you can see something changed between 2000-2004 and then 2016-2020.

They implemented vote by mail in 2000 which is interesting because it shows NO increase in turn out over 1996 - the increase instead comes in 2004. One presumes they figured out how to tweak the numbers only after having one sort of legitimate vote...

And then in 2020 well...its obvious what they did adding 500K votes or just under 30%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

56 That beating has gotta be A.I.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (wGerL)

57
>>Oregon paused removals in 2017.

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Gee, why? Did something happen in late 2016 that made them do that?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (Jxa0O)

58 36 Ugh, they will only remove 160K to start, leaving plenty of fraud potential for this election year.
Posted by: PaleRider

Those will be dead or moved to other jurisdictions, the remainder are contacted by mail, have to fill out a postcard to stay registered or if that postcard does not come back, then are removed from the rolls.

GOP and activists groups are not waiting for the token lawsuits and Trump admin is cross checking welfare rolls, immigration rolls, etc. to determine additional voter fraud.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (WDjG6)

59 Knocked at least two of them right the fuck out LOL
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Shoulda' kicked 'em in the balls too. Just on a matter of principle.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Since it's going to be on film for posterity, teabag them.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (u/kd+)

60 I love how they all blow whistles in unison like some kind of “danger danger danger” thing. They’re all so very much retarded.

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (kgFPv)

61 I'm gonna knock you out. Mama said knock you out"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

62 Blowing that siren right in someone's ear is probably some kind of assault.
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

It is.

The whole "I'm not touching you" doesn't work in the real world. It's assault.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (zjgNU)

63 The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, according to multiple people briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak freely.
According to MS Now, McBride also secretly met with federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia without Halligan’s knowledge.

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (r5p5k)

64 Pussy ass bitches blowing their whistles

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (uQzkA)

65 Red and Black Coat led with his chinless

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)

66 Oregon county-by-county 2024 final presidential election results (gov.oregonlive.com):

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3tfm4nta

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)

67
Dude drops his umbrella and gets laid the fuck out after one punch.
Posted by: NCKate

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

I'm always amazed at how quickly they drop. Didn't they have siblings growing up?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (Jxa0O)

68 "Hey guys-guys"

..after a bunch of their dudes are laid out.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (krQz2)

69 saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots

because they're fictitious people. Obviously they can't pick up their mail. That's Democrats operatives are for.

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (o+M0O)

70 61 I'm gonna knock you out. Mama said knock you out"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

That's a good soundtrack for that video.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (8+C2v)

71 I'm gonna knock you out. Mama said knock you out"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

That was LL Cool J before he became an actor, no?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

72 I thought Red and Black Coat was going to do something"

He did. Probably not what he thought he was going to do, tho.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 04:50 PM (XuXeR)

73 >>> We'll give you all the violence you can take, and then some.

Sure would be nice if folks would recognize that shining lasers in people's eyes or making loud noises in their is assault and merits any more direct physical response up to including lethal force.

... and none of that pretend "intended to stop" shit either - fbcker blasted an air horn in my ear or lased me so killing them stone dead should be just fine.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 04:50 PM (/lPRQ)

74 Someone gets in my face with a bullhorn and then follows me Around is gonna get a face full of pepper spray. If that isn’t enough of a deterrent, a bullet to the midsection.

And I’d a used that flagpole to jam a hole in their face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2026 04:50 PM (W2Pud)

75 Here's a question. Why hasn't the Republican Party in Minnesota sued the state over its ridiculous "vouch for 8 people" voter registration policy?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (AC1H4)

76 1) end mail-in voting as OR does
2) dump all voting rolls at the end of odd number years. Everyone reregisters. That way the dead for sure are our purged from the rolls regardless.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (0GYGE)

77 Now Oregon claims to have had about 23% population growth from 2000 until 2022. So you'd expect then around 1.7M votes in 2020 - note that there were 500K overvotes.

And again, they had mail in ballots in 2000 so this isn't "making it easier for citizens to vote"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

78 Blowing that siren right in someone's ear is probably some kind of assault.
Posted by: fd

It is.
The whole "I'm not touching you" doesn't work in the real world. It's assault.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

If you touch him, it's "assault and battery." Words alone are "assault."

I'm not sure where "trying to blow his eardrums out with an air horn at 4 inches distance" fits between those. Probably battery.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (nhCoE)

79 It's a good thing there's video of that little altercation, because you know the hippies would be claiming they were just minding their own business when they were viciously attacked by the mean MAGA man for no reason whatsoever.

Posted by: Jetto at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (hkeq/)

80 I smoked a cigarette after watching that.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (JiBLQ)

81 I'm always amazed at how quickly they drop. Didn't they have siblings growing up?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (Jxa0O)

I've never been in a real grown-up fight, but I've sparred with people in martial arts.

I glanced a guy with my heel across the chin. It barely registered to me that I hit him.

He told me he was seeing stars and almost passed out.

Glass jaw is a thing.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (zjgNU)

82 That bullhorn should've been sent thru fucker's teeth

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (uQzkA)

83 Knees locked.

Posted by: The Penguin at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (9cHSL)

84 Thank you, ace. I love the FAFO videos.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (sDNVV)

85 You know how to fight fascism, don't you? Just pucker up and blow.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (Id863)

86
Keith Ellison and Jacob Frey on TV now announcing DHS lawsuit.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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

Jacob Fake and Gey
Jacob Fey

trying to figure this out

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (Jxa0O)

87 First rule of fighting: A B C

Always Be Clubbing

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (bNf8H)

88 Wow! That guy could punch!

Posted by: TKO MAGA Man at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (oftw2)

89 "Hey guys-guys"

..after a bunch of their dudes are laid out.
Posted by: Axeman

"Let's you and him settle this, buddy."

Posted by: the pantywaist now saying "guys guys" at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (nhCoE)

90 The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, according to multiple people briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak freely.
According to MS Now, McBride also secretly met with federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia without Halligan’s knowledge.
Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (r5p5k)

If we're lucky, the DOJ will only be 50% corrupt by the time Trump's term is over.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

91 >>> DOJ Fires Top Official in US Attorney’s Office For Eastern District of Virginia After He Secretly Met with Judges and Declined to Prosecute Comey.

Should be fired from a cannon, but I will settled for fired in a cement kiln.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (/lPRQ)

92 That stupid siren or loudspeaker or whatever it was is damaging to that guy's hearing.

Too bad he didn't punch that jackass out immediately when he started,

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

93 Voter fraud should be a capital crime.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (mlg/3)

94 Here's a question. Why hasn't the Republican Party in Minnesota sued the state over its ridiculous "vouch for 8 people" voter registration policy?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (AC1H4)
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It's worse. If you are a landlord you can vouch for everybody in your building--perhaps even that you *claim* are in your building.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (krQz2)

95 Keith Ellison and Jacob Frey on TV now announcing DHS lawsuit.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (pkeXY)
*****
Lying their asses off.
Never let a crisis go to waste.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 04:54 PM (NpAcC)

96 DOWN GOES GAY-SIR !!!! DOWN GOES GAY-SIR!!!!

Posted by: Orson at January 12, 2026 04:54 PM (dIske)

97 69 saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots

because they're fictitious people. Obviously they can't pick up their mail. That's Democrats operatives are for.
Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (o+M0O)

Good catch. They're not technically lying when they say the erroneously registered individuals will receive ballots. But someone will receive them.

Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2026 04:54 PM (FMtrg)

98 Idiot pussboy in the red parka:
Thank you sir, may I have another?!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 12, 2026 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

99 Wait, I thought invasions were cool with the left.

@Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

100 Arghhhh. Archimedes = Bill Clinton

Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

101 That bullhorn should've been sent thru fucker's teeth

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 04:52 PM (uQzkA)
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I would have grabbed it and given it a hard bounce against the pavement.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (krQz2)

102 Please do Pennsylvania next in this fraud voting search

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)

103 Voter fraud should be a capital crime.

I've seen this discussion in a few places and it goes like this:

The left: There is NO voter fraud

The right: So then how about we make voter fraud a capital offense? If there is none, well, then it doesn't matter right?

The left: You just want to kill immigrants!

The right: So does that mean there is voter fraud after all by "immigrants"?

The left: YOU ARE RACIST

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

104 PDT just imposed unilateral sanctions on every country transacting with Iran.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (RIvkX)

105 94 Here's a question. Why hasn't the Republican Party in Minnesota sued the state over its ridiculous "vouch for 8 people" voter registration policy?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM (AC1H4)
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It's worse. If you are a landlord you can vouch for everybody in your building--perhaps even that you *claim* are in your building.
Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:53 PM (krQz2)

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Yeah, but why hasn't the Republican Party sued the state to end that policy?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (AC1H4)

106 Hornet spray shoots about 20 feet and can be an effective assault ender.

Posted by: Black Flag at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (oftw2)

107 97 erroneously registered individuals will NOT receive ballots

Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (FMtrg)

108 That stupid siren or loudspeaker or whatever it was is damaging to that guy's hearing.ke

Yeah, I ain't showing up for none of this mess, but I'd be sure to wear ears and eyes and a stab vest before I'd get near one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (mlg/3)

109
That stupid siren or loudspeaker or whatever it was is damaging to that guy's hearing.

Posted by: naturalfake

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

It is. It should be entirely legal to forcibly stop someone from using a thing like that on you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (Jxa0O)

110 Keith Ellison and Jacob Frey on TV now announcing DHS lawsuit.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2026 04:46 PM (pkeXY)

DHS isn't allowed to enforce federal law in Minnesota?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

111 Voter fraud should be a capital crime.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

The problem with making things capital crimes is that it makes all other crimes--including other capital crimes--free.

If vote fraud is a capital crime, you might as well murder all the witnesses. And then burn down the building. They can't kill you more than once for it.

Posted by: mikeski at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (nhCoE)

112 Im back from the future.here what will happen.

A “ judge” will agree with the lawsuit and put a TRO on all ice enforcement. The msm and Reddit will celebrate. Until about 36 hours later real
Judges will say LOLGF to the district judge and overturn it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (kgFPv)

113 I'm swingin' in the rain, just swingin' in the rain
what a glorious feelin', I'm happy again

Posted by: MAGA dude what just clocked two homos at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (UjdFS)

114 PDT just imposed unilateral sanctions on every country transacting with Iran.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (RIvkX)
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Eh. It's something, I guess.

I think Iran has bigger problems, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (ESVrU)

115 I'm honestly shocked.
WA next plz

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

116 I thought the guy with the flag was going to pivot the flagstaff right to the crotch. Loudspeaker guy would have been down for the count.

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (rj6Yv)

117 saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots

because they're fictitious people. Obviously they can't pick up their mail. That's Democrats operatives are for.

A few deep dives on voter enrollment have shown it is common in cities for hundreds or even thousands of ballots to go to empty buildings - old warehouses no longer being used.

The standard answer to this is that it isn't fraud its where the homeless population lives. Which of course is basically unprovable at best and obviously makes it trivial for people to fraudulently submit mail in ballots.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

118 Yeah, but why hasn't the Republican Party sued the state to end that policy?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (AC1H4)
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Don't ask me, I gave up on the Republican party years ago.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (krQz2)

119 PDT just imposed unilateral sanctions on every country transacting with Iran

===

Islamic Republic of Iran...

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (g47mK)

120 Hornet spray shoots about 20 feet and can be an effective assault ender.

Posted by: Black Flag at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (oftw2)

So does an uzi.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (snZF9)

121 Yeah, but why hasn't the Republican Party sued the state to end that policy?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2026 04:56 PM (AC1H4)

Maybe for the same reason the Arkansas Republican Party doesn't bother conducting outreach on the University of Arkansas campus.

Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2026 04:58 PM (FMtrg)

122 Duke Nuke'm in last video ran out of bubblegum.

The Leftoid idiots are convinced, even after Kamikaze Karen, that they cannot be touched.

Time to disabuse them of that fantasy before the death squads do come about.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (3hJhH)

123
Here's a gal who needs the spanking her parents never gave her:

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/201012283855

3047251

Ladies, don't be like this immature, retarded harpy.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (iJfKG)

124 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (g47mK)

125 Shocking that the Antifa megaphone idiot didn't expect the left hand.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (2ap+5)

126 "Hey guys-guys"

..after a bunch of their dudes are laid out.

"Okay, I think he's had enough".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (Riz8t)

127 And in WA state, it was okay for the postman to stop delivering my mail, including ballots, even though I hadn't changed my address. He contued to deliver mail for people that hadn't lived there in years and that we'd returned. But I was the only person receiving Hillsdale College material. His supervisor thought this was okay.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (+mUZM)

128 Eh, Trump already said 2028 is wide open.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (g47mK)

129 >>> 99 Wait, I thought invasions were cool with the left.

@Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

Seriously? You people weren't kidding when you called that timwalz a fag.

Posted by: Zombie Robert E. Lee at January 12, 2026 05:00 PM (ULPxl)

130 1) end mail-in voting as OR does
2) dump all voting rolls at the end of odd number years. Everyone reregisters. That way the dead for sure are our purged from the rolls regardless.
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2026 04:51 PM

It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 05:00 PM (0sNs1)

131 2026 is more of a worry

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:00 PM (g47mK)

132 That last video

MAN I hate people

Posted by: Don Black at January 12, 2026 05:00 PM (ZxPkt)

133 124 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (g47mK)

Sure Jan

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

134 I'm from Chicago. What they could do with 800,000 phony names! Oh, never mind. They've elected democrat mayors since 1930.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (tntiz)

135 124 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!

Posted by: runner

Sit down. The adults are talking.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t)

136 Here's a gal who needs the spanking her parents never gave her:

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/201012283855

3047251

Ladies, don't be like this immature, retarded harpy.
Posted by: naturalfake

I've got an uppercut for her.

Posted by: MAGA dude what just clocked two homos at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (UjdFS)

137 Sure Jan
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

sure Jan

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (g47mK)

138 What's a Federal invasion? Is like in the War of Northern Aggression?

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (vFG9F)

139 Sit down. The adults are talking.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t)

Sure Jan

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:02 PM (g47mK)

140 As laughably not-ready-for-prime-time (shall I say) as Walz is, remember that he beat the Republican running against him.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 12, 2026 05:02 PM (0JK3r)

141 Vance need a few more lunches with Cucker Traitson to set him on a right track.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:02 PM (g47mK)

142 I'm gonna knock you out. Mama said knock you out"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 12, 2026 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

That was LL Cool J before he became an actor, no?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

Yes, but it's not Ice Tea

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 12, 2026 05:02 PM (NtVYv)

143 MAGA video: 100% justified. Shoving that megaphone in his face is assault.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM

He also hit him with the megaphone at least twice that I saw on the video, that's battery followed up by harassment. He's lucky all he got was knocked out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:02 PM (0N4FZ)

144 https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/201012283855

3047251

If you folks are gonna do this, could you maybe put the line break at one of the slashes to make the %20 easier to find.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

145 As laughably not-ready-for-prime-time (shall I say) as Walz is, remember that he beat the Republican running against him.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

The GOPe does love their designated losers.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

146 124 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!

Posted by: runner

Sit down. The adults are talking.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 05:01 PM

Spheniscidaephile.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 05:03 PM (0sNs1)

147 140 As laughably not-ready-for-prime-time (shall I say) as Walz is, remember that he beat the Republican running against him.

It's Minnesota. That's like being angry because Jasmine Crockett will lose in TX.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2026 05:03 PM (Riz8t)

148
You can see the fraud coming in 2020 - looks like they were using about half of these fraudulent registrations.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 04:42 PM (

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And gives 800,000 gives a heck of a margin of FRAUD.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 05:03 PM (tntiz)

149 Dude telegraphed his punches so you could time them with an hourglass.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at January 12, 2026 05:04 PM (GSe6k)

150 "Dude telegraphed his punches so you could time them with an hourglass.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts"

I don't think it mattered. The guy at the end saw them coming and ducked his head so he got punched in the side of the head three times.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 05:05 PM (vFG9F)

151 1) end mail-in voting as OR does
2) dump all voting rolls at the end of odd number years. Everyone reregisters. That way the dead for sure are our purged from the rolls regardless.
Posted by: Cow Demon

It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

"It shouldn't be easier to get a gun than it is to vote!!"

"So, you want guns mailed out to everybody?"

Posted by: the meme about that at January 12, 2026 05:05 PM (nhCoE)

152 The lates story is , Vance invites Cucker to the WH house, and then drags him to the meeting of oil executives. Um, why? Is Cucker an oil expert ?

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:05 PM (g47mK)

153 Check out this 2024 Oregon county-by-county election map:

LINK https://tinyurl.com/3tfm4nta

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

154 38 I thought Red and Black Coat was going to do something because he advanced on the guy like he was a badass but then he went down like David French cleaning off his bull
Posted by: ace at January 12, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)
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I LOL'd

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (5aZAZ)

155 Bear spray. Area effect weapon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (3hJhH)

156 >>> 152 The lates story is , Vance invites Cucker to the WH house, and then drags him to the meeting of oil executives. Um, why? Is Cucker an oil expert ?
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:05 PM (g47mK)

No, but I am!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (ULPxl)

157 That guywas just waiting for his limit break meter to fill up and then he unleashed his special attack: old-school haymakers

Posted by: brak at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (jGJov)

158 Get that video to Steve Inman. I want to hear his commentary on that one.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (viF8m)

159 Here's a gal who needs the spanking her parents never gave her:

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/201012283855

3047251

Ladies, don't be like this immature, retarded harpy.
Posted by: naturalfake
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Here is a short url version of the link

https://tinyurl.com/5crktayz
================
This exemplifies the middle age gender divide in America as much as anything else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (zyFko)

160 FAFO guy has an awesome left.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (rbIOb)

161 >>>Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out

It would be awful if you posted more of this stuff.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (8SKzU)

162 Tucker appears to be on Ozempic. Now he's a dried up nut.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (vFG9F)

163 A few years ago a similar Judicial Watch lawsuit resulted in a settlement in which LA County agreed to remove up to 1.2M inactive voters.

The methodology of fraud has become somewhat complex, or potentially so. Every single angle and method would be completely eliminated by one weird trick: eliminating all electronics in voting and tabulation. Paper ballots. Something most of the world still does, for exactly the right reason.

Only electronic/digital element should - obviously - be 24/7 webcam on all tabulation activities.

Fulton County GA doing its imitation of Zimbabwe or Maduro-Venezuela when it comes to election process is the only recourse to hide cheating. And of course this needs to be ruthlessly prosecuted, and the state's presidential electoral votes thrown out (hello, midget figures Tom Cotton, Marcia Blackburn, et al). All the info and mechanisms are there. All that's missing are serious voters and institutions.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (U/Byj)

164 I am just axing questions!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (g47mK)

165 Down, like a sack of potatoes! Down, like a store mannequin!

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (UjdFS)

166 I still have mama said knock you out playing in my head. Pass the old gold.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (8+C2v)

167 ... Oregon Secretary of State announces he will now clean 800,000 names from voter rolls.

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They could just rename them all to Mohammad Muhammed Mohammed.

/Yeah, I know -- don't give 'em any ideas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 05:08 PM (outmo)

168 Here is a short url version of the link

https://tinyurl.com/5crktayz
================
This exemplifies the middle age gender divide in America as much as anything else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (zyFko)

Sorry, but she needed a right hook.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:08 PM (snZF9)

169 Get rid of the federal Juneteenth Holiday and make election day a federal holiday. End mail in ballots.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (rJ48h)

170 >>> 168 Here is a short url version of the link

https://tinyurl.com/5crktayz
================
This exemplifies the middle age gender divide in America as much as anything else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 05:06 PM (zyFko)

Sorry, but she needed a right hook.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:08 PM (snZF9)

I volunteer.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (ULPxl)

171 I'm a peaceful man and I've defused more fights than I've participated in, but every day that goes by with these fucking lefties makes my boner for dealing out ass-whippings harder and harder.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (5aZAZ)

172 As laughably not-ready-for-prime-time (shall I say) as Walz is, remember that he beat the Republican running against him.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

D + voter fraud beat DJ Trump...

Posted by: Adriane the Way Too Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (3ZUWJ)

173 End Motor-Voter

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (3hJhH)

174 >>Get rid of the federal Juneteenth Holiday and make election day a federal holiday. End mail in ballots.

This.

I have endorsed this over and over.

This.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (ZcsJV)

175
Only electronic/digital element should - obviously - be 24/7 webcam on all tabulation activities.

I'm willing to use electronic voting machines for as long as all of the code from touch-screen to tabulator is open source and code frozen at least six months prior to an election.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM (nCgQz)

176 More bullshit revealed:
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redpillbot @redpillb0t

Bret Weinstein’s analysis of the 80 Ivermectin court cases reveals a mind blowing statistic.

In the 40 cases where Ivermectin was permitted, 38 survived.
In the 40 cases where it was not, 38 died.

Using a standard statistical formula, the chances that Ivermectin had no impact are roughly 1 in 20 quadrillion.

Yet, we were denied this treatment.

This is one of the biggest medical tragedies in modern history!
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Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:11 PM (krQz2)

177 So does an uzi."

Use a sap. Quieter.

Posted by: man at January 12, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

178 NAZI!!! NAZI!!!

Posted by: Screaming cat lady at January 12, 2026 05:11 PM (vFG9F)

179 I'm a peaceful man and I've defused more fights than I've participated in, but every day that goes by with these fucking lefties makes my boner for dealing out ass-whippings harder and harder.

I watch a few of these videos as a pep-talk and motivator before a heavy-bag and double-ended-bag workout.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (nCgQz)

180

Spheniscidaephile.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

We don't want him.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (oftw2)

181 No, don't make it one day. Nor everybody is sitting at home in one place for like ever. No mail in , but early voting is a must.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (g47mK)

182
Ladies, don't be like this immature, retarded harpy.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (iJfKG)

I would have hit her in the face and knocked those stupid glasses off of her red nose. I believe that's what they want so then they're the victim.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (8+C2v)

183 >>>>Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out

I didn't watch it twice...yet, but one of those guys got knocked out twice, didn't he? Or did the original bullhorn guy just have a similar jacket to the guy who gets poleaxed right near the end?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (ZcsJV)

184 I was told it was horse paste

Posted by: The Penguin at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (9cHSL)

185 Bullshit!

This.
X1000

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (2WIwB)

186 Down, like a sack of potatoes! Down, like a store mannequin!

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2026 05:07 PM (UjdFS)

Down, like Ace on a ClosetMaid catalog.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:13 PM (8SKzU)

187 Same day registration and voting. That is an abomination.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:13 PM (g47mK)

188 Breaking: Elon Musk to rename X to "Grooming Gang" in order to prevent Starmer from shutting it down.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 05:13 PM (0U5gm)

189 Did you see the video of Nick Sortor? Being harassed by a mob of vermin in Minneapolis and 911 blew off his calls for help.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 05:13 PM (3hJhH)

190 It's shocking the number of people who have absolutely fried their fucking brains.

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (uQzkA)

191 3 day waiting period.

Posted by: The Penguin at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (9cHSL)

192 He did go down like Ace's 1st Shelving Project.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (ZcsJV)

193 Something's going to happen

@Osint613 2h
NEW 🔴
AFP: Non essential staff at the French embassy have departed Iran.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (mlg/3)

194 motor voter (Clinton's gift of 1993) , very big in D states

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (g47mK)

195 I didn't watch it twice...yet, but one of those guys got knocked out twice, didn't he? Or did the original bullhorn guy just have a similar jacket to the guy who gets poleaxed right near the end?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (ZcsJV)
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On subsequent watches, I think that's the guy with the bullhorn.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (krQz2)

196 He did go down like Ace's 1st Shelving Project.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (ZcsJV)

Damn. I like yours better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (8SKzU)

197 "Non essential staff at the French embassy have departed Iran.
Posted by: weft cut-loop"

Nobody left but chefs and chambermaids.

Posted by: Screaming cat lady at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (vFG9F)

198 Willowed from previous thread:

All in all, it's just another dick in the Walz.

Posted by: Jacob Frey, Peak Fraud at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (TezPK)

199 >>On subsequent watches, I think that's the guy with the bullhorn.

Dude's got a glass jaw.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (ZcsJV)

200 It's a good thing there's video of that little altercation, because you know the hippies would be claiming they were just minding their own business when they were viciously attacked by the mean MAGA man for no reason whatsoever.
Posted by: Jetto

10-15-ish years ago, the hippies would isolate a target then surround them with flags, signs, banners, etc. to block cameras. Inside the circle one or two of their comrades would be assaulting the target, and when the target had enough the throng would drop their obstructions in unison so all the cameras caught was the target punching back.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 12, 2026 05:15 PM (JE2u2)

201 Liked how the pushed to far video ended.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (sl73Y)

202 Like a Jason Statham character ‐- in real life.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (1kYfW)

203 That video above: Wouldn't sticking a loud speaker (I'm blanking out on what that hand held thing is), purposely, in someone's ear, be considered assault. I think so. At that point, lead pipe comes out and skulls get crushed. Yes, I know. Fantasy. I'd get arrested and obnoxious shit with ear piercing device would walk. None of this is going to end well.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (sAmhv)

204 Well Ace had the electric screwdriver in reverse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (3hJhH)

205 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (g47mK)

He gave a great defense of the ice officer who killed the domestic terror bitch.

No issues with him.

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (kgFPv)

206 In the weeks before 2020 election, several independent sorts were documenting the piles (literally) of mailed out ballots accumulating all over Las Vegas. Mail areas, on top of trash cans, all over the place.

A local TV reporter (obviously with good legal help) IIRC mailed in 7 fraudulent ballots (dead people? something confirmable). Five of the seven were counted. And of course the following week Matt Braynard easily found 15K+ fraudulent votes (dead, out of state, minors/ineligible) just using public records. He moved on to GA and found similar numbers - quickly, from his desktop computer.

Outside a few states US elections don't pass minimum muster for integrity. Country really is a farce on some fundamental issues.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (U/Byj)

207 Florida F5 is back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (9cHSL)

208 FAFO guy was also wearing gloves which helped a lot. Those punches would have really hurt his hands without them. Also check out his leg sweep at the beginning before things got hot. That dude has some MMA chops.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (rbIOb)

209 If these folks dont receive ballots or everything is on the up and up, it shouldn't have taken a lawsuit to clean the rolls

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (ItWcy)

210 >>Well Ace had the electric screwdriver in reverse.

In his defense, it said 'Reversible' right there on the box.

It didn't say a god damned thing about it going Forward, too!

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (ZcsJV)

211 Nobody left but chefs and chambermaids.
Posted by: Screaming cat lady

Wait, I think I saw that movie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (mlg/3)

212 He gave a great defense of the ice officer who killed the domestic terror bitch.

No issues with him.
Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 05:16 PM (kgFPv)

he is good on a few things, those that require legal framing for example

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:18 PM (g47mK)

213 I'm a peaceful man and I've defused more fights than I've participated in, but every day that goes by with these fucking lefties makes my boner for dealing out ass-whippings harder and harder.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2026 05:10 PM

In the military under the UCMJ there is an article against that kind of behavior called "provoking speech or gestures". It covers stupid $hit like this. And it can be used as a defense if you stomp on somebody pulling stupid $hit like this.

I have no idea if there is a civilian equivalent but there should be.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:18 PM (0N4FZ)

214 @Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

Okay. No more federal funds for you, then!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 12, 2026 05:19 PM (SRRAx)

215 It's shocking the number of people who have absolutely fried their fucking brains.

Posted by: NCKate at January 12, 2026 05:14 PM (uQzkA)

People like that are better off living under the ordered society of a brutal dictatorship. Living in a civilized republic broke them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:19 PM (snZF9)

216 214 @Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

Federal Invasion ? WTF is that ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:20 PM (VE6XX)

217 Watched the video. Those little bjtches deserved far worse than they got.

Also did the red jacket flop like he was asking for an offensive foul from the ref?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:20 PM (zZu0s)

218 It pleases me to see dirty commies laid low.

MAGA Dude should never have to buy drimks again.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:20 PM (8tHGc)

219 at least six months prior to an election.

The one in summer is best.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (Kt19C)

220 "Federal Invasion ? WTF is that ?
Posted by: It's me donna"

Not good.

Posted by: zombie Jefferson Davis at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

221 garrett,

Bullhorn guy ditched his umbrella and did a dramatic unwavering entrance before hitting the ground.

Total humiliation.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (rbIOb)

222 @Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Someone is about to have a bad day when they fund out what the supremacy clause is.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (u/kd+)

223 I like the last guy in the red and black walking up so deliberately to get his knock-out in one punch. And then the first guy comes back one more time for his second beatdown.

Posted by: DanMan at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (8uzBS)

224 ..and now a travel advisory for any Americans still in Islamic Republic of I-ran, dual citizens ....

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (g47mK)

225 Yet, we were denied this treatment.

This is one of the biggest medical tragedies in modern history!
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Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:11 PM (krQz2)

----

I got the horse paste at a farm store until they stopped selling it. Probably had it under the counter for farmers. I called my PCP to get some and he wouldn't authorize it.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 05:22 PM (ZJRmG)

226 That dude has some MMA chops.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:17 PM (rbIOb)

He was telegraphing his punches, but luckily he was hitting leftist soy-boy worms.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2026 05:22 PM (n9ltV)

227 Mail-in voting is similar to not having symptoms is one of the symptoms.

It's garbage.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 12, 2026 05:22 PM (aZm/F)

228 Pizza pizza.

Posted by: The Pentagon at January 12, 2026 05:22 PM (9cHSL)

229 Of that 800,000 fake voters, 750,000 of the commie fags will be driving Subarus and voting in Boise soon.

The blue locusts are thick here now.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:22 PM (8tHGc)

230 BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Someone is about to have a bad day when they fund out what the supremacy clause is.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM

Guarantee there is a liberal judge right now that will be assigned this case and rule that Trump has to pull all ICE people out of minnesota immediately.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (0N4FZ)

231 Left when AZ tried to enforce immigration law; no way man you can’t usurp the feds in immigration

Left today: no we totally can and should

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (kgFPv)

232 It's Oregon, they wouldn't agree to this unless they have another voter fraud plan in place.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (GGatE)

233 Guarantee there is a liberal judge right now that will be assigned this case and rule that Trump has to pull all ICE people out of minnesota immediately.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (0N4FZ)

I'm surprised they haven't already

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (VE6XX)

234 I've got one good ear left and I'm really, really sensitive about loud noises in that good one.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 12, 2026 05:24 PM (ZJRmG)

235 Guarantee there is a liberal judge right now that will be assigned this case and rule that Trump has to pull all ICE people out of minnesota immediately.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (0N4FZ)

They wouldn’t file without knowing the decision ahead of time.

Posted by: Really?? at January 12, 2026 05:24 PM (kgFPv)

236 Election Fraud ought to be a Capital Offense.

Democracy is Precious, after all. Start acting like it. MotherFuckers

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (/5vWn)

237 Bullhorn guy ditched his umbrella and did a dramatic unwavering entrance before hitting the ground.

Total humiliation.
Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM (rbIOb)
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And it was all captured on video to warm the cockles of our black, black hearts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (ESVrU)

238 Question on Facebook:

Would you rather be in a war or deal with daily relationship drama?

487 comments. 99 out of 100 say war.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (u/kd+)

239 Paper ballots, no electronics. Mechanical tabulation of physical paper (like the FL punch-cards) are fine. Few seem to even understand the point of such systems - reliability as well as speed. Check/calibrate the machines (as they did), re-run the ballots a few times. When you get nearly identical results (the norm), you know the count is correct.

The FL 2000 prez numbers reported election night were nearly identical to the numbers that two different media outfits using Big 8 accounting firms came to in their own subsequent independent analysis. Duh.

Election results have generally been reported very quickly *since the telegraph*. Electronics adds zip to the process, all risk for no gain. Thumb drives? Internet connections? Hilarious. The use of electronics is the Nth redundant confirmation of a dumbed down society.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (U/Byj)

240 Wait, so Minnesota seceded from the Union?

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (YwEeS)

241
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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

Federal invasion, interesting. Is this a crime? Or a civil offense?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (Jxa0O)

242 Election Fraud ought to be a Capital Offense.

And not "in twenty years".
End of week. And pray you don't get busted on a Thursday.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (u/kd+)

243 >>Guarantee there is a liberal judge right now that will be assigned this case and rule that Trump has to pull all ICE people out of minnesota immediately.

Arizona / Jan Brewer v US Gov. / Obama.

This is settled Law. The Feds can do whatever they choose, wherever they choose re Immigration.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (ZcsJV)

244 Correction: You wrote " . . . roughly 20% of Oregon's voter rolls" This is incorrect. It is roughly 20% of Oregon's POPULATION.

Posted by: Isophorone at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (IG5iM)

245 Nood.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (LdBR/)

246 Wait, so Minnesota seceded from the Union?

Cool! Expel their two senators and eight representatives Right Now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (WCaCG)

247 It took Florida a few hours to count tens of millions of votes, right? Whatever they are doing , let's do that nation wide!

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (g47mK)

248 BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop

*Mississippi, Alabama & Georgia laugh.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (u/kd+)

249
This is settled Law. The Feds can do whatever they choose, wherever they choose re Immigration.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2026 05:26 PM (ZcsJV)

Denied !

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (VE6XX)

250 Street fights aint like the movies. It hurts like a somebitch.
Soy people have no idea.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (q2uS7)

251 Question on Facebook:

Would you rather be in a war or deal with daily relationship drama?

487 comments. 99 out of 100 say war.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (u/kd+)

Definitely war.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (snZF9)

252 Guarantee there is a liberal judge right now that will be assigned this case and rule that Trump has to pull all ICE people out of minnesota immediately.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 05:23 PM (0N4FZ)
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Agree. SCOTUS should stop this. But they're not.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (krQz2)

253 Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:21 PM

Hi, Pawn-

OT- I hope you have had a good day. I wanted to thank you for your thoughtful note about my son. He is looking to going to graduate school in the Fall but in the meantime he is looking for a job to help pay for that.

I

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (rZCVI)

254 248 BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop

*Mississippi, Alabama & Georgia laugh.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:27 PM (u/kd+)

General Sherman -- You're up. Atlanta was great and all, but I think you can do better.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (N39Ws)

255 Last Vid: stacking the libtards like cordwood.

Posted by: Brian at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (iK8a4)

256 If there are 800,000 ineligible voters on the roles that they admit to, you can be certain there are ten times that many that are actually on the roles.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 04:41 PM (0N4FZ

You see, there is a problem bailiffs have in Oregon, the jury pools always seem to have a large number of non-citizens being included. For some reason.
It causes no end of problems because they always say they can't sit on the jury and are excused for that reaons
But Oregon has that motor-voter thing.

It might be that a significant number of the non-purged names on the rolls are not eligible to vote either.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:28 PM (rbvCR)

257 Question on Facebook:

Would you rather be in a war or deal with daily relationship drama?

487 comments. 99 out of 100 say war.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (u/kd+)

Just a guess... 99 out of 100 are not combat vets.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

258 Pulling and snap releasing that megaphone back would help that young man administer his own orthodonture.

Posted by: DaveA at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (FhXTo)

259 234 I've got one good ear left and I'm really, really sensitive about loud noises in that good one.

Posted by: JM in Illinois

Me too, except the other ear isn't that great either, just not as bad. Probably why I reacted to that video. I wanted to jump into it and beat that asshole to a pulp, and then set the pulp on fire. WTF is wrong with the people.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (sAmhv)

260 2026 is more of a worry
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 05:00 PM (g47mK)

That's OK. I have been repeatedly told that impeachment is no big thing for a President.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

261 "He was telegraphing his punches, but luckily he was hitting leftist soy-boy worms."

He had the guy completely measured. Punches were full-bore on target.

Clip ended before he hit the dirt probably on purpose because this was so humiliating.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (rbIOb)

262 Would you rather be in a war or deal with daily relationship drama?

487 comments. 99 out of 100 say war.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (u/kd+)

I think they're being a bit flippant... wait does she have big tits?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

263 It'd be great if the DOJ sent a team out to "assist" the scumbag Oregon SoS with the cleaning of the voter rolls.

Of course, that will never happen.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (BTwEN)

264 Yes. Blowing an air horn can be considered assault, battery, or a similar offense.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 05:30 PM (2WIwB)

265 216 214 @Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

Federal Invasion ? WTF is that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 05:20 PM (VE6XX)

Think of the TV comedy show "Whose Line is it anyway". Everything's made up, and the points don't matter.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (N39Ws)

266 Vance is looking more and more like that other great VP - Mike Pence!
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2026 04:59 PM (g47mK)

That is ok, we will all be RIDE OR DIE JOHN HUNTSMAN when we have no other choice.
He at least is Presidential in speech and position in society.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:33 PM (rbvCR)

267 Lol. Why on Vance?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

268 I was told it was horse paste
Posted by: The Penguin at January 12, 2026 05:12 PM (9cHSL)

More fool you. Paste made from horses is darker and more viscid. That is when you get rid of the hide and hooves first, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (rbvCR)

269
Bullhorn boy went looking for one good punch and was laid out.

You're a solid soldier for the cause, boy-o!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 05:35 PM (GqBXs)

270 Question on Facebook:

Would you rather be in a war or deal with daily relationship drama?

487 comments. 99 out of 100 say war.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 05:25 PM (u/kd+)

Just a guess... 99 out of 100 are not combat vets.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

No doubt.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 05:36 PM (2WIwB)

271 Something's going to happen

@Osint613 2h
NEW 🔴
AFP: Non essential staff at the French embassy have departed Iran.
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They should have left a week ago. These are easily preventable mistakes, the kind that IF there were a crackdown could also lead to hostage taking of the Jimmy Carter era.

Posted by: Crusader at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (TN0g+)

272 Mail voting fraud is ballots sentbout to places the original resident has vacated sometimes years ago. But that vote geys casted

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)

273 Fen,

Your welcome.

He'll get on the short-list unseen after the first cut with a Masters.

Networking is extremely important. He needs to interact with as many professionals he can. A Co-op program would be a very good thing. Also, volunteering at a nearby public park or garden. Do you have anything like an agricultural extension service?

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM (rbIOb)

274 OK, now do CO. You'll be shocked.

This is penny-ante stuff. These people are using a million invalid registrations to manufacture ballots. That's par for the Dem state course. They all do it.

CO is on the next level. They use fraud-by-mail on a larger scale, but also a much more expansive method. They don't just manufacture Democrat votes - They trash Republican ones by crude methods (throwing out registrations) and sophisticated ones (specially printed envelopes that reveal party registration), and everything in between.

Voting in CO is a travesty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 05:39 PM (BI5O2)

275 BREAKING: Minnesota sues the Trump administration for “federal invasion.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2026 04:55 PM (mlg/3)

Anything to get the Somali fraud off the news.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2026 05:40 PM (2WIwB)

276 I'm glad no ballot was sent to my lefty son each election for 4 years after he moved out of state. The ballots just spontaneously generated in our mailbox.

Posted by: Hal Dall at January 12, 2026 05:41 PM (KOwhN)

277 Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 05:38 PM

Thanks so much . I dont know about the co-op thing or the agricultural extension but we do have public parks and gardens he can volunteer with. I will tell him to check it out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 05:43 PM (Nx5jP)

278 Nood, btw.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 12, 2026 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

279 Just a little concerned about what happened after the video ended to the MAGA guy who laid that soy-boy out. He looked like he was rather out-numbered by the leftist jackasses and even a lion can be taken down by a pack of hyenas. Hope he had backup and is safe.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at January 12, 2026 06:00 PM (va0Yo)

280 The asshole with the megaphone siren got KOed twice. He dropped like a tree falling. I would probably go to prison for it, but if I were going anywhere near these people, I’d have a collapsible baton, a small straight razor, and a concealed 9mm. They’re pack animals, and they can smell outsider at 100 paces. Just remember, if you have to start shooting, save a couple for the cellphone videographers. They always have a couple for post event editing.

The voter roll trimming is now, and just for show. Same day registration will put them all back. Ethics mean nothing to them, and they will still win at all costs. Only actual jail will even put a ripple in the system.

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